THE KELLY'S COME TO AMERICA Chapter One: Speedbird to America "Mum, I'm home!" John called as he walked through the door. "I'm in the kitchen, John," His mom called back. "And how was your day, young man?" "Not bad, a bit on the slow side. Ashley asked if I could go over to his house for a while to help him with some of his make-up work from last week is that OK?" "I suppose that's all right, but I want you home in time for dinner. Your father mentioned he had some news for the entire family when he gets home so don't be late." "OK mom, I won't be," John called as he turned around and headed for the front door. A few minutes later John was ringing the bell of his friend's front door and waiting for someone to answer. "Well, Hello John," Ashley's mom said as she answered the door. "Hello, Mrs. Martin, is Ashley home?" "Yes. He's up in his room." Mrs. Martin replied as she allowed John to enter the house. "Hey Ash, you in here?" John asked while knocking on the closed bedroom door. "Yeah John , C'mon in," Ashley called through the door. John stood in shock for a moment when he open the door and saw his best friend laying on his bed in nothing but a T-shirt and a diaper with his leg propped up on several pillows. "What?" Ashley asked seeing his friend stop in the middle of the doorway? Still a bit stunned, all John could do is point in the general direction the diaper his friend had on. "Oh that. I ended up with some nerve damage when the tree branch hit me. The doctor thinks it might be temporary, or it could be permanent, but isn't sure yet. In the meantime, my parents thought it would be a good idea for me to start wearing diapers again to save having any accidents in public, and so I don't ruin my clothes or the furniture. Plus the fact that I can't get around to well with this bloody cast on my leg," He added with a rueful laugh. "What's really funny about all this is that because of my accident my parents finally decided to have William start wearing them to bed to help keep his bed dry. He really threw a fit when my parents told him this. I guess I really can't blame him, his being fifteen, and all, I guess that would be a bit of a shock. I'm just surprised my parents didn't decide to do this years ago." John just nodded to all this with a small smile of his own. With that he pulled out his own school books and helped his friend out in the areas he was having trouble with. "Uh, John, would you mind asking my mom to come in for a moment?" Ash said in a low voice. Before John could ask why he caught a whiff of a freshly messed diaper. Without saying anything that would embarrass his friend he nodded and left the room. "Mrs. Martin?" John asked coming down the stairs. "Yes, John?" "Uh, Ashley asked me to tell you that he needs some help in his room." John stated with a bit of embarrassment having to mention that his best friend was need help in changing his diaper. "OK, Tell him I'll be right up," She said picking up on what the help was going to be. John nodded to this, and headed back upstairs. "She said she'd be here in a moment," John replied as he walked back into the room, however by this time the smell of fresh BM hung over the entire room, and it was all John could do not to make any comments about even though he put up with the same thing from his little brother's room at home. Ashley nodded to this, but looked very uncomfortable. A moment later Ashley's mom walked into the room. "John, would you mind leaving us alone for a few minutes?" Though posed as a question John knew this was more an order than a request. For once he was happy to comply with as he left the room. As John waited to be told that he could rejoin Ashley in his room Ashley's older brother came home, and as usual started giving John a hard time. "Hey Johnnie what's up?" William asked in a snide tone. "Nothing," John answered, but instantly on guard. "Then what are you doing down here? Why aren't you up playing with my 'baby' brother?" John caught the not so subtle barb that William put on the term "baby", but chose to ignore it as he answered. "Your mum asked me to wait down here while she helped Ash with something." "Aww, did the wittle baby need help getting his nappy changed?" William stated laughing. "As a matter of fact he did, and you had better watch your tone, mister, or I just might have to do the same to you." William's mom stated as she walked into the room. William quieted down dramatically when she stated this since he knew that she was serious. "Sorry, mum," he said as he walked off to his room. Mrs. Martin just smiled a bit at how her eldest reacted to her threat, and turned back to John. "You can go back up now, John." "Sorry about all that," Ashley stated as John walked back into his room after making a quick stop in the restroom. "It's OK. I sort of knew things like this would happen when I saw the nappies." With a smile Ashley relaxed when he saw that his friend wasn't going to be embarrassed about being around him because of the diapers. "I just wonder what it's going to be like when I go back to school in a couple of weeks?" Ashley asked a short time later. "I doubt things will have changed all that much," John replied seriously. "I know what you mean, but I still will feel awkward being the only kid in our class that has to wear nappies to school. And how many people will want to hang out with one that does?" "Actually, I think you'd be surprised at how many people do wear nappies during the day in our class. I now for a fact that at least some of them do, or I should say that they wear some of the DryNites under their pants during the day." "Who, and how did you find out?" "I'm not sure who, but as for how, I've seen some of the used pants in the wastebaskets in the bathroom a couple of times. So you certainly won't be alone. Besides, look at things like this it'll be a great way for you to find out who your real friends are, and who are the ones that have only hung around you because you're popular," John told his friend with a smile. "I guess you're right. I'm probably making to much of this." Ashley stated with a small smile of his own. With all this out of the way, and their homework done John popped a game into his friend's Nintendo system. Over the next few hours John just sat next to his friend wondering how nice it would be to be able to wear a diaper again. "John, it's time for you to head on home of dinner," Mrs. Martin said as she walked in to the room about two hours later. "Thanks for letting me know. I lost track of time," John said sheepishly as he got his books together. "Hey John, I was wondering if maybe you could spend the night this weekend?" Ashley called as John headed out of the room. "I'd love to. I'll talk to my mum about it when I get home." "I'm home!" John called as he walked through the front door a short time later. "And right on time, I might add," His mom laughed as she came to greet him. "Go up, and get your hands washed dinner will be ready in a short while. Also let your dad and Josh know also while you're up there." "OK mum," After dropping his books off in his room John set out to do what his mom had asked of him. "Josh, mum says to get ready for dinner it'll be ready in a bit." "OK, I'll be down in a couple of minutes," came the sullen reply. Thinking something was wrong, John went over to his brother's bed to see what was wrong. "What's wrong?" John asked softly. "Nothing, go away!" Came the muffled reply. "Josh, I'm not going to leave till you tell me what's wrong." When no reply came john started to pull down the blanket Josh had over his head. "NO! Leave it alone!" Josh shouted trying to keep his brother from pulling off the blanket. With one final tug john managed to pull the blanket off his brother entirely, and saw what his brother was trying to prevent his seeing. Josh had a gleaming white diaper on. Josh just started crying at this. John just sat there for a second before pulling his brother into a hug, and let him cry it out. "You had another accident at school, didn't you," John said more as a statement of fact than as a question. "Uh huh. The nurse decided to put this nappy on me when she was cleaning me up. When mum found out she decided to have me wear it for the rest of the day," Josh said still sobbing. "It's OK. Why don't you get some pants on, wash your hands, and then we can go down and have dinner," John said softly still holding his brother. "So nice of you boys to join us," Mr. Kelly said as John and Josh came into the dining room. "Sorry, we got a bit tied up on something," John told him as he took his seat. The rest of dinner went normally with nothing said about Josh's earlier accident, or the diaper he had on as a result of it. "OK, I'd like everyone to follow me in to the living room. I have a special announcement to make," Mr. Kelly stated as he got up from the table. Everyone followed him as requested wondering what was about to happen. "What I'm about to tell you may come to a shock to you all, and I'll ask that you keep all comments to yourselves till after I'm done talking, OK?" Getting bewildered nods from his kids, Mr. Kelly continued, "I was informed a few days ago that I was getting offered a promotion at work, and I informed them today that I would accept it. With the promotion I'll not only be making better money than I am now I'll also be having more regular hours with not as much traveling as I do now. The only possible down side to this is the promotion will require us to move. It was this last reason that caused me to need a few day to think about whether or not to accept, but I feel that it would be in our best interests to do so. I have already mentioned all this to your mother, and she agrees with me on this. Now are there any questions?" "When will we be moving?" Josh asked. "We'll be moving in about three weeks to a month." Came the reply. "Will we be moving into a house, or another flat?" John asked. "We're looking into a couple of house right now, but we might have to stay at a hotel for a bit." John's older sister Erin asked the most important question of all, and one neither of her parents were looking forward to. "Where will we be moving to?" "We'll be moving to the United States," Mr. Kelly answered bluntly. "You mean we'll have to move away from our schools, and friends just so you can get a better job?!" Erin yelled right before she ran off crying. John, and Josh just sat there stunned the information not yet sinking in. Mrs. Kelly though went up to comfort her daughter. "Boys, I know this is a shock to you all, and believe me if I and your mom didn't think this was the best for the family I would have declined the offer, but I see this as a way for you guys to get to meet new people, not to mention all your cousins, and other relatives from my side of the family." Mr. Kelly explained to his still stunned sons. The rest of the evening went by quietly. John woke up the next morning with a start, and on looking at the clock next to his bed saw that he was going to be late for school. After hurriedly getting dressed he grabbed his book bag, and raced down stairs to where his mom was getting breakfast ready. "I don't have any time for breakfast, mum. I'm late for school," John said, as he grabbed a quick glass of juice. "You do have time to eat, young man. Your school's closed today because of a pipe breaking last night. That's why I let you sleep in this morning. So go back upstairs and change your clothes, and wake your bother and sister for breakfast." John slowly took all this in, but nodded and went to do what he was asked. He met his sister on the way up the stairs in just as much hurry as he was just a short time before. "You can slow down, Erin. Mum just told me school's been canceled. A pipe or something broke last night." "Oh man, am I glad about that with that bomb dad dropped on us last night I didn't even bother to do my homework," she replied. "Would you mind getting Josh up after you change? I'm going to get a shower." "That shouldn't be a problem." "Thanks. I don't think I'd be able to stand having to deal with his wet bed this morning." John just smiled at this but understood what she was talking about. After getting into some regular clothes John headed in to wake his little brother. "He sure does look cute like that," John thought on seeing his brother curled up in bed holding a teddy bear to his chest, and sucking his thumb. This told John that while his brother didn't say much about the news dropped on them last night it did upset him because these were the only time that he would start sucking his thumb again. "Josh, it's time to get up for breakfast," John said while gently shaking his brother's shoulder. "Huh?" Josh answered sleepily. "I said it's time to get up for breakfast." John repeted. "Oh, OK." Josh answered while still half asleep. "How's the bed?" John asked even though he hated to. "It seems to be dry." Josh replied with a smile having thought that for once in his life he had woken up in a dry bed. John, and Josh both had forgotten about the diaper josh was wearing under his sweatpants. With Josh saying that he was dry they both headed down to breakfast. Mrs. Kelly was just finishing setting things out when the two boys sat down. "John, how was Josh's bed this morning?" His mom asked as