Tuesday started out just like any other day, except for a wet diaper in the night that got changed after breakfast. Julia went to school and sat through her classes just like she had the week before. Just after lunch however, Julia soon found herself in another wet diaper and knew she needed to make a stop in Mrs Barnard’s office. She was again in Mrs Noris class and since she was already done with the assignment it seemed like as good a time as any to make a run over there. Plus most folks were still working quietly on the problems. She quietly walked to the front of the room and the teachers desk.
“Mrs Noris, can I have the hall pass again?”

Mrs Noris looked up and then nodded her head. She grabbed the hall pass, an old eraser with the word Hall Pass taped to it, and handed it to Julia. Julia slipped out the door as quietly as she could. But she did see a couple of heads look up from their work to see her go. Her heart raced for a few seconds, until she told herself ‘people take the hall pass all the time. I used to take the hall pass sometimes, so this isn’t anything new or crazy.’ She quickly walked her way to Mrs Barnard’s door.

Julia quickly arrived and tried the handle, but of course it was locked. She then knocked a few times, but the door opened before she even finished. Mrs Barnard looked down at her and then closed one eye and stared at the ceiling with the other.

“Don’t tell me…” she said “Julia, right?”

“Yea, you got it.” Julia replied with a smile. She was impressed that Mrs Barnard remembered her name.

“Well, come in, come in.” She closed the door behind her. “I’m guessing you need to be changed?”

Mrs Barnard didn’t beat around the bush apparently. And while Julia wasn’t exactly surprised by the statement, the whole idea of going to some stranger and knowing that they were about to change your diaper was still far from normal.

“Uh, yea.” Julia replied somewhat uncomfortably.

“Well, no time like the present right?” Mrs Barnard disappeared into the back room. She came out holding a diaper that look familiar to Julia. “Oh, and your mom dropped off a bunch of diapers so we can use these. I like these a lot better than the one I had to use yesterday. Trust me, you don’t want to have to wear cheap flimsy diapers. Well, go ahead and lay down on the bed and let’s get this taken care of shall we?”

Julia was back in math class in hardly any more time than it would have taken if she had gone to the bathroom herself. The rest of the day went by somewhat slowly. She managed to stay dry until just before school was let out and then ended up wetting herself again on the way home, which she decided was fine since her mom would be home and would probably be checking her pretty much as soon as she walked in the door.

When Julia did walk in the front door, she said hello. A reply ‘hello’ came from the kitchen area. The sound of a knife chopping something on a cutting board told her that mom was working on dinner. Julia decided to just head upstairs and ditch her pants, since mom was likely to ask her to do so anyhow. While she was at it, she switched out her top and put on tee shirt. A quick glance in the mirror showed what was slowly turning into her normal look, socks, a tee shirt (blue in this case) and a diaper on the bottom. ‘How weird is it that this is starting to look normal’ Julia thought to herself, although after a few moments of inspection, she was still convinced the diaper made her butt look big.

Julia headed down to the kitchen figuring that was a sure fire way to get her wet diaper checked, and thus get changed. Her mom was in fact working on dinner and seemed to still be cutting veggies on the counter when she walked in.

“Hi mom.”

“Hello sweetie how was your day?” Shirley said as she walked over and gave Julia a quick no handed hug. She obviously didn’t want to get whatever was on her hands on Julia’s shirt. But using her wrists she turned Julia around (it helped Julia knew what she was doing) and then examined her daughters diaper.

“Mmm, yup looks like you are wet. Well, I’m in the middle of getting dinner ready, so that diaper is gonna have to wait a bit. I don’t want to have to wash up again since I just did it. I’ll change you once I get this in the oven though.”

Julia was about to say something about that being fine. The diaper wasn’t completely soaked and would certainly last a few minutes until her mom was done. But before she could say anything a new voice, from the other side of the kitchen, spoke up.

“Shirley, if you want I could change her.”

The very first thing that came to Julia’s mind was that the voice was not her dad. It wasn’t even male. But it was very familiar and a heartbeat later Julia recognized it. She knew who it belonged to even before she looked up and saw Becky’s mom, Nancy Oakman, sitting at the table looking at her and her mom.

“Actually Nancy, if you don’t mind that would be great. It’s not a big job if you know what I mean.” Shirley paused and then looked at Julia.

Julia was stunned. She wasn’t afraid, or mortified, or embarrassed. At least not yet. Things just had happened too fast for any feelings like that to set in. That Mrs Hayman was over here wasn’t a shock. Her mom and Becky’s mom were friends and often hung out together while the kids were at school. But it was not at all lost on Julia that she was standing in the kitchen wearing a clearly visible diaper, and her mom had just said, out loud, that she needed to be changed. And Mrs Hayman had just offered to change her like it wasn’t a big deal. Come to think of it, why wasn’t Mrs Hayman shocked, or at least a bit surprised?

