Lights, Camera, …What?!? Book 1 Chapters 18 and 19 by Sofia Hammerstein

Connor Slane has grown up to be one of the brightest kids in his dimension and one of the most ambitious computer science majors at his top university. Now, thanks to an exchange program between his university and his mother’s alma mater, Emerson University in another dimension. Connor has the chance to forge his own path in computers and his other love, filmmaking. Having seen still images of their amazing holographic films, he hopes go to Emerson, and then return to build his own empire - and maybe even find his true self, as his mother did.

Beth Sylvester is a Tweener herself and another child of influential parents in the other dimension. Her wealthy Big mom is the daughter of a disgraced former CEO, and her dad is the first and only Tweener to serve on the Supreme Court. Connor’s mom and Beth’s dad were good friends while she was in the dimension, and they’ll quickly discover that they enjoy hanging out with each other. They’ll also discover that if either is going to survive to the end of the semester academically or as mature adults, they’ll need to help each other out. If not, Connor could quickly find himself on the one-way road to being adopted by some Big, and Beth might not be far from that fate either…

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The Legal Stuff: Lights, Camera, …What?!? By Sofia Hammerstein
 

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Copyright © 2023-2026 Sofia Hammerstein.
 

 
 

Chapter 18: Connected
 

I WAS JUST flipping through my Cinematic Narratives textbook when I realized Mackenzie had reentered the room. “Okay, boys, let’s go downstairs; a few of our nests are going to have a movie party before bedtime!”

I looked at Liam, who I noticed seemed to grimace. “Miss Mackenzie, may I use the potty?” he asked.

“Why? It’s not like you’ll be earning a star this semester?” she teased.

“Please?” He asked.

“Well, I guess we’ll give you one more chance here,” she told him. “Connor, why don’t you come use the potty before we leave too.”

I quickly made sure all my devices were locked as I stood up. I hadn’t drunk a lot, but I went pee nonetheless and also pushed out a little bit of poop. I hoped they wouldn’t try to use anything hypnotic on us right then, but being empty would be wise if they did!

Mackenzie rewarded us both with gold star stickers before leaving to go downstairs. “Good boys,” she had cooed. Before leaving, I grabbed one of my sealed water bottles. I ensured it looked untampered, even though I knew I couldn’t leave anything unattended in that room and trust it long!

‘Hopefully, Grandma can help me figure that one out…?’ I worried.

I didn’t know if ending up full-time in diapers like Liam was probably about to would matter in the long run with the new rules not penalizing protected accidents. Still, I probably would be better off ending up with a silver or a bronze star than none like he would.

Mackenzie led us to the elevator and pressed a button for a basement floor I didn’t remember on the tour. “Where are we going?” Liam asked.

“There’s a small movie theater in the basement,” she told us.

“Why didn’t we see it on the tour?” Liam asked.

“Time; remember Connor had to get out of here?”

‘Way to blame me…?’ I thought.

“Can we come down anytime we want?” I asked.

She shook her head, “No, because we need to make sure you study; this is always going to be something of a group event with our nest or occasionally as a dorm event.”

As if to prove the limited access, she had to scan her watch at the door, and it opened, revealing most of our exchange group. I noticed Luca and Tatum weren’t in the room, and Lucy, their nest mother, was missing too. I could see about seven other girls I remembered from the luncheon from other dimensions too. “Sorry we’re late,” Mackenzie said, “Time got away from us.”

“No worries, we just chose a film,” she said. Then, she looked at Liam and me, “Sorry, the girls chose one, so you are stuck with a bit of a chic flick here.”

Liam groaned, but I just shrugged, “This is a holographic film?” I asked, taking in the room. There was a variety of seating around the room. In the back, on a raised level, were enormous Amazon-sized couches and a couple recliners sized for them. In front of that level, some odd couches seemed to have triangular-shaped pieces that could be chairbacks or move around to make other shapes. The girls had taken most of that seating already. I saw one space open next to Amy and Ava.

