He Slept With My Sister, When I Was Giving Birth
My shoes were wrong, too narrow, the backs digging into my heels, and I wanted to take them off and walk barefoot, but I couldn’t—not with people watching, not with the whole world lit up and ready to judge.
We passed a group of students, three girls and a guy. I smelled blood. Fresh blood. My head snapped toward them before I could stop it, and I caught it immediately: the girl on the right, olive skin, bandage on her knee.
She’d scraped it that morning, probably, but I could smell the scab under the gauze, the way her body was already trying to heal.
Just close to her was another girl. And her smell was so strong it was unmistakable: period blood. I could smell it, track it, knew exactly w
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