she sat down. "It was dry, mum," John replied. "OK, but did you check his nappy?" "No, I didn't. I forgot that he had it on." "That's all right. Josh come over here so I can check you," Mrs. Kelly asked of her youngest. "But, mum..." Josh started. "Please come over here, Josh." While her voice was still soft josh knew he shouldn't push things, and went over to his mom. Without any preamble Mrs. Kelly pulled down her son's pants and saw that the stripe had changed to a deep blue color, and the front of it was an off-yellow. "It's OK, Josh, I figured this was why your bed was dry. We'll get this taken care of after breakfast," Josh was told as his pants were pulled back up. The rest of breakfast went normally with the kids getting asked what their plans were for the day and getting handed chores to do before heading out. "OK Josh, lets go up and get you taken care of," Mrs. Kelly announced as she cleared the last of the dishes from the table. "All right," came the almost inaudible reply as Josh headed up to his room. Within a few moments Josh found himself lying on his bed wearing just a T-shirt and his sodden diaper which had gotten another soaking while he was eating. "There you go, now I want you to go in and get a shower, and make sure you wash thoroughly so you don't end up with a rash," Mrs. Kelly told her youngest son. "Yes mum," Josh said as he got up to do as he was told. "I may just have to see about putting him back into nappies with all the accidents he's been having lately," Mrs. Kelly mused to herself after Josh left the room. With a shake of her head she picked up the soaked diaper and headed back downstairs to make sure her other kids were doing what she had asked them to. By late morning all the chores were completed and all the kids were getting restless. "Mom, may I go over to Ashley's for a bit?" John asked after having double-checked all his homework from the night before. "I guess so, but you come straight home if Mrs. Martin says Ashley needs to rest." "I will," John replied as he grabbed his coat and shot out the door. A few short minutes later he was knocking on the Martin's front door. "Well, hello John. How are you this morning?" Mrs. Martin asked as she let John in. "Not bad," he replied, and started for the stairs leading up to his friend's room. "John, please take your shoes off. I don't want you tracking mud and water all over the place," Mrs. Martin said with a smile. "Yes, ma'am," John said sheepishly as he started to remove his shoes. After doing so he headed up the stairs. Just as he hit the top of the stairs William came out of his room wearing a medium length shirt, socks, and a very wet diaper. John just chuckled to himself, and wished that he had a camera right then. For his part, William didn't even seem to notice that his trek to the bathroom had even been observed. John was still chuckling when he entered Ashley's room "What's so funny?" Ash asked his friend after the door was closed. "I just saw William head in to the bathroom, John laughed more at the sight he had just seen. "And what's so funny about that?" Ash asked in confusion. "It's funny because he apparently had just gotten up and all he had on was a shirt, socks, and a diaper that looked like it was about to fall off it was so full, John commented between laughs. "Yeah, that's Willie all right, Ashley said laughing. "Mum's considering either getting him some thicker diapers or placing a baby diaper inside the ones he wears already he wets so much at times." This, of course got both boys laughing. "Speaking of wet diapers, it looks like you could use a change yourself," John stated on looking down at the maxed-out diaper his friend had on. "I know, my mum hasn't come up yet to change me yet," came the embarrassed reply. "Well, if you're not messy I would be able to change you if you want, that way you wouldn't have to bother you mum," John said hesitantly. "You wouldn't mind?" "I wouldn't have made the offer if I minded, besides, it's not as if you have anything I haven't seen before." "True. Well, if you're serious, the supplies are in the closet." In moments John had all the supplies he needed spread out next to his friend, and he was starting to untape the wet diaper. Ashley shivered a bit when John pulled the old diaper down and a light breeze went over Ashley's crotch. "Sorry about that." "It's all right, it happens every time." Without another word John picked up a diaper wipe and started to clean his friends still hairless crotch. John noticed that by the time he was done wiping his friend down, Ashley's penis was standing at a full erection. Throwing caution to the wind, John warmed up some baby lotion in his hand and started to jack his friend off. Ashley was shocked at first and wanted to have his friend stop, but he was enjoying the feeling too much to voice his complaint. "Oh Jeez John, I think I'm going to blow!" Ashley said hoarsely a few minutes later. John barely had enough time to get a clean wipe over his friend's swollen member before he climaxed. "Thanks, John, I needed that," Ash stated as John completed diapering his friend. "You're welcome. Where do you want me to put this?" John said, holding up the used diaper. "There's a pail in the bathroom you can put it in." With a nod John headed off to throw out the old diaper. He chuckled a bit when entering the bathroom to find that William's diaper from the previous night was laying in a heap next to the bathtub. "Your mum is going to get a big shock when she goes in to the bathroom next," John announced when he came back into Ashley's room. "Why do you say that?" John was asked, and before he could reply both of them heard Mrs. Martin start yelling from across the hall. "WILLIAM WALLACE MARTIN!!! GET IN HERE, AND PUT THIS WET NAPPY WHERE IT BELONGS!!" "I'll be there in a moment, mum!" Came William's shouted reply. "No, not a moment. Get in here and do it now!" William showed up a moment later to place his diaper into the pail like he was to supposed to have done earlier, and the moment he bent over to pick it up his mum pinned him across the sink and started spanking him. After giving her son ten good whacks she let him up and finish throwing his diaper away. "The next time this happens young man you'll spend the whole day wearing a diaper," she told her son bluntly and walked off. John and Ashley just sat there enjoying the scene playing out in front of them. "That's why I say that," John stated with a laugh. A few hours later Mrs. Martin brought up some lunch for the two boys and did a quick diaper change on her son, only this time allowing John to witness the whole thing. "So, do you think your parents will let you sleep over this weekend?" Ashley asked over lunch. "I'm sure they will, but there's something I have to tell you," John answered, but unable to meet his friend's eyes. "What is it?" Ash asked wondering what it could be to make his friend act like he was. "I just found out last night that my dad accepted a promotion at his work and we'll be having to move in about a month," John sobbed. "That's not so bad, I'm sure we'll be able to get this set up for you to stay over during holidays and such," Ashley said, trying to raise his friends spirits. "No, we won't! The promotion is having us move to the U.S.," John said crying openly now. "It's OK. We'll still be able to write to each other and maybe do a phone call every now and then. Things will work out," Ashley said while patting his friend on the shoulder. With this said the conversation was moved into a different direction and all too soon John was being told he would have to leave so Ashley could get some rest. "I'll give you a call later about what my parents say about our having a sleep over," John said as he left. "Mum, I'm home!" John called as he came through the door. "Did you have a nice time?" Mr. Kelly asked as John walked into the family room. "Hi dad. Yeah, we had lots of fun." "How's Ashley doing?" He's still a bit sore from the accident, but he's doing better," John replied as he started heading up to his room. "That's good to hear," Mr. Kelly responded to his son's retreating form. "Oh, dad, is mum here? There's something I wanted to ask her." "She's upstairs with Josh in his room, but I don't think this would be the best time to ask her anything," John's dad replied with a wary sigh. "Josh had another accident didn't he?" John questioned. "Yes this was his third one today after your mum took off the nappy he wore to bed last night. I honestly swear, I don't know what to do with him about all this. Where the first part was directed at him, John could tell the last part for his dad's statement was more a rambling to himself. John took his father's advice to give his mum some time to cool down when he started upstairs and could hear the commotion coming from his brother's bedroom. "Mum, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to. It just happened," Josh cried. "Why, am I having a hard time believing this? This is the third time today you've had an 'accident' and frankly, I'm getting tired of them. "It was an accident though," Josh pleaded. "Maybe it was, and maybe it wasn't. It's been happening so often It's hard to tell anymore. So, until things are straightened out this is what's going to happen. When you get home each day you'll change out of your school clothes, and you'll change into the underwear and plastic pants I have set out for you. When you can show me that you can keep them clean we'll make some changes in this routine and not before." "But, what if I want to go over to a friend's house?" "Then you'll wear them over to your friend's house, and if you say another word, I'll have you wear them to school as well. Now put those on and get started on your homework. I'll have your sister fetch you for dinner. After finishing his homework for the weekend, John decided to take a short nap before dinner. While asleep, John began to dream what life would be like in his new home and any new friends he would make, but for some strange reason most of his dream centered around finding a friend, like Ashley, that either had to wear diapers, or like himself, just wanted to wear them for fun. he also thought of what could possibly happen the coming weekend if his parents let him sleep over. "John time to get up," John heard through the fog of sleep. "Huh?" cam the mumbled reply. "I said, it's time to get up. Dinner's almost ready," His sister, Erin, repeated. "Oh, OK. I'll be down in a few minutes," John responded through a yawn. after making a quick stop in the bathroom to relieve his aching bladder and wash up, John headed downstairs to join his family for dinner. He was more than a little surprised when he started to sit at the table and he noticed that Josh had on a pair of plastic pants and that these covered what looked like at least six pairs of underpants. "So nice of you to join us," John's mum stated has he sat down. "Sorry, I had something to do first," came the cryptic response. This got Josh to chuckling and earned him a quick reprimand from his father. "John, your father mentioned you had something to ask me?" Mrs. Kelly asked a short time later as he was asked how his day went. "Yes, Ash asked if it would be all right for me to stay over at his house next Friday night since we aren't going to have many more chances to do so." "I don't see that it would be a problem, but of course I'll have to see if it's okay with his mother." "I understand, but I don't think it'll be a problem since she was in the room when he asked and didn't say anything against it." "Even though I'll still have to ask her about it. How's he doing anyway? We hadn't heard much about it since the accident occurred." "He's doing fine. He expects to be able to go back to school next week and he'll be on crutches for a while after that." "That's certainly good to hear about. I hope he doesn't get made fun of over it. Some kids can be so cruel at times." the rest of the evening went quietly and John spent most of this time playing video games in his room. "John, don't forget it's your turn to get Josh ready for bed," Erin announced several hours later. "I don't see why Josh can't take care of this himself. I mean, he'll be ten in a few months. both you and I were able to get ready for bed by ourselves at his age now." John grumbled as he put his game away. "I know what ya' mean, but we both know what happened the few times mum tried to let Josh do this for himself," Erin stated with a knowing look. John just nodded at this and went to get his baby brother ready for bed. "C'mon Josh, it's time to get ready for bed," John announced as he walked into his brother's room. "No, I want to play some more," Josh said, acting more like a five year old than a soon to be ten year old. "Josh, I'm in no mood for this tonight, so this will be your only chance to come quietly," John replied in a manner he hoped his brother would pick up on, but this was short-lived. "No, I wanna play more." "Okay, fine, you can explain this to mum when she comes up in a few minutes to get you ready for bed herself," John said plainly as he walked out of the room. Josh, thinking his brother was just joking about getting their mom, continued to play with the toys he had out. "Mum, Josh is refusing to get ready for