DADDY, WHERE DO BABIES COME FROM?
ZECHS' VERSION:
Zechs and his wife Lucrezia were waiting impatiently their daughter's return from the kindergarden. They had discussed this for a long time before deciding that it would be best confronting THE problem before their little girl actually asked. They did not want her to get as confused as their friends daughters.
They sat nervously in the couch waiting for the nurse to bring their girl back home.
Zechs thought of himself as a lucky man. At least he was not going to screw things up with his wife. He could count on Lucrezia's support here and, if something did go wrong, at least the fault would not fall entirely on himself.
Lucrezia kept reading the book she had bought on the topic so she could revise the explanation they had so carefully prepared.
They had decided to stick to the truth. Their daughter's paediatric doctor had suggested that the best approach was to sit with their little girl between the two of them and by showing her the appropriate book explain the whole thing to her with a simple, plain English keeping things easy so she would understand.
They had been assured that their little girl wouldn't ask anything she didn't know about so, even if they explained to her something a bit too complicated she wouldn't actually want any further explanation and would stick to what she understood.
They really hoped so. Lucrezia looked at her husband nervously and saw that Zechs was even more nervous than she was. This was definitely a big step for the two of them as parents.
Finally they heard the door open and the typical giggles from a four year old. Little Irene was happy. That was a good sign. The girl came in the living room and went to hug her parents.
"Hi baby! How are you? Did you have fun today?" Zechs asked as to get her in talking mood.
"Yep. Today I learned lots of things," she said proudly.
"Really? And so, what did you learn today?" Lucrezia asked curious…
"Well, we learned to mix the colours so we get different ones and we also learned the first letters of the alphabet," their daughter explained while getting her notebook out of the school bag to show it to her parents.
"That is excellent! Well done!" commented Zechs looking at the drawings that Irene had done.
"Irene, daddy and mummy would like to talk to you about something," started Lucrezia looking nervously at her husband.
"What is it?" the little girl asked.
"Well, we wanted to explain to you where babies come from," added Zechs.
"Ah, that…don't worry, I already know that," replied Irene trying to get Lucrezia to look at her drawings too.
"What? You already know? How? Where from?" asked Lucrezia almost shouting
"Well, my friends Evie, Beth, Tori, Yasmine and Lucy have already explained to me. They are very clever, you know," said the girl getting her crayons out of her bag and starting to draw on her notebook.
"And what did they tell you?" Asked Zechs incredibly concerned.
At this stage Lucrezia was really worried…
"Well, they told me it must be kept a secret because their mums got really mad at their dads because, apparently their dads weren't supposed to tell them," Irene replied looking up from her notebook.
"It's ok. I won't get mad at daddy. But I really need to know," Lucrezia said taking her daughter and sitting her on her lap.
"Well," the little girl started looking at her parents "they told me that a guy called Allah put some special seeds inside a cabbage and the cabbage fell so much in love with a bee that I got out of the cabbage and was given to you guys…"
THE END
A/N: So, did you like it? I thank very much Virny and White Witch for their reviews! You're great! Anyway, this was my very first attempt at making something remotely funny so I hope that, at least, it made you smile… I also hope it gives you some tips about what to do and what NOT to do when your kid asks you something like that…
Take care and be good, Sanae.
