Shirley was already in the kitchen when Juliafinally got there. She turned to her daughter and said, “I am going to make a sandwich, would you like one too?”
“Sure Mother that would be great.” With that, Julia took a seat on one of the bar stools. The diaper made a loud noise as she sat.
“What do you want to drink?”
“How ‘bout some OJ?”
“Sure thing. One OJ coming right up.”
Shirley went to the cupboard and grabbed two large glasses and poured the OJ. Then she made up a couple of sandwiches and sat down to eat with her daughter. As she was eating she looked at her daughter. Julia had a short blue top on that left her diaper completely exposed. Shirley took a look at the diaper and started to giggle. Her daughter actually looked surprisingly cute. Julia heard her Mother giggling.
“What’s so funny Mother?”
“Nothing honey, it’s just that you look so cute there in your diaper and all. I was not expecting that. I kind of thought you might look a little silly, but you actually look really cute.”
Lunch ended and Julia left to go watch some TV. Shirley cleaned up the dishes and then started up a load of laundry. After getting the load started, Shirley finished up the ironing she had and then transferred the clothes into the drier. She headed into the living room to see what Julia was up to.
Julia was lying on the couch. As usual she was on her stomach, with her legs bent at the knees and her feet hanging just over her rear end. The only difference today was that she had on a diaper instead of pants. Shirley again had to repress the urge to giggle at how cute Julia looked. But this time, she came up and walked over to the couch and patted Julia on the bottom.
Shirley put her hand back on Julia’s bottom. But she was certainly not patting it this time. Julia kind of jumped as her Mothers hand went down between her legs. Shirley kept feeling Julia’s diaper. Julia wiggled away quickly.
“Mother, what are you doing?” Julia snapped in a voice that sounded like she though her Mother must be crazy.
Shirley quickly responded “I’m checking your diaper to see if I need to change you. Don’t act so surprised Julia, you need to get used to this!”
Julia thought for a second and then said, “Oh. Sorry, I didn’t mean to snap, it’s just that you caught me off guard. Besides, I’ll just let you know when I need to be changed.”
“Uh, no you won’t.” Shirley added firmly. “Sorry, but it doesn’t work that way Julia. You don’t get to tell me or your dad when you need to be changed. People who are not potty trained don’t do that. You will be changed only when somebody checks your diaper and decides that you need to be changed. Now if you want to make a fuss about me checking your diaper I can do it less often. I just hope you understand what that might mean. If I were you I would want me to be checking you pretty regularly.”
Julia recognized her Mother’s tone as that famous “I mean business” voice. But Julia felt a bit disturbed at this and went ahead and said,
“But Mother, what happens if I need to be changed! I don’t want to sit around in a, um, dirty diaper.”
“Well Julia, I hate to break it to you, but over the next week, you are certainly going to have to do that at some point. I told you that you’re going to have to use these diapers for everything.”
“No I understand that part Mother, but I mean what if I need to be changed? I can’t just tell you?”
“No Julia. Like I said, it doesn’t work that way. Now, I was planning on checking your diaper on a pretty regular basis, but if you are going to react like this every time I try….”
Julia saw that she needed to backtrack before things got worse than they already were. “No. OK, look I’m sorry. I didn’t know it worked that way. If that is how it is, obviously I want you to check my diaper as often as you want. But I mean, what happens if I *really* need to be changed. I can’t come to you?” By the way Julia had said really, her Mother understood what she meant.
“Look Julia. Rules are rules. You are not allowed to ask us to change your diapers. But relax honey, I understand what you are saying. I mean let’s be realistic here. If you *really* need to be changed, just walk into the same room as me or your father. We have noses, and if you *really* need to be changed, I think it will be pretty obvious.”
Julia nodded her head in agreement.
“Now, are you going to let me check your diaper or what?”
“No Mother, go ahead.”
Shirley came back over to Julia and started feeling her diaper again. It was obvious that Julia was still dry.
“Looks like you are fine. I’ll try to remember to check you before dinner. Now are you going to watch TV all day, or do you have some other plans?”
“Well, I was thinking about going over to Charlotte’s house. She had something going on after school, but she might be home now. I am going to give her a call.”
Turned out that Charlotte was home. She had had to stay late at school for some kind of meeting with one of her teachers. Charlotte invited Julia to come over and hang out for a bit.
After she hung up the phone, Julia wondered what she would do. There was obviously no way she was going to walk over to Charlotte’s house without putting on some more clothes. She decided to go talk with her Mother.
Shirley was in the living room reading some magazine.
“Mother, Charlotte is home and she wants me to come over.”
“That’s fine. Just be back for dinner at like 7:00 OK?”
Julia looked at the clock. It was still a little bit before 4:30. “OK, no problem. But Mother, can’t I put my pants back on? I mean, I can’t really leave the house like this.”
