JULIE = Julia

SALLY = Shirley

MOM = Mother

Chapter VII

When Julie woke up in the morning, she hopped out of bed and headed for the kitchen. Her parents were already up, but she didn’t see them right away. She grabbed some OJ out of the fridge and poured herself a glass. Then she grabbed a banana and headed into the living room. She fired up the computer there, so she could check her e-mail.

While the computer was booting up, she heard her dad come in the sliding glass door from the back yard. As he walked into the house, he noticed Julie sitting at the computer, still in her pajamas.

“Morning Julie. How you feeling this morning?”

“Fine.”

“How did last night go? You able to sleep ok?” her asked curiously. Julie wasn’t exactly sure what he meant. She had slept just fine, just like normal.

“Yea, I slept fine. Why?”

“Oh, I was just wondering if you were able to sleep well wearing a diaper again and all.”

Julie hadn’t exactly forgotten she was wearing a diaper, but she wasn’t actively thinking about it either. Her father’s statement brought back her memories from last night. She now remembered waking up in the night needing to pee. In her half-asleep state she had even gone as far as getting out of bed, before she remembered the diaper she had on. Being half asleep, she thought, ‘Oh yea, I can just go,’ and so she did right then and there. She crawled back into bed without ever fully waking up, and fell back asleep as her head hit the pillow. When she had gotten up this morning, she knew she was wearing a diaper, but hadn’t even notice that it was wet. She was about to take a look at her diaper, just to make sure her memories weren’t another dream, when she heard the screen door again. This time it was her mom.

“Honey” she said in Ted’s direction. “Have you checked her diaper yet?”

“Oh, I was just about to do that.” Ted said as he started walking to Julie. Sally stopped him.

“No, I’ll do it. The stupid sprinkler in the back corner just broke. I need you to fix it. It’s supposed to be warm today, and my ferns will wilt if they don’t get water.”

“You mean the sprinkler by the Dinmore’s house?” Ted asked.

“No.” Sally said as she walked over to Julie. As she kept talking she pulled the waist of Julie’s pajamas pants open and stuck her hand inside. “The ferns are next to the Sander’s house.” Julie felt her mom’s hands between her legs. “It’s the same sprinkler line that came apart last month, remember?”

“Yea, I remember. I’ll go take a look at it.”

“Thanks honey. And you,” Sally said turning to Julie “need to be changed, your diaper is totally wet. Let’s go.”

Julie hadn’t even logged on to her e-mail account yet, but she stood up and walked off to her room. She was already on the changing table when her mom came in. A minute later, her pajama bottoms were on the floor, her diaper was off and her mom was cleaning her off with a second baby wipe. Julie lay back and looked at the ceiling again. She noticed a new patch of stars off in a corner of the ceiling.

Sally finished cleaning and powdering and set about taping a fresh diaper in place. She pulled the front of the diaper and spread it out over her daughter’s midriff. She pulled the tapes open and pasted them to the front, securing the diaper in place. She did one last visual, and pronounced her work complete.

“There you go.”

“Thanks mom.” Julie said as she hopped down. She didn’t bother asking her mom if she would have the pajamas pants back on, instead choosing to just head back to the computer room with her diaper fully exposed. Mom would say no anyhow she figured.

Julie sat down and started catching up on e-mails. She finished her OJ and banana and then started typing a few of her own. She had just finished sending her last one when her dad came back in. He had some dirty sprinkler parts in his hand.

“The things busted.” He declared to Julie. “I’ll have to go to the store and pickup a new part. Your mom will freak out if her ferns wilt. You want to come to the store with me?”

“Sure, let me just log out.”

“Uh, you might want to put some clothes on too.” He quipped sarcastically. “I don’t know if going to the hardware store dressed like that is such a good idea.”

“Gee thanks dad, I wouldn’t-a thought of that” Julie responded using her best Forest Gump imitation.

