A/N: I have no idea how the birds and the bees talk goes. I learned about sex watching TV. I wasn't grossed out by it or anything. I suppose normal kids would…Maybe it's cuz I'm a Scorpio. LOL. Anyway, I'm just making everything up so I hope it's worth a read.

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POVs: Bella, Emmett, Edward

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The Birds and the Bees

Bella's POV

I bit my lip and stared out of my window. Alice hummed to the song playing on the radio as she drove me home. Edward was being punished for breaking the new coffee table while wrestling with Emmett, so he couldn't pick me up from school.

My friend Rebecca came to school really excited today. She said that her mommy was going to have another baby, so Beckie would be having a baby sibling in a few months.

I had been happy for her because she was so excited. But I was confused. How was her mommy going to have another baby?

Beckie knew 'cuz her mommy had to explain to her, but when I asked, she made a face and shook her head. "I am not gonna talk bout that ever," she had said and walked away.

So now I had no idea where babies come from or how they're made. My own mommy and daddy - you know, before Carlisle, Esme and Rosie - had refused to talk about it.

My daddy asked me to ask mommy, and my mommy said we'll watch Juno when the time comes.

Whatever that meant.

Alice didn't ask me why I was so quiet, so I knew she already knew why. Maybe I should ask Esme when we get home…

We arrived home soon enough and Alice took my hand and led me inside. It was one of Rosalie's rules. I couldn't go anywhere without an adult holding my hands. It drove me crazy. My friends only had to hold someone's hand when they crossed the road. But I have to hold someone's hand all the time.

I shook myself free when we entered the house and ran to the living room. Emmett was sitting in front of the TV, the controller for his game in his hand. It was one of the rare times when someone else was blamed for a wrestling match and he didn't. He was enjoying it.

"Where's Esme?" I asked him, wriggling until I sat comfortably next to him.

He grunted something that didn't sound anything like a response. Alice yelled "In the garden" for me as she walked into the kitchen. I knew she was preparing me a snack. I wasn't allowed to make myself a snack because last time, I cut my hand with a knife and Jasper had to go hunting.

Esme was in the garden, which meant that she was gardening. It was her peaceful time, and I didn't want to interrupt.

So I sat next to Emmett, sometimes looking at him nervously, sometimes staring at my hands. I wondered if I should ask him. There really was no one better. Emmett never kept any secrets from me. He told me everything honestly, because he didn't treat me like I was a little baby.

I tugged at the sleeve of his shirt. "Emmett?" I called out when he didn't respond. He always stopped concentrating on anything but the TV screen whenever he played video games.

He grunted a little and I rolled my eyes. Jasper once told me that only Rosalie could distract him from a game.

"Where do babies come from?"

Emmett's head snapped up and the controller in his hands dropped to the floor. He turned his head very slowly to look at me. He looked shocked.

"W-what?" he spluttered.

I repeated my question, slower this time. Didn't Emmett hear me the first time I asked? I waited impatiently as he simply stared at me in disbelief.

Then he grinned wickedly, rubbing his hands together like an evil villain in one of our Sunday morning cartoons.

Emmett reached for his controller and for a moment, I thought he was going to ignore my question and continue playing his game. But he just paused his game and set the controller on the coffee table.

He cleared his throat, as if he were about to say something very important. "Well," he started. "I think it's time to tell you about the birds and the bees, little one-"

"NO!" I heard someone yell.

Before I knew it, I had disappeared off the couch. I couldn't see Emmett anymore and it felt like I was flying. I thought I had fallen off the couch and was going to hurt myself so I screamed, squeezing my eyes shut to wait for the pain.

When I didn't feel hurt, I opened my eyes to find myself in my room. I was sitting on my bed, Edward pacing the floor in front of me. He looked nervous.

"Edward?" I called out, confused.

He froze, one leg lifted as though he was about to take another step. He looked really scared of something. I started to be afraid because Edward was never scared. If he was scared now, it meant that it was something really bad.

Edward took a deep breath and came to sit next to me. "Bella," he said. His voice didn't sound all smooth like it did all the time, though. It sounded…Like he was choking or something. "Why do you want to know wherebabiescomefrom?" He said the last part in a rush, making it sound like one word instead of four different ones.

I shrugged. "Beckie's mommy is gonna have 'nother baby," I told him.

He looked slightly better, which I didn't understand. Why was he afraid to know why I asked? Edward could be so silly sometimes.

I waited patiently, kicking my legs back and forth. Edward just sat next to me, staring at me like he didn't know what to do. I huffed, rolling my eyes. "Well?" I demanded, really wanting to know where babies come from.

If it was possible, Edward looked paler. "Uh…Babies come from heaven," he said finally. My eyes lit up. Heaven? Where my mommy and daddy went to? "They only go to nice people, though."

I frowned. "How do they get there?" I asked innocently.

I think Edward started to shake. "They-they show up in the mommy's tummy."

"How?"

"Magic."

I nodded my head slowly, narrowing my eyes. Magic. Like Peter Pan. "So…Do bad people get babies, too?"

Edward smiled, and shook his head. "No, they don't."

