The Bet
by Karen Singer
Chapter 52 (Monday - week 8)
Worry and confusion reigned supreme in her dreams. Over and over again
she labored hard to build herself a home, only to have either Derek or
Ray come by and knock it down again, ruining everything she had worked so
hard for. But still she tried again and again to create what she so
desperately wanted.
First she built a home for herself and Sissy, only to have Derek come by
and angrily smash it to pieces. Then, the next time, it was Ray who
ruined it. After that, it was Derek again.
In her despair, she made a deal with Derek, she would build the home for
herself and him - not with Sissy, not with Ray. But once the house was
finished, Ray showed up like an angry rampaging monster and totally
destroyed everything. All because she had built her home for herself and
Derek and not for herself and him.
In her fear, she threw Derek out and made a different deal with Ray and
built the home with him instead, but then Derek was back, angrier than
ever and destroyed everything just as Ray had done.
Finally, she tried making an alliance with both Derek and Ray together.
It was a very uneasy alliance, one that fed the hatred between them.
Derek and Ray fought constantly, always doing major damage to her house
each time. She lived in fear of both of them and it was all she could do
to keep them from tearing each other apart.
And then Sissy showed up. There was just something about him that she
wanted to have close to her - something kinder, something calmer. But
Sissy's presence enraged both Derek and Ray to the point where they both
totally destroyed the entire house again. Only then did she realize that
Sissy knew it would happen all along. While he didn't have the brute
strength to destroy anything, he had been intelligent enough to make them
do the dirty work for him.
And once the house had been destroyed again, Sissy left her! Coldly.
Without even looking back. And she knew she had deserved what she had
gotten.
She was filled with despair. Each of them wanted her for themself, yet
she wanted all of them together. And there was no way she could have
more than one at the same time. And in the end, she wound up with no
one. She was alone. Alone enough that she wouldn't even consider
building the house for just herself.
It was in that feeling of total despair that she finally realized her
alarm was buzzing. The total despair ended as she opened her eyes to
wakefulness, but bits of the feeling remained. It took her a minute
before she could bring herself to turn her alarm off. Two more minutes
before she could bring herself to sit up on the side of her bed. She
looked at her clock. She had set it last night to give herself ten
minutes more this morning so she could feed Sissy a larger breakfast, and
already she had wasted more than half of it. Feeling worse than ever,
she forced herself to her feet and grabbed her robe. It was more out of
desperation than anything else that she made her way out to her coffee
pot to get that started.
She couldn't do anything until she got some coffee in her. Not anything.
Just a sip of the coffee would do. Soon now, Sissy would be there every
morning with it already made, fresh and ready. That first sip would be
delivered to her instantly while she was still in bed. Very soon now...
very soon... very... Of course, she did have to win the bet first. The
stupid bet! Five minutes! Five damn minutes still stood between her and
what she wanted! Five impossible minutes! How the heck was she supposed
to overcome that?
Ugh! What a lousy way to wake up!
One minute there was blissful silence, the next he was panicked out of
his wits as the loud blaring music seemed like it would break the walls
apart. He moved as fast as his panicked body could move to roll off of
his blow-up mattress and get to his knees where he could slap at the
button to turn his pink alarm clock off. Relief filled his body as the
room was suddenly emptied of sound.
But the jarring music had done its job and jarred his brain into a
working state. The first thing he noticed was that he was dry. Totally
dry. Not dry inside his diapers - not by any means, but dry on the
outside. Yesterday when he had gotten up, his bedding had been soaked.
Terribly soaked! But today, everything was as dry as it should be. That
much was a relief!
However... the horribly thick cloth diapers he was wearing were miserably
bloated and heavy... and messy, just like they always were every morning.
He was still amazed that he could sleep through it all and never notice
what was going on.
Next, his brain registered that his breast forms were once again glued on
and were hanging heavily in the bra he wore to help support them every
night. It had been pleasurable to not have them for the past two nights.
So as far as he could tell, things were once again back to normal.
With a yawn, he started waddling his way out toward his kitchen to see if
she had left him her usual note. He was glad to see the note right where
it should be. He read it half-heartedly... most of it. Most of it was the
usual - three baby bottles before he got cleaned up... yadda, yaddta,
yadda... And then there was one last line added: "From now on you will
wear three diapers to work instead of two!"
Three! He immediately began thinking about how much thicker three
diapers were. Two were comfortable - perfect in fact! He felt much more
secure with two diapers than with one. And two diapers didn't add all
that much more bulk around his backside. But three! Three would
definitely make a difference. Not only would they possibly show more,
but just thinking about it, he could almost feel the bulk restricting his
walking! Three!
Mildly upset over the matter, he grabbed the three baby bottles out of
his refrigerator and carried them to his one solitarily piece of real
furniture - the chair stuck facing his wall of shaming pictures in his
living room.
It took time for Chad to sit and drink three baby bottles - two of which
held Mel's lousy green tea mixture and the third was filled with apple
juice - a pleasant change. It also took time for him to shave his face
afterwards. More time was needed for him to remove the thick and messy
diapers he was wearing and to temporarily deal with them. He dared not
go more than a few seconds without some kind of protection anymore since
there was way too much chance he would start peeing all over the place
before he knew he was even doing it. As fast as he could, he jumped into
his shower, which also took time. More so because he had to thoroughly
clean his messy backend along with washing his hair and shaving all the
stray hairs from his body.
The second he stepped out of his shower, he made a mad dash to get the
first of his three diapers on. He almost breathed a sigh of relief as
soon as he simply held the first one in place so no harm could be done if
he did start peeing. The second and third diapers followed quickly,
although each one seemed to take more and more time to get into place and
to tape firmly so they wouldn't come apart. He immediately noticed the
added bulk of the third diaper between his legs. Not a major problem
since he had dealt with it many times before, but still, it was something
he was going to have to get used to more often now. After basically
spending all weekend in only one thin diaper, the three diapers now felt
strange... but he was glad to have them. At least he was no longer on any
kind of time limit for them to be leaking. Not until tonight at least.
And of course, as he was thinking about the added bulk between his legs,
his body added yet more bulk as it let loose another bit of pee. Well,
dry diapers never stayed that way for long anymore. He was lucky now if
he could get them fastened before they got wet.
He pulled on his plastic panties for extra protection, then he added his
waist cincher and his all-in-one girdle over top of that. Only then did
he take the time to thoroughly deal with his messy diapers from last
night. And cloth diapers couldn't be just thrown away like he usually
was able to do. Since Mel had rendered his toilet useless with her
layers of plastic wrap, he had to rinse them in the tub to get most of
the mess off of them before sticking them in a plastic bag to wash later
- whenever Mel allowed him to take care of them.