bed. I asked him nicely twice to do so, but he just said he wanted to keep playing and I didn't feel like arguing with him about it." "OK, I'll go up and handle him in our bathroom. You go ahead and get ready for bed yourself in the other one." John just nodded at this and went to do what he was asked, even though he normally got his shower in the morning. As expected, John soon heard the sound of his brother getting spanked for not obeying a request for him to get ready for bed. Josh tried to say that John never came in to tell him, but this was soon crushed when Erin overheard this comment and informed her mom that John had asked Josh twice to get ready for bed, but he didn't want to stop playing. getting caught in a lie only made matters worse and Josh soon found himself on ground for the next week. Chapter Two "Hello?" "Mrs. Kelly?" a female voice asked over the phone. "Yes." "This is Mrs. Hazel, I'm the nurse at HallowBrook. I'm calling on behalf of your son Joshua. It seems that he's had an accident and is requesting permission to come home." "What kind of 'accident' are we talking about?" " I'm a bit embarrassed to say, but Josh apparently didn't make it to the restroom in time and unfortunately soiled his pants." "I see. Mrs. Hazel, this is what I would like to be done. After Josh has been cleaned up, you have my permission to place him in a nappy and some clean pants, then he's to return back to class. I'll send a note to the school tomorrow stating this is how these types of matters are to be handled, but for today you have my verbal authorization to do this." "If you're sure this is how you want this to be handled I'll inform the head nurse and it'll be taken care of." "I am sure, and thank you for calling." "yes ma'am. Have a good afternoon." "You, too." With this Mrs. Kelly hung up the phone. "I hope this teaches that boy something," Mrs. Kelly muttered under her breath as she headed out to the luncheon she was headed to. "Is my mom on her way here?" Josh asked in a subdued voice when Nurse Hazel came back into the exam room. "No, she's not she asked us to handle this differently," came the reply. "Well, what do you plan on doing?" By way of answer Nurse hazel opened up a cabinet that held the diaper supplies the school kept on hand for some of the special students they had enrolled. "I'm not going to wear a nappy!" Josh fairly yelled when he saw what was in the cabinet. "Yes, Josh, you are going to be wearing a nappy. Your mother insisted, and if you try to fight me on this, I'll send you back to your class without any pants. Do you understand me?" josh just nodded at this, but still planned to fight it when the time came because he felt that she wouldn't actually carry out her threat. "That's good," Nurse Hazel stated as she proceeded to remove Josh's soiled clothes and clean him up. Just as she started to lift Josh's legs so she could slip the diaper she had under him he started kicking and screaming. Josh's first kick came close to catching her right in the face. After a startled jump back from the near miss, Nurse Hazel jumped back in close to her charge and quickly got another firm grip on Josh's ankles, and after lifting his butt off the table proceeded to give him several sound swats to it. this calmed Josh down quickly and he soon found the nappy taped securely in place. "OK, Mr. Kelly, you can go back to class now," Nurse Hazel stated in a slightly winded voice. "What about my pants?" Josh asked in a sobbing voice. "Like I told you, if you fought me on this I would send you back to class with out any pants. You decided to challenge me on this, and so you now see that I wasn't kidding with what I said. Now you wait here while I go get an office aid to escort you back to class." Josh sat back down on the exam table and started crying as Nurse Hazel walked out of the room. Within minutes she was back with an office aid and Josh soon found himself being led back to his classroom. The class erupted into laughter as Josh walked back into class. "So, Mr. Kelly, I see they decided to take the appropriate steps in handling your problem," his teacher announced as Josh took his seat in the back of the classroom. "And, Mr. Kelly, I've taken the liberty of having moved you to the front of the class for the day," he added after Josh was more than half way to his seat. With barely contained tears, Josh turned around and went back up to take the seat his teacher was indicating. As the day progressed, Josh found that he was being called on more than any other student in the class. It was even worse when it came time of lunch because of the structured affair this event was. The people at his table were constantly making remarks about his nappy showing and his teacher saw to it that he had lots to drink. Josh tried to stay away from drinking too much since he knew what would happen if he did and this was the one thing he wanted to prevent. Josh's worst fears came true about an hour after the class returned from lunch. "Mr. Kelly, would you mind coming up to the board and answer question ten," his teacher requested. Josh glumly got out of his seat and headed to the chalk board to answer the question he was assigned, all the while he was trying to hold his bladder in. He lost the battle for this halfway back to his desk. His pee just started shooting out and filling up his nappy. He hopped none of the other kids noticed what was happening, but this was short-lived. "Hey, look! Josh is wetting his Nappy!" One of the boys in the from row announced loudly, once he saw the stripes on the front of the nappy change color. This brought a new round of laughter from his classmates. The teacher was not pleased with the sudden announcement or the resulting commotion. "Everyone settle down now!" the teacher shouted while slamming his hand down on his desk. the resulting boom got everyone's attention and the room quieted down considerably. "Thank you. now then, Mr. Harris, since you were so kind as to point out that Mr. Kelly is in need of a change you can have the honor of escorting him to the Nurse's office and back." "But, I was just..." the look he received from his teacher caused the boy to stop his protest in mid-sentence. "Yes, sir," He added quietly, as he got out of his seat. Nothing was said between the two boys the entire trip to the office. "Back so soon Mr. Kelly?" Nurse hazel inquired with a slight smile. Having known that she would be seeing him again before the day was out. "You can have a seat over there, Mr. Harris," she said to josh's escort, while pointing to a nearby chair. Josh soon found himself being led back in to the same room as earlier and was laid out on the table. With practiced efficiency Nurse Hazel soon had josh stripped of his wet nappy and was soon lotioning and powdering his butt and balls. Josh was handed a pair of pants to wear over his nappy this time since he didn't try to fight what was happening. He was pointed to the same group of chairs when he came out of the room. "Mr. Harris, you're next," Nurse hazel announced as she came out of the room. "What do you mean?" came the confused reply. "I meant exactly what I said. Now come with me, please," Nurse Hazel stated while putting a strong hand on the boys' shoulder. Josh couldn't help but smile as he realized what was going to happen. His assumption was soon confirmed as he heard his nemesis started yelling from the room loud enough to be heard through a closed door. A few minutes later the door opened and a thickly diapered boy was led out of the room. Josh just smiled at how forlorn the kid looked, but the fun was just starting because what neither boy knew is that Nurse Hazel had slipped a suppository into Neil as she was diapering him and as Josh was before Neil had come out without any pants on. "I'm glad you boys made it back okay," their teacher said with a smile as he saw the condition of his biggest troublemaker. "This ought to settle him down some," the teacher thought to himself evilly. About thirty minutes later the laxative that Neil received started to work its magic. "Mr. Roberts?" Neil asked anxiously. "Yes, Mr. Harris?" "May I have permission to go use the rest room?" "In a moment. I'll be done with the lecture in few minutes and you may go then," came the smiled reply. Mr. Roberts knew, though, that Neil wouldn't be able to last much longer and for that very reason slowed down the speed at which the lecture was going. To top all this off, several of the other students saw how much Neil was trying to hold the gates back and took demented glee in stopping the lecture to ask questions. By the time Mr. Roberts was done talking and gave the go ahead for Neil to use the restroom it was too late. Neil no sooner than got out of his seat before he ended up filling the back of his diaper. To make matters worse his voiding was accompanied by a very audible wet sounding fart. Everyone in the class started smiling at this, but noting more than a few muffled laughs were heard, since no one wanted to risk being put into a diaper themselves. "Actually, Mr. Harris, I think maybe you should go to the Nurses station," Mr. Roberts stated through a smile of his own. "Mr. Harris, I didn't expect to see you back so soon today," Nurse hazel said as Neil walked into her office. "And judging from the smell I would have to say that you really need to be cleaned up," she added while motioning him to go in to the exam room. "You can just wait over there for the final bell," Nurse Hazel stated as she and Neil came out of the exam room. "What about my books?" "I'll call down to your teacher and have him send someone up with them." "OK, but I hope I don't miss my bus." "That won't be a problem. I called your mother earlier this afternoon and she'll be picking you up." Hearing this caused Neil's heart to skip a few beat since he was still wearing nothing below the waist but his shoes, socks and a diaper. "And don't worry, I've already taken the liberty of informing her of what had happened today and what was done in response." About this time Josh came in with Neil's books. He just handed them to his nemesis without a word and was about to leave when he was called back. "Aren't you forgetting something, Mr. Kelly?" Nurse Hazel asked while holding up a bag containing his clothes from his earlier accident. "Thank you," Josh said softly as he took the bag and placed it in his book bag. "Oh, and Mr. Kelly, here are a couple of extra changes for you to take home with you. Your mum insisted," Nurse Hazel added. Josh just nodded to this and again took the offered bag. "Well, Thumper, I see you've done it again," John stated when he met his younger brother in front of their school and noticed the bulge in his pants. "It was an accident, and don't call me Thumper," Josh told his brother hotly. "Don't take that tone with me, kiddo, besides I have the feeling that these 'accidents' aren't really accidents." "Yes they are!" Josh shot back, but in a totally unconvincing manner. "Right." The rest of their walk home was a quiet one. "Mum, we're home," John called. Josh, not saying a word started up to his room in the hope that he'd be able to remove the diaper he had on and hide the extras that he got from the school. "Hello boys, and how was your day?" Mrs. Kelly asked her sons as she came down the stairs. "Not so fast there, Joshua, we need to have a little talk," she added while placing a hand on her youngest son's shoulder steering him back the way he came. "I'll be upstairs if you need me, mum," John announced, not wanting to get caught up in what was going to happen. "That's fine, though there are biscuits and milk in the kitchen if you want some," John was told. He just nodded to this, and even though the snacks sounded good to him he felt it would be better to wait a while before having any. "Do you want to tell me why you decided to wait so long before trying to make it to the restroom at school today?" Mrs. Kelly asked Josh after sitting him down on the couch. "I don't know. I thought I'd be able to hold it in until it came time for break and it was to late when I finally realized that I wasn't going to make it," Josh replied in a sobbing voice. "I see. Well, I'll tell you now that from here forward anytime you have this kind of accident at school you'll be placed in a nappy and sent back to class. John will be taking a note with him stating this to the school's nurse tomorrow and I better not hear about anymore outbursts about it like I did today. Now lay down so I can get your pants off and make sure you don't need a change yet." Josh was about to argue with her on this till he saw the look on his mom's face suggesting otherwise. With silent tears he complied with his mom's wishes and soon found himself stripped to just his nappy. "There, that wasn't so bad, now was it?" Mrs. Kelly said as she gathered up Josh's clothes, as well as the extra nappies sent home with him. "Now you run along and go have some milk and biscuits, then get started on your homework," Josh nodded to this and headed into the kitchen. John came downstairs a short time later and found his brother doing his homework in nothing but a nappy. For a brief moment John was envious of the fact that Josh was getting to do the one thing he wanted to, but knew he couldn't. after getting some