Excited beyond belief, she got down onto her hands and knees and began crawling around her room, paying no attention to how loud her diaper actually sounded. It was as she was doing this that Elizabeth emerged from her room across the hall and started to head downstairs. Upon hearing the crinkling, she paused. She listened to Jessica’s door, puzzled, for about five minutes. Then, shrugging, she headed back downstairs and paid it no mind.

Too wrapped up in her newfound joy to even notice that her sister had been standing outside her door for five minutes or more, Jessica continued crawling around the room. She stared at her reflection in the mirror, sucked her thumb, and laid on her back and played with her feet as real babies do.

By this time it was almost lunch and she figured she’d better actually show her face around the house lest someone think she was up to something. Not wanting to take her diaper off, she decided to be extra careful. She grabbed a pair of denim shorts and pulled them over her diaper, not thinking to check for a bulge in the mirror. She put on a shirt just long enough to cover her waist. Shrugging, she headed out her door and downstairs for lunch, not paying mind to the fact that the waistband of her diaper would show if she bent over.

Walking carefully down the stairs, she was now even more self-conscious than she had been before. But at least, now she had something legitimate to be self-conscious about. She was actually wearing a diaper. Instead of feeling self-conscious, however, she felt exhilarated. Of course, she practically had to learn to walk again. There was a big difference between wearing a thin layer of cloth and a thick bulky diaper between your legs.

Walking into the kitchen, she noticed that Elizabeth was the only one making lunch. All the better, she thought. The last thing she needed was to get noticed by her entire family. She decided she would make herself a ham sandwich. She took the ham and cheese out of the fridge without much trouble. She put them on the counter and went to get the bread, lettuce, and a tomato.