As the voting was announced the next day the other boys sat upright in their high-chairs praying for a good result. Gary sat slumped in his, almost past caring. He didn’t even react when he was last again. He had come to expect that misery was now his lot.
Shortly afterwards they removed his butt plug and replaced his nappy without an enema. Even the nannies seemed to be feeling sorry for him now. He still couldn’t understand a word they said but the tone was kinder. His nanny spoke to him gently as she spoon fed him. She smiled on reinserting his soother and handed him his favourite teddy.
Now that he was past caring he just accepted his babified state and went with the programme. He didn’t act the big sissy in particular, he just accepted his bottles, feedings and changes. It was relief enough to be without the butt plug. He nursed relatively contentedly on his soother all day. He played with his toys and stopped caring that he was dressed in a big baby dress, frilly panties and pink tights. But it didn’t make any difference, he always came last.
Eventually it was down to the last two. The man told them he had something to show them. The other boy, Jamie, walked along in front in his blue romper. Gary was helped along by two nannies. They went through several doors and then he saw that the next one opened to the outdoors. He grew in excitement. He hadn’t breathed fresh air in weeks.
They walked out into a yard. It was quite cold and Jamie shivered. For once, Gary was pleased that he was wearing nice warm tights and layers of petticoats. They were brought towards a building marked “Long-term facility”.
They went in and down a corridor. They went into a dark room that had a window all down the side. Gary presumed that it was a one-way mirror. Inside was another nursery with about a dozen over-sized babies in it. Every one of them wore a big pastel coloured baby dress with stiff petticoats, matching bonnets, frilly panties stretched over very thick nappies and tights.
The man turned to face Jamie and Gary. “You should know that whoever comes last is transferred to this long-term facility.” The boys frowned as they looked into the nursery. Long-term? How long-term?
One boy in a lilac dress crawled across and tried to take a doll from a boy sitting in a peach dress. They both tugged desperately at the doll. There was a flurry of ringlets as they struggled. A nanny came over to break them up. The boy in the lilac dress won the tug of war and crawled away with the doll. The other boy sat bawling crying. The nanny comforted him and found another doll but he threw it away. She shoved his dummy into his mouth and sat suc-king on it in a sulk.
“At the end of each year we allow the best behaved baby out”, the man told them. Gary was stunned. One a year?!? That meant that most of them would be kept here for several years.
A door opened into the room and a woman and girl walked in. A boy in a dress with a print of fairies saw them and crawled towards them. He got to his feet and wobbled a little as he curtsied repeatedly. Gary couldn’t hear what the girl said but assumed that she must have complimented the boy’s baby dress because he held out his petticoats, turned around, bent over to show off his matching bloomers, turned back and curtsied again.
The woman had a shopping bag and took out a cuddly duck. The boy took it eagerly and bopped up and down excitedly. He showed it proudly to the other boys around him. The girl took out a lollipop. The boy, presumably her big brother, knelt in front of her so she could remove his soother and insert the lollipop. He suc-ked it with obvious relish.
They had a third present for him. The woman unwrapped a pair of white tights. She showed him that it had a pattern of fairies that matched the his dress. He jigged about excitedly. She said something to him and he nodded. They brought him over to the changing table so that he could try the tights on immediately. Gary thought the boy’s eagerness was worryingly convincing.
Both boys returned to their own nursery even more desperate than ever to win. But Gary still wasn’t sure whether he should act more or less like a sissy. He tried to make sense of the order in which the other boys were voted out but there was no discernable pattern.
Anyway, as he thought before, dressed as he was, there was only one option for him. He tried his level best to be the most angelic best behaved baby girl there ever was. He fluttered his eyelashes cutely whenever he could. He gurgled happily through his soother, took every opportunity to show off his bloomers and smiled sweetly at the nannies.