“Connor, come over here,” Amy said, “Join us here! Liam, you can take that chair thing there!”

Liam stood there while I joined the girls and put my back against the triangle piece they had used as a backrest. My small form had no problems joining them, and I found myself leaning against Ava suddenly when she pulled me in with her arm to her side. “Come in; we decided this will be like a daytime slumber party.”

“Except the boys part,” Madelyn, one of the girls’ Nest Mothers, said.

“I don’t know; I had a bunch of ‘slumber parties’ with boys back home,” Willow said slyly.

Several girls giggled.

I noticed that at the front of the room, almost a theater stage took up most of the front wall. Someone turned out the lights, and the area filled with three-dimensional images and the audio filled the room as loud as any theater I’d been in back home.

“How are you doing?” Ava asked me quietly in my ear.

I looked at her, but she squeezed me and said, “Eyes forward.”

“Okay, I guess,” I whispered.

“Potty issues?”

“Other than yesterday, none so far. You?” I asked.

“I’m the only one who hasn’t so far. Everyone else is in Pull-Ups except Amy.”

“What about her?” I asked; she was just far enough away I hoped she wouldn’t hear us.

“Said they didn’t have Pull-Ups small enough…?”

“Oh,” I said.

“What did you find?”

“Some off-campus,” I told her.

“Off-campus?” she whispered as the screen came to life, showing a scene from a high school. Most of the students were Bigs, but a handful of Mids and two or three Littles walked into the classroom.

“I have family here,” I told her.

“Shhh…” Someone nearby whispered.

“Talk later?” She asked.

I nodded.

I wondered if there would be any hypnotic suggestions in the film, but instead, it seemed to be a typical trope-filled movie about life in HS. The main character was a shorter Amazon girl who got picked on quite a bit. The girl was really good at drawing and was entering an art competition.

About twenty minutes into the film, I felt Ava play with my hair, “You have really long hair… Can I braid this?” she asked me quietly.

I blushed and felt goosebumps, as I loved when anyone played with my hair. I nodded, “Sure.”

The film showed that the main character was also actually friends with several Betweeners, who she watched get picked on and tried to stand up for. As one of the main points of the plot came out, I felt her tie off the bottom of a long braid with a hairband that was missing from her wrist now. She patted my head, and we watched a feel-good ending with her convincing people to be nice to them and earning a scholarship to a prestigious art school.

If that had been the only thing in the film, it would have been pretty good!

Unfortunately, the film constantly featured Littles having accidents, needing help from a Big to get to the nurse for a diaper change, suggestions that the Tweeners needed to wear Pull-Ups, and even a scene where the main character was forced into a too-small Pull-Up before being saved.

All-in-all, it reminded me very much of the ones Mom had told me about while she had been there.
 

BETH LOOKED UP at the tall security men who had come at Penelope’s call.

“So you say someone broke into your room?” the officer asked.

“Yes, sir, I have a room lamp designed to track break-ins.”

“Why?” the other asked.

“My dad wanted me to have a little more security this semester,” Beth said.

“Well, let’s go take a look at your room.” The first one said, “If this is legit, we’ll have to fully investigate this.”

Beth walked to her room with the three of them and noticed that Kelly seemed slightly surprised by the security officers when she passed her. She made a weird face, and Beth suspected this was not the way she’d expected she would be returning to her room!

“Can you scan your code?” The officer asked Penelope.

“Why not hers?” she asked.

“Assuming this is legit, I want to verify she hasn’t entered, and I don’t want an extra confusing entry data point.”

She shrugged and used her watch to open the door. Beth stayed behind them as they went first to the trash can. The officer pulled on a pair of gloves and dug through to find a Pull-Up that wasn’t just wet; she could see a brown stain too.

“Eew,” Beth found herself saying aloud.

“Do you have a trash bag or something?” He asked Beth.

She nodded and pointed to a small box of them on a cabinet. Beth watched as the officer pulled one out and put the Pull-Up inside. He then went over to the bed and discovered another wet one there, and he said, “You’re going to have to wash these sheets. Unfortunately, it’s soaked in here.”

