24 - Part 2
Username: DaraJaney, Nov/25/2005 02:30:49 [-04][new]
1100 The medical shop in the high street.
Danny is standing in front of the mirror wearing a big pink dress with puffed sleeves, lace collar and trimmings and several layers of stiff petticoat. In the mirror, despite the huge skirts, he can see his nappy clearly underneath, the dress is so short. He tugs the hem and pushes down the petticoats as best he can, but to no avail.
“Oh he’s embarrassed about the nappy showing”, his mother says. “That’s no problem”, the assistant chips in, “the dress comes with accessories included, such as matching panties.” She holds up a pair of pink panties that are thickly covered all around with rows of lace. She pulls them up Danny’s legs and over the plastic panties. “There we go.”
Danny inspects himself in the mirror again. “They’re worse than the nappy”, he protests. “God, you’re never happy”, his mother scolds mockingly.
His mother picks up a pink bonnet. “Does this come with it too?” “Yes, and the booties”, the assistant replies. “This is ridiculous”, Danny insists but he is soon clad in the bonnet and booties.
He looks sideways into the mirror. His bottom is now encased in a mass of frills between the vast petticoats and the lace on his panties. He continues protesting.
“Please Mum, a joke is a joke.” He stamps his foot. “This has gone on long en-mmmpf”. The assistant has come up behind him and shoved a large pink dummy in his mouth and immediately strapped it behind his head.
“Mmmppff!” he objects. “That’s better”, his mother says and she calmly adjusts parts of his baby outfit. She turns him towards the mirror. If it wasn’t for the fact that he is as tall as her and for the scowl that could just about be made out behind the large dummy, he looks a perfect baby girl.
The assistant appears with a leather harness. “It looks like you may need restraints for him too if he keeps up his protests.” She pulls the harness over him. He totters a little as she pulls it tight and straps him in firmly. She hands the reins to his mother. She gives a little tug that makes him step backwards.
Unable to speak he tries to convey his desperation in gestures and facial expressions. He looks down at his dress and stamps his foot in protest. This just brings sniggering from both his mother and the assistant.
With that he starts crying. He had thought it was bad enough that he might have to wear a nappy in bed overnight but suddenly here he is all dressed up like a pretty baby girl. Surely this is some kind of over-the-top joke.
“We can also provide large play-pens and cots with bars that you can tie his reins to”, the assistant tells his mother. “It looks like you may have your hands full with him so I would recommend them.” His mother nods. “I would also suggest that a high-chair would be most convenient for feeding if you are going to keep his mittens on at all times.” Danny looks on in stunned disbelief as his mother agrees with all this.
The assistant writes down the order. “Do you want to wait for the blue baby suit to come in next week?” she asks. His mother studies some of the other baby dresses in the cupboard. “We do have a special offer at the moment”, the assistant informs her, “three dresses for the price of two”.
“Oh that’s an offer we can’t refuse isn’t it?” his mother says looking at Danny’s incredulous face. She selects a cerise toddler style dress and a mint green dress with an attached frilled pinafore.
“We can have everything delivered to your house later”, the assistant tells her. “Now if you will just step outside to arrange payment.” His mother walks towards the door and tugs his reins. The assistant unlocks the door. Danny is frozen rigid to the spot. Despite all the torment his mother had put him through, it had never occurred to him that she would actually make him go out in public like this!
He tries to resist her tugs and he grunts desperately through his dummy. But the soles of his booties are curved and he is unable to dig his heels in. So he stumbles helplessly towards the door.
He grabs both sides of the door in a last ditch effort to avoid complete humiliation. There are several women in the shop and a few small girls with them. The assistant tickles him under the arm. He involuntarily twitches in reaction to the tickle and loses his grip on the door. He stumbles out into the shop.
Everyone stops and looks. Most are looking at his nether regions. He instinctively tries to push his petticoats down again and visibly cringes. But there is nothing he can do to stop everyone seeing his outrageously frilly panties covering the obvious bulk of his nappy.
His mother drags him over to the cash register and ties his reins to the table. He can do nothing but stand there sniffling while all the customers gather around for a closer look. “I think it’s actually a boy”, someone gasps. Tears immediately flow, confirming this observation to everyone. He wants to protest that they forcibly dressed him like this but the dummy makes it impossible for him to offer any kind of defence. His abject misery confirms to everyone in any case that he is not a voluntary participant in this.
Then he sees a school mate, Jason, with his mother. She seems to be particularly interested in Danny’s outfit. Jason is in fits of laughter too until he notices his mother’s undue interest. She looks Danny up and down with a smile and then turns towards Jason. But he had already escaped out the door!
It seems like an age before his mother had dealt with the business end of things. The assistant asks her loudly “how many cotton nappies to you want?” His mother is unsure. “Oh, I’ve no idea”, she says. “Well, it depends”, the assistant suggests, “do you intend to keep him in nappies 24-7?” “Oh yes”, his mother answers with certainty. This draws sniggers from the crowd that has gathered. Danny just hangs his head.
“We’ll have his other dresses, nappies, play-pen, cot and high-chair delivered later.” Everyone laughs themselves sick at the idea of this teenage boy being kept at home like a real baby.
His mother unties his reins, gives a tug and he follows her towards the door of the shop. He is desperate to get away from the looks of the customers but at the door he realises that he is about to go out into an altogether larger crowd of shoppers in the high street.