While Julia was thinking about all of this, Shirley eventually gave up on Julia doing whatever it was that she had thought she might do. “Nancy, everything is upstairs. Julia can show you. And thanks, I wouldn’t have thought to ask, but…”

“Shirley, its not like this is the first time.” Nancy said with a smile and a slight nod of the head. With that she stood up and walked over to Julia, who was still slowly processing what had just happened. Mrs Hayman paused and looked at Julia briefly and then said “Sooo, where is everything?”

“In my room.” Julia finally managed and then turned and started walking to the stairs.

Things would have been very different if Julia didn’t already think of Mrs Hayman as practically a second mom. Apparently, she and her mom had been friends since before she was born. It seemed like for the last 5 years or so she spent nearly as much time at the Oakman’s house as she did her own. Julia had grown up with them and pretty much thought of them as family. She knew that Mrs Hayman had said ‘It’s not like this is the first time’ because it wasn’t the first time she had changed her diaper. Julia had always felt that Mrs Hayman really cared about her. She was always asking her about what was going on in her life, who was dating who and anything else she could think of. In fact, it seemed like Mrs Hayman liked to specifically ask her for somewhat personal details, or at least embarrassing questions. And whenever Julia would get slightly embarrassed, or try to avoid answer a questions, she would always say, ‘Julia, for crying out loud, I changed your diapers when you were a kid, so just tell me and stop acting embarrassed already.’ Well, that funny little phrase just took on a whole different meaning.

Despite all that, Julia first thought when she had heard her mom accepts Mrs Oakman’s offer was that this was just too much. But then a though popped into her head. ‘If some stranger at school can change my diapers and it’s not a big deal, why would having Mrs Hayman do it be any different?’ And the whole point of the trying policy was to get use to wearing diapers, and that meant having Mrs Hayman change her diapers again, well I guess that was part of the deal. So Julia decided that she wasn’t going to make a big deal out of this. If her mom was OK with it, then that was fine.

Julia lead Mrs Hayman upstairs and into her room. As they entered, Mrs Hayman spotted the changing table and all the diapers and supplies.

“Wow, look at all this. This is quite a set up here. Your mom really went all out didn’t she?”

“Yea, she usually does.” Julia replied. Then a thought occurred to her. Without thinking about it, she asked, “Mrs Oakman, you didn’t seem really surprised about me wearing diapers. Did you already know or something?”

“Your mom told me, so yea I already knew.” She replied.

Julia asked the question she had really been wondering about. “Does Fiona know?”

“I was going to ask you that actually.” Mrs Hayman replied with an inquiring stare.

“I haven’t said anything to her. But I don’t know if she saw something or was able to tell on her own.”

“Are you going to tell her?”

“I don’t know…”

“Well, I don’t see how you are going to be able to not tell her eventually. I mean, what are you going the next time you spend the night? Or if your diaper needs to be changed when you are at our house?”

Those were really good questions Julia knew. She hadn’t really given it much thought and hadn’t thought about what would happen if she was over at Becky’s and had an accident. The last time it had happened she just had come home. But she recalled that Fiona had sensed something was odd. Fiona was too smart for her to be able to pull that off too many times.

But to answer Mrs Oakman’s question was another story. Julia wasn’t sure what to say because she didn’t know exactly what her mom had told Mrs Oakman. Did she tell her everything? Did she know this was only for a few more days? “What exactly did my mom tell you anyhow?” she asked.

Nancy thought back to the conversation she had had just a few hours ago.

“So I get to the mechanic and he tells me the car is all ready to go. I pay him and he gives me the keys. I get in the car, turn the key, and nothing.”

“Ugh” Shirley replied as she sipped her tea.

“Yea, no kidding” Nancy replied. “You are not going to believe this. It turns out they fixed the wrong car. I’m not making this up. That is what they told me. So its been in the shop for 3 days now, and they have done nothing. They promised it will be ready tomorrow, and I think they were so embarrassed about the whole thing that they might actually do it this time.”

“There are few things I hate more than the car shop.” Shirley said with a shake of her head.

“That makes two of us hon. So anyways, that’s the whole story. What’s going on over in your neck of the woods?”

Shirley raised her eyebrows and tilter her head to the side and took a sip of tea. “Speaking of things you are not going to believe, guess who is wearing diapers these days?

“Did you say diapers?” Shirley nodded her head. “ Wait are you serious?” Shirley slowly nodded her head once again and made it clear she was waiting for a guess. “You?”

