Stranded

Chapter 3
Stranded part 3

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Chapter Description: The final part of my story. Will Bethany escape? or is she doomed?

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Bethany opened her eyes and screamed. A loud long high pitched wail of a scream. A scream of utter panic and confusion as she looked around and realised everything was bigger. MUCH bigger.

She sat bolt upright the blanket covering her pulled away and looked down at herself. She was naked laying on a large plastic mat in the middle of the lounge. Her hands. She brought them up to her face and stared in horror. They were podgy, not like her teenage slender fingers, they were like little sausages. She used her new hands and ran them down her body. Her boobs! Her waist! GONE! She tugged at her once long blonde hair, now it was barely shoulder length. She burst into tears.

Helena rushed to her side and plucked her up effortlessly into her arms.

"Shush shush sweetie, Its okay. Its okay. Mommys here now, it’s all going to be fine"

Helena rocked her back and forth jiggling Bethany in her arms. Bethany wailed. This could not really be happening. It was impossible. Completely and utterly impossible. Bert came charging into the room with a couple of bags, his face white with worry.

"What’s the matter, What’s happened?"

He saw Helena with the hysterical Bethany and he rushed over to them. Helena looked at him.

"Oh you’re back? It’s okay, calm down. I think she’s just gotten a fright because of her new size. Isn’t that right sweetie."

Bethany confirmed Helena suspicions simply by crying louder. Helena chuckled as she continued to rock the now rejuvenated Bethany.

"You really took us by surprise Sally. After you fell asleep earlier you started to reduce in size. We tried to keep putting you in smaller and smaller diapers but you were shrinking at such a rate it was pointless, so we just got one of your waterproof play mats out and let you sleep naked. You seemed to have stopped shrinking for now, but there must be more in you cause you look about four and I specifically requested an 18 month old. So just hang in there. I’m sure you’ll do mummy and daddy proud."

Bethany had been listening and she sat in Helenas arms looking at how big everything was. She had stopped sobbing uncontrollably. She kept looking at her hands.

"I’m...I’m for-wa?" She clutched at her throat in alarm, her voice sounded like a toddlers.

"Yes I would say about four, but we didn’t really expect you to slow down in regressing so i’m afraid we don’t have any clothes for your current age. I had to get Bert to go out and fetch some pull-ups for you to wear until the final regression."

At this sentence Bert stood back from the two ladies in his life, and pulled a pack of Barney the dinosaur pull-ups from the bag he had been carrying.

"TA DA! "

He waved them happily at Helena and Bethany. Helena chuckled but Bethany started to cry again. Bert looked crestfallen

"Awww poppet. Don’t cry. Try and be a happy girl, soon all your problems will just float away and you’ll have me and your mommy to love you so much as you get to grow up all over again!"

Bethany stopped crying again, and she wiped her nose on the back of her arm. She couldn’t believe she had really shrunk. She had just thought that these people were mad, but she had actually shrunk. How was this possible? Which meant she had limited time to escape and find a way of reversing this before all her mind turned to mush. She still had control of her limbs. She just had to be clever, play it safe. Bert pulled a pull-up from the pack.

"You can step into these just like big girl pants, and if you keep them dry, then..I guess...well done you!"

He said cheerily. Helena gently lowered Bethany to the floor and Bethany stood there looking up at the two giants. She barely came to their waists. Bert hunkered down and pulled the Pull-ups open so that Bethany could step into them. Sniffing, feeling incredibly sorry for herself she stepped into them and Bert quickly hoisted them up. They sat on her waist perfectly. Not too big, not too small. Just right. She rubbed at her eyes. She didn’t know how to think or feel about this new turn of events. She just wanted to wake up from this nightmare.

