Not exactly as sweet as a fairy tale, but here are some stories which should cheer you up!
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I was fishing through my bag trying to make it look like I was looking for something while I shoved a tampon up my sleeve. Then I asked to go to the bathroom and when I got there I realised the tampon was missing and it must have fallen out of my sleeve. I went back to class to find my tampon sitting on my desk and my crush telling me "I think you dropped something..." Needless to say it was the most embarrassing day of my life.
Jennie 14 Australia
I was on my period and it was quite heavy, I went to the supermarket with my mom and I was driving the trolley. Because I was losing so much blood I fainted and pulled the trolley back on to me as I fell. As soon as I woke up my mom whisked me away. The last thing I would have wanted was explaining to the supermarket manager I was on my period...
Amy 16 Canada
I had only used pads until I was 15. I went camping one summer and started my period. I went into the water, and of course the pad filled with water as well, and leaked everywhere... in front of boys. That was the day I was introduced to the tampon.
Anonymous
There's this guy who liked to mess with my backpack, opening it and taking my pens out etc. Well, one day I had my period and I always kept my tampons in the front pocket of my back pack. The guy pulled one out thinking it was candy. Next thing i know he's shoving it back in my hand saying sorry. I look at him and he's bright red in the face and in my hand is the tampon halfway out and hastily shoved back in the packaging. I felt a little embarrassed but not really. I started laughing my ass off by his expression. It took him a week to talk to me again.
Adrienne
One time I didn't know I started my period and I was at a friend's house and I was sitting in her chair and left a stain on it. Cleaning it up was soo embarrassing.
Anonymous
Some girls first period stories and tips:
Jennie 14 Australia
I was on my period and it was quite heavy, I went to the supermarket with my mom and I was driving the trolley. Because I was losing so much blood I fainted and pulled the trolley back on to me as I fell. As soon as I woke up my mom whisked me away. The last thing I would have wanted was explaining to the supermarket manager I was on my period...
Amy 16 Canada
I had only used pads until I was 15. I went camping one summer and started my period. I went into the water, and of course the pad filled with water as well, and leaked everywhere... in front of boys. That was the day I was introduced to the tampon.
Anonymous
There's this guy who liked to mess with my backpack, opening it and taking my pens out etc. Well, one day I had my period and I always kept my tampons in the front pocket of my back pack. The guy pulled one out thinking it was candy. Next thing i know he's shoving it back in my hand saying sorry. I look at him and he's bright red in the face and in my hand is the tampon halfway out and hastily shoved back in the packaging. I felt a little embarrassed but not really. I started laughing my ass off by his expression. It took him a week to talk to me again.
Adrienne
One time I didn't know I started my period and I was at a friend's house and I was sitting in her chair and left a stain on it. Cleaning it up was soo embarrassing.
Anonymous
Some girls first period stories and tips:
One time I had to go buy tampons in a hurry at the store. Of course the ones I buy were out of my reach. There was nobody around other than a guy reading a magazine and a guy walking by so I had to do it. I asked the guy walking by, "Would you feel really awkward reaching for the pack of tampons up there? The ones I use just happen to be out of my reach." He had no problem grabbing them for me and we all had our little laugh and went on with our evening.. Hehe!
Dee Usa
I was at my best friends house and her older brother and his friends were all jumping in the pool. My friend decided to go in too but I couldn't because I was on my period so I just sat on the side with my feet in. One guy asked why I wasn't going in and my friend told all of them "she's got her period." None of the guys talked to me for the rest of the day.
Anonymous
At my school the desks are very close together, so I reached into my backpack to get a pad and I found a tampon instead. I look up and realised it wasn't my bag! The girl was looking at me like I was a weirdo. I said "sorry I thought this was my bag."
Carly
I'm in the band at my middle school and we have to put our bookbags on shelfs. Me and my friends were getting our instruments out and my two friends Hunter and Chris (I have a crush on Chris) took my bookbag in the drum room because I usally have food in it. Well that day I was on my period and had pads and tampons in there. When we were getting ready to leave I realized they had my bookbag they were holding my tampons saying ''Lauren this yours'' I was so embarrassed! My face turned bright red!