milk and biscuits for himself John sat down next to his brother. "Well, it doesn't seem like mum went to hard on you." "No, I guess it could have been worse, but it's embarrassing to have to go around wearing nothing but a nappy." "I can see why you'd think that, but look at how cute you look in them." John laughed. Josh for his part didn't see the humor in his brother's comment and got up from the table. "Josh, it's time for dinner." John called a few hours later. "OK, I'll be down in a moment." "Mum also wanted me to see if you needed to be changed." "No, I'm OK. It's still dry." "If you're still dry, why is the stripe on your nappy blue?" John asked with a chuckle. Josh turned red at this and tried to explain it off as sweat, which John didn't believe for a moment. "Right, well then let's get you out of that 'sweat' soaked nappy and into a dry one." with this said, John had his brother lie down and started to untape the nappy he had on. "Boy Josh it's a good thing that you didn't wet this thing with all the sweating you did it's would have leaked like crazy," John kidded his brother while hefting the freshly removed diaper. "Very funny, now would you mind getting that fresh one on before I catch a cold," while chuckling at Josh's comment John continued to clean his brother up and place a new diaper on him. A few minutes later they both headed down eat. Josh felt lucky that the topic of his wearing a diaper never came up, though he did catch John glancing at him from time to time, as did his parents. "Josh, it's time for you to go get ready for bed," Mr. Kelly told his son a few hours later. "Can't I stay up a little while longer?" Josh whined. "No you can't. Now go up and get your bath. Someone will be up to finish the rest afterwards." Josh turned a beet red when his father made the subtle comment about his nappies, but didn't say anything more about it. After getting his bath Josh walked into his room and was a bit startled to see his sister waiting for him. "OK, josh, hop up here so we can get you ready for bed," Erin told him while patting the area on his bed next to where she had a nappy unfolded and waiting for him. Without so much as a word of protest he climbed up on his bed, and lay down on the nappy. "I know this must be embarrassing for you, but you have to admit these work a lot better, and you don't have to worry about waking up in a cold wet bed," Erin told him while powdering her brother's crotch. "Yeah, it was nice to be able to wake up in a dry bed for once," Josh replied as Erin pulled the nappy up between his legs and snugly taped it closed. Erin just smiled at this as she finished tapping the nappy closed and handed Josh a pair of footed sleepers. Josh climbed in to the sleepers quickly and crawled under the covers of his bed. "Sleep tight," Erin told Josh as she tucked the covers in around him and gave him a light kiss on the forehead. Josh smiled at this. Erin left quickly after picking up the nappy she had just changed her brother out of. "Did Josh give you any trouble?" Mrs. Kelly asked her daughter as she came downstairs still holding the old nappy. "No he was quite calm about it. In fact, I think he may even enjoy wearing them, at night anyway." "I could see why. He's been acting a lot better these last couple of days. I guess this is because he's finally getting the rest he needs." Erin could only nod in agreement to her mothers' statement. After throwing the nappy away Erin informed her parents that she too was going to bed and wished them a good night. As expected, Josh ended up waking up in a wet diaper, but was glad nothing was mentioned about it. He had already made up his mind the night before that he was going to do his best to stop having accidents at school since he didn't want to have any repeats of what had happened the day before. And, like he was told the day before John took a note into the nurse's office on his way to his first class. Luckily, the note's contents only had to be put into effect a few times during the last few weeks of school. The one thing that Josh and the rest of his classmates found extremely funny was the fact that Neil was sent to school for a week in very conspicuous diapers and had to be sent to the nurse several times each day to get changed. after this Neil was less of a bully and a great deal more polite than he had been previously. During the final month before of the move John was spending most of his free time over at Ashley's house and was constantly asked about having a final sleep over. John, too. was wanting to have this sleepover, but something always seemed to come up. It seemed to John that his parents somehow knew about his desire to wear diapers again and were doing their best to prevent his having the chance to try some on. The weekend before they were to move John's parents finally relented and gave him the OK for him to have a sleepover with Ashley. Both boys were happy to have this chance since both knew the odds that their getting together again wouldn't be for a very long time. If they only knew what fate had in store for them. "Hey Ash!?" John called on his way to class on the Wednesday of his last week in school. "Hey John, what's up?" Ashley answered as John caught up to him. "I have some great news. My mom OK'd my having that sleepover this weekend." "Cool. I'll get everything set up with my mom when I get home and we'll get everything worked out." "That would be great! Let me know what time you want me to come over on Friday." "I'll do that," Ashley answered just as the warning bell rang. With a final nod to each other the two boys went into their first classes. The next few days was a flurry of activity at the Kelly house as final items were packed for shipping to their new home. John, Josh, and Erin were all quiet that final Friday. Plans had already been made for each of them to spend the night with friends for the last time. While they were happy to be getting to have their sleepovers they also were all to aware that when they left the house for school it would be for the last time. School went by quickly for them, and all were surprised to find that each of their homerooms had arranged to have a going away party for them. Chapter Three "You all ready to have a fun night?" Ash asked when John met him at the school's front entrance. "Yeah, I am. I just wish it were under better conditions," John answered remorsefully. "I know what you mean, but we'll make the best of it," came the reply. Just about this time Ashley's mom pulled up and honked for the boys to join her. Ashley's brother William came bolting out of the school just as Ash and John finished climbing into the car. "So boys, how was your day?" Mrs. Martin asked as she pulled away from the curb. John and Ashley both answered that they had a good day, and John thanked her in advance for having him over. William though was strangely quiet, but nothing was said about it. "William, could I see you in your room please?" Mrs. Martin stated as they entered the house. "Ashley, you and John head drop your books in your room, and then you'll find snacks in the kitchen. "OK mum," Ashley replied, but wondered what was going on with his brother. "Man, do I ever need a change!" Ashley exclaimed, as he dropped his pants. "Tell me about it, I can smell you from here," John said with a smile to let his friend know he shouldn't take the comment seriously. "Well if it's really that bad you could always do the honors," Ashley shot back with a smile. "Only if you nappy me in return." "What do you mean?" "Exactly what I said. I've noticed that you seem to be a bit uncomfortable every time I come over, so I figured that this was because of your having to wear nappies now." "Well, I have to admit I was a bit pissed off by this at first, but I've gotten over that. You don't need to do this." "I know I don't need to, but to be truthful I've been wanting a chance to try them just to see what it's like," John said with a sheepish grin. Ashley just shrugged at this and lay down on his bed so his friend could change him. Meanwhile in William's room another conversation was playing out. "Do you want to tell me what you were thinking when you decided to hit that kid?" Mrs. Martin asked? "I wasn't thinking at all. I just did it. I mean, he was making fun of Ashley, and the fact that he has to wear nappies again, and I guess something snapped," William said plainly. "I see." "Well, the thing to do now is to figure out what to do with you. The school's already suspended you for three days for this," Mrs. Martin added before her son could say anything. After a moments thought she came up with something. "This is what we're going to do. Since you decided to act like a child by reacting without any thought, I'm going to treat you like a little kid for the entire time you're on suspension, and if you argue with me at all about this I'll make it last longer than these next five days. Now drop your pants and climb up on your bed while I get a nappy ready for you." William just smiled a bit at this while his mom's back was turned. He had been feeling a bit left out since his brother's accident due to all the attention their parents had been giving his brother because of it. William knew this was going to be the likeliest response his mother would come up with, and was glad he was right. "This is almost worth having decked Ahmed for," William thought to himself as his mom turned back around. He was a bit surprised to see his mom holding some cloth nappies and plastic pants. He knew his mom had picked them up a few days before but hadn't decided to try them yet. "This is getting even better." William thought happily as his mom started to diaper him. Back in Ashley's room John, and Ash were having the same problem. "Do you want to try some of the cloth nappies, or do you want a disposable?" John asked over his shoulder while looking at the nappies that were neatly stacked in his friends' closet. "I think I'd like to try the cloth nappies," Ashley said happily. "OK, How many do you want?" "Let's start out with three, and see how they look," John nodded to this, and grabbed three cloth nappies and a pair of green plastic pants. By the time john finished getting his friend lotioned, powdered, and the nappies under him Ashley's pole was fully erect. "We'll have to do something about that, or these will never fit," John said with a chuckle. Ashley just smiled at him and nodded for john to do what he had in mind to do to help him with this problem. Ten minutes later John was able to pull the Nappies up and fasten them closed. Ashley seemed a bit shocked when john pulled out the green plastic pants, and started to slip them up over the nappies. After doing a quick check to make sure all the nappies were enclosed by the plastic pants John, and Ash changed places. "I see what you mean about these not fitting," Ashley laughed a few minutes later looking at John's swollen pole. "Question is, what are we going to do about it?" John asked. "I have an idea, but you have to close your eyes for it." Thinking he knew what Ash had in mind john did as requested, and was soon having the most intense orgasm of his young life. "That felt great," John panted as Ashley pulled the nappies up between john's legs. Just as Ashley finished closing the second nappy the bedroom door opened, Ash's mom walked in. "OK Ash, Let's get you changed," Mrs. Martin stated before realizing what was going on. "What's going on here!?" She demanded when she noticed that John was the one getting nappied and not her son. "John waass wanting tooo see what it was like to weearr aa naappyy." Ashley stuttered as his mom came closer. "I see. Well then, I'll finish it from here then. You go on down and have a snack, John, and I will be down in a few minutes." Ashley just nodded at this and left the room. "Is what Ashley said true? You asked to have a nappy put on?" "Yes ma'am. He had seemed a bit uneasy since the accident when I've come over, and I thought that this would help him out some." "I see. In that case, let's get these put on right so they don't leak any." With this said Mrs. Martin undid the nappies already fastened around John, and redid them. John was amazed at how much better they fit now than when Ash was putting them on. "How do they feel?" "Just fine," John said with a smile. Mrs. Martin smiled back at this, and helped john into a pair of plastic pants and sent him on his way downstairs while she cleaned up the clothes thrown about by the two boys. she chuckled to herself about it the entire time. John joined Ashley and William a few moments after having gotten nappied by their mom. He was a bit shocked when he walked into the kitchen and saw that William was in a nappy also. He knew that William still wore them to bed, but he had never seen him wearing them during the day like this. "You're right, Ash, he does look cute in nappies." William chuckled on seeing John. "I wonder what dad is going to say when he sees us?" "I guess we'll find out won't we. OK, John you can quit standing there with egg on your face and take a seat." William called. It was only then that john realized that he was still staring at William. "Sorry," John said as he took a seat at the table. After talking about school for a while the boys decided to go up to