Lilly woke up in the morning and felt absolutely awful, her stomach felt like it was in knots and it hurt to move, she got up and made her way to the bathroom and after she went she saw blood

“MOM!” Lilly shouted. Her mom came rushing up the stairs and into the bathroom

“What’s wrong sweetie,” Her mom said sais worriedly

“I’m bleeding!” Lilly exclaimed

“Oh, you started your period that’s all dear.” Her mom said sweetly

“Really why is this a new experience for me why don’t I have memories of getting it before?” Lilly said confused.

“Well this is a new experience for you even though you’ve always been my daughter this is your first period as Lilly and no one is prepared for it.” her mom explained

“Oh, I guess that makes sense my cramps are really bad can I stay home today?” Lilly said

“I suppose but this is the only time.” Her mom said sternly

“Lilly put a pad on and crawled back into bed and texted Abby.

Hey won’t be in school today, sorry you have to deal with Jessica alone today. When you see her tell her I won’t be at practice today. Lilly said

Aww, what’s wrong you sick? Abby said

Period cramps are pretty bad today but I’ll be back tomorrow! Lilly said

Awww I’m sorry Lil, wish I could keep you company Abby replied

It’s fine honestly just be sure to not take Jessica’s shit Lilly messaged back

‘Don’t worry I won’t get better soon bye Abby replied

"Bye Have a good day," Lilly said.

After her conversation with Abby Lilly slept most of the day and sat on the couch watching TV wrapped in a blanket. She had a tub of ice cream that she would periodically get from the freezer and munch on and eventually her mom walked through the door.

“Hey dear how are you feeling?” her mom said as she walked into the dining room

“Okay could be better but not as bad as before, thanks for letting me stay home,” Lilly replied

“Don’t thank me too much I have your homework and your notes that you missed today” her mom said as she set a small folder filled with Lilly’s work in it

“I wouldn’t expect anything less from a mom who’s a teacher, can we have pasta or soup for dinner tonight?” Lilly questioned

“Sure dear how about potato soup?” her mom suggested

“I love potato soup just not the veggies in it,” Lilly replied

“ You must really be my daughter because I never liked it when my mother would put veggies in it.” her mom said with a smile. Lilly took the folder from her mom and began working on her homework while dinner was prepared, dinner finished cooking around 6:00 PM. They say down to eat and talked about their days after they ate and Lilly finished her homework her mom started grading the class assignments for the day Lilly went up to her room and called Abby

“Hey Abs what’s up, how was practice, Jessica wasn’t a total bitch was she?” Lilly questioned

“When she heard you weren’t coming she blew a gasket and took it out on the whole team by making us stretch and do squats till out knees gave out,” Abby said tiredly

“Aww I’m sorry, I wish you guys weren’t punished because of me but you’d think Jessica understood my pain after all she is a girl too,” Lilly said

“Exactly what most of the girls on the squad said so you don’t need to worry about anyone but Jess tomorrow,” Abby said happily

“And she has been a bit easier to deal with lately so getting her to back off would be no problem,” Lilly said

“Yeah I know,” Abby said yawning

“I’ll let you get so sleep, talk to you in the morning, goodnight,” Lilly said

“Goodnight, see you at school in the morning,” Abby said before hanging up the phone.

Lilly turned on her Spotify and selected the artist Jetty Bones and took a bath and soaked for an hour before heading off to bed.

Lilly woke up the same time as she usually did and dressed her self in a vintage band tee light wash blue skinny jeans a beanie and a black and white flannel with black combat boots she walked down to the kitchen and drove to school with her mom and met up with Abby who had the goofiest smile on her face when Lilly walked into the cafeteria

“I missed you, yesterday wasn’t the same without you,” Abby said as Lilly sat down at the table

“Really? I never would have gussed with that smile on your face.” Lilly said with a giggle

“ That obvious huh?” Abby said looking down at the table

“Don’t worry it’s cute, I missed you too,” Lilly said as she reached across the table grabbing Abby’s hand.

“Lilly you are absolutely too sweet, but I should be able to get through a day without you and the fact that I was alone when you weren’t here is sad,” Abby said pulling her hand away.

“Now that’s enough of that you hear me, you’re my girlfriend and it’s okay to miss me don’t beat yourself up about it,” Lilly said as she got up and hugged her.

“Lilly, you are too sweet how did I get such an amazing girlfriend?” Abby said smiling

“I don’t know I guess that you just got lucky,” Lilly said as she looked into Lilly’s eyes however they were interrupted by Jessica

“Davis if you keep not showing up for practice I’m going to have to kick you off the squad so you better change your behavior now,” Jessica said.

“I was sick yesterday, I couldn’t really do anything and I won’t be missing practice anymore if I can help it so back off if you don’t mind.” Lilly snapped back

“Looks like kitty’s got claws, I was just reminding you is all,” Jessica said before walking away. The bell rang and they went to class the day went by pretty regularly and ended but as they walked out of the school Lilly and Abby both got a text from Jessica

Practice all this week and next week gotta prepare for next weeks homecoming game

“Guess we aren’t going home till late for the next few days huh?” Abby said

“I suppose we aren’t which sucks because that means no free time at all after practice,” Lilly said sadly

“Yeah it does suck but that just means the time we do see each other will be all the more special which reminds me, I wanna take you out on Friday for our one-month anniversary,” Abby said smiling as the pair walked towards the gym

“Isn’t that a bit of an unspecial occasion, I mean it has been a month,” Lilly said

“EXACTLY!,” Abby said “it’s special because exactly one month ago I finally got to date my best friend” she smiled

“I guess that’s a fair point,” Lilly said smiling

“Good and I’m not telling you the plan just that you don't have to dress super fancy or anything,” Abby said happily as they walked into the gym and proceeded to the locker room to change into their gym clothes for practice.