Lauren 13
So as a 10 year old people don't expect you to have liners in your pocket. Well, I use liners for discharge, so I carry them to school. At the end of recess, I had 3 liners in my pocket. Now my best friend knew I had them, so she asked for one. Of course I gave her one. I casually tried to pull it out of my jacket pocket. Our class is in two lines, and my crush is in the line next to me. I gradually pulled the liner out to give to my friend. OOPS, she drops it. She tells me I dropped something, and I feel my stomach flop. I look at the gravel and see a bright pink carefree liner in the middle of the two lines. With some sniggering, and some staring, I pick of the liner saying it was just paper. Ben, who was in the next line, was laughing like crazy. My mind racing, I just shrugged it off. Later, my friend, Jadine, said, "You dropped your pad." I laughed with her. I actually didn't care that much anymore. I thought it was funny. Later, my best friend walked up to me at lunch telling me she dropped it on purpose because she thought it was funny, and that's what killed me. I'm still pretty mad, but I'll live.
Chelle 10
I ride the bus to school every morning. One morning I was on my period and had four tampons and two pads. I didn't notice my back pack wasn't fully zipped. My bus hit a bum and EVERYTHING flew out! I decide to pick everything up but while I was looking for my last tampon a guy says, "What the hell is this?" and took the tampon out of the wrapping. After we got of the bus he looks at me, smiles, and walks away. ERRGGGG but I look back on it and that was hecka funny!
Daphne 12
Well I was in the bathroom putting on lipstick and I always have gum so my friend asks if she could have a piece. I was spotting so I kept pads in my bag. She puts her hand inside my bag feels something square and pulls it out while walking out of the bathroom and this cute boy it standing in front of us, here comes a pad flying out of my bag hitting him in the head. Luckily he's not rude and doesn't say something mean but still it was embarrassing!
Harlie 11
Well I was at the mall with my three best friends and our boyfriends and me and one of my friends had our periods at the same time, so we went to the bathroom with our purses. Our boyfriends stayed at our table in the food court waiting for us. As we are walking out the guys see us and start laughing as we get to the table. We ask them what they're laughing at and my best friend's boyfriend replies "what took you guys so long?" and my boyfriend is like "Kaila and Nikki have their periods" and starts laughing, let's just say they got a slap! Lol, it was so embarrassing I wanted to cry but my boyfriend was cool about it.
Anonymous
Well, I was up north duck hunting with Dad. According to Mom, I'd been acting weird before. She was going to send something up, but didn't. I remember being super tired. The next day, I woke up, and there it was (my period)! I bled so much! I wadded up toilet paper for my undies, and stayed in the duck boat with it without telling Dad. When we came in, I had to say something... so I did. Dad made me tell the host's wife and the daughter, who was 17 at the time. I had just turned 13. They took me to town, and bought pads, and I had to call my mom in the middle of a gas station. So embarrassing! We got home, and had a little celebration!
Ari 18 USA
I Had tennis practice and I was wearing a tampon. We had an emergency meeting so I had to wear the tampon for a little bit more than 8 hours then I started to leak and my tennis pants had blood all over them! Luckily I don't have TSS!
Anonymous
Well I was at my uncles house and it was my first time on my period so I was wearing shorts because it was hot and of course I had a big red stain not to mention the shorts were white and everyone saw!
Anonymous 12
One day at school, me and the other captains decided to have a tennis practice even though it was raining. I was in a rush so I ran to the park, forgetting I had my period and needed to change my tampon. I started getting nervous since it was in for more than eight hours and I did not have the key to the bathroom. I ended up having to change my tampon in a bush with my best friend blocking me. To top it all off, a few of the other girls' boyfriends were watching the practice from the bleachers and heard my dilemma loud and clear.
Anonymous
I was camping with the family and I decided to jump in the pond and go swimming while wearing white shorts, not realizing I would get my period because it was my first ever. So I got out of the water and found a giant red satin on my pants! Then my mom took me to the store and I was stuck camping for one whole week and I couldn't swim!
Sydney 12 USA
This summer I decided to go to my cousin's house. I didn't know I was going to get my period for the first time! We went to bed I slept on the floor on my cousins white bed spread and in her pjs. Later I woke up in a big puddle of red! I told her and she got me a pad and washed the pants and bed spread. It was really embarrassing!
Lindsey 13 USA
I was at Macy's rapping Christmas gifts, and I was on my period. I forgot to bring pads with me so I asked my mom if she had any but she didn't. So we were walking around the mall to try to find some, and I ended up bleeding through my jeans and it got on a chair. We had to go to Aeropostale to buy me new jeans and underwear, and I had to wad up toilet paper and stick it in my underwear. Needless to say that day was very embarrassing for me, and I will never forget it!