His hair had to come next. The blow dryer first, followed by the curling
iron. It took a lot of time to get it all just right. And then more
time was required to do his makeup properly.
Finally he was able to finish getting dressed. He stared at the clothes
in his closet - only women's clothes. All Mel had left him. But what to
wear? He finally chose an outfit with a fairly full skirt so that he
didn't have to worry about the added bulk of his three diapers being too
obvious. Pantyhose, the skirt, and a colorful top all went over his all-
in-one girdle. His wooden necklace, and bracelet. The blue studs in his
ears. The pink ring on his finger. And his women's watch on his other
wrist.
A quick check in the mirror to make sure everything was as it should be.
Then he grabbed another empty plastic bag and put his three empty bottles
from last night into it along with his three empty bottles from this
morning. He removed his wallet and keys from his new little girl sissy
purse and stuffed them into his regular one. He felt much more
comfortable with that one as he hung it over his shoulder. He grabbed
his diaper bag and headed out his door. Off to Mel's apartment first,
then off to work - dressed as a woman! His usual weekday routine.
He knocked on Mel's door and waited until she opened it. He curtseyed
and said "Good morning Mistress," in his silly lisping sissy voice.
"Good morning Sissy," Mel replied as she always did before she stepped
back out of the way and let him enter. She started looking him over
immediately while he was still setting his purse and diaper bag on the
floor under her little table by the door. She looked him over more
carefully when he stood up, waiting for her inspection. "Are you wearing
three diapers like you're supposed to?" she asked him.
He curtseyed. "Yeth Mithdweth," Chad's sissy voice replied.
"Good! Go get up in your highchair now. I've made you a larger
breakfast than usual since you haven't been eating as much lately."
Chad hurried to his highchair. More breakfast! He wasn't surprised, but
he was still disappointed as soon as he realized that Mel had only made a
larger batch of the same lousy tasting baby cereal she gave him every
day. Eggs and ham, or biscuits, or sausage, or... anything normal would
have been really nice. But still, he was hungry, so he supposed he
should be grateful. Two minutes later, he was locked into his highchair
behind the large tray, his bib was tied in place, and he was spooning
baby food into his mouth with a tiny baby spoon. His fourth baby bottle
of the morning was on his tray as well. Four bottles before he went to
work! It was no wonder his diapers were so wet already.
While Sissy was busy eating, Mel pulled all the empty baby bottles out of
his diaper bag. She usually put three back in every morning. Last
Friday she had put in four. But today, she put six in it. She was
hoping that the extra bottles would encourage Robin to make sure he kept
drinking all day. She made sure he had plenty of extra diapers and an
extra pair of plastic panties. Then on top of it all she added the t-
shirt and bib Sissy had washed over the weekend. Finally, she added the
multi-colored bow she had bought at the mall yesterday. His diaper bag
was ready. Now she just needed him to finish eating.
Chad was running a bit late as he pulled into his parking space, but only
by a few minutes. Not enough to even worry about - except for Robin. He
was sure that the fault was in the fact that Mel had cooked him a double
portion of the baby cereal that he had to manage to get down. But Robin
had demanded that he greet her every morning when she came in. And if he
was late, then there was more of a chance that she would already be
there. What then?
He grabbed not only his purse, but his diaper bag out of his car as well
before he hurried into the building. Was Robin there already? As he
turned down the hallway where their cubicles were, he saw nothing to
indicate either way if she was there or not. Worry about Robin being mad
at him for being late made him hurry straight past his own cubicle to
check hers. And there she was, her back to him as she reached for the
button to boot up her computer.
Robin turned around as she heard someone behind her. Sissy! "It's about
time you got here."
With his diaper bag and purse still slung over his shoulders, Chad
curtseyed and said in his sissy voice, "Sorry, Robin. Mel kept me a bit
longer this morning."
But Robin only stared at him as if expecting something more.
Not knowing what else to do, Chad curtseyed again and said, "Good morning
Robin."
But still Robin continued to only stare at him... waiting.
Chad was confused. What did she want? What was he supposed to do?
Anything? Could he move now? Could he go back to his desk?
"Obviously you're a slow learner," Robin finally said. "Are you done
speaking to me?"
Chad curtseyed before lisping his one word answer. "Yes."
And again Robin only stared at him for a while as if waiting for
something else. Robin finally sighed. "I expect you to curtsey whenever
you're finished speaking!" she finally told him. "How else am I supposed
to know when you're done spouting nonsense out of your mouth?"
Oh! He had forgotten! Mel didn't require him to curtsey both before and
after he said anything. Doing it just before was bad enough!
Robin stood up and grabbed his diaper bag from him and dropped it on top
of her desk. "Since you can't seem to remember, back up into the hallway
and start practicing. You can say good morning to me... over and over
again." Without another look at him, she opened his diaper bag. But
before she could really look in it, she realized that he hadn't moved
yet. "What are you waiting for?" she asked, totally annoyed with him.
"Do you need something else to help you remember?" Chad started to back
out of her cubicle, but he didn't get very far before she said, "Stop!"
He stopped, wondering what she wanted from him now.
"Before you start practicing, take that skirt off. Maybe running around
without it for a while will help jog your memory and motivate you a bit
better."
Take his skirt off? She couldn't be serious! But the look on her
waiting face told him she was very serious.
"Do you need to remove anything else too to get you moving?" she asked
since he hadn't moved yet.
Not wanting to make things any worse, Chad reluctantly removed his skirt.
Robin held out her hand and he gave it to her.
"Now go out into the hallway there and practice curtseying before and
after you say anything. I'll let you know when you can stop."
Without his skirt now, Chad carefully checked the hallway before he left
the cover of Robin's cubicle. Nobody was in sight as usual. Quickly, as
if it would make his practicing get over with faster, he stepped out into
the middle of the hallway and turned around to face her. She didn't seem
to be paying the least bit of attention to him. She was looking through
his diaper bag instead. He couldn't believe how naked he felt without
that skirt! He pulled the strap of his purse that was still slung over
his shoulder up higher on his shoulder so it wouldn't fall off. He
curtseyed. "Good morning, Robin," he said in his sissy voice. Then he
curtseyed again. He realized he was peeing again, but he didn't know if
it was from fright, or humiliation, or because he simply still had way
too much liquid in his system. He paused only a moment before glancing
up and down the hallway again and launching into the routine again.
Robin purposely didn't look at him. It was bad enough that he had shown
up to work today looking more "normal" than ever. Or maybe it was more
like a real woman than ever. When he looked like that, it was hard to
believe what a stupid sissy he really was. It was the little things like
his curtseying and his stupid sissy voice that helped to remind her of
how she needed to deal with him. She preferred the more visible
reminders when she was able to dress him... differently... more childishly.
