Leah wants to enroll in daycare, but isn’t sure how to bring the topic up to Tina. Maybe there’s a way she can make it seem like she needs to be in daycare instead. One of the toddlers she was playing with suddenly gets to his feet and squats. He lets out a loud fart. A putrid smell carries to where Leah is sitting. Her eyes widen. That’s it!
She mimics her playmate’s behavior, bending her knees into a squat. Leah begins to push, grunting like her playmate. She can feel her face turning red with effort. A log begins to enter her pull-up. After what feels like a long time, she finishes messing herself.
The load in Leah’s training pants is smelly and unpleasant, but she knows that, to hammer home the message she needs to be in daycare, she can’t ask for a change. So she sits back down and continues playing with the toddlers. A daycare worker eventually whisks Leah’s playmate away for a diaper change.
“All right, Leah, ready to go home?” Tina asks, coming over. Leah nods. She gets to her feet. Tina sniffs. “Oh, hang on, sweetie, I think there’s a dirty diapy somewhere I need to change.”
“Fine.” Leah waits for Tina to check all the diapers. “Ready?”
“I must have been imagining it. Come on.” Tina’s eyes widen when she notices that Leah is waddling slightly due to the mess in her pull-up. “Wait a second.”
“What?” Leah asks, feigning ignorance. Tina checks her pull-up and gasps. “Is there something wrong?”
“You have a massive mess in your training pants!”
“I do?”
“Yes. You didn’t feel the need to poop?” Tina asks. Leah shakes her head. “And you didn’t feel yourself pooping, or the poop in your pull-up?” Leah shakes her head again. “That’s not a good sign. Well, for now, I think I’ll put you in a diaper, just in case.”
Tina picks Leah up and carries her to a changing station, where Leah is changed out of the training pants and into a diaper. Leah seizes the opportunity, and as Tina is taping the diaper up, pees. Tina gasps again.
“What?”
“You just peed!”
“I did?”
“Yes!” Tina frowns. “This really isn’t good, Leah.”
“I can’t help it.”
“I know, I know.” Tina changes Leah’s diaper to a fresh one. “Let’s go home. Maybe you’re just tired from the long day.”
“Maybe.”
Tina and Leah load up in the car, Leah getting buckled into a car seat, as she’s still dressed like a toddler. Leah pretends to be a bit annoyed, but secretly, she’s pleased to be in the car seat. During the car ride, she tries to come up with another way to convince Tina to enroll her in daycare. Messing and then wetting herself got the gears moving, but wasn’t enough.
They arrive home. Leah toddles inside with Tina close behind. The diaper does push her legs apart, but she exaggerates how much it impedes her ability to walk, hoping that Tina will unconsciously connect her toddle with that of an actual toddler’s.
“I’ll get started on dinner,” Tina says. “You can go ahead and change out of that outfit. But keep the diaper on.” Leah nods. Tina goes into the kitchen.
Now alone, Leah begins phase two of her plan. She heads into the living room and turns the TV on, specifically, to the channel with only toddler and baby shows on. But that isn't enough. She needs to do something else, too.