Warning: If talking about 'girl stuff' weirds you out, you will not appreciate this... Just saying.
A thought that wouldn't go away after I read something on a twilight blog and a funny scene from Vampire's Suck. :)
Alice POV
"Alice?" I looked up from my computer screens to Leila who was sprawled on the floor playing Angry Birds on Emmett's iPhone. Oh great. I couldn't see what she was going to ask me, of course.
"Yes Leila," I said, resigned to being surprised by what ever she wanted to ask. She giggled at my tone. "Don't say yes like I'm about to torture you. I just have a question." She turned on her stomach abandoning her game to rest her chin on her fists.
"I can't figure something out, but you have to promise not to tell anyone if I ask you. I don't want to embarrass anybody." Oh boy, this should be a good one. I wondered if she realized that everyone in the house was able to hear her.
I raised my eyebrows in response. "Okay, ask." She bit her lip with a pause, as if deciding how to word it. "Oh, come on Leila! Ask me." I was really not used to waiting to know what someone would ask me.
"Well, I was just thinking, about how Edward and Bella were together when she was still a human." Okaaay... where was this going?
"And so I wondered. Did she have to not be around him or any of you whenever she was on her period? And for that matter, how do you go to high school with all those human girls?"
I stared at her. Where did she come up with these questions? First the curiosity over fat people being turned into vampires and now this. But it was a valid question.
"Because if a tiny paper cut is enough for Jasper to snap and try to kill Bella, how would you resist dozens of girls who were way worse for days?" She looked at me with a completely straight face. Okay, she wasn't joking. She just looked at me, obviously waiting for my answer.
"Alright, " I started, not sure exactly how to explain this to her without being gross.
"I'm not trying to be weird," she said, as if reading my mind, " it's just that I can't figure it out and I don't really want to ask Carlisle." Fair enough.
"Well, if you know about the human reproductive system, menstruation is to flush out the uterus." She didn't look uncomfortable, just interested. I continued. "So there is dead cells and tissue being flushed out. With our very keen senses, the difference in the blood is very distinct. There is not much appealing about it."
"Oh! Well that does kind of make sense," she said, thinking about it.
I smiled at the look on her face. "When you start being around humans regularly, you will understand a lot of the differences in you now."
She started giggling. "What?" I asked her. She shook her head, still laughing. "It's just funny to me, the mental image of... never mind." She said, deciding not to tell me whatever had struck her so funny. "Uh uh. You don't get to stop in the middle of telling me something."
She bit her lip to stifle the giggles. "It's just that Bella is so quiet and shy and the thought of how awkward she must have been after she knew what Edward was... It's just funny."
I laughed a little as I recalled fore-seeing that very scenario. "Luckily for both of them, I saw it and warned Edward. It wasn't completely mortifying for her."
Leila thought for a second before responding. "Even though we're so much more physically advanced than normal people, it's kind of funny how there's still situations that keep you kind of human." She flipped back over and resumed her game with that statement and I was left thinking about the little things that still kept us 'kind of' human.