[Baby Jake]

“Chapter Fifteen (Part I), The Night of Anticipation (Getting the Goods)“


“Happy 4th of July” I read.

“Hey thanks Luke, you too” I typed.

That had been the first happy 4th I had received all day… however the all day part was only about five minutes long. I had just woke up, (about five minutes ago). My day had just begun… And it was finally the 4th of July.

“What’ve you got planned for tonight?” I read.

“Oh you know… The sleepover at Brian’s and Daniel’s with Seth is bound to be fun as hell” I explained.

“Ah yes… any other plans, maybe you and your mom doing something?” Luke typed to me.

I thought for a moment…

“She and I are supposed to go to the park for a bit and watch the fireworks display. That’s when I’m getting picked up by Brian’s mom” I explained.

“Oh, that’s cool” I read.

“So you’re going to go there, watch and hang out with your mom for a bit… then after words just go to Brian’s house?” he checked.

“Yes” I confirmed.

“That’s cool…” he said.

“So what are YOU going to be doing tonight?” I asked him.

“Oh nothing much… My family is coming over and we’re going to have a barbeque… We will be able to see the fireworks from our backyard like we’re actually there. I guess we technically actually are there in person… considering the baseball field they are shooting them from is only a block away” he explained.

“lol yeah” I typed.

“You have any baby plans for tonight?” I asked.

“Hmmm…” I read.

“Well… I might not have any time.” I read.

“Oh” I said.

“Yeah… If I could I would” I saw him reply.

“Heh” I typed.

“Speaking of babyish things and such… how’s that whole situation you’ve been dealing with, thinking you might be a teen baby?” I saw him say.

“Hmmm… it’s been like three days since then… I’ve gotten on this strong thumb sucking kick” I replied.

“Oh? Widdle Baby Aden a thumbthucker?” I read.

This made me blush a bit… I wasn’t used to being babyishly talked to… and certainly wasn’t used to being called Baby Aden… well… not recently anyways.

“Hehe… I suppose so” I typed.

“You should get a pacifier or something. Those things rock” I saw Luke type to me.

“Hmmm… I never actually ever thought about buying one” I said.

“Oh they are very nice… I love my pacifier.” Luke typed back to me.

“I dunno man… I’m too used to just worrying about buying diapers for myself. If I have teen baby feelings… it kind of complicates things. I already have problems buying diapers, hiding them, disposing of them unnoticeably…” I ranted.

“Well man, you don’t need to buy anything babyish to be babyish. I went a little while at first when I was absorbing what I was without sucking on a pacifier. I just decided to buy one at one point” he replied.

“*nods*” I typed.

“But um… yeah. I have to go for now. My mom is yelling at me for being on the computer” he typed to me.

“Oh, okay” I replied.

“Later man” he said.

And with that, he logged off. It was just me in my haggard and groggy state of mind. All of my senses were still waking up, but by now, they were more awake then not, since I had been talking with Luke online.

I stood up, stretched, cracked some joints, and continued out of my room. I slowly, almost zombie-like, walked through the halls and into my kitchen.

“Hi Aden” I heard. It was my mom.

“Hey mom…” I said as I hovered over to the kitchen table.

“You want some breakfast?” she asked me as I sat down lazily into my chair.

“Sure” I said as I rested my head on the table.

“Okay Aden, hang on a sec’ and I’ll get you something to eat, okay?” she told me.

I moaned something that even I didn’t know what I said. She chuckled and I heard some dishes clanging, I heard the fridge opening and shutting, the sound of cereal pouring into a bowl, and some pouring clanging (the sound of a spoon hitting the side of a bowl), and finally, the sound of a fridge door opening and shutting again. Then finally, the bowl of cereal was placed right in front of me. I looked up.

“Mmmm… Cinnamon Toast Crunch.” I thought.

“Thanks” I said.

“No problem Aden” she said, patting me on the head.

She walked away from me, but not out of the room. She remained and continued to do the dishes like she was doing originally when I had entered the room.

I stuck a spoonful of the sugar coated, artificially cinnamon flavored, one inch by one inch squares of tasty deliciousness into my mouth, wondering what my future held for me for the day to come.

