Return Camp

Chapter 1
Tim's world

Chapter Description: Tim's world gets turned upside down when he learns that he is going to camp for s couple of weeks.

As Tim was walking home from school, on a day that was predicted to be a dreary one, but turned put to be a bright and sunny one, he thought about how he only had to make it through one more year. A normal high school senior would be excited about the idea of only having one more year of school, but Tim was more excited because when he turned 18 in June he would be a legal adult and couldn’t be forced into one of those return camps. The return camps are camps where parents send their "beloved" children to have them physically and mentally regressed. A process for cell regression was discovered about 20 years ago to help with population control. The government decided that if kids never grew up to have kids over their own then their would be less "new" people to eventually have more kids. The process was in no means cheap, but a lot of parents would pay anything to have their babies back. Most parents would either have their kids regressed because they themselves didn’t want to lose them, or because they felt that they could do a much better job at raising them the second time around. They even changed the prison system so instead of having convicts waste tax payers dollars in jail then they would just regress them and have their parents or if the parents themselves were no good they would have other couples that wanted kids, but could have them, raise them.

Tim was an only child who had loving parents that would do anything for him. He knew that his parents loved seeing him grow up and wanted him to have a bright future so he never really had to worry about being sent away to one of those camps, but during this last few days it was all Tim could think about. One night he overheard them talking in hushed voices about something. Although he couldn’t really hear much from atop the steps, where he was secretly listening in, he did hear his mother say something about how he would be able to be with his long time friend Matt again. You see Matt was Tim’s best friend for as long as he could remember, but one day when they were both 16 he was sent away to a camp. Tim kept asking Matt’s parents where he had went and they just told him he went off to camp. At the time it seemed bizarre for someone to go to camp halfway through the school year, but at that time Tim never really herd of the return camps. He knew they existed, but had never known anyone who was sent to one. A few weeks later Tim got news that Matt had come back from camp and he was overjoyed at the idea of seeing his best friend again. He went over his house to greet his friend and tell him all the things that had happened in his absence. Matt’s little brother Jake answered the door. Jake was 7 at the time. Jake told Tim to come in. As Tim walked into the house he noticed a play pen in the living room. He knew something was off because Matt didn’t have a baby brother or sister, all he had was a little brother who was surely much to big to be using a play pen. Jake noted his reaction and told him that Matt was upstairs in his room with their mom. He told Tim that his mom told him to tell him to just head on up. Tim felt strange about the whole situation piecing everything together as he made his way up to his friends room. Tim pushed the door open that now had a little plaque on it that read "Matt" in colorful letters. Tim froze in the doorway at what he saw. Matt’s mother had her shirt off sitting on a rocking chair with a baby on her lap. The baby didn’t even notice Tim enter the room, he was too busy getting his fill of milk. Tim said sorry and went to leave the room, but Matt’s mom told him to stay and that it was all right. She had him sit down in another chair that had been brought up from the kitchen, apparently suited for the sole purpose of their long conversation. She explained that the baby sucking from her breast was in fact his long time friend Matt and that her and her husband had decided that it would be best if they gave him a shot at another childhood since he didn’t have a good one the first time. Tim knew that Matt grew up in a messed up situation having his dad walk out on him, his mom, and his little brother. Matt always did have a hard time with his step-dad and seemed to spend most of his time over Tim’s house. She told him how since he was such a good friend to him that he now could be the perfect role model for him. She offered him a job babysitting him for whenever they needed one. Matt was usually the one who would babysit his little brother Jake when his parents went out, but now they needed Tim to watch both of them whenever they were out. Tim for the past year had baby-sat his friend Matt along with his little brother Jake. Matt was now currently 2 years old with his brother being 8. Tim never could get the idea through his head that one moment they were talking about girls they both deemed as hot and how now he couldn’t even count how many times he had to change his friends diaper. At school they would shower after gym class and Tim would always be a little jealous at the size of Matt’s member, but now he couldn’t help but laugh to himself every time he rubbed diaper rash cream on the tiny little nub only good for peeing his diaper.

As Tim was approaching his house he noticed that there was a white van parked in his driveway. Tim thought nothing of it at first, thinking that it was probably a plumber that would finally fix their water heater, but he became a lot more suspicious when he walked into his house. There Tim saw his mom and dad sitting at the table with 2 guys that he had never seen before. They both looked like they could be bouncers at a club, although they both had on white pants and shirts like you would see painters wear. Tim’s mom gestured towards a seat in between the two strong looking guys and said "Sit down Tim, we have a lot to discuss."

Tim swallowed the saliva that was in his throat, sat down, and simply asked "Why?" The way he said it made him seem like a small child asking why he was in trouble or why he couldn’t have ice cream before dinner.

Tim’s mom looked like she was about to cry averting her eyes from her son as she spoke "We love you, but all you seem to be focused on is school and nothing else. You use to run around the neighborhood when you were little and just having fun being little, but you rarely seem to be having any fun."

"I had fun before my friend was turned into a baby...and now you want to make me into a baby as well? What the fuck is wrong with you. I worked hard in school because I thought that’s what you wanted...how could you do this to me?" Tim got up and was about to storm out of the house but before he could he was grabbed by both of the guys and dragged out of the house. His parents got up and followed him out of the house as he was shoved into the back of the van. The guys shut the door as he screamed and kicked. When he herd the door to the van lock he broke down into tears knowing that their was nothing he could do. Even if he ran away until he was 18 they still had the legal rights over him until he had them sign a document stating that he was an adult. Tim looked out the window as the van drove away and saw his mom crying into her husbands shoulder at what had just transpired.