Practice went pretty much the same as always Jessica losing her shit over the littlest mistake and Lilly reassuring the squad that they’re fine and getting into a fight with Lilly about it and eventually divulging into Jessica being harsher on Lilly than others. Once practice ended Lilly and Abby hugged and said goodbye and went home to do homework, the week went by uneventfully and before long it was Friday the day of Lilly and Abby’s date the school day was the same as always and when the evening came around Lilly was picking her outfit out and couldn’t decide and eventually, she decided on a cream-colored sweater and a pair of dark wash high waisted jeans and tan combat boots and applied her usual makeup style and went down to the living room to wait for Abby to pick her up and around 630 Abby honked her car horn and Lilly ran out telling her mom bye.

“Hey Lilly you look really nice as always,” Abby said with a smile

“Aww, thanks but you look way nicer than me,” Lilly said admiring Abby’s outfit which was comprised of a baby blue sweater, black leggings and a pair of heeled boots.

“Please I wish I could look as nice as you do,” Abby said causing Lilly to blush a deep red and a smile to spread across her face showing her dimples

“I never noticed you had dimples, Lil, they are really cute,” Abby said smiling as she drove down the road and soon pulling into Red Robin.

“Abby you don’t have to do this we can go somewhere else I know their food is kinda pricey,” Lilly said looking at her girlfriend

“Now you stop right there, It’s our anniversary and I wanted to treat you to dinner so it’s no issue at all,” Abby said smiling before getting out of the car along with Lilly and interlocking their arms as they walked into the restaurant. Dinner went we'll Lilly ordered a chicken sandwich and Abby ordered a burger as both were comfortable around each other so they didn’t feel the need to put on an act and finished dinner by 7:30 pm and paid the bill and walked out to the car

“ Did you like dinner?” Abby asked before starting the car

“ Yeah it was great thanks, just promise me that I’ll be able to get the next meal, I feel bad that You have gotten the past two meals okay?” Lilly said with a bit of a frown

“ Sure thing Lil, but you do know it's no issue right?” Abby said as she drove down the road

“I know but I still feel bad about it,” Lilly said with a frown

“ Hey you know that me paying for dates is no issue right, your my girlfriend and I wanna show you a good time and have fun” Abby reassured flashing a smile towards Lilly

“I know just, promise me that if it becomes too much for you to deal with you’ll tell me and let me know,” Lilly said.

“ Don’t worry Lil I promise that I’ll let you know if it gets too much” Abby said giving Lilly a sympathetic smile, after about ten minutes Abby pulled into the parking lot that was close to the lake and

They go out and took a walk along the shore and watched the sunset they got to the end of the beach and Abby turned to Lilly and embraced her in a hug before kissing her and then looking into her eyes before smiling and saying “I love you” which caused Lilly to blush and smile

“ Really!” Lilly said excitedly with a big smile showing off her dimples

“Really, you are my favorite person and I don’t want to do anything to lose or hurt you,” Abby said. Lilly pulled Abby in for a hug and held her tight and whispered sweetly “I love you too, you mean more to me than anyone else other than my mom and I don’t know what I would do without you.”

The pair walked on the beach some more and eventually got back to the car to go home they pulled up to Lilly’s house and kissed each other goodbye before Lilly got out of the car and walked into her house to see her mom sitting at the dining room table with a stack of papers presumably tests

“Hey, mom how’s the grading going?” Lilly said pulling out a chair and sitting at the table

“Alright I’m just about done which means tomorrow we can have a mother-daughter day if you’d like,” her mom said with a smile

‘“I would really like that mom I know we haven’t gotten to do that lately and I feel bad,” Lilly said look at her mom sadly.

“Dear you have nothing to be sorry about you are living your life as the person you were always meant to be and that makes me plenty happy,” her mom said giving Lilly a big smile

“I just feel like I’m depriving you of a daughter and had you give up magic for nothing,” Lilly said sadly

“It’s fine honey honestly, you’re a teenager all teens do this, if you want we can go down to the basement and work on magic I can finish grading these Sunday plus I wanna see if you are ready to learn wind magic,” her mom said

“I’d like that a lot even though it’s only been a month I feel like I have come a long way and am ready for the next spell,” Lilly said excitedly.

They both walked down to the basement and set up a dummy

“Okay Lilly I want to see a low scale fireball then a water pulse and finish off with a low scale lightning zap.” her mom instructed. Lilly concentrated and focused on exactly what her mother instructed starting off with a small fireball being thrown at the dummy than a water puls to put out the fire and then running up to the dummy and shocking it with lightning before quickly stepping back next to her mom 

"How was that?” Lilly asked looking to her mom

“Very good dear, best I’ve ever seen now concentrate on controlling the air around you and morphing it into a small sphere, we aren’t focused on mastering this just try to form the sphere and we will go from there,” her mom said. Lilly focused hey energy and concentrated on the air and wind around her and a slight sphere formed in her hand before it faded “ Shoot, sorry mom, I thought that I had it” Lilly said disappointedly

“It’s okay honey just try again like I said this is a light lesson so getting it right now or even this weekend is no big problem.” her mom said happily. Lilly smiled to her mom before trying to form the sphere a few more times before eventually getting a good sphere to be formed

“That was very good dear I’m proud of you, but it’s getting late and we have a big day tomorrow so it’s a good idea to get some rest so you aren’t exhausted tomorrow.” her mom said

“Okay, mom I’ll see you in the morning good night I love you,” Lilly said hugging her mom before heading up to her room. Lilly checked her phone before laying down for bed and saw a text from Abby

Good night beautiful love you

Lilly smiled before responding to the message with

Love you more, good night

She set her phone on the charger and crawled under her covers and went to sleep.