Ashley's room and play some video games. About an hour into this John realized that he had to use the rest room, and without thinking he got up to go. "Where're you going, John?" Ash asked from his spot on his bed. "I have to use the bathroom," John answered, and couldn't understand the sudden laughter coming from both Ash and William. "What's so funny about me having to take a piss!?" "The fact that you're wanting to use the toilet for it, and not the nappy you have on," William chuckled. "Oh, yeah. I forgot I had it on," John stated embarrassedly, as he sat down again. This caused ash to start laughing again. This time John joined in on it after seeing how stupid it was for him to get up in the first place. A few minutes later the pressure on John's bladder became too much to handle and he soon let a heavy stream of piss into his nappy. "Oh man, I didn't think it was going to feel this good," John thought to himself with a smile as his nappy became wetter by the moment. Over the course of the next several hours all three boys wet their nappies several times each without even realizing that this was happening. "And how was your day, boys?" a voice called from the door way making all three of the boys jump. "Dad! You're home!" William stated nervously thinking that he would really be in trouble for what had happened at school. "I would hope so, if I'm talking to you guys," Mr. Martin said with a laugh, and then got serious. "Could I see you in your room for a second, William, and John, it's good to see you again." "Thank you, sir," John replied as William got up to join his father. Mr. Martin closed the door behind him as William sat down on his bed waiting for the other shoe to drop, but surprisingly it never did. "Your mother told what happened at school today. You want to tell me about it?" "There's really not much to say. One of the guys had been making fun of Ashley since he started back to school, and I had asked him several times to lay off. He didn't, and started it back up today. I guess something snapped and I hit him for it," William said plainly. Mr. Martin just nodded it at this and thought for a moment before speaking. "You know that normally for something like this I would turn you over my knee, but given the fact that Ashley had mentioned several times about this happening I'm not going to, but this had better not happen again. Your mum has mentioned what she's going to be doing as a punishment, and we have both decided that the full treatment won't start till after john leaves tomorrow." William just nodded at this and got up to leave, as he did so his dad gave his diapered butt a moderate slap, and motioned for his son to stop. "Before you go anywhere, I think we better get you into some dry nappies. I think you're about to have these float off you," Mr. Martin said with a laugh. William just shrugged at this and lay down on his bed as his dad got some dry nappies out of his closet. Mr. Martin walked out of his oldest sons' room several minutes later while William was left to put some clean plastic pants on over his dry nappies. In Ashley's room, this same scenario was playing out. Mrs. Martin had come up to check on Ashley since she figured he'd be ready for a change by this time, and he didn't always tell her this, especially if he was playing his games. She smiled a bit as she walked into the room to find her son and John both laying out on Ashley's bed playing video games. "OK boys, put the game away for a minute while I check your nappies." "AW mom, just a little longer," Ashley whined. "No, now. I'm sure that you need to be changed, and I wouldn't be to shocked if John does, too," She added with a knowing smile to John, who turned bright red at this. With another smile Mrs. Martin turned around to get fresh diapers and other supplies from Ashley's closet. "OK, who's first?" Mrs. Martin asked as she turned around after laying out a changing pad on the spare bed. "Guests first," Ashley stated with a smile towards his friend. "Thanks a lot," john mumbled as he got off Ashley's bed and went over, and lay down on the changing pad. "OK, John, raise up so I can pull those pants off," Mrs. Martin told him as John centered himself on the pad. Without any word John complied, and raised his butt up off the pad so Ashley's mom could pull down the plastic pants that were covering his now soaked nappies. After pulling off his plastic pants Mrs. Martin had John lower his butt and started to unfasten the Velcro tabs holding the wet cloth to him. John shivered slightly when the nappies were pulled down, exposing his damp crotch. Mrs. Martin just chuckled at this and finished pulling the wet cloth out from under her son's friend's butt. "It's a good thing you don't have any hair down there yet John, or you might get a rash," Mrs. Martin commented as she ran a wipe over John's hairless balls. John smiled slightly at this but said nothing. A moment later John felt his friend's mom rubbing lotion over his butt and crotch, and then sprinkling this liberally with powder. This completed, John was asked once more to raise his butt up so his new set of nappies could be placed under him. John soon felt the soft cloth being pulled up between his legs and tightly fastened around his waist. Mrs. Martin then slapped John's thigh lightly indicating that she was done and that he could get up. As he did so, he was handed a clean pair of plastic pants to put on. John nodded at this and accepted the offered pants. Ashley took his place on the pad right after John, and within minutes was also in a clean set of nappies and pulling some plastic pants on over them. "Dinner should be ready in a short while. I'll call you when it's ready," Mrs. Martin told the boys as she made sure that none of the nappies were sticking out from the plastic pants. With this done she picked up the pail containing the old nappies and left the room. As John closed the door behind Ashley's mom he caught his reflection in the mirror that had been hung on the door. "Damn, I look cute in these," John thought to himself with an audible chuckle. "OK John, you can quit admiring yourself over there anytime. We both know how cute you look in those nappies," Ash piped in from his bed. This caused john to blush even more than when Ashley's mom made the comment about his nappy needing to be changed. "I take it you like wearing those?" Ashley asked when John joined him back on his bed to continue their interrupted game. "Yeah, I guess I do. I just don't know why. To be honest, I was kind of jealous when I first came over here after the accident and found you were wearing one." "I noticed that. I was kind of mad about it at first, but it didn't last very long. For a long while I was kind of hoping my mom would have put me back in them at night for my bedwetting like she did with William, but I stopped wetting, and the only reason she put William back into them was his making fun of me. At first he threw a major fit about wearing them, and even then the punishment was only supposed to be for a day or two, but my parents noticed how much more behaved William acted in the mornings because he was getting a full night's rest so they talked to him about it, and he agreed to wear them till he stopped wetting. I think maybe he's come to enjoy wearing them since he seems to be putting them on earlier every night." "What do you mean?" John inquired about his friend's last comment. "When he first started wearing them to bed he wouldn't put it on till just before he climbed into bed for the night, but now he tends to put one on right after we get our showers at night, and as you know this normally takes place right after dinner," Ashley replied. John just smiled at this. A short while later William came into the room and informed them that dinner was ready. Like them, William was just wearing a T-shirt, and his nappies. John laughed to himself as to what the people on the school's swim team would think about seeing their top swimmer walking around in a nappy. Ashley nodded at what his brother told them, and the game was quickly finished and put away. "So nice of you boys to join us," Mr. Martin commented when the boys entered the dining room. "Well, I see you decided not to be left out. Eh, John?" "Yes, sir. I just wanted to make Ashley as comfortable as possible tonight." "And, nothing like wearing a diaper to do it right?" Mr. Martin commented with a smile. John just turned red at this. "Now, Steven, stop embarrassing the boy, and let him eat," Mrs. Martin told her husband mockingly. the rest of dinner went by with the usual talk, but John noticed that nothing was being said about his moving the next day. All the boys were surprised when they were told they could skip their nightly shower, and a movie was put in for viewing. about thirty minutes into the movie Ashley's parents got up and came back with some dessert. What really got John's attention though was that he, Ashley and William all received bottles to drink from instead of regular glasses. John didn't say anything about it when he was handed his, but was planning on asking Ashley about it before they went to bed. "OK, boys, time to get ready for bed," Mrs. Martin announced as she came into the family room with a large load of nappies. John was about to say that he didn't need to be changed, and then realized that not only was he wet, but at some point during one of the movies he messed himself as well. This fact made him grateful for the change, but he didn't quite understand why he was having four nappies placed on him instead of the normal two he had been placed in. What John and the other boys didn't realize was that all three bottle had been doctored with a strong diuretic and a mild muscle relaxant that would ensure that all three boys would wake up in soaked nappies. After getting the boys into their clean nighttime nappies they were sent off to bed. "Hey Ashley?" John asked after they had been tucked in by Ashley's parents. "Yeah?" came the yawned reply. "What was with the bottles during the movies tonight?" "Oh that, my parents have been doing this for years. William, and I both had a problem with knocking our glasses over when watching TV, so my parents started having us use bottles to prevent this from happening, though I have to say I was a bit shocked at seeing them do this tonight since they normally don't when we have guests over. I guess they decided to do it tonight because of your deciding to wear nappies with us, and figured you wouldn't mind." "Oh, OK. I was just wondering," John replied. After talking for a bit longer, both boys slowly faded off to sleep. Chapter Four "Ash? John? It's time to get up boys. "Mrs. Martin called as she shook the two boys on the shoulder. She chuckled as the two boys just groaned a bit and then turned over. "OK now, you have to get up. Breakfast is on the table," she told them just before pulling the covers off them. "OK, I'm up! I'm up!" Ash yelled as the cold breeze washed over him. John bolted up a moment later, but was still too asleep to say anything. "So nice of you boys to get up. Now, get on down to the table before your breakfast gets cold," they were told as Ashley's mom walk out to wake her oldest son up. The two boys lay there a few moments longer before moving to get out of their beds. "Does your mom do this every morning?" John asked his friend sleepily. "Nah, only on the weekends," Ash answered with a grin. "You know, John, it's a thing you did have those nappies on," Ash added on seeing how wet his friend was. "Damn! And I thought I was over this," came a half mumbled reply as John looked down at his sagging diaper. Ash just stood there grinning. "Well, lets get down to breakfast before my mum comes back up after us." "What about our nappies?" John asked. "Don't worry about those. William, and I always wear our night time nappies to breakfast on the weekends," Ash stated as he head for the bedroom door. John just nodded to this and followed his friend out the door. John was still slightly shocked at the sight of William walking by wearing nothing but a long T-shirt, and some really wet nappies. "Morning, John, Morning Ash," he mumbled as he walked past. "Morning, Will," Ash replied as he followed his brother downstairs. As expected Ash's parents were already at the table when the three boys got there. "Mornnnnning," the boys yawned in unison. "Morning boys," Mr. Kelly replied as the boys took their seats. both Mr., and Mrs. Martin shared a knowing grin when they saw the condition of John's nappies. "What do you boys have planned for the day?" Mr. Martin asked a short time later. "I was planning on going over to Bradley's house and help him with his computer he just got," William replied. "John and I were thinking of going over to the park and do some sledding before his parents come to pick him up," Ashley told his father. Mr. Martin just nodded at this. "That's fine Ash, but just don't try anything stupid. Your leg is still healing, and we don't want to have any new complications," Ash was warned sternly. Both boys nodded at this, and quickly finished eating so they could get the most time at the park. "You know Ash, there is something to be said about wearing nappies at a time like this," John joked several hours later. "Tell me about it. The only