Dress him more like the way he acted!
She pulled the hair bow out of his diaper bag and took a good look at it.
It was all different colored ribbons rounded over on top of each other,
almost forming a complete ball on top. Long streamers of the ribbons
hung down from it at the back. It was really very pretty. Not something
most women would wear, but it would be very pretty on a little girl. The
multi-colored ribbons would probably go with almost anything too. She
set the bow aside and pulled out the bib and t-shirt she had sent home
for him to wash. They were both clean and neatly folded. Good! Those
she set aside as well for later. She also noted the extra number of baby
bottles Mel had put in the bag today. Well, that was no problem either.
She really wanted to take his regular clothes off of him now, but it was
too early in the day. She was too afraid to do even that much yet. She
could hear his voice droning on in the background. She glanced at him.
She had made him take his skirt off. Did she have the courage to make
him take everything else off this early too? No. Not yet. But the
skirt alone should be reminder enough for him. If not...
She closed his diaper bag again. "Okay Sissy. Go get some work done."
Chad curtseyed one more time. Could he get his skirt now? Instead of
going to his cubicle, he went back into hers.
"What?" Robin asked.
Chad curtseyed and pointed at his skirt. "My skirt..." Then he curtseyed
again.
"No!" But when Chad had pointed to his skirt, Robin had noticed
something else. "Let me see your nails."
There was simply no way to get past the embarrassment of his fingernails.
Bashfully, he slowly stuck one of his hands out so she could see.
Robin read the word "SISSY" spelled out on his nails and almost cracked
up laughing. "And the other one?" she asked. Slowly, Chad stuck his
other hand out too. "I love it!" Robin declared with obvious delight.
"Just the perfect thing for... you!" With a laugh, she said, "Now get
lost!"
More nervous than ever, Chad went to his own cubicle and booted up his
computer. He prayed that nobody would stop by this morning. How would
he explain not having a skirt on?
The minute Mel walked through the door to her office, she was accosted by
Andrea. "Harry Feinbaum has called twice for you already. He wants you
to call him back immediately!"
Mel stopped in shock. "Harry Feinbaum? Old Man Feinbaum? Not Dick?"
Andrea nodded. "Harry!"
"Damn! As if my day hasn't started off bad enough already. Okay, thanks
Andrea. I'll call him right away." As Mel trudged back to her office,
her mind continually tried to figure out who in her client list would
have attracted the attention of Harry Feinbaum! She dumped her purse and
laptop bag on her desk, looked up the number of what was arguably the
biggest and most prestigious law firm in that part of the country, and
dialed. She spoke briefly to a receptionist before being put on hold
until "Old Man" Feinbaum could come to the phone. While she was waiting,
she pulled her laptop out and turned it on.
She didn't have to wait very long until Harry Feinbaum himself finally
answered her call. "Mel! How have you been?"
"Fine, Mr. Feinbaum. How about yourself?"
"Doing fine, Mel. Just fine."
"And Dick... and his family?" she asked.
"All fine too. The kids are growing too fast though. But it's nice to
have grandkids around once in a while. How about you? Any kids yet?"
"No, Mr. Feinbaum. I'm not married yet."
"Shame," Harry replied. "Family is important! Any prospects though?"
Mel really wished they could get past this friendly bit. "Um... let's just
say I'm working on things."
"Well, good luck with it. Like I said, family is important. Your father
knew that. He was a good man, good lawyer too. I miss him."
"So do I Mr. Feinbaum. So do I. Um... not to cut this short, but what can
I do for you?"
"Mel, are you familiar with Sunshine Corporation and Green Growers
United?"
"I've heard of them. But I couldn't tell you much about them. I know
they're big though."
"Very big!" Harry replied. "Sunshine is buying Green Growers."
She knew that mergers of this type were the main staple of what
Feinbaum's firm handled. "So? What does this have to do with me? As
far as I know, I don't represent anyone that works for either group."
Harry was confused. "Represent?" But his confusion only lasted a
moment. "No Mel, you don't understand. We're representing Green Growers
in this. We're not interested in any individuals not on the boards of
directors."
"So let me get this straight, you're not pressing any kind of action
against one of my clients?"
"Action? No, of course not!"
Mel was relieved. "Then what can I do for you?"
"I'm looking for your help."
"My help? With the merger?"
"Exactly! Our contract man quit very suddenly last night, leaving us in
the lurch so to speak. Your father always said you were great with
contracts, and Dick threw your name out as a possible alternative."
"But Mr. Feinbaum, I'm sure your firm has any number of contract
specialists right there that you can choose from."
"We do, but I'd like somebody fresh on this one. Mel, I don't have to
tell you what the fees would be for something like this. This merger is
worth billions!"
Billions! But that was it in a nutshell. That was the real reason he
was calling in someone from the outside. He needed a patsy... a fall
guy... just in case something went wrong. And if it did, her reputation
as a lawyer would be pretty much ruined. "And when is this thing
supposed to take place?" Mel asked.
"We're to the point where we're sure we can finalize it the beginning of
next week."
"Next week! And you're calling me in now? That's ridiculous!"
"Sorry, Mel. Like I said, our guy quit quite suddenly last night."
"Ugh!" Mel grunted. "There can't be much left to do."
"Not a lot. Just a few pesky little details. Can you be in our offices
by ten?"
"Today?"
"Of course. You need to get up to speed fast."
That was an understatement. "But I've got clients!"
"I'm sure it wouldn't be the first time you had to rearrange your
schedule."
Ugh! If it had been anyone else, she would have declined immediately.
But the first thing her daddy had taught her when she came to work here,
was that you never say no to Old Man Feinbaum! "Okay," she replied
reluctantly. "I'll be there."
She hung up the phone. Damn! And next week she had cleared her schedule
just so she could devote it all to Sissy and winning the bet! A
distraction like this was the last thing she needed! And what a
distraction it was. Huge!
She picked up the phone again and punched Andrea's number. "Andrea,
better clear the decks. We got trouble in River City!"
Chad had been working for almost an hour when he heard Robin calling him.
"Sissy, get over here."
Quickly, Chad got up and went over to her cubicle where he curtseyed.
"You called?" He curtseyed again.
"Of course I called!" Robin replied. She looked at him. Not wearing the
skirt helped a lot. He looked much more stupid without it. She pulled
one of the baby bottles out of his diaper bag and handed it to him. Then
she pointed at the floor. "Drink!" It was all she needed to say. As he
was getting down on the floor, her eyes happened to glance at the hair
bow. She was tempted to put it in his hair right then. It would be
something she could get away with. But she decided against it... for now.
