“Oh Megan!” Amanda exclaimed, rushing to her daughter’s side. “Are you feeling sick honey?”

“It stinks!” Megan managed to blurt out.

“Oh, poor girl, you must have eaten too much baby. And you’ve gotten it all over your nice shirt too.”

Megan blinked back tears, looking around her and realising people were staring. “I’m sorry,” she mumbled.

“It’s okay honey, Mommy will get you all cleaned up.” Amanda turned to the other moms and asked, “Could you watch them for a sec, I need to go to the car and get her a new shirt?”

Sara nodded. “I’ll watch them. Joy, you just go take care of Danny.”

Joy nodded and unbuckled the boy from the chair. “Okay little stinker, let’s get you changed,” she chirped, leading the still grinning boy to the bathroom with the diaper bag over her shoulder.

Amanda tutted as she looked over the mess her daughter had made of her shirt. “Okay honey, let’s get you out of this messy shirt. Mommy will get you a clean one from the car,” she told Megan, grasping the bottom of the shirt and pulling it up.

Megan shrieked and pulled away but it happened so suddenly she wasn’t prepared for it. In one swift motion her shirt was up over her head and slipping off her upraised arms. Just like that she found herself sitting in a crowded family restaurant topless, not even a bra to hide her breasts. “Mommy, I’m topless!” she gasped, crossing her arms to keep some dignity.

“Well you can’t just sit in a shirt covered in throw-up sweetie. Mommy will be back with your unicorn shirt in a second.”

As her mother left with her shirt Megan shivered in shame. This was worse than what had happened at home. As bad as that had seemed at the time, being topless in full public view was infinitely worse. Sure, it had happened a couple times at drunken parties back at college, but that was different. Then she’d chosen to take off her shirt and she’d been one of several topless girls. Now no one was even staring at her, no one cared that she her boobs were on display. She was just another toddler who’d ruined her shirt as far as anyone was concerned. Somehow that made it all even worse.