Noone ever told me that life would be like this. In fact, no-one ever said much about what I could expect. Sure I knew it wouldn't be easy, but I never really figured it could be this damn hard. When I was younger I was alone. I never had any friends and the closest anyone ever got to me was to tell me how much they despised 'my kind'. I was three years old when it happened. Too young to properly understand the ramifications but old enough to realise that it wasn't good. From that night on my life changed. I was no longer a boy, I was a monster. As time passed I saw my condition tear my parents apart. They didn't know how to cope and I could see in their eyes that they feared me. They feared what I became once a month - they feared the thing that their baby boy had become.