Chad wasn't happy about having to drink another bottle already. And this
was his fifth one of the morning - already. He had so much liquid in his
system still that he hadn't even started to try to hold back. And now
Robin was making him drink another one? Between her and Mel they were
making things impossible for him!
He suddenly realized that he had been peeing again. He had almost missed
it because he was too preoccupied with thinking about other things. He
knew he wasn't always noticing any more when he did pee, especially when
his diapers were already wet, which was ninety nine percent of the time.
Peeing automatically was becoming way too much of a habit! He decided
then and there that he would have to try to hold back more now despite
how much liquid was still in his system. The only problem was, that he
had just finished peeing, so he didn't have any need to go again, and no
need to hold back just yet. He only hoped he would notice before the
next time he had to pee.
When he finished his bottle, Robin sent him straight back to work again -
still without his skirt.
Mel was lost... mentally. She was sitting in the richly appointed meeting
room at Feinbaum's offices along with a large team of obviously powerful
lawyers. All men. All wearing expensive beautifully tailored suits.
She felt like a fish out of water - totally! She had a mountain of
paperwork on the table in front of her. Two bigger mountains on the
floor behind her. How was she supposed to get caught up before the
beginning of next week?
Harry Feinbaum was sitting in the chair at the head of the table, but it
was his son Dick who seemed to be running the show. "And that's about
it," Dick Feinbaum finished up. "Slatter said he'd have the updated
agreement to us no later than Wednesday, so till then, you all know what
you have to do. Let's get to it."
With that, the meeting ended and everyone got up. The very handsome, and
not to mention very married, Dick Feinbaum stayed behind and walked over
to Mel. "Glad to have you in on this," he said as he shook Mel's hand.
"You can imagine what a surprise it was when our guy suddenly quit last
night. No notice. Not even any warning."
"I can imagine," Mel replied. "You can't imagine how shocked I am to be
here."
Dick smiled charmingly. "If your half the lawyer your father claimed,
then you'll do fine," he replied.
"So Richard Slatter is drafting the agreement? And he's on the other
side?"
"That's the story. You know him?"
"A little. Through my father. The guy's a legend. I think he even
wrote one of my law books when I was in school."
Dick nodded. "That's the guy. At least you know what you're up
against."
Mel nodded. "Yeah. A legend!"
Dick laughed. "This is the big league now." He looked at the pile of
work Mel had on the table. "Can I get someone to help you with all
that?"
Mel looked at the mountains of paperwork on the table and also on the
floor behind her. "You better. In fact, I hope I don't have to rent a
truck to get it all home!"
"Just wait right there and I'll send one of our staff in to get it down
to your car for you."
"I appreciate it," Mel replied as she heard the faint sound of her phone
buzzing in her purse. Dick Feinbaum took off as she dug it out.
"Hello?"
"Where have you been, girl?" Gloria's voice asked lightheartedly.
"Ugh! Busy! I'll tell you about it at lunch."
"Good! Because I want to hear all about your date."
"And I want to hear all about yours too. How did it go by the way?"
Gloria paused before speaking. Her voice wasn't nearly as lighthearted.
"Let's just say that I was a little too nervous, and he was a lot more
handsome in person, so I drank way too much, and... well, since I knew I'd
never see him again, I took way too much advantage of the situation."
"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means I made a total fool of myself and not only threw all caution to
the wind, but I went more than a bit wild and tried to make up for all
the sex I haven't had in the last few years! I was a total slut!"
Mel was shocked. "Okay..." she said cautiously. "This I have to hear all
about!"
"Well, I'll warn you, it's going to be very 'X' rated!"
Robin glanced at the clock on her computer. Break time. She got up,
checked her face and hair, and grabbed Sissy's skirt. A moment later she
was at his cubicle. "Break time, Sissy."
Chad turned around in his chair just as Robin threw his skirt at him. He
was quick to get it on again and relieved the moment it was in place.
"Let's go," Robin said as she turned on her heel and led the way.
Quietly, Sissy followed behind her. The moment they reached the next
hallway, Robin paused a moment to let him catch up. They walked sided by
side, but silently, all the way to the break room.
Chad was more nervous than ever about being at break today, for several
reasons. Mainly, he was nervous because of his fingernails. The other
reason he was nervous was because of Derek. Would Derek show up today?
Once they got to the break room, they joined the short line for coffee.
He knew Robin wasn't going to let him go without any, so he grabbed a cup
and filled it. He held the cup so as to try to hide his sissy
fingernails as much as possible. Maybe nobody would notice. There were
doughnuts in a box beyond the coffee. He ignored them as he waited for
Robin to fill her cup. He expected Robin to grab one of the doughnuts,
but all she did was to look at them - a bit longingly. Together they
headed for the women's table.
As the others arrived and sat down, Chad did his best to keep his hands
low and in his lap so his fingernails wouldn't be noticed. Every time he
lifted his cup to drink, he worried more about someone else seeing them.
Once or twice, he did see a woman staring at his hand as he held his cup
to his lips. Did they see what was on his nails? Fortunately, they
didn't say anything.
Robin sat back and relaxed a bit as she talked casually with a few of the
women. Out of the corner of her eye though, she noticed how Sissy was
handling trying to hide his nails. Well, unfortunately for him, that
would never do! She leaned over to whisper quietly to the woman next to
her. "Did you get a good look at Sissy's nails today?"
The woman immediately looked around Robin, trying to see better. "I
can't see them. They're in his lap."
"Ask him to show you the design on them," Robin whispered.
"A design?" the woman replied with interest. "I'll bet it's pretty! He
always has such beautiful nails."
It was all Robin could do to not break out laughing. "Ask him," she
prompted.
Since there were other conversations taking place around them, the woman
leaned across Robin and asked softly. "Sissy... let me see your nails."
Chad nearly had a fit! His luck had run out and he knew it. He looked
at Robin to see if maybe she could help, but instead of help, she had a
very pleased smirk on her face. She had prompted this! He just knew it!
Holding his cup in his right hand, he slowly and tremblingly extended his
left hand towards the woman. The woman's sudden loud gasp of surprise
stopped all conversation as everyone looked to see the woman staring at
Sissy's hand. Quickly, Chad retracted his hand and hid it again.
"Set your cup down," Robin told him, "and show everyone what you did to
your hands!"
Chad nearly spilled what was left of his coffee as he set it down on the
table. Trembling more than ever with embarrassment, he held both hands
out over the table so everyone could see. The women practically climbed
all over each other to get a good look. The shocked exclamations and
comments were only what he expected.
"What on earth made you decide to do that to your hands?" One of the
women asked.
Chad looked up at her, totally embarrassed. "It wasn't really my idea."
"It wasn't?"
