Eventually the princesses were all introduced and it was time for the contest to truly begin. The neat line we had all been filed into was broken up by Elaine, who hurriedly shuffled us to the side of the stage while two stagehands in colorful, frilly gowns appeared from off stage with a large pink teddy bear in their hands, as well as a bag full of props. I could tell from the glimmer of bright pink and blonde in the corner of my eye that one of them was Roxy, who gave me a playful wink as she walked out onto the center of the stage to begin setting up for the first real part of the competition. The colorful stuffed bear was placed directly in the middle of the platform for all to see, and the bag of props was emptied before it, with multiple smaller toys scattering about at the teddy bear's feet. Elaine promptly took her place next to it to begin explaining the rules of the first competition. The bear looked absolutely gigantic next to her, easily coming up to 3/4 of her height. She playfully ruffled the fur on the enormous stuffies head before speaking.
"Everybody knows that a proper little princess must be kind, compassionate, and loving. For our first competition of the evening, we will test out how these little ones can demonstrate their love for this gigantic stuffed teddy bear. Each contestant will have their turn to interact with the large and loveable beast, and they will be judged based on how kindly or unkindly they treat it. Contestant number one may begin when they are ready. Good luck!"
Moments later a small girl in a pink sailor suit with a matching large bright pink rose in her hair was led directly to the center of the stage by her mother. The girl was obviously one of the older princesses in the group, probably about four years old, and seemed to have an air of confidence about her. Her mother let go of her arm once they reached the large stuffed animal, and the girl wasted no time in walking up to the bear and giving it a big hug as well as a small, friendly kiss. The audience ooed and awwed at the adorable act, and it was very clear that she had been instructed by her mother on exactly what to do beforehand. Jessica shook her head in disbelief and then tilted it down at me, looking me directly in the eyes. A determined look was plastered across her face. "See that princess? THAT'S the one we need to look out for. You need to do something even cuter than that if we're going to win this thing", she said to me in a quiet, yet still incredibly pumped up voice.
I stared off into the distance as the girl was led back to our group and the next contestant was quickly hurried up to take her place. "Win this thing...", I laughed to myself internally at the absurdity of Jenna's statement, "Why do I care if we win this thing? I don't even want to be here."
Still, the spirit of competition was clearly in the air. The next few contestants would have varying degrees of success in their interaction with the large plush creature, and Jenna seemed incredibly tense the entire time. It was like she was a serial gambler at a race track. She either muttered words of disappointment under her breath or excitedly mouthed the word "yes!" as princess after princess was led to the bear and left to work their magic. One little girl offered the bear one of the toys off the ground, an act of compassion that the audience clearly appreciated, while another younger girl simply sat on the ground in front of it and ignored the bear entirely, choosing to instead play with the toys herself. Girl after girl was led up and brought back while Jenna, as well as the other parents, intently watched the whole thing with hawk-like eyes.
In what felt like a very short amount of time, the sixth contestant began to return and I was reminded that it would now be our turn to be led out. Before I even realized what was happening, Jenna had already grabbed my arm and began pulling me towards the center of the stage, causing me to snap out of my mental daze and stumble as I tried to regain my balance. "Remember...be the most adorable little sissy baby you can be", she muttered discreetly from the side of her mouth, finally letting me go with a loving tap to my diaper into the center of the stage, right back into the entire audience's direct line of sight. All of my anxieties very quickly returned and my legs once again began to heavily shake at the prospect of being the center of attention. I coyly grabbed a small stuffed rabbit off of the ground and began a short walk over to "give it" to the bear, thinking that it would at least score me some compassion points in the tally. However, in all my unease and distress I instead found myself tripping over my own feet and beginning a rapid, humiliating descent forward and downward. My pink-white barbie sneakers quickly disappeared from view as I felt the momentum of my fall lift my frilly pink skirt up and reveal my embarrassing diaper covers to the entire audience. My body fell on top of the stuffed bear with a muffled plop, knocking it down so I was now laying on top of it with my legs spread wide around it's torso and my big, puffy bottom directly on display for all to see.
