The Bad Boy And The Mermaid novel Chapter 22

Hunter

“What’s a virgin?”

I started to think of a less explicit way that I could explain to Blue what being a virgin meant. Her large bright blue eyes stared at me in what appeared to be sheer fascination and curiosity. She was waiting for an answer. My word could be law.

“Well, person who has never had sex in their life is usually a virgin.” I explained.

Blue continued to stare at me, and that was making me nervous. “What’s sex?”

I blew out a breath and maybe I was starting to sweat a little. “When a man and a woman go to bed naked...they do things to each other.”

“Bad things?”

I shook my head. “Mostly good.”

“That makes me a virgin, right?” she asked.

“Correct.”

“And you are?”

I faked a cough. I couldn’t lie to her and say that I was a virgin too, it would be unfair to lie to her and I’d never lied to Blue before. She deserved to know the truth. “I’m...not really a virgin.”

“Oh.” She said, and I wished I knew how I could read her mind. “That means you’ve been naked with other women.”

I gave her a nod. “I didn’t know you at that time.” As if that explained anything.

“So you’re a boy and I’m a girl...” she started and I wasn’t ready for what she was about to ask me. “And we go to bed naked, I start kissing you and then you keep touching me and I’m constantly sighing...is that what sex is?”

I smiled. “That’s what it starts with, but the process towards the end is a little complicated than that.”

And now she was lying in bed, her chin resting on her hands. “How complicated?”

I sighed. There was no other way of explaining it. I was doomed to do the sex-ed talk. It reminded me of all those teachers in middle school who did their best to make the children understand. We used to laugh at them at that time, right now, I only sympathized with them

“A man has a penis and a woman has a vagina, during sex a man’s penis goes inside the vagina.”

“And is that how babies are made too?”

“Yes. You’re really smart, Blue.”

She smiled proudly, and then declared, “Let’s make a baby.”

“What?”

“I always wondered how human babies were made. When you take me out, I see a lot of mother’s take their little children out and they look so cute. So happy. I decided I wanted one too, just didn’t know how I could get one. You explained me so I understand now.”

I laughed. “That’s not how it works.”

“You are a man, I’m a woman. Surely, you can give me a baby, Hunter. If it’s with you, I wouldn’t mind, and I...I promise you I will take good care of the baby.” She pouted in fake anger, “Why are you always laughing at me? I just want a baby. Just one.”

I stopped laughing. This was no joking matter, as much as it was fun to tease Blue; I needed to tell her the seriousness of the situation. The mermaid was naïve, and maybe a little stubborn. It was partly my fault for giving her whatever she wanted, agreeing to anything on a whim, I’d spoiled her and I didn’t regret it, but sometimes I needed to take a step back and consider that while this was hilarious for me, it was her wish. It was similar to a child walking into a toy store and demanding their parents to buy the most expensive toy.

“Fine. Alec is a boy too. I’ll ask him.”

I spun my head to look at her so fast; I might have even snapped my neck in the process. I caught her chin between my fingers. “You can’t go around asking men to give you babies no matter how badly you want it, do you understand me?”

I guess she saw the fierce look I was giving her. “I was...I was just kidding. I wasn’t asking Alec. You think I want to lie down naked with him?”

“Well, you’re the one who suggested it first.” I said. I tried to calm myself down; I didn’t want to fight with Blue. To her, asking for a baby was an innocent request; she didn’t know what it entailed.

I settled down in bed beside her and caressed her cheek. “Sweetheart, in order to have a baby it is best to be married first, or at least be in love. We need to have a home together, and I need you to guarantee that you wouldn’t leave me. Having a baby is not something you get just because you want it, its building a family together. If I give you a baby, it’s not just yours, it’s mine too. Ours.” I explained and a burn had started to form in my heart, thinking about how much I wanted this with Blue. To live with her, eventually marry her and have our own baby.

She placed a hand on mine, her eyes were glazed. “That sounds beautiful, Hunter.”

“Yes, it does. Now that you know how babies are made, I hope you wouldn’t go around asking other men for it.” I said.

“I won’t I promise.” She said.

And that closed the subject for good. Blue was ready to have a baby, but she’d certainly realized that marrying me wasn’t something she wanted to do. I blew out a breath; the sex talk was over and done with.

“Will our baby be completely human or a mermaid?” She asked.

I curled and uncurled the locks of her hair. “Not sure about that. Maybe a little of both.”

“Hmm.” She liked that answer. “Can I ask you one more thing?”

“Sure.”

“Why don’t you kiss me often anymore?” She asked.