Cornelius and Nova are in their family hut, sharing the only bathroom they have. As always, trouble arises. They are both trying to look in the mirror, but they are shoving and pushing.
"Move over!" Nova argues, elbowing her brother in the arm. "You are taking up the entire space!"
"Oh no I'm not!" Cornelius shot back pushing her out of the way. "You are! Move!"
Cornelius shoved his sister into the wall which made her quite angry.
"Don't test me, Cornelius!" Nova replied irritated. She rolled her sleeves up and made fists. She snarled at her brother and he shot a face at her.
"Oh yeah?" Cornelius said in a rude mimik tone. "What are you going to do about it?"
"I'll clobber you, that's what I'll do!" Nova argues back shoving her fist at her brothers face. He scoffs and rolled his eyes.
"Really Nova," Cornelius responds going back to washing his face. "Why can't you just accept that I'm stronger than you?"
"No you're not!" Nova complained in a harsh tone. "I let you win!"
Cornelius shook his head with an eye roll, "No you don't."
"Yes I do!" Nova shouts back which made her brother more annoyed with her stuck up attitude.
"No you don't!"
"Yes I do!"
"No you don't!"
"Yes." Nova walked up to him and shoved his chest with her hand, furious, clutching her teeth together. "I. DO!"
"Nova, you're pushing it," Cornelius responds trying to remain calm and not to get physical with his sister once again.
"Move over," Nova said irritated, pushing her brother out of the way from the mirror so she can comb her hair.
"Hey!" Cornelius shouted, elbowing her so he can have some space. "Stop taking up the whole space!"
"I am not!"
"Yes you are!"
"No I'm not!"
"Yes you are!"
Blue Eyes walked in seeing his younger brother and sister nagging and starting to get physical. He rolled his eyes and walked over with his arms crossed.
"Will you just move-" Cornelius started but he was cut off short, looking in the mirror at his brother. Nova soon looked in the mirror, and saw her brother. They both immediately stopped talking and went into dead silence.
"What is going on?" Blue Eyes asked.
"He started it!" Nova said turning around and pointed at her brother.
"No you started it!" Cornelius snapped back pointing at his sister.
They both started bickering back and forth again. Blue Eyes sighed annoyed. This sibling rivalry has been going on for the past week and is getting on everyone's nerves.
"I don't care who started it!" Blue Eyes snapped harshly and the children went into silence again with a gulp of nervousness. "I'm finishing it! One more remark and I'm telling Mother and Father!"
"What are you, Mr. Tattletale?" Cornelius argued at his older brother standing behind him. Blue Eyes shot him a cold glare that he finds quite unsettling. He gulped and slowly nodded as well as Nova.
"Good," Blue Eyes said as he left the bathroom.
Cornelius looked in the mirror to make sure that Blue Eyes was gone. In fact, he was so Cornelius turned to Nova and glared at her.
"Look at what you did," He whispered to her. "We almost got in trouble because of you."
"Because of me?!" Nova whispered back, harshly. "Don't you pin this fight on me!"
"Nevermind, I am not in the mood to get hollered at by Father," Cornelius responds leaving the bathroom along with Nova. They walked into the kitchen and didn't see anyone making lunch.
"Where are they?" Nova asked, confused. "It's nearly lunchtime."
Cornelius shrugged his shoulders, "Beats me. Didn't Mother say she was going to fix our favorite?"
Nova nodded, "Yeah I think so."
"Then where are they, I'm getting hungry," Cornelius responds getting irritated. Nova shrugged and tilted her head.
"I don't know," Nova sighed.
They both then heard muffling coming from the room over by the bathroom. Nova and Cornelius shared a confused glance. They started making their way over by the room and were starting to make out some words like, "Caesar stop!" , "No." , "What if the children come in?"
The siblings looked at each other confused.
"What is that all about?" Nova asked her brother.
"I don't know but I can tell you one thing, we aren't children!" Cornelius whispered to Nova who agreed. They didn't want their parents to find out they were eavesdropping.
"I want lunch," Nova replied in a quiet voice. "Can't we just go in there and ask what the hold up is?"
"Gee, I don't want to get in trouble again," Cornelius whispered back. "We both can't afford to be punished. Not after what happened last time."
Nova sighed and agreed folding her arms, "I know, but we can't just stand around and starve to death. We can't cook, and neither can Blue Eyes."
