Someone Who Knows Nothing

“W-wha, wh-what, wha-what did you say..?”

“Why are you so shocked? I mean, your period.”

“Eek!”

Minseo was sitting on the bed like it was nothing and just casually said it. That thing, you know... that thing....

“A-no! Why are you suddenly talking about that..!?”

“My friend already started, so I wondered if there was anyone else around us who had already started too.”

“U-uh, eeh...? But she's the same age as us..?”

“Yeah. Fourth grade. She's a January baby.”

No matter how I looked at it, a fourth grader in elementary school had started that.... thing? Was I misunderstanding something? I was sure I'd heard that it was something a woman did to prepare for having a baby, so why already..?

“Hold on a second....”...