Chad shook his head. "No, it was... kind of..."
"A dare?" someone tried to finish for him.
He was going to pounce on that one and go along with it, but he caught
sight of Robin's face first. He shook his head. "No. More of a...
suggestion."
"To do that? My God! It has to be awfully embarrassing!"
Chad nodded. "It is!"
"So what made you do it?"
Chad just shrugged. "Trying new things I guess."
Robin knew that his answer wasn't exactly the truth, but she liked him
taking the responsibility instead of throwing it on someone else - in
this case, Mel.
"I think I'd remove it quick if it was me!" one of the women suggested.
"I mean, any other name would be fine. A bit juvenile perhaps but still,
Sissy isn't the kind of name that would be best for... well... you
especially."
Chad could only agree! "I would, but... well... I kind of promised I'd leave
it," Chad replied. It wasn't quite the truth and he noticed an odd look
from Robin after he said it.
"Whatever for?" another woman asked, totally shocked. "Do you know what
it looks like?"
Chad finally pulled his hands back and hid them in his lap again. He
nodded sheepishly. "Yeah."
"Say it!" Robin commanded.
Chad just looked at her shocked. Did she really want him to admit what
he was?
"Tell them what you think it looks like!" she said again.
Unable to look any of them in the eye, he looked down into his lap and
said, "It makes it look like I'm a sissy."
"Damn straight it does!" One of them exclaimed!
"And you're still not going to remove it?" another woman asked.
Chad looked up briefly, then over at Robin, then back down into his lap
while he tried to figure out how to answer that. "Sometimes... people like
me... have to put up with a lot."
This time Robin did burst out laughing, although everyone else looked
shocked.
"I have no doubt about that!" someone replied for all of them. "But
this?"
Chad just shrugged. "It's actually not much worse than some of the other
things I've been through."
The woman shook her head. "Well, you wanted this life, but if it was me,
I'd still get rid of it."
Chad only nodded.
Robin had no doubt though that now there were questions in every woman's
mind. Questions over whether he was a sissy or not. Questions that none
of them probably had the courage to ask here at the table, but they were
questions that they would discuss privately with each other all over the
company.
Ray sat back in his chair and closed his eyes. He had a date lined up
for later tonight, but no date for tomorrow. Once again his thoughts
turned to the tiger... otherwise known as Gloria. Damn, what an evening!
He had gone out with someone else on Sunday, but he didn't think he had
performed up to his usual standards! He was sure he would have no
trouble like that tonight. But his real problem was that he couldn't get
that demented tiger out of his mind. What a crazy woman! Damn she had
been good!
But the fact remained, he still wanted a date for tomorrow night. And
first on his list was Mel - the rich woman! The one that Gloria had
claimed was... loooaded! And better yet, Mel had already said she wanted
to go out with him again. Heck, she had practically pleaded with him!
Well, it would be another expensive evening, but if things went right,
she would be a great one to eventually get engaged to. Rich! Rich!
Rich!
With a bit of a chuckle, he dialed her number. A moment later he said,
"Hi Mel. This is Ray..."
Mel took the opportunity to sit down in her desk chair and relax. She
had been trying vainly to sort through the huge amount of material she
had received that morning. "Ray! You couldn't have called at a better
time. I need a break!"
"How about a bigger break for lunch?"
But big red flags suddenly went up in Mel's mind. As much as she really
liked Ray and wanted to go out with him again, there was the new
complication of Derek - which ordinarily wouldn't have been a major
problem, but since Derek now knew about Sissy, then she felt like she
needed to stay close to Derek for now. The fact that she really liked
Derek better may have influenced her decision too. "Um... Ray... I think I
better decline for now. I have other things going on."
"Then how about a regular date. I'm available tomorrow night and you did
say you wanted to go out with me again. I know I loved our last date a
lot!"
She had too. But... "No Ray. Sorry. Not tomorrow night. I have too
much on my mind right now."
Ray was disappointed, to say the least. He tried to salvage what he
could. "Well, don't forget about me. I still want to see you again."
"Me too," Mel replied. "And thanks for asking, but not right now." She
hung up. She liked Ray - a lot! But did she like Derek better? They
were both great. And they were both... different! But for the next few
weeks, Sissy was one big complication that she had to get sorted out
first. And sorting out meant winning the bet!
Ray hung up his phone disappointed. She was busy! But she was rich so
he wasn't about to simply give up on her. No, he would try again
tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that. Eventually, he'd go
out with her again and take things from there.
In the meantime, who could he call? And still the only woman his mind
wanted to conjure up was the wild woman - Gloria. But she worked late
during the week. Darn it all!
Chad had never felt more uncomfortable about things as he silently
followed Robin back to their cubicles. What were people going to think?
Before Chad could turn off to his own desk, without bothering to look at
him, Robin said, "My place!" and she continued straight to her cubicle.
As soon as she got there, she turned on him. "Skirt off!"
Chad couldn't believe it! Things weren't bad enough?
"You want to make things worse?" Robin asked when he didn't move
immediately.
Chad didn't dare hesitate any longer. He knew Robin wouldn't hesitate to
find some other way to make his life more miserable. Quickly, he removed
his skirt and handed it to her.
Robin threw his skirt on her desktop, then she opened his diaper bag
again and handed him another bottle to drink. "Get busy," she told him.
Chad wanted to cry. He had just finished a whole cup of coffee and now
she wanted to make him drink this too? He had yet to be able to start
trying to control himself. This bottle would be like pouring gasoline on
a fire. There would be no way! Reluctantly, he put the bottle to his
mouth and sank down to her office cubicle floor.
Robin watched him put the bottle to his mouth. The image of him putting
it in his mouth and then sinking down to the floor seemed to burn itself
into her mind. She turned back toward her computer, but as she did so,
she noticed the multi-colored bow again. She picked it up and looked at
it. Did she dare put it in his hair now? Now that everyone was starting
to suspect there was more going on with him than they thought? She held
the bow out in her hand so that from her field of vision it kind of sat
on top of his head, the long streamers hanging down covered his face.
But the recent image of him putting the baby bottle into his mouth came
back to her - especially where his skirt was so obviously missing. She
mentally imposed the bow over where his skirt should have been and nearly
laughed. Now that would be funny! She looked at the bow carefully. It
had the usual hair clip underneath. But to do what she wanted she would
have to find some other way to attach it. She opened her desk drawer,
but the closest thing to anything useful was her scotch tape, and she
knew that wouldn't be nearly strong enough to do the job. But...
