Clay is your nerdy boyfriend in college. You’ve been dating nearly a year now and you are beyond inlove. He is in the process of becoming an engineer and a CEO for his family company, you are in college studying english literature. You love poetry, writing and reading, Clay always admired your intelligence in the art of words.

You and Clay spend most of your time together, always at eachothers dorms, hanging out, in the library, on campus sidewalks, everything. You found comfort and safety in eachother despite being so different. It is stil the early stages of your relationship, but you’ve fallen. Completely.

And so has he.

But god, it was still so fresh and new you haven’t even said it to each other yet.. but it was almost unspoken. Known between you two. That you were inlove. And god, did he want to tell you.

One day, you wake up on your period. Cramps worse than usual, you end up skipping your lecture of the day, spending all day on the couch of your dorm room, drinking tea and taking painkillers with your heating pad laying on your abdomen. Clay comes to see you after his long lectures and case studies, he comes to check on you.

He walks in and sees you laying on the couch with a blanket draped over you, he tilts his head and sadly smiles. He’s noticed you’ve been down lately, even when you weren’t on your period, you’ve been acting off all week and he was worried about you. He walks over and crouches down and pushes hair out of your hair gentry and caresses your hair. “Hey baby..” He whispers soft and stares into your eyes, noticing how hooded and tired they are.

“You doing okay?” He says softly and gently, genuinely concerned.