“I can’t believe someone would do this,” Penelope said, seemingly genuinely surprised. Then, another trashbag was used to gather up all of the Pull-Ups left inside her underwear drawer.

“Well, this verifies that video you have, Miss Sylvester. So you said the young lady’s name was Nevaeh Dominguez?”

“Yes, she’s friends with Kelly Danvers, who was trying to tell Penelope I was having accidents and get her to investigate me.”

“Is this true, Miss Rogers?”

“She was saying she thought Beth was having accidents and trying to cover them up. She didn’t tell me I’d find this in her room…?”

“But you would have been mandated to investigate today, correct?” The other officer said, “Meaning you would have discovered this?”

“Probably,” she admitted.

“Do you know what room we can find this, Nevaeh?” the one holding the trashbags asked.

“Room three-eighteen,” Penelope told him.

“Why don’t you give Miss Sylvester a hand with that bedding while we confront these young ladies.”

“I’m sure she can…?”

“I don’t want another report of her having accidents making it to us or your desk. So please do her the favor of getting those sheets discreetly laundered and back,” another voice came from the room’s doorway. Beth turned a bit white when she realized the President of the University, Dr. Barnes, was standing at her door.

“Umm… yes, of course, Doctor Barnes. May I ask why you’re here?” Penelope asked.

“Miss Sylvester’s father called me, concerned that she might be getting railroaded by some students and not get fair treatment. Seems like that is the case from what I can see. The student you have the video of will be in my office in an hour, or people will be looking for new jobs. This other young lady that’s involved, if you can find evidence, I want her there too!”

He turned and left then, and Beth couldn’t help but wonder just how big of a hole Kelly would be shoving her ‘friend’ into.

“Who the hell is your dad?” Penelope asked.

“My dad,” Beth told her, “Mister Sylvester. Now can we please take care of the bedding? Dr. Barnes is right; I don’t want to deal with someone deciding I’m wetting the bed here?”

She shook her head, “Alright!”
 

I WALKED WITH Ava and Amy to dinner that night. Instead of each nest going independently, those in our little get-together walked to the dining hall as a group. Liam gave me several glares for some reason then, but I couldn’t tell what his new problem was. As far as I could tell, we all had made it to the ‘potty’ just fine after the movie. Other than the crinkling protection most of the group now wore, it was almost like being in college back home.

My hair was still braided in a long braid down past my shoulders. As I swiped my wrist ID to enter, the lady said, “Have a good meal, young ladies!”

I blushed but kept walking beside the other two, gathering a few different kinds of pasta and some chicken for dinner that night. The three of us managed to sit at a Littles table as far to the side as possible, and Ava started asking questions.

“Connor, what did you mean you had been off-campus yesterday?” Ava asked. “We were told we couldn’t go anywhere?”

I shrugged, “My grandma got permission for me?”

“Grandma?” Amy asked.

I sighed, “Remember back to the meeting yesterday? I mentioned my mom came to school here?” I could tell yesterday was like a fog for them too, but they tentatively nodded. “When she came, Mom was smart enough to know she didn’t want to stay in the dorms… so she basically set up her own adoptive family. Grandma and Grandpa let her return when she was done studying.”

“Why aren’t you staying with them?” Ava asked.

“I tried… I think Mom made people mad when she was able to go home. From what I can tell, a few rules were created because of her.”

“That su…” Ava started to say, but Amy poked her lightly as their nest mother, Madelyn, walked up. “...prises me.”

‘Good save, Ava!’ I thought to myself.

“Are you girls having a good time?” Madelyn asked us.

“We are; Connor here is a nice guy,” Amy told her.

Her eyes narrowed, “Oh, I didn’t even realize you weren’t one of the other girls. Just to let you all know, though, you have about a half-hour, and then we’ll head back to the nests for the night. So make sure you get plenty to eat!”

“Yes, Mommy,” Ava and Amy said.

As she walked away, I mouthed, “Mommy?!?” to them.

