Hi everyone and welcome back to chapter eight of this story. Hope you guys enjoy!

Chapter 8: Where do Babies Come From?

May had noted that her mother had been acting rather strange for the past couple of weeks. More often than not, her mother would be seen throwing up at the toilet every morning, then eating the most absurd of food combinations. The girl nearly threw up when her mother was eating a peanut butter and pickle sandwich with some added mayo.

Her father on the other hand looked like he was used to her wife's strange behavior. Well at least now he was.

She had also noticed that her mother was using the restroom a lot more often than before. Perhaps she had just been drinking a lot of water. And although her mother would kill her if May said it to anyone, she had been farting quite a lot.

"So that's how it is Brendan. Is my mom sick?" She asked, sitting down at a library table at the research lab already drying her hair.

She had decided to ask Professor Birch about the subject of her mother that morning, but he was busy with work, so she went for the second best thing, Brendan. They were already studying in the library for their upcoming fall exams and it was clearly present on the brown table. There were multiple open books laid across the surface along with multiple worksheets from both children.

Brendan was currently reading a book called The Proper Care and Raising of Pokemon. Having already finished all of his work and helping May when it was necessary. He closed the book then looked at May's direction. An amused expression plastered on his face.

"So if I told your mom that you told me she farted a lot, should I get your coffin ready?"

"Brendan I'm being serious. Is something really wrong with my mom?" She quickly responded back, not quite in the mood for his little games.

He got up from the table, placing the finished book back on the large bookshelves. He turned back to face her.

"Yes May you should be very worried. Your mother may have contracted Pokefluenza. Books say that it turns humans into pokemon so it looks like you'll be having a pokemon as a mother soon," he said in a serious tone that caused the girl's face to darken.

"Oh my god! Can't it be stopped?" Her face had now taken an expression of utter horror.

The boy was clearly having too much fun with his joke, but he knew that he shouldn't tease her like that any further else she might have a heart attack. "I'm just kidding May, there's no such thing as Pokefluenza," cracking up with laughter.

The girl however was not amused that her gullible nature had gotten the best of her again. Her formerly frightened expression quickly melted into one of fury as she threw a book at the boy at full force.

Much to her dismay and the boy's amusement, her aim was way off which caused the book to strike the bookshelf to the left of the boy.

"Your throwing skills could use some improvement you know."

"Shut up!" She responded, fury in her voice. After a couple of calming breaths she spoke again. "So is there anything wrong with her?"

"Well there isn't anything wrong with her. She's just going through a lot of changes that's all," he calmly responded. He picked up the book the girl had throw earlier and began looking for its appropriate spot.

"What do you mean by that?" Giving him a questioning look.

"Well… let's say that you will soon be a sister," sitting back down on the table to look straight at May's eyes.

"Sister… sister… sister, wait am I gonna be forced to wear that black robe and hat?"

At this the boy chortled. Clearly she was thinking of a different type of sister than the one he had in mind. May looked at him again with a questioning glance.

"May not that type of sister. I'm saying that your mom is having a baby," he managed once his laughing fit had stopped.

"Baby... baby," the words still ringing in her head. "Wait so you're saying that I will have a sibling? And how do you know all this?"

"Easy," he answered back, standing back up to bring a large hardcover book titled, Babies and Where they Come From.

"Dad originally took it away, saying I was too young to read it, but I was eventually able to sneak it out of his office. It was quite an interesting read."

May eyed the book on the table with some apprehension. The amount of pages seemed to have intimidated her so she asked, "so I just gotta read this book and I'll know where babies come from?"

"Well you can read it if you want, or I can give you a smaller version of it," sitting back down, taking the book away from her reach.

"Umm yeah, if you would be so kind."

"Great! So to begin," coughing into his hands then pulling out a large chalkboard to help his explanation. "When a mommy and daddy love each other, they make a special order to the Pelipper. The Pelipper then bring the mommy and daddy a baby for them to love, the end," giving the child friendly explanation to the eight year old girl along with some child friendly drawings on the chalkboard.

"Wait that entire thick book just said that?" shocked that it contained such little information.

"Of course not May, I just gave you the child friendly version of it. After all this book showed some disgusting things."

He stood back up to place the large book back in its spot.

"Oh yeah like what?" Raising an eyebrow at the book and the boy.

"Well you see, when a mommy and daddy love each other very much, the daddy inserts his-" he was cut off my a loud opening door followed by a tall brown haired bearded man. He had obviously been watching the conversation from the outside and had now decided to finally take action.

He smiled down at the pair, "Brendan my boy, why don't you guys go out and buy some mochi or something, instead of talking about babies," already taking his wallet out handing Brendan a couple of Pokedollars to visit the town's sweets shop.

The young boy took the hint. He knew he was speaking of an adult subject, the only reason why he knew so much of it was because his dad had often left the library unsupervised, which allowed the boy to read whatever book he wanted. He still remembered the faces their parents made when he had asked them that night what "intercourse" was.

They of course tried denying everything, until he pulled the book out showing its images. Of course that not only silenced them, but shocked them as well. They were meaning to have the "talk" with him when he was older, not he was just eight years old. Lisa was later lecturing her husband how he should have some books removed from the lab's library.

The last thing professor Birch wanted was having young innocent May talking to her parents about "making love". He could just imagine the looks Caroline and Norman would give him specifically, since they probably wouldn't blame Brendan. He would rather May's parents have the talk with her rather than his son giving the young girl the talk.

May had been watching the scene between father and son in silence. Obviously it looked like they were communicating telepathically, or at least her little impressionable mind thought so. She knew that Professor Birch was telling Brendan to stop their baby talk, diverging their attention away by sending them to eat sweets.

