The Talk
I sat opposite Elijah as we tried our best to avoid each other. Earlier today he had come to Ila and I and asked why his manhood got hard in the morning. It was incredibly uncomfortable, but Ila told me it was time I talked to him. I had dreaded this talk for fourteen years. It did not help that he was questioning how Ila got with child.
"Father are you going to say anything?" Elijah asked, breaking me from my thoughts.
"I..uh, I do not quite know where to start." I replied.
"Mother says it is natural." Elijah put in.
"Every young man gets hard in the morning. You also get hard when you are aroused." I told him.
"What does that mean?" He asked me.
"Well when you see a woman and have feelings for her, you get aroused. It is a way for your body to get ready to lie with her." I replied.
"What is lying together?" He asked.
He looked so innocent, which made this conversation even more awkward. Ila was much better at explaining things but she told me it was my job as his father. She had talked to the girls a few years ago, so it was fair.
"When a man and a woman love each other, and are married, the man will, uh, put his manhood inside of the woman. When they are done the man with, um, ejaculate and that will make a baby." I told him.
Elijah looked at me as if I were crazy. I most likely did not do a good job at explaining, but I do not think that was the problem.
"So, uh, is that what you and Mother did?" He asked me shyly.
"Yes, that is how you children were made." I told him.