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The big question
Emiko was a bright and cute girl. Whenever something was on her mind, she’d just bluntly ask like the child she was. Along with that, she was a great observer. The little bean would usually wait for the right moment to ask things that were normal for a kid her age, but to her parents, they still had their moments where they felt she was still that little baby that just crawled all over the place. It was when she started asking certain questions that the couple were hit with a reality check.
It was a normal day for the three of them; Ai was coloring with Emiko while Risa was in one of her nesting moods and was cleaning up in the kitchen. The two monkeys were focusing hard on their drawings and decided to draw one another. The little monkey was constantly looking up from her paper, focusing hard on drawing her Papa perfectly. When Risa was done, she walked over and sat down on the couch, watching the two of them. Ouji sat next to her, lazily wagging his tail, basking in this calm atmosphere.
“Nee, Papa…”
“Hmm?”
“How are babies made?”
Ai froze in her place for a brief moment and quickly looked over to the little girl across from her who was still coloring. She then looked over to Risa who had the same wide eyed expression on her face. This was clearly one of those moments that both parents thought they were ready for, but clearly went. When she noticed that her papa was unusually quiet, the little bean looked up and asked again.
“Papa, did you hear me?”
“E-eh?”
She looked over at Emiko and smiled.
“Say it again…Papa didn’t quite here you…”
“Emiko said, how are babies made?”
“W-well…”
The older monkey looked back to Risa, pleading for some type of help from the pregnant girl. Risa turned her attention to Emiko and gave the little bean a smile.
“Why would Mii-chan want to know?”
“Well, Yuka-chan said that babies came from the stork, but then Haru-chan said that couldn’t be true since it wouldn’t make sense for a baby to be in a mama’s tummy, which is true right?”
The two parents gave a nod as The little bean continued on.
“Emiko told Yuka that she couldn’t be right but she said that’s what her mama and papa told her, but then Haru-chan said that they were wrong, and when I told her that she was wrong Yuka-chan said that I should ask Mama and Papa.”
Ai and Risa looked at their daughter in slight shock at her explanation. How and why are kids at such a young age having heated discussions about where babies come from? They couldn’t even spell the word ‘baby’ by themselves yet, let alone be talking about how they’re made! The two looked at each other again, desperately trying to think of what to do.
‘Should we just tell her?’
‘No! She’s too young!’
‘Well we can’t just tell her no…’“If Papa and Mama won’t tell Emiko, should she ask Nekonee-chan, or Usaginee-chan?”
“Eh!? No! Papa will tell you!”
“WHAT?!”
Emiko looked over to mother in confusion. Ai did the same but her face was more of in an expression of shock than confusion. Why on earth did she have to tell her? She wasn’t ready for this!
“Mou~ Risa-chan why me???”
“Because…it’s a Papa’s job to tell stuff like this to their children…”
“Eh~? That’s not a good enough reason~!”
The little bean watched as her two parents continued on with their odd conversation. Was it that important that they had to argue about who would tell her? Why couldn’t both of them? It was weird being a grownup.
“You should tell her…you’re the one with a kid inside~!”
“That
you put in me!”
Slightly forgetting that their daughter was watching this small squabble, Emiko slowly brought the pieces she understood from it together in her head and interrupted them.
“So Papa put a baby in Mama?”
“N-no! that’s not it Emi-chan…”
“So where do babies come from~?”
“Do you really want to know Emi-chan?”
The little bean nodded her head eagerly as Ai closed her eyes and gave a defeated sigh. Risa grinned, clearly happy that she won this round and waited for just how the older girl would tell this to their daughter. Ai opened her eyes and gave Emiko a slightly serious look.
“Babies come from…a…very special place…think like a farm…and when a Mama and Papa go there, they choose what type of baby they’d like based off a certain fruit!”
“Eh~? Really?? What kind of fruit did Mama and Papa choose for Emiko?”
“Strawberries of course-OW!”
A pillow roughly collided with Ai’s head, as Risa stood up and threw another one.
“Don’t tell her something as foolish as that! Either tell her the right way or don’t tell her at all!”
The older girl frowned as she took one of the pillows she was attacked with and placed it on her lap, leaving Emiko even more confused as she looked at her still slightly fuming mother. She still wasn’t 100% used to this slightly more violent version of her mama, but she knew that maybe the baby had something to do with it. It was just another observation to add to the back of her young mind.
“Saying something like that when it’s an important topic I swear…”
“You know…I think I’m starting to like it more when you get a bit angry…its cute…AH!”
Ai ducked another pillow attack, and heard the fast stomping of feet walk away from her and Emiko. When the Gaki tornado was gone, Ai slowly sat back up to meet still confused eyes from her daughter.
“Papa…I think you made Mama really angry this time…”
“Mou~ Emi-chan~ What should papa do then?”
The little bean looked up to the ceiling for a brief moment and clapped her hands when the idea came to her.
“Let’s make an apology card for her!”
“Alright…”
Ai got two more blank sheets of paper and the two started to color again. Even though Ai was slightly thankful that the little bean seemed to forget about the question
that started all of this, Emiko clearly didn’t as she started to draw a bright red strawberry.
‘Maybe next time Nekonee-san and Usaginee-san come over Emiko will ask them if it’s true that babies come from a strawberry farm…’Emiko was a smart young girl but she was still believed almost everything her parents, and older family friends told. She was a kid afterall.
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sucky ending is sucky but its finally out of my head
i feel like this one sucked the most but oh gosh after reading a q&a on risa's blog yesterday looks like gakimama's got along way to go....
why do u want 3 kids risa...WHY?! yet i make her so moody about them in here gah
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