So Amy did. After she was finished she looked into the tub at Katie. " Look mom. She looks the same way I did, down there, when I was a baby." This statement caused Katie to turn red. After all, she knew what she looked like. Then Marsha asked Amy to finish giving Katie her bath. Katie thought she was going to die from shame. Imagine his daughter was going to bathe him like a baby. What was worse was that he was a baby and needed for her to bathe him, or rather her.
Shortly after that, Amy took Katie out of the tub, dried her off, and dressed her in a disposable diaper and a sleeper. Katie protested the diaper but was told that mom said that it was in case she had an accident, since kids her age were prone to wetting the bed. Then Amy took her down stairs for supper.
In the dinning room. Marsha was waiting and picked Katie up and put her in a new high chair. Then she set a plate of pre-cut food on the tray in front of her, and said. " I'm going to feed you, since you already had your bath." And much to Katie's dismay did just that. After eating, Marsha took her up to bed.
In bed with the railing up Katie said. " Mawsha, Pweathe hewp me. Don't make me thtay thith way any wonger dan I have to."
" I won't." Then as a joke she added. " Unless you change your mind and want to. Good night, baby. And don't call me Marsha."
" Okay mommy. Good night."
Marsha turned out the light and closed the door and backed up into Amy. " Sorry."
" Me too. I was going to ask you if you wanted to take left- overs to work tomorrow."
" Yes. Oh crap, I forgot about that. I'll need you to watch Katie for me."
" On Saturday? Mom!"
" Sorry, I have no choice."
" Okay. I just didn't want to be stuck with a shrimp tomorrow, I was going to go to the mall with Kelly."
" Take Katie with you if you want. She probably won't like it, but We're just going to have to make this work. Oh, Here's something that your dad found for you today." She handed Amy the necklace that she had taken off of Katie before her bath.
" What's this?"
" I don't know. Some kind of necklace."
" I'll have to thank hi.. her in the morning." They walked back down stairs. After all, it was only eight o'clock.
Katie laid there in bed. She knew that it was still early because light was still filtering through the drawn blind that her mother, no wait, his wife had pulled down before she left the room. He thought. ' Man! it's getting far to easy to think in terms of being a little girl.' He pulled the zipper of the sleeper down and reached inside. Then he slid it inside the diaper. He rested his hand on his now smooth groin and began to gently explore his new genitals. A tear formed in his eye. What if he was stuck like this. Oh, how would he be able to deal with all the things that went with it? It would mean growing up all over again, with his daughter as his older sister and baby-sitter. Going to school again, starting with kindergarten. He continued to think on these things as he drifted off to sleep, before the sun fully set.
At the same time little Katie was exploring the possibilities of staying Katie. Her new mommy and new older sister where also exploring them, together and alone. They discussed what would have to change and what they would have to do if they couldn't find a way to get Kevin back. Marsha admitted to Amy that she did like having a small child around the house again, and the best part was that she didn't have to go through childbirth. They laughed at that. Amy said that she had thought it would be fun to have a little sister. Marsha finally said that she just couldn't force Kevin to stay Katie permanently, she loved him too much to do that to him.
After they went to bed themselves Amy thought about what her mother had said and how nice it would be to have a little sister instead of a father. She was still very angry at him for spanking her. 'Perhaps,' she thought, ' he could use a little humiliation. However, like most girls her age Amy never thought the whole thing through, she just knew what she wanted and set about forming a plan to get it.