:| Three Guesses |: {Death}
Apr 8, 2015 23:18:56 GMT -5
Post by ᕙʕ•ᴥ•ʔᕗ on Apr 8, 2015 23:18:56 GMT -5
The trip would have been more embarrassing if she hadn’t made it so often. At first, she had used them only for a certain time of the month, but then one of her friends told her that she could use them to soak up the blood from her nosebleeds. It was amazing how many fewer cloths she had to wash after she started using that trick, and soon, it was hard to convince her to go back to the old ways. Unfortunately, it also meant that she had to go on more frequent trips. It was a good thing one of her internships was paying; as long as she lived at home, she could use the money she earned for that.
The frequency of the trips didn’t make the fact that she was buying these products much less embarrassing either. Shiori always dreaded the day that she would run into one of her friends, because her mother had always told her that it was something that she should keep private. Her mother always threw words around like honor, family, and some other one word that was supposed to be symbolic, but Shiori was embarrassed because it was just an embarrassing situation in general. Nosebleeds were common for her, but part of it was because she couldn’t keep her nose out of books that she shouldn’t have been reading.
Her friends never knew; they just thought it was a genetic thing because Shiori had thrown around the excuse that her mother had the same problem when she was younger. It was unusual, yes, but it wasn’t something that she couldn’t hide. Still, she always made sure that she was carrying something else in her arms to hide the little box. There were only a few items left for her to buy, part of them at her mother’s request and the other as fluff, when she rounded the corner and collided into a solid mass.
Everything in her arms trickled out as she stood there mortified, but the feeling only grew when she looked up and saw who it was she had collided with. The response was automatic as her face flushed a deep red and she scrambled to collect everything, but more importantly, hide the little box close to her chest. “Sor—sorry,” she stuttered as she wondered if the situation could become any more embarrassing. Why did I have to run into him of all people? Especially like this?