discussions of a women's monthly cycle and fantasises and their physical consequences

"You gave us quite the scare Gilbert." The doctor said with a smile to him. "I thought I told you I never wanted to see the name 'Blythe' on an 'in patient' name again, I didn't just mean your father." He smiled.

"Its just a broken bone Doc." He said with a smile to him, Anne looked confused to Gilbert "Doctor Dixon is the leading doctor here in the hospital for cancer, it was him who recommended my father for the treatment he received while we were away." Anne nodded in understanding and Gilbert looked to the doctor "I was surprised when I saw my consultation was with you though."

"Well the name 'Blythe' showed up it was assumed, but I didn't correct it, its nice to be in a different part of the hospital every once in a while, of course if you feel more comfortable I could…"

"No!" Gilbert objected. "no no, please you, I'd prefer it."

"Good." Doctor Dixon admitted. "Your father is well?" he asked Gilbert.

"Oh yes, much better, he works harder then he should but he's well." Gilbert admitted.

"And from what I understand will soon have a doctor in the family himself yes?" Doctor Dixon asked him.

Gilbert smiled eagerly "Yes, I hope to start in three weeks, so I really really wanted the cast off!" Gilbert exclaimed.

Doctor Dixon nodded and asked him outright "the son of a farmer, can I ask how are you affording it?"

Gilbert swallowed as Anne looked as eager as the doctor for an answer "a scholarship of sorts actually." Gilbert admitted.

"Of sorts?" he asked.

"My fraternity places huge emphasis on further education after BA, BSc's, and when their president is candidate for it the alumnae sponsors a president in their field. The alumnae have a number of doctors in their mix. The idea is that eventually I'll be in a place where I am able to sponsor too, as an ex lamb president, I sponsor someone, even in part and the debt is paid, which is kind of ideal actually because I would want to repay it that way."

"Your chosen field?" Doctor Dixon asked.

"I haven't decided yet for sure." Gilbert said his smile wide. "I have a few ideas."

Doctor Dixon smiled "You always were ambitious." He agreed. "Sounds like you were in the right place at the right time being noticed by the right people." He smiled as there was a knock on the door. "Ah, thank you Nurse Fern." He smiled opening the file he opened it and took the x-ray to the light box and popped it on the wall. "Come on then Gilbert," he smiled "future doctor, tell me what you see?" he told Gilbert.

Gilbert chuckled and got off the bed and walked to the light looking at it. He pointed to the bones in place "my phalanges, metacarpus, carpus, ulna, radius, the end of my humeral medial epicondyle with my humeral trachea and capitulum." He said.

"That's right well done." Doctor Dixon said. "Do you remember which bone you broke?" he asked.

"The radius." He said. "You can see there." He continued looking at the x-ray tracing his finger on it. "Its fixed." He smiled. "Isn't it?" he asked the doctor who nodded.

"Well done Doctor Blythe." Anne teased.

"You will need these." Doctor Dixon said to a smile to Gilbert handing him some leaflets. "Those will help the healing of that arm. Now, tell me you didn't drive here yourself?"

"No Anne drove us here." Gilbert smiled.

"Well.." Doctor Dixon continued "let her take care of you a little longer, get that arm up to strength before going back to school."

"I don't think I'll have much choice." Gilbert smiled.

"You know if you need someone to shadow for a while, during your vacations from university, you could always come here." Doctor Dixon smiled. "I'd um, be sure that it was a paid position."

Gilbert smiled and nodded. "Thank you Doctor Dixon, I'll be in contact." Gilbert agreed.

They left the office and turned a corner in the corridor, where Gilbert took her by the hand and folded her into him, both his arms wrapped around her he held her close.

Anne smiled shyly looking up through her eyelashes she blushed lightly as he lowered his lips to hers kissing her lightly. "Is it how you imagined Gilbert?" she asked him.

"Better." He whispered to her his arms still around her and he chuckled with her. He lowered his lips again to meet hers and they kissed again. His fingers found her skin peaking from beneath her t-shirt as she reached her arms around his neck and he took a deep breath in.

She pulled back and looked at him giggling. "That's only the bottom of my back Gilbert, what are you going to do when…" To which he replied by kissing her firmly. "Mmm." She flirted "yes that'll do indeed."

Hey Di, would you mind popping into the convenience store since you're in town and bring some tampons with you please? My monthly is early AGAIN!

Seen at 11:30

While you're at it some chocolate too, like the biggest fat ass bar you can find?

