Mama holds your hand the whole way there, and it turns out everything she needed to buy was for you.
Mama seemed to be right, as no one was even looking your way. Under all the layers, you can barely smell your poopy nappy as mama leads you into the pharmacy. Grabbing a basket, you head to the baby section where mama first grabs some more wet wipes along with baby powder and a packet of disposable changing mats.
“You can’t always have a shower after a messy nappy,” mama whispered after catching your curious expression. “It’s a lot easier to clean you up if I don’t have to worry about making a mess.”
Then it was the nappies.
“Would you like pull ups for night-time?”
You really didn’t, so you shake your head. Something in mama’s smile quirks slightly at that.
“So, we’ve got dinosaurs, cars, fish aaand princesses in your size,” mama explains as she scans the shelves.
You’re not really sure what you want. Probably not cars and probably not fish, but dinosaurs and princesses both sound nice. Slightly nervously, you look around to see no one nearby before asking, “Can I look?”
Mama pulls two packets of nappies off the shelves before crouching down to your level to show you them. She hands one to you to look at and holds the other up for you. They’re both really nice and you can imagine wearing both. You squirm, knowing you don’t want to choose.
“So, which one do you want?”
You make an uncertain noise.
“I dunno,” you admit.
The seconds count down before mama glances back at the shelves. She looks like she is thinking.
“Hmm — you know why, why don’t we get both?” mama says to your surprise. “You’ll probably use most of them by the end of the trip anyway.”
“Really?” you ask, you voice hopeful.
“Yep.”
Your worries forgotten; you squirm happily know mama will get you both.
You barely think about your messy nappy or that people might think it’s strange mama is buying nappies for you, that you completely forget about it until you are walking back with mama. It seems she was right: nobody cared you needed a nappy.