She quietened herself down and this seemed to please her new parents. Helena picked up the pink t-shirt that Bethany had been wearing under her overalls and popped it over the 4 year old’s head. It was massive and came to her knees but it stayed on her shoulders. Taking a bit of string Helena crouched down and tied it round Bethany waist as a makeshift belt. Helena stood back up and stepped back to survey her handiwork

"There! Its not perfect kiddo, but you won’t have to wear it for long."

Bethany looked down at herself and her new outfit. Don’t cry don’t cry, just act happy and it’ll be okay. she mentally thought to herself.

She grinned up at Helena and Bert and hugged Helena legs

"Fankyoo mommy"

She beamed up at them both. Helena and Bert exchanged confused but happy looks at the sudden transformation of Bethany attitude. She noticed they were confused and she let go and ran over to where her toys were, she sat down and began to play with the teddy bear and the plastic telephone she had thrown earlier.

"Perhaps the mental regression is kicking in sooner than expected?

Bethany overheard Bert say to Helena. She looked over at the two adults to catch Helena shrug.

"I guess its possible. Anyway you keep an eye on her, I need to go back and water the flowers on the porch. I was doing that before I heard her screaming"

After a quick kiss on the cheek Helena left and Bert sat back down in his arm chair, watching Bethany for a few moments before picking up a book he had left on a side table and flicking it open.

Bethanys mind was working ten to the dozen, and she thought she had come up with a plan when she heard the front door open as Helena went outside to water the plants. She got up, holding her teddy and went over to Bert’s armchair, she tugged on his sleeve and put on her best innocent look.

"Daddy, can I hewp mommy warta the flowars?"

Bethany still couldn’t get over her stupid voice and inwardly she cringed at how infantile she sounded. It seemed to work though as Bert put down the book for a second, studied Bethanys face and then with a grin, ruffled her hair.

"Of course Sally, What a good girl you are. You go help mommy. Pick me a really pretty flower okay kiddo"

That was all the encouragement Sally needed and she scampered from the room and headed for the front door. As she ran down the corridor she passed the kitchen and out of the corner of her eye she caught something that made her stop dead in her tracks.

Her adult clothes were neatly folded on the side, and on top of her clothes was everything that had been in her jacket and jeans pockets including her mobile phone. Would it work now? Was there reception enough to make a call. She looked back at the living room, then looked forward to the open front door where she could hear Helena humming happily to herself. Without a second thought Bethany dashed into the kitchen, she had to stand on tip toes to reach the pile of clothes and the mobile phone on top. She grabbed the phone and held it with both hands then ran back out of the kitchen.

Her heart was pounding so hard she could hear it in her ears. She tried to quietly breath as she tiptoed up to the front door and carefully poked her head round the door. As luck would have it Helena at that precise moment had her back to the front door watering one of the larger pots of plants with a large watering can.

Holding her breath Bethany stepped out onto the porch, carefully she made it down one step, then the next and finally the third one. Helena was humming some nursery rhyme song as she watered her plants. Scurrying quickly to the side of the house Bethany put her back up against the wall.

She was outside. She had nothing on but her pull-up and oversized t-shirt but she was currently free. She looked down at her mobile phone and much to her elation saw she had one bar worth of reception. She could make a call, but first she needed to get as far away from here as she possibly could before it was recognised that she was missing.

She ran down the driveway thankful that it was tarmacked as she had no shoes or socks on. She ran as fast as her new short little legs would carry her, down the driveway and onto the main road. She looked left and right. There wasn’t a car in sight. Her heart grew heavy. She needed to flag someone down, to get them to take her to a hospital or something where they could figure out what had been done to her and reverse it. She looked left and right again trying to figure out a direction to take. Her car had been to the right. Suddenly she could hear Helena shouting out "Sally" in the distance and that spurred Bethany to finally choose to run in the direction of her car. She had to run fast.

As she ran she flipped open her mobile phone and stared at the keypad, suddenly tears came to her eyes. She knew they were numbers that she was looking at but all of a sudden the names for the numbers had completely gone out of her head. She almost stumbled at the surprise of not being able to recognise what the numbers were called, then all of a sudden the names flooded back to her and she gasped in relief. Was she losing her mind? Had it begun already.

