JULIE = Julia
SALLY = Shirley
MOM = Mother
Julie woke up with a wet diaper again. She foggily remembered waking up in the middle of the night, as usual, but this time she hadn’t bothered getting out of bed. Instead, she had told herself ‘just let things happen’. She vaguely remembered starting to wet her diaper. She didn’t remember finishing, or much of anything else. She hadn’t really ever fully woken up.
While she was eating breakfast, her mom came over and checked her diaper.
“Looks like you wet the bed again. Good thing you were wearing a diaper. Finish up your breakfast. I am going to take a quick shower and get ready for church.”
Julie was a bit surprised that her mom hadn’t said anything about changing her. Every other time her mom had checked her and pronounced her in need of a change, she had been changed immediately. But when she finished her breakfast, she could hear her mom in the shower. Her diaper was really wet as she often had to pee a lot during the night (hence the need for her trips to the bathroom normally). Julie couldn’t think of anything she could do other than wait.
About 15 minutes later her mom came out of her room dressed for church. “Come on, let’s change your diaper so you can get ready too.” Julie was happy to comply.
Julie was slowly getting used to having her diaper changed. Things didn’t tickle as much as they had, and her mom was getting faster with each change. Julie spent most of her time staring at the ceiling. This morning was no different. To her surprise, Julie found another small patch of stars she didn’t remember.
Soon enough, Julie had a nice dry diaper. She put on her favorite church dress and glanced in the mirror. The dress was a loose fitting sun dress. Julie was a bit concerned that somebody might be able to tell she was wearing a diaper if they looked at her bottom closely. She had made up her mind to change into something else when her mom came into her room.
“Good, you’re dressed. We need to go right now or will be late.”
Julie really wanted to change, but it was too late. ‘Well, I’ll be sitting down most of the time anyway’ she decided.
They got there just before the service started, and quickly found a seat. Julie was happy to sit down. The church was really quite, and she was worried that her diaper was loud enough that everyone could hear it.
When the service finished, the congregation got up and began to file out. There was lots of noise, so Julie didn’t worry about people hearing her diaper. She also didn’t hear Sarah come up from behind her. Suddenly a finger poked her in the side, just below the top of her diaper, making an audible crinkling sound. Julie jumped and spun around.
“Oh my gosh, I got you so bad!” Sarah giggled. “What are you so jumpy about?” Sarah and Julie had been friends for at least 5 years. They went to the same school, and had been in Sunday school classes for as long as they could remember. They had a long running game of sneak-up-behind-the-other-person and scare them.
“Oh, I am going to have to work hard to get you back for that one!” Julie replied. She didn’t mention the reason she had jumped so badly. Had Sarah heard? ‘She only touched my diaper for a second. It should feel like regular underwear right?’
If Sarah had noticed anything, she certainly wasn’t saying anything about it. The two girls chatted briefly, and then Sarah said good bye, her parents were walking out the door.
On the way back from church they stopped at their usual Sunday brunch spot. The line was a bit longer than normal and they waited almost 30 minutes for a table. Julie’s family had been coming here every Sunday for as long as she could remember. Julie didn’t even bother looking at the menu anymore. She had a few different favorites, but today seemed like a blueberry pancake day.
By the time they had sat down and ordered Julie needed to pee. ‘Just let things happen’ she told herself. But she found it hard to pee sitting there with her parents. Eventually the food came and Julie forgot about needing to pee. Her mom was a notoriously slow eater. Julie had finished and her mom was only about half done. She felt the need to pee again, and tried to just relax. Eventually Julie’s body managed to relax, things took care of themselves and Julie soon had a wet diaper.
About 20 minutes later they were back home. Julie was a bit surprised when her mom and dad both started putzing around the house. Nobody had bothered to check her diaper. Julie waited a few minutes, and eventually gave up. Her diaper wasn’t too wet to begin with, and by now she could hardly tell any difference. She went upstairs and changed into her normal clothes.
A few hours went by. Julie had actually wet herself again, twice in fact, and her diaper was now really soaked. She needed to leave in about 30 minutes to go over to Becky’s house for the movie. Maybe she should remind her parents.
She found her mom in the laundry room. “Mom, I need to be heading over to Becky’s soon for the movie. It starts at 4:30.”
“OK honey. Have a good time.”
Julie couldn’t believe it. She was about to try again when she remembered what her mom had said about asking to be changed. Maybe she could try dad. She turned and started walking away. Her moms voice stopped her.
