The years that Alex and Kelly spent with Esme has been the greatest experience of their lives. Esme recently celebrated her 12th birthday, but Alex and Kelly still saw her as the little girl they adopted years ago. Esme maintained a casual routine of waking up at 6:00 in the morning to get ready for school.
Her alarm goes off and immediately she feels off. She wraps her stomach around her dull cramping stomach. She checks her phone and glares 6:05am and realizes that she could sleep for 20 more minutes and still could have time to get ready for school. She closes her eyes in hopes that they aching in her stomach subsides.
Her alarms goes off again and she wakes up to realize that she feels even worse.
"What's wrong with my stomach" she mentally asks herself. With a slight nausea feelings hitting her as she got out of bed she realized that going to school isn't the best option right now. She starts making her way to her parents room.
It's just Alex sitting in the bed scrolling on her phone. Esme remembered that Kelly was off to a family emergency back in her home town.
"Hey sweetie" Alex turns to look at her daughter and quickly notices that something seems off with her daughter.
"What's wrong baby"
" I really don't feel well" Esme says as she wraps her arms around her stomach.
"Can I stay home until I get better?"
"Yeah sure you could stay home" Alex brings her hand up to Esme to feel for a temperature. She concludes that Esme doesn't have a fever, but there was no reason why Esme couldn't stay home for a day, she had perfect grades and a great attendance record. It wasn't worth it to Alex to being Esme to school and risk her getting sicker at school.
"Can you tell me what your feeling, so I give you some tea to help?"
Esme climbs into the bed and sits to face her mom.
"I don't know what happened I just woke up and my stomach was hurting, I tried to sleep it off but it still hurts and I feel so queasy"
Alex took a mental note and nods her head.
"Maybe you caught a stomach flu, do you want me to make you a cup of ginger tea? She says as she tucks Esme's brown wavy hair behind her ear.
"Yes please I think the tea will help stop this stomach ache"
"Yeah I think it will" Alex says laughing at her daughters sassy remarks "How about I make the tea and you could go back to sleep and rest"
Esme lets out a yawn and her and Alex both laugh as Alex pulls her in a comforting hug. Alex leads Esme to her room and tucks Esme into bed and gives her a small kiss on her hairline. Alex then walks into the kitchen to make Esme some breakfast and tea.
Esme tries to go back to sleep but her stomach began to rage into painful cramps. She winces and curls into herself, hoping to stop the cramping. A couple of minutes go by and Esme picks herself up to go to the bathroom. She walks into the bathroom and turn on the light and closes the door. She puts her phone on the counter and glances into the mirror. She realizes that she looks paler than usual. She makes her way to the toilet. She sees a red stain on her underwear and is shocked.
"Oh my god oh my god" she says repeatedly. She instantly realizes what's going on.
She reaches for her phone to text Alex.
"Mom can you come into the bathroom please… It's urgent" She texts.
Alex is in the middle of making scrambled eggs when her phone goes off. She clicks on Esme's message. She immediately clicks the stove off and makes her way into the bathroom. She didn't even make time to text Esme back. She thought her daughter of throwing up and or becoming extremely sick.
Alex gently knocks on the bathroom remembering that her daughter was 12 and still needed privacy.
"Es is everything okay sweetie? I got your text"
"Can you come in please? I need you"
Alex turns the doorknob and sees her daughter sitting on the toilet with her pants to her knees. She sees her daughter scared race and makes her way to her daughter. She kneels on one knee to make eye contact with Esme.
"Hey what's wrong baby" She says as her rubs Esme's back gently.
"Mommy" Esme quietly whispers. "I think I started my period"
"Oh well that's okay, there's absolutely nothing to worried about." "It just means your growing up okay?"
Esme nods still shaken up but she's feeling calmer.
If Mom says it's okay than everything will be okay.
"I'll be right back. I'm just going to get you some stuff and we'll get you cleaned up and back in bed to rest." Alex gives Esme an reassuring smile and Esme smiles back. Alex makes her way into Esme's room to get her some clean underwear and pants. She pulls out her phone and shoots Kelly a text.
"I guess our baby is a women now ;,) she's just got her period"
She then picks up the items and walks into the bathroom. She then reaches underneath the sink counter and grabs a pad and shows Esme how to use it. She also gives Esme some wipes to clean herself up and hands Esme the pants to change into. She could see the embarrassment in Esme's face but She reassures her daughter that's there's nothing to be embarrass about.
Soon her and Esme make their way into Esme's room. She gives Esme some pain meds and water since the cramping hasn't subsided.
"How do you feel baby?" Alex says as she tucks Esme in and gives her some breakfast and tea.
