Lily Bud

Year 3 Chapter 29

In the Christmas holidays home, Lily got the worst present ever.

Her first period.

Both her parents were out for a class reunion and Petunia and Lily were alone at home. She had had stomach aches for one or two days before that. But when she woke up and found a blood on her sheets, Lily was shocked, confused, embarrassed and in pain.

Quickly she pulled the sheets from her bed and hurried into the bath to wash them out. She scrubbed and scrubbed. A tear fell from her eyes. She sniffed and scrubbed some more.

"What are you doing in there so long?" Petunia's annoyed voice from the other side of the door started Lily.

"No-Nothing." Lily stammered back.

"Open the stupid door. I need the loo!"

"Go to the loo downstairs!" Lily shouted back.

The door clicked. Both sisters knew how to open the door from the outside. It wasn't very difficult, you could do it with a coin, screwdriver or even a long fingernail.

"What the hell do you think you are doing hogging the bathroom like this?" Petunia complained. Then she looked at the scene in front of her and the red spot on the sheets. She stood still for a moment. "Oh…"

Lily looked away from her sister and chewed on her bottom lip.

"Eh, is this your first…?" Petunia asked carefully.

Lily just nodded, still not looking at her. It was silent for a moment.

Lily heard footsteps and felt Petunia's arm brush against her own. "Go take a shower. I take care of this."

Lily whipped her head around and looked at Petunia was big eyes.

"And give me your nightgown as well. I put them in the washing machine." Petunia sounded calm and understanding.

"Ok…" Lily mumbled. She stepped into the shower and pulled the curtain close before removing her clothes and giving it to her sister. A moment later the bathroom door clicked again.

Lily took her time before putting on her bathrobe to grab some clean clothes. Petunia heard the door opening and stepped out of her room. She was as red in the face as Lily, while holding a pack of pads in her hands. "Here you just stick them in your pants and it's explained on the package so read or something…"

"Thank you…" Lily mumbled and fled back to the bathroom

A few minutes later Petunia knocked on the door. "Is everything ok?" She asked awkward through the door.

"Yes…" Lily answered, feeling as awkward.

"Ok… Good… You know, Doctor Who is on the TV, if you want to watch it with me." Petunia sounded embarrassed to offer this, but Lily felt so so happy!

"Yes! I will be down in a moment." Last summer they didn't sit down to watch Doctor Who together even once. Petunia always had something else to do. When Lily came down Petunia was sitting on the sofa. A hottie was lying next to her and she had chocolate out.

"Comfort food…" Petunia said and shrugged her shoulders. They didn't talk much more, but sat next to each other and just watched TV.

Lily smiled. Maybe it wasn't that bad that she got her period.

The next time Lily had her period; Sulfia noticed after half a day and looked at Lily like she had grew a second head, before dragging her to the hospital wing, where Madam Pomfrey gave her a potion to deal with it in ten minutes. When they then showed up late to Transfiguration, Sulfia claimed that she had been unwell and that Lily had took her to the infirmary.


A.N. Some things here. First I was really not sure if I should include this chapter for quite some time, because it is not really a comfortable topic, but I decided to do it, because this is a story about Lily growing up and how she changed in time and this is a change that happens to most bio. females at some point and it is important for a girl when growing up. Lily didn't welcome this change and I literally know no girl that did at first (and why should they). But I still tried to turn it into a somewhat nice moment for Lily, by letting her bond with Petunia over this. Petunia still cares, but she is maybe a bit afraid of magic and hurt that Lily in her mind chose Snape over her, but she can see past that when it is something 'normal' Lily is struggling with, like in this chapter. People often forget how difficult it is for siblings to really hate each other when you live together. Humans are made to recognize things that reminds them of themselves as good and nice. You see the same gestures and mimic in your siblings and all that makes you like them on a very fundamental level. It is a lot easier to hate them, when they are not around...

Second, I refuse to even consider the fact that such a potion doesn't exist in the magical world. There is no way that not at least a dozen witches make it their aim to deal with this and if there are potions to breath underwater and walk through fire there is a potion for that!

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