Tina’s shock quickly gives way to anger. Her stepdaughter is acting like a toddler. Is this some sort of practical joke?
“No!” Tina shouts, storming over. Scared, Leah looks over. Tina picks her up, sits on the couch, puts Leah over one knee, and spanks her stepdaughter. “You’re a teenager, Leah! Act like it!” Leah spits out her pacifier and wails loudly, wetting her diaper in fear. “First, you mess yourself, now you have a binky? Are you trying to make fun of me?”
“No,” Leah sobs. “I’m not! I just- just like it!” Tina stops spanking her.
“Like what?”
“Like being a toddler again,” Leah wails. Tina stares at her. “I’ll stop if you want.”
“You want to be a toddler?” Tina asks. Leah nods tearfully. “Hmm. Interesting.” Tina sets Leah on her lap. Leah’s diaper squishes loudly. “You wet yourself.”
“You scared me,” Leah mumbles.
“Hmm,” Tina says again. After a moment of thought, she nods. “All right, you want to be a toddler?”
“Yes.”
“Then you can be a toddler.”
“Really?” Leah asks eagerly. Tina holds up a finger.
“This isn’t you getting what you want, Leah. This is you getting punished in a way that fits your misbehavior. For a full week, I’m going to pretend you are a toddler, and you are expected to play along. You have to talk like a toddler, act like one, dress like one, eat like one, and potty like one. That means only using your diaper or, if I help you, a toddler potty. I’m going to dig out the things your dad kept from when you were a toddler, and you’re going to use them.”
“Got it,” Leah says. She keeps her voice quiet, trying to hide her excitement. Tina actually thinks this is a punishment? No, it’s a reward!
“Good. Now, let’s get that diapy changed.” Tina sets Leah on the couch and leaves. She comes back with changing supplies. After laying a changing mat on the floor, she sets Leah on it on her back and removes her clothes and wet diaper.
“You’re not changing me in the bathroom?” Leah asks.
“Talk like a toddler,” Tina warns. “I’ll allow it this time, since you’re getting used to it.” Leah nods fearfully. “Toddlers get changed wherever is convenient. They don’t care that strangers will see them fully naked.”
The doorbell rings.
“Coming!” Tina says, getting up. Leah is left on the floor mid-change, her privates fully exposed. A few moments later, Tina returns, someone else with her. Leah realizes, to her horror, that the guest is…