10 years later

Bubbles lay on the Curtis's couch half-asleep. Someone was trying to wake her. "Bubs wake up." She fluttered her eyes to see the boys standing around her.

"What?" She asked her voice soft. Two-Bitt pointed down to in between her legs. She looked in horror to see she had bleed through. "Gosh diddly-darn I wasn't supposed to start this for another two days. I'll clean it up give me a minute." She got up and waddled toward the bathroom. The guys that waited for her to come out. She came out in a long shirt with cleaner and began to scrub the couch.

"Bubs, what happened?" Darry asked softly.

"I bleed through my last pair of good underwear that's what." She looked up her blue eyes looked annoyed.

"Can't you hold it in?" Two-Bitt asked and Darry whacked him upside the head.

Now Bubbles didn't get annoyed often, but now she was pissed. "Gather 'round kiddies let mama tell you a story." Now the boys all worriedly sat on the floor a cross from where Bubbles kneeled. "Imagine you are asleep, nice cozy, dreaming about whatever you guys dream about, the it wakes you. A cramp so bad it feels like bomb exploding, and after the cramp subsides you can feel your insides pulsing. Now, you rip off the covers to see blood running down your leg, you think 'seriously I wasn't supposed to start this for another few days', but Mother Nature was in a hurry. So you waddle, yes waddle to the bathroom, your undies are ruined but that the least of your worries. You sit on the toilet and try to clean yourself before the next flow. You jump in the shower just in time and pretend the blood washing off your legs was from a battle, you get a cramp, but the warm water helps. After you are done you race to get your underwear on, but you have many years of experience below your belt, pun not intended. Now you have to wear a pad and not a tampon because it's to early and you're sore down there, so you have to sit in your own blood. Now luckily you some how didn't get any on your sheets so you decide to get some sleep. Now we know what happens when you sleep on your side and if you sleep on your back it will fall backwards, and your stomach is impossible with your cramps. Now, this is just night one a period last 3-5 to days. Questions?"

The look on the guy's face was priceless. She started to laugh as all looked at each other. Steve raised his hand, "Why do you pretend your showering after a battle?"

"Steve honey," she put a hand on his shoulder, " I gotta deal with this 'til I'm fifty and I got 8 years under my belt."

"You got your first period at 9?" Dally asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, I got everything early." The truth was Chemical X in her sped up the process.

Bubbles laid in her bed on her stomach with her feet in the air. She was looking at a scrapbook when Johnny looked in. "What are you doing?"

"Looking at some old photos, come join me." She moved over and Johnny reluctantly joined sitting the same way. She looked at a picture of Soda tickling her.

"You still ticklish there." He poked her side and she erupted into a fit of giggles.

"Oh, Johnny." She said breathlessly. Then her door burst open to reveal the entire gang. "Wha-" Johnny poked her side. "Stop doing that!" She pushed him.

"We thought you two-" Darry didn't finish Steve looked pissed.

Steve was pissed. He wanted to be the one to tickle her, to make her laugh. Hell, he wanted to be caught in bed with Bubbles. He wanted to make her happier then she already was. He wanted her in every single way.

Steve Randle was in love.

Bubbles' secret was looming over her like a cloud. She was bursting at the seams. She swallowed a pill. The pill was to help her Chemical X, because the less she used it the more unpredictable.

"Bubbles why are you taking pills?" Dally asked, getting the entire gangs attention.'

"They're birth control pills."

Oh, how she lied.