This is another short chapter, but it finishes on a slight cliffhanger for you all. I promise I won't make you wait long for more.
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The days blend into weeks, the weeks blend into months and the months blend into years. The longer Jeremy endured the mundane monotony of his new life, the more he found himself slipping into what they had forced him to become. Much to his horror, he was the sweet sissy baby who gave people sweet kisses, prided himself on his terrible crayon drawings and he even found himself getting cranky if he didn’t get his afternoon nap. He still got pulled over a lap from time to time, but nowhere near as often as those first few months of hell. Jeremy was ashamed of what he had become.
Babysitters and nursemaids came and left over the years. He still burned with shame whenever they treated him like this was the life he was always meant to live. He tried not to get too attached to each girl who came from St Helen’s, not after Lilly. She went off to university and started a life he knew he would never experience.
One Saturday, while he was taking his afternoon nap, his mother heard a knock at the door. Rather than being surprised, she smiled and eagerly went to greet her expected visitors. Standing at the door was a plump woman of her age with a cheerful and experienced smile. At her side was, of all people, an older and more mature Lilly!
“Hello Mrs James, it is so good to see you! Did you have trouble finding the place? And Miss Lilly, my, aren’t you looking so grown up and mature! I remember when Jeremy first met you.”
Mrs James stepped into the doorway and started to unbutton her coat, “We had no trouble at all, deary, you have a lovely home here and I hear you have a very sweet son. Where is the sweet cherub?”
Lilly stepped in behind her mother and smiles sweetly, “He’s probably having his afternoon nap, Mother, sissies such as him get awfully cranky if he doesn’t get his afternoon nap. Can I peek in and look at him, Mrs Wakeling?”
“I’m sure your mother would like a look too, Lilly. If we’re all very quiet, I don’t see why not.”
The trio crept down the hall, the two visitors stepped with restrained excitement at seeing the pathetic sissybaby again. When they reached the nursery door, his mother opened it and then stepped aside. That frilly feminine room was revealed and in it’s overly frilly cot lay a boy fast asleep and oblivious to his audience. His dummy bobbed in and out of his mouth rhythmically, a steady line of drool trickled down his cheek and onto the satin sheet he lay on, babies didn’t get pillows. Although most of him was under the silk quilted eiderdown, his very plump nappied bottom stuck out of the side, already soaked. His curls were even easier to see, after years of having his hair grow out and his pale and blemish free skin would make any girl jealous.
None of the women spoke a word. Lilly checked his nappy and when she found it wet, she nodded to the others with a knowing smile. Having seen what they wanted, they all filed out of the room and down to the dining room for a coffee and a chat.
“Does he really have no control?” Mrs James asked, while moving to sit in a chair, “Even when Lilly told me of the babies, I couldn’t quite believe it.”
“He has none whatsoever. Even if I ever wanted to potty train him, he will never be ready for it. It would be setting him up for failure.” Mrs Wakeling replied, while getting a pot of coffee ready, “And how are you going, Lilly? I heard you passed your studies with honours, that is a very commendable effort.”
“Yes, I’ve gotten several job offers from some larger banks, as a result. Mother thinks I should make them wait a year to recruit me, she said you had a proposition for me?”
Mrs Wakeling sat down with the coffee pot, the mugs and other required items were already laid out, “Yes, I do, but allow me to start at the beginning. You see, Jeremy comes from a very special family…”