Anna, what is this?" the mother cried out.

"What, mom?"

"The toilet...it's filled with blood."

"Oh, I just had my period."

Anna's mother peered from behind the corner of the hallway wall.

"Well...just flush it...and why didn't you use your tampons just like I told you?"

"I was." Anna's eyes bloomed with clear sincerity, smiling.

Anna's mom stared into her daughter's eyes. What? But their was so much blood. She sighed and said, "oh well. Just keep using them."

Walking back to the bathroom, she again peered into the dark water in the toilet seat. It was filled to the brim with...blood. If she tried to flush this, the water would have overflown. And...it smelled kind of funny.

"Anna, dear?"

"Yes, mom."

"Have you been doing drugs?"

"No."

"Oh...okay."

"Oh, yeah...mom?"

"Yes, sweetheart?"

"Tonight, my friends are coming over. Can they have a sleepover?"

"Well...maybe if you've finished your homework. Did you?"

Anna nodded.

"Is your room clean?"

She nodded again.

"It's six right now. If you don't want to be embarrassed, I suggest you to do something about your period debris in the toilet."

"Okay...mom."

The mother heard Anna skip into the bathroom and watched the door close shut. The toilet flushed. In about a few minutes, Anna came out again.

"Oh, done already? Well that's a good girl...," Anna's mom said while turning around, but stopped in her tracks.

"Anna, what did you do?"

"Huh?"

"Your face is covered with blood."

"Well, since I couldn't flush it...I drank it all up and then flushed back the water."

Anna stood there smiling, swaying back and forth in a sort of a jolly dance. She was humming some tune that the mother didn't know about.

The mother stood there, shaking and said,

"Oh, all right. Wow, you're...you're such a smart girl. Hehe. Um..." Anna's mom put her hands on Anna's shoulders and placed her hand on her forehead.

"Hmmm...it seems like you don't have a fever. How 'bout this, sweety. Why don't you wash up and go take a quick nap? You must be very tired." Her voice sounded very soft and gentle.

"Uh...okay, mom."

With that, Anna rushed upstairs.

Later on in the day, Anna's friends came to her house.

"Anna, are you there?"

Fully awake, Anna came rushing downstairs.

"Hey, guys."

There were about five girls and one boy. The boy was pretty cute, with curly blond hair and glimmering blue eyes.

"Come on upstairs."

The rest joined her.

"Wow, Anna. You've got such a pretty room. I like the lacing around the curtains," said one of the girls.

"Thanks. My mom made that for me. She pretty good with knitting." Anna made a nice broad smile at the complement of her mother. She continued to walk around the room, talking with the other girls while they began looking through Anna's makeup materials.

Anna's mom sat downstairs in her rocking chair, knitting her new scarf. She didn't really need it, but just made stuff like that to eat away the time. The scarf looked kind of greenish with red stripes. It reminded her of Christmas.

She could hear laughing and giggling upstairs in Anna's room. She looked up at the start of the staircase.

"Wow. They're sure having fun," she thought.

Then, she heard them come out of the room and into the bathroom, all together.

"Hmmm...I wonder what they are up to, now?," she thought again.

"Girls...it's kissing time with Chris!," Anna yelled to the rest

The girls all squeeled. One apparantly prevented to faint, because Anna's mom heard a gasp and a loud thump.

"yep...step right up, ladies," Chris said, laughing nervously.

There were lots of giggling each time the door closed behind them.

"Now it's your turn, Anna"

"What, me?"

"Well, sure. You're the prettiest among us."

"Awww...don't be shy. You know you want it."

"Well...okay."

"Uh, oh," thought Anna's mom. "I hope Anna doesn't get her life ruined by this. I don't want to see her walking around with a huge belly."

It was silent for a moment after the bathroom door closed.

Then the kissing could be heard.

"Woah...that's some weird kind of kiss," one of the girls giggled.

They heard Chris moaning.

"Why didn't he moan with me?"

"Guess because he didn't like you."

Chris now started to scream.

One girl laughed, "Wow, he must really like it."

But, then they started hearing some crunching noises that sounded alot like someone eating walnuts and cream together.

Chris wasn't making any sounds any more.

"Um...Anna, are you alright?"

"Are you guys eating something?"

"That's no fair! Anna, can we please come in with you?"

"Yeah. Stop leaving us out, will ya?"

Silence.

"We're coming in!"

The girls swung the door open.

For about a second, no sound could be heard. Then, suddenly the girls started to scream one by one.

A loud thumping of noises could be heard as the girls ran hysterically down the stairway and out the front door, still screaming into the streets.

"What is all that racket about?," the mom thought.

Concerned, she walked up the stairs until she came to the bathroom door. She stopped in her tracks. Her feet were ankle-deep in blood. Opening the door, she suddenly rushed her hand to her mouth. She began to scream.

There, standing in the middle of the room was Anna, Chris's head in her hand, munching chunks off of it. Blood flowed down between her legs in large quantities, just like her period earlier that day.