Chapter 20
The outfit I was wearing at the moment was bad enough, the puffed little shorts with the straps over the shoulders doing nothing to hide the thick nappies underneath. But now I found myself I a ladies dress shop with another one of Aunty Val’s friends and looking around I did not think I would be wearing the same when I left.
“Well then little Alex” said the shop owner, “You may call me Madam Becky or just Madam”.
“I have been waiting to see you for some time so I have had plenty of time to create some wonderful little things for you to wear”.
I was concerned even when she said before I had seen what she had made purely by what was hanging around the walls of the store. Everything seemed overly girly and frilly, the sort you would expect to find a toddler in at a wedding or christening but the sizes were all scaled up to fit people like me.
“Do you like what you see Alex” said Aunty Val with a wicked smile to her face as she waited for my answer.
My answer would have been no straight away but they were just so girly and cute. Saying that I still did not fancy wearing any of them, so decided to keep my mouth shut hoping it would be for the best.
“Awww look Becky” said Aunty, “He is stunned into silence as he must like all of them so much”
“He will never admit it but he just can’t resist cute and girly, it just a shame that he won’t get into anything adult for the rest of the year, it will be cute and styled very little girly for him”.
I wanted to believe that she did not mean what she was saying, she would not really keep me like this while I stayed with her but she had my mum’s consent which gave me no choice in things.
“Well which shall we try him in first” Becky asked my mum making is suddenly dawn on me that all these dresses that were of a similar size were that way for a reason; they were all meant for me.
I looked at the neat row of dresses hanging up along the wall and they were all of a similar style but with slight changes in colours and trims. From one end to the other were dresses in white, pink, lemon, lavender and even a black one.
Madam Becky had obviously seen me looking at all of them and came up behind me, wrapping her arms over my shoulders and around my neck.
“I hope you like them little one” she said, “Your Aunt’s last little project ended up in something I made but nothing so cute and childish as these”.
“I just hope they fit you like I want them too, just long enough to cover up the frilly nappy covers but as you walk your little knickers will show”.
After hearing that I wanted to run, I wanted to get up, run out of the store and keep running until I no longer had the energy to run anymore. I tried to get up and out of the grip of Madam Becky but she held me firm and all that I got for my troubles was a slap to my bare legs from Aunty.
“Stop being silly Alex dear” said Aunty, “You made your bed so now it is time to sleep in it, but for you a cot might be more appropriate”.
As soon as she said that both she and Madam Becky just started to laugh at my expense, both of them knowing what they had planned.
Resigned to my fate, I stopped struggling thinking that it could not get any worse for me at that point, but then it did. The bell on the door rang and on walked a lady whose face I recognised straight away and hoped that I never would again.
I turned away hoping that she would not see me or worse still recognise me in my current attire, the lady in question was my former school teacher whom I had a crush on for many years, something which she knew about and loved to tease me about. But worse was when I was caught with a spare pair of her gym knickers when she sometimes had to teach us. She promised that she would never tell a soul and to this day I believed that was the case.
“Hello again Mrs Steven’s” said Madam, “It is so nice to see you again”,
“Is there something special that you require today”?
“No not really” replied Mrs Steven’s, “I just thought I would pop by and see what new things you have in”,
“But I can see that you are busy with another little special case”.
“Oh don’t worry about little Alex here” said Aunty Val, trying to make my experience worse.
“Say hello to the nice lady Alex”.
“Hello Mrs Steven’s” I replied quickly not wanting to look at her.
“Alex” exclaimed Aunty Val slapping the back of my legs again, “Don’t be so rude to the nice lady, “You greet her properly and this time look at her”.
“Hello Mrs Steven’s, it is so nice to meet you” I said with some reluctance as I looked at her, watching the grin grow across her face.
“Well what do we have here” she replied trying not to laugh at my current state, “Is that the way to greet your former favourite special teacher”!
“Alex why did you not say that you already know Mrs Steven’s” asked Madam, “There is no need to be embarrassed, she always kept your secret nice and safe”.
I knew at that point that the very personal secret between Mrs Steven’s and myself was no longer a secret. I began to think that her sudden arrival here was not by coincidence at all and this little rendezvous had been planned beforehand.
“Awww don’t look so disappointed sweetie” said Mrs Steven’s, “There are only a special few that know and I promise to look after you so well for the next day”.
I looked across at Aunty all puzzled,
“Yes Alex honey, you heard right” said Aunty Val, “You are all hers for the next day or so while I get everything sorted”.