She shuddered as she ran and she poked at the keypad dialing her boyfriend back at her dorm. The phone rang and rang and rang but no-one picked up. She swore and hung up, then tried her friend Sarah. It rang twice and then Sarah picked up.

"hello? Mitchell residence?" Bethany had never been so relieved to hear Sarahs voice.

"Sawa? its me Bef-nee"

There was silence on the phone for a second then Sarah spoke

"Who is this?"

"Befnee BEFNEE. I was comin to yoor baybe showa and bad stuff happened, now im onlee for-wa and..."

"little girl this isn’t funny, who put you up to this?" There was anger in Sarahs voice and Bethany got frustrated.

"I was comin to yoor baybe showa lass nite....."

"I’m not even having a baby! Little girl my friend is missing and who ever put you up to this is just sick."

Before Bethany could object Sarah hung up. Bethany stared at the phone in disbelief. Sarah wasn’t pregnant? She wasn’t having a baby? But it was her baby shower that she had been invited to. It was why she was out here in the first place.

Bethany felt sick to her stomach, it suddenly becoming all apparent that it had all been planned. She had been targetted.

She ran some more then stumbled as her training pants fell down to her ankles, she sprawled across the tarmac, the phone flying from her hands and the screen smashed on impact with the road.

"NOOOO nononono! "

Bethany scrambled across to the broken phone and picked it up. It was dead. She had grazed her palm and both her knees. They stung as she started to cry. She stood up and realised that her baggy t-shirt was now slipping off of her shoulders.

She tried to hold it up but both her shoulders suddenly slipped through the neck hole and she found herself standing by the side of the road with the clothes and pull-up round her ankles. She took a few steps, realising she could still walk but she felt unstable now, like she was tottering rather than running. She had to continue. She had to get farther away.

She saw a car up in the distance. She knew it wasn’t Helena or Bert because the car was coming from the opposite direction. Could this be her saviour? Hope surged into her once more.

She toddled unsteadily out into the road, praying the car got to her before Helena or Bert had the realisation that she was out in the main road. As the car approached Bethany squinted to see who was driving. The car was fast approaching and Bethany suddenly saw that it was a police car. Would it be the same cops that had been at the house earlier? Bethany was torn between diving for the bushes at the side of the road and taking her chances but her decision was made for her as the police car came to a halt right beside her and as the window wound down, her heart sank.

"Well hello there Sally? What are you doing out here in the middle of the road? And all naked like that? Where are your mommy and daddy?"

It was the female officer, the male was sat in the passenger seat.

Bethany squealed and ran, well tottered at speed, away from the car and she heard one of the car doors open and slam behind her then the next thing she knew she was being whisked up into the air by the male police officer.

"How did you get out here?" He asked.

Bethany tried to explain

"The peeple, in da hows, they tw-eyed ta we-dwess me...we-dwess"

She hated it. She felt so frustrated she couldnt say regress.

"we-dwess?" the male repeated confused as he carried Bethany to the car and opened up the back seat door.

Hopefull that she was getting somewhere finally she nodded.

"Yeah they tw-eyed to we-dwessed me, but i runned away an now i’m like dis"

The female police office laughed.

"Well your mummy and daddy are supposed to dress you, if you run away before they have time to put your diaper and clothes on you then you’re going to be one chilly little girl"

Bethany shook her head as the male officer popped her onto the back seat and buckled her in. she noticed that her feet didn’t even go as far off the end of the seat. She had gotten smaller, she probably looked about the age Helena had said she was supposed to be. She gulped, fearful for the next stage. Then turned back to trying to get her point across. She shook her head hard.

"No NOO! not we-dwess, we-dwess, like smalla yunga"

The officers weren’t listening to her now, they were muttering to one another, the male officer went into the boot of the car and got one of those police high visibility waterproof jackets and he folded it up, unbuckling Bethany he placed it on the car seat and then put her back down on top then buckled her back in. He ruffled her hair good naturedly.

