The clincher was when Tina lifted Leah from her high chair and at first took a whiff of her behind to see if she had an accident, followed by her lifting the back of her robe exposing and pulling back the plastic pants and diaper to glance into the back.
WHAT DID TINA FIND?
“Hey!” Leah complained “don’t do that.”
Tina wasn’t sure how to read Leah. Almost putting her down without looking, figuring the child of course knew she hadn’t had the accident Tina thought she’d smelled. But, all that was left was a glance to confirm.
Tina sat Leah on her lap. “How about I help you finish up?”
“I can do it myself.” Leah demanded. As the teen tried to reach for the rest of her ice cream, like the spoiled brat she had become.
But Tina had glanced, as if the pungent odor wasn’t enough to confirm, the soft mush on her bottom could be felt as she sat her on her lap. Tina was amazed. The back of her diaper was full of poop, if not for the hustle and bustle of the shop, the open windows and the plastic pants, the odor would have been too offensive for anyone nearby to miss. Yet somehow this young lady, seemed oblivious to sitting in her own soiled diaper.
“Enough, either I do it, or we leave right now!” Tina demanded.
Leah was taken aback by the stern authoritative tone of her stepmother and couldn’t figure out what to do. She wasn’t a baby and didn’t want to be fed like one. But she did want a bit more ice cream. It was just a couple of more mouthfuls.
“Ok.” Leah begrudgingly spoke.
“Okay, what?” Tina demanded a better answer.
“Ok mommy?”
“Okay mommy what?”
“Okay mommy, can you feed me?”
“That’s a good girl. Mommy would be happy to.”
Tina fed her little girl the last two spoons full of her treat, paid and carried her out to the car. The stench of her mess grew ever stronger as she held her and then within in the confined space of the car.
Leah happily lost in her own world still had no clue she was sitting in a stinky diaper.
Tina marveled at how a Leah could be so oblivious to her own pungent odor.
Hopped up on sugar, Leah was ready to play when they returned home.
“Baby, I think it’s bedtime.”
“Ahhh.”
“That was the deal.”
“Darn.”
“Before bed, I think I would like to have a little talk with you and then maybe if you want, I could read a little story to you as you settle down to sleep.”
Leah looked like she liked that idea.
“Does that sound good?”
Leah didn’t really like having the little talks with mommy, those were not usually good things, but it might be nice to be read to instead of just lights out. Leah just nodded her head.
“Do you have something you want to ask mommy before I tuck you into bed?”
Leah shook her head.
“Mommy is worried about you, do you know why?”
Again, Leah shook her head.
“Well, only very, very little ones don’t ask for certain things when they need it. Oh sometimes a busy toddler, but when they settled down will usually asked. Do you know what I am getting at?”
Again, Leah shook her head.
“There is no easy way to say this sweety. You made poopy in your diaper while we were the ice cream parlor.”
“No I didn’t”
“You are sitting in a poopy diaper right now. Why would I make this up?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, it’s time to change your diaper. This is strike 2.”
“No it isn’t I didn’t go potty. No strikes.”
“Well, let’s see if baby made a present for mommy.”
Leah felt a bit of panic, might she be wrong?
Soon she was strapped down on the changing table and the diaper pulled away. She couldn’t look as Tina showed her the sopping wet diaper that was smeared with a significant loan of thick brown poop.
Leah started to cry.
Tina quickly cleaned her hands, she had Leah’s soother on hand and slid it into the poor girls mouth. Holding it there till Leah started to suckle.
Leah felt a bit of relief as she suckled on the nipple of her pacifier as Tina finished the diaper change. She couldn’t understand it, what was happening to her? Why is she having these accidents? Why did she suddenly shit herself and more troubling not even know she had done do?
Tina felt like it was almost like dealing with an infant. Soon her little 15 year old was smelled as sweet as a freshly changed baby should.
Leah was settled down and palced into he princess bed. Tina grabbed a story book meant for a kindergartener and started to read.
Leah lay there suckling. Soon the small girl was pacified and listening to the childish story. Leah started to feel comfortable with the situation and at the same time worried that she was becoming a baby.
It only took about 6 or 7 minutes for Tina to finish the stupid little story, but when she finished, Leah had already fallen asleep.