“It’s easier to go with it now,” Amy said. “Anyway, did you say you found some Pull-Ups that fit instead of these diapers?”

I nodded, “There were some ones designed for Littles that fit…?”
 

BETH HAD CALLED her parents as soon as Penelope left with her stuff. Their holograms appeared before her, “Dad, did you really have to call the university president?!?” She was a little embarrassed and worried it had been overkill.

“I’m not letting anyone mess with my baby,” her mom said. “I was the one who actually called, Sweetie.”

She sighed, “Well, I don’t know what you accomplished, but I’m pretty sure my RD will grovel at this rate.”

“So, your sheets were wet from that Pull-Up?”

She sighed, “Yeah.”

“Did you check the mattress itself yet?” Her mom asked.

“Umm… no…?”

“Better look and take a picture if there’s a stain. The last thing you want is for that to be blamed on you at the end of the semester or sooner with that move.”

Beth grimaced but left her phone projecting the holograms on her desk and climbed onto the lofted bed, “Crap, there is a wet patch.”

“As soon as we get off the phone, make sure you email your RD and document that it’s from this incident. Then, I might suggest they replace the mattress.”

“Everyone is going to think I’m a bedwetter, Mom!”

“No, everyone is going to know exactly what happened, I’m sure, as soon as this is all resolved.” Her mom responded.

“Sweetie, it’s not like this one was your fault? Who was this girl anyway?”

“She’s the friend and lackey of a bitch who has it out for me,” she told her dad.

“Language…” Her mom chided.

“I think this probably applies, actually,” her dad agreed. “So you think her friend put her up to it?”

“Probably, but proving it is going to probably be impossible. I’m guessing Kelly will happily let Nevaeh take the fall for her. I don’t even know why she would have gone through with it, given she’s usually the more moderating influence on Kelly.”

“Blackmail, maybe?” Her dad suggested.

“Could be, I guess…?”

There was a knock on the door, “I’ll be right back, I’m turning your holos off, but I’ll leave the connection going.”

Beth quickly pressed some buttons and ensured the volume was muted so no one would hear her parents. At the door was one of the security officers and Penelope. The officer aggressively held Nevaeh’s arm to ensure she wouldn’t go anywhere. Beth noticed the scraps of cloth in a Ziploc-type plastic bag carried by one officer. “Nevaeh has something to say to you,” Penelope said.

Beth looked at Nevaeh and realized she seemed truly terrified right then. “I’m sorry I broke into your room and tried to frame you.”

“And?” The officer prompted.

“I’m sorry I stole your panties and chopped them up.”

Beth realized now the cloth in the Ziploc was all of her panties. There was no salvaging them right then, and she felt her stomach turn at the loss of clean underwear!

“Umm… Thank you for apologizing,” Beth decided to diplomatically say.

“And thank you for saying that. We’ll take Little Nevaeh here to see Dr. Barnes now. She will be responsible for any damages she caused you, including replacing all those panties for you. So if you can go pick up replacements and save receipts,” Penelope told Beth.

“Umm, you might also need to replace the mattress, too,” she decided to speak up.

“Huh?” the officer asked.

“That Pull-Up she put on the bed leaked through the sheets and left a patch on the mattress.”

“We’ll add that to the list. Give me an hour, and we’ll switch mattresses from Little Nevaeh’s room, assuming it’s not wet. Those Pull-Ups obviously didn’t get wet themselves! I won’t be surprised if she’s been having the problem and brought them here to get rid of them?” She glanced at Nevaeh, who shook her head frantically and was bright red from embarrassment. “I’m not sure it will be clean because of that, so I may just have to call someone from maintenance to bring a new one,” Penelope told me.

They took a picture of it and left, pushing her in front of them. Then, turning the holo feature back on, she saw her parents patiently waiting. “Well, at least they’re handling it. Why don’t you get one of your friends to go with you for some new panties and dinner?” Her mom suggested.

Beth nodded, “Guess I don’t have much choice now! I’ll let you know if I hear of anything else.
 

