Part 27
The sound of Lilly's rumbling stomach could be audibly heard from the back of Jessica's car as the two of them continued to drive down busy streets. It was around 2pm now, which was about two hours after Lilly normally ate lunch. To make matters worse, it was now around the time that Lilly would usually be at home napping in his crib. These factors combined were beginning to make Lilly somewhat cranky, a fact that Jessica's many years of experience in childcare made it easy for her to pick up on. To help stem his hunger and possibly soothe him to sleep, Jessica had given him a bottle of formula from home that she had brought with her in her diaper bag, as well as put on a CD of children's nursery lullabies over her car stereo. The formula certainly helped, but the lullabies did nothing to soothe Lilly's temperament, and in fact was probably only serving as an annoyance to the poor sissy, who dearly missed the sounds of the various bands and artists that he used to listen to.
Jessica adjusted the rear view mirror so she could get a better glimpse of the tired, carseat faring baby behind her. "I'm sorry precious, I know you're very tired and hungry. Big sis is looking for a restaurant that we can go to right now, then I'll feed you a nice lunch before we go do anything else. For now, just try to get some rest", she said to Lilly, who continued to gulp down formula with an impatient, cross look on his face.
The formula would begin to do its trick however, and Lilly soon found himself hypnotized by the passing bumps in the road that were slowly massaging him into an increasingly tired state. As the last of the formula exited the bottle, Lilly soon felt his eyes droop and he became lost into a state of deep, well earned sleep. When he finally awoke, he found himself not safely tucked away in his car seat as he remembered, but instead being carried in Jessica's arms through some sort of parking lot. "Mfffm mmmph", the audible sound of his grunts were quickly muffled by his pacifier, which Jessica must have re-insearted into his mouth at some point after he fell asleep.
"Oh hey sis! You're awake", Jessica beamed to him with a cheery smile, "I finally found a place where we can have a nice lunch. Hope you're still hungry!"
Lilly quickly turned his head around and noticed the large brick building behind him. It was festively decorated with big glass windows featuring green shudders as well as a large, two sided front door at the entrance. "Great", Lilly thought, "This must be an Applejacks". The smell of sizzling entres and fresh salad dressing immediately hit his nose as Jessica pushed the front doors open and the two of them entered into the restaurant. They were promptly greeted upon their entrance by an overly enthusiastic server, a somewhat plump young woman who looked about Lilly's age (although obviously not the age that Lilly looked) with a gigantic, unnatural smile plastered across her face. "Hello, welcome to Applejacks, your neighborhood's favorite bar and grill! Will your little one require a highchair this evening?", the server practically yelled out with so much enthusiasm that it immediately made Lilly start to feel uncomfortable.
Jessica smiled at the server and nodded her head. "Yes please, and if we could possibly get a booth that would be great", she politely responded. The served grabbed a high chair from the corner and guided them to a booth near the side of the restaurant. It was seemingly the only booth left in the whole establishment, surrounded on all sides by lots of busy tables that we're absolutely chopped full of people. Lilly felt himself growing more and more embarrassed by the second as his server placed the small plastic high chair at the booths end and Jessica guided him in. It was a very tight fit for Lilly, but he was just barely able to fit into it with the tray locked into place, although he was basically left with no breathing room to speak of. The server quickly headed back and grabbed two menus from her stand. The first one was a large adult menu, obviously meant for Jessica, while the second was a tiny paper children's menu plastered with pictures of cartoon animals and simple games to entertain children while they waited for their food. There was no question who the second menu was for.
The server returned and handed Jessica her menu before turning to Lilly and placing his menu on the tray of his high chair, along with a pack of crayons. "I know she probably cant read", the server said thoughfully, "but I figured your little one might like to color while she's here. Can I start you off with anything to drink?"
Jessica looked at the menu for a few seconds before deciding that nothing caught her interest. "I'll just have a water, and if you don't mind...", she trailed on while digging in the diaper bag for Lilly's empty bottle, "could you please fill this up with milk for the baby?"
The server grabbed the bottle from Jessica's hand and gave her another large, unnatural smile. "Certainly! I'll be back with your drinks in just a minute!" Before she could leave, however, Jessica quickly tapped the servers shoulder to once again get her attention. "Oh sorry, one more thing", Jessica said with a mischevious smile, motioning to Lilly with a sly, casual wink. "Its her birthday today!"
The server gasped and slapped her hands against her cheek. "Wow! Well happy birthday sweetie!", she told Lilly in an over the top, exited voice. "I'll bet you're so exited to be another year older today!"
Lilly looked over at Jessica in complete confusion. Although it was becoming increasingly difficult for Lilly to gauge he passage of time, he knew there was absolutely no way it was his birthday right now. But why would she say that it was his birthday when it clearly wasn't? The server traded a few more pleasantries with Jessica before quickly leaving to grab their drinks. When she eventually returned, she handed Jessica a glass of water as well as the full bottle of milk as had been requested, and still seemed just as overly cheery and optimistic as when they first saw her. "Do you need anoyher minute to look over your menu? Or would you like to order now?", she asked with more enthusiasm than was necessary.
