A Whole New World

Chapter 5
All Dressed Up

“Wakie-wakie sleepy-heads!”

Brian and the girls opened their eyes some time later to find Sara standing smiling over them. Looking over at the window they could see it was still daylight out, but it was definitely later in the day. They had actually taken a nap, their mommies had been right about them being tired after all.

“C’mon your three, nap-time is over. We need to get some nummies in those tummies now.”

“We’re gonna eat?” Brian asked his mom.

“Yep, Rachel and Megan’s mommies went and picked up their little brother and sister so we can all go out to dinner. We’re all going to Pasta Pete’s!” Sara announced.

Brian swallowed a groan. Pasta Pete’s was a local family restaurant, always filled with annoying kids and squalling babies. It wasn’t the kind of place college kids ever ate at. In fact he couldn’t remember going there since he was about ten. Still he forced a smile, remembering the decision they’d made to play along until they had the book again.

They followed Brian’s mom back downstairs to the living room where the other two moms were already waiting. As they entered the room Brian got his first look at Dan, Rachel’s little brother. She’d said before that he was dressed and acting like a toddler, so Brian was interested to see if the second reality shift had changed him as well.

As soon as they set eyes on the eighteen-year old young man they knew the world had shifted for everyone once again. When they were kindergarteners he’d been a toddler. Now that they were somewhere in the terrible twos themselves it appeared he had gone even further back. Since his body hadn’t changed it was hard to gauge his mental age exactly, but from his dress and behaviour Brian figured the kid was about eighteen-months rather than years now.

Danny was sitting on his bottom in the middle of the room wearing a small green striped t-shirt and a bulky white diaper. The puffy garment was certainly no set of pull-ups that was for sure. He wore no pants over the diaper either, his long bare legs smooth and hairless like Brian’s, splayed out before him. He wiggled the toes on his bare feet back and forth idly as he scribbled aimlessly with an awkwardly held green crayon across a sheet of paper between his legs.

The sight of Danny grinning while he scribbled with crayon was nothing compared to what was going on just across the room. There Amanda was sitting with her daughter Sue on the couch. All three of them stopped where they were and gaped at what was happening before their eyes. Sue was dressed in a fuzzy yellow onesie, her crinkly white diaper sticking out of it a bit around the leg holes. Her smooth bare legs were draped across the couch as her body lay across her mom’s lap. They couldn’t see her face, only the back of her head, the thin wild hair tied up in a single hair-band so it stood straight up.

Her face was obscured because Amanda had her pulled in close to her bosom. The teen girl was suckling on her mommy’s boob. In the silence that fell when the trio froze all they could hear was the scribble of Danny’s crayon on paper and Sue’s suckling. Amanda was gently rubbing the teen’s back and whispering into the overgrown baby’s ear. Rachel seemed to be the most disturbed by the sight, covering her mouth tightly as though trying not to vomit. Brian was having a different but equally embarrassing reaction. Physically he was still very much a guy and so he couldn’t help but stare at the scene on the couch, praying for Sue to finish so he could get a look at Amanda’s boobs. He’d thought they looked unusually big before and now he knew why. She was nursing.

“Well here we all are!” Sara announced cheerfully, entering the room behind the three frozen kids.

Danny looked up from his drawing, the crayon dropping from his uncoordinated fingers. “Danny eat!” he yelled, patting his tummy with both hands.

“Yes Danny, we’re all going to eat soon,” Sara agreed, nodding to the boy.

“Who dat?” Danny shouted back, pointing at Brian.

“That’s my little boy Brian,” Sara replied.

“Who dat?” the teen shouted again, now pointing at Megan while his twiddling his toes together.

“That’s Megan. She’s a big girl like your sister Rachel,” she answered.

Apparently satisfied, Danny rose awkwardly to a squat then stood with his arms out for balance. Once he was fully upright he stuck his hands out towards them and toddled over. His legs were bowed out widely but they couldn’t tell if that was due to the thick diaper or just his immature gait. In any case he seemed able to walk and even run on his own, but clearly not with very much skill or balance. He made a bee-line for his sister, wrapping his arms around the poor girl who was still trying to hold back an urge to throw up.

“Awww!” Sara cooed as Danny gave his sis a big baby hug.

All eyes turned to the couch just then as the sound of suckling abruptly stopped. Amanda was easing Sue’s mouth off her breast, a bit of white milky liquid dribbling down the girl’s chin and a visible strand still connecting nipple to slack lips. The string of milk and spittle broke as Sue’s head slipped back into her mom’s cradling elbow.

