The Elevator Ninety-Second Floor (Patreon)

Cardonali the magical imp was doing what he always did, he caused  trouble to others for his own amusement. Cardonali had the ability to  put any thought into a person's mind and manipulate them as he wanted  to. He stood unobserved or at least unacknowledged in the back of an  elevator waiting to see who would get in.

Two old friends entered the elevator both men in their early eighties.  It was 92 floors to the lobby.  Cardonali changed how they felt about themselves and how they felt towards each other.  They no longer thought of themselves as Jack and Aaron but as Dad and Melody.

Suddenly, Aaron, now nine-year-old Melody asked, "Daddy, how are babies made?"

"What does Melody know about making babies?" 

"They're made out of water?"

"Yeah, they are made out of water."

"How did Mommy and Daddy make you?"

"Magic," Melody said with an unsure smile.

"Magic?" Dad chuckled back.

"You fried me on a pan."

"I fried you on a pan?"

"In Mommy's stomach or on a pan?"

"On a pan," Melody was still smiling as was Daddy.

Melody...when two...adults want to have a child they have to..."

"Work together?" Melody interrupted.

"Work together..  It's called making love or intercourse or...or...S E X.  The sex word." Daddy gritted his teeth when he said 'sex'.  "It's nothing bad, it's what mommies and daddies did to have you."

Melody looked at her daddy with an incredulous look.

"Remember I told you mommy makes a potion and daddy makes a potion."

"Mommy stirred me?"

"Mommy stirs you up.  Then Mommy drinks it.  Well, that is not really how babies are made."

Melody looks confused.

This wasn't working so dad used a different tact.  "What makes me a man and makes mom a woman?"

"Uh you have bigger hands, your tall," Melody said hoping this is what daddy wanted to hear.

The giggling started again.

"What about our bodies? Our body parts?  How are men and women different?"

"Ummmm"

"Men and women are different because we have different reproductive organs.  And in order to make a baby, we have to have intercourse."

Melody looks confused again.

"How did you Thea Alice have her baby?"

"It came out of her butt."

Daddy giggles again.    "No, she didn't come out of the butt."

The elevator finally hit the Lobby.  They walked away.  The embarrassing conversation continued.

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