The same thing happened the next day in Mr. Tyler’s class and the day after too. Chloe couldn’t understand it, in all her other classes she could keep her pull-ups dry no problem but in Mr. Tyler’s class she always became a full blown baby. It got to the point where she couldn’t even walk. She never suspected Sidney, though she was a little annoyed that the girl was now the most mature one in that class.
About a week after the first incident, Chloe only got three steps into the classroom before legs shook under her. Her arms went out to her sides as she tried to regain balance but couldn’t. She fell on her hands and knees. Sidney laughed nearby, looking down at her, standing effortlessly. Chloe’s fists clenched in frustration.
“You think this is funny?” Chloe asked as struggled to stand, getting to her feet only because she used a table for support.
“Well at least I’m not the only one in diapers anymore!” Sidney said gleefully, patting Chloe’s diaper “Even Miss Perfect is a little pottypants baby.”
“You’re really going to be this competitive aren’t you?” Chloe snapped, swatting Sidney’s hand away “Well guess what? Mommy says that I’m almost ready for big girl pants!”
“Yeah right! You’re never going to potty train! You’re going to be a diaper baby forever!”
“I… I…” Chloe sniffed, her eyes becoming moist. Her bottom lip trembled “I… whaaaa! Whaaaa!”
Chloe began wailing at the top of her lungs, tears running down her cheeks. Mr. Tyler suddenly had her in his arms rocking and cooing to her to try to get her to calm down.
“Easy there.” He said softly “I’ll bet you’re just hungry aren’t you?”
“N-No! I- mmph!” Chloe found a bottle being pushed into mouth. Her crying stopped as she suckled curiously.
“She seems like quite the handful.” A female voice said. Chloe turned her head as she continued to feed and saw Ms. Edwards.
“I think she’s just a little developmentally behind.” Mr. Tyler said
Chloe’s eyes widened. Her? Developmentally behind? She was the top of her class!
“Do you think we should recommend she be held back a year?”
“Probably. A little more time in daycare would be good for her. I don’t think she’ll even meet the potty training requirement though. Most of the kids can make it to the potty every now and then and she hasn’t even tried.”
“Mmmph!” Chloe squirmed in protest. Hadn’t tried? Up until the week before she had been the only one who’d never had an accident in her diaper!
Sidney had to turn away to hide her laughter.
After class, Chloe made sure to be the first one out of the classroom. She couldn’t escape diapers fast enough. She sighed and waited for Sidney to cross the line where the reality changed, watching the other students’ diapers shrink into pull-ups and then regular underwear and their outfits lengthen into pants or long skirts instead of the elastic shorts or mini baby skirts.
Except as Sidney toddled out of the classroom, nothing happened. She stopped and looked from herself to the line and back to herself. Then she smiled.
“Sidney?” Chloe asked
“I baby?” Sidney asked, grinning from ear to ear “I baby!”
“Don’t worry! I’ll help you!” Chloe took Sidney’s arm and pulled her to where she knew Evan would be. Evan took one look at Sidney and winced.
“Don’t tell me…”
“She’s not changing back!” Chloe said
Sidney squatted and sighed. Chloe tugged at her arm.
“No, Sidney this isn’t a time to use your diaper! We’ll go to the potty, okay?”
Sidney didn’t budge “Bud I need to poo-poo.”
“Yes, yes, but Sidney you poop in toilets, not your pants!”
“No.”
“No? Sidney you-”
“I no can poo-poo on potty. I no know how.”
“Of course you do Sidney!” Evan said “You’ve done it plenty of times before!”
Sidney gave him a blank stare “I no wemembaw.”
She stuck her thumb in her mouth and sucked. She seemed to strain for a moment and then sighed again.
“I need new diapie.”
“Come on Sidney, you’re not a baby!” Evan said
“I weaw and poo-poo diapies.” Sidney said “Maybe I happy if I akaw… aasee… akapd?”
“No, you’re not accepting it!” Evan said
“Mmm…” Sidney ignored him and sucked her thumb. Evan looked to Chloe for help.
“I guess I do have one idea…” She said
“I was doing some calculations.” Chloe explained while Evan pushed a drooling Sidney outside in a wheelchair like it was a stroller “If the new reality continues to expand the way they has been, then the last spot they it will reach is right under where the meteor hit. That’s in a field over by the edge of town.”
“So this is the most pure spot so to speak?”
“Hypothetically. I guess we’ll see. I was planning on trying it with Mia first but, well I guess now’s a good a time as any.”
They took the last few steps. Sidney looked around curiously, not changing.
“Sidney? Can you understand me?” Evan asked
Sidney gurgled and smiled, just happy to get attention “Pwetty!”
“Come on Sidney, you’re not a baby!” Chloe said. She stared at Sidney’s diaper and imagined it shrinking. To her surprise, it turned into a pull-up. Jeans formed over Sidney’s legs and the rest of her outfit changed back to being older too. She blinked, her smile gone.
“What did you do?” She asked
“Sidney! You’re back!” Evan exclaimed. Sidney shook her head
“You really shouldn’t have brought me back to this reality.” Sidney said
Evan stopped “What?”
Sidney sighed in irritation “Okay, let me spell this out for you nice and clear. I want to be a baby.”