"I'm ready to order now, thank you", Jessica immediatley responded. "I'll have the steak fajitas with peppers and onions, as well as a side of fries. Make the steak medium rare if I have the option." The server jotted down her order before looking over to Lilly. "Anything for her?", she asked Jessica curiously. It was clear to Lilly that the server must believe him to be an actual infant, as she seemed to talk to Jessica about him as if he couldn't talk or make any choices for himself. She was absoultely right about both of those assertions, of course.
"Oh it's all right, I already have some food for her with me. Thank you though", Jessica replied. The server then took their orders back to the kitchen to be processed, leaving Lilly alone with Jessica as well as the sea of nameless strangers that surrounded him. As he waited for the food to come, he felt the curious gaze of many of these strangers point in his direction, making him more and more uncomfortable. Jessica paid his worry no mind and eventually began to dig through his diaper bag, producing a sissyish pink bib, a jar of baby food, and a small plastic spoon. She strapped the bib around Lillys neck and started undoing the lid on the baby food, scooping up a small bit to present to him.
"Alright baby, I'll just feed you your num nums now so you don't get hungry", she told him tenderly. She brought the spoon full of infantile mush up to his face and tried to shovel some into his mouth. Lilly noticed that some of the tables around them were starting to watch the spectacle at hand, and tried his hardest not to accept the food being offered. Because of his reluctance, the spoon would instead meet his closed lips, smearing colorful baby food all over their sides as Jessica tried to force her way in. "You silly baby, you know I'll have to spank you if you don't open up, so start eating your food right now. I'd hate to make a scene", Jessica said to him in a stern, dissapointed voice.
Sensing that a spanking would be a much worse alternative, as well as attract more unwanted attention, Lilly soon realised he had no choose but to accept the meal he was being offered. On her second attempt to shovel food into the pathetic sissy's mouth, Lilly finally accepted Jessica's spoon full of mush and closed his eyes in embarrassment, reluctantly swallowing it down. "Good gir! That's more like it", she praised, continuing to feed him spoonfull after spoonfull from there on after. By the time she was done, his face as well as his bib were absolutely coated with baby food.
Just as she was about to clean him up however, Jessica turned around to face the isle, where she noticed a lot of commotion going on. A gigantic grin soon appeared on her face when she realized what was about to happen. In addition to their server, who was quickly approaching with Jessica's fajita platter, there were about three or four other employees trailing behind her carrying sparklers and balloons. Jessica knew what was about to happen was a bit cruel on her part, but the the thought of it gave her too much joy to care. She could not wait to see the look that would appear on Lilly's face in a few seconds.
Lilly soon noticed the racket as well, but before he could even turn around, he was immediately surrounded by a sea of Applejacks employees, each one with an elated, celebratory look on their face. They began to sing at the top of their lungs in unison:
"Happy Happy birthday!
From all of us to you!
Happy Happy birthday!
Hope all your dreams come true!"
The employees clapped their hands while joyfully repeating the stansa two or three more times, causing Lilly to almost shut down completely in shock and embarrassment. By now, the entire restaurant was staring in their direction, watching with entertained expressions as this sissy boy, who was clearly not an actual infant, was forced to endure more unwanted attention than any sane person could ever ask for. A few scattered laughs could now be heard throughout the restaurant, with the topic of most conversations soon changing to the scene that was going on at Jessica and Lilly's booth. It was all so overwhelming to Lilly; The singing, the clapping, the stares and the sparklers, that he was completely helpless to stop himself from wetting his diaper in fear from all the intense stimuli surrounding him. This only made him more upset, and he wanted nothing more than for all of the attention to stop.
Eventually the signing would stop. Although it had lasted maybe all of 30 seconds, Lilly felt like the ordeal had gone on for hours, and was exhausted and trembling by the time the commotion ceased. Not a second after the song finished however, an employee pulled out a Polaroid camera and snapped an instant photo of the upset sissy, who's face was still absolutely caked with babyfood, and who's wet diaper could very clearly be seen under his fluffy pink skirt in his high chair. She then showed the two of them the photo, before taking it and tacking onto a section of the wall that was labeled "Birthday Wall of Fame". It was all highly amusing to Jessica, who was looking on with an expression of pure, unadulterated joy as the entire thing progressed. She thanked the employees for their extravagant show and promised that she'd tip them well. Even after the employees left, all eyes would seem to remain on Lilly for the rest of their meal. He sat there stupified in frozen terror, forced to watch Jessica eat sizzling fajita after sizzling fajita as he gulped down his bottle and felt his diaper grow colder and colder by the minute. By the time Jessica paid the check and left, he was happy to be strapped back into his carseat, ready to leave this entire humiliating experience behind. He wondered what his sister had planned for him next, and hoped that it wouldnt be nearly as embarrassing as this whole experience had been.