"What do you suggest then, barging in and interrupt whatever they are doing?" Cornelius asked his sister who sighed.
"Not necessarily barging in, that would cause trouble for us," Nova explained to Cornelius who nodded in agreement, listening to her plan. "Just quietly walk in and ask when lunch is. You know, in a nice voice."
There was a moment of silence between the two.
"Yeah, I guess that's better than not having lunch at all."
Before they had a chance to open the door, Blue Eyes saw them and ran over to stop them just in time before they saw anything they regretted to see.
"Hold it, I really don't think it's a good idea to disturb Mother and Father," Blue Eyes said nervously pushing Nova's hand off the door.
The two younger siblings looked up at him puzzled.
"Why not, it's nearly lunchtime!" Cornelius complained in a quiet voice but yet it was rather harsh than he intended.
Blue Eyes had a pretty good idea what his parents are doing, and didn't want his younger siblings to be scarred for life. He also didn't want to see his mother and father flirting, kissing and touching each other inappropriately. It was only natural that Blue Eyes knew what was happening, have had been given 'The Talk' last week by both his mother and father, including stuff like "How babies are made", "What sex is", "having safe sex", and "Why do adults do it?". The list continues of questions Blue Eyes had for his parents and what they explained to him in a simple way.
Blue Eyes was quite uncomfortable during this whole "Sex Talk", especially having his own parents explain everything he should know. In general, he sort of knew what sex was, but was still confused and felt nervous about the term "Intimacy" and "Private Time" , "Kissing" , "Making Out" , "Private Parts". He knows now that it was good that he has all the information about sex, and having his own questions answered in the process.
What Blue Eyes did know is that Nova and Cornelius are still too young to be given "The Talk" yet. He didn't want them to see anything they immediately regretted seeing.
Blue Eyes swore that if he ever saw his parents doing "things" with each other, his face would go as red as a patch of tomatoes for weeks. He had to think of something quick so he can convince them to stay away.
"Uh, because, they um, aren't feeling well…" Blue Eyes stammered with sweat dripping down his face and hands. He felt very uneasy thinking of what his parents could possibly be doing inappropriately behind closed doors. His face was already beginning to turn pinkish-red just thinking about it. "They might be uh, sleeping…"
"Sleeping at high noon?" Nova asked unconvincingly. She then shook her head. "I don't think so."
"Yeah, what are you hiding from us?" Cornelius asked his brother with his hands on his hips. "Why are you sweating so much?" He pointed at Blue Eye's face. "Your face is pink, maybe you are the one that's sick!"
"I'm not sick, I really think you two should leave them alone," Blue Eyes said pushing them away from the door. "Go outside or something."
"No, we want to eat!" Nova argues back shoving past Blue Eyes along with Cornelius. They headed towards the door and he turned around to try and stop them but it was too late.
"Oh no," Blue Eyes mutters to himself, smacking his face full of annoyance and embarrassment that he didn't stop them quick enough. He walked over bracing himself for the worst. He glanced at his parents fooling around on their bed [not a human bed, but similar]. Blue Eyes felt his face go completely red and covered his face with his hands. Through his fingers, he tried not to look at his parents but Nova and Cornelius had their eyes glued to them.
"Eww," Nova whispered with a disgusted look on her face as well as Cornelius.
"Gross," Cornelius responds, just as disgusted as his sister was.
Caesar and Cornelia heard whispering and saw the outside light from the corner of their eyes. They instantly stopped what they were doing and sat up to see that all three of their children in the room. They glanced at each other and moved away from each other, to a respectful distance in front of their children. They both gulped completely and utterly embarrassed that not only one child, but all three of them caught them in the act.
Caesar and Cornelia didn't even know how to react or respond this incident. Oh, what the three children must be thinking, especially Nova and Cornelius who never had witnessed anything like this before. Not this sort of intimacy before. How they both didn't notice the children for that long, made them feel more embarrassed.
"Um, Nova honey.." Cornelia tried with a dry mouth of nervousness.
"Cornelius, son…" Caesar also tried, but they couldn't think how to explain what they just saw.
"Wha.." Nova stammered, unable to comprehend this. "Um, I mean.. What, Hm.."
"Mot.. and um, Fat..." Cornelius said stammering as well pointing at both of them nervously and didn't what to think at this point.
