At the gynecologist, Katie was being nervously led from the waiting room. As she followed the nurse down the hall, past the exam rooms, she shuddered as the events of last week at the pediatrician continued to occupy her thoughts.

"Ok, bottoms of your feet together, make frog legs for me..."

Blushing, Katie did as the doctor asked, raising both of her knees up and pulling her ankles towards her bottom where she put the bottoms of her feet together and allowed her knees to splay to either side.

“Good girl, that’s perfect!” She couldn’t believe it. This was literally her last visit to her pediatrician. Forever. She’d outgrown him, the nice, gentle doctor she’d seen her whole life, who had never had occasion than to take a quick look under her panties. And yet somehow she found herself here, wide open and on display for him to see and examine.

Katie was lucky. She’d never had any serious illnesses or conditions that merited more than a quick exam, listen to the lungs, or a script for a round of antibiotics. Sure, she’d had the full physicals for school and sports, but like all the kids those were fairly routine and never required much examining...”down there”.

But her luck had apparently run out. No doctor had ever explored her genitals before. She’d never gone farther than letting a boy feel her breasts. She didn’t even let herself get exposed in the locker room longer than she absolutely had to! No one, and I mean not a single person in the entire world had ever seen Katie’s nether regions up close!

“Whaaa?”, gasped Katie, as she felt her doctor’s hands on her inner thighs.

“Shh, shh, nothing to worry about little bear, I’m just touching your legs. Goodness, look at me using my pet names like you’re a little girl! Katie! Yes, all right now Katie, you’ll feel me touch you between your legs now...”

Her voice froze like a lump in her throat as his fingers began to squeeze, knead, and stretch open her labia. There was nothing on the ceiling here to stare at, but stare she did, hoping with every second that the doctor would finish. She felt him pull her lips open, down and to either side, while moving his head in closer and closer like he was searching for a lost contact lens!

“Hmmm....well, well...most peculiar...” he muttered to himself. “Katie, if I recall from your records, you started menstruating when you were ... 13, is that right? And no particular problems, either, yes? Regular periods, manageable flow?”

Katie nodded, voicelessly. His fingers were practically inside her and now he wanted to talk about periods?? She didn’t think she could possibly feel more embarrassed than she did right at this moment.

He looked up from her vulva for a moment, trying to make eye contact. “Do you use tampons or pads, Katie?” She looked towards him, and with a lump in her throat and a face she was certain was bright red, she managed to squeak out, “P....P....Pads... Um.. I, err...couldn’t get a tampon, you know...inside.”

“Yes, yes, that could explain it then. Well, I’ve never seen this before Katie, but you have an unusual hymen! Do you know what your hymen is? It’s a little flap of tissue that sits in front of your vagina and protects it while you’re a growing girl! It keeps all that yucky stuff out so you stay healthy down there until you’re all grown up.”

Mortified. She was running out of words. Was it possible to escalate her level of humiliation any more? What she wouldn’t give to be anywhere else right now! Even at the dentist, as much as she hated it, it’s better than this! “Ah huh... y-y-yes, doctor...I, um.. know what it is.” A tear rolled down her cheek.

“Excellent! Well Katie, your hymen is covering your vagina entirely. It does have a number of small holes, which is why you could still have your periods normally, but I think you should probably see a gynecologist about it and see if it’s something they should correct.” Her doctor, sweet as he was, just went on and on about Katie’s most intimate, private parts, discussing them matter-of-factly like he was talking about a fascinating weather system moving up the coast. So smoothly and constantly that Katie hardly noticed when his fingers released her labia...and touched around her back hole!

“We’ll just take a quick peek at your bottom now, Katie, I’m sure it’s fine, but as long as we’re down here...”

She felt his fingers lightly touching all around her anus. And then, briefly, touching right in the middle. And then he was done.

“Well then! You can go ahead and get dressed Katie, everything looks just fine.” Katie breathed a sigh of relief and immediately moved to conceal her nether regions and start dressing. “Of course, there is that small problem with your hymen, probably nothing at all, but you really should see a gynecologist about it before you head off to school, ok?”

“Mmhmm,” Katie agreed, while privately thinking, “There’s no way I’m going in to see one of those!” She took her signed exam sheet, said her goodbyes to her doctor, and felt dirty, but finally free, as she walked to her car. She was showering as soon as she got home.

“Hi sweetie, how’d it go at the doctor?” her mother called out as she walked into the house.

“Um, fine, just...fine. It’s done, I just want to go take a shower and forget about it,” replied Katie as she headed up to her room.

“Ok, love, I understand, it’s not fun to talk about these things sometimes. Oh, but I have good news! Your doctor called a while ago and told me you’d need to get checked out by a gyno, and mine just happens to have an opening tomorrow! Isn’t that convenient?”

Katie froze. This wasn’t happening. Not after today, after she finally made it through all of that, and she was going to have to go do it all again tomorrow? Another tear rolled down Katie’s cheek as her fear, trepidation, and embarrassment kicked in all over again.