Chapter 7
Once they got there Eve got Greta to take a shower and dress in her pajamas. Eve gave her one of Grandma Sam's maxi-pads to wear under her new pair of panties and had Greta lie down on the couch as she checked the fridge. Eve got out a jar of pickles that didn't have many pickles left and ate the pickles before going to the living room with the jar of pickle juice. "Don't tell me I have to drink that," Greta groaned. "Afraid so; it has water and electrolytes, it'll help with your stomach aches, they're cramps by the way," Eve told her as she gave her the jar. Greta took a sip of the juice and set it on a side table.
Eve took a breath and sat next to her sister, wrapping her arm around her. "Okay, sis, what's happening right now is called your menstrual cycle, or period. It means that you're starting to grow up and become a woman, now, your body's ready to have a baby," Eve started. Greta nodded and reluctantly had more pickle juice.
"You have an organ in you called a uterus, that's where the baby grows. Every month, until you're about Grandma's age, your uterus gets ready to have a baby. When you don't have a baby, all the stuff in there has to come out. That's where the blood came from, it wasn't just blood, its' also mucus that formed in the uterus. You've just hit puberty. Other stuff is going to change."
"Why do I not like the sound of that," Greta made a face as she had more pickle juice. "It's not all bad. Basically, you're going to get taller, your hips are gonna start to stick out more, your boobs are gonna get bigger, that sort of thing. Also, you're gonna start growing body hair, like in your armpits, your legs, your vagina, and body odor too. When that happens, you're gonna need deodorant and start to shave. You might start getting some hair on your upper lip, girls usually wax their lips, same with their vagina, but I don't think you should wax that," Eve continued.
Greta was half done with the pickle juice when she handed it to her, "My cramps are gone." Eve put the pickle juice in the fridge then sat back down with Greta. "Okay, this is the really big part of puberty. You're going to start noticing people's bodies, and you're gonna want to-" "Have sex. I know about sex, Eve," Greta told her, "I'll grow up and just start liking girls like you do." Eve took a moment to collect herself before saying, "Greta, it's not that simple. You can't choose whether you like boys, or girls, or both. You're not very girly, true, but that doesn't automatically make you a lesbian. Mom, Aunt April, Cousin June, and Grandma aren't very girly, but they all like men or they wouldn't have gotten married to them.
"What you like doesn't decide if you like girls or boys. That's something you only find out with time," Eve told her sister. "When did you find out you were a lesbian?" Greta asked her. "I was 10; I started puberty early like you. As I got older, I paid more attention to girls than boys, but I knew the boys were attractive. I wasn't sure until I decided to kiss a boy at a dance when I was 12, his name was Johnny Reeve. We kissed, and it didn't feel right. Next year I met my first girlfriend, Cleo. We kissed and I knew that it felt right. The year after that I told you guys I was gay, two years and five girlfriends later here we are." Eve said. Just then Sam and Selma came in, with a bag of products for Greta.
