The Difference Between Us

How they met

Two previously pregnant women sat beside each other on hospital beds with a baby in hand. They never expected to give birth on the same day. It was decided there and then that their sons would be best of friends.

"Such a cutie!" Linely squealed at her friend, Danna's baby. The newborn kept his fingers folded and his big brown eyes wide open as if observing the new world he sudden found himself in. He gurgled and squealed at Linely, grabbing her finger with his tiny velvety hands. "He is an active one! What's his name Danna?"

"Ayo." Danna mumbled to which Linely frowned at.

"Why do you sound unhappy?" She asked.

"I lost a bet with Matthew." Danna sighed, thinking about the horrors her husband would put her through. "Can a boy be named Gwendolyn?"

"Danna!" Linely yelped. She was wondering why the boy was wrapped in pink blankets, so that was it.

"Kidding, kidding. He's my beautiful boy." Danna caressed Ayo's cheek lovingly with her finger, eliciting the baby to gurgle again. "Your boy is also a cutie, what's his name?

"His name is Logan." As if the boy heard and recognized his name, Logan opened his eyes and stared from one woman to the other. Danna took note of his unique eyes and gasped in awe.

"Linely, his eyes are wonderful! He took both your eyes and Dorian's eyes!" Danna squealed in delight.

"Yes he did."

At the same time, the babies started squirming and searching around for something which made the mothers laugh. "Look, they even get hungry at the same time." Danna commented.

"They would be best friends." Linely said.

"Hey ladies." Matthew came inside the room with Dorian behind him.

"I think it is now too late to call them ladies." Dorian spoke flippantly.

"True but old women are called ladies too." Matthew teased, knowing that Danna's temper would be poked. Both men laughed when their wives and children exclaimed at the same time. They allowed the women to breastfeed their babies before taking them home. Today was a happy day.

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Ayo, now four years old, stared in horror at the girl using the potty in front of him. Having grown up wearing dresses and skirts (mother's influence), Ayo (innocently) did not know the difference between boys and girls. Now he stood in the bathroom wondering why his pee pee was (horrifically) different from another person's.

Ayo cried for hours thinking something was wrong with him.

When his kindergarten teacher asked what was wrong and he told her, she explained the concept of boys and girls to him (even though that was the first time she knew that Ayo was a boy and not a girl). The next day, Ayo rebelled against his mother when she removed a frilly pink dress from his wardrobe for his play date with Logan.

"NUUU!" Ayo yelled and sprang back.

"No?! What's wrong darling?!"

"He's finally realized that he is not a Barbie doll." Matthew commented dryly from the door which earned him a sharp glare from Danna.

"Come on Ayo, Logan is coming soon so you have to dress up!" Danna tried again but the boy was not having it.

"NUU! ME A BOY!" He yelled and ran out of the room butt naked.

"Yes but you were supposed to be my MODEL!!!" Danna yelled and ran after him with the dress. Matthew decided to put this legendary day in black and white so he grabbed the camera of memories, as Danna dubbed it, and ran after his family.