"I'll be right back," she told him as she set the bow back on her desk
and walked out. The supply room for that part of the building was down
several hallways, but not all that far away. She went inside and started
poking around the shelves - and finally pounced on some wide clear
packing tape. Tape she knew was much stronger and sticker than the thin
tape she had at her desk. She was about to leave, but since she had come
in there for tape, she remembered that she had been using more than her
usual amount of her regular tape lately too. She grabbed two more roles
of that. Her excitement growing, she headed back to her desk.
Sissy was just where she had left him, his bottle only a little further
along. "Stand up," she told him. "You can drink that for a few minutes
standing up."
As soon as he was standing, she grabbed the wide clear packing tape and
pulled some out. She fished her scissors out of her desk and cut it off.
She pulled that piece of tape through the wide clip of the bow. Then she
knelt down in front of him and pressed the bow onto the front of his
pantyhose - right on top of where his silly chastity device would be
under all his diapers. She carefully pressed down on the tape to make
sure it stuck. Oddly, she noticed that his diapers felt thicker today.
She realized that they looked thicker too. "How come your diapers feel
so much thicker today?" she asked.
Chad almost replied without curtseying, but he remembered just before he
opened his mouth. With Robin still on the floor in front of him, he
dropped a little curtsey. "Mel has me in three diapers now," he replied.
Then he curtseyed again to signify that he was done speaking.
Robin nearly laughed. "They look awfully bulky."
Chad had to curtsey again. "They are! Of course it's also because I'm
so wet." Curtsey.
Robin only chuckled as she pulled more of the packing tape out and cut it
off. She stuck piece after piece over that part of him to secure the bow
to his front side as firmly as possible. She realized she was probably
ruining his pantyhose, but she didn't care about that in the least.
Finally she stood back and surveyed her handiwork. Beautiful! She
laughed to herself as she pointed back down at the floor, telling him to
sit down again until he finished his bottle.
Chad sank back down, totally aware of the big bow now stuck to his front
side. It certainly didn't cover up the fact that he wasn't wearing his
skirt! In fact, it drew attention to him down there. He looked down for
a moment as he paused in his drinking. The streamers were hanging down
and were draped on the floor. He had a bad feeling about those
streamers! He tried to put the bow out of his mind as he went back to
finishing his bottle. How the heck was he supposed to try to hold back
if they kept pushing bottles at him to drink?
When he finished his bottle, Robin sent him back to his own desk to work
again. But as he moved, he felt the faint tickling of the streamers
hanging down, tickling the front of his legs - almost down to his knees.
There was nobody around - but he still felt embarrassed by it!
Mel tried to figure out what she needed to look at amid the impossible
stack of paperwork, but it was so daunting a task that her mind was
having trouble staying focused on the job. With a small sigh of
resignation, she gave up for a while and sat back at her desk. Her mind
turned to Sissy instead. What was he doing now? Or maybe she should be
wondering what Robin had him doing? She'd give anything to actually be
there in person to see some of the things Robin made him do.
And speaking of things he was made to do... She opened up an email to
Robin and typed away for a while. Then she added a few other items and
clicked the send button. With the email sent, she needed something else
to think about. Ray popped into her mind first. But thinking about Ray
immediately triggered thoughts about Derek. Had Derek been so turned off
by Sissy on Sunday that he wouldn't call on her again? She sincerely
hoped not! Besides, since Derek now knew all about Sissy, she needed to
keep a close eye on that situation too.
With a groan, she got up and went back to sorting through paperwork.
Ugh!
Robin saw the email come in from Mel. She opened it and noticed that
there were a bunch of pictures attached but not put in the body of the
email. She read what Mel had to say first. It was quite a long email,
and she was surprised that it was simply one she would have categorized
as a "chatty" email. The whole email was Mel passing along stories about
what had happened with Sissy all weekend. Much of it she found more
interesting than she wanted to admit. But the one big surprise that
stood out was Derek! That part had nearly dropped her through the floor!
When she was done reading, she opened up picture after picture to look at
them. The first pictures were of him at some club. The club appeared to
be very crowded with all women, but Mel had mentioned in her email that
it was a lesbian bar. Most of the pictures though were close ups of the
way Sissy had been displayed all night long - on stage! That would have
been hard to believe if she didn't have the proof right in front of her.
Pictures of him drinking his bottle. Pictures of him sitting on the
front of the stage being fed baby food by some strange woman. And a
picture of many women crowding all around him. She couldn't quite make
out much in that picture other than that some of the women were looking
intently at where his diaper would be and some of the others were holding
his arms out to the side - to have a good look at his nails? Maybe.
The last picture in the batch was of Sissy at the mall, in a very
juvenile looking outfit. She could actually see the bottom of his
diapers sticking down below the ridiculously short skirt he was wearing.
She stared at the picture. See, now if he came to work like that every
day, then she'd have no problem always seeing him as a sissy instead of a
normal person. Or better yet, the ruffled dress that Mel had described
that she had taken him grocery shopping in. Yes, now that would be
really interesting! That thought triggered something else that she had
found out about last week - the trip he had taken to the gym. She was
sure she had heard about a different little girl dress there. If only he
could get away with wearing something like those outfits here at work!
But if he did, then it was all too likely someone would find out about
what she was doing with him and she'd probably be fired for sure! It was
wishful thinking, but fun.
She clicked the button to type a reply to Mel's email. First she told
Mel about where Sissy was currently wearing the bow. She also told her
what she planned on doing with it later. Then she thanked Mel for what
she had sent her. Finally, she added a bit of her lamentation over the
fact that it would be impossible to send Sissy to work in any of the
outfits she had described, mostly because it would be all too possible
for others to find out what she herself was doing with him.
With the email sent, she glanced quickly at the clock. Lunchtime wasn't
far off. Which meant... "Sissy! Get over here!" She didn't have to wait
long for Sissy to arrive. The bow attached to the front of his pantyhose
absolutely begged her notice and attention. She reached down and pulled
on it lightly. It still seemed to be stuck fairly well. With a giggle,
she pulled another bottle out of his diaper bag and handed it to him.
Chad was silently screaming as he sank back down to the floor with this
latest bottle. He was particularly agitated because he had yet to even
notice he was peeing this morning before it was coming out! And Robin
was purposely making things worse! He counted on these weekdays away
from Mel's time limits to regain and rebuild his control. But with too
much to drink... he didn't know what he was going to do.
Chad had to hurry to finish the bottle before lunchtime arrived. When he
did, Robin took it and stuck it back in his diaper bag while he stood up
from the floor. "I counted six bottles in your bag when you got here
this morning," Robin told him. "After lunch, I expect to see six full
bottles again. And this time, don't be late about it!"
Chad well remembered the problem he had faced in the ladies room last
Friday when he tried to refill the bottles. He would have to come up
with a better solution today. He curtseyed. "Can I have my skirt now?"
And he curtseyed again.