It took Julie a minute to get dressed. She was going to wear some shorts, and even put them on, before she realized that her diaper was almost visible out the bottom. She decided on a longer skirt instead. Once dressed, she and her dad hopped in the truck and bounced over to the hardware store. Julie’s family lived a bit outside of town and it took them a good 20 minutes to get to there. Julie followed her dad around the store looking for parts. Fortunately the store was noisy, because Julie’s diaper crinkled under the loose fitting skirt.

They found the part, paid their way and headed for home. On the way back, Julie’s dad asked her the question she knew was coming.

“Why?”

“I don’t know dad. I really don’t. It’s just that I have been wondering about this for literally my whole life. I have always had these dreams at night and recently I started having them a lot. And I just kept wondering and wondering. I guess I finally decided I didn’t want to wonder anymore.”

“Well, yea I know you have always been curious. You hated it when you didn’t know everything when you were a kid.”

“Yea, but this is different. I don’t know how to explain it. I mean, sure I always wondered what I was getting for Christmas, and I hated not knowing. But I never had dreams about that stuff. This was just like, the most curious I have ever been about something. I just, well…” she trailed off.

“You just what?”

“I just have always been too afraid to find out. I mean, I don’t need anybody to tell me this whole thing is really weird. I mean, I can’t imagine that anybody ever feels like this. Who on earth has ever wondered what it is like to wear diapers?” Julies voiced dropped a bit, and her next sentence sounded more like a question than a statement. “I always was afraid I was a freak.”

“Well, kid-o I got news for you. You’re not a freak. Heck the only freaks out there are the nut jobs who live their life the same way every day and don’t have anything odd about them at all. Those are the folks you gotta watch out for.”

“That’s kind of what mom said.” Julie said a bit surprised.

“Gee Julie, now where do you think she got that idea?” Ted said in a Forest Gump voice of his own.

The rest of the morning went by quickly. Julie helped her dad in the yard a bit, although she mainly just stood around and watched. Sally got a bit of a laugh when she came out and saw the two of them at work. They were both on their knees looking at the sprinkler trying to see if some valve was open or closed. As a result of her bent over position, Julie’s skirt had come up enough to expose her diaper to the world. Good thing the back yard was fenced.

When sprinkler duty was over, Julie and her dad came back in. Sally gave Ted a little stare, and he picked up the hint. A second later, Julie’s skirt was up for a quick diaper inspection. Ted took a look, patted her bottom and pronounced her fine.

Sally suggested they go out for lunch, since she didn’t feel like cooking anything. There were no complaints. As they were leaving Julie finally needed to pee. She was a bit worried since they were about to leave the house. But then she remembered how well the diapers had done yesterday at Becky’s when she had to go a lot worse. ‘Besides, I need to get used to just going when I need to.’ She told herself.

Julie ended up wetting herself while they were waiting for Ted to find his keys. When he finally found them (out by the sprinkler) they hopped in the car. By the time they got to the restaurant, Julie’s diaper felt pretty much like normal.

On the way home she wet herself again, and the diaper really swelled up. Unlike after the first wetting, the diaper stayed somewhat wet, and Julie could tell she really needed to be changed. She just hoped somebody would check her diaper when they got home.

Unfortunately for Julie, mom decided to make a quick detour to the grocery store. The three of them all went inside, and Julie waddled along as best she could. While they were waiting in the check out like, her mom noticed she was walking a bit strange.

“Julie do you need to be changed?” Sally said, as if asking her for the time. Julie couldn’t believe her mom had asked her that in public. The woman in front of them had to have heard, but fortunately paid no attention. Sally looked at her daughter waiting for an answer.

“Yea.” Julie shyly said.
“I’ll change you as soon as we get home.” She replied. This time, the woman in front shot a confused glance over her shoulder at Julie. Julie’s face reddened and she looked at her shoes. She hadn’t been so embarrassed in a very long time.

Ten minutes later, Julie was on the changing table and Sally was untaping her wet diaper.

“Mom, that woman at the grocery store totally heard you talking about changing my diaper.” Julie said a bit concerned.