downside is how cold they tend to get after awhile," Ash quipped, getting a nod of agreement from his friend. "Hey, we better get started back to the house. Your parents will be by soon to pick you up, and you don't want to be caught wearing what you are." "You're right about that," John said while grabbing his sled. "You boys stop right there!" Mrs. Martin commanded as the boys walked into the house a short time later. "I want both of you to strip out of those wet clothes, and go right upstairs and get a hot bath. I'll have some lunch ready for you when you come back down." Both boys nodded at this and did as they were told. Moments later they were heading upstairs wearing nothing but some wet nappies. Mrs. Martin chuckled at the sight of this as she picked up the boys' wet clothes and headed off to put them in the wash. "I really wish you didn't have to move away John," Ash told his friend once they had gotten their showers and headed back into Ashley's room. "I know what you mean. I don't want to move, either, but I don't have much choice. You already know that I'll keep in contact as often as possible," John stated as he got some fresh nappies for his friend. As before, Ash just lay back on his bed and let his friend take care of putting the nappies on. "Here you go," John said as he tossed Ashley a pair of sweat pants and a shirt while he got dressed himself. as soon as he was dressed, he and Ash headed down to have some lunch. They passed William on his way up to get a bath of his own, and like they were a short time before he was in just a nappy. "John, I got a call from your parents while you were out. It seems they have to fly over to finalize some papers for your new house and expect to be gone over the weekend, so you'll be spending the rest of the weekend here." John grinned at this news. "Now then, since we still have a few minutes before lunch is ready I want you to come with me, and we'll get you into something a bit more comfortable," Mrs. Martin said with a smile of her own. John smiled even more at this and got up to follow his friend's mom upstairs. Ten minutes later John was being handed his own seat of sweat pants to wear over his nappies. Mrs. Martin and John ran into William as he was coming out of his room, and like John and Ash, he was wearing some rather thick cloth nappies. Mrs. Martin gave both boys a slight slap on their padded posteriors to get them to move along, and as soon as both of them were seated she brought out the soup and sandwiches that she had made for their lunches. "I'm glad this happened," John mentioned a few hours later while he and Ash were playing some video games. "Me too." Ash said with a yawn. "Sorry about that. I guess all the things we've been doing have worn me out some. Plus the fact that I normally take a short nap on the weekends anyway." "That's OK, I normally take a nap myself." With this said Ashley decided to shut the game off, and within moments both boys were under the covers and were soon asleep. "Those boys do look cute curled up like that." Mrs. Martin commented to herself a few hours later as she entered her son's room to wake him, and John up for dinner. "Boys, it's time to wake up." She said while shaking the boys softly on their shoulders. "Huh?" John asked sleepily. "It's time for you two to get up. dinner will be ready in a few minutes." John grunted at this, but sat up while yawning, and rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. As soon as Ashley started stirring, Mrs. Martin left the room to wake her oldest son up as well. "You have a nice nap?" Ash asked John as he got out of bed, and pulled a pair of sweat pants on over his wet nappies. "Yeah, I guess I really needed it, too," John said with a smile. The smile was short-lived when he moved to get out of bed he soon realized that his nappy was also wet. "I don't believe this," he mumbled. "Don't believe what?" Ash asked turning around to face his friend. "I wet myself during the nap," came the disbelieving reply. "Well, then I guess it's a good thing that you had those nappies on then huh?" Ash stated with amusement. "You don't understand, I haven't had a nighttime accident since I was five," John announced near tears. "Hey, it's OK. It's probably just because of all the things you have happening right now," Ashley said sitting down next to his friend and giving him a shoulder hug. "Don't worry about it." "Yeah, I suppose you're right," John stated after a moment's thought and took the sweat pants Ashley had in his hands for him. "Now that all that's out of the way, lets go down to eat." Playfully shoving John backwards across the bed, Ashley got up and started for the door laughing. "So nice of you boys to join us," Mr. Martin announced gamely as John and Ash entered the Dining room. "Yeah, well, you know how I like to make an entrance," Ash laughed in response. His dad just smiled at this and dinner started. The rest of the weekend went by quickly, and all too soon john was having to pack his bags for the last time in the country he called home. "Aunt Maureen, What are you doing here?" John asked in surprise when she showed up late Monday morning. "It's good to see you, too, John." She said with a laugh as John gave her a welcoming hug. "I'm sorry, it's just that I was expecting my parents." "I'm sure you were, but your mum called up last night and asked if I would mind taking you kids to that airport so they wouldn't have to rent a car and make a late night run over to pick you up." "Oh, okay," John answered softly and turned back to Mrs. Martin, who was still standing behind him. "Thanks for the fun time you showed me this weekend. Would you mind giving this to Ash when he gets home?" He asked in a shaky voice as he handed her a plain envelope with his friend's name written on it. "Sure John, this won't be a problem at all." With this she swept him into a hug and murmured into his ear "Thanks for all the help with Ashley these last couple of weeks, and you be sure to stay in touch." John nodded at this and ended the hug. He and his aunt were soon heading down the street to pick up his brother and sister. Once they were out of sight of his friends house John let out all the tears he had been holding in over the weekend. All to soon the Kelly's trip to Heathrow ended, and after meeting their parents at the front desk they headed through Customs and to the gates beyond. "Josh, did Mrs. Ashton put a nappy on you like I asked her to?" Mrs. Kelly asked her youngest son. "Yes mum, she did." "And is it still dry?" she continued. Josh just looked at the floor and didn't answer her. This of course was enough of an answer for her. Without another word she led him into the nearest Ladies' restroom to change him into a dry one. Josh though was highly relieved that no one came in while he was getting changed. "Mum, why are you using one of those types?" Josh asked when he saw that his mom had pulled out one of the thick Molicare nappies. "I'm using one of these because it's going to be a while before I get a chance to change you again, and I want to make sure you don't leak on the airplane." Josh nodded at this while his mom placed the thick diaper under him. After a couple of quick shots of powder to his balls, and bum the nappy was pulled up into his crotch and snugly taped closed. "We better hurry, they should be calling our flight at any time," Mrs. Kelly stated as she helped Josh pull his pants up over his nappy. she smiled a bit at this because she could still tell he had a nappy on even though he was wearing some loose-fitting pants. Just as they left the rest room their flight was called "British Airways flight 007, Concorde Service to New York is now boarding at gate 3. We ask that anyone needing extra time in boarding, or traveling with small children to come forward at this time." "We need to hurry, Josh, that's our flight." They managed to arrive just as the general boarding call was made. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly were both pleased to see their kids brighten up at the prospect at flying on the Concord. They were excited, too, but for a different reason. To them using the Concord to fly to their new home meant that they would only be over the sea for a quarter of the time as they had been this past weekend. On seeing that the seats were leather, Mrs. Kelly was especially glad that she had used one of the super thick nappies on Josh. "Ladies and Gentlemen this is your Captain speaking, on behalf of British Airways and your crew today, I'd like to welcome you on board flight 007 Concorde service to New York and Miami. Our flight time will be approximately three and a half hours with a cruising altitude of 60,000 feet at a speed of 1450 miles per hour. we hope you enjoy your flight, and will now ask you to give your attention to the cabin attendants at the front of the cabin who will demonstrate the safety features of this aircraft. Thank you." Soon the aircraft started moving down the runway gaining speed rapidly. John was startled by how fast things were going by his window, and for a brief time the sadness of his having to leave his friends was replaced by the awe he was enjoying from the flight. About an hour into the flight lunch was served, and he was again shocked by it. He was figuring on receiving the usual bland airline food, but instead was surprised that if was really quite good. After lunch was over he decided to take a short nap, and the next thing he knew the Captain was announcing that they were on final approach to New York's JFK airport. "Come on kids we have to hurry!" Mr. Kelly announced as they finished going through Customs, and heard the final call for their flight to Kansas City. they managed to get to the gate just as they were getting ready to close the door. "That was close!" Mrs. Kelly sighed heavily as they got settled into their First Class seats. "tell me about it," her husband replied with a tired grin. Three hours later their flight landed in Kansas city. "Time to get up, kids. We're here," Mrs. Kelly said as she woke her children up. John looked out the window of the plane at the snow- covered ground, and wondered what was going to happen now. As they got off the plane the Kelly's noticed a person holding a sign with their father's name on it. "I'm Arthur Kelly," Mr. Kelly told the man while shaking his hand. "I'm James Monroe. I'll be helping you get settled the next couple of days. We'll be putting up at a local hotel for the next few days because of a problem with the house," James told Mr. Kelly. "What problem?" came the sighed question. "Well, we had a big storm here last night, and a couple of power lines in your area were knocked out so you don't have any power at the house. They expect it to be back up in the next couple days." Mr. Kelly nodded at this, glad that it wasn't anything serious. "If you'll follow me I have a van waiting outside," James announced. About an hour later they pulled into the parking lot of the hotel. after helping them get settled into their rooms James mentioned that he would be back about eleven the next morning to show them around town a bit and to escort Mr. Kelly on a tour of where he would be working. "Okay, it's been a long day so far. I want every one to take a nap so they can get adjusted to the time changes," Mrs. Kelly announced. "Josh, lay down over here for a moment, and we can get you into a dry nappy." Josh nodded sleepily at this and was asleep again before his mom even managed to finish untaping the soaked nappy he was currently wearing. Chapter Five "Boys, it's time to get up," Mrs. Kelly announced while shaking John's shoulder. "What, is it time for dinner already?" Josh asked through a light haze of sleep. "No, but it is time for breakfast," his mom stated as she came over to remove his soaked diaper. "Now go and get a shower while I try and wake your brother up," Josh was told as him mom gave his bare bottom a playful slap. John was standing outside the bathroom door when Josh emerged twenty minutes later. "took you long enough!" John announced as he rushed past his younger brother into the now vacated bathroom. Josh just shrugged this off and went over to the bed to put on the clothes his mom got out for him. On top of the pile of clothes he found a pair disposable training pants and instead of fighting with his parents about having to wear them he put them on. John came out of the bathroom just as Josh got done getting dressed. "Did you put on the trainers mom left for you?" John asked, being careful to conceal his jealousy over this. "Yeah, I have them on," John just nodded at this knowing full well that it would be his brother's problem if he turned out to be lying about it. Nothing more was said about them, and within five minutes they were heading down to meet their parents and sister it the hotel's coffee shop. After ordering their meals the talk had been focusing on what was going to be happening over the course of the next week. "Josh, your father and I have agreed that if you can keep your pants and bed dry over the next week you won't have to wear the trainers, or nappies, OK?" his mom asked. "You do have them on, don't you? "she continued. "Yes mum, I do," Josh replied. About this time the waiter returned with their order and little else was