“So are you excited for the sleepover tonight?” my mom asked me.

“Sure am” I said.

“What are you guys going to do tonight?” she asked.

“Oh you know… sit back, watch movies and stuff. I haven’t seen Brian or Daniel in a while, they’ve been camping with their dad” I explained.

“That sounds fun” she replied.

I of course could not tell her what was really on the night’s agenda, for two reasons. One is common sense… I of course wasn’t going to tell her that I was going to run around in diapers (maybe). And the second was… even if I wanted to tell her… I still didn’t know what Brian’s plans were for us for tonight.

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I ate my cereal, and drank the milk, too, in about ten minutes. My mom and I talked about a few things in the meantime, but I eventually retreated to my room, as usual. I sat down on my computer, and went onto the forums I normally visited every day, to check up on any recent posts.

There was the expected ‘Happy Fourth of July!!!’ post. I replied to that, and replied to a few others of interest. Nothing out of the ordinary… But suddenly, right when I had hit the ‘X (close)’ button on my browser, my phone began to ring.

I coughed, and cleared my throat, reached over, and picked it up…

“Hello?” I asked.

“Hey Aden, its Brian” I heard on the other line.

“Oh hey man” I said.

“What are you up to?” I heard.

“Not much… woke up like a half-hour ago” I said.

“Ha-ha… I’ve been up. Daniel and I woke up bright and early as usual.” I heard.

“Hey, I’ve got a question” I heard.

“Sure, what’s up?” I heard.

“Daniel and I are going to go to the store. I just called Seth; he said he’s down for meeting us there. You want to come along?” I heard.

“Sure” I said.

“Awesome. Just get dressed and start walking or ride your bike or whatever. We’ll be there” I heard.

“Alright” I said.

“Is your mom dropping you off?” I asked.

“Hah… no… we’re going to go down there to buy diapers” I heard. There was, of course, a moment of silence before he said diapers. But the word instantly felt like someone punched me in my heart to make it stop, for a second.

“…oh?” I said with a tone of interest.

“Yeah… for some reason… my stash is clean. All out… some of them seemed like they just up and disappeared into thin air.” I heard.

This made my heart REALLY stop beating for a second. He of course was making a reference to the diapers I had stolen off of him several weeks ago.

“Ha-ha… that’s funny… and weird, too” I said.

“Yeah… you wouldn’t know anything about them?” I heard.

My heart once again skipped a beat. Did he know!? How did he!? I mustn’t have been quite enough. Someone must have been awake when I did… my mind was racing.

I coughed unintentionally before spitting out my next sentence.

“O-Of course n-not!” I said uneasily.

“Ha-ha… just messing with you Aden. Get dressed, and get your butt down here” I heard.

My heart relaxed.

“Eh… heh… yeah… I um… I knew that” I said.

“Uh huh… get over to the store. Meet up with Seth and then wait for us. We’ll be there. Alright?” I heard.

“Alright” I said.

“Okay, later” Brian said.

“Later” I responded.

I hung up the phone after hearing his hang up. I took a breath of relief after that was over with, and looked over at my closet and dresser. Time to get dressed…

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“So how you been?” I heard, as I was walking down the street.

It was only Seth and I as we walked towards the store, to meet Brian and Daniel. It was a warm day. Not hot, like it had been for the last few weeks. Today was a surprisingly simply warm day. The temperature must’ve been only 60 to 70 degrees, with a nice breeze. The sky was so clear of any clouds; all you could see was the endless blue above you…

“I’ve been alright” I said.

“Man it’s a beautiful day out here” I said.

“You’re telling me” he replied.

“I haven’t seen a beautiful day like this since at least Spring” he said.

“I know…” I said.

There was a bit of silence then…

“So what do you think Brian has in store for us tonight?” he asked me.

“No idea… but it involves diapers, once again” I reminded.

“Yeah…” he remembered.

“Ever notice that Brian is always into diapers?” I was asked.

“Huh?” I responded.

“He’s always eager to put a diaper on” Seth said.