Anonymous
Okay so this is my first period story.It was just a couple of days after my birthday (in the summer) and my mom and I were on our way home from my aunts house.We got home and I was laying down watching tv as normal. A few hours later I had to go to the bathroom. I was just about to pull up my undies then I saw blood.Oh joy,I thought. I put toliet paper in the undies and went crying to my mom. I had told her what had happened and she gave me a pad. Balling in the bathroom, hoping it was only a dream. It was the worst day of my life. I didn't want my period when I just turned 11! My friends that already had there's always told me how bad and horrible it is. So that made me really not want it. But now I still hate it but sometimes I can't wait for it to come.
Anonymous
So I'm a cheerleader and my school has football. We were getting ready to practice one more time, and since it was going to be my first time performing was sooo excited that I forgot I had my light flow tampon in. I forgot my pom poms in the locker room, I know right, I forgot POM POMS! So when I left the boys we're laughing I turned back, and my best friend Isabelle said I leaked! I ran to the locker room and tried to look for my extra pair of shorts (half of the cheerleading team wheres shorts and the other wear skirts). By the next day , that scene was all over 9 and 10th grade!
Alison 14
Im in the grocery store buying pads and tampons for me (my mom went off and left me there by myself). She says I'll feel better shopping alone. So I get always infinity and playtex sport. The next day I'm outside with my friends and my best friend Popie (he's a boy) I had on my bookbag and I had a pad in my pocket. Them my friend Karizma bumps me and my pad fell out and the boys saw it! Me and Karizma ride off and the boys look at eachother. Me and Karizma are so embarrassed! Espesially me!
Kyndall 11
I had gotten my period in sixth grade so I was one of the first few of sixth graders who had their period. At my locker, before homeroom, I put on my sweat shirt and stuffed a yellow maxi pad in my shirt. When I get to homeroom I put down my stuff and ask to go to the bathroom, when I get to the bathroom I realize I don't have the pad anymore! I had to use toilet paper and when I get back to class it's on the floor in the middle of the room. I had to pick it up and I was so embarrassed!
Knickel 13 USA
Well me and my friends were at the mall. One is 14 and the other is the other is 11 and a half. We were in the bathroom and I was on my period. I had to go to my dads that weekend so I brought my backpack/huge purse. Inside it I had bras, underwear, tampons (he has a pool) and pad and of course. I had to put on a pad so I forgot to zipper my bag up! When we were in Hot Topic my bras, undies, tampons and pads and my diary fell out! My diary doesn't have a lock and some boys from school stole it we then found them in the food court laughing at it. Always remember to zip up your bag!
Hannah 13 USA
One day I was at school, and of course I was on my period. It was in second period when I went to the bathroom to change my tampon, when I dug around in my bag I only had one pad and no tampons. I had no choice but to wear it. In science class I thought I was leaking so I asked my friend. My friend said there was nothing on my pants. So I didn't worry about it. After math class I thought I felt something. And I asked my friend to look again. She said she didn't see anything, so I just ignored it. My last class was art, then I went home. When art class was over, I stood up to put my bookbag on. The chair I was sitting in was yellow, and I noticed a red tint on it. Then I got kinda nervous, so I put my bag lower. When I got home I had a huge spot on the back of my pants! It covered my whole but and a little of my thigh. I felt so embarressed because I didn't know if anybody noticed!
Brittany 13
I wanted to show a picture to my friends. When I pulled it out of my bag there is a pad stuck on the back. Then it falls off and all of the boys look and give me and my friends funny looks and some giggle.
Ellie 11
My family and I go camping every year and this year when we went it was that time of the month again. I was dreading to go but I had no choose. One night I put on a pad and went to bed. The next morning I woke up and I forgot all about being on my period and I went and sat down on the couch in our trailer. Then I thought oh damn I need to change! When I got up there was a huge red puddle under me and I tried to clean it up with out my mom or brother knowing. I got up fast and went straight to the bathroom, and not only did I need to change my pad, I had to change my pjs and my underwear. When I was in there changing, my brother was talking to my mom and said, "Mom, what did she spill here.?" I was so embarraresed! When I came out my mom was staring at me as she cleaned it up.
Missy 13
One day I was at my dads house for the weekend and of course I was on my period. I had this really old bag I used to pack my clothes in and I figured why not put my pads in there too? So when I get to my dads house I realise the zipper on my bag is broken so you can see inside it. After I realize its broken I ask my dad if he can fix it, forgetting my pads were in there. So of course my dad was trying his hardest, jerking and ripping the bag to get the zipper unstuck during all this comotion all of my pads were falling out. Dad still was messing with the bag and didnt realise what was happining so I started to pick some of my pads up.Well,right when I started to pick them up he decided to give up on the zipper. He looked down at me, red-faced and all and stared for a second... and then all of a sudden he starts laughing and says let me give you a hand.To top it all off, my step brother walked in while my dad and I were picking up pads.It was soooo humiliating! Later that night I told him I was sorry about it and we both started laughing. I realise now how funny it really was!
