The Streak - Part 9
Username: DaraJaney, Oct/6/2005 13:30:37 [-04][new]
With one week to go he was still wetting himself. In fac******was more frequent if anything. Most of the time he realised it was coming and was able to take off his nappy and go in the toilet but if he was concentrating on something or distracted by something he was liable to find himself soaked through before realising what was happening.
His mother told him he would have to go back to school and if he was still wetting himself then he would just have to go back in nappies. The idea of this terrified him. It was bad enough as it was the teasing he was going to get but if he was still in nappies it would be unbearable. But he became even more anxious and each morning woke with a soggy nappy.
He was becoming more and more miserable as the return to school approached and his control actually deteriorated. He frequently sneaked a few moments with a dummy to console himself.
When it came to the first day of school his mother entered his room carrying his school uniform. Tony looked morosely through the bars of his cot. She placed his clothes on his bed. She had bought an extra large pair of grey trousers to fit over his nappy.
She lowered the side of the cot. He stared at his uniform for a moment and eventually swung his legs out of the cot. His mother fetched the trousers and held them in front of him. “Here you go.”
He sat on the edge of the cot, lowered his head and shook it. “What’s wrong”, she asked. He looked up. “There’s no way I’m going to school wearing a nappy”, he insisted. “Well, you can’t go without one”, she told him. “It would be worse if you wet yourself in front of them all.”
He looked down again. “I know.” She looked at him. “So what are you saying?” “I’m not going back to school”, he said firmly. “I see”, his mother said, thinking about this. Years of practice as a mother had honed her skills in psychological warfare.
“OK”, she said. He looked up in surprise. “But if you’re not going to school then you’ll have to continue going to the kindergarten in your baby dresses”, she told him. He winced. “And there’ll be no point in trying to toilet train you again”, she continued, “you can do everything in your nappy from now on.” He sighed. He should have known she wouldn’t make it easy.
His mother fetched his prettiest dress and placed it on the bed beside his school uniform. “So which do you want to wear - your uniform or your baby dress?” She smiled, confident that she had him cornered. She picked up his trousers again and held them out for him.
But much to her surprise he shook his head. She hesitated momentarily. He obviously needed more convincing. She picked up the pink dress. “OK then, arms up!”
“Please Mum”, he begged. “The other boys would tear me apart if I turn up wearing a nappy.” “Fine”, she said, “so let’s get your baby dress on and I’ll get you over to the kindergarten.” He started crying in frustration. She pulled an arm up and pushed it through a sleeve of the dress. He made a cross face but didn’t fight her. Soon he was zipped up and she went to get the matching panties.
He continued to plead with her but she ignored it all and continued dressing him. She put on his frilly ankle socks and t-bar shoes. Then she fetched a bonnet. He cringed. She hadn’t made him wear bonnets since he was freed from the girls’ school but she was determined to turn up the pressure. She tied the bonnet on his head.
She went back to the drawers and returned with the fingerless mittens. He gave her a desperate pleading look. “You’re going to be a proper helpless baby if you stay at home”, she told him. “I’m not letting you have a cushy life with no school. You’ll be bottle fed and spoon fed everything. I’ll have the school send down your high-chair and play-pen.”
She waited for him to crack and agree to put on the uniform but she buckled the mittens on his hands and pushed the dummy in to his mouth and all he did was cry harder. She took him into the kitchen, sat him down and spoon-fed him his corn-flakes. There was no sign that he was going to give in.
She put clean nappies and a baby bottle in his bag for the kindergarten. He still didn’t crack. When she pulled him towards the front door he dug his heels in but to no avail.
Soon they were in the kindergarten. Miss Keane was surprised to see him. “Oh, I thought he was going back to school today”. “He was supposed to”, his mother replied, “bu*****seems he’d rather be a baby and come here.” Tony gave her a wounded look from behind his dummy.
His mother handed Miss Keane his bag saying “there’s no point in letting him use the toilet anymore, he’s to do everything in his nappy in future. He can’t feed himself now either”, she said, pointing to his mittens.
Miss Keane realised what was going on and rowed in behind his mother. “OK but I’m afraid real babies should go to the crèche. We’ll look after him today but after that he should really be with the other babies.”
Tony just took this further humiliation stoically. As horrid as this would be at least he didn’t have to face a school full of cruel boys wearing a nappy.
The children in the kindergarten were amused to see him in his bonnet and mittens. He silently suc-ked on his dummy all day. There was nothing to say – no response to the taunts.
At the end of the day Miss Keane told them all that Tony was going to the crèche in future to be with the other babies since he obviously needed to stay in nappies. The little tykes felt so superior to this teenage boy who needed nappies and wore sissy baby dresses.