"Just in case you go wee wee sweetheart"

He grinned at her, then closed the back passenger door. Bethany hoped that they would take her to the police station or something.

The female officer leant over and smiled at Bethany.

"Its not far to your mummy and daddys house from here so be a little bit patient and you’ll be back there in no time"

Bethanys eyes widened in fear, she was half expecting them to say something like that in fairness but to have gotten so far only to be put back to square one was just one of life’s sick jokes and her time was fast running out.

She suddenly felt a weird feeling in her stomach and as the car started, she felt herself peeing. She cried and tried to clamp her hands between her legs to stop the stream, but that only succeeded in creating more of a mess. Both officers were facing the front and Bethany just stared miserably at the mess she had made. She tried to look out the window but she was too low down. She couldn’t see anything, but the journey had indeed been brief and all too soon the car came to a halt. She could hear Helena crying, loudly, and both police officers got out of the car in unison. The female sounding chirpy as she shouted across the driveway

"I believe you lost something"

Bethany heard Helena gasp.

"You...You found my darling Sally?"

Bethany heard the male officer chuckle. She couldn’t see what was going on outside

"Why dont you take a look in the back and see"

Bethany sat in her pudde with baited breath as the back car door was flung open and she was pulled from the car and kissed and hugged and kissed again.

"My baby, my sweet sweet baby! I thought I had lost you"

Helena sobbed into Bethanys hair as she hugged her. Both Police officers smiled. Bert came round the side of the house to see what was going on. The relief on his face was intense as the officer spoke.

"We found her out in the road, she hadn’t gotten far but I suggest keeping her in a pen until she learns the danger of toddling off by herself. She kept saying you tried to dress her so she ran away."

Helena looked at Bethany for a moment, grinning through her tears.

"I think she wants to be a naturist. She always puts up a struggle first thing in the morning when we dress her"

The male police officer broke into a heartfelt laugh.

"My three year old is a bit like that herself. Just take better care of her all right?"

He went to close the back car door and noticed the mess on his waterproof jacket.

"Just as well I put her on that." He grimaced as he carefully took the jacket out of the car and tipped its contents onto the driveway.

"Anyway, we best be off"

He said as he opened the boot and flung the wet jacket into the back.

"Don’ go!! Peese safe me"

Bethany begged. Tears filling her eyes and spilling down her cheeks. The female officer walked up to the mother and child and ruffled Bethany’s hair

"Sally you ARE safe now. Back with your mummy and daddy. They’ll look after you real well so be a good girl okay"

The police woman walked back to the car and got in. Both officers waved as they drove off and Helena took one of Bethanys hands and waved back for her. The car disappeared round the corner and was gone. Bethany stared after it, not believing her chance had been destroyed. She was kissed and hugged again as Helena turned Bethany round to face her.

"Looks like you’re the right size now. Aren’t you just adorable. It makes being angry at you so difficult, and luckily for you, you’re too small to spank now or you’d be right over my knee young lady. What a stunt to play on us. You’re a naughty girl."

Helena wagged a finger at Bethany.

Bethany began to cry again, feeling aghast that she was once again trapped. Seeing her daughter cry Helena simply hugged the naked baby to her chest.

"Awww come on Sally, lets get you inside and into some clothes. You’ll feel better soon I promise."

Helena took Bethany inside, Bert followed and the new family went upstair and into a room Bethany hadn’t been in yet. It was clearly her nursery and she looked around feeling terrible all the things she was now the right size to fit. There was the cot, it was painted a bright white colour the whole room was decorated in a farm theme, with big farmyard animal motifs on the walls. A patchwork farm yard blanket lay in the cot, there were plushie cows and sheep and chicken on a shelf. A playpen was in one corner in another was a rocking chair, up against one wall was a changing table and to Bethanys horror she saw the diaper cake she had brought for the baby shower was sat to one side of the changing table.

