THE KELLY'S COME TO AMERICA Chapter 51 "Josh, time to get to bed," his dad announced a couple of hours later. "Do I have to go to bed now? It's only 8 o'clock." Josh stated after looking at his watch. "Yes, you do. You'll be going to bed early the entire time you're on ground. And if you say anything else, I'll start doubling what your mom gave you. So what's it going to be?" Seeing that his father was serious, Josh headed off to get ready for his shower. He stopped cold when he saw his mom waiting for him in his room. "Let's get you out of those clothes so you can get your bath," Mrs. Kelly said like she was talking to a toddler. "Is all this necessary, mom?" Josh whined as he was helped on to his changing table. "Of course it is. I mean, if you can't be trusted to follow a simple instruction as coming straight home then we certainly shouldn't think that you'll be able to handle something as complicated as getting ready for bed," Mrs. Kelly told her son in the same childish tone she used before. Seeing that it was no use to try and fight this, Josh lay back and allowed his mom to undress him. "I see that you're still a little soaker, aren't you?" Josh was kidded as his shorts were removed exposing a very wet diaper. "I guess we'll need to start checking your diaper as well if you don't know when you need to change yourself." "MOM!" Josh started to whine before he found a pacifier being placed in his mouth. "Now just lay back and let mommy do all the work." Josh started to cry a bit as his mom pulled out some wash cloths and started to give him a sponge bath right on his changing table. Once all this was done, Josh found himself being placed into several of his night-time cloth diapers. Mrs. Kelly chuckled a bit when she saw the trouble her son was having just trying to get his legs closed enough so he could get off the table. With a smile, she helped her youngest sit up as she pulled out an extra long T-shirt and placed it over his head. As soon as the shirt was on, Josh felt his mom pick him up and carry him over to his bed. "Now you stay right there and I'll be back in a few minutes," Josh was told after his mom tucked him in. "I hope she doesn't do what I think she is," Josh though to himself after his mom left the room. This wish was destroyed when Josh's mom came back into his room a few minutes later carrying a bottle. "Now I want you to be good and go right to sleep. I don't need to tell you what'll happen if I have to come up and have you settle down." Josh just nodded at this, as he took the bottle his mom was offering him. Josh drifted of to sleep a short time later. Josh awoke the next morning to the feeling of his diapers being removed. "Morning Thumper," Erin told her little brother cheerfully the next morning as she continued to remove his soaked night diapers. "Morning. You know, I'm perfectly capable of changing myself," Josh stated with a yawn. "I know you are. Mom though, had other ideas," Erin replied apologetically. "I guess this means mom plans on treating me like a little kid for the entire ground." Erin nodded at that statement. "You know, I wonder whether this is due more to what I did yesterday, or mom still being pissed about what happened over the summer," Josh commented while getting a fresh diaper put on him. "I would have to say the latter given what I had heard mom and Aunt Emily talking about after we got back to the hotel the knight you got knighted." "What did you hear?" "Aunt Emily said she was concerned about how you seemed to be acting more like an adult at times than a little kid." "Jeez. I try to live up to the expectations people placed on me due to the honors they gave me and they think I'm flipping out. Not to mention seeing someone get their head blown off and almost killed themselves would be enough to age anyone. I mean, look at how John acts at times now." Josh could tell that Erin had noticed the same changes in their brother that he had. The only difference being was that Josh recognized it earlier and understood it far better than anyone in the family ever could, with the exception of their uncle. "And please don't tell mom about this. She's liable to pull the same thing that she is with me with John and I get the feeling that he would be less inclined to accept it peacefully than I am." Erin just nodded at this and finished changing and dressing Josh in silence. "Be sure to put your dishes in the dishwasher before you leave for school and start the machine as well. I'll see you after school," Mrs. Kelly told her sons before she left for work. "OK, mom see you then." John replied between bites. "Mom sure seem to be laying all this stuff on kind of thick." John told his brother once he heard the car pull out of the driveway. "Tell me about it. Erin and I came up with a plausible reason as to why as well," Josh replied as he took his dishes into the kitchen and placed them in the dishwasher as requested. Once Josh got back to the table he started explaining to John what Erin had told him while changing him that morning. "That does sound plausible. I guess the things that have happened these last several months may have shaken mom up more than we thought. Do you think we should tell dad about this?" "I don't think it would do much good right now. If I were to tell him about this while on ground, he would probably just brush it off as mom doing this as part of the punishment." "You're probably right. We'll we better get going before we miss our bus," John said after checking his watch. Josh nodded at this and grabbed his book bag as he got up from the table. John joined him a few minutes later. "Hey Josh. Hey John," DJ called out as he saw them walking down the street to the stop. "Morning, DJ. You already for another fun day?" John asked with a grin. "Yeah, right," came the scoffed reply. "You'll never guess who I saw coming out of the changing rooms yesterday," John told his friend with a smile. "Who?" "Scott Elston. "Man, his dad really must have been pissed at him to still have him in diapers," DJ laughed. "Tell me about it. I guess this is one of those permanent set- ups." John replied with a chuckle. "It's going to be priceless in gym today then. From what I've been able to gather, it seems like they've got all the diaper wearers in the same gym class." "That makes sense. It'll keep the harassment down to a minimum." John laughed as he saw the bus heading up the street. Chapter 52 Josh's day seemed to be going normal with little to no homework in any of his classes yet. He was even surprised that he was getting almost no comments about wearing diapers. His easy day though came to an abrupt halt when he got to his English class. "OK people, let's settle things down," Mr. Allison called as he walked into the room. "You've all got to enjoy a nice time away from school, but the fun is over starting now. So for your first assignment, I want you to tell me what you did over the summer and what you plan on getting out of this class. I want it to be at least four pages in length and ready to turn in by this time next week. And before any of you start complaining about it, I would suggest you think twice before you do." Josh caught the tone being used in the last part of the teacher's statement and kept his mouth shut. Several others, however, decided to ignore this. "C'mon, how can we possible get a paper that long done that quickly?" One of the boys in the back called out. The smile that Mr. Allison got while looking down at his roll sheet told everyone that the kid had just made a very big mistake. "I'll tell you what...Mr. Leighton, is it?", Mr. Allison asked to make sure he had the right name. When the kid nodded he continued, "Since you don't feel that a week is enough time for this project, you can turn it in by the start of class on Monday. Then maybe next time you'll feel a week is enough time. Also, I'll be lowering the grade of the paper by one letter grade over the one earned for each day that it's late." The class sat in stunned silence at this. "Now, if there are no further questions, we can get on with the business of the day." Most of the class was shocked when Josh raised his hand. "You have a question, Mr. Kelly?" "Yes, Sir. On papers like this do you allow the use of word processors?" Josh asked nervously, since he knew his handwriting left a lot to be desired. "I do allow for the use of word processors in this class. However, I still expect a handwritten copy of the paper to be turned in with it as well." Josh nodded at this in slight relief. Knowing that he would have a way to get around having to redo papers because the teacher had a hard time reading it. David was giving him a slight grin when he looked over at his friend. With this question answered, the class started with full force. "I bet that one kid is sorry he opened his mouth now." David laughed as he and Josh left the class. "Tell me about it. Though I have a bigger problem." Josh said glumly. "What's that? Mr. Allison already said we could type the papers out." David answered in confusion. "No, the problem is the subject of the paper. You and I both know that he's going to have a hard time believing what I put in that paper." Josh stated. Finally understanding what his friend was saying, David agreed. "Well, you could always have your mom send a signed note along with it if he doesn't believe you." David Joked to try and lighten the mood. He was shocked to see that his friend actually looked like he was going to suggest it to his mom. "How's the day been going so far Josh?" John asked as Josh joined them at their table. "Not bad, I have a bit of a problem with an