“Julie” she exclaimed “you wet your pants!”
‘Finally’, Julie thought. ‘Wait a minute, how could she tell?’
“Oh honey, come here.” Her mom continued, sounding genuinely sorry. “Didn’t your dad change your diaper when we got home?”
“No, nobody’s changed me since this morning when you did. Nobody even checked my diaper all day.”
“You’re kidding? No your not, obviously. Well, good thing I’m doing the wash. Take your pants off.” Julie did as she was told assuming this was just part of getting her diaper changed. When she finally took her pants off however, she saw how her mom had found out she needed a new diaper. On the seat of her jeans were two oval shaped wet spots. Her diaper had leaked! Her eyes went wide. Sally saw this and quickly spoke.
“Your father was supposed to check your diaper earlier. I’ll have to talk with him later. Let’s get you changed.”
As Julie lay down on the changing table her stomach tightened in a sense of fear and apprehension. If she had been in public, anyone with half a brain would have been able to tell she had wet her pants. And while her mom had told her earlier that she needed to accept the fact that she was back in diapers, she didn’t think that meant she had to get used to everyone being able to tell. And it certainly didn’t mean she had to have accidents like this one. Sally must have noticed her daughters thoughts, because she looked at Julie and said,
“Honey, I am sorry you had an accident like that. I promise I will talk with your father and we will do a better job at checking your diapers.”
“But mom, what would have happened if I had been at the movies or something? What is going to happen tomorrow at school?”
There was a pause as Sally thought this over. For a minute Julie thought that maybe this whole diaper experiment was coming to a quick end. She did after all have a really good point. It had been maybe 6 hours and her diaper had leaked? School lasted longer than that. “Please mom, I don’t want everyone to be able to tell that I wet my pants at school,” Julie added after a few seconds of silence.
“Julie, first of all I promise you we will work something out for school. And I will talk to your dad and we will make sure to check your diaper more often. We will do our best to make sure this doesn’t happen again, but you need to understand that this is one of the drawbacks to wearing diapers.”
Julie didn’t really bother listening to much to what her mother was saying. She was too scared about the thought of a huge wet spot at school and all the other kids realizing she was wearing not just a diaper, but a wet diaper. Julie sat up on the changing table and spoke in a shaky voice to her mother.
“Mom, I am really scared. I don’t want to do this if it means I am going to have huge wet spots on my butt that everyone at school is going to see! I don’t want to…”
Sally cut her off, “Julie would you please lay down and let me finish changing your diaper.” Sally’s firm voice made it clear that this was a not a request. Julie lay back down and let out a sigh. “Now listen to me.” Sally began as she pulled Julie’s new diaper up between her legs and spread it out over her tummy. “I told you, we will work something out for school OK? I am a perfectly capable mother, and I will make sure you don’t have any accidents at school like this. Just between you and me, this would never have happened if I had just checked your diaper myself like I should have, but I asked your dad to do it and it seems he forgot. Now, you have barely been in diapers for two days now, and you have a ways to go, so I suggest you try to relax about this or it is going to be a long few days.”
Julie didn’t know what to say so she just lay there while her mom taped her new diaper in place. When the last tape was in secured Sally gave Julie’s hip a good firm pat.
“Look honey, your all set OK? Go to the movie and have a good time. Your diaper is going to be fine, and I will check it as soon as you get home. And don’t worry about school, I will take care of that too.”
Julie hopped down from the changing table and caught a glimpse of her lower half in the mirror. Having a dry diaper seemed to help and Julie felt a little better. But she was still worried about school. She turned to her mom and started to ask what she was going to do to make sure this didn’t happen again tomorrow afternoon.
“Julie. Don’t worry, I will take care of it. OK?” Sally asked.
‘What choice do I really have’ Julie thought as she nodded her head at her mom. She was about to walk out the door when her mom stopped her.
“Julie, before you go to the movies can you do me a favor?” Julie listened to her mom. After a couple of seconds she laughed and said, “Sure mom, I can do that.”
Five minutes later Julie was on her way out the door to head off to the movies. Right before she left, she yelled at her dad, who was in the living room.
“Dad, mom said to tell you thanks a lot for forgetting to check my diaper. I am supposed to tell you that it leaked and that you need to go talk with her right now. I am going to the movies, so I will see you later.”
Ted’s stomach did a flip. “Oh shit.” he muttered.