Brian’s eyes were big as saucers and he felt drawn towards Amanda, not taking his eyes off her exposed breast. He moved across the room towards her, barely aware he was doing so. Amanda didn’t seem to notice or care about his interest. She only had eyes for the big baby in her lap. Brian was standing right before her soon enough, licking his lips and feeling glad the tight pull-up and overalls hid the reaction he was having. Then a hiccup broke his concentration and he glanced down at the teen girl lying across the couch before him.

Sue was a pretty girl but it was clear that she was now nothing but a big infant. Her bare legs were bowed out by the thick diaper, even more so than Danny’s. They twitched and kicked without coordination. Sue’s eyes were wide open, but there was nobody home. The baby-blue eyes stared vacantly between the ceiling and her mom’s face, glassy and empty of recognition. A rivulet of slobber was creeping down her left cheek, her chin already wet with milky drool. Sue burbled and spluttered silly meaningless sounds before bringing her hands to her mouth and chewing on her fingers. As she mouthed them Brian was able to see that Sue had no more than a couple small teeth. It was a stunning sight.

“Is Sue all done feeding?” Sara asked.

“Yep, my little Susie’s had her nummy-nums,” Amanda replied, fixing her bra and doing her shirt back up.

“Okay, let’s get the kids ready,” Sara said.

Joy came in from the kitchen and headed straight over to where Danny was now playfully turning the hallway light-switch on and off. She was carrying a pair of elastic waist khakis shorts. “Okay buddy-boy, time to get you all dressed up for the restaurant,” she declared.

Danny cooperated while she slipped the shorts on him. He seemed too enthralled with the light-switches to even care that he was being dressed. Brian doubted the boy cared one bit was he was dressed in anyway. In his state of mind he probably would have been happy to go to the restaurant buck naked or in a frilly pink dress.

Amanda set Sue down on the carpet and rummaged through a bag to get something for Megan to wear. Soon she emerged with a pair of pink shorts. “Okay sweetie, come to Mommy,” she beckoned.

Megan was all too happy to comply. She was sick of being the only one with no pants on. Little pink shorts with hearts were not her usual but they could have been so much worse. So she let her mom slip them over one foot at a time and pull them up. It was a relief to have her pull-ups covered up at last. In fact she was better off that Rachel now, as her short little dress failed to hide her puffy pull-ups.

Having successfully clothed her son Joy had now turned to Rachel, directing her to sit on the floor. Rachel had done as she was told, hopeful she’d be dressed in something at least marginally better than the silly outfit she had on at the moment. She was not a fan of frills and cutesie short dresses, even on little girls. She’d have been happy even to be dressed as her friend Megan was. But when Joy returned from the front hall she didn’t have a new outfit for her daughter, just a pair of glitter-covered jelly sandals which she proceeded to strap onto the pouting girl’s feet.

With the kids dressed the other two moms seemed ready to go as well. Amanda scooped Sue up from the carpet and steadied the teen girl on her hip, slipping a red and white binkie between the girl’s lips. Brian looked around and furrowed his brow. “Where are my shoes Mommy?” he asked.

Sara shook her head. “Don’t worry honey, you’ll be fine without them,” she assured.

Brian shook his head. He couldn’t go out in public, to a restaurant, without any shoes on! They wouldn’t let him in like that would they?

“Mommy I need shoes!” he insisted.

Sara rolled her eyes and turned to the other moms, ignoring her son’s pleas. “He pulls his shoes and socks off every time I put them on him. I can’t tell you how many sneakers and socks are now missing a partner because he throws them away. It’s easier just to let him go barefoot y’know?”

Joy nodded. “I know, my little Danny’s the same way. He just loves having his toesies all free. Funny how little kids just hate shoes.”

“If it’s just shoes they hate you’re getting off easy,” Amanda told them. “My little ones hate wearing clothes altogether.”

The mothers shared a round of laughter at their struggles while Brian continued to plead. “But Rachel has shoes!”

“Well Rachel is becoming a young lady and she knows how to keep her shoes on like a big girl,” Sara retorted.

Brian was crestfallen but could see this was a losing battle. Megan was being led by the hand to the car in her bare feet as well but she wasn’t complaining. She was just happy she’d been given something to cover her pull-ups. Of course the restaurant wouldn’t care that they were barefoot, Brian admitted, because little toddlers didn’t count as real people. So he gave up and padded out the front door after his mom, wincing as he trod over sharp pebbles and hot tarmac to the car. He just kept thinking about how he would get the book back soon and then somehow he’d end this nightmare.