Menstrual cramps gone wrong 🤧🤧

        

      During my secondary school days, at the beginning of the month, people normally wished each other a happy new month, and truly it was really a riveting season because the very first Saturday of the month was always the school's visiting day. That February in particular boys got the opportunity to sneak in Valentine's day gifts for their boos, so you see? Everyone was happy, both boos and baes, everyone was expecting something in the Valentine spirit, all I was expecting was my period. 

    Well, the beginning of the months weren't so fun for me, because I was always expecting my period, which also came with its excruciating abdominal and back pains, but to ease myself of that pain, I always made sure I had something to eat and I took my pain reliever. 

  That particular day, I had to rush out of the hostel because our seniors had asked us to leave, so I hadn't enough time to take my drugs or even eat. I had managed to endure and scale through the long assembly alive. It was time for chemistry class. On our way to the chemistry lab, I had already begun to feel pain all over, I told myself that I'd have to bear it till break time, which was at 10 a.m. I sat down in that class counting every second, the chemistry teacher spoke like she was on rewind while I suffered the pains alone, no one knew about it.     Every time I had to check my watch because it felt like we had spent two days, we had only moved two minutes further. When the pains became unbearable and I knew I had no strength, to avoid the drama of fainting in the classroom and having all the boys find out that I fainted because of menstrual cramps, I summoned the courage and took an excuse from the chemistry teacher, she asked for my reason, I didn't know how to tell her that I needed to find a less dramatic scene to faint 🤷🤷, so I said I needed to ease myself. 

     I staggered out of the lab block to the class block where other classes were having their lectures. At this point, I was already debilitated and my eyeballs were already turninoninown, I looked into my empty class, and then I had to reason that if I stayed there to faint, it would still result in my classmates coming to find me, and that whole drama would still happen. So I walked up to my house Captain's class to alert her, she followed me to my class, and then I felt the time and place was right 😌. I fainted there. 

    All I could remember was that a boy came to carry me, he walked through the senior classes and the junior classes to the clinic, with all the teachers from every angle asking what the problem was, I could only hear them, but I couldn't open my eyes. I heard my house Captain tell the female teachers that I had menstrual cramps. The teachers laughed and said, "these children and their drama, she probably didn't eat this morning ". I imagined them going back to their classes to continue the conversation with their students, both my seniors and juniors, and how they'd relate maths to menstruating or government to cramp, I felt like telling the boy to put me down, I'm not doing again 😥😥.

      I got to the school clinic that had just a wooden structure demarcating the male's compartment from the female's compartment. A lot of curious students were already clinging to the windows, wondering what had happened. At that moment, our school's guidance and counselor walked in, when she was told what happened, she exclaimed " Ahh, so you fainted because of menstruation". She should have just played the NTA news soundtrack since she just broadcasted the news to the whole school. 🤧🤧