said. Just as they returned to their rooms they noticed Mr. Monroe waiting for them. "Sorry if you've been waiting long. We ran the kids down to the coffee shop to get them fed before the day started," Mr. Kelly said as he took Mr. Monroe's offered hand. "That's perfectly all right, I just got here myself." Over the next couple of hours the Kelly's were shown around their new town, including the kids' new schools. after picking up a rental car, Mrs. Kelly took the kids back to the hotel to get some rest. By Thursday afternoon the power had been restored to their house and the Kelly's spent a hectic weekend moved in. "Mom, why do I have to sleep with Josh!?" John complained over the weekend. "For the last time, You have to share your brother's room because of all the work we have to do to get yours in to a condition that it can be used!" Mrs. Kelly snapped. "However, we do have some good news for you. We got a letter today from the boy that used to live here. It seems that he forgot to leave the key to the shuttle craft they built in the backyard," Mr. Kelly stated holding out a small key to his middle son. "You can go check it out after dinner is done," Mrs. Kelly told him as he started to rise off his chair. At this John slumped back into his chair and continued eating. "What's the matter, John?" Mrs. Kelly asked as he stormed back into the house a few minutes later. "They only sent one key to open the thing up with and it takes two," John told her in a cracked voice. "Don't worry about it. I'm sure it was just an oversight. If the other key doesn't show up in a couple of days we'll see about having the other lock taken out," John nodded at this, but was still unhappy about it. "OK kids, it's time to get to bed," Mr. Kelly announced several hours later. "AWW, dad. Can't we stay up just a little longer?" Josh and John whined at almost the same instant. "No, you can't. You both start school tomorrow and you'll have to get up early because of it. Now off to bed with ye.'" After griping a few more moments about it both boys headed up to get ready for bed. "You think things will be very different tomorrow?" Josh asked as he was climbing into bed a short time later. "Your guess is as good as mine. I'm sure some things will take us by surprise, but I wouldn't worry to much about it," John said trying to reassure his younger brother's fears. It was a while before John himself was able to get to sleep for he had the same fears. "OK, boys time to get up. I want both of you dressed and downstairs in 15 minutes. " Mrs. Kelly said while shaking both boys. John sat up with a groan after his mom left the room. "C'mon, Josh, time to get up," John said while stretching to work some of the soreness from his body. "I mean it. It's time to get up!" John repeated more strongly, and this time shaking Josh hard while he did it. "All right, I'm awake already!" came a muffled response. "You better hurry, we have 10 minutes to get dressed and get down to the table," John stated with a final shake to his brother's shoulder. Both boys came bursting out of their room just as their mom was coming up to check on them. "Breakfast is on the table. I'll be taking you both to school since I have some last minute forms to complete." John and Josh just nodded to this as they walked past her. "Josh, you make sure you use the restrooms as often as you can. I don't want to have to bring you any clean clothes. Do you understand?" Mrs. Kelly informed her youngest. "Yes mum, I understand," Josh replied. The rest of the meal was finished in silence. Less than an hour later John was making his way through a new school, and as expected he got hopelessly lost. "May I help you?" the teacher asked as John halfway entered the room. "Yes sir. I'm John Kelly, I'm supposed to be in this room, I think," John stated embarrassedly. "Well, let's take a look at your schedule." John handed the teacher the schedule he had in his hand. "Well, you certainly are supposed to be in this room. Since you're obviously new here I'd like you to introduce yourself and then take a seat." John did so and soon found himself doing this same thing in all his other classes. The one thing he heard commented most on was his accent. "Excuse me, but could you point me toward the lunchroom?" John asked one of the people he just had English with. "Sure, I'm headed that way myself. By the way I'm DJ Morrison," I said sticking out my hand. "John Kelly," John replied taking the hand. A moment later John stopped cold as they came to the lunchroom doors. "What's the matter? Not used to this?" I asked looking at the barely restrained anarchy going on around us. "Not really. My last school was a private one just outside London, and lunch was a very structured affair. My headmaster would have a stroke seeing anything like this at school." "John Kelly, welcome to the US," I laughed. the rest of the lunch time went by quickly. "Hey John, since you're new here, I was wondering if you might be interested in coming by my house after school and hang out for a bit," I asked as John and I were suiting up for gym. "I'd like to, but my mum wants me to come straight home after school, but I don't think she would mind if I brought a friend home with me." "I don't think that would be a problem, but I would have to stop by my place and get it OK'd by my mom." "That would be fine," John replied. "OK then, I'll meet you at the front door after 7th hour," I replied just as out gym teacher came in to hurry everyone up. The rest of the day went by quickly and John and DJ were soon heading off to John's house after a quick stop at DJ's house. "Mum! I'm home!" John yelled as he came through the door. "An' how was your first day?" Mrs. Kelly asked John. "Not bad. I hope you don't mind, but I brought a friend home with me," John replied. "Not at all," Mrs. Kelly answered with a smile. "Mum, this is DJ Morrison. DJ this is my mum," John stated handling the introductions. "Pleased to meet you Ma'am," I replied while taking Mrs. Kelly's offered hand. "Please, my name's Janet. I'm too young to be a 'Ma'am,'" she said with a smile. "Go drop your books off in your room, and then there are some sweet biscuits and milk in the kitchen," Janet said turning back to John. John nodded at this and led me upstairs. "I hope you don't mind the mess, but I have to share a room with my little brother while they fix up my room," John announced as he opened up the door. The first thing I noticed was the unmistakable smell of stale pee. Unfortunately, John saw my reaction to this before I could cover it up. "Sorry about the smell," John said embarrassedly, "but my brother has a problem with wetting the bed among other problems." Just as I was about to ask him what he meant by "other problems" the front door was slammed closed followed by a yell. "Get upstairs and get cleaned up now!" A moment later a boy about ten came running into the room, and judging from the smell I caught a whiff of I now knew what the other problem was. "I'll leave you a lone for a moment," I stated as I backed out of the room. I barely closed the door before I heard John start yelling. "You've bloody well done it again 'aven't you!?" John yelled at Josh. "It was an accident!" Josh whined. "Don't give me that! It happens too often to be an 'accident.' Frankly I think you like it," John stated in disgust. Before John could go any further their mom entered the room. "I'll be outside if you need me," John stated, quickly backing out of the room. "Hey DJ, let's go outside for a while," John suggested as he came it to the family room. With a nod to John, I quickly finished the conversation I was having with his sister and followed him outside. "Uh John, I know this isn't any of my business," I started nervously," but has your mom ever thought about maybe putting your brother back into diapers for these accidents of his?" "I know what you mean. I wouldn't mind if she did, and to be honest after this time I wouldn't be shocked if she does," John answered, clearly having taken no offense at my suggestion. "Hey that's a pretty cool shuttle you have there," I said pointing towards the shape in the far corner of the yard. "It'd be even better if I could manage to get into the blasted thing." "well let's go take a look," I told John and headed towards it. "You won't be able to get in. The previous owners only left one of the keys to get in it." "Well, let's take a look at it anyway," I said while fingering the other key to it. With a shrug John pulled out his key and tried it, but as before the door wouldn't unlock. "Here, try this one as well," I laughed as I tossed him the other key. "What the...!!" John sputtered as he caught the key I tossed to him. "I was friends with the previous owner's son and he left the second key with me hoping that I might hit it off with whoever moved in." "Well, I think it worked," John laughed as he opened the door to the shuttle Several hours later I looked at my watch and saw the time. "Oh shit! Hey John, I have to get going. I was supposed to be home five minutes ago," I yelled as I grabbed my book bag and raced for home. "So, John, your mother tells me you managed to get into that shuttle in back. How'd you manage that?" Mr. Kelly asked at dinner that night. "One of the people I met at school today was friends with one of the boys that used to live here and he had the other key to get into it." "Did he tell you why he had the key?" "Yes sir, he said that his friend set it up like this hoping that we might hit it off as friends." "I see, well, I hope it works out for you. And how did your day go?" Mr. Kelly asked, turning to his other children. "Not bad, but I have to say that this will take some getting used to," Erin replied. Josh though remained uncommonly quiet during all this. "And how was your day Josh?" his dad queried. "It was OK," Josh mumbled not looking up from his plate. "He had an 'accident' in class today," Mrs. Kelly informed her husband when he gave her a questioning look. "I see. Josh, you do know that if this happens again we will have to take further steps don't you?" Mr. Kelly informed his son softly. "I know, but it wasn't my fault. It just happened," Josh blurted out suddenly. His outburst was halted by his fathers raised hand. "I don't want to hear it," He stated sternly. With this said, the rest of the meal was completed in silence. Josh was sent to bed a few hours later and after he was John approached his parents about what was happening with Josh. "Mum, dad, could I talk to you about Josh for a moment?" John asked cautiously. "Sure John, what did you want to talk about?" Mrs. Kelly asked while offering John a seat on the couch next to her. "Well, I know you both are almost at wits end concerning Josh and his problem," John said slowly, "and I know this might have been out of place for him to do so, but DJ, the boy you met earlier, gave me a possible suggestion. "And what was this suggestion?" Mr. Kelly asked his son. "Well, he sort of mentioned that maybe we should think about putting Josh back into nappies," John answered with a deep breath hoping that he wasn't going to cause any problems for his friend. "I see, and when he made this suggestion did he seem to be making fun of this situation?" Mrs. Kelly asked. "No, he seemed quite straightforward about it and didn't seem to be making sport of it at all." "I see, was this all you wanted to talk to us about?" Mr. Kelly inquired. "Yes sir." "OK, then you go on up to bed and let your mother and I discuss it." John just nodded at this, and after giving his parents each a quick hug he head off to bed. "I can't believe John would think of becoming friends with someone that would butt into private matters without being asked," Mr. Kelly fumed a short time later. "Now Arthur, calm down. I met the boy and he seemed very polite, and I'm sure he didn't mean anything by his suggestion. Besides this just might be the solution we were looking for," Mrs. Kelly told him. "I know, but still the thought of having to place a ten year old boy back into nappies." "I can understand how you feel, but this just might be what we have to do. We'll just have to see how things work out." Over the next couple of weeks, Josh ended up having daytime accidents almost everyday and started wetting the bed every night. Being at the end of her wits about it Mrs. Kelly took Josh to the doctor and soon found out a bit of distressing news. "Mrs. Kelly, I want to thank you for coming in on such short notice. I just got the lab results back on Josh and I'm afraid that I have some bad news for you. As far as we can tell from the tests we ran the nerves that control the muscles to Josh's bladder and bowels are degenerating." "I see. Do you know what caused it?" "I'm sorry to say that I can't point out anything specific, but the one this that seems most likely to have caused this is the viral infection you mentioned that Josh had contracted several months ago. Again, I can't say that this is want caused it, and aside from the problem that Josh is having with bladder and bowel control he's in perfect health. "Is there anything we can do about this? I mean, some exercises, or something like that?" "Unfortunately not. If it were just simple weak muscle tone causing his accidents then that might work, but since it's