Seen at 11:32

And ice cream?

Seen at 11:45

And some diet coke?

Seen at 11:46

Because you know... I don't want to get fat from all the chocolate and ice cream.

Seen at 11:47

OMG, Gil is meant to be coming over this afternoon!

Seen at 11:55

Well, here's to the world's shortest relationship ladies and gentlemen, he won't want to be with me after he's seen me like this?! I mean I'm all bloated and uncomfortable and PMTing! I knew it, I think I should become a nun, it'll mean a change in religious practices but I'm sure no nun had to worry about PMTing infront of her boyfriend.

Seen at 12:15

I guarantee you Anne, Gilbert will find this most endearing and will want to be there to comfort you and rub you're stomach better (possibly kiss it better).

Seen at 12:17

What would make you say that?!

Seen at 12:20

Look at who you're talking to?

Seen at 12:21

OMG!

Seen at 12:22

Earth please swallow me whole! OMG Gil, you weren't meant to see ANY of that!

Seen at 12:22

I gathered.

Seen at 12:23

Please just delete it all and lets pretend this never happened.

Seen at 12:24

Well if I did I would have a hard time explaining the two litres of Ben and Jerrys, the 900g of Dove Chocolate, the 6 litres of diet coke and I threw in like three packets of Tylenol and bought one of those heat things in with the rice stuff inside, you put it in the microwave for 3 minutes and it heat up... just to be sure.

Seen at 12:25

You didn't!?

Seen at 12:26

I'm afraid there's no going back now.

Seen at 12:27

Oh and please don't become a nun, I'd have to do a million 'Hail Mary's' for the impure thoughts I have about you.

Seen at 12:27

Are you serious?

Seen at 12:28

About you not becoming a nun? Preferably... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Seen at 12:28

No not about that, about coming here?

Seen at 12:29

Anne look out your bedroom window.

Seen at 12:30

Anne looked out her window and up pulled Gilbert in his mini. She smiled her cheeks flaming, but she still couldn't help it, she turned and ran down the stairs through the kitchen, straight out the back door and into the waiting and loving arms of her boyfriend.

"Oh my gosh! Gilbert I'm so sorry that was suppose to be for Diana." She said as he held her close to him.

"No?!" he teased "Really?!"

"Oh shut up!" she huffed shoving him lightly.

He laughed and he kept a hold of her round her waist gently. "Relax okay?" he told her gently. "Just like you're all in so am I, for when you're menstruating or not."

"For better or worse?" she asked him.

"Well I wasn't going to propose this soon..." he said with dimples in his face.

"Oh you know how to infuriate me!" she exclaimed.

"And equally I know how to take care of you." He said handing her a bag with all but one of the items she had asked for along with the rice heat pack and the Tylenol.

"You forgot the tampons!" she exclaimed looking in the bag.

"Oh contraire my love." He said with a smile pulling out a second bag, Anne looked in amazement as she saw several boxes of not just tampons but pads too. "So I know you said tampons but there were different sizes, and I didn't quite understand why at first but then I realised it was for how heavy the cycle was right?" he looked at her and her face was a picture of amazement in that moment "but then there was different brands and they all seemed to have different flows on them, so I got the branded pads because I figured they were the best..." Anne's face changed to a smile as he spoke "and they didn't seem to have as many flows on them but then they were all different shapes and so I figured..." he was silenced by her lips pressing into his.

"You got them all?!" she asked him.

"Not all, just the best brand and each size." He said with a smile.

"Gil..." she said with a grin to him her hand going up to stroke his cheek. "I love you." She whispered.

He smiled back and told her "I love you too."

"Come on in," she said sweetly. "Come on in I'll make use of one of these and I'll tell you why."

He grinned slightly as she led him by the hand "Do you know how expensive this stuff is? Its hardly a luxury is it? I mean you don't ask for it to come monthly do you?!"

Anne laughed "To be fair you're only suppose to purchase this one month at a time."

It was an hour later when Anne had the heat pack under her back with Gilbert's hand slipped under her top his fingertips rubbing lightly across her stomach gently.

Anne sighed opening her eyes she looked at him and said gently "Isn't there something else you'd rather be doing?" she asked him.

He grinned lightly and continued to rub her smooth flat stomach. "No." He told her.

"No?" she asked "Nothing?"

"Nothing." He admitted. "Do you know how many times I wanted to do this?" he asked her.

"This?" she asked. "take care of a menstruating me?" she said.