assignment for English though. Though David did give me an idea to get around that." Josh told them, mentioning what the assignment was over and David's joked suggestion. "You're right Josh, Allison will never believe a word of it. Maybe you should give David's idea some thought." John answered laughing. Seeing the confused looks on everyone else's face, except DJ's and his brothers, got John laughing even harder. "You better tell them Josh. I don't think I can." John said through fits of laughter. After taking a deep breath, Josh started in on the events of the past summer. "You're shitting us, right?" One of the other boys blurted out as Josh was finishing. John and Josh both gave him a cold look. "You're not kidding, then?" The boy continued as he took in the look from several others at the table. The other kid shut up for the rest of the period after giving a hasty apology. Like the day before, Josh and John got up and headed off to the nurses office so they could change before the beginning of their next class. "I'll see you after next hour, Josh." John told his brother as he headed off to his next class. Josh just nodded at this. "OK people, sit down and pay attention." A loud voice call just after the tardy bell rang. "I'm Mr. Grissom, your friendly P.E. Instructor. I'm sure by now most of you know what you have in common with each other, aside from being boys. For those of you that don't have a clue as to what I'm talking about, you'll find out shortly. I don't want to hear any comments or harassment of any kind. If I do hear any uncalled for comments then you'll have to deal with me, and then you have to deal with the principal. Now when you hear your name called I want you to go through the door marked boys' locker room, find your locker, and start dressing down for the period." About half the boys listening to this little speech smiled a bit since this was the same one they had gotten in years past. "You got to be kidding me!" A voice called out from the doorway. "Hey Coach? Is there any way I can get transferred to another class. I don't want to be stuck with all the babies." Several of the older students near the kid looked like they were ready to go over and pound the kid flat. "Sure Rico, I'm sure they still have some room in the Special Ed. Class. Let me check for you. in the mean time Drop and give me 20." The kid just stood there not understanding what he was just told to do. "I didn't stutter boy. Drop and give me 20. NOW!" Once the kid was on the floor grunting out the requested push-ups, Mr. Grissom turned to address the rest of the class. "IN case some of you didn't understand what I just told you a minute ago, I'll tolerate no harassment of any kind in this class. The next time, I will be writing out office slips. You all now have 5 minutes to finish getting ready for class!" Everyone started scrambling to finish getting ready for class. "Hey coach?" John called as he and Josh came out of the locker room a few minutes later. "Yeah? Oh, Hello John. How're injuries doing?" "Not bad. Still hurts like hell at times." John let slip before he could catch himself. "I know what you mean." Came the chuckled reply. "So what can I do for you?" John and Josh handed him their doctor orders preventing them from taking part in gym till further notice. "OK. I'm surprised you didn't just opt to take another study hall." "We thought about it, but decided it would be better to just come in and get used to the routine." John's answer caused their teacher to smile a bit. "OK. You're both expected to dress down each day and I'll let you help with setting things up." Both boys nodded at this and let the teacher get back to the class. "This could get to be a really interesting class." Josh mentioned to his brother as they followed the rest of the class outside to watch them run laps before starting the activity for the day. "Tell me about it. I just wonder how long it'll take me to get back into shape once the doctor releases me?" "Well, if you start doing light exercises now and slowly build them up it shouldn't take you to long to do it." Josh replied to the rhetorical question his brother just made with a slight smile. "You better not let mom catch you doing stuff like that or she'll really have your diapered butt in a sling." "She already knows. She walked in on me and David a couple of weeks back while we were using a weight machine he got over the summer with part of his GN money. Since I wasn't using the leg any and Tim was with us she didn't seem that upset. She just told me not to over do anything since I'm still growing and not to use the machine any unless an adult was present." Josh replied. "So that's why it looked like your muscles seems to be a bit more defined now. I wonder if mom and dad would be willing to let me do something like that?" "I doubt they would let you get a weight machine yet. But if you talked to mom about it first, you could probably talk her and dad into using those health memberships dad gets from work. I know they've been talking about using them, but didn't want to leave you or me alone till our injuries healed up." John just nodded at this and started thinking about a way he could run Josh's idea past his mom. Josh and John spent the rest of the period watching the flag football game that was going on. "OK everyone hit the showers now! That includes you too, Mr. Kelly." Mr. Grissom called thirty minutes later. With a nod, john headed off to the showers as well. While Josh just when to his locker and started to get undressed. "Man, I really need to see about changing to a different hour. This place smells worse than my little brother's room." Rico called as he entered the locker room after finishing up some push-ups that he got handed by one of the other teachers for his conduct during the game. "Please do. That way I don't have to listen to your comments anymore." Josh called out as he dropped his shorts. "You got something to say to me, diaper boy?" Rico stated in what he though was a threatening tone. "Not any more." Josh shot back in the same tone he used on his previous statement. "You better watch what you say to me, diaper boy. Or someone just might get hurt." Rico told Josh while giving him a small push in the shoulder. "Are you really sure you want to take this to the next level, Rico?" Josh asked calmly as he removed his shirt and Rico got the first look at Josh's build and more noticeably the scars he had. Seeing how calmly Josh was acting along with the scars he had made Rico think twice about trying to start a fight. "You better be glad that I'm in a good mood, or else there would have been trouble." "You're right there would have been trouble. Take a look behind you." Josh said as he turned back around to get a clean diaper and wipes from his locker and walk past the other boy to change in one of the stalls nearby. Rico went cold when he turned around and found half a dozen upper classmen standing behind him in various stages of dress. The two people John saw fastest was Josh's brother and Mr. Grissom. Rico's eyes was held captive by the number of still fresh scars John had and the more glaring fact that he was still completely naked and standing in the middle of the locker room with a teacher behind him. "Get your butt showered, dressed, and in my office in ten minutes." Mr. Grissom said coldly as Rico walked by him. "Sorry coach, but I have my mom picking me up and don't have the time to hang around." Rico stated as he headed for his locker. "Well, that works out even better. It saves Mr. Krueger the hassle of calling them in for a meeting about your attitude." Mr. Grissom told the boy with a purely evil grin. Several of the older boys that heard this last part started laughing and smiling. Twenty minutes later, the two brothers were climbing into their mom's car. Chapter 53 "And how was your day?" Mrs. Kelly asked her sons as she pulled out of the school parking lot. "Not bad. Things really got fun in gym." John said with a laugh. "Oh, how so?" "Some kid tried picking a fight with Josh because of his diapers." Mrs. Kelly Just groaned at this thinking that she was going to be getting another call because Josh had gotten into another fight. Seeing the look on his mom's face, John quickly filled her in on the rest of it. "Don't worry mom, no punches were thrown. That's what was so funny. The kid trying to pick the fight must have thought that since Josh was a couple of inches shorter, a good bit lighter, and wore diapers he wouldn't stand a chance against him. Normal bully thought process." John added before he continued the story. "Anyway, the kid gave him a small push and Josh just calmly asked the guy if he was really sure about wanting to take it to the next level while removing his shirt. It was great to see how fast the kid backed down when he saw the scars Josh has." "And what do you think would have happened if this other boy hadn't seen you and backed down?" Mrs. Kelly interrupted before she fully understood what had gone on. "That's just it mom, the other kid didn't even realize that he had people behind him till after he backed down and Josh pointed us out. Josh got the kid to back down on his own and without raising his fists at all." John said proudly. "Well, that is good to hear. Aside from that, did either of you have any other problems concerning your diapers?" "Nah, except for about a dozen other people, everyone else wears protection of some sort or another." Josh added matter-of-factly. "There is one thing I would like to ask you about mom?" John started a bit nervously. "Yes?" Mrs. Kelly asked, with the feeling that she had a