I looked at Seth with a look of consideration, but in my mind, I was thinking what I could possibly do to defend Brian in this situation. Seth was apparently not a diaper-lover, or teen baby, but rather, a normal teenage boy like I was before I came here.

“Well… he says he just wants to do dares” I said.

He looked back at me…

“Yeah but doesn’t it seem a bit strange that he is always thinking of something to do with diapers? Not like normal dares… like, Hey, I dare you to ring this dude’s doorbell and run, or anything. Seems a tad strange” Seth said.

“Well… I don’t know man… I mean… Brian’s a strange kid in the first place” I said.

Seth stopped for a moment and kind of looked into oblivion (an obvious sign that I had just made something click in his head).

“You know that’s true” Seth said, continuing his walk with me down to the store.

“Yeah… Brian’s just Brian. Besides… it doesn’t matter if he… say… enjoyed to wear diapers, anyways, right?” I said.

“I guess not… I was just wondering if you noticed the giddiness in him when a dare is going to happen” Seth explained.

I looked at Seth…

“…yeah I kind of did but… it doesn’t really matter to me” I said.

There was a bit of silence after I said that, but we both kept walking down towards the store.

“So I wonder what he has in store for us tonight” Seth said, bringing up the previous topic of before…

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We talked on our way down to the store, but in what seemed like only a few moments, we were standing in front of the entrance, waiting for Brian and Daniel to come walking from their direction of town, up to us.

“Hey guys!” we heard only a few minutes after.

I looked at Seth and Seth looked at me.

“Where the hell is he?” Seth asked me with a confused face, but was laughing.

We looked around, and eventually saw Brian and Daniel too, standing a great distance from us, waiting to cross the street. He was wearing his backpack, indicating that he was ready.

Seth signaled him to come on over, and in only a few minutes, he was standing right next to us.

“Alright…” he said, with a tone of voice like he was the commander of some top secret mission that was breaking international laws… or in other words, a serious tone.

“We’re just gonna go in, get some, then we can go to like the club house or something. How’s that sound?” Brian said.

We all nodded.

“Alright, let’s go” he said.

We walked into the store, which was very nice and cool. The temperature outside was hot considered to the air-conditioning that was going on in the store. We didn’t really say anything to each other, and personally… my heart was beating kind of strong. I felt nervous for no reason… I guess it was the diaper-loving side of me wigging out like it did when I heard or saw anything pertaining to diapers.

But I held up. We calmly walked through the aisles, and eventually, through the baby’s and medical aisle, where there were baby’s products, diapers, and other things, as far as the eye could see. We calmly walked by, and without any hesitation in our walking, Brian snagged the first pack of the diapers we could wear.

I glanced over as we were walking… it was a pack of diapers alright. The same kind I had, as a matter of fact. Which was non-coincidently, the same kind I first wore when I was at Brian’s and Daniel’s house that one night.

We still didn’t speak to each other. As a matter of fact… we didn’t even look at each other. We just quietly, calmly placed the bag of diapers onto the counter. We all looked different ways as we heard the cashier ring the diapers up, bag them, and rip the receipt from the receipt-printer-thingy.

“14.99 please” the cashier said.

Brian walked over, handed her the cash, and we all left the store.

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“Holy shit” Seth said, laughing.

There was a huge tension break in the atmosphere… you could literally feel everyone just instantly calm down as we made it outside.

“SWEET” Brian yelled eagerly… a bit too eagerly.

I looked over at him with a face of suspicion, accidentally.

“…what? Sweet… sweet we have um… erm… something… yeah… Sweet for having something to do tonight” Brian said, clearing his throat a few times.

I shrugged non-caringly. He faced the ground and cleared his throat again.

“Man… that was fun. It felt like everyone was watching us like “Hey, why’s there a group of teenage boys buying teen diapers?”” Seth said, laughing.

“They probably were…” Daniel said, in a bare tone.

“Okay, so what are we going to do now?” I said.

“Club house?” Brian suggested.

“Alright… that sounds good to me” Seth said. Daniel concurred, non-caringly. And I of course, didn’t care.

So to the club house, we went.