Another update today :)

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SPOV

The stolen glances were unbearable, not enough to live with. It made me feel jealous, a wild fire lighting in my chest, fueled by fury and desire. Such pain cannot exist without the inklings of pleasure which taint my thoughts.

Marcus was exuberant around his wife, and as I grew older I began to understand why. Didyme's " happy spells" intoxicated Marcus, it made him follow her around like a drunk squirrel eyeing a barrel of brandy. Of course, if the drunk squirrel occasionally made out with the barrel, and made it squeak rhythmically while they were alone. I did not understand why.

I tried reading up, researching on the.. principles that govern love and marriage. Most of them were kept in Aro's top shelves, of course. Away from me.

I rolled my eyes internally. I'm not a child anymore, now that I'm a little more grown up.

I started feeling my chest become tender and puffy, my stomach and lower back would hurt sometimes. Didyme smiled and dismissed it off as just "growing pains" and that i would soon understand more.

Little did I realise that the day was soon.

The next morning, I woke up with Aro looking at me fearfully form the corner of the room. I twitched my head, and looking down I saw the perfect white sheets caked with blood from my waist down, my thighs streaming with blood. So, that's the cost of becoming a woman? I tried sitting up, but my head rolled back with dizziness and a painful throbbing. " Ugh.. ouch..." I groaned, before feeling a stab to my womb area. I screamed.

A few seconds later Didyme rushed in, observing her brother in the corner and then her eyes fixated on me.

She was no longer my mommy. For that second, she looked posessed, as if an emotion between anger, want and fear. It was like a slow motion for the next minute, Didyme charged towards me with a feral growl, I moved back, my heart beating frantically and i was still in pain, I cowered at the edge away from Didyme, then I saw Aro's arms throw Didyme against the wall before she tried to come at me again.

" NO SISTER!" Aro commanded fearfully, trying to calm her down. " Mar.. MARCUS! GET IN HERE NOW!" he yelled once more.

" I WANT THAT SWEET, BLOOD, THAT HOLY, PURE... LIFE THAT FLOWS. PLEASE BROTHER, IF YOU LOVE ME LET ME GO!" she yelled again, her eyes were wild. I trembled in the corner, unable to move away any further, tears flowing from my eyes. " Aro? What's going on? why am i bleeding?" I asked frantically, feeling another pang of pain hit me, and then .. somewhere in my lower regions i felt a gush of warmth followed by a tensing pain.

I curled up, facing away when i heard Marcus hush his wife, and drag her out. Aro closed his eyes for a few seconds and approached me slowly, his eyes were wild as well, and i knew that he was different.

" Shhh, hush love, now i want you to get into the bathtub, run yourself some water, go. i will clear this place up. Stay in the bathe. please." he says in a calm tone, telling me clear directions. I stood up, my abdomen cringing internally, and the warm red fluid dribbled down from my dress across my legs, to the back of my knees and then onto the floor, I ran into the bathroom and tore my garment off before splashing into the hot water which was already there. Moments later, I heard his footsteps. He crouched beside the bathe and removed his toga, stepping in. He waded towards me slowly, and steadily, his eyes holding me in place.

" Are you going to hurt me? Do you want my blood too...?" I stammered, swimming to the further end of the pool.

" Shhh.. no, i would never. Please, stay where you are." he whispers across the echo bouncing off the water, it took him no more than a second to cover the distance of two and a half meters. I felt his cold thigh between my legs, acting as a pedestal for me to rest on, he pushes me against the wall with his arms securely around me.

" You're.. really cold.." I observed.

He seemed to ignore me. " My love, please, do not be afraid. I have enough control in myself to not attack you. I.. well.. this i s hard to explain.. goodness." he smiles embarassed, and closes his eyes, tryign to gather his thoughts perhaps. I saw a pale.. little.. head thing bobbing across the water, and I reached my hand to grab it. Aro's eyes snapped open, looking at me. Little did i realise that it was his.. well.. his junior. I blushed and let go of it imediately.

His expression softened, he held me in his arms gently and waded across to a stone ledge where we sat down. I poured water over my neck and shoulders to keep warm, though the pains did not cease.

