This Love

Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)

August 3rd, 2026
Malibu, USA
Miley's POV

"Twenty-eight weeks, almost twenty-nine. How are you feeling?" My mom asks. While the kids were at friends' I was at my parents' visiting so I wasn't bored cause Liam was filming.

"Tired. Very very tired."

"Only eleven more weeks."

"I know, I'm terrified." I reply, then my mom laughs.

"You've got three other kids, you know what to expect."

"I know, but I'm just terrified because I haven't had a baby in almost six years."

"You'll do just fine, you always do. Has he been kicking?"

"He was a few days ago. He stopped again though."

"I'm sure he's fine." Mom says. "Maybe he's tired too."

"I've been getting cramps...is that bad?"

"I'm sure it's Braxton Hicks, you're at that part where they'll be starting."

"Oh joy."

"They haven't been bad have they?"

"The past couple days no, today they're a little worse." I answer.

"I'm sure everything is fine. How are the kids handling it? Are they excited for their new sibling?"

"They're really excited, yeah. Oh my god mom, the most embarrassing thing happened the other night with the kids. They asked where the baby was gonna come out."

"And you said..."

"Well, I told them the truth. That sometimes a doctor takes the baby out. But I'm gonna have the baby naturally which means he'll come out of my vagina...I probably really fucked up didn't I?"

"No, that's actually good. It's better to use the real words and not keep it too safe. Otherwise they'll be more confused in the future." Mom replies.

"Then they asked how he got there..."

"Oh boy."

"Mhm...I explained it truthfully. I said the dad carries sperm and the mom carries eggs, and the dad fertilizes the egg through sex and it becomes a baby in nine months."

"That's a good answer. I'm assuming they left it at that? I don't know another question they'd ask."

"How about them asking if that meant Liam and I had sex?" I ask, then my mom's eyes grow wide. "Exactly."

"How'd you handle that one?"

"Well based on how I answered the previous question I couldn't lie. So I said yes. But I closed my eyes when I said it because I didn't wanna have eye contact with my own children when I tell them Liam and I had sex. Thank god I didn't have to explain what sex was."

"Where was Liam during all of this?"

"After Leo asked, he went inside and started dinner."

"Well there's a lot more questions only he can talk to Leo about, so don't worry. His time will come when he can't bail on you, and he'll have to do it alone himself." Mom says, then laughs.

"Yeah. And I'm gonna only have to have the conversation once. I can just tell the girls together. Liam has to talk with Leo then again with this one when he's old enough. Haha."

"When does Liam get done filming today?"

"I don't know, he didn't say. He'll text when he's done though I'm sure. Where's dad?"