Robin handed him the skirt and watched as he started to reach to pull the
bow off of his front side. "Don't touch that!" she ordered. "Leave it
right there! Besides, I'm sure that Cassie will enjoy seeing it on you."
Leave it? Was she serious? Unfortunately, he knew she was. He pulled
his skirt on and zipped it up. He had chosen a somewhat full skirt this
morning because of the extra diapers he was wearing, but he could still
see a little bump from the bow underneath. From his angle, he couldn't
tell if the ribbons hanging down showed below the hem of his skirt or
not. It was just something else he would have to worry about - not that
he could do anything about it. He curtseyed again, grabbed his diaper
bag, and left for lunch.
Robin giggled. She could just see a tiny bit of the colorful ribbons
peeking out below his skirt. The bump in front was slightly noticeable
too. But the funniest thing she saw was as he was walking away. His
diapers had gotten so full that he was waddling very noticeably! She was
guessing that the extra diaper he was wearing was responsible for his
more noticeable waddle. The idiot! Well, he deserved it!
Cindy wasn't totally happy. Cassie had told her in no uncertain terms
that she couldn't change Sissy at all this week. She had said that she
might be able to do something with him later, just not this week. She
had asked why, but Cassie wouldn't give her any kind of decent reason.
She noticed Sissy's car pulling into the parking lot. She saw him
getting his diaper bag out and heading towards the door. She saw him
opening the door and come inside... and before she could say anything to
him, she saw him curtsey to her. She giggled despite herself as he did
it. But as he curtseyed... what were the odd bits of color below his
skirt? They certainly didn't look like part of the skirt. Noticing them
completely disrupted her earlier train of thought. She had to know what
she had seen! But before she could open her mouth to ask, she noticed
something else - there was this odd little bulge under his skirt. Not
much, but enough that she could see it. And it was right where a man's...
Chad had curtseyed immediately, not only because he knew he would have
to, but he did it in hopes that maybe the receptionist would get Cassie
quicker. "Will you get Cassie for me please?" he asked.
But Cindy barely heard him. She was too intent on staring at the front
of his skirt and trying to figure things out. That odd little bulge... and
yes, the odd bits of color! "What's showing under your skirt?" she
asked.
Chad glanced down at his skirt. Damn! She could see! "Um... it's just..."
"Let me see!" Cindy ordered before he could get any further.
Chad knew he would have no choice. He slowly lifted his skirt, revealing
the big bow with the streamers that Robin had taped onto him. He held
his skirt up for a moment as Cindy put her hand over her mouth and
laughed. She was still laughing when he lowered his skirt again and
tried to tug it down further, which it wouldn't do. "Can you please get
Cassie for me now?" he asked again.
Still staring at him with her hand over her mouth, Cindy slowly moved
from behind the counter to go look for Cassie.
Chad counted himself as lucky because she hadn't noticed his fingernails.
He also considered himself lucky when Cassie came up front and he only
had to curtsey and greet her. She didn't ask to see the big bow. But
then, she was going to see it all in a few minutes anyway. He followed
her back through the gym of exercising women, back to the little room
where she changed him every day.
Since Cassie didn't ask about the bow when they got to the room, and
because he knew she'd see it in a moment anyway... and just to get it over
with, Chad got Cassie's attention by saying, "Um..." Cassie did turn from
pulling things out of his diaper bag to look at him though. Chad lifted
his skirt and showed her the bow.
Cassie smiled. "How sweet! And in just the right place too. Robin?"
she asked.
Chad only nodded.
"It looks like you better be careful taking those pantyhose off then.
You wouldn't want to mess it up."
Getting his pantyhose off didn't turn out to be much of a problem. But
he did try to be careful about doing anything that might make the bow
come loose. He could just see Robin trying to attach it some other way
that might be worse! A few minutes later, he was laying down drinking
yet another baby bottle of Mel's "wonderful" tea.
"It looks like the three diapers are working much better for you," Cassie
noted as she peeled back the layers."
"Only because Robin won't let me go very long without making me drink
something too." Chad replied as he took the nipple briefly out of his
mouth.
"So she's picking up now where Mel leaves off?"
"Something like that," Chad admitted.
Cassie was tempted to say more - including about the bow that was
attached to his pantyhose, but she was ready to move on with changing
him. "Okay, roll over," she said instead. She cleaned his backside,
then applied some of the baby lotion and rubbed it in carefully all over.
Knowing what he really wanted from her though, she applied a bit more of
the lotion in just the right spot, and inserted her finger up into him.
She was rewarded by his immediate reaction of pleasure. She had always
been fascinated by how he could derive such pleasure from being
penetrated in his back end. She was sure that the fact that any pleasure
to his front side was denied him had a big role to play in it. But
still, it never ceased to surprise her how he reacted to it. She soon
grabbed her ribbed toy and was holding on tightly as he pumped himself
desperately against it.
Every inch of Chad's attention was on his backside and the feelings
Cassie's toy continually gave him. But what he wanted was sexual
release. He had achieved it once, he thought, but that had only been
with Mel and her strap-on. Despite how often Cassie worked with him, he
had yet to achieve that same orgasm here with her. But he desperately
tried to get there. He tried as hard as he could. But as usual,
eventually the feelings did nothing more for him. He couldn't get there.
As much as he wanted it, the goal was impossible again. Had it really
happened that once? He was starting to question it.
Cassie removed her toy, and while he was still in the right position, she
made a bit of a show of taking one of the suppositories out of the jar
and pretending to put it up into him. He still didn't know! She wasn't
sure if she should be amazed at that or not. But right now, that was
part of her job, to keep him from knowing it.
A minute later, she was pulling the fresh diapers that she had laid out
under him, up between his legs. Diapers that were already a little bit
wet since he had no control anymore when she was working with him. As
she taped the diapers in place, she had to wonder if he ever had dry
diapers on anymore.
Chad got dressed again. He had to be extra careful to not tear the bow
loose from his pantyhose as he pulled them up. As soon as the hose were
in place, he pressed down on all the tape again to make sure it was all
stuck firmly. He breathed a small sigh of relief as everything seemed to
be secure. He slipped his shoes on as he grabbed his skirt, but before
he could get it all the way on, Cassie stopped him.
"Wait a minute," Cassie said. "Give me your skirt."
Chad didn't know why, but he pulled his skirt back off again and handed
it to her. Cassie stood up and picked up his diaper bag and handed it to
him. But she kept his skirt. "Okay, let's go."