Matty 12 USA
I was invited to a huge pool party and I decided to go before I knew I had my period. I got my period that day so I brought a few pads and when I was swimming my pad filled up with water! I ran out of the pool to change it and then when I was walking back to the pool I tripped and all my pads fell out everywhere! I was by the cutest guys in my school who started laughing! I thought it was because my pads had fallen out but it was actually that my pad wasn't on right and was sticking out the side of my undies!
Sydney 14
I got my first period when I was 11 and I was at my friends house jumping on her trampoline with my other neighbor Dan (who I liked!) I was jumping around and then my friend says, "Kena, does your stomach hurt?" and I said "no" but then she said "oh whenever I'm on my period and I jump my stomach kills me." Dan started giving me a weird look and wouldn't talk to me for over a week... Most embarrassing day of my life!
Kena 12 USA
I was at my bestfriend ,Emerson's, house with 6 of my other friends. Their names were Belle, Cat, Gabbie, Felcty, Dakota and Hadley. I was on a heavy period, and had only a light pad to sleep in. So we all usually slept on the floor, but we decided on sleeping in Emerson's older sisters king sized bed since she wasn't home for the weekend. So all eight of us piled into the bed and fell asleep. I woke up, half on Emerson, half on Hadley. Hadley sat up and screamed. I had leaked ALL OVER HER! I was soooo embarressed! But we all had a laugh- and a discusted awkward silence! :)
Arietti 14 USA
When I was 11 my period was supposed to sart that day so I had pads in my bag. I was wearing one but had no period yet. My friend Lexi and I share our purse and somebody was going through it and took out the pads! Everyone started laughing but I was relived when they didn't notice that it was my purse as they thought it was hers. Later that day I still didn't have my period but I had to go to the bathroom and the teacher wouldn't let us. I had my legs crossed and I accidently peed a bit. I know, gross so she finally let me go. I went to the bathroom and had gotten my period plus I forgot my purse so I had to go back to class with a full pad and she wouldn't let me go back so I ended up leaking.
Anonymous
It was a normal day and I felt wet "down there" but only thought it was discharge. When I was going to take a shower I looked at my underwear (which happened to be black) so I didn't pay any attention to it. An hour later I go to the bathroom and there's blood in my underwear. I flipped out. The next day when I was at school I texted my mom and told her and everything was okay after that.
Keke 13 USA
So when I started my first period I wanted to keep it private but the whole world found out. I was really mad because I didnt want anyone to know but my mum told everyone! When I questioned her she listed me everyone she had told and it didn't seem like many; my dad, my grandma (my grandpa knew because my grandma was on the phone with my mom and she blurted out something about pads), my aunt Lynn, my aunt Nicki, and a few others. Later she even told my cousins (that are more like sisters) really loudly like "MADISON STARTED HER PERIOD!" She also told my other step grandma and real grandpa. I got really mad at her for telling but she said "hey I only told your dad, grandpa and aunt Lynn who all spread it round. I hadn't even told my best friend that I have known since kindergarden or my cousin Becca who is just a year younger than me!
Mady 11 USA
I was 11 and I had a soccer tournament that weekend. I had already played one game and was going to play another one later in the day. After my first game I noticed some light spotting so I put on a pantyliner not expecting anything more than spotting. Apparently not. I leaked through everything my liner, underwear, spandex, and shorts (which just so happen to be white!) My best friend noticed before the game started and luckily she had extra pair of shorts, panties ands pads in her bag so we ran to the bathroom changed before the game could start! That day I learned to always expect the worst.
Charlotte 13 USA
I gave one of my friend a couple of pads and liners because she wanted to be prepared for when she started her period. She kept them for like a year and one day she decided she didn't want them anymore and set them on top of my books in my locker! And at first you didn't notice them sitting there until my guy friend was just like "Andrea what is in your locker?" I'm just like what are you talking about? And he picks them up and he's like "these" and everyone saw! And I'm like "AHHH" who put them in my locker?! My friend told me later that day it was her and she didn't want them anymore!
Andrea 13 USA
Sorry girls but I won't be taking any stories for the next 10 weeks. I will open the submission box around April. I'm really sorry but I need to concentrate on school. Save your story in a word document so you can send it when I reopen the submission box!