When Ben returned to his room, freshly showered and dressed in a clean pair of trousers, only Mike was still in there.
“You alright Mate?” he asked.
“Yeah, fine, why?” Ben replied questioningly, did Mike know what had happened on the bus?
“You’ve just seemed a bit quiet, I wondered if anything was up?”
“No,” Ben shook his head, “I’m good, just a bit tired I guess. I didn’t sleep too well last night.”
“No?” Mike asked. It was a question, but Ben didn’t offer any more information than that.
“Shall we go and check this place out?” Ben changed the subject.
“Yeah, okay,” Mike agreed, “Here, I’ve got some weed with me. I’ll skin up, then we can find the girls and chill out for a while.”
By the time night arrived Ben had been able to forget all of his worries, the large group had gone out for dinner in a posh restaurant, or at least, it seemed posh to the teenagers, and the teachers had even allowed them to have a few drinks with their meal. And once they’d gotten back to the youth hostel several of the teens, Ben included, had snuck out for a relaxing joint before bed. Midnight was approaching by the time Ben got back to his bedroom.
Ben changed into a baggy T-shirt, and a pair of boxers two sizes two big for him. They would hardly stay up, but he hoped that with the nappy underneath them they would conceal it. His problem, of course, was how to put the nappy on without the boys he was sharing a room with noticing. He knew he couldn’t do it in the room, even with the lights off it would be noisy, the plastic rustling and alerting everyone to what he was doing. And besides, even if it was silent he was inexperienced at putting on nappies. Although admittedly he had been in nappies until later than most, still wearing Pampers to bed until he grew out of them aged seven, his mother had always put them on for him. He was doubting his abilities to put one on in the light, let alone in the dark under a duvet cover. He would have to put it on in the bathroom, but how was he supposed to get the nappy out of his bag, and into the bathroom, without anyone seeing?
He unzipped his rucksack, the nappies were stuffed right at the bottom, where nobody would see them. He was beginning to regret placing them there, it would be much harder for him to pull one out. He took his wash bag from the top of his bag, and realised if he could get the nappy inside it he could easily take it into the bathroom. Luckily none of the other boys were looking, and he was able to do so discreetly.