WE HAD BEEN sitting for a long time after finishing eating just talking, when a loud screech of laughter interrupted my sentence. I turned towards the door and noticed a dozen Amazons practically peeing themselves right then laughing at the sight of an Amazon girl who was probably about ten feet in height entering. She was wearing a uniform blouse of a little and a diaper.

Her hair was done up in loose pigtails tied with gigantic pink bows. The Big seemed to have an enormous toddler backpack-style leash on as Dean Northrup guided her by the shoulder into the dining hall. I watched as she approached the other nest mother our dimensional girls were with. She spoke loudly enough we could hear twenty feet away. Of course, it didn’t hurt that all other sounds went silent as everyone listened.

“Miss Kaylee, Nevaeh here has made some rather poor choices that have left us with very few choices on how to deal with her behavior. Instead of being expelled from the university and arrested for breaking into a big girl’s room and trying to plant evidence of potty problems, she will join your nest for the rest of the year. If she can behave and somehow get a Bronze potty star for the semester, we’ll consider letting her back into a big girls’ dorm next year. Her stuff is already being moved into your nest, and we’ve set her up in your empty Pod.”

“Oh, that’s great! We can’t wait to have Little Nevaeh here join us, huh?” She squealed.

“They’ll do that to each other?” Ava gasped.

I just shrugged and kept eating the last bites of pasta on my plate. ‘What the hell happened with her?’ I couldn’t help but wonder. But then, I noticed that girl Kelly who had been a problem earlier, glaring at them.
 
 

Chapter 18: Savory
 

BETH, CASSIE, AND Livy got a Luxuria car to pick them up to go to the mall. Beth had panties that she liked to wear when she worked out that she had to get from one place, another place was her everyday favorite, and she felt the need to pick up some fancy ones from a lingerie store too to replace the ones that had been destroyed. So she’d also stopped at a specialty store that sold some she used during her period. The fabric was coated with nanites that cleaned any spotting if her tampon leaked or she started early.

She knew she’d had about thirty pairs of panties in her drawer, so that was how many she replaced. The bill ran way higher than she would have wanted to cover alone! ‘Mom and Dad would probably yell at me if I spent this much normally!’

It wasn’t like they couldn’t afford it, though!

After their shopping spree, Livi and Cassie spent some Christmas gift money on some clothes too. Then, they decided to eat in a restaurant attached to the mall with a little bit of everything on the menu and amazing cakes for dessert.

“Welcome to The Savory Fork!” The hostess said as they walked up. “Three?”

“Yes, please,” Cassie said, taking the lead.

“Any booster seats?”

“No, we’ll be fine. A booth if you have one?”

“Sure, right this way,” she told them.

Beth sighed but long ago learned that it was easier when the three of them were out to let Cassie pretend to be the older sister of the trio. Sure enough, when they were seated, “Do you want the kid’s menus for these two?”

Cassie shook her head, “They’re college students just like me; please just give them the regular menu.”

“Sorry, I figured they were your baby sisters or something…” the waitress apologized.

“It happens; just leave the menus, please?” Cassie said.

“That gets old,” Livi said.

“Yes, it does,” Beth agreed.

The three flipped through the menu, and Livi said, “Ooh, chicken and waffles, that sounds good!”

“Are you sure you’re not a Little?” Cassie shook her head.

Livi stuck her tongue out at her, “Pretty sure!”

“So, what do you think happened to Nevaeh?” Cassie asked as the three pulled out their phones and scrolled through some pages.

A giggle from Livi became a full-on laugh that she couldn’t stop, “I think I found that out!” she pressed a button on her phone. A projection of Nevaeh’s earlier entrance to the dining hall played above their table.

“Oh, my God!” Cassie said, giggling. “I guess that’s better than kicking her out?”

The video played through Dean Northrup’s explanation and confirmed that. “That’s justice!” Livi said.

“That’s terrifying,” Beth said.

Both their faces fell at that, “Keep in mind, if it can happen to her, none of us are safe…?”