sandbag getting ready to drop. "Josh mentioned that he had been working out a bit over at David's and I was wondering if that I might be able to do the same once the doctor takes me off the physical restrictions she has me on now?" Relieved that it was something so trivial, Mrs. Kelly gave a mental sigh of relief. "I don't think it would be a problem. But only after you get the OK from your doctor. "So Josh, besides the run in you had during gym, how was your day?" Mrs. Kelly inquired of her youngest. "It wasn't too bad. I do have a bit of a strange request to make of you concerning an assignment I got today." John started laughing at this as he knew what was coming next. "John would you kindly stop laughing and let your brother finish his question." "Go ahead Josh." Mrs. Kelly prompted once John got his laughter under control. "Well, I was wondering if you'd be willing to write a note to my English teacher about the paper he gave us to do." "Josh, I'm not about to write you a note to get out of a school assignment and you should know better than to even ask." Josh was scolded. "I guess I didn't explain it too well. What I'm wanting is a note to let the teacher know that what I put in the paper actually happened and I'm not just making stuff up." Josh clarified. "OH, I'm sorry. I thought you meant you wanted me to write a note so you could get out of doing the paper. Yes, I'll be happy to give you a note about it." Mrs. Kelly apologized to her son. Though she was figuring that she would probably end up getting a call from Josh's teacher even with giving him the note. "Do either of you need to be changed?" the boys were asked as they walked into the house. "Nah, I changed after gym." John told her as he headed off to his room to drop his books off and start on his homework. "OK John, we'll call you when dinner is ready." his mom told him since she knew what he was like when her started studying. "Follow me." Josh was told as his mom headed off to his room. "Up on the table." Josh followed the command. In moments, his shoes, shorts and shirt had been removed. "Well, it looks like you're still dry so let's get you dressed for the rest of the day." Josh was told with a smile as she pulled out one of the new snap-shoulder onesies she had ordered for him when she had seen how much he had grown over the summer. Josh soon found himself standing in front of his changing table as his mother finished snapping the crotch closed. "You get started on your homework and I'll bring up some snacks in a few minutes." When his mom returned with the snacks she made, Josh wasn't surprised to see that his drink was being served in a bottle. "I really hope none of the guys from school see me like this, or I'll never hear the end of it." Josh thought to himself as she sucked on the bottle while working on some math problems. While he never fully admitted it to anyone, he did find the baby treatment relaxing at times. Of course, this wasn't one of those times. But Josh knew better than to fight it. By the time the boys were called to dinner, both had their homework almost completed. Josh arrived at the table to find that his dinner had all ready been dished out for him and cut into bite size pieces. John and Josh recounted their day again for their father with Erin joining in on her day as well. John, of course, started laughing again when Josh told their dad about his English assignment. Mr. Kelly was laughing on the inside at the thought of the look this was going to generate on the face of his teacher, though nothing was said verbally. Mr. Kelly knew that this was still a major sore spot with his wife and probably would be for sometime to come. Once dinner was completed, all the kids' homework for the night was finished and checked, and Josh was given his last diaper change for the night and placed into some sleepers the Kelly's sat down to play a board game. This being a weekly family tradition that stretched back to when the elder Kelly's were kids. Chapter 54 "Hey Josh, you want to come over after school today?" David asked as Josh and John walked up to their bus stop. "Yeah, but I'll need to check with my mom first," Josh replied thinking back to his recently ended grounding and baby treatment. "I kind of figured you would, having just gotten off ground and everything," Came the chuckled reply. "You have the paper ready for Allison?" "Yeah, I finished up last night. My mom attached a note to go with it this morning." "You mean you actually took my suggestion?" "Yeah. Though I still think that Allison is going to think that I'm making the whole thing up." "I wouldn't be surprised. But you know what they say, Fact is often stranger than fiction," David joked as the bus pulled up to the stop. "You think Rico has learned his lesson over the last week?" Josh asked with a smile as he and David took their seats on the bus. "Well, if not, I sure they can find another spot for him in the Special Ed. gym class." "There is that. I have to admit that it was kind of funny seeing him run around with the Spec Ed class. Especially when he had to do the Hokey Pokey," Caleb called from across the aisle. "Tell me about it. I can't remember a time that I've laughed so hard. I almost thought I was going to wet myself," Josh called back. The rest of the bus trip had the trio joking about the rest of the things they had either seen or heard Rico being told to do. Josh of course, laughed while he could since he knew that once classes started for the day he wouldn't have much time for it since he had both of his most hated classes. "Ok, everyone. I want you to take out the papers that are due and pass them to the front of your row. Then I want you to pull out the worksheets I had handed out last Friday so we can go over them," Mr. Allison called. "Was there another problem over the weekend Mr. Leighton?" Mr. Allison asked when he flipped through the papers and didn't find the paper he was looking for. "There was no problem. I didn't see the need of doing the paper when you're already going to fail me on it," The boy replied plainly. "I see. Then you won't mind giving your parents this," The boy was told as the teacher handed over a sealed envelope. "And I wouldn't try to not give it to your parents. I've already contacted your mother to let her know that you'll be bringing her a note." With this said, their teacher headed back to the front of the class. As Mr. Allison headed back towards the front of the classroom, Josh wondered if he would be getting a similar note to take home himself in a few days. With a mental shrug he figured it wasn't worth getting worked up over since he and his parents knew that everything he put in his paper was true. "So Josh, has Allison said anything yet about your paper?" John asked as his brother joined their group for lunch 45 minutes later. "Not yet. I figure it'll be a few days before he gets to mine," John was told. "Man, I wonder where these people learned to cook?" Josh asked a moment later as he took the first bite of his lunch. "I'm not sure. Though I think they're using stuff left over from the Gulf War," one of the others at the table interjected. "I could believe it. I think I'm going to have to start bringing my lunch if it's going to be like this." "At least they didn't offer the Grape bug juice today," DJ offered. All the older boys at the table agreed with this statement. "I'll see you in gym," Josh told his brother as he got up from the table. John just nodded at this as Josh walked off to do a quick diaper change before his next class. "So nice of you to join us Mr. Kelly," Mr. McThorton said snidely as Josh walked into the room after the final bell rang. "Sorry sir, I was unavoidably detained," Josh stated has he handed over the pass he got from the nurse. "Well, maybe next time you should have the nurse help you if you can't change your diaper by yourself quickly enough to make it to class on time." Several people started chuckling at this comment, and as Josh expected, his teacher didn't try to put a stop to it. For his part, Josh ignored the comment made by his teacher, but gave the people chuckling a withering glance. "Well, now that our resident toddler has managed to take his seat let's continue our discussion over the Roman Empire." It took all of Josh's willpower to keep his mouth shut. "Oh, and Mr. Kelly I would suggest you start paying better attention if you want to pass this course," Mr. McThorton called out as he held up the last assignment the class had done and Josh saw a "D" written boldly across the top. This shocked Josh because he had double checked all of his answers against the text book before he turned it in, as well has having his mom double check it also. With a silent nod, he accepted the paper and decided that he was going to have his mom go over the assignment with his since he had the feeling he was getting shafted. This class put Josh in such a foul mood for the rest of the day most people wouldn't come near him. To top all this off, David mentioned in gym that something had come up and he wasn't going to be able to have any company after school. "So, Josh what crawled up your butt?" John asked as they walked into their house. "McThorton was being a prick again," Josh stated as he told his brother what had taken place during class. "And how long has this been going on?" Josh's mom asked suddenly, causing Josh to Jump because he didn't realize that she was around. "Pretty much since the beginning of the year," Josh informed her. "Why didn't you tell me about this before now?" "I was wanting to take care of it myself." "OK. I can understand that. Now We'll see