Jordan and her mom sat in the sterile smelling doctor’s office side by side. Small rows of flowers decorated the wallpaper on the waiting room walls and the coffee tables were covered with parenting and pregnancy magazines. Women of all sizes and ages walked in and out of the office and waited alongside the pair in the pink space.
The previous afternoon, Jordan had told her best friend Alex about getting her first period and she had been ecstatic.
“REALLY?!?!? I’m so happy for you! Are you sore? Do you have cramps? What does it feel like? Did you try to use a tampon? What about PMS – do you feel like a bitch?!”
“Honestly Alex I wish you could have it and not me,” Jordan had complained. She couldn’t understand why Alex was so curious and excited about it – or how she knew so much about the topic even.