Chad was dumbfounded! She expected him to... But Cassie was already gone
- with his skirt! He had no choice but to follow her out through the gym
full of exercising women. He knew his face had to be very red before he
got very far. He never stopped walking, but many of the women stopped
what they were doing to stare at him. He heard more than a few chuckles
and more than a few silly comments about his colorful bow. By the time
he got all the way through the long room, it was much quieter than when
he started. And there was Cassie, waiting for him with his skirt still
in her hand. But as soon as he got near her, she turned and kept going
with it. "Let's go this way today," she said without looking back.
Since she had his skirt, Chad had no choice but to follow her. She
finally pushed open one of the doors off to the side of the gym and went
through. The door swung shut before Chad could get there. He opened the
door and stopped cold! It was one of the rooms where they held some of
their exercise classes - and class was currently in session! And there
was Cassie, his skirt still in her hands, up front talking with the
instructor.
Even though Chad had stopped before actually entering the room, he had
caught the attention of some of the women close to the door. Their
squeals of delighted laughter rang out and quickly built as more and more
of the women saw him. He was about to step back away from the door, but
Cassie was motioning for him to come in.
Feeling so sheepish he couldn't believe it, he slowly made his way toward
the front of the room. All eyes were on him. When he got to the front,
Cassie finally handed him his skirt back. In front of all those women,
he put the skirt back on and zipped it up. The oddness of what he had
just done didn't escape him - a man putting on a skirt in front of a
bunch of women.
Cassie bent down a little and pointed to the bottom of his skirt. "See
the ribbons underneath?" she said to the instructor.
The woman didn't have to bend down. "They just barely show," she
replied, "but I can see them. Kind of like a little tease for what's
under there."
Cassie stared at Sissy for a moment more. "See you tomorrow," she said
to him with a very amused smile on her face.
Chad immediately turned to go and started to hurry out.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Cassie's voice asked, stopping him in
his tracks.
Chad couldn't think of anything. He had his diaper bag, he had his
purse... he finally had his skirt again. He looked at her quizzically.
"How do you say goodbye to all these nice ladies?" Cassie asked.
Ugh! Chad had to curtsey for them all, which raised more than a few
chuckles. He said a quick goodbye, then he hurried out of there at
almost a run! What had gotten into Cassie today?
"So let me get this straight," Gloria said as Mel sipped at her coffee.
"They asked you to work on this deal, but you don't really know what
you're supposed to be doing?"
"That's pretty much it in a nutshell." Mel replied. "I asked, but all
they said was that I needed to make sure the agreement was kosher and
that I didn't see any mistakes."
"Well, that sounds fairly clear to me."
"Yeah, but they're all doing that. Except that, from what little I've
seen, they've all got it easier in that they're each responsible for only
a small part of it, just their own separate area of concern. As far as I
can tell, I have to look through all of it."
"And you don't think it's fair?"
"Not in the time I've got."
"Don't worry honey, if I know you, you'll do great."
Mel shook her head. "I don't know this time. I mean, all those men...
And they were all major big time lawyers. It was more than a bit
intimidating just to be in the same room with them!" She shook her head,
then smiled and looked up at Gloria. "You wouldn't believe how pretty a
man can look in an overly expensive, perfectly tailored suit! I could
have stared at some of them all day."
"Damn I should have gone to law school," Gloria said. "I get to see
plenty of executive types, but when I see them, they're all frazzled and
neurotic! Not exactly what you get."
"Hey, this is a first for me too," Mel replied.
"Yeah, but you said you knew a few of them from before."
"A few," Mel admitted. "But I didn't know them well."
"So what are you going to do?"
Mel sighed. "Well... for starters... I don't think I'm going back to my
office after lunch."
"You can't run away and you know it!"
"I'm not running away. I'm going shopping! I'm not going to look that
out of place again! If they want to show off expensive clothes like
that, then so can I!"
"Go get em girl! Now, let's get back to this Derek thing. What the heck
happened?"
Chad hurried from his car back to his office. He was carrying his purse,
his diaper bag, and a large bottle of water he had bought at a
convenience store. He had hurried as fast as he could through lunch so
that hopefully, Robin wouldn't be back yet. He was also hoping he could
get back to the safety of his desk before most other people got back too
so there would be less chance of anyone noticing the odd bits of color
below his skirt. Before stopping at his desk, he checked Robin's cubicle
- empty. Good!
He set everything down on his desk and pulled out all the empty baby
bottles from his diaper bag and one by one, carefully filled them from
the large bottle of water. The big bottle was less than half full by the
time he finished. Did he really drink all that this morning? Dumb
question. Sometimes he drank more than that - a lot more!
He was just finishing when Robin walked by. "My place," Robin said,
barely pausing on her way to her desk.
Chad hurried around to her cubicle, but when he got there he didn't even
get a chance to curtsey before she asked, "Where's your bag?"
Chad dropped a very quick small curtsey before going back for his diaper
bag. When he returned she took it from him and set it on her desk. "Why
is that skirt still on?" she asked.
Chad suspected it was coming since she had left the bow on him earlier,
so he wasn't surprised. He removed his skirt again and she took it from
him. She opened his diaper bag and checked all the bottles, then she
pulled one out and handed it to him. "You may as well have another one
now," she said before turning away from him to go back to work.
Dejectedly, Chad sank down to the floor with another bottle. How the
heck was he supposed to hold back today? Every time he turned around she
was handing him another bottle to drink!
Mel parked her car and stared up at the store in front of her. She
hadn't been here in a long time. The last time had been with... her
mother. She had often been here before that. The store represented a
world she had pretty much ignored for the last few years - the world of
the wealthy. It wasn't that she disliked anyone she would meet. On the
contrary, some of them were incredibly nice. But she had always felt
determined to make her own way, to not be judged for what she did just
because of her family's money. She was determined to succeed on her own
merit and her own merit alone!
But now her own merit had run crashing right back to the world she had
started from. Well, if she had reached that point, and she knew she
hadn't really, then she would have to be accepted by the people in that
world. And acceptance meant certain... compliances.
She got out of her car and walked up to the door. Her mind was filled
with many remembrances of her mother and her coming in here so many times
in the past. Now she felt alone and out of place. Her mother wouldn't
be coming with her anymore.
She didn't get ten steps inside the door before she saw the look of
surprise on the face of one of the older saleswomen that she remembered
from so many trips in the past.
"Melissa? Is that you?"
"Hi Lilly," Mel replied, trying to sound casual.
"Look at you! You're all grown up! And you're beautiful darling!"
Mel smiled in spite of herself. "Thanks Lilly. You're looking just as
good as ever."
"Oh bull! I'm getting old and you know it! I was so sorry to hear about
your mother and father. So very sorry. We all were."
"Thanks, Lilly. I appreciate it. I still miss them."
"I'm sure you do dear. Now, what can this old bag of bones do for you
today? Oh! You know what? I have the