if I can get some better results. Could I see the worksheet you were telling John about?" Josh was asked while his mom was holding her hand out. Josh nodded and dug the requested paper out of his backpack. "Isn't this the same paper you had me double check after you went through the textbook?" Josh nodded at this. "You go on up to your room and get started on any homework you have from today and I'll give over this again. "OK." "And Josh, the next time you start having trouble with a teacher like this I want to be told about it sooner than this. Understood?" Josh nodded at this and headed up to his room. Chapter 55 "Josh, dinner is ready," Erin called on her why past his room. "OK. I'll be down in a minute," Josh replied as he finished the last of his math homework. "Josh, after dinner I'd like to talk with you about the assignment you showed me earlier," his mom told him as he took his seat at the dinner table. "OK," Josh replied. "Have you heard anything back yet about your English paper yet, Josh?" His father asked a short time later. "It was just handed in today, so I doubt I'll hear anything back about it before Wednesday. Speaking of which, mom, I still get the felling that you may be getting a call or a letter over it even with the note you wrote for me on it," Josh said. His parents kind of nodded at this since they had the same feeling. "How's gym class going for you boys? Any more trouble over your diapers?" "Not really. I mean, there's some joking around about it, but nothing that could be considered harassment," John told them. "Well, if there is any more trouble let us or your teacher know about it." "We will," Josh answered. "And Erin, how did the Chemistry test go for you? I know that you've been worried about your grade on since Friday," Mrs. Kelly asked. "I got a low A on it. Aaron and I have been tossing each other questions over it all week in preparation for it. It seemed to help. I was also wondering if I might be able to borrow the car this Saturday night?" Erin asked. John and Josh chuckled a bit about this since the only time she asked to use the car was when she and Aaron had a date, and she needed the extra room to change him. "I don't think that this would be a problem. We'll let you know a little closer to then," Mr. Kelly told her with a slight grin of his own. Dinner ended a short time later, and Josh was escorted into his parents' office. "Josh, I looked over the paper you handed me earlier and found that it had been graded correctly. However, almost all of the wrong answers seem to be done in someone else's handwriting. Because of this I called your principal and asked for a meeting between him, Mr. McThorton, and myself. Since I'm not sure how this meeting is going to turn out, there are a couple of things I'd like you to do. First, I'll need one of your other graded papers so I can show them the difference in the handwriting. Second, I want you to start making copies of all your assignments as a backstop to this sort of thing. And lastly, I want you to start writing down any instance of uncalled for comments, and such from your teacher," Mrs. Kelly told her son. "Do you want me to include comments made by other students?" Josh asked? "Only if he fails to do anything about it." Josh nodded at this. "And Josh, next time this happens I want you to let me or your father know about what's going on sooner than this." Josh nodded at this and left the room. "Hey Josh, if you have your homework done you want to play a couple of video games before bed?" John asked. "Sure let me go get my shower really quick and change into my night diapers and I'll be right in," Josh said with a grin. Josh hurried into his room and quickly striped off the wet diaper he had on and went to jump in the shower. What he didn't know is that while he was doing this, Erin was in his room getting things ready for his final diapering of the night. "Erin, what are you doing in here?" Josh asked in surprise as he quickly covered himself with the towel he was using to dry his hair off with. "What are you covering yourself for, Thumper? It's not like I haven't seen you down there plenty of times before," his sister said with a laugh as she pulled the towel off him and helped him hobble over to his changing table. With an embarrassed grin of his own, Josh went along with this. "So what did mum and dad want to talk to you about?" she asked while pulling several of Josh's thick night diapers out from under the table and started to layer them together. "I've been having trouble with a teacher and it seemed like he was messing around with the answers on one of my papers," Josh told his sister as he lifted up so she could place the dry diapers under him. "You're kidding, right?" Josh just shook his head with a slight smile as Erin rubbed a generous amount of lotion into his diaper area. "Well I hope she plans on doing something about it," Erin stated as she dusted his butt and balls with powder. "Erin, this is mum, remember?" Josh replied with a slight chuckle. "Of course, what was I thinking?" came her answer as she pulled the diapers up snuggly between her brother's legs and fastened the Velcro snuggly. "That's not too tight, is it?" She asked while getting out a pair of snap-on plastic pants. "No feels just fine," Josh stated in a high Soprano. Erin just laughed as she gave Josh's diapered crotch a slight slap as he lifted his butt again so she could get the plastic pants under him. Josh laughed even harder at this. "Well you're all done now. John's waiting for you in his room," Erin said while giving he brother's padded rump one more slap as he put a T-shirt on. "I see Erin got to you, too?" John said with a laugh seeing how thickly his brother was diapered. "Yeah you could say that," Josh stated as he climbed onto the bed opposite his brother and saw how thickly he was diapered as well. "What, you don't what to lay by me?" John asked in a slightly hurt tone since he was so used to him and Josh laying next to each other when playing games. "Are you kidding? With as thickly as we're diapered and how much you move around on this game, I'd end up on the floor in no time. It's safer over here," Josh said with a grin to let John know he shouldn't take the comments to seriously. "OK boys, time for bed," Mr. Kelly called from the doorway." "Aww, just ten more minutes, please?" John and Josh pleaded together. "Not this time boys. Besides, I already gave twenty extra minutes already. I give you any extra and your mum will have my hide. Now save the game and you can finish it tomorrow," the boys were told. Seeing that there was no way around it, John saved the game, then shut the console down. "Night John, Night dad," Josh told them as he left the room. "Night Josh," John called. "Night son. Your mum will be up in a few minutes," Josh nodded at this and limped into his room. Chapter 56 "I won't have time for breakfast, mum. I'm running late for the bus," John called as he came rushing downstairs the next morning. "You aren't running late, John. I'm giving you boys a lift this morning since I have to meet with your principal about something. Now sit down and eat before your breakfast gets cold," John did as he was told and was glad to be having something other than cold cereal or Pop Tarts for breakfast. "OK boys let's get going," Mrs. Kelly announced twenty minutes later. "You have a good day, John. I'll be picking you up after school for your doctor appointment. "OK. mum. Have fun," John said with a grin as he walked off. "Let's go Josh, we don't want to keep your teacher and the principal waiting. Josh followed her but hadn't felt this nervous since his first solo jump. "May I help you? the secretary asked. "Yes, I have an appointment to see Mr. Krueger. The name is 'Kelly'," Josh's mom told her. "Mr. Krueger is in with someone else at the moment and he should be done in just a few minutes. "You may have a seat over there if you'd like," Josh and his mom were told. "Thank you," Mrs. Kelly stated as she and Josh went over to the offered couch. A short time later a lady and her son came storming out of his office. Josh recognized the boy at once as John Rico. "Mrs. Kelly? I'm John Krueger. Sorry it took so long to get to you, but the meeting I just had came up unexpectedly. "That's OK. I know how these things happen." "If you'll follow me into my office we can get to the bottom of what you told me the other day," Mrs. Kelly and Josh followed Mr. Krueger into his office. "Janet would please have Mr. McThorton join us," The receptionist was told before Mr. Krueger closed the door to his office. "Now, Mrs. Kelly, why don't you tell me a bit more of what you started to on the phone yesterday while we're waiting for Mr. McThorton to arrive," the principal asked as he took his seat. In concise terms Josh's mom explained what she had been told by Josh and what she had discovered for herself. "You do have proof of all this?" Mr. Krueger asked once she was done. "I don't have any real proof about what Josh has told me of his treatment in class, but I have no reason at this time to doubt him on it. As for the second part, this is a worksheet that Josh had shown me last night. This is the same one that I had double checked for him just a few days before. I had noticed that a couple of his answers could have gone either way depending on how they were looked at. However, several other answers had been changed and then marked wrong." "And how can you tell they were changed?" "One you can see some slight eraser marks on the paper and the changed answers are in a different style of handwriting," As she finished this, a knock on