My Short Story

I JUST WANT TO KNOW
Kamalia sat in a chair and placed her elbow on a wooden table. Her eyes wondered around on a page of a book she borrowed from a library near her house. She looked at the words printed at the page with a glance of courage as if her parents’ know about her reading; they will definitely scold her, screaming at her and the worst, beating her. She just does not understand why cannot she read about it? After all, when she becomes an adult, she will have to know it.
“Puberty happens to both male and females but with different physical and mental changes between the both.” Her voice lowered until it sound like whispering. She was so afraid that her mother will know.
She carried on her reading.
“When a male reached puberty, his body will show the growth of hair in his armpits and pubic areas, with his muscular structures developed and his voice turned to be deepened. He will also experience the enlargement of his penis and shall have a wet dream which resulted in the production of semen.”
She stopped and swallowed her saliva. She tries to imagining the wet dream a boy would endures in and a question rose from beneath of her heart. What about girls? Do girls also experience a wet dream? With this question in her mind, she continued her reading.
“On the other hand, when a female reached puberty, her body will also show the growth of hair in her armpits and pubic areas, with the breast development and the beginning of menarche, the first menstrual bleeding. A female will also have changes in body shape, fat distribution and body composition by the widening of lower half of pelvis or hips. A female also experienced wet dream by having several coital orgasms which stimulated by a strong sexual desire.”
She startled and her breath becoming short. She gasping for air for a second but she managed to control herself.
“So, girls also experiencing wet dream? Will I experience it too?” She asked herself, with a big comma in her thought.
Kamalia was taught that anything relating to sexual action is a sin and must not be approached in either way. Her father was a man of religion, often used the religious dogmas to explain to her about this restricted areas. Kamalia always told that when she are married, the things will goes in nature course and she will learn it eventually when living a life as a wife. She were warned not to took a peek on this taboo matter, not even for health purpose for it is a wrong in her parent’s eyes.
“But what if I still do not know? What if I still ignorant?” she questioned her mother.
“You do not dare to speak like that, ignorant child! We are your parents and we know what is best for you!” An anger tone of her mother’s voice splashed through her ears, nearly hurting her drums which could make her deaf.
“Your mother is right! Don’t you dare to speak or think about this ever!”
Her father strictly stressed the order upon her face.
“Yes, Father. Mother.”
Kamalia slowly replied with her face down. Tears burst from her eyes as she walked to her room.
Kamalia promised herself that nor should her children or her grandchildren will not have to suffer the same circumstances like her.
She will allow them to speak, discuss and know about sex for she knows that it is essential. Sex is not something disgusting. It is something sacred.

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