All around her she could catch glimpses of pull-ups peeking out from under skirts and above waistbands. None of the students seemed to be trying to hide it. A couple of the girls in dresses were even hugging their knees, causing their skirts to ride up around their waists, giving anyone in front of them a clear view of their crinkly undergarments. Chloe sat and blushed, keeping her legs straight and her skirt down to preserve her dignity.
“All right class.” Mr. Tyler said, clapping his hands to get everyone’s attention “Today we’re going to read a story.”
“But, don’t we have a test today?” Chloe muttered to herself, looking around. Everyone else seemed to act like it was normal. She sat and listened to Mr. Tyler read a chapter of the book.
After Mr. Tyler was done, he let them go for free time. Chloe fidgeted. She had started to feel the urge to pee during story time and it just gotten stronger. Not only that, she’d thought she smelled urine, as though some of her classmates had actually used their pull-ups. But that was impossible, they were much too old!
“Mr. Tyler I need to go potty!” A nearby boy, Zac announced. Mr. Tyler nodded and led him to a training potty in the corner of the room. Chloe gaped as Mr. Tyler pulled his pants and then his pull-up down and sat him on the training potty.
Chloe quickly looked away. Her first thought was that she would never do that. Then her bladder twinged again, letting her know that it was dangerously full. She looked at the clock. She wasn’t going to make it for another 20 minutes. Mr. Tyler finished up with Zac and emptied the training potty. Chloe swallowed her pride.
“Mr. Tyler?” Chloe asked
“Yes, what is it?”
“I need to go pee.”
“Okay.” Mr. Tyler took her by the hand and led her to the training potty. Chloe blushed as she pulled down her pants and then her pull up and sat on the potty.
“Wow! Good girl!” Mr. Tyler praised, just causing Chloe to turn even redder. Was knowing how to use a toilet really that impressive? She closed her eyes so she wouldn’t have to see her teacher watch her peeing. There was the soft patter of urine onto hard plastic.
Sidney watched Chloe enviously, annoyed that she was getting praise, even if it was over something like potty training. Chloe had always been smarter than everyone else. She was also modest about it, but that just made it all the more annoying.
While she was watching Chloe, Sidney felt a twinge in her bowels. She jumped up and ran to Mr. Tyler.
“Mr. Tyler I need to poop!” She said. For some reason her first instinct had been to tell the nearest grown-up as soon as she felt like she had to go. She immediately blushed red after doing so, but Mr. Tyler didn’t seem to think anything of it.
“You’ll just need to wait.” Mr. Tyler said “You can wait five minutes while Chloe uses the potty can’t you?”
It should have been a stupid question, but Sidney actually wasn’t sure she could. She wasn’t about to admit that she often times had to use her pull-ups as a crutch for her very weak potty training though, so she just nodded.
“D-Done…” Chloe blushed from the potty
“Can you wipe too?” Mr. Tyler asked, offering her a roll of toilet paper.
“Yes…” Chloe said, keeping her eyes down as she broke off a piece and wiped herself. Mr. Tyler beamed.
“Good job!” He praised “You’re a little expert at this aren’t you?”
“Um, yeah.” Chloe said. She stood up and pulled her pull-up back up around her waist and smoothed out her dress.
Sidney was discovering that five minutes was far too long to wait to poop. Her face was bright red from straining, but her muscles were just not trained enough to hold for more than a minute or two.
“No!” Sidney turned around in a circle, trying to figure out how she was supposed to get her overalls off. She could feel the pressure building in her bowels, quickly reaching danger levels. She panicked.
“Eww! Sidney’s pooing her pants!” Someone said
“Sidney!” Mr. Tyler turned from Chloe to Sidney who found herself squatting and messing her pull-up.
“N-no! A-accident!” Sidney stuttered, waving her hands. She lost her balance fell backwards onto her butt. She felt some of her mess mush out of the leg holes of her pull-up “Ewww…”
Mr. Tyler took her hand, pulled her up, and took her to a cabinet. He pulled out a package of diapers and broke them open.
“No please don’t put me in diapers!” Sidney said. Mr. Tyler pushed a pacifier into her mouth and went to work cleaning her messy bottom.
“I’m sorry Sidney, but it’s the rules. If you do a stinky in your pull-up, you need to wear a diaper for the rest of the day.”
“Mmmph!” Sidney said, squirming. She wanted so badly to spit the stupid pacifier out but she found herself sucking on it out of comfort, trying to ease the shame and humiliation of failing her potty training twice in two days. Did this mean she had to go back to diapers? All the other kids would make fun of her!
Mr. Tyler finished cleaning her and taped the diaper between her legs. Sidney had thought the pull-up was bad, but the diaper was far thicker. It was clearly meant to be able to take multiple wettings and messes in between changes.
“Can I please have my overalls back?” Sidney begged. She was very aware of the other kids’ eyes on her exposed diaper.
“Unfortunately your Mom will need to wash them before you can wear them again.” Mr. Tyler said, holding them up for Sidney and the rest of the classroom to see. There were two big, brown poop stains about where the leg holes of Sidney’s pull-up would have been.