the door let them know that Josh's teacher had arrived for the meeting. "You can go on to class now, Josh. Mrs. Circle will get you a pass written out," Mr. Krueger told him. Josh nodded at this, got his books, and left. "So how did the meeting go Josh?" John asked when they met for lunch later that day. "I don't know. I got dismissed just after Mr. McThorton arrived for the meeting," Josh told him. "I guess that explains why he was so pissed earlier," One of the other boys at the table stated. "What do you mean?" John asked. "Well, he just seemed a bit more anal than normal. I'd watch your back Josh. I think he may be out for blood after this," Josh nodded at this. "Josh. The office just called. Mr. Krueger wants you up there right now. John, they want you as well," Mr. Grissom told them as they walked into the gym for their last class of the day. The boys nodded at this and turned around to head for the office. "I'll bet this has something to do with the meeting this morning," John chuckled. "I wouldn't be to shocked if it was," Josh responded a bit nervously. Even though he knew he wasn't in trouble, being called to the principal's office gave him butterflies. "Mrs. Circle? Mr. Krueger asked to see me," Josh informed the receptionist "Yes. Mr. Kelly right?" she asked for verification. "Correct," Josh answered as Mrs. Circle buzzed him in. Josh wasn't all that surprised to see his mom already sitting in the office. "Mum. Mr. Krueger," Josh stated in greeting as he took the offered seat. "Josh, your mother and I talked at great length this morning about what has been going on in your English class. I'm going to tell you what I've told her. Without solid proof of wrongdoing on your teacher's part my hands are tied as to what I can do. I have looked over the paper she offered earlier and compared it to the other worksheet you provided and could tell that someone had changed the answers. Mr. McThorton had said that he would be willing to raise the grade to a "C" since he can't tell what the previous answers were," Josh nodded at this even with being certain that the paper would have actually gotten him an "A" had it not been changed. "The next point is," Mr. Krueger continued," that I'll be keeping a closer watch on your teacher. To be honest, we've heard rumors of this going on but never had anyone come forward until now. You mom has told me what she plans on having you do with your assignments. What I want you to do is to come have Mrs. Circle make a copy of any assignments before they get turned in and we'll grade the copy here in the office. If you think that your grade was lowered or changed in any manner come see me about it," Josh nodded at this and thanked his principal for taking the extra steps that he was. Josh figured that with McThorton knowing that he was being watched he would stop all this BS. He would be proven wrong later in the year. "Well we should just have enough time to get you boys to your doctor appointments," Mrs. Kelly announced as she led Josh and John out of the school. By the time they got home, John had been removed from his restrictions and given the good news that his bowels were almost fully healed though he bladder still was extremely weak. Josh was even happier since he had finally gotten the cast off his leg. Josh however was told to take it easy for another couple of weeks to give the bone extra time to heal. Chapter 57 "Take your seats everyone." Mr. Allison called as the tardy bell rang a few days later. "I want to take the time to say that I found most of your papers were very well written and it seemed that you had some exciting things go on over the summer for you. For others of you though, while I found the papers well written, and entertaining, I expect for you to follow the guide sheet I hand out for the assignment." he continued. Even though Mr. Allison didn't say anything out right, Josh knew that it was more than likely his paper that generated the last comment to be made. Josh knew what was coming when he turned the paper he was given over and found out that it was a note from Mr. Allison telling him to meet him after school. Josh just shook his head at this since he knew something like this was going to happen. The rest of the class went smoothly with little being said about the papers directly, though most of the class noticed an increased amount of points being made on sentence structure and punctuation. Josh was glad that he didn't have McThorton today or things really would have been lousy. "How did things go with your paper, Josh?" David asked when Josh met up with him at lunch. "About what I figured. Allison wants to talk to me after school about it. Speaking of which, John could you let mum know that I'll be a bit late getting home because of this chat, and I'll tell her about when I get home." Josh asked on turning towards his brother. "Sure, I'll let her know. Just in case she asks, were any uncalled for comments made about it?" John asked seriously. "A comment was made following the guide sheets in the future. I have a feeling that he was making reference towards my paper, but nothing was said about it directly. And he handed me the note like he was giving me back my paper." Josh replied knowing that this would keep his mom from going ballistic over it. John just nodded at this and steered the conversation towards other matters. After his after-lunch diaper change, Josh headed off for the gym. This seemed to be one of the few classes that people didn't give him any about his diapers in. Of course, Josh felt this was mainly because almost everyone else wore them as well, so it was pretty much a non- issue. John Rico still gave him problems over it at times but said nothing about it openly since he was sure he would end up back with the Special Ed. class if he pushed things to hard. "Hey coach! Why do we always have to wait for the slow pokes to finish their laps before we start the class?" Rico called out, showing his usual intolerance for people that couldn't do things as well as he could. "If things aren't going as fast as you'd like them to, I can always find something for you to do while were waiting for the rest of the class." John was told by the assistant coach he was talking to. Playing it smart, John kept his mouth shut to the coach, but made snide remarks to other people in the class concerning the performance of the slower students. Hitting mainly on Josh. During these times Rico never realized at how close Josh's brother, John, was coming to going off on the him. While most of the class figured that Josh was slow the people that knew him already had figured it out that Josh was holding back on purpose so he could help the less skilled runners try and keep up also giving his leg a bit more time to heal. Mr. Grisham blew his whistle and motioned for every one to gather around once the last runner had come in. "OK everyone, I've decided to have a bit of fun with you guys for the next couple of weeks. As a treat to our overseas guests, and if enough of you agree to join in, I've decided to give you a choice of either playing Soccer, or Rugby." ,John and Josh got evil looking grins on their faces when this was announced., "For those of you who choose the second option, we'll just be going over the rules today and start playing tomorrow." The Kellys were pleased to see that enough people opted for Rugby. They were even more excited when Rico stated that he would be going for Rugby. The rest of the period had the boys being split up into teams and the rules being explained to them. "I can't wait to get Rico out on the field." Josh laughed as they were heading off to the showers. "You aren't going to do anything to him are you?" John asked with some slight concern. "Me? I wouldn't think of doing anything to him. Or at least, nothing that's against the rules anyway." Josh replied with a grin. Several people who heard the comment and saw the look on the younger boys' face decided that it was probably a good thing that they had decided to opt out for Soccer, or were on the same team as the Kellys. "Sorry I'm late Mr. Allison. I need a shower after Gym today." Josh explained as he walked into the classroom. "That's OK Josh. I'm running a bit behind myself. I'm going to guess you know why I asked to see you." "I was assuming it's about the paper you had us turn in." "That's correct. As you know, the paper was supposed to be about what you had done over the Summer. Now while I found your paper very well written, I was extremely disappointed that you turned in an obviously made-up story." Mr. Allison told him calmly. "Why do you feel that the story I turned in was made up? And did even read the letter I asked my mom to include with the paper?" Josh asked just as calmly. Though he was seething on the inside. "I did read the letter after a read your paper, and I found both rather hard to swallow. Now I'm going to make you a deal if you wish to take it. I'll give you till Monday to write the real paper over what you had really done over the Summer." "I see. And what would the grade be like should I accept this deal?" "It'll be lowered by two grades over what you had received on the one you turned in." Before Josh could answer the cell phone he had with him started vibrating. "Excuse me for a moment." Josh stated when he saw that the call was from his mom. "Yeah, mum?" Josh answered as he opened the phone. "Have you finished meeting with your teacher yet?" "I'm in the middle of it right now. He's offered to let me rewrite the paper over the weekend and lower it by two grades if I can turn it in by Monday." Josh told her matter-of-factly. "What