As soon as Frankie was out of sight, Bernadette raced to the bathroom and retched. It had been at least two months since her last period, and despite fluttering and cramping in her gut she had not begun to bleed. A wave of nausea rose in her throat. She barfed into the toilet.
It was so unfair that it was hilarious. She’d done it with one guy – well, two, if you counted Leo Pyper, which she didn’t being as it happened over a year ago, and Leo lived two lanes over with his wife, Darlene, and their baby, Matthew. Leo told her that Darlene wouldn’t let him touch her, and Bernadette thought it seemed like a good idea to lose her virginity to a grown man as he would think about her needs first, which turned out to be mostly false because he came so fast. He tried to make it up to her but coul