After a moment of awkward silence, the audience began to shriek with laughter at my pathetically adorable blunder. I stayed on top of the large stuffed animal and closed my eyes, trying to drown out the horrible, emasculating jeers and giggles that were now echoing from all around me. I could not will myself to move, no matter how hard I tried, and my obviously diapered sissy butt remained the focal point of many amused, pointing fingers. If things could get any worse than this, I did not want to know.
Elaine walked over and waited a moment for the laughter to die down, before crouching down and tenderly beginning to rub my back. "Ohh honeybunch...I'm so, so sorry. At least you tried, right baby?", she cooed down to me sympathetically, although also still broadcasting it into the microphone for good measure. Clearly she thought that her words of encouragement would help me feel better, but instead I only felt worse. Jenna walked over to where I was laying and casually picked me up. Giving me a kiss on the cheek, she waved to the audience and quickly made her way back to the side of the stage.
"That was amazing!", Jenna whispered excitedly, "I don't know if I've ever seen you do something so adorable in your life! I mean, falling like that probably won't score you any points, but oh well. Even though I'm disappointed that we won't win, it was worth it just to see your adorable tush in the air like that. You should act more clumsy all the time."
I cringed and held back tears as I stewed in my own disappointment for the remainder of the first round. In all, it did not seem to go on too much longer, as there were only about five or so more contestants left after me. The competition afterward wouldn't be nearly as humiliating, and definitely not as noteworthy, but it was still pretty embarrassing. In order to test our "elegance" as princesses to be, we were made to ride toy horsies around the stage while elegant baroque music set the mood in the background. This was not done with nearly as much grace or structure as the first competition, since it's very hard to do anything with complex rules when toddlers are involved, resulting in a very chaotic mass of girls romping around the stage with almost no rhyme or reason for about two and a half minutes. The audience seemed to mostly check out for this one, although I could clearly hear the odd chuckle or jeer resonating from the stands at multiple different points in time. I can't say I entirely blamed them either. I must have looked incredibly lost and silly as I mindlessly wandered around the stage, bouncing up and down with the stick of the toy horse between my legs like some kind of z-grade film extra. Occasionally I would slow down a little, only to see Jenna shooting me a very nasty look, causing me to resume my energetic bouncing with feigned excitement. The fact that my diaper was still wet caused me to begin chafing slightly from all the friction of hopping up and down, and by the end of the second round of the competition I was beginning to grow increasingly uncomfortable.
After my humiliating horsie ride, there was a brief cooldown period to give the chaperones time to calm their children down and take care of whatever needs had to be taken care of. By now there were a couple of contestants that were in dire need of a diaper change (including me), and we were all led off the stage to an area behind it where a small building housing restrooms was located. Jenna grabbed my hand and led me back with her down the stairs, and before I knew it I was lying on the ground next to a group of three or so mothers changing their toddler's diapers. I felt so incredibly small as Jenna slid the diaper covers down my legs and began to untape my sagging, squishy wet pampers while I laid on the floor completely exposed. "Wow, you really had to go didn't you baby? These are some of the wettest diapers I've ever seen!", she said in surprise as she folded up my used diapers and placed them next to her. Grabbing a fresh diaper from the diaper bag, she began to unfold it when her eye suddenly caught sight of the diaper covers, piquing her interest. "Oh no sissy, look! Your pee pees leaked right through your diaper and got your covers all wet! Lucky for me I brought extra!"
Jenna dug back into the diaper bag and pulled out a similar looking cover, except this one had a reverse color scheme of pink and white, rather than the white and pink that I was previously wearing. She held them up proudly and gave me a big smile. "See baby? These one's might be even prettier to be honest. They're even your favorite color!"
I placed my hands over my eyes and ignored her. By this point I was too mentally exhausted to care what happened next or what she dressed me in. I just wanted to go home and lock myself in my room forever. At least then I would be able to get some privacy, which was something I had next to none of right now. As Jenna slid the new diaper under me, I noticed the woman who had confronted us earlier was also in the rest room with us, except she was using the diaper change table to take care of her actual toddler. She looked down at Jenna changing me on the floor and shook her head, smiling. Due to Jenna's wild stories about me being mentally incompetent, it was beginning to seem as though everyone truly viewed me as the equivilent of a little baby, or at the very least was convinced I deserved to be treated like one. Suddenly, I felt Jenna stick something inside of my butt when nobody was looking.