“Ha, that’s funny. No, Julia.”

“Oh my gosh, really? Is she ok? What happened?”

“Well, most importantly, yes she is fine. Honestly I’m not sure exactly what, if anything happened. I don’t really totally understand it and we don’t know if this is just a temporary thing or what. But she is in diapers full time right now.”

“Full time?”

“Yea, as in not potty trained. At all.”

“Wow. When did this all start?”

“Last Friday.”

“How is she handling it? How are you handling it?”

“Truth be told, Julia seems to be fine with it as far as I can tell. At least so far. The good news is that going back to diapers was actually her idea, so it’s not like we had to convince her or make her do it.”

“Well that’s good. Trying to convince a 15 year old girl to do much of anything is hard enough. I can’t imagine telling one they have to start wearing diapers would go over well.”

“Yea, you got that right. Anyways, as for Ted and I, well, it’s taking a bit of time to get used to changing diapers again. But at the end of the day… well I’m sure you remember, it’s just one of those things you do. It’s not that big of a deal really.”

“Wow, I’m glad to hear that you all are handling it so well. What are you doing about school?”

“Oh, I called them and she just goes to the nurse now when she needs to. I had to drop off a bunch diapers for them to use but other than that it hasn’t been a big deal so far. But yea, Ted and I are back on diaper duty. I really thought I wasn’t going to ever have to deal with that again.”

“Is she not able to change herself then?”

“Well, not yet at least. It’s all so new that that might be too much to ask just now, so we haven’t had her try yet.”
“Well, if this keeps up for any length of time you might need to bring some diapers over to my house. I don’t think I have any diapers and even if I did I can’t imagine they would fit.”

“That is actually a good idea. I didn’t think about it but she may end up needing to be changed when she is over there at some point.”

“Well, it wouldn’t be the first time.”

Nancy came back to the room from her memory and looked at Julia. “Well, she told me that you had started wearing diapers again.”

“And? I mean, is that all she said?”

“Well she pretty much said you were basically not potty trained and that her and your dad were back on diaper duty.”

Julia didn’t know what details her mom had said, or if she had said anything about the trying policy. But she also realized that if she asked Mrs Hayman about that, it would raise suspicion. She decided to just go with it. ‘I’ll ask mom later’ she told herself (and then quickly forgot about it).

Nancy let a moment pass and then decided that Julia was done asking her questions. “So, I guess you should hop up here on the changing table.” She finally said.

Julia had a brief flash of butterflies in her stomach. But she quickly decided to just go with it and not to worry about it or over analyze it. ‘This is all part of the trying policy’ she told herself again, ‘Having Mrs Hayman change me is just part of what wearing diapers is like.’

Nancy studied the diaper and then remembered to grab some wipes before she started undoing the tapes. She handed a wipe to Julia, who took it awkwardly, and then undid the tapes.
“Can you lift your hips up for me?” she asked.

Julia arched her back and raised her bottom a few inches off the crinkly changing pad. The diaper come off and she lowered herself back down.

“Do you want to clean yourself off with the wipes? Or should I do that?” Nancy asked.

Julia didn’t hesitate even though she hadn’t done this before. “I’ll do it.” She said quickly. She took the wipe and ran them over herself. While she was doing that Mrs Hayman grabbed another diaper and opened it up.

“Up.”

Julia quickly complied and the diaper slid underneath her. Mrs Hayman spread it out over her and tapped one side then the other into place. She examined her work and then said, “Just like riding a bike… you don’t forget. That better?”

Julia sat up and took a look at the job Mrs Hayman had done. It was certainly better than her dad’s first effort.

“Yea, that’s much better. Thanks.”

“Can I ask you a question Julia?” Julia now felt the butterflies return. She worried that Mrs Hayman might ask another of her probing embarrassing questions. There were so many questions she could ask right now. “Why were you not wearing any pants when you came into the kitchen?”

The butterflies disappeared. “Oh, my parents don’t want me wearing pants in the house right now. Mom says she needs to see my diaper so she can remember to check it and know when I need to be changed. She says it’s just so we all get used to me wearing diapers again.”

“Huh.” Mrs Hayman replied, “I guess that makes sense. Well, in that case I guess you are all dressed and we should head back down stairs.”

The two of them quickly returned to the kitchen. Shirley had a few more things to do with dinner and chatted with them while she worked away. Mrs Hayman stayed until dinner went into the oven and then said she needed to head home herself.

The rest of the day went by quickly. Dad came home. Everyone ate dinner. Julia did her homework. Soon enough Julia was back on the changing table getting changed and put in her pajamas. Then it was bed time.