After hearing the options, Leah knows what to choose. She can already feel herself getting bored. And she’s already wearing the underwear for the part, so she might as well lean into it.
“I’ll play with the toddlers,” she says. The receptionist looks surprised.
“Really?”
“Yeah. It’ll make wearing this less embarrassing,” Leah says, tugging at her training pants. “I mean, I’ll be surrounded by people in diapers, so I’ll at least be a step up from them.”
“…Fair enough. Well, in that case, do you want the toddlers to know you’re a big girl?”
“No. The whole reason I chose this is so that it’s not as embarrassing.”
“All right. Come with me, then.” The receptionist leads Leah, still wearing only training pants, over to a nearby dresser, where she takes out a daycare uniform. She dresses Leah and puts a nametag on the front of the uniform. Then, she brings Leah to the play area she’d been waiting in before. “All right, go nuts. Tina will be done in a few hours.”
“Got it.” Leah takes a steadying breath, then, adopting a toddling gait to up her disguise, goes over to a nearby group of toddlers. They’re all the same size as her, but she feels a strange sense of pride when she realizes each one has a distinctive diaper bulge around their waist. “Me Leah.”
“Hi, Leah!” a couple of the toddlers chant back. Leah sits down. The toddlers gladly let her join their game, and before she knows it, Leah’s enjoying herself.
In fact, Leah has so much fun that she gets caught up in playing and…