Call Your Girlfriend

Part 42: In Which Helen Explains Sex

Waking up this morning, I find Max is already out of bed and I hear the kids downstairs. With the smell of breakfast filling the home, I get dressed in a pair of yoga pants and a denim button up shirt. I head downstairs and the girls are running around.

"Morning Mummy!" They give me a hug and kiss and head off to play.

"Morning girls." I walk into the kitchen and find Sylas at the counter with his little dictionary and a piece of paper, writing. Last night was so embarrassing. Like I can't even describe how awkward I feel knowing my son saw me riding his dad bare arse naked, ready to explode all over each other. I know we need to address it. It is a natural part of life that one day he will experience- so I shouldn't make him feel it's a shameful act, but I also don't want to explain to a five year old about sex. Max turns around from the sink and gravely smiles at me. I feel bad. I got off last night and he didn't. It has been too long for us and he was so close too. I give Sylas a kiss on the cheek and walk around the counter to Max. "Morning..."

"Morning." He sounds grumpy. I don't blame him, has Sylas already started his line of questioning? Most likely. Even if, he didn't see much- there's still something lingering around his brain wanting answer. "Did...did he- ya know...ask?"

"No...thank God- cause I have no idea what I would have said." Sighing I kiss his exposed arm and look back over my shoulder at our son.

"Well...I feel like we should address it."

"Why? Leave sleeping dogs lie."

"Max, you know his curious mind. If we don't tell him- he will ask someone at work. Do you want our laundry aired for everyone to see?" He grumbles and looks back as well.

"Should we talk to the girls as well? Because you know he'll bring it up to them anyway."

"Huh...I guess your right. Give me a few moments to think of something." I kiss his cheek and pour some coffee in a cup. This isn't going to go well. How do you explain sex without too much detail, but also not too little? And how do you make it understandable to young children without scarring them?

"A little side note...he's already writing a letter to Gladys using the dictionary. So maybe we need to proof read that before we let him hand it off. God knows what he'll write in there." Nodding, I go around the counter to Sylas and sit down beside him on a stool.

"What are working on, Darling?"

"A letter to Gladys."

"Yeah? Can I read it?" He hands me the paper no problem and I read.

Deer Gladis,

Thenk cue 4 the dictionary. I reely like it! It has a lot of big werds like Polymorphic and chlorofluorocarbons.

Luv,
Bash

"Wow, very nice. Great job, Bash!"  I kiss his head and give him back the letter that has a picture of I assume Gladys on the front holding his hand.

"I drew you a picture too Mummy!"

"Really? Aw that's so...." He hands me a picture he drew and it takes everything in my body not to scream and hide. He literally drew Max and I having sex in what looks like a flowery meadow and then him and the girls playing with a dog. "Wow...um, Max- come see the picture your son drew."

He's taking a sip of water and as he turns to look, he spits the water out and then turns around.

"Bash...can you um...can you explain what's happening in this picture."

"That's me, Luna, and Elowyn playing with a puppy and you and Daddy playing naked in the grass. Like last night."

"I'm, why...um...why'd you draw us doing that?" Max asks and wipes the counter up from his water burst.