Alice drops the ring into her diaper cover and toddles out of the store with purpose. Changing back can wait. She can’t have gotten all dressed up, just to go back to wearing a boring grownup outfit. Once outside, she spots a park across the street. Eagerly sucking on her pacifier, she heads over. As she crosses the street, she notices that she’s not the only person in a costume right now. She looks around curiously, before remembering that it’s October 31st. Halloween! What perfect timing!
Giggling at what fate has done, Alice runs over to the park playground. She gets caught up in playing with the other toddlers and doesn’t realize that she’s fallen in with a group of daycare attendees. After about ten minutes on the playground, she and the other toddlers dressed in costumes are herded away.
“Come on, ladybugs, we’re going to go do trick-or-treating!” coos a chaperone. Alice’s eyes light up. She and the other toddlers are handed plastic buckets shaped like pumpkins and ushered into the next-door library. Once inside, she follows her new peers as they stop at various stations in the library.
“Trick or treat!” they chant excitedly at each station. The employee standing there smiles and gives them each a piece of candy. Alice is bursting with happiness and excitement. She’s completely forgotten about the plan to turn back to a grownup.
Eventually, they reach the last station, are given their last piece of candy, and then brought over to a carpeted area. They sit in a circle and dig into their candy, listening to a librarian read them a Halloween-themed picture book. Alice giggles and shrieks with the other toddlers.
The story ends. All the toddlers stand up. Promptly, Alice feels pressure in her bowels and an urge to push. Without thinking about it, she squats. Her peers spot her and giggle. Alice grunts loudly around her pacifier. She lets out a fart. Her peers giggle louder. A chaperone spots her and comes over.
“Sweetie, why didn’t you ask to use the potty?” the chaperone asks. Alice shrugs. The chaperone sighs. “All right. I guess I’ll wait here until you’re finished.” The other chaperones usher the other toddlers out of the library, leaving Alice with the single adult. Alice pushes forcefully. A thick log begins to enter her diaper, and as it does, she suddenly comes back to herself.
Her mouth drops open, her pacifier falling out, as she realizes what she’s done. She’s a grown man, but she’s dressed like Alice in Wonderland, going trick-or-treating with a daycare group, and pooping in a diaper. How did it come to this? Alice pushes harder, trying to get the humiliation over with sooner. She lets out another fart. Her bowels fully empty into her diaper. She straightens.
“All right, good girl!” the chaperone says tiredly. He looks around. “I’d better grab a new diaper for you.” He walks away, presumably to talk to a library employee. Alice picks up her pacifier, pops it into her mouth, and sucks on it urgently. She could probably escape right now. But the stench and feeling of her soiled diaper is profoundly unpleasant. It might be better to wait until after she’s been changed.