He smiled a little then said gently "You forget how long I've been in love with you and just how honest we were with each other." He sighed gently. "You told me straight one month, do you remember?" he asked. She smiled and nodded. "Well I sort of noticed a pattern, with your..." he paused for a moment "sensitivities. Not just your mood, you were never moody, just you would like things a certain way that time of month, you'd be more precise, more direct and more shy of yourself too." He said gently. "I figured out the pattern for myself but then one day I saw the way your hand and arm went across your stomach, you were clearly uncomfortable and in pain, I thought 'I wish I could help her'." He paused for a second as he blushed, "Part of my dreams became so much clearer in those moments, we'd be lying together, it didn't matter where, on the shore, on the grass in high school, in our dorms and I'd just be stroking your tummy, it wasn't sexual, just it was comforting for you but it would be for me too." He admitted.

"How?" she asked him.

He smiled and said softly "It would make us real." He admitted "You would be letting me touch you so intimately, there was no way we weren't together."

She smiled at him and asked "While we were still in high school?" Anne said before he looked part mortified "You had fantasies about us in high school?" she asked.

"Um yeah." He said quietly blushing.

"When?" she asked.

"All the time." He admitted after a few seconds.

She smiled softly then asked "Then when was the first?" she asked.

He shook his head and said "You of all people don't want to know that." He told her.

"Oh come on!" she protested, "Please Gilbert, just tell me, we've never shared this side of us with each other, just tell me." She asked.

"I can't." He admitted.

"Why not?" she probed.

"Because it was too soon!" he exclaimed.

She turned on the bed towards him looking at him in amazement "too soon?" she asked.

He took a sigh and said softly "I thought it was a crush for a while, I never really considered it could be more, I knew I cared more then I should from day one but I just convinced myself I supposed it was just a crush." He took a sigh then continued "you remember that day I pulled you from that pillar on the bridge?" he asked her, to which she looked at him and nodded. "Well I went away and for the first time in my life I was glad I was away."

"Because I finally got what I deserved and you were angry at me, it served me right by the way I'm not complaining I deserved it." She said to him looking down sadly.

"I thought I was angry when I pulled away in the boat, I'll admit to that." He said to her quietly "but believe me that was not the reason I was glad I was away." When she didn't reply he continued "I had many dreams for weeks afterwards of you, not just that, you know but of these little fantasies, of just how perfect we'd be and those fantanties often included us telling each other we loved the other and that apparently was enough for a seventeen year old boy..." he blushed the reddest shade Anne had ever seen on his face "I could barely look at you when I came back." He admitted "I was so scared you would be able to read my mind." With a laugh.

She sat up and looked at him in disbelief "I thought you were still angry with me."

"Nope," he admitted quickly "definitely not angry."

"You were..." she stopped and whispered "turned on?"

"Yup." He said quickly. "All the time." He added for clarity.

"All the time?!" Anne said in return.

"every time I looked." He said.
"Oh!" she said processing it for a few seconds. "At me?" she asked.

"Anne!" he exclaimed.

"Sorry, just, wow!" she said quietly. He sat up a little awkwardly pulling his knees up to his chest his head resting there for a moment before she started to talk. "The night when Stephen and Lavender got together, just before, when we were out on that bench all alone, I told you I was glad we became friends." She said quietly before she practically whispered "That was when I realised I loved you." Gilbert's head shot up and he looked at her his mouth slightly ajar "I was going to say it too, but I stopped myself because I was so very busy convincing myself there was no way you loved me back and that the only reason you would say it was for sex." She said. She looked at him and swallowed before she whispered again "I think I loved you long before then, I can't say when exactly I did fall for you..." she trailed.

"I can't with you either, I think it was from..."

"Carrots." They said in unison with a smile and a nudge from each other before they landed back in each other's arms as they lay back on the bed.

Anne sighed sadly before she said "we could have been so happy, all this time."

He smiled gently kissing into her hair "we were happy remember?" he replied "we were close, we were intimate I've never been like that with anyone before, with regards to our friendship I'm glad we had such a strong one before anything happened."

"Two years it was weakened."

"Which only speaks volumes about how strong our friendship was, how strong our love was, to survive that."

"It doesn't feel weaker." Anne admitted "feels stronger."

"Well you know what they say about absence." Gilbert said with a grin. "Anyway we got there in the end." He smiled before he said "The winter dance, senior year, really?"

She laughed softly into his chest and said "I even went to bed thinking of you that night." She told him.

"That makes two of us." He said with a satisfied grin.