Part 1

Evan sighed and breathed in the cool night air. It was late spring, close enough that summer would be coming soon but still brisk at night. Usually he would have stayed inside but tonight he had a once in a lifetime chance to watch a meteor splinter directly overhead in the night sky. He checked his watch. It wouldn’t be long now.

There was a flash as it hit the edge of the atmosphere and then little white pieces flew in all directions like some kind of eerie firework. It lasted less than a minute. Evan watched until they had faded and then walked back to his house. Such large meteors were rare, and even rarer that they hit the atmosphere so directly. The chances that it would happen right over his small town, it was amazing.

Sydney walked into school the next morning, bleary eyed and grumbling. One month, she had one month until she graduated. Honestly she didn’t see the point of school, she was doing it for her mother.

The bell rang. She checked the clock. No point going to her first period class, the teacher never took attendance anyways. She wandered towards the nearest bathroom where she knew she would hide from any inquisitive teachers until second period.

She was so busy staring at her phone that she didn’t even notice her outfit changing as she walked into the bathroom. She absentmindedly tugged at her jeans to adjust her underwear which seemed to have gotten bunched up. Except her jeans seemed to disappear in her hand and she touched plastic.

 

“Huh? Ah!” Sidney gasped. She was wearing a pink princess t-shirt, short skirt and what seemed like an oversize diaper underneath. She flipped her skirt up for just a moment to check. Not a diaper but a pull-up! Suddenly her cell phone twisted in her hand, leaving her holding a stuffed teddy bear.

“I… Umm…” Sidney looked around in shock. The stalls and sinks had disappeared, replaced by training potties and a few changing tables in the back that looked big enough for her. Classmates that she knew hurried into the bathroom, their hands pressed against their crotches, clearly needing to go potty like they were two year olds. Teachers stood by the potties, helping them and wiping a few of them.

“Sidney do you need help?”

Sidney turned and saw a teacher she knew, Ms. Edwards, looking at her.

“Um, what do you mean?” She asked

“Do you need to go potty? I can help if you’re nervous.”

“N-No!” Sidney stuttered. Her bowels tinged. It felt like a fart. Sidney pushed and something solid slipped between her butt cheeks and entered her pull-up. Sidney stood there in shock.

“Sydney!” Ms. Edwards exclaimed

“I- no! What!?!” Sydney asked. She was so completely caught off guard that she just did the first thing her instincts told her to do. She squatted to finish her poop. That made Ms. Edwards even angrier at her.

“Sydney did you just do that on purpose?” She asked. She clearly thought Sidney had.

“I- um- It was an accident!” Sidney said. Intellectually she realized how unconvincing she must have sounded. She’d just squatted and pooped her pull-up without even trying to get to one of the potties and now she was stuttering. But she had no idea how she was supposed to act.

“C-can, um, can I have a clean pull-up?” She tried, not believing that she was asking for a pull-up instead of panties.

“No.” Ms. Edwards said simply, taking Sidney by the arm and marching her into the corner “If you want to poop your pants, then you aren’t ready for pull-ups.”

“But… hey wait, this isn’t fair!” Sidney said

“Yes it is.” Ms. Edwards said “If you choose to poop your pants, then you belong in diapers.”

“Diapers!?!”

Ms. Edwards ignored her and pulled down her soiled pull-up. Sidney squeaked and covered herself as best she could with her hands.

“Do you mind!?!”

“No need to be so dramatic.” Ms. Edwards said, pressing a baby wipe to Sidney’s behind like it was the most normal thing in the world.

Sidney turned beet red, even though none of the others around her seemed to think much of it.

“I can wipe myself!” She said, not believing that she even needed to say it

“I know you can.” Ms. Edwards said in the most patronizing voice Sidney had ever heard “I’m just helping.”

“I- hey I don’t need diapers either!” Sidney protested as Ms. Edwards unfolded a thick, disposable diaper. It had patterns on the front, like a baby diaper, except big enough to fit Sidney.

“It’s just a precaution in case you have another accident.” Ms. Edwards said

“I don’t have accidents!” Sidney said

Ms. Edwards sighed and held up the pull-up she had just taken off Sidney. There was a brown, blotchy stain on the seat.

“I, um, it was just once!” Sidney said, trying to save face. Ms. Edwards just nodded and taped the diaper on. She stood up and threw the used pull-up in a nearby diaper pail.

Sidney fled the bathroom, her diaper forcing her to toddle a little on the way out. Except with every step, her diaper seemed to get thinner and thinner. Her pants reappeared on her, her t-shirt went back to normal, and by the time she was back in the hallway she was completely normal again. A couple kids gave her looks as they passed. Sidney patted her butt to make sure she was back to panties and hurried away, deciding that maybe class wasn’t so bad after all.

Sidney spent the rest of the day trying to forget what had happened. She avoided the first floor bathroom at all costs. Nothing out of the ordinary happened until the next morning when her mother dropped her off at school. Sidney got out of the car and turned to wave her mother goodbye, but to her surprise, her mother got out too.