“But… but…”
Mr. Tyler patted her on the head.
“From now on you don’t need to worry about going potty okay? It looks like you just need a little more time in diapers. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about.”
Sidney hung her head. Yes it was something to be embarrassed about! Just a week ago she had been potty trained! She hadn’t even thought anything of it! She was on the verge of going to college, and now… was she still going to college? Her diaper crinkled between her legs as she walked back to one of the tables and sat across from Chloe.
“Even at potty training you’re better than me.” Sidney complained
“Huh?” Chloe asked
“Well usually we’re big kids in this classroom and you’re really good at calculus and you always get the answer right and I never can.” Sidney said “And now I’m the baby doing a poo-poo in her diapers and you’re the mature one who’s ready for big girl underwear.”
“You remember that too!?!” Chloe asked “The calculus!?!”
Sidney looked at Chloe curiously, like she was trying to decide if she was being made fun of or not.
“The integral of e to the x is e to the x, the derivative of sine is cosine, the-”
“Okay, okay!” Sidney waved her hands “I believe you.”
Chloe sighed “Thank goodness, I thought I was going crazy.”
“So did I.” Sidney said
“Um…” Chloe glanced at Sidney’s diaper “Sorry for taking so long on the training potty.”
Sidney blushed “No, it’s, um… I was holding it because I really didn’t want to have to poop in front of everyone.”
Chloe seemed to buy the lie. Sidney didn’t want to ask to confirm but it seemed like Chloe’s potty training hadn’t been affected at all. Chloe was still a normal eighteen year old who was just being treated like she was two. Whereas she… well she was more like a two year old trying to pretend she was eighteen.
Mia couldn’t for the life of her understand what was happening. First all the toilets in the bathroom had been replaced with training potties, then there were teachers in the bathroom ‘monitoring’ students as they used them! What was going on? She tried to act normal, choosing a training potty at the edge of the room and hoped the teachers would ignore her. She had no such luck.
“Need any help?” Ms. Edwards asked, walking up and staring at Mia while she sat, her pants down, on the potty.
“No.” Mia said quickly. She struggled to pee and only managed to get a little out. When she was done, she stood up, trying to get away, but Ms. Edwards stopped her, holding up a roll of toilet paper.
“W-what are you doing!?!” Mia asked
“I’m wiping you.” Ms. Edwards said
“I… okay…” Mia said. She blushed deep red as Ms. Edwards dabbed toilet paper against her exposed crotch. She was practically an adult! Being treated like she couldn’t even wipe herself was just humiliating! She yanked her pants up and hurried out of the bathroom, like the others just trying to ignore what had happened.
That night, as she was eating dinner, Sidney turned to her mother.
“Hey Mom?” Sidney asked
“Yeah?”
“I have a random question, what kind of a baby was I?”
Her mother looked at her with a mix of amusement and curiosity “Why do you ask?”
“Just curious.”
Her mother shrugged “Well let’s see here… first off I remember potty training you was a nightmare.”
“A nightmare?”
“Yeah, you’d constantly have accidents at daycare. I’m still not sure if they were intentional or not, but you had to constantly wear diapers even up through the start of kindergarten. It would come in spurts, you’d be fine for a month or two but then you’d relapse and start using your pants instead of the potty and I’d have to buy a couple packs of diapers and start over.”
Sidney didn’t like the sound of that “Um, what else?”
“Let’s see, you threw quite a few tantrums when you were a toddler, but you grew out of those pretty quickly. You got in trouble for being mean to kids in daycare a few times. You went back and forth between being fussy and silly in the blink of an eye. All developmentally appropriate things, it was just the diapers that I for the life of me could not figure out.”
“Did I get made fun of for that? Wearing diapers?”
“Eventually I think so. You started to only want to wear diapers at home when it was just us.” Her mother said “Do you not remember that? Up until second grade you would sometimes ask for a diaper when you needed to poop. I’d usually give it to you, I figured so long as you weren’t doing it at school there wasn’t a problem.”
“I guess not.” Sidney stood up and cleared her dishes “I’m going to go to my room now.”
Sidney took one step after another, slowly climbing the stairs. She doubted she’d ever get used to the feeling of her panties thickening and turning to plastic as she walked. She lost her pants and t-shirt halfway up, apparently young enough that she could wander around her house in just her crinkly undergarments. Speaking of which…
She looked down. Her padding was thick with two tapes on each side. It looked like even her mother didn’t think she was ready for potty training at this point.
“Mmmph.” Sidney murmured. She stuck her thumb in her mouth and sucked without really thinking about it.
“All right Sidney, let’s go potty and then do your bedtime routine and then go to bed, all right?”
Sidney turned and saw her mother standing there, apparently having followed her up the stairs. She looked at the clock on her wall. It was only 8 o’clock, why did she need to go to bed so early?
“I don’t wanna.” Sidney said, getting annoyed. She crossed her arms to show her disapproval.
“Sidney, come on now, first you need to go potty…”
