As Avril grew she had difficulty in keeping the vines from growing too far out from her fingernails and toenails. Styling her hair became impossible as vines entwined in her hair, but she did not mind it. The sweet aroma of watermelon sweat was alluring to all. The bumble bees were so gentle with her and tickled her between her toes. What appeared to be teardrop shaped freckles were actually freckles in the shape of watermelon seeds creatively decorating her face. The odd fla

Both the doctor and her mother acted as though they had seen some type of freakish monster. Avril was brave. She wanted to get rid of this period if it does this to her. The doctor examined the new teardrop freckles, flakes of skin that drop off (but they look like something), her extra weight, the lumps on her head and new type hair, sweet sweat, and the green nails. The doctor had never seen anything like it and was a bit stumped. She did ask Avril if she had been with a bo

Two months before Avril’s thirteen birthday, the change happened- she started her menstrual cycle. Her mother and both grandmothers tried to tell her how wonderful this experience was. She felt her friends and teammates were honest with saying that it sucks, it hurts, we are being punished for Eve eating the apple, and society lies to us about it. Plus now that her second one has come, she has started gaining weight. Can you get pregnant from just having your cycle???  By her

Avril was a lovely young girl and born to wise parents who yielded from past histories of mythical beings. The stories and legends had been so long ago that neither side of the families believed there were any powers left to be received. As she was the first born of this union and with no sign of any miraculous blessings, the families continued life as normal. Avril was beautiful to all who laid eyes upon the young child- this the family did not notice as a sign from the Heav