"Whoa", I dumbfoundedly cried out in disbelief, feeling jolted from the alien sensation.
"Oops sorry baby", Jenna said sympathetically, "That was just me cleaning you out a little." I did not know whether to believe her explanation or not, since the sensation of something foreign inside of my rectum remained, although I figured it could also be my mind playing tricks on me. I stared up at the ceiling for the remainder of the change, wishing only for an escape from this carnival of demeaning humiliations.
Within minutes I would find myself back on the stage, readying myself for the final princess trial of the day as an unknown stagehand hurriedly walked from contestant to contestant and handed us small, plastic tiaras. Jenna fixed the tiara on my head, and from looking around I could see that most other adults were doing the same for their own young ones. Elaine once again appeared in front of the crowd, eager as ever to explain our last embarrassing task. She tapped the mic to test that it was still on before holding it up to her face and excitedly beginning to tell us exactly what we would now be doing. "For our final competition tonight, we will be testing one of the most important skills that a princess can have; Dance!", she told the crowd enthusiastically. "The rules of this competition will be simple. The princesses-to-be and their wonderful older chaperones will simply dance on stage for all of us to see, and the judges will decide afterward which pair among them looks the most princess-like. Good luck my pretties!"
The sound of ABBA's Dancing Queen suddenly started to emanate from the loudspeakers beside the stage, signalling to all of the contestants that the dance number would now begin. Before I could even process what was happening, Jenna had already grabbed both of my arms and was beginning to spin me around and around, moving me haphazardly in every direction and manipulating my limbs like a ragdoll. Beads of sweat were starting to form on my body as I nervously remembered the mistake I had made the first time I was on stage, and I focused on trying desperately not to lose my coordination as I had then. By the time the first chorus had started, Roxy and some of the other members of the staff wearing princess-like gowns began to also make their way onto the stage, joining us in our musical romp. By the time the song was halfway over, even Brittney herself had joined us, eliciting a bombardment of excited scream from the crowd and doubling the amount of energy that one could feel in the air. Brittney seemed to be seriously enjoying herself, moving from pair to pair and giving the little ones a once in a lifetime chance to dance with her hand in hand. The youngest ones did not seem to care, but the older toddlers who actually knew who she was latched onto her like vultures circling their next meal. For most other people on stage, I'm sure the whole experience was a lot of fun.
I, however, was understandably not as positive about the whole thing as everybody else was. As I nervously pranced about the stage with Jenna like some kind of trained poodle on a leash, the constant movement began to somewhat upset my stomach. I tried to ignore it at first, figuring it to be some sort of passing feeling that would go away eventually, but the longer I moved around the worse it began to feel. Jenna seemed to notice the faces I was making as I squinted and concentrated on trying to ignore the inevitable. A sadistic smile spread across the corners of her face.
"Uh oh diaper girl, looks like it's wor-king!", she said in a teasing tone of voice, clearly amused by something I did not yet comprehend.
"What do you mean it's work-", I was suddenly cut off before I could respond to Jenna's statement by the sensation of my shoulder being tapped. Jenna stopped forcing me to dance and freed me to turn myself around and see who it was. I spun my body 180 degrees and nearly gasped in shock. It was Roxy, as beautiful as ever and still decked out from head to toe in princess gear. Her body towered over mine and exuded an air of confidence that made me weak at the knees. Staring directly into my soul, her incredibly pretty hazel eyes seemed to hypnotize me in a way few others could. She placed one arm on my shoulder and looked over at Jenna with a wickedly devilish smile. "Mind if I take lil Pete here for a spin?", she asked Jenna with a smooth, sultry voice that made me want to melt. Jenna giggled to herself and nodded.
"Go for it", she responded.