Blue Eyes put down one hand and just the other to cover his cherry red face of embarrassment.
"Look, um, we were uh, spending some, uh quiet time.." Cornelia said giving them a reassuring smile. "We were having um, a special kind of snuggle."
Both parents tried not to blush at the comment. There was a moment of silence between all of them.
"Are you two ok?" Caesar asked, still quite embarrassed from that incident. Both children looked at each other, then their parents and slowly nodded.
"Yes.." Nova and Cornelius simultaneously.
"Are you sure now?" Cornelia asked, still worried that her children were either scarred or disturbed.
"Yeah," they both said together and gave the smallest of smiles.
Caesar stood up and put a hand on his oldest son's shoulder, worried he was more scarred because of what he now knows about coitus.
"Son, are you alright?" Caesar asked calmly.
"Yes Father…" Blue Eyes replied removing his hand from his face. They all stared at him with their eyes bugged out of their heads, seeing how red his face is. It took a moment before Caesar and the children to burst out laughing.
"Father!" Blue Eyes yelled in such embarrassment of his red face. "You guys! This isn't funny!"
"Caesar, that's enough!" Cornelia responded after her son, shocked and angry that her husband is laughing at their son.
"Ok, ok, that was uncalled for," Caesar finally said wiping the tears off his cheeks from laughing so heartedly. "I'm sorry, son. But you have to admit that your face was super red."
"It was as red as a cherry!" Nova interrupts, still continuing to chuckle.
"Nono, it was more like a tomato!" Cornelius added in, laughing.
Blue Eyes faced his siblings and put his hands on his hips, "And what's my secret weapon I'm very fond of using against you two?!
"We're sorry, Blue Eyes," Nova said chuckling.
"We just can't help when our brother turns into an Apple!" Cornelius teased which made both of them laugh so hard again.
"Father, make them stop!" Blue Eyes snapped harshly, covering his face with his hand.
"Alright You two, go out and play," Caesar replied, gently pushing them out the door. They nodded and ran outside.
…
"I'm sorry father, I didn't mean for them to see anything! I couldn't stop them!" Blue Eyes said nervously. "I wasn't looking much, honest!"
Both Caesar and Cornelia looked at each other and chuckled of how cute it was that Blue Eyes is all embarrassed of the incident.
"It's fine honey," Cornelia said from the bed, brushing herself off from any bed hair.
"Son, it's perfectly natural that this accidentally happened," Caesar explained to his son who looked at him bemused. "I made the same mistake with my adopted human parents before." Caesar chuckled to himself remembering that. "I was horrified, but I got past it."
Blue Eyes nodded and smiled small. Caesar couldn't help but crack up amusing jokes of his son's red face.
"Maybe your mother and I should do this more often, just to see his red your face can get."
"Caesar," Cornelia said sitting on the side of the bed, hiding her smile from Blue Eyes.
"Father, come on!" Blue Eyes snapped harshly hiding his face with his hand as it started to go red again. Caesar chuckled and crossed his arms, finding all this quite amusing. "Stop being inappropriate!"
"Maybe during dinner, perhaps?"
Blue Eyes's face began to turn bright red at his father's comments.
"Father, stop it!"
"In the backyard?"
Blue Eyes closed his eyes and covered his face with the other hand feeling his face go very red.
"Stop it!"
Caesar chuckled seeing how funny this actually was.
"Out in public?"
"Dad! Come on!" Blue Eyes snapped covering his face. "You are putting mental images in my head!"
Caesar chuckled at his son's bright red face he was trying to hide.
"On the beach, or-"
"Mother!" Blue Eyes yelled removing his hands from his face to look at his mother. "Tell him to leave me alone! He's making my face go completely red!"
"Caesar, stop teasing Blue Eyes," Cornelia said standing up, sharing a smirk with him. "He doesn't need this right now."
Caesar turned around and put a hand on his son's shoulder, "I'm sorry, son. I was just teasing. I understand this isn't funny. I really do."
Blue Eyes sighed and shared the tiniest of smiles, "I know, Father."
"What did you three want anyways?" Cornelia asked.
Blue Eyes looked at his mother and smiled small, "Nova and Cornelius wanted to know when we're having lunch."
Cornelia's eyes shot out of her head and mouth hung open for a moment. She was so wrapped up in that intimate moment with Caesar that she completely forgot about lunch.