“So what? Did you know her or something?” Sally replied a bit surprised as she lifted the wet diaper out from under Julie. She grabbed a baby wipe and started cleaning.

“No, I didn’t know her, but…”

“But what? Who cares? Besides, I told you, this week we’re all going to pretend you’re not potty trained. And ‘all’ includes you, so I suggest you get used to it. I’m not going to go around advertising the fact that you are wearing diapers, but I am not going to turn this into some kind of Top Secret operation either.”

Julie was smart enough to know when her mom was not interested in hearing different opinions. Apparently, this was one of those times.

“Well, I guess I don’t care about strangers, but can you please be careful? I mean what if somebody we know was there?”

Sally paused and looked down at her daughter. “Honey, if there is somebody around, I will try to use some basic discretion. But you need to accept the fact that you’re wearing diapers again. And if that means some stranger hears me asking if you need to be changed, then that’s what it means.”

Julie gave up. Hopefully there wouldn’t be too many more incidents like that. Sally finished her cleaning, and spread out a new diaper under Julie’s bottom. She quickly pulled up the front, and taped the diaper into place.

The rest of the afternoon went by. She was watching T.V. in the living when Becky called and said that a group of friends were all going to see a movie tomorrow afternoon. Julie asked her mom if she could go to, and got a nod of approval.

A few minutes after she hung up with Becky, Julie needed to go potty again, the messy kind of potty. She had a quick moment of anxiety but a few deep breaths helped her relax. She thought about last night and tried to convince herself that it wasn’t that bad. It took a minute or two for her to calm down. She thought about trying to hold off, but then reconsidered. ‘Heck, mom keeps saying that we are all going to pretend I am not potty trained.’ She thought to herself. ‘I guess I really should try to do the same. Maybe I should just relax and see what happens’.

She tried her best to not hold back at all. Nothing happened. Julie decided that it felt too weird standing there in the living room trying to poop her pants. She headed to her room for a bit of privacy. Once inside she closed the door. Being alone helped her relax and she concentrated trying not to hold back. She walked over to her window and looked out on the street below. Doing so helped her relax a bit more.

Somewhat suddenly, Julie started filling her pants. It actually took her by surprise since she wasn’t trying to do anything. She felt the little balloon begin to grow between her legs and soon spread out over her bottom. Julie stood there, looking out the window somewhat amazed as things happened. She couldn’t believe that without any effort on her part, her body had naturally taken control and in no time flat she had a poopy diaper.

‘That really wasn’t that bad.’ Julie told herself when everything was finished ‘I wonder if this is what it’s like to be a baby?’ She figured it had to be. And while the feeling was a bit strange, it was also somewhat comforting. It was nice to know that things could take care of themselves. She decided to try her best to just let things happen for the rest of the week. ‘I wanted to know what its like, so I guess I really ought to find out.’ She decided to look for her mom. Hopefully mom would smell that she needed to be changed. She found her mom in the kitchen working on dinner.

Sally only needed about a minute before she looked at her daughter and said, “Hey, did somebody poop her pants again?” It was that same tone from last night. She walked over to Julie, lifted up her skirt, and looked at her bottom. “I thought so. Get upstairs and I’ll be up in a second to change your diaper.”

Julie ended up back in the shower just like last night. This time her mom waited for her to get out. She was back in a clean diaper in no time.

Dinner came and went, and Julie watched a movie with her parents afterwards. When the movie was over, her parents said they were going to turn in for the night. Julie was a bit tired herself, so she headed to the bathroom to brush her teeth. While she was brushing, her dad came into the bathroom.

“Mom wanted me to see if you needed to be changed.” He said, slightly lifting up her shirt and examining her diaper. “Looks like you could use a change.”

Julie looked down and saw that he was right. It was only then that she remembered wetting herself during the movie.

Dad disappeared, and mom came up and changed her diaper. Just like last night, after her diaper had been snuggly taped into place, her mom put her in her pajama pants. When the light was off, Julie looked up at the stars and soon drifted off to sleep.