That put a bit of a damper on the mood, even as Beth did appreciate that some comeuppance had happened for the crime. “So Connor earlier?” Cassie asked after they had ordered.

“What about him?”

“He’s kind of cute?”

“In that baby brother kind of way?” Livi asked.

“No, I mean totally cute. He could be the one for you, Beth!”

Beth felt herself turn bright red. “If he was taller, sure, but with an attempt to frame me for accidents already, I can only imagine what they’d say if I was dating a Little!”

“Not to mention one of the shortest ones around!” Livi agreed.

“He is a nice guy, though,” she said.

“You do like him!” Cassie laughed.

“If only he’d come through at his normal height,” she shrugged. “What about you? How’s the Jake project going?”

Cassie turned red then, “Not so well. I swear he’s clueless! I’m practically holding up a neon sign saying, ‘Date me, date me!’”
 

I FOLLOWED MACKENZIE back into the nest and headed towards the bathroom. “You boys have just about an hour until lights out,” she told me when I came back in. She unceremoniously pulled down my pants and verified the Pull-Up was dry before holding me up to put a sticker on the chart. “Lots of gold stickers for you today!”

“Liam, do you need to go potty?” She asked him as she sat me down.

“Please?” he asked.

“Come on,” she said, waving to him to follow her into the bathroom. I made my way to my desk and found several messages from Mom, Mama, and my sisters!

Conn,

We miss you already! I know you would have been away right now anyway, but knowing you’re in another dimension makes you feel further apart. I hope you learn what you want to, but please stay safe. We want our big brother back!

Love,
Lilah

Hannah’s message was almost identical to Lilah’s, and I quickly sent off two quick replies a little longer than theirs.

Connor,

I’m really worried about you. Mom showed me your email and the picture you took. Your nest ‘mother’ is huge!!!! Well, that and you’re tiny. I mean, if you come back that short, I am so totally going to pick on you myself! It would be nice to be the tall one for once?

Seriously though, you have to make sure you come home. I can’t live without my big brother helping me out!

Love,

Riley

I felt my eyes water a bit at the three messages but managed to focus enough to reply to Riley too. Unfortunately, Mama’s message was even harder to read.

Connor,

You have no idea how hard it is to watch your best friend leave to go to some new dimension. When your mother left, it just about tore me apart, but at least it was kind of what all of our friends were doing at that point – splitting off to our own lives everywhere.

That had nothing on leaving you to go to that dimension yesterday. Your mom insists it’s your family legacy, even as she and I cry way too much. She’s never told me everything, but I know enough that you’re not safe there. So please do everything you can to make it back home to us! Do your homework, listen to the ‘adults,’ and stay out of trouble!

Congratulations on doing so well on your tests, though I’m not surprised. Brains have never been your issue! (Common sense is another thing!) So stay safe, and make sure you get back here!

Love,

Mama

I was crying then, and there was no hiding it as Mackenzie walked over. “Are you okay, Connor?”

“Sorry, just reading some messages from home. My moms and sisters like to make me cry,” I tried to laugh it off.

“Okay, if you’re sure, you have about twenty minutes until it’ll be time to get ready for bed.”

“Okay,” I told her.

I steeled myself and opened Mom’s email.

Connor,

Thanks for letting us know you made it alright. I appreciated the pictures to put a face to the name of your nest mother. That’s quite the ‘bed’ you have there.

I hope things can go okay for you there. I’m glad your tests went well for you! I’m impressed by the programming one, which had to have gotten more difficult since I took it – and it was hard then! I’m glad you’ll be able to take the classes you want to. Please let us or Grandma know if you need any class supplies. I know she said she plans to pick you up tomorrow after lunch to go home for the weekend. Make sure you take your swimsuit with you; you should have time to get a good swim in since they have an indoor pool!

Behave and keep your head down. I don’t want you to attract the kind of attention I did. We love and miss you so much already; make sure you get back to us!

Love,

Mom

Based on her comment about the bed, I knew that she got the real information I had sent her. I wanted to respond to both of my moms, but I knew I wouldn’t have the time individually. So I ended up sending a message to both of them.