Helena carried Bethany over to the table and laid her down on it. Immediately Bethany tried to sit up but Helena pushed her down and strapped her down. Bethany tried to press the release button but her new hands were too weak to manage. Helena pulled one of the disposable diapers from the cake and even though Bethany kicked and screamed Helena easily grabbed both Bethanys kicking feet into one of her hands hauled her feet into the air and positioned the disposable diaper under Bethanys butt. dusting her with baby powder she did the side tapes up fairly easily too.

"There! Perfect fit! It was such a perfect gift you bought with you. Bet you didn’t realise you were going to be wearing these huh. And such a cute design on the front. Teddy bears on your waistband. You’re so adorable"

As Bethany laid there she noticed a large box in the nursery. It had Bethanys old clothes that had been in the kitchen. It also had all the adult sized baby clothes and cloth nappies, the music box some tea and several incense burners lay on top of all the clothes. The side of the box had the stork stencilled on it again. Bethany pointed at the box, she needed to know what was going on.

Bert leaned over the table and tickled Bethanys feet, Bethany giggled in response. Helena had crossed the nursery to a new wardrobe. This was stuffed full of cute outfits. Helena flicked through them and came up with a yellow sun dress with matching booties and diaper cover. Bethany began crying again. Thoughts of the box fled from her mind as she feared for her new life. She didn’t want to be dressed like some doll every day for the next few years as she grew up again.

"NO NO Don’ WANNIT!!!"

She shouted in defiance, but Bert stuck a pacifier in her mouth and she started automatically sucking on it. It calmed her down. She didn’t know why it calmed her down. She wasn’t hypnotised at the moment. not that she could tell. She hadn’t drunk any of that herb stuff for a while and she couldn’t smell the incense or hear the music box, everything was in the box. Being put away. But the pacifier soothed her and she lay on the changing table looking up at her mommy as she got Bethany dressed with little to no resistance. Bethany did feel better now that she had been clothed, she was warmer. Safer. She shyly smiled behind her pacifier.

Helena picked Sally gently up from the table and cradled her against her chest. Sally could hear her mommys heartbeat through her mommys soft blue dress and Sally found herself taking a fist full of the fabric of the dress as her mommy gently rocked her back and forth walking from one end of the nursery to the other. Her legs kicked out feebly in mid air. She felt cherished. Loved.

Bethany suddenly recognised that she was starting to think of Helena and Bert as mommy and daddy and she shook her head trying to clear away the mental fog but it seemed to make it descend all the more faster, she had to fight this, she began to fuss as she mentally tried to remember her house number, or names of friends and family and found all her adult questions unanswerable.

She started to cry as she realised her mind was melting into infantile bliss. She didn’t want to forget who she was. She liked who she was. She clung to her momm...helen..y fear causing her to tremble as her adult thoughts simply popped one by one out of her head like fuzzy bubbles. And as her adult thoughts swam out of existence she visibly relaxed, her shaking stopped and she became more animated. Happier.

"Awww Sally. You’re going to be such a perfect little baby. The Stork program suggested going for a cheerleader, they said cheerleaders made for really happy bubbly infants. The minute they showed us your photograph we knew you’d regress into such a cute little angel. I just had to have you. I can tell you’re going to be so much fun to look after and raise. You’re such a good girl"

Helena said as she stroked Bethanys hair. Bethany could vaguely understand what her mommy was saying and she giggled sleepily sucking happily on her pacifier. She was a good girl. Her mommy said so. She reached up from her mommys arms and explored her mommys face with her podgy baby hands. Mommy kissed her babys hands, and Sally giggled.

The mental transformation complete, Sally looked up at her carers with unconditional love in her large baby blue eyes babbling happily at them. They simply smiled back at their new little girl as she drifted off to sleep.

 

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