the nerves themselves there's nothing we can do about it at this time. I'm not going to lead you on about this, From what I see here, and with what you've told me I would have to say that your son at some point, an probably sooner than later, will lose all control of his bodily function," Mrs. Kelly nodded somberly at this, and after getting Josh from the waiting room left for home. Josh was more than confused by his mother's attitude after coming out of the doctor's office. he was even more shocked that his mother didn't start yelling when he had an accident while walking into the house. "Don't worry about it honey. Just go and get yourself cleaned up. I'll be up in just a few minutes," Mrs. Kelly told him. Josh headed up to do as he was told with a surprised look on his face. While Josh was getting a shower his mom went down to the basement and pulled the open bag of nappies they had left over from the move and went up to check on her son. "What are those for?" Josh asked seeing the nappies his mother had brought into his room. "Josh, there's no easy way to tell you this and I want you to try and understand what I am about to tell you," his mom told him while having him lie on his bed. Over the next several minutes Josh learned what his mom had been told by the doctor and what they planned on doing about it. "But I don't want to have to wear nappies again! Please don't make me wear them! I'll be good I promise!" Josh cried. "I know you don't want to have to wear them, honey, and believe me, if there were a way around it I would try it, but the doctor told me there wasn't one. Now I want you to lie back and try and get some sleep OK?" Josh just nodded at this still sobbing. he clutched the stuffed animal his mom handed him before leaving his room." With a thought, she decided to call DJ's mother over and talk to her about what she should do. "Mum, I'm home!" John yelled as he walked through the front door. "How was your day?" Mrs. Kelly asked as she came up to her son. "It wasn't too bad." "That's good. Do you have any homework to do?" "No, I was able to turn everything in during class. Where's Josh?" John asked. "He's up taking a nap, and there's something I need to tell you also." Just as she was about to tell John what she had learned Erin walked in. "Erin, after you take your coat off I need to talk to you and John in the dining room." John and Erin looked at each other with the knowledge that what ever was going to be said it wasn't good. A few minutes later all three were sitting at the dining room table. "Now, I want you both to listen to me without interruptions. I'll answer whatever questions you have when I'm done." with this said Mrs. Kelly started into what she had to tell her children. "I found out today that all the accidents Josh has been having over these last several months are the results of the viral infection he contracted several months back. The doctor said that for some reason or another the infection attacked the nerves that control bladder and bowel control. The bad news to all this is that your brother will gradually lose all control in these areas and that this loss will be permanent. Now this will cause us some difficulties in the coming weeks to adjust all this, but keep in mind that you are not to tease him in any way, do you understand?" Mrs. Kelly stated. both John and Erin nodded at this, catching the tone there mom was using. "Now do you have any questions?" she continued? "What's going to be done about Josh's accidents?" Erin asked, though she had a feeling what the answer was going to be. "I've already talked to your father about that and we've decided to place Josh back into nappies, and I don't want to hear about any teasing on this either. Now then, what this means to you and John is that you'll be asked to help out with josh more." "Uh, what do you mean 'helping out with Josh more?'" John asked not really understanding what his mom was saying. "What I mean, John, is that you and your sister will both be asked from time to time to help out with any extra laundry that this will generate, you'll be asked to change him from time to time and to let your father, or I know when Josh needs more diapers. For this extra help you'll both receive an extra allowance when we feel you helped enough to warrant it." John and Erin both nodded at this. "Now then, John if you'll go get your coat on I'll need your help in getting some things from the store. Erin, if you would be kind enough to keep an eye on Josh and to get dinner started I would appreciate it," Mrs. Kelly finished while getting up from her chair John and Erin followed soon after. "This could be really killer!" John thought to himself as he ran to get his coat. "I thought we were going to the store," John asked in puzzlement. "We're headed to a new store." "Oh OK," John stated as they pulled into a shopping center parking lot. "I'd like you to go get these items while I go to the pick-up area," John was told as they walked into the store. "OK mum," John answered when his mom gave him the list. John was a bit shocked by the list his mom gave him since it contained all items needed for diaper care. "May I help you ma'am?" the employee at the service desk asked when Mrs. Kelly came up to the counter. "Yes, Thank you. I need to order some nappies for an older boy," came the somewhat nervous answer. "OK. How old is the child?" The counter man asked. "He's 10, but a bit on the small size." "I see, and are these going to be for night, or day use?" "Day and night use." "All right, and were you looking for something in cloth or disposable?" "I'd like to look at both, please." "OK, and one last question. Would you say the boy in question has light, normal, or heavy wettings?" "I'd have to say they're normal during the day and very heavy at night." "I see. Well, from the information given, these are the selections we have to offer that might work the best," Mrs. Kelly was told as she was handed a three-ring binder. "Now almost all of the diapers we carry work well for day time use and are very discreet. Though our most popular seller is the Attends Perma-Dry Plus brand. This diaper has a foam style waistband, three refastenable tapes on each side and has new leak guard barriers around the legs and waist. They also come in assorted colors, including a plain white." "OK, I'd like two cases of those in the assorted colors. what would you suggest for nighttime use?" "Since you stated that your son is a very heavy night wetter, I'd have to suggest either the Molicare Super diaper, or the new Thickies brand. Now they both are really good about controlling leaks at night and both have leg leak guards, though the Thickies also have the leak guards at the waist, along with a waistband. The Thickies, like the Attends, come in either plain white, or colors. The Molicares only come in a purple color. Also, the Molicares are almost twice the price of the Thickies since the Molicares get shipped in from overseas," The salesman told her. "OK, I'd like a case of the Thickies in the colors as well. Both will need to be in the youth size. I'd also like to see what you have in the way of cloth diapers," Mrs. Kelly added. "I could show you a pattern for the cloth diapers, but we would need to measure the child since we make the cloth diapers to size." Mrs. Kelly just nodded at this. "Do you have anything in the way of furniture for an older child? I'd be looking for a changing table?" "I can give you information about the changing tables we carry, but like the cloth diapers we make those from a basic design and would need to get the child's height and weight to make sure the table would hold up to the stresses." "OK, I would like the information on the cloth diapers and changing table." "That's no problem, I'll get everything set up for you. If you'd like to have a seat it'll be just a few minutes for us to get your order put together." Mrs. Kelly nodded at this and took the offered seat. About this time John came up with the items she had requested. "I think I got it all, mum," John said by way of greeting. "It looks like you got everything." "Mum, are you sure we'll need all this stuff for Josh?" "Yes, I'm sure," She said with a knowing smile. A few moments later a stock boy came out with several boxes loaded on a dolly. "Mrs. Kelly?" the stock boy asked. "Yes," she replied. "Here is your order, ma'am." "Thank you." "If you have everything else you need I'll help you out to your car with these." She just nodded at this and headed back up front to pay for every thing. "Ma'am if you don't mind my saying so, I think you'll find you made some very good selections," the stock boy said nervously. "Oh, really!?" came the surprised response. "Yes ma'am. I use the Thickies myself at night and my younger brother uses both the Attends and Thickies. We've never had any trouble with them leaking and the Attends are hardly noticeable under loose clothing," came the nonplused answer as the boxes were lifted into the back of the car. "I see. Well, I thank you for the comments about them and for your help with the boxes," Mrs. Kelly said with a smile as she handed the teen a $5 tip for his help. With a nod and word of thanks the teen headed back into the store. " The guy wasn't kidding about what he said about the Attends being hardly noticeable under loose clothing," John stated a few minutes later. "Why do you say that" his mom asked. " Because it looked like he was wearing one. It was showing over the top of his pants when he bent over to lift the boxes into the car." "I didn't seem to notice, but if you're right I don't think your brother will have any trouble with them then." John just nodded at this. Erin met them at the door when they walked into the house a short time later. "Mum, you better go have a talk with Josh. I went in to check on him and change him like you asked me and he locked himself in his room when I went to go get a wash cloth." "OK, I'll go check on Josh. You can go help John bring the bags in from the car and just leave the boxes I'll have John and your father get them after dinner." "OK, mum," Erin replied as she grabbed her coat. With a groan Mrs. Kelly went up to talk with her youngest about the changes that were going to be made. "Josh, open this door now!" With a small click the door opened and Mrs. Kelly saw her youngest standing there in a very ill-fitting nappy. "Would you like to tell me why you locked your sister out when she was trying to change you earlier?" "I didn't want her to see me like that. You didn't tell me you were going to tell her about this," Josh stated crying. "Josh, you have to realize that this problem of yours will cause some adjustments to be made. Now I know you would have preferred to not have your brother or sister know about this, but since I'll be needing their help they had to know. Now, why don't you lay down and we can get this nappy on you right." "Mum, dad's home and Erin said dinner was ready," John announced sticking his head into his brother's room. "OK John, we'll be down in a few moments," she told her middle son before turning her attention back to her youngest. "And Josh, I expect you to apologize to your sister when go down for dinner." Josh only nodded to this while his mom finished changing him. "Arthur, after dinner would you mind helping John bring in the boxes from the back of the car and Erin I'll need your help as well in Josh's room," Mrs. Kelly asked her husband and told her daughter. "Not at all, dear." The rest of the dinner went by quickly with no comment being made about Josh's condition "Josh, you and your sister grab the last bags and follow me," Mrs. Kelly told her daughter and son, and John and his dad got their coats on to get the boxes out of the car. Josh started to balk a bit when his mom pulled a plastic sheet out of one of the bags and started stripping his bed to put it on, but a look from her stopped him before it got very far. "Where would you like these?" Mr. Kelly asked as Mrs. Kelly finished remaking Josh's bed. "Place one box of each over in the corner and place the others in the storage room." With a nod John and his dad placed the boxes they were carrying into the area indicated and left the room. while all this was going on Erin had finished clearing out space in her brother's closet. "What now, mum?" Erin asked. "Just shove the boxes into the space for now. We'll do more to it this weekend." After this was done Josh was headed off to get his bath and final diaper change for the night. "OK, Josh, hop up on your bed," his mom said as they got back in to his room after he was done with his bath. Without a word, Josh lay down on the changing pad his mum had laid out. His eyes widened a bit when he saw the thick nappy his mom had in her hand. " I thought it would be best to go with the thicker nappies since I know you wet a lot at night," Mrs. Kelly said in seeing the look on her son's face. Mrs. Kelly smiled a bit when Josh tried to walk out of the room with the new diaper he had on. Several hours later the younger Kelly kids were sent off to bed, though John ended up helping his brother up the stairs since his diaper was throwing off his gait. "Don't worry about it Josh, I'm sure you'll get used to it after a bit," John chuckled as he tucked his brother into bed.