"My word, I forgot about lunch!" Cornelia responded, annoyed with Caesar as well. "Tell your siblings it'll be really momentarily!" She walked passed Caesar and elbowed him in the arm. "This is all your fault!"
"How is it my fault that I'm so irresistibly charming to women?" Caesar teased with a smirk. That caused Cornelia to get frustrated and rolled her eyes at him. She left for the kitchen as Caesar and Blue Eyes followed behind.
"You are so lucky that I am too busy to deal with you right now."
"Don't worry father, I'm sure you'll get an earful later on," Blue Eyes said teasingly.
"Blue Eyes, you are not helping," Cornelia said from the kitchen preparing lunch.
Blue Eyes sighed and looked down at his feet, "Yes, mother."
"AM I going to get an earful later on?" Caesar asked with a smirk and a wink. Cornelia rolled her eyes and went back to work.
"Father!"
"It depends how you behave," Cornelia responded in a flirtatious tone.
"Mother!" Blue Eyes snapped, waving his arms as the parents chuckled. "Hello! Your son is in the room! The one that just saw you two doing…stuff…"
Caesar chuckled and put his arm around his son's shoulders, "We're sorry, bud. That wasn't appropriate of us to flirt like that."
"No, it wasn't!" Blue Eyes said feeling uncomfortable. "I felt my face going red, now will you two please stop!"
"We understand, honey," Cornelia said walking over and rubbed his arm. "We're sorry, ok?"
Blue Eyes nodded as his parents smiled.
"Ok, now will you tell Nova and Cornelius that lunch will be ready in 5 minutes?"
"Yes, Mother."
Blue Eyes walked outside as Cornelia and Caesar sighed in relief. There was a few moments of silence between them.
"That was a… eventful day," Caesar said quietly to his wife.
Cornelia nods, "Yes, it sure was."
"Well, at least it's been dealt with," Caesar replied.
They stood there in silence until Cornelia spoke up, "Having that conversation with Blue Eyes was stressful enough, but imagine when we have to have that same talk with both Nova and Cornelius?"
Caesar instantly shook his head in denial, "They won't ever need it."
"And why not?" Cornelia asked crossing her arms at him.
"I won't let them grow up."
"Oh Caesar," Cornelia replied with a chuckle, giving her husband a nudge before going back to finish lunch. "They'll eventually need to have the talk and you know it."
"I guess so, but I didn't expect it to be coming up so soon. It seemed like yesterday when they were first learning to walk."
Silence filled the room. Cornelia sighed fighting back her tears.
"You and me both," She replied quietly putting the food on the table. "But we are just going to have to soldier through it, like we did with Blue Eyes."
"I can't believe he's already a teenager," Caesar added folding his arms. "Our first born is really growing up, isn't he?"
"He sure is, but there will be lots of firsts still, like his first mate, and heartbreaks," Cornelia explained holding his hand. "And I'll bet he will still get into a whole mess of trouble like all teenaged apes do, and you'll be there to holler and protect him."
Caesar laughed heartedly with tears in his eyes.
"I know, but it's hard to think that our children are growing up so fast."
"I know," Cornelia said with her eyes filled with tears. She gave him a gentle hug and whispered, "I know."
They hugged letting out a few tears as the children walked in on their moment.
"Are you crying father?" Nova asked curiously looking at his slightly red eyes.
They broke the hug and faced their children and slightly chuckled.
"What's wrong?" Cornelius asked curious as well.
"Its nothing, sweetie," Caesar replied in a quiet voice, kissing the top of her head. "We were just having a private moment."
"You don't mean-" Cornelius started but he couldn't finish without gulping.
Cornelia slightly laughed, "No No No baby, it's not what you think."
"Ok good, because I don't think I can go through that again," Nova said as everyone chuckled.
"Don't worry you won't ever have to again," Caesar replied as Cornelia nudged his arm and gave him a look about what they discussed earlier.
"I don't want my face to go that red again!" Blue Eyes added in.
"You have to admit it was a priceless moment!" Nova said laughing as Caesar smiled and put a hand on her back and rubbed it.
"Next time, we really need to say something before we walk into your room," Cornelius said as the parents laughed.
"Come on, lunch is ready," Caesar said putting a hand on Nova and Cornelius's back and led them to the table. They all sat around the table, eating, laughing and talking with one another.
The end.