Hi Mom and Mama!

I’m just getting ready to head to bed here. I’m looking forward to seeing Grandma again tomorrow and then the rest of the family. You really didn’t tell me how large our family here is!!!! It was like having a small madhouse at dinner the other night.

I’ll do my best to keep a low profile… But I’m not sure how well that will work, honestly!

Anyway, it’s almost time for bed here, so I have to go. (You know how they are with Littles and bedtime!) I’ll take my computer with me to Grandma’s and try and write you more then. Maybe we can video chat with the family together? I’m sure you and Grandma already have a plan for that, knowing you!

I love you all and will see you at the end of the semester!

Love,

Connor

‘I may have been a total idiot to leave home behind,’ I worried.

“Okay, why don’t you both try the potty, and then we’ll get your night diapers on?” I heard Mackenzie say from the doorway to her apartment.

“Okay,” I said, closing down the computer.

I walked over to the bathroom and sat on the toilet one last time for the night, ensuring I got everything out! I patted myself dry and made sure to wipe before walking back out to the room and finding Liam mid-diaper change.

“Well, Liam, if you can behave like this all day tomorrow, I might consider letting you have training pants instead of diapers.”

I blushed on his behalf and just appreciated it seemed like she was finally willing to let go of whatever had happened when I wasn’t around.

“Which pajamas do you want?” I heard her ask Liam.

I could only understand a mumble but saw he was zipped into a set of footed pajamas and placed on his feet. He blushed when he saw me, shaking his head. His diaper must have been thicker because it clearly showed through the fabric of the sleeper and made him walk oddly, more of a toddle, as he approached the ladder to his pod.

I turned and saw Mackenzie staring down at me, “Ready to get ready for bed?”

I nodded and walked over to her. She gingerly picked me up and stood me on the changing table, quickly pulling my pants down and setting them aside. She pulled my shirt off then and examined the front of the Pull-Up. “You stayed dry all day today! Good job!”

I blushed, “Thanks.”

She pushed my shoulders down then and guided my nearly naked body onto the changing pad. I was grateful a piece of disposable paper was on top; I could only imagine what horrors had been on that table! A strap was pulled across my chest before she pulled the sides of the Pull-Up apart like a diaper. She held my ankles and effortlessly lifted my legs briefly off the old garment.

I watched her roll it up and toss it into a can beside her as I grew more uncomfortable with the paper starting to feel weird against my body. Finally, she reached into one of the cubbies, and a folded-up diaper appeared in her hand. I watched her open it, fluff it, and then she once again lifted my legs by my ankles and sat my butt gently down on the soft fabric of the diaper. I figured she’d get to taping it straight away, but instead, she squirted a bottle of stuff onto her gloved hands and began rubbing the lotion into the skin above my groin, onto my intimate parts, and used a hand to lift my legs and spread it in and around my butt. Her hands felt odd but warm through the gloves, and unfortunately, I was having an embarrassing reaction to the treatment. ‘Can you not do this right now,’ I griped at the body part that seemed to always have a mind of its own.

I watched her pull the gloves off then, and she reached between my legs to grab the front of the diaper and finally pulled it to cover my groin. I turned my head for a second and blushed as I realized Liam not only had a view of the table, but he was morbidly watching.

I turned my attention back to Mackenzie instead. She smiled at me as she pulled one, then the second tape a cross to seal me inside. “There, all diapered up, but probably won’t need it, huh?” She practically cooed.

“Hope not…” I said.

“Do you want to go swimming again in the morning?” she asked as she pulled out another of those sleepers and put my right foot inside a leg while gathering the rest of the sleeping beneath me. She unhooked the safety strap and threaded my body, still lying on top of the garment that apparently zipped completely down to the other foot to easily change someone lying down…

“Please?” I asked.

“Sure, I have a feeling my friend Lilly will be showing up too… She didn’t believe me about you!”

“That was that girl who showed up?”