" You've.. reached a certain time in your life which heralds in that you are officially a woman. Every female gets it. We're not sure why, the superstitions of rome say that it's because women are evil or something, but we are etruscans, and we do not believe that at all. It is not dirty, it is not wrong, and it is natural Okay? do not be ashamed, you are simply growing." he smiles, eyeing my developing breasts. I blush.

" You will.. know the details of it later on, but what will happen is that yo would get your.. well, your period every once a month, and then for a week or so after that, you would be fertile, meaning able to concieve a child." My eyes widened. A CHILD EVERY MONTH?

" That means i get pregnant once every month? that's terrible. is that why people have so many siblings?" I gasped.

" What.. no! no, it doesn't... work that way! It means that if we.. do it.. you would concieve."

" do.. what?" i asked again.

Aro smiled and closed his eyes, his head rolling back against the marble wall. He waded across the water to face me. Then he takes my hand and places it over his.. thing.

My hand tightened itself around his shaft in shock. He moans. I did not understand.

" This. will go inside of your body through where you are bleeding now, not that it would bleed after the one week per month... and well it would.. we're not sure actually, the gods would give us a child." he explains the best he could.

" Why don't I have it?" I asked again, pulling at it and studying its shape and form. " It's really big... how's it gonna fit?"

" Why, I am flattered." he says, smilling and placing a kiss over my brow. " think of it as a lock and key mechanism. Hmm? makes sense now? and it won't fit, you'd expand, your hymen would break and you would bleed."

" MORE BLEEDING? How come you don't bleed while we females do?" i yelled in shock, tightening my grasp on his.. thing. His eyes tighten as he mutters something under his breath. " We.. have no idea yet, but i refuse to believe superstitions."

I had to accept those facts for now.

" Does it feel good when I pull on it? does it hurt?" I enquired with more curiosity. He smiles. " No no, no pain, just as you would feel when I do this perhaps." he says, his finger travelling to the apex of my legs and rubbing my bud gently. I close my eyes, feeling a wave of pleasure course through my lower half. " Mmmm... more.." I moaned, pulling on his hair. He purrs. " It is said to relief the pain of getting your period, I should know." he smiles once more, feeling my little hand working to tug on his shaft.

I felt another sharp stab of pain, and i leaned onto his frame for support while wincing in pain.

" Okayy let's get you into some fresh clothes now, the water's getting cold.." he says, seemingly, the water around his had turned into slight icicles. I smiled back, letting him carry me back. He gave me some fresh towels which i used to tie around my waist and then across my legs so as to absorb the blood, and then led me back to our room in his toga before removing it again.

" You, sleep. I'll get you some wine," he commands as he made his way down and back again, holding my glass in one hand. It was warm. I drank up quietly and then laid back again, noticing that the sheets that i had previously soiled was now gone, replaced by a fresh maroon bedsheet. Of course he'd use maroon, then no one would see my blood.

I turned over and he spooned me with both his arms, placing light fluttering kisses over my neck. Then I felt his arm snake down towards mylegs once more. He pushed aside the cotton clothes, sliding his fingers across my lady bits, and bringing to newly bloodied fingers to his lips. He sighs.

" Your blood is heavenly.. at least I can consume it safely, and look, we can even save up on the towels!" he said in wonder, his fingers going back for more. I fell asleep, listening to how he would lick on his fingers and smack his lips, whispering thank yous to me and kissing the back of my ear.

So, my first period was not at all that unpleasant, but i'd have to deal with the pain later on. Not the physical pain of me, but when i screamed, I noticed Aro fuss over me some more, and he would tell me he was so sorry for being useless or not taking the pain away, he would stifle his tears back, though no tears ever came, and hold onto me as tightly as he could possibly do so while pressing hot compressing towels onto my body. he made them cold quickly and he replaced them quickly as well.

I lay in bed the whole week, and Aro taught me music and literature from the bedside, and at night he would carry me out of the house to watch the stars and take me home again when I was asleep. I purred in my sleep a silent word of thanks to whomever god bestowed upon me this wonderful guardian.

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Aro has his first experience with explaining how menstrual cramps work and how to.. well.. have a child, which they may or may not almost have... later on..

did you enjoy that? it was inspired by one of my previous rps with my very special person, whom might not even be reading this right now. It makes me sad that she is busy to talk to me, but it's alright. I will miss her silently.