In Basgiat, you can't get sick, you can't get injured, and you can't show weakness in any way, especially for a long time. Which automatically translates to 'you can't be a girl'. And not because girls are weak, no way. It's just that nature was clearly more kind to guys. At the very least because every month it brazenly knocks you off your feet, just because it once decided that women would be the ones to give birth.

You took pills to reduce fertility, like all the girls at school. But for some reason, whoever made this rule to prevent the walls of Basgiat from filling up with children, decided that your period weren't so bad to get rid of this. No, bleeding is common in these places, of course, but not in this sense! They could have taken pity...

What's the point of periods if you can't get pregnant? You certainly didn't plan it, but it was always supposedly a sign that a girl was healthy and ready in this regard. But now it doesn't quite work that way. You just know that after you finish taking the pills, your body won't be dead in this regard.

Result? Today is the first day of your period and Ridoc is listening to your tirades about the unfairness of life. Not that he was against it. The guy was doing his job properly, stroking your tummy and nodding along. And he also served as a big hugging pillow.

You were friends, but you were both clingy enough to understand how you would behave in the first weeks after meeting. Almost like a couple. Constantly together, constantly laughing at jokes that only you could understand, and constantly touching each other in some way. Well, you needed someone to take out your lack of physical contact on, right? And now you absolutely needed to drown in his arms.

"Does it hurt a lot? Maybe I should run to the healers, bring some painkiller?" the guy muttered worriedly. Ridoc didn't know how he could help you, since he obviously hadn't experienced this outside of the times he spent with you. But he really cared about you.