Chapter 723 A New Georgy-girl:>Ep19

• I kept away from Ty all through this time; if he'd taken a close look at me he'd have run screaming from the room, and I needed him to be on my side here, not repulsed because I'd exploded, and then the weird conversations with mummy and Aunt Kay started, stuff about how I was becoming a woman, which freaked me out because just what in the Hell were they talking about? If becoming a woman meant I'd have to live looking like some sideshow freak then I wasn't having any of it, and if it was all the same to them, I'd just go back to being a girl and stay there, thank you very much...
• Then they started telling us all about it in school, and showing us the most disgusting video-clips about what was going on with our bodies, oh ick! Barf! Gag-puke! Were they bloody serious? For the next forty years? I resolved to have nothing to do with it, not my problem, but it was, and it was really painful too. Eventually mummy took me to see a doctor with a waiting room full of teenage girls hugging cushions and looking miserable. She examined me, and we shall gloss over that, I'm trying to forget it, but the upshot was she gave me some pills, one a day, every day, read the instructions carefully, next!
• The pills sort of worked, but the knowledge that this was my monthly fate forever didn't feel like a rite of passage, it felt like a curse, based on the cycle of the moon, just like a werewolf, only every month instead of going on a satisfying killing spree I get to bloat, cramp, crave chocolate, and cry a lot. Thank you, God...