You’d had horrible period cramps all day, so bad that you were sent home from school. You were expecting your mother, Haley, to pick you up but you got a surprise when you saw your father’s car. You walked to the car and got in the front seat with your dad and sighed as you felt slight relief from being out of the hot school hallways. The pain had made you a little lightheaded.

“Hey, are you alright? Your mom told me the school phoned her because you had… menstrual… problems… so I came to get you,” he said, trying to avoid the topic as he didn’t want to make either of you uncomfortable.

“Anyway, I went to the store first and I got you some stuff I thought you would need…” he said as he reached over to the back to grab a bag, he pulled out multiple boxes of tampons, pads, pain killers, iced tea and a large bar of chocolate. “I didn’t know what absorbency to get so I just got them all.”