did he say about the paper that you already turned in?" "He said that while it was very well written, he found it very hard to swallow." "I see. And what about the note I sent with it?" "He.. Uh.. found that kind of hard to swallow as well." Josh stammered, before pulling the phone away from his ear quickly. Mr. Allison was able to hear the static generated by the yelling several feet away. "My mum would like to talk to you for a minute." Josh said while rubbing his ear a little. After getting off the phone with Mrs. Kelly. Mr. Allison handed the phone back. "I'll be giving you a ride home Josh. It seems that your mother wants to have a few words with me about your paper." Josh just nodded at this. Thirty minutes later, Josh and his teacher was pulling into the driveway of his house. "Mum! I'm Home!" Josh yelled. "Would you like anything to drink?" Josh asked as he directed his teacher to a chair. "I'm fine, thank you." a moment later Mrs. Kelly entered the room. "Mr. Allison, I'm Janet Kelly. Thanks for meeting with me on such short notice." "I didn't feel like you were giving me much of a choice." Mrs. Kelly Just nodded to this and then turned to Josh, who was still standing nearby. "Josh, please go up to your room. I'll call you if you're need for anything." Josh nodded, and started up the stairs as his mom showed his teacher into her office. Once they were seated in the office Mrs. Kelly started in on Josh's teacher. "Mr. Allison, I'd like to know why you find Josh's story and My letter about it so hard to swallow?" "It's simple really. I don't see how it's possible for an Eleven year old to do the things he wrote about. I'm kind of amazed that you decided to go along with this ploy." "Mr. Allison, I'll have you know that I'm not in the habit of helping my kids lie, or covering up for them. I'm going to show you some things and you tell if Josh is still making things up." Mrs. Kelly told him sternly while placing some items on her desk. "How do you think things are going down there?" John asked his brother twenty minutes after he came upstairs. I have no idea, but I hope things work out OK. I'm still a bit steamed that if I do end up rewriting that paper it'll be mostly lies." Josh answered. John just nodded at this and put a game in for them to play to try and get Josh's mind off what was taking place downstairs. "How did everything go with Mr. Allison?" Josh asked at dinner that night. "We got everything worked out. You won't be needing to rewrite the paper and your grade won't be lowered." Mrs. Kelly answered while handing her son the paper in question. Josh smiled a bit at seeing the A written in the upper corner of the report. "To be honest Josh, I'm surprised, and disappointed, at how low toned the paper was." his mom continued. "Disappointed? In what way?" "Your mother and I are disappointed in that you made it seem like you played such a minor part in what you had done." Mr. Kelly announced joining the conversation. "Told you so." John tried to tell his brother. "What was that, John?" his mom asked while giving her son a glare stating that he had better not leave anything out of his explanation. "Well, Josh had me look over his paper before turning it in. Like you and dad, I noticed how Josh had toned the part he played down. I told him that you guys would be upset if you ever found out he had done so." John explained. Josh nodded his agreement to this before his parents could ask him to confirm what his brother said was true. "So why are you disappointed with me?" Josh asked his parents after a few minutes of silence. "Because you feel that you needed to down play what you had done over the Summer." Josh was told by his dad. "But you've always said that you didn't like people that make a big fuss about things they've done." "That's only partly right Josh. What I don't like is people that make it seem like they played a bigger part in things than they really did. It's something else entirely when the person in question has actually done something important but doesn't accept the full credit that is due to them by trying to make it look like they played a smaller part than they did. In cases like that, I feel the person is doing themselves a disservice by not taking the credit that is due to them." Josh nodded to what his father had just said and finished his meal in silence. Once the dinner was over Josh quietly headed up to his room for the night. "Everything OK Josh?" Erin asked a few hours later when she came in to let him know that it was time to get ready for bed and saw him staring out of his bedroom window while holding his teddy bear. "I don't know any more." Josh stated in a shaky voice. Sensing that there was something he wanted to get off his chest, Erin sat down next to her brother and pulled him onto her lap and gently held him till he was ready to talk. "Since mom and dad had that talk with me about needing to grow up and accept more responsibility for myself I've been trying to live up to what I thought they expected of me. I mean I'm trying to act mature enough to handle the things that have happened so far since we moved here, but I'm just not sure any more. Most kids would probably have been telling anyone that would listen about the things they've done. I'll admit I've been tempted to do this at times. I've held back because I know how dad feels about that. I mean I don't even have a spot in my room displaying any achievements and such like you and John do. I figured that mom and dad would be proud about how I've just accepted the awards and things I've gotten over the years with the least amount of showing off and now I find out that they're disappointed in me for it." Josh lost his composure at this point and started crying softly. Erin was shocked herself because till this point she never really noticed that Josh didn't have any of the awards he had earned on display anywhere in his room. What scared her even more when she thought about it was the fact that Josh did tend to act a good deal more mature that most kids his age, or her age for that matter. She started crying herself as the reality of what her brother had told her sank in. Erin decided right then to have a long talk with her parents about this before things went to far and her baby brother turned into an adult before he was really ready for it. It was several minutes before she noticed that Josh had cried himself to sleep. After changing him into a dry diaper, Erin tucked Josh into bed and after kissing him lightly on the forehead she left the room. By the time Erin got back downstairs John had turned in for the night as well. "What's wrong Erin? Is it Josh?" Mrs. Kelly asked worriedly. "Yeah, I think there is something wrong with Josh." "Not physically, but I think there is something wrong with him emotionally." Erin stated quickly as her mom started to get up so she could check on her youngest son. As calmly as she could, Erin told her parents what Josh had stated to her a short time before and her own observations. Neither of the elder Kelly's knew how to respond to what they were being told by their daughter. After an hour, they thanked Erin for what she had told them and sent her on to bed. Before heading off to bed themselves, Josh's parents decided to call the psychologist Josh had been seeing the next day and get some guidance on this. Chapter 58 "CPS Inc., How may I direct your call?" "Dr. Chen please." Mrs. Kelly responded to the request. "I'm sorry Dr. Chan is in with a patient at this time. May I take a message?" "Yes. Please tell him that Janet Kelly called and would like to set up a meeting with him as soon as possible concerning my son Joshua." "Is this an emergency?" The receptionist asked. "No, but it is something that I need to get some advice on as quickly as possible." "I see. A spot did open up a few minutes ago for 2 p.m. this afternoon. Would this be OK?" "Yes. I'll be there then. Thank you." Mrs. Kelly replied before hanging up the phone. As Mrs. Kelly was finishing up her call with Josh's doctor, Josh was walking into his World History Class. "Take your seats please." Mr. McThorton called as he walked in with a boy following close behind him. "Before we get started, I want to take the time to introduce a new student here. Mr. Neil Harris. I'd like you each to introduce yourselves after Mr. Harris tells us a bit about himself." Josh looked up in shock when he heard the new students name and was even more so when he realized that it was the same person that he used to share classes with at his old school. "You're next, Mr. Kelly." Josh heard his teacher say bringing his attention back into focus. "Hello Neil. Long time no see." Josh stated coldly. "Sir Josh." Came the equally cold, and snide reply. "Since you two obviously know each other, I'll let you skip the introduction." Mr. McThorton stated. Cutting through the tension that was building up in the classroom. As Josh sat back down so the next person could speak, he saw that most of his classmates had confused looks on their faces at Neil's use of his title. Once everyone had greeted the new student, the class started in earnest. Josh was pleased for once no comment had been made about his diapers during the class. Though this was short-lived once the class was over. "You better watch your back, diaper boy." ,Neil started once they were both out in the hall, "Because of what you pulled back in Mr. Roberts' class my mom had me wear diapers to school for the rest of the semester, and I know that you wear them. Unless you want me to start spreading it around you better make it worth my while to keep this a secret." Neil