"Why did Emmett talk about bees and birds?"

Once again, his smile disappeared and he scowled in the direction of the door. I heard Emmett laughing from downstairs, but I didn't know why. "Avoid bees, and birds can sing," Edward said quickly.

I was going to ask him why the babies go to the mommy and not to the daddy when someone knocked on the door. It was Alice, holding a plate with a sandwich on top of it. "Alice," Edward greeted her happily.

Alice giggled, though I didn't know why. Maybe it was just Alice being Alice. She did that sometimes. "Hey, Edward, Bella," she grinned at me. "I made you a turkey sandwich. Are you hungry?"

My stomach growled loudly at the mention of turkey sandwich. I had forgotten all about food because I was too curious to know where babies came from. I nodded my head, blushing.

"Eat up. We'll get you changed after that, and then start on your homework," Alice instructed, putting the plate on my lap.

I smiled and bit into the sandwich. At least I knew where babies came from.

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I sat next to Rebecca during recess. She was talking very excitedly about her baby sibling. Her mommy just found out that it was going to be a little boy. She was going to help her daddy paint the nursery for her baby brother, and help her auntie get all the toys.

Beckie would be a great big sister. She always looked out for me, and stood up for me when the mean girl in our class made fun of me.

I told her she should paint the nursery blue. It was my favorite color. "Edward told me where babies come from yesterday," I told her happily.

Rebecca blushed really badly and spilled her juice. "Uh…Really? Wouldn't your mom have told you that?"

I shrugged. "She was busy. I didn't ask her," I explained. "Beckie, why did you get so upset yesterday when I asked you where babies come from? Edward said they came from heaven."

I was confused. Beckie had acted like something really gross happened, but heaven wasn't gross. Heaven was pretty with angels and clouds and lots of candy. And, also, babies.

Rebecca gave me a weird look. "That's not where babies come from," she said, as if I was crazy.

"Uh-huh!" I protested. "Edward said so!"

"Edward was wrong…" Rebecca shook her head.

I glared at her, placing my hands on my hips. "Edward's never wrong! He's really smart!"

Rebecca, too, glared at me. "Why don't we just ask Ms. Anne?" she suggested.

I shrugged. "Ms. Anne!" we both called out at the same time. Ms. Anne was our teacher. She walked around us during recess sometimes, just to make sure we were all okay.

She was really pretty. She had long blonde hair, and pretty blue eyes and the biggest smile ever! I knew she liked Edward. I thought he was going to marry her when she saw him the first time. Ms. Anne was still studying in college, so she's really young.

But Edward didn't like her back. She looked really sad once after Edward talked to her. I didn't hear what they said 'cuz I was playing with Rebecca, but I think he told her he wouldn't marry her.

Good. I liked Ms. Anne and all, and having her in the family would be nice. But if she married Edward, she would take up all his time and be his new best friend. That couldn't happen! Edward was my best friend, not Ms. Anne's.

But since he said no anyway, I still liked Ms. Anne.

She came to our table, her long blonde hair swishing around. She smiled down at the both of us. "How's your lunch, girls?" she asked, smoothing back my brown hair. Alice had curled them and put them in pigtails today.

I smiled up at her. "It's really good. Mommy gave me cookies for dessert," I told her.

Ms. Anne laughed. She opened her mouth to say something but Rebecca cut her off. "Ms. Anne, Bella thinks babies come from heaven," she complained. "Tell her that's not true."

Ms. Anne blushed and looked really embarrassed. Then she smiled slightly at me and laughed nervously. "I think that's something you should talk to your mom about, Bella," she patted my shoulder once and left.

I stared after her, mouth hanging open. Ms. Anne looked as scared as Edward had yesterday. And she had more or less told me that Beckie was right.

This meant only one thing.

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"Edward, you lied!"

Jasper and Alice had picked me up from school and I had been glaring out the window the whole way. Edward had never lied to me before. Or so I had thought. If he lied to me about babies, what else did he lie to me about!?

Jasper had been worried about why I was so angry, and had asked me. When I'd told him, both he and Alice had shared a look and burst out laughing.

That only made me angrier.

Now here I was, in Edward's room, glaring at him as he laid on the bed listening to music. He shot up, surprised by my outburst. "Bella, what-"

I cut him off. "Babies don't come from heaven! Beckie and Ms. Anne said so! Well, Beckie said so. Then Ms. Anne said I should ask mommy 'cuz she didn't wanna talk about it…But you lied!"

Edward looked like he would be blushing. You know, if he wasn't dead and all. "Bella," he said, shaking his head and squeezing his eyes shut. "Maybe this is a conversation you should have with Esme? When you're forty?"

I glared at him. "I wanna know NOW!" I screamed at him. "Beckie already knows! I'm not a baby!"

When he still refused to open his eyes to look at me or answer my question, I turned away from him and stormed all the way to my room.

I jumped onto my bed and stuffed my head under my pillow. I hated being the baby in the family.

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Emmett's POV

The squirt was still mad at Edward for lying to her about where babies come from. This was all pretty humorous if you thought about it. I mean, he was afraid of telling her about sex when he would be her mate when she was seventeen.

