Chapter 5
Doug was so completely humiliated that he didn’t think he could feel any smaller as Nanny tucked him up in his bed. She searched the pocket in the front of her apron and pulled out the pink dummy he had been suc-king previously. He did not put up any resistance as she rubbed it across his lips and he took the soft silicon teat into his mouth. He did not resist when she told him to sit up a little while she tied a bib around his neck in order to catch the dribbles caused by his binky suc-king.
She bent down and kissed his forehead, then dropped the blind and drew the curtains to leave his bedroom in total darkness. A glance at his bedside clock told him it was only five o’clock in the afternoon. Nanny reached in to her apron once more and found a baby bottle filled with Ribena blackcurrant juice. “In case you get thirsty” she explained “you are going to be in bed a long time. No getting up during the night, no using the toilet because you are wearing thick nappies, no reading. You must go straight to sleep”.
He suc-ked pensively on his dummy, it tasted a little bitter, he was going to explain that he didn’t feel tired but the more he suc-ked, the more tired he seemed to feel. He slumped back into his pillow. The last thing he remembered was how his bed crinkled and he realised Nanny had protected his mattress with a plastic sheet.
An hour or so later his bladder released and a warmth spread across his thick nappies, while his plastic pants kept everything safely contained and his bed dry. His dummy bobbed in and out as he slept deeply and soundly.
The next morning he was awoken to the sound of a commotion.
“You will not pander to the whims of that boy Nanny. His is a lazy, slovenly urchin who needs to be taught a lesson. You will carry our his punishment as I ordered yesterday. He will stay in nappies, drink from a bottle, suc-k a dummy and crawl everywhere like a little baby until teatime. After that I will review the situation. He must certainly practice the exercises I gave you for him, otherwise he may never be fully continent.”
“But it is so cruel” pleaded Nanny who felt that her punishment far exceeded the crime. Doug had tried his damnedest to control himself, it wasn’t really his fault that she had taken so long to hang out his stepsister’s nappies, plastic pants and bibs. The shame he had endured in front of his family had been punishment enough and the final humiliation of washing out his filthy training pants had been a really unpleasant task. “Let me get him up and put his back in his training pants Mrs. Reynolds and I will make sure he goes back to his exercises. Don’t you think that having to use a pink potty is a big punishment in its own right?”
“Are you questioning me Nanny?” exploded Kate
“Yes, I most certainly am” retorted Nanny “you are a monster.”
“And you Nanny, are fired. Pack up your things and go. I want you packed up and gone in the hour. I will pay you three months severance and I will give you a splendid reference, but I will not be contradicted in my own house. Never.” shouted Kate with spittle flying with her venomous anger. “And don’t think for one minute that you are going to see Doug again, because I am going to take over his care for the next month or so. I think he would find a goodbye to be very distressing, so I am going to ask you to leave quickly and quietly.”
Nanny wiped a silent tear from the corner of her eye, went to her room and packed up her few belongings in to two very large cases. Charlotte stood in her cot wearing a very wet nappy and could not understand why her nanny was not changing her and giving her a cuddle. Nanny could hardly bare to look at her. There was a knock on her door. Bill the gardener and handyman had come up to help her to carry her luggage down to her small car.
In a moment she had gone.
Doug was lying in his bed, his eyes watering with sadness, his nappy soaking wet and on the verge of leaking, his dummy providing him with the comfort he so badly needed at this time. He heard a car driving away from the house, the tyres scrunching on the gravel as it made its way to the gates that protected the property.
His stepmother called the twins. He struggled to hear what was being said. “You are both fifteen years old and I need you to be more proactive in this family. So, from now on, the two of you are going to look after your sister while I look after your stepbrother Doug. I shall of course be looking for a new nanny, but until then I need you to pull your weight. Okay? I appreciate this is a big ask, but I will raise your weekly allowance to make it worth your while.”
He heard feet coming up the stairs, the knot in his stomach grew even tighter, his bladder spurted additional pee into his already saturated nappy. The door opened and from the darkness of his room he could see the striking silhouette of his stepmother framing the doorway. The curtains were opened, the blind was raised and light streamed into his small room making Doug blink with the suddenness of it all. What a sight he presented, his bib not only wet from his drooling, but also stained pink with the dribbles that had escaped his bottle of Ribena that he had fumbled with at some time during the night, when it was too dark to see what he was doing.
“Good morning baby Dougie” she cooed sarcastically “how is my little one today? Have you soaked your nappy like the little infant you pretend to be?”
“I had to go in my nappy” he bleated “you’re the one who made Nanny put me back in nappies.” His dummy still firmly embedded in his mouth and threatening to be ejected with his forceful remarks.
“You seem to love your do-do Dougie, look at you trying to talk like a big boy while still suc-king on you dummy!” Kate was about to continue her tirade when the sound of the doorbell stopped he in mid flow. She looked out of his window and almost seemed to be gleeful. “That is the delivery I ordered from the hospital” she explained, hastily making her way to the stair “I’ll get it, you girls look after Charlotte.”
Doug heard a brief dialogue on the doorstep, then Bill being summoned and two sets of footsteps coming up the stairs. A large parcel wrapped in brown paper and tied with string was placed on the small desk that supported his computer. Bill left with a nod to Kate and she opened the parcel.
“Look what I managed to get for you baby! We stopped using terry nappies in the geriatric ward and moved to disposables. These are adult sized nappies, I don’t want you soiling and messing up Charlotte’s lovely fluffy white nappies. These are a bit stained and some of them are not that soft any more but then this is your punishment today.” she explained. “Ah, wonderful! They found the plastic pants I asked for.” She pulled out six pairs of yellowing pants, that were clearly well used, some of which had signs of previous staining from severely double incontinent patients. As she handled them the crackling was intense. The elastic around the legs and was was yellowed and discoloured.
She pulled back his duvet and was pleased to see that his bed and nightie were still dry but clearly surprised at how drenched he had made his nappy. She stripped off his nappy and the enclosing nappy pants in one swift move as he raised his bottom from the sheet. He lay there naked as she folded one of the new nappies into a kite shape and then folded another into a rectangle that she placed in the middle for additional protection. The nappies were far from pristine and there were ominous stains on both of them. She slipped the bundle under Doug and pulled the the front corner through his legs and pulled the substantials sides across to the middle. He was swamped in nappy and the overlap was huge. Kate struggled to push the nappy pin through all the thickness of the diaper.
“I need to be cleaned first” moaned Doug as the pin was snapped shut.
“No, I am not going to clean you because I want you to smell like a pissy little baby and I am going to fit these plastic pants over you so that everybody will think that these are your pants and nappies and that you have caused all the staining by you doing poohs in them. I also want you to develop a good case of nappy rash so that when you crawl you will need to keep your legs wide open to stop them chafing your skin.” She pulled up the noisy crackling pants and the grey stained cloth showed through the transparent plastic which had orange staining around the leg holes.
She ordered Doug to get on his knees and crawl to the family bathroom to clean his teeth. The nappies were rough and nothing like the fluffy comfort he experienced wearing Charlotte’s nappies. The twins had carefully cleaned and renappied their sister who looked immaculate and smelt of baby powder and protective creams in her sweet toddler dress. They looked at Doug with his dirty bib, stained old nappy and smelling of stale pee and hospital disinfectant from his second hand protection. They could hear the crackle of his old pants from yards away.
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