concluded, not knowing that he was making an empty threat. "Neil, I know you were a bit slow picking up on things at times at Hallow brook, so I'm going to use small words you can understand everything. Go. Bugger. Yourself." Josh said calmly as he pushed by the other kid. Before he had gone very far, Josh felt his pants being pulled down and a someone giving him a shove to the back. To Neil's amazement, Josh was able to turn the push into a roll of his own and instead of landing flat out on the floor, like was Neil's intention, Josh ended up in a crouch a few feet away. After pulling his pants back up, Josh calmly gathered his books up off the floor and headed off to his next class. Neil was about to do the same when a hand stopped him. Turning around and found him looking up at a very angry looking teacher. "Let's go." was all the teacher said as he escorted Neil up to the office. "Mr. Kelly. They want to see you up in the office for a few minutes." Josh's math teacher told him. Josh nodded at this and started to pack his books up. "You won't need to do that. You won't be gone that long." Josh nodded at this. He did hear a few jokes about being in trouble as he took the hall pass his teacher was holding. "I was told the principal wanted to see me about something?" Josh told the secretary after giving his name. "Go to Mr. Hamilton's office he's expecting you." Josh was told. Josh was a bit nervous since he had never been to see the school's disciplinarian before. "You wanted to see me, sir?" Josh asked as he entered the office. "Have a seat Mr. Kelly. And relax your not in any trouble. This is concerning the slight altercation you had during the last passing period. I'd like you to tell me exactly what happened and what might have caused it." Without preamble, Josh stated what had happened and what he felt had caused it from what was said. Mr. Hamilton, for his part, just took notes and asked for Josh to clear up a few points. Fifteen minutes later Josh was heading back to his math class. "Hey DJ. Where's John?" Josh asked as he sat down at their normal lunch table. "He came down sick and went home for the day. What was going on with the fight I heard you got in earlier?" Josh was told. "There wasn't any fight. Some kid I knew back at my last school just started here and was still carrying a bit of a grudge over something he thought I was responsible for. I doubt he'll cause any more trouble." Josh explained as he started eating his lunch. Mrs. Kelly was wondering the same thing as her son's boyfriend when she saw Josh walk out of Mr. Hamilton's office. Since she was in a hurry to get John home and settled in before heading of to her doctor's appointment she didn't bother trying to stop him to find out what was going on. "Mrs. Kelly. The doctor will see you now." The receptionist called a few minutes after she sat down. "What can I help you with today, Mrs. Kelly. Is everything going OK with Josh?" Dr. Chen asked after sitting down in a chair across from where Mrs. Kelly was sitting. "I think so, but I'm not sure. My daughter told my husband and I that Josh had a bit of a breakdown last night when she went in to have him get ready for bed." Mrs. Kelly stated before going on about what she had been told the previous night. "And what do you think might have triggered this?" "Well, earlier that night Josh, my husband, and I had gotten into an argument over a school paper of his. The paper was over what he had done over the summer. I'm sure you remember us telling you what Josh had done over the summer." Mrs. Kelly added. "I do remember." Dr. Chen agreed before asking Josh's mom to continue. "Well, Josh had seriously downplayed his part in what he had done and this upset my husband and I a bit." Mrs. Kelly added before telling the doctor what exactly was said, including an argument that had taken place almost a year before about Josh needing to take more responsibility and act more mature. "I think it might have been that first fight about him needing to act more mature that could have caused this." Mrs. Kelly concluded looking at the doctor. "You could be right. I have dealt with cases like this before. The best thing I can suggest, is for you and your husband to sit down and talk all this out with Josh and see where that leads you. I'll also talk to him about it in our next session. Aside from that I don't see what else might be done at this time." Josh's mom nodded at this and stood up from her seat. "Thank you for your time doctor. I'll let you know how everything goes before Josh's next appointment." "This what I'm here for." Dr. Chen stated as he walked Mrs. Kelly from his office. "You better watch out, diaper boy, or you're going to get hurt out on the field." Rico stated to Josh as he passed him during their warm up run. "Keep dreaming, junior." Josh mumbled to himself while looking at Rico's diminishing form. "OK, you guys, form up your teams! Does anyone need a run down of the rules again." Coach Grissom called as the boys. "OK then, let's get started. Charlie they're all yours." The boys heard as Grissom walked off to supervise the people that decided to go out for soccer. "Your butt is mine now, diaper boy." Rico announced in what he thought was a menacing voice once the coaches were out of earshot. "Really, Junior? Well, I hate to tell you this, but I prefer girls. Besides I don't think this is the time or place for something like that." Josh replied with a wink causing most of the boys on both teams to start laughing. What made the exchange even funnier was the confused and cross look on Rico's face at Josh calling him junior. Minutes later the game started and Rico didn't seem to waste any time in taking a cheap shot at Josh while everyone was scrambling for the ball. Since the coach didn't see the shot nothing was called on it. While spitting blood out of his mouth from a cut lip, Josh figured two could play at this game. By the time the last play started both teams were trying to keep Josh and Rico away from each other since it seemed the game had taken on a semblance of a grudge match between the two. With Josh having a black eye, bloody lip, and slightly bloody nose. And Rico also having a bloody lip and black eye. Surprisingly enough the assistant coach seemed to either not see the damage or was just choosing to ignore it. "OK Josh, if we can make this play we'll have a chance to win the match. Watch out though, I think Rico is still going to try something." Josh just nodded at this while he took up his position. Once the ball was in play, Josh saw what the other boy was talking about when he saw Rico heading right at him as he was getting near the goal line. Seeing that Rico was going for a full tackle and not for one of the flags like he was supposed to, Josh turned his body so Rico was heading right at him. Just as contact was made Josh lowered one shoulder and shoved hard into Rico's chest. While this was happening, Josh quickly straightened up causing Rico to fly up over Josh's shoulder and land flat on his back behind him. Josh didn't even bother looking back as he crossed the goal line. When he turned back around he saw the Coach Grissom and several other players running over to Rico's still prone form. "Congratulations Josh. I think you managed to either bruise or break two of Rico's ribs with that move." Coach Grissom said in disgust. "Go get cleaned up, changed and then wait for me in my office while I handle things out here." he added while turning his attention back to the injured boy. Josh, feeling a little guilty at the possible injury he may have caused, headed off to the showers as he was told. He was surprised at the number of people that quietly thanked him, or gave him a discreet thumbs up for what he did. Josh nodded at this. He was more worried about what might happen to him Fifteen Minutes later Coach Grissom walked in to his office. "C'mon Josh let's go." he announced while handing Josh his book bag. Several minutes later, he and Coach Grissom were sitting in the principal's office going over what had happened. On first seeing Josh's face, the principal thought that Josh might have come off worse in what had happened. The principal did send Josh down to the nurse's office to get an ice pack for his eye. By the time Josh returned the principal had been told what the coach had seen and learned from the people on both teams. "OK Mr. Kelly, Mr. Grissom has told me what the other players had told him and what he had seen for himself. I want to hear what happened in your own words." "There isn't much to tell. John has had it in for me since the semester started. You already know about his views about people that need to wear diapers. We've had a few minor altercations since the first one this year. I think he was using the match today as a way to get back at me for him getting sent to the Special Ed. gym class. Anyway, he had been taking shots at me the entire match. With how he was coming at me on the last play, it looked like he was going for a full tackle and not just after the flag like we were supposed to. I took the steps I thought were needed to keep myself from getting injured. I hope you both believe me when I say that I was not meaning to cause any harm to Rico. I thought that the most that would happen is that he would get the wind knocked out of him and maybe get his bell rung a little bit." Both the principal and the coach had no problem believing Josh was telling the truth. "Alright Mr. Kelly. Going from what I've just heard from you and Mr. Grissom I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you were defending yourself. However, I still have