“Yes, and she’s another Nest Mother, so she’s MISS Lilly to you in the morning,” she gently told me.

I nodded, “You said she’s not really fast?”

She laughed, “It could be close, but I’d guess you’re faster. You were like a fish in the water.”

“My mom jokes that my sisters and I are actually all part dolphin actually,” I smiled.

I sighed, missing them.

“You’ll be so busy soon you’ll not feel homesick long,” she told me gently. “Do you mind if I brush your hair out before I put you to bed?”

“Sure,” I smiled, “I haven’t done that yet tonight, and that would be nice!”

Her face lit up, and clearly, she was looking forward to it!

I expected her to set me down on the floor, but instead found myself placed on her hip as she carried me quickly into her apartment. “I managed to get you a hair dryer from the store room earlier,” she told me as we entered her apartment. “I’ll put it in the bathroom after we put you to bed.”

I noted I was still nervous as she carried me, but something was reassuring about her hold on me. She walked to an island counter between her Kitchen and the dining room and picked through a grocery sack. Inside was a purple hairbrush, several scrunchies, and a pack of multi-colored hair ties.

“Here, don’t move,” she told me as she placed me on the counter and began pulling off a couple of hair ties from the card. I looked down and was still amazed at how small I was. A drop from the counter would be more than my height! ‘My head wouldn’t even reach the top of her kitchen cabinet doors,’ I noted, looking around. Having been so tall since I was a little kid, being in the Amazonian-sized space was more than a bit intimidating!

“Got everything!” She grabbed me again, and I expected us to return to the main room, but instead, she carried me to a couch facing a large, oddly deep television. She sat down with me on her lap and said, “Mike, turn on the TV; turn on Food Channel.”

I watched as the TV somehow became a deep-looking holographic view that felt like the host of a cooking show was mere feet away from us, cooking at a stove.

“We can’t stay up too late doing this; I don’t want Liam to get jealous,” she told me, placing me sideways on her lap for a moment.

I nervously noted that turned that way; I could have been placed at her breast quite easily! Instead, she pushed me forward on her lap to where I could see the host cooking with some peppers that were probably small to him but were practically large jalapenos in my view. Apparently, he was cooking a spicy dish as she ran the hairbrush gently through my hair. I was torn with my attention as her huge hand gently pulled the brush through my hair, and the other danced around, grabbing pieces here and there.

“That looks tasty,” I said, trying to make myself feel less involved in her doing my hair.

“It would be waaay too spicy for you,” she told me.

I tried to shake my head, but she had a grip on my hair then, “I doubt it.”

“Every single portal Little says that to me,” she laughed.

“In my case, I think it’s the truth? I tried something yesterday at the restaurant. Even though everyone was standing by like I was eating poison, I barely felt a tingle!”

She stopped for a moment, “What did you order?”

I racked my brain momentarily, remembering, “Spicy stuffed Cantalonian Chicken?”

Her face appeared around my head, “Did they go light on the spice?”

I shrugged, “Grandma told them not to?”

“And it wasn’t spicy?”

I shook my head, “Barely a tingle?”

She resumed brushing my hair, “In the next couple weeks, there are a few events…. You should probably be in bed for them, but maybe I can get permission to let you go to one. If you’re telling the truth, we might make some fun money betting on you!”

I smiled but was surprised she’d be open to breaking the rules.

“Wouldn’t that be against the rules?”

“If you’re being a good boy, as your Nest Mother, I can grant some exceptions. Doesn’t usually happen, but I’m allowed.”

I felt her start pulling at my hair in a way I recognized from my sisters braiding my hair. Sure enough, she soon used one of the black hairbands to tie off a long braided ponytail. Even braided, my hair still landed below my shoulders. She stood up as the chef had some guests try the spicy food and stood in front of a mirror to show me.

The hair definitely did not look boyish, and I couldn’t help but smile at that before hiding it. “Thanks for doing my hair,” I told Mackenzie politely.

“Thank you for letting me play with it! It might be my price to let you do one of those contests?”

I smiled, “Deal!”
 
 

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