"I just feel so icky and crampy" Esme says dramatically.
"Well yeah that unfortunately it one of the downfalls of becoming a women" Alex and Esme both laugh.
"But one of the great things is that Ill let you eat as much chocolate ice cream you want…how does that sound?"
Esme's eyes light up as she nods and giggles,
"Sounds great" Esme says
Alex runs smiles and gently rubs Esme's. There was no better feeling in the world than making her daughter smile especially when she's not feel well.
"Try to get some sleep baby.. It will help with the cramping okay"
"Okay mommy thank you for everything" Esme's closes her eyes to go to sleep. Alex stands up from the bed and gently kisses her daughters hair. She makes her way to the living and sits not eh couch to watch some TV.
Two hours go by and Esme is still fast asleep. Alex's phone goes off it's Kara.
"Hey are you busy? We found a new alien presence and we need you to dna test it"
"Well this morning was pretty eventful since Esme is getting cramps now, but I could bring us both to the tower and she could rest in the medbay"
"If you bring Esme I could give her some medicine for the cramps. Being Alien with cramps isn't fun at all."
"Yea that will actually help a lot. We'll be there in a hour"
Alex starts to pack her purse to leave and goes to the bathroom to pack extra pads for Esme. Then she goes to Esme's room to wake her sleeping daughter up.
"Esme" she gently shakes her daughter. Esme slowly opens her eyes and looks at her mom.
Alex kneels down and says "Hey so I need to go to the lab to look at an alien dna sample, so we need to get ready to leave. You could just wear some comfy clothes and you could sleep in the medbay, I'll make sure no one wakes you up okay baby?"
"Do we have to leave? My stomach just hurts so much right now" Esme's eyes watered with tears
"I know it hurts baby, but Kara also texted me that she has pain medicine that works well for aliens." "She give it to you there." Alex makes gentle circles on Esme's arm.
The thought of leaving her warm bed made Esme so upset. She understands how important her moms work is but she just felt so horrible and just wanted to stayed home. Tears stated running down Esme faces. Alex brings her emotional daughter into a hug. Esme quietly sobs into her mother's warm embrace. Alex knew that it was the teenage hormones and pain that was weighting on Esme's emotions. She understood that she just needed to support her daughter during this emotional and confusing time of her life.
A few minutes later Esmes sobs quieted down and Alex looks her daughter in her eyes. She knew she needed to let Esme process her emotions rather than forcing her to suppress them. "How do you feel" Alex says quietly
"I feel somewhat okay now" "I didn't mean to cry I was just so tired"
"It's okay sweetie everyone cries once in a while okay?""Your in pain right now and that's completely fine"
"I'll get ready to go to the tower, but can I bring my blanket so I could sleep? Esme asks
"Yea of course you can" "Just put on some sweats and a t-shirt so you could be comfortable" Esme nods and Alex gives Esme one last hug before going into her own room to get ready.
Esme chooses to wear a pair of gray joggers and a white t-shirt and grabs her fluffy blue blanket to take with her. She sits in the couch and snuggles up in her blanket and waits for her mom.
Alex walks out of her room a few minutes later in jeans and a leather jacket.
"You ready to go sweetie?"
Esme nods while carrying her blue blanket. Her and Alex walk to the car. Esme sits in the passager seats and snuggles in her blanket. She naps in the car on their way to the tower. They pull up to the tower and Alex gently shakes Esme awake and they both walk into the tower. The tower was pretty empty since everyone was respectively at their company's and jobs. The two walk into the medbay and Alex grabs some white sheets, blankets and pillows from the storage. She arranges then on them bed so it could be comfy for Esme. The Esme kicks her shoes off and gets into the bed. Alex wraps Esme in the blue blanket and grabs a chair to sit in next to Esme.
"How do you feel sweetie" she asks while slowly rubbing Esmes hair.
"I still feel so sick" "Why does my stomach have to hurt so much" Esme whines as she curls into her self to subside the cramping.
"It's sadly a part of becoming a women sweetie" "I know it sucks but it be over in a couple of days"
Esme started to get sleepier at the minute and Alex knew it. Soon Esmes breathing slowed and Alex realized that her daughter went to sleep. She sighed at the thought that the cramps were going to be a monthly part of her daughters life.
She went off to start her lab work and found Kara in the lab room. Kara greeted Alex and noticed the worried look on Alex's face.
" Hey what's going on? You look so concerned right now" Kara asks
"Yea i'm fine it's just everything with Esme is just… I- I don't know… it's so scary watching her grow up." Alex sits on her lab table
"Alex you do know that she's always going to be your little girl" Kara laughs
"Well I know that, but it just seems like everything is going so fast like soon she's going to start bringing boys home and driving freeways Kara! How am I supposed to cope with that."