Edward was out buying Bella every possible thing he could think of to cheer her up and get her to forgive him. It's been four days and the little tyke was still angry.

Edward and Bella had this freaky connection, so I wasn't surprised it was killing him that she wouldn't even stay in the same room with him.

It did however surprise me that Bella could have held out that long. These days, she wouldn't even sleep if Edward didn't promise to stay in the room and hold off the monsters.

So I might have told her that the boogeyman lived in her closet…What? I was bored. The kid was pure entertainment. I had to do it.

Anyway, I decided to put Bella out of her misery. No one would tell her where babies come from. Even Carlisle and he was the doctor here. He was capable of turning everything into that technical medical stuff if he wanted to.

I guess this was different because it was Bella and she was just so…Little. But she had a right to know. Besides, it wasn't like I was going to go all M18 on her. I was just going to tell her what I heard human mothers tell their little ones when they started asking questions.

I knocked on the door to Jasper's library and stepped inside. Bella was sitting in the armchair she always sat in, reading. She looked up from the book she had in her hands and smiled at me.

I swear, sometimes all she ever did was read. This made Jasper incredibly happy, of course. He couldn't wait until the time when he could discuss literature with her. At the rate she's going, he wouldn't have to wait all that long.

I sat on her right, and looked down at the book in her hands. Peter Pan. Again. Really. Jasper said he was going to get her new books, since he didn't have any children-oriented books. I wondered at what age she was going to start reading more mature material.

"Bells, you really want to know where babies come from?" I asked her seriously.

Bella closed her book and nodded her head eagerly. Well, it was her choice…"When a mommy and a daddy love each other, the daddy plant seeds in the mommy's belly. The baby grows from the seeds," I recited.

Bella frowned, cupping her hands in her tiny hands. She looked up at me with her brown eyes, giving me that adorable little sister look that neither Jasper nor I could deny. Every time she gave us that look, we'd end up giving in to whatever she wanted.

The last time she gave me that look, I had ended up giving her a piggyback ride all the way to the mall…Not a strange sight at all, especially since I was walking at human speed.

"What kind of seeds?" she asked innocently.

I almost choked. Okay, maybe I wasn't as prepared as I thought as I was. "Uh…How much do you want to know, kid?"

"Everything."

I raised my eyebrow at her determined look. "Everything?"

She nodded her head firmly, her eyes blazing. I sighed then smiled widely. "Well, you see, a man has to…"

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Edward's POV

I grabbed all fifty shopping bags from the Jeep and turned to head back inside. Jasper was right next to me, with a huge dollhouse the size of Alice in his arms. "Thanks for helping me out, Jasper," I sighed.

Jasper laughed, shaking his head. "You're pathetic," he commented. I rolled my eyes at him. He would have done much worse if it were him in my situation.

I entered the house and yelled for Bella. I started up the stairs and headed down the hall to her room. Just then, Bella came running out of Jasper's study, screaming.

Jasper almost dropped the dollhouse.

Emmett came rushing out of the study, as well, yelling for Bella to wait. "Emmett!" I yelled. "What did you do?"

He stumbled around with his words and tried to block his thoughts, but he was too slow for me. I had already seen the entire thing in his head. I dropped the bags on the floor and rushed into Bella's room.

I couldn't see her anywhere, but I heard her heartbeat the loudest from under the bed. I sighed, shaking my head. She really should have listened to my advice and accepted that babies came from heaven.

"Bella?" I laid on my stomach on the floor next to the bed.

I heard her shuffling around. "I won't come out!" she yelled.

I tried lifting the sheets covering the bed all the way to the floor, covering her from my view. But she yanked it down hard, not wanting to see me. "Bella…I'm sorry Emmett told you what he did," I called out softly.

She sniffed a little. "Sounds horrible," she murmured.

I chuckled. "I'm counting on you to keep thinking that for as long as possible," I said truthfully.

Just the thought of a man touching her…I had seen how beautiful she would look as a grown woman. If real life was as good as Alice's vision, I would have to kill every man who even looked at her, let alone touch her.

She was silent, so I tried again. "Please come out?" More silence. Bella stuck her head out and looked at me with adorable brown eyes.

I smiled at her and reached out with a hand. She placed a tiny hand in mine and I lifted her up. I set her on the bed. "I promise to kill any boy that comes near you," I half-joked.

Bella giggled. "Good," she patted my hand, then laid back on the bed. Her eyelids were drooping, though the fear was still evident on her face. I would have to remember to tell Esme to talk to her about this. She would have to repair the damage Emmett had done.

She struggled to stay awake, though, and I frowned at her. "Sleep, Bella," I told her gently.

Bella nodded but smiled slightly. "Edward?"

"Hmm?"

"Thanks for lying to me."

I chuckled and bent to press my lips to her forehead. "Anytime."

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I didn't go into detail of the birds and the bees story, 'cuz like I said - I have no idea how it goes. But I'd suspect that Emmett would have told Bella exactly how the seeds got into the belly because she was scarred for life.

Anyway, BH new chapter coming up in a few minutes. Check it out.

Thank you for reading and please review.

Juliet.