“Huh?” Chloe asked
“Look, right now I’m having a lot of trouble with school. Something I know you could never understand.” She shot Chloe a look “I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I feel like I can’t do anything. Then this comes along. I see this as an opportunity, I get to start over. I thought that maybe I could help you fight it at first but… well look at Mia. She got sucked into the new reality after just two days. If the pull is that strong, well, I figure I’ll just take it.”
“You want to be a baby? You want to poop in diapers and drool and crawl around on the floor?” Evan asked
“Yes!”
Evan and Chloe looked at each other. Sidney could tell that they wouldn’t understand.
“Fine.” She said “You get your reality, I get mine.”
Sidney looked down at herself and imagined herself in diapers. It was getting easy for her to manipulate things into the other reality. She giggled as her pants puffed out, thick padding on underneath.
“I gots a diapie!” She announced
“Sidney no!” Evan said “You aren’t supposed to be a baby!”
Without knowing what he was doing, Evan made Sidney’s undergarments change back into panties.
Sidney scowled. They were as bad as her mother for trying to potty train her! She’d show them! She’d make them babies too!
“No! You diapie!” Sidney said, looking at Evan’s pants. They changed from being jeans to elastic play shorts. He had a clear diaper bulge.
“Diapie?” Evan asked in confusion, looking at his butt even while the rest of his clothes changed to just a t-shirt and shorts. He didn’t even have any shoes on, his bare feet squelched in the mud.
“Poo-poo!” Sidney said, pointing at Evan’s well-padded crotch. There were some muffled farts as Evan was forced to fill his diaper on command.
“Mmmph!” He grunted, sticking his thumb in his mouth. He sat in the mud, getting his clothes all dirty but he didn’t care. He grinned and stuck his hands in the dirt, playing with it.
“You’ve been turning me into a baby this entire time!” Chloe exclaimed, finally realizing why her reality had been getting messed up at school.
“Diapie!”
Chloe didn’t even get any clothes, she was left standing there in just a giant, disposable diaper. Her legs shook and she went down on all fours.
“You poopyhead!” Chloe said
“Poo-poo!” Sidney demanded, staring intently at Chloe’s diaper
“No!” Chloe said. Unlike Evan, she was strong enough to resist Sidney a little.
Sidney put her hand on Chloe’s diaper. Chloe felt something hot and mushy enter the seat of her diaper. Her bottom lip trembled.
“Whaaa!” She cried, slapping her hands into the wet ground in frustration. Mud splattered all over her bare skin.
“You know, maybe it wasn’t the best idea to bring them here after it had just rained.” A voice said. Chloe looked up.
“M-Mommy!?!” She asked. What was her mother doing here? How did she even know they were going to come here?
“N-No look!” Chloe said, trying to cover her exposed chest. Her mother took two steps and pulled back the waistband of her diaper. Chloe eeped.
“Looks like my little baby’s messy on the inside and outside of her pampers!” Chloe’s mother declared
“Mommy!” Chloe said. Did her mother not understand basic privacy? She couldn’t just give her diaper checks!
“Let’s get you changed.” Chloe’s mother said. Chloe turned bright red at the idea of a public diaper change. Sidney snickered.
“Well someone’s a happy baby.” Another nearby woman commented
Sidney blew a spit bubble.
“Mommy!” She giggled
Mommy? Chloe looked from at the other woman. That was Sidney’s mother? And the other woman she saw next to her, that was probably Evan’s mother. Had the reality shift changed the location of where their mothers were? Her mother lay her back on a picnic blanket that hadn’t been there two minutes ago and held up a clean diaper.
“No Mommy, I no baby!” Chloe said “I no need diapey!”
“I know that sweetie.” Chloe’s mother said “The diapers are just for the picnic, remember?”
Sidney gurgled and pointed.
“You can try potty training sometime, but that’s not for a few years sweetie.” Chloe’s mother corrected herself “You’re just not ready.”
Chloe shot Sidney a look while her mother wiped her butt clean. Sidney stuck her tongue out at her.
“Poo-poo baby!”
Chloe opened her mouth to respond and a pacifier appeared between her teeth, forcing her to suckle and silencing her.
“Sidney’s so mature for her age.” Sidney’s mother said “I think she can actually control her bowels, it’s just she doesn’t understand the concept of a potty yet.”
Sidney grinned. She never had this much praise heaped on her! It made her so full of energy that she stood up and started to toddle around. That only impressed the adults even more.
“She can even walk? Wow!” Evan’s mother said
“At such a young age too!” Chloe’s mother added
Chloe scowled. She could walk too! Her mother finished her diaper change and she immediately pushed herself up. Except she didn’t stand, she lost her balance on the way up and fell back down onto her butt.
“Let me give you some help, sweetie.” Her mother said.
Chloe’s mother took her hands and pulled them up, letting Chloe use them for support. It took all of Chloe’s might to pull herself up into a standing position. Her mother slowly took her hands away.
Chloe grinned, standing shakily. She had done it! She had really done it!
“Wow Chloe, good job!” Her mother praised
Chloe’s chest swelled with pride. She took a step forwards. And then she slipped and went down hard in the mud.
“Whaaa!” Chloe wailed
“Good twy!” Sidney giggled
“That’s a good girl Sidney!” Her mother said. Chloe cried harder, knowing that Sidney was just making fun of her. Her mother took her in her arms and rubbed a towel against her, cleaning the mud off her. Chloe whined and squirmed the entire time. She wasn’t a baby! She wasn’t supposed to need diapers and she wasn’t supposed to need her mother to do everything for her!