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Confusion of Mummies and Daddies

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Ben knocked on the door of number 12 Bridge Street. After a few moments it swung open and a familiar women smiled down at him
"Hello Ben!" she said
"Hello Miss Young" Ben replied "Is it okay for me and Hatty to go and play?" He asked.
"As long as you don't go far" Miss Young warned and Ben nodded his head. Miss Young smiled and turned her head to the inside of the house "Heather! Ben's here for you!" she called out and a few moments later a young girl, just over 7 years old like Ben, came out beaming
"Hi Ben!" she said "Come on let's go!" she said grabbing his arm as pulling him through the house and out into the back garden
"Stay where I can see you!" Miss Young shouted after them as they clambered over the short fence separating the garden from the fields beyond it.
Hatty and Ben ran around in the fields, trying to find each other in the tall corn that was soon to be harvested, laughing and shouting. Hatty mother, Miss Young, looked out her window every so often, easily able to see the children. Eventually they were tired out and lay in the field staring up at the almost clear sky, one or two wavy clouds breaking up the otherwise infinite blue.
They lay with their heads next to each other, though upside down from each other as the giggles from the fun of their game slowly died down.
"Hey Ben" said Hatty, breaking the silence "Remind me what your dad said yesterday..." Ben looked confused
"About what?" he asked, trying to remember what he had said
"About mummies and daddies" Hatty said
"Oh" Ben remembered now, mostly "He said something about mummies and daddies kissing because they love each other" He told her. Hatty hmmm'd "what?" Ben asked
"I don't think he's right" She said. Ben sat up confused again
"What? Why?" he asked. Hatty sat up too and turned to him
"Well because mummies love daddies don't they" she said. Ben nodded and Hatty continued "But I saw my mummy kissing Peter, her new friend, this morning when he came over but Peter isn't a daddy" Hatty tried to make sense of it
"Don't worry" Ben said "My daddy said that people don't have to be a mummy and daddy to love each other, so maybe it's like that" Ben nodded as he finished and Hatty scrunched up her face as she thought
"So mummies and Daddies can kiss their friends too? They can love other people as well?" She asked. Ben nodded
"Yeah, I think that's what he meant" He said smiling. Hatty smiled too then frowned and shook her head
"No no, that can't be right. My Mummy and Daddy don't love each other BECAUSE Daddy was kissing his friend. So if it makes mummies and daddies upset when they kiss their friends you can't kiss your friends..." Hatty scrunched her face again
"It must be okay for a mummy to love her friends when she doesn't love a daddy?" Ben said "So it's okay for your mummy to kiss Peter, but it wasn't okay for your daddy and that's why your mummy doesn't love him anymore"
Hatty thought for a moment then nodded, convinced
"You're clever Ben" she said and Ben smiled. Suddenly Hatty stood up "Ben, we're friends, so it's okay for us to kiss right?" Ben looked surprised then thought for a moment
"I think it would be" he said. Hatty grabbed his arms and pulled him to his feet
"Okay then!" she said "We should kiss! Because we're friends so we love each other and its okay"
Ben was suddenly very nervous "K-kiss? Us? How? Kissing someone else isn't like when we kiss our mummies"
"come on, you've seen your mummy and daddy kiss" Hatty said "And I've seen my mummy and Peter kiss so I know how to do it, it looks easy just close your eyes"
Ben did as he was told. He closed his eyes, his heart beating fast. He heard Hatty's voice.
"And now you make your lips into a kissing face" She said, and Ben pursed his lips.
Miss Young glanced out of the kitchen window just in time to see Hatty quickly give Ben a short kiss on his lips. She smiled as she watched. She had expected this to happen sometime.
Admittedly she thought it wouldn't have been for another 7 or so years...
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Ben and Hatty discuss the confusing matter of mummies and daddies and kissing
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