"Come on May," he heard the boy. He picked up Skipper who had been napping, placing him inside his gray hoodie. Professor Birch smiling behind him. The boy grabbed all the books he had picked up earlier when he was tutoring May and placed them back on their respective shelves.

"Coming," she managed to say before her hand was grabbed by his and she was dragged away from the lab, the boy was obviously excited about eating the sweets.

Professor Birch had stayed behind in the library feeling the relief of having such a potentially adult topic kept secret to the young girl, well at least for now that is.

As the pair was walking through the cool autumn air, May had noticed that the height difference between the two had gotten quite a bit bigger. She now saw that she was at least three or maybe four centimeters taller than the boy. She still hadn't believed that she hadn't even teased the boy. She was sure that he had at least noticed the difference and maybe didn't even care, or maybe he just didn't even notice at all.

They entered the marketplace going straight into the sweets shops where the owners Mr. and Mrs. Owens were manning the place. They both enthusiastically greeted the children, gaining enthusiastic waves from both children. They both visited the sweets shop often, and more often than not, they would buy an immense amount of sweets.

"How can we help you two?" Mrs. Owens asked walking over the pair.

"Can we get some mochi please? And you know the usual serving like always," Brendan said, scratching the back of his head.

"Why certainly Brendan, you too May?"

"Yeah if that's ok," with a quick nod.

"No problem at all you two," Mr Owens said grabbing two large red boxes and cramming as much of the round multi colored sweets into the boxes. He handed them to his wife who handed them to the children. Brendan handed her the money his dad gave him earlier as it came out to be exact amount they needed. He then later handed May her box, giving her a smile. May smiled back, but inside she still wanted to know more about babies.

"Please come again," they heard the old couple say as they exited back onto the main street of the market.

Brendan took out a blue treat handing it to Skipper who began to eat gleefully. May opened her own box, revealing the multi colored round sweets. Automatically her mouth began to water as she took one at ate it in nearly one bite. Brendan had done nearly the same.

"So anything you wanna know about babies?" speaking through a mouthful of mochi.

"Eww, gross chew with your mouth closed," she teased.

He rolled his eyes at her, "looks who's talking."

They both still had that bad habit that would lead them to get scolded by their mothers. They couldn't help but laugh at each other's eating habits, even if they were almost exactly the same.

"Didn't your dad say not to speak of babies anymore?" Taking a pink ball this time.

He eyed her for a second, picking out a yellow ball from the box. "Well yeah, but I can at least tell you a little bit about it, like how your mom's belly will grow as the baby grows inside."

"Wait did she eat the baby?" Slight concern in her voice.

The boy couldn't control his laughter as he began choking on some of the pieces of the sweets. He calmed down after a minute, amusement still in his eyes.

He responded back, "well not exactly May. Let's just say that the baby started out really small and is now growing. You'll see it more once your mom's belly starts growing as well." Handing another ball to his water type.

"So when will the baby come then?"

"I think you should ask your mom for that. I'm not your doctor after all."

The two spent the following hours with Brendan occasionally helping May out with her schoolwork. He had grown quite amused seeing her struggle over what he considered the most simple of problems, but he never said anything to her as he knew she would get mad and besides she was improving.

They parted ways in the late afternoon. May had gotten a significant portion of her schoolwork done as she only needed a couple more pages to finish.

Over the past year, she had grown rather studious. Instead of copying of Brendan's tests like she did in the past, she was learning the information herself determined to get as high scores as him. She really kind of considered that Brendan had an unfair advantage, being the son of Hoenn's regional professor exposed him to all sorts of knowledge that she would never have access to.

She walked up to her mom who was sitting at the couch eating yet another disgusting dish. She tried to ignore her lunch that was threatening to come back up. She had noticed that her belly had grown quite a bit over the past couple of weeks, but it was more noticeable now that she was sitting down.

"So mom," she began, "when is the baby coming?"

Caroline turned to face the girl, a surprised look on her face. She had stopped eating her unusual craving as she put it down on the coffee table.

"Well May, since I'm pretty sure it was obvious, the baby should be coming at around December, or at least that's what the doctor said."

"Actually mom, I asked Brendan about it, since I thought you were sick and he told me you were just having a baby. He also did tell me about the pellipers and was gonna tell me something about a dad inserting something before Professor Birch stopped him."

Caroline's eyes widened. She knew exactly what Brendan was talking about. She was both surprised and impressed at him. Surprised that a boy of that age already knew of the makings of a baby and impressed by it as well. He was certainly mature for his age, or at least he gave everyone that impression.

"I see, then I hope he didn't' teach you too much. I wanna teach you more once you're older," looking directly at May's eyes. The girl merely nodded going to watch the TV.

She then asked, "So will the baby be a boy or a girl?" She really hoped for a girl.

Her mother smiled at her, "that's a secret May," giving the young girl an even wider smile.

AN: OK time to be honest here. When I did my original drafts for the story, I had no idea that I had left a certain younger brother out of the equation. Maybe I was too focused on the Hoenn pair that I had completely forgotten about him. It was about six chapters in that I realized "Oh crap I completely left him out." So I rushed to check his information to find out he's actually seven, I always thought he was like five. So from there my options were to either rewrite some of the story already posted or just do what I'm already doing here, introducing him or rather foreshadowing the approach of a baby. Hope it doesn't change the anime canon too much since I'm trying to keep this story relatively close to the anime canon, but there will be a couple changes along the way like adding a couple of original ideas.

Also I would like to apologize for all my grammar mistakes in the past chapters. I generally go back and read them a couple times to fix as many mistakes as I can find, but sometimes they just slip by, so my apologies.

Anyway hope you guys enjoy and hopefully I see you all next week!