"We just have to play it day by take Alex" Kara rests her hands on Alex's shoulders "And plus if any boy tries to do anything to my niece, Supergirl will pay him a nice visit"
Alex and Kara both laugh together. All the super friends were extremely protective over Esme. Nobody will be able to break the kids heart without getting a visit from the super friends, it made Alex and Kelly grateful that their daughter had an amazing support system.
Two hours passed by and Esme had woken up from her slumber. She blinks a few times remembering that she was in the tower. Her cramps have gotten extremely worse and she feels so nauseous. She rubs her hair out of her face and sits up in hopes that it wakes her up. As she looks downs she notices a red stain on her sweatpants to make matters even worse she notices that the sheets are stained. Her heart drops in embarrassment and couldn't decide what to do. "oh no no no no no this can't be happening" she says putting her hands across her face. She makes the decision to get up from the bed and remove the sheets before anyone notices. But Kara subconsciously walks in before Esme could execute her plan.
Esme hears Kara's footsteps and immediately tries to cover her stained pants with a blanket but it didn't necessarily work out.
"Hey Esme… what's wrong.." Kara drops her voice in concern.
Esme starts to panic "I don't know what happened all I did was wake up and blood got everywhere…I'm so sorry, I'll clean it up I promise, I really didn't mean too I-"
"Shhhhhh it's okay" Kara gave her niece a assuring hugs. "Your not in trouble Esme it's happened to all of us okay… there's no need to panic we can just clean it up" Tears ran down Esme's face she was so confused and humiliated.
Alex ended hearing the noise and made her way into the medbay. She saw Kara hugging a crying Esme and upon walking closer Alex could make out would exactly happened. Esme looks up from Kara's shoulder and see her mom and quietly whispers "Mommy"
" Hey how about we get cleaned up and i'll order some ice cream from your favorite ice cream store" Alex knew that Kara had handled the situation and all she wanted at the moment was for Esme to feel better. Esme nods and gives her mom a hug. Tears are still running down her hair because she was so ashamed but Alex and Kara gave her the reassurance to be okay. Alex then walks Esme over to the Towers bathroom to take a quick shower and Kara uses her super speed to remove the sheets and bring them into the towers washer. Alex then goes to grab Esme a spare pair of clean clothes that they left in case something occurred. She waits for the shower water to turn off to give Esme s pair of black leggings and a grey hoodie with a fresh pair of underwear and a pad. She sits the items on the counter and Esme thanks her for it. Alex closes the bathroom door and walks to the medbay.
She finishes up her lab research while waiting for Esme to finish up in the shower.
Esme comes out of the shower a few minutes later fresh and clean with the clothes Alex got her for on. She walks over to Alex and sits the chair next to Alex wanting her moms comfort. Alex then pulls her into a long hug.
"How you feeling sweetie" Esme just shakes her head. She's so tired from the shower and she feels that she could fall sleep in her moms arms right now.
"I finished my lab and made a quick order of chocolate ice cream and pizza" "How about we head home baby?"
Esme smiles back at Alex "I'd really like that"
Alex and Esme packs their things and head to the car and they come home just in time when their food order arrives. They make their way to the couch and Alex turns on a Romantic Drama on the TV because She loves that it's Esmes favorite genre of movie. She also opens up the pizzas and chocolate ice cream. Her and Esme dig into the food while laughing that the movie and their just having an overall great time. She notices that Esmes starts becoming uncomfortable just as Esme leans forward and wraps her arms on her stomach. She knows that Esme cramps probably have came back. She goes to grab a heating pad and pain medicine.
"Here this will helping with the cramping" She says as she turns the heating pad on high and places it on Esmes abdomen. Esmes sighs at the warmth easing the cramps on the stomach.
"Thank you for everything" Esme says appreciative while taking a scoop of ice cream. Alex smiles while rubbing Esmes hair. Little does Esme know is that Alex would give the world to Esme. She truly loved her daughter to the moon and back.
"Baby you know that I would do anything to make you feel better" Alex says
"Could you make it where I'll never have cramps again?"
Alex and Esme both laugh.
"No unfortunately that's the one thing I can't do" Placing a kiss on Esme forehead. Esme yawns. Alex notices how tired her daughter did becoming and grabs a pillow and sits it on her lap. She then leans Esmes for her head is laying on the pillow. Then she makes sure Esme is tugged the blanket and slowly rubs Esmes hair. Esme falls asleep within minutes. Alex smiles at her beautiful daughter and slowly drifts off to sleep herself knowing that Esme was feeling better in her embrace.
