Crazy story: The Art Present Incident

It all started somewhere in my sophomore year of high school. It was a Saturday afternoon. I started volunteering at an elementary school that was hosting an art festival of some kind for community service hours. One day, two of my friends, we will call them "Siena" and "Bryce," came to the school to not only volunteer for the school but perform for the art festival. Bryce was a musician for the marching band, and Siena was a dancer. Now, Bryce had a crush on Siena, and he would always try to make a move on her. But, Siena would always curse him out and yell at him saying things like, "Stop flirting with me! I'm not into you! You're annoying af!" But, throughout the day, Bryce didn't even flirt with Siena this time. I was keeping an eye on Bryce, and he never romantically acknowledged her. He was just friendly towards Siena platonically. But, Siena still thinking he might still be flirting with her, just kept on castigating him. I went to talk to Bryce, and he told me that he was finally over Siena and he just wanted to be friends with her, but Siena isn't giving him another chance. I comforted him and told him "Siena will come around. Just give her space to realize that you want to be her friend."

A few hours went by, and the art festival was about to end. Bryce and I were helping out a lady remove paintings from her hut. Eventually, the lady had to go to her car to get something to help bring down her paintings. As soon as the lady left, Siena appeared with a grin on her face. Siena called Bryce's name to come over, and Bryce complied. When Bryce came face to face with Siena, Siena told Bryce that she had a present for Bryce and showed him a small present. Bryce grabbed the present from Siena and started to unwrap it. But, as soon as Bryce unwrapped the present, he immediately screamed and dropped the present. His screams then turned into gags as he covered his mouth with both of his hands to try to prevent himself from throwing up. But he threw up anyway and ran straight to the bathroom as Siena was laughing. I approached Siena, trying to get an explanation of what happened until I stumbled across Bryce's "present." What I have just seen was a blood-covered menstrual pad with clots on it and wrapped with tissue paper on the back. I looked at Siena and said, "Siena! What is that?!" As soon as Siena caught her breath from laughing so much, she said while trying her best not to snicker again, "Oh that? That was your pad!"

To the readers that are reading it. Yes, you read that right. That was my pad that she used to scare Bryce. Siena told me that somehow she found out that I was on my period and waited for me to use the restroom when I felt like it. As soon as I felt like using the bathroom, she secretly followed me and saw which stall I used. Once I finished using the bathroom, she went into the stall I came out of, then took out my used pad from the disposal box and wrapped it up with a present box. I immediately asked her why did she do that?! And she nonchalantly just said, "Oh, because I wasn't on my period. But, you were, which by the way, thanks for letting me use your pad." I looked at her, stunned and angry at the same time. I argued with her about how disrespectful it was to do that. And how childish she was to do that for getting back at Bryce.

Eventually, I left and started looking for Bryce. I saw Bryce looking traumatized with some puke stains on his shirt. I asked Bryce whether he was alright and did he need anything. He told me he was fine, and he's just shaken up by what happened. A week later, Bryce and I stopped talking to Siena, and Siena stopped talking to us after the Art Present Incident. Now Bryce and I looked back at laugh at what happened a few years ago, and yeah! That's my story.