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Human Body

"Is it a leg?"

"It's not a leg!" Edward said, even though he wasn't sure. He just didn't like the tone in Bella's voice.

Actually, he didn't like Bella. Period.

However, their mothers were always insisting that they, kids, should spend more time together, and seeing that Bella and he were just three years old, convincing their mothers otherwise was not an easy thing to do.

Especially when Bella did want to be his friend. Ugh! What an annoying girl!

Today Bella's Mom sent her to his home so they could play with the new toy Edward got for his birthday. However, the weather was too hot to be inside the house, so they went outside. But it was still so hot… They looked at one another, then to the pool in front of them and back to one another. Since they learned to talk, that was the first time they agreed on something.

As fast as two children full of energy could be, they took their clothing off — so their mothers wouldn't argue about it getting wet — and then they jumped into the pool.

And that was how they started to analyze their bodies.

"What is it, then?" Bella asked.

Edward looked down his body.

"Mom calls it my 'male part'." He shrugged.

"It looks like a leg to me."

"It's too short to be a leg, don't you think?"

"It's probably still growing."

"I wouldn't be able to walk with it. I need it to pee."

"So? You'll use the same thing to walk, kick and pee. It's kind of nice, if you think about it."

Edward shook his head. "I don't think it is a leg. People don't have three legs."

"Maybe you're a freak. Actually, I've always suspected that."

His face hardened. "I'm not a freak!"

"Says the boy with three legs."

Edward threw water in Bella's face.

"Hey!" she complained.

He crossed his arms. "What about you? What is it that you have? How's it called?"

"Front butt," she answered matter-of-factly.

"Front butt?" Edward asked frowning. "I've never heard of that," he said, mimicking her know-it-all tone of voice. "Are you sure? I guess maybe I'm not the wirdo here."

It was Bella's time to shrug, secure. "All of my dolls have a front butt, which means that this is what everybody else has. So, if there's a freak between us, it's not me."

"I. Am. Not. A. Freak!"

"Sweetie…" Bella said, pronouncing the words calmly, just like her mother used to do — pretending to be her, "We need a place to poop and another one to pee. It just makes sense that they have to be alike, don't you think?"

Edward didn't know what to say. The girl kind of had a point.

Not that he was going to admit it out loud.

"So, if you— Oh!" Bella interrupted herself. Her face lit up and Edward could see the idea forming in her mind. Uh-oh. It couldn't be good. "What about a surgery? We could cut your third leg off and you would be just like me. Just like everyone else. You wouldn't be an aberration anymore!"

"What?"

"Oh my God, I'm such a genius! Just… Just help me out of the pool so I can grab a knife and we can get it started!"

"WHAT?"

"I'll be right back!" Bella yells, her little naked body already running into the house. "I'm gonna help you, Edward! You're gonna be just like everybody else! You don't even need to thank me!"

Not even a minute later, Edward, as pale as a ghost, seeing Bella with a knife in her hand, did what every other three-year-old kid would do. He got out of the pool and yelled, calling for his Mom.

So you can imagine how Esme Cullen felt when she saw her very naked baby boy running around the pool with a very naked Bella running after him with a knife in her hand.