“Mom?” She asked

“Hold my hand while we cross the street honey.” Sidney’s mother said, taking Sidney’s hand and leading her. As she walked, Sidney felt a familiar feeling under her pants.

“Not again!” She groaned. Her pants went from jeans to overalls with straps and her shirt turned into a loose, Winnie-the-Pooh t-shirt. There was a distinct crinkling as she walked. She was back in pull-ups.

“Did you have an accident?” Her mother asked

“What? No!” Sidney said. Why did adults have to be obsessed with her bathroom habits? Even assuming that she did have another accident, she was fully capable of taking care of it herself!

Ms. Edwards met them on the sidewalk.

“So sorry about yesterday.” Sidney’s mother said “I have no idea what was with her. She pooped herself again after she got home.”

Sidney blushed. Did they have to talk about this on a public sidewalk?

Ms. Edwards said “I couldn’t believe it myself. I mean she’s usually such a darling angel but she insisted that she didn’t need to go and then immediately chose to relieve herself into her pull-ups.”

“Sidney is that true?” Sidney’s mother asked. Sidney sucked it up. Maybe if she acted like the preschooler they apparently thought she was, she could get through this quickly.

“Yes, I’m really, really sorry Ms. Edwards. I just thought that I could be a big girl and hold it for a long time like Mommy.”

“But you are a big girl.” Sidney’s mother said, ruffling her hair “Needing to take lots of potty breaks isn’t anything to be ashamed of.”

Sidney stuck her thumb in her mouth to make herself look more innocent.

“Tank you.” She said, intentionally adding a lisp to her voice

“Good. And honey take your thumb out of your mouth, we’re trying to break that habit, remember?”

Sidney quickly pulled her thumb out. Trying to break the habit!?! Was it not obvious she was acting? Or was her mother playing along?

“Yes Mommy.”

Sidney’s mother turned back to Ms. Edwards “She’s a patronizing little rascal, but I think she’s ready for pull-ups.”

Ms. Edwards sighed “Very well, but one more messy accident will mean that she’ll need to wear diapers until she goes a full week without pooping herself.”

Chloe wandered around the school. What was going on? She’d been trying to ignore the fact her classmates seemed to be turning into babies and back again randomly, but at this point it was almost impossible! She felt like she should be trying to act normal, everyone else seemed to be, but then again no one else seemed to realize something strange was going on.

“Chloe!” Chloe turned around and saw one of her teachers, Mr. Tyler, jogging towards her.

“Chloe are you all right?” Mr. Tyler asked

“Yes?” Chloe said, quickly patting her butt. No crinkling, she was currently an adult.

“Oh.” Mr. Tyler said “It’s just that you weren’t in class yesterday and you’ve never missed a class before. I was just a little worried.”

Chloe’s heart jumped. Her perfect attendance! But there hadn’t been class yesterday, had there? She’d looked in the classroom and it had been nothing but a bunch of her classmates running around dressed as babies. Not only that, but when she had stepped into the classroom, her outfit had changed to a dress and pull-up! She’d run out in fright.

“Oh, I, uh…”

“Chloe.” Mr. Tyler put his hand on her shoulder “I marked you as present, okay? You’re the best student I’ve seen in a while so I trust it was for a good reason. But please don’t let it happen again, okay?”

Chloe nodded “Of course! Thanks so much Mr. Tyler!” She said

Mr. Tyler walked away and Chloe sighed in relief.

“You see it too, don’t you?”

Chloe turned around to see Evan. They weren’t exactly best friends, but they had been in some classes together.

“See, uh, what?” Chloe asked

“That since yesterday every time someone walks into the first floor girls bathroom their panties change into pull-ups and they become toddlers trying not to fail their potty training.”

Chloe sighed “Yeah. I see it.”

Evan nodded “Listen, I’ve got some ideas about what’s going on, you want to come look at what I have? I’d like a second set of eyes on it.”

“Later, I’ll text you. Mr. Tyler’s class starts in a few minutes.”

“You’re still going to class?” Evan asked “Isn’t Mr. Tyler’s one of the classrooms that is, um, full of babies?”

“I am one month away from perfect attendance!” Chloe said “What’s the worst thing that can happen if I’m wearing pull-ups?”

“It might wear off on you?” Evan suggested. He winced as Chloe gave him a look “Sorry, sorry, yeah you’ll probably be fine. Just… if you start to turn into a baby leave okay? I don’t think there are very many of us that recognize something’s going on.”

“I’ll be fine.” Chloe said

Sidney stopped Chloe on her way into class.

“What did I miss yesterday?” Sidney asked

“I wasn’t in class either.” Chloe said “You shouldn’t skip so much, you could still flunk out.”

“Yeah, yeah.” Sidney waved her down. She walked into the classroom and felt her panties crinkle as her clothing changed to her overalls and t-shirt. Her first thought was that at least she wasn’t in diapers. She blushed and took a seat on the floor with the rest of her classmates.

Chloe took a deep breath and stepped into the classroom afterwards. Her panties crinkled and thickened. Her dress changed to bright pink and became a lot looser fitting, easier to play in. She stood there for a second, inspecting her new, preschool clothing.