Shirley had not bothered to put down the magazine until now. As she did she took a look at her daughter and nodded slowly.
“No, I wouldn’t want to leave the house like that either. Yes, yes of course. Go put your pants on and I will see you before dinner.”
Charlotte Oakman lived just down the street, so it only took 5 minutes to walk there. Charlotte and Julia had been friends since the first day of kindergarten when they met. Since then, their families had become good friends and often did things together. Charlotte and Julia had done the same summer camps and activities together for many years now. They were, of course, best friends.
During the walk over, Julia noticed that her diaper made a lot less noise with her pants on, but it still made some noise. She began to worry that Charlotte might hear it and ask what was going on. She tried to think of what she might say, but she didn’t have much time to think about it before she arrived.
Julia had long since stopped knocking on the Oakman’s door, so when she got there she just let herself in.
“Charlotte?” Julia called out.
“I am in my room.” came a voice from down the hall.
Julia headed down to Charlotte’s room and walked in. Charlotte was at her desk and had the stereo on. Julia said a silent thank you that the music would cover up any sound her diaper might make.
The two girls sat down and did what they normally did, talk. They talked about boys. They talked about girls and which girls were with which boys. When they ran out of boys to discuss they went to watch some TV in the living room. On the way there, Julia certainly noticed her diaper making some noise. She kept an eye on Charlotte to see if she noticed anything. Just before they got to the living room Charlotte turned and looked at Julia’s pants.
“Hey wait a second.” said Charlotte.
Julia stopped dead in her tracks. She must have heard!
“Are those new pants or something?”
“No, not at all. Why?” Julia slowly asked.
Charlotte and Julia were pretty much the same size, and had been for years. They didn’t swap clothes on a regular basis, they both agreed it wasn’t a great idea to co-mingle clother, but on rare occasions it certainly happened. And they spent enough time together that they pretty much knew each other’s wardrobe as well as they knew their own.
“I don’t know, they must just look different or something. I was gonna ask when you went shopping without me.” Charlotte paused and looked hard at Julia’s bottom. “Hmm, whatever I think our show is on.”
Julia let out a sigh of relief. She had dodged a bullet there.
They watched TV for a while. Charlotte got up and grabbed a drink for the two of them during one of the commercials. During the next commercial Charlotte went to the bathroom. It wasn’t until Charlotte went that Julia realized that she needed to pee too. She almost started to get up and go to the bathroom too, but remembered her situation before she actually started moving. With that realization her stomach filled with butterflies.
Up to this point, Julia had never really given a whole lot of thought to the idea of using her diapers. In her dreams and thoughts, all she ever imagined was wearing a diaper, not using it. And although she didn’t like to admit it, she was a bit concerned about it. When her Mother had laid down the rules, Julia had intentionally not thought about the part that said she had to use her diapers. ‘We’ll cross that bridge when we get there’ she remembered thinking. Well that bridge now lay before her and the time to cross it had come.
Julia knew what had to happen, but it was difficult to imagine. She started thinking about all the things that could go wrong. Would Charlotte be able to smell something? What if she leaked? Her instincts told her to just hold it, but Julia realized that it made no sense to try to do that. ‘Hold it until when?’ Julia realized ‘I can’t put this off for very long and I am going to have to do it eventually’ she thought. ‘What’s the point in waiting?’
So Julia made up her mind to not bother trying to hold back. ‘I’ll just ignore it and let things take care of themselves.’ she told herself. So she tried to relax and just let things happen on their own. After a few minutes nothing had happened. She realized that sitting on the couch made it hard. Pretty soon Julia really needed to pee. She decided she better do something different, so she actually tried to make things happen, but that didn’t work either.
Julia started getting desperate. She had not gone since school and the pressure was actually starting to become uncomfortable. Julia had never had the biggest bladder to being with. She looked at the clock and saw that it was 6:30. Julia was starting to get desperate. She decided that maybe heading for home was the best idea.
“Hey Charlotte, I gotta get back home for dinner. I’ll see you tomorrow.” she said suddenly as she stood up.
“Oh. I thought you weren’t eating until like 7? Whatever, just call me later tonight. I have to ask you something about our math homework.” said Charlotte.
“Sure, I’ll call you after dinner or something.”
Julia walked to the door and let herself out. She had barely made it to the street before she realized her body was telling her it was time to pee, now. She instinctively tried to hold back. ‘Let me just make it home’ she thought to herself, briefly forgetting about her diapers.
About half way home Julia remembered that she was wearing a diaper. ‘What am I doing?’ Julia asked herself. ‘Why I am waiting until I get home? What’s the point? I have to do this and here or there doesn’t make any difference. Besides I guess I need to start getting used to just going’. So Julia stopped walking and let out a long sigh. Once she relaxed, her body took over and started to go.