to assign you to the next week of in-house suspension. I'll be calling your mother to let her know what happened and what is being done about this matter. This will end the school's involvement in the matter. You may need to have your parents contact their lawyer about this in case the other boy's parents decide to press charges. Josh nodded at this, wondering what kind of hell he would get at home. Josh wasn't to surprised to see John Rico's father sitting in the waiting area when he came out of the Principal's office. He did get a big surprise at what happened next. "Josh Kelly?" The older man asked "Yes?" Josh answered nervously. "I'm John Rico's father. May I have a moment of your time?" the older man asked while offering a chair across from him. "Uh, I'm running a bit late at the moment for my bus." Josh answered. hoping that this would get him off the hook. "I'll give you a lift home. I'd really like to talk for a moment and I'd like you to be in on the meeting I'm about to have with the principal." Seeing that he didn't have much of a choice, Josh took the offered seat. Josh talked to Mr. Rico for several minutes going over what had been happening since the start of the year. The principal was a bit surprised when came out to greet Mr. Rico and saw that Josh and the older man were talking. He was even more surprised when Mr. Rico stated that he would like Josh to be in on the meeting for the parts that concerned him. Ushering both of them into his office the second meeting of the day started. "Do you really think this will work?" Josh asked on the ride home. "I'm not really sure. His mother and I have been thinking of doing this since the school year started. At the very least, it might get John to understand what you and the rest of the boys in your gym class have to deal with on a daily basis. Not to mention it might get him to change friends. I have a feeling the ones he has now will drop him like a hot potato when they found out he's back in diapers." John's father answered with a small grin. "I think you could be right. I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I've gotten the feeling that John and I might have been able to become friends if he wasn't being such a jerk about my wearing diapers all the time." "I know what you mean. I would have thought that he would have been more understanding about that since he wore them at night just before his birthday last year and the fact that his younger brother still does. Though I figure, if having him wear diapers full time for a while doesn't straighten him out then maybe the loss of his jump privileges will." Josh's ears perked up at the mention of the last comment. "Jump privileges?" "Yeah, I run a local Jump school. Why you interested in learning?" "Actually, I was more interested in keeping current." "Oh. I guess that explains what seemed so familiar about you. Who taught you to jump? I mean what school?" "The 22nd Reg. SAS." "I'm sorry. I didn't quite catch that." "My uncle is a colonel with the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment. He taught me how to jump over the summer." "OK. So you're static line certified?" "That plus Freefall, and HALO." "They really must have put you through the whole routine then." Mr. Rico laughed. "And then some." "Well, if your parents are OK with it I wouldn't mind having you come along on some jumps. I have a class that deals with younger kids." "I'd have to ask them, but I don't see any problems. Here's the turn for my house. It's seven down on the left." Mr. Rico just nodded at this. Mrs. Kelly heard the door open and Josh call out that he was home about twenty minutes after the time he normally got home. "You're late, mister, and why did I get a call from your principal that you had gotten into a fight at school? I better not hear from the boy's parents over this." Mrs. Kelly called on her way out of the kitchen. "Uh, mom I'd like you to meet Mr. Rico. John Rico's father." Josh stated with some embarrassment. "I see. Josh why don't you take your books upstairs, change if you need to, and then get some more ice on that eye of yours. I'm guessing that Mr. Rico and I need to have a bit of a chat. Please." Mrs. Kelly told her son while motioning for Mr. Rico to have a seat. "Would you like anything to drink?" she asked her guest. "I'm fine. Thank you." With a nod, Mrs. Kelly sat down herself and the two started going over what had happened earlier that day. Since Josh was still clean and didn't have any homework he decided to check and see how john was doing. "Hey bro. How're you feeling" Josh asked as he entered his brother's room. "Could be better. I guess I managed to catch that bug that's been going around school." came the somewhat weak reply. "How come you're home so late and what happened to your eye and lip?" "I had a bit of a run-in with Rico during gym today. Mom's talking with his dad about it right now. And starting Monday I have a week of in-school suspension." "Man that really sucks. I hope mom and dad don't go to hard on you about it." "I think how hard they go depends on what mom and Mr. Rico hash out." "Well, I think you better leave now I don't want you getting this stuff, too." John told his brother before suddenly turning his head over the side of his bed and puking into the trash can his mom had placed there in case he couldn't make it to the bathroom in time. Josh nodded at this and headed off to his own room. Twenty minutes later, his mom came in and started gathering up some of Josh's clothes and disposable diapers. "Is there something I can help you with, mom?" Josh asked as she placed the collected items into the gym bag that Josh used for sleepovers. "No, I'm fine. Mr. Rico has invited you to spend the weekend with them. While we were talking he mentioned you showed some interest in the jump school he helps run and thought you'd like to join them." "So you aren't mad about what happened at school today?" "Oh, I'm still a bit upset about it. But from what both your principal and Mr. Rico told me you were acting in defense. And that you weren't meaning to hurt his son, though Mr. Rico wasn't all that sure if the same was sure about his son. Anyway, you don't want to keep him waiting. Also, he told me what he had planned for his son. I told him that you'd be able to help him out in that area." Josh's mom added with a smile. Josh smiled a bit at this as well. And after taking the now filled gym bag headed downstairs where Mr. Rico was talking to his wife. "I see you're all ready. We'll stop by the store you mom mentioned and then go pick up my wife and John. My wife already knows you'll be with me and they stop that's being made first." Josh nodded at this and after giving his mom one more hug he followed John's dad out to the car and climbed in. Chapter 59 "Were you wanting John's diapers to be just obvious, or really obvious?" Josh asked as he led John's dad into Klothes for Kids. "Since John likes to go for the baggy-looking pants I would have to say that really obvious would work. Though he'll need to have some less obvious ones for when he has to wear normal fitting pants." Josh just nodded at this as he led them back to where the diapers of older kids were displayed. A salesperson came over to them. "May I help you find something?" The person asked. Recognizing the voice, Josh turned around to see his sister standing behind them. "Yeah, Erin, we could use a little help," Josh started to say before his sister freaked a bit at the condition of his face. "Jesus, Josh. Don't tell me that you got into another fight. Mom's going to be pissed when she sees this. It was that little shit Rico that started this wasn't it?" Josh cringed a bit at his sister's last statement. "Uh, Erin. I'd like you to meet Mr. Rico. John's father." Erin's face went pale when she was introduced to the gentleman standing next to her brother. "I'm really sorry about that last comment. It's just that with all the hassle Josh has been getting..." Erin started before trailing off when John's dad held up his hand. "I'm going to ignore the last comment you made about my son. As for the hassle he's been giving your brother, what I have planned for him will hopefully cure him of that. Now that that is settled, I'm needing some help in choosing what the best brand of diaper would be. They'll be for 24/7 use and I want them to be obvious." "I see. We have several different brands that would be of interest to you. Is this going to be for long or short term use?" "That's undecided at this time. Why?" "If it's short term then disposables will be best. However, if it's going to be long-term then cloth diapers would be more economical." Erin explained. "At this time, I think going will be the best." Erin nodded at this and led them over to a side office. These are the brands that we carry. The ones with a star by it are brands that we keep in stock. The three thickest diapers we carry are the Molicare Super Plus, Abena X- plus, and the Thickies line. Of the three, the Thickies line would be the most cost effective since they are made here in the U.S. where the others come in from Europe. We do have some brochures on each of the products if you'd like to read more about them. Now we also started carrying the Dipes line as well. While not as obvious as the other brands, the Plus, Ultra, and Ultra-plus styles are still very noticeable." "I would like to see some of the brochures that you have." Mr. Rico told Erin. "I'll be right back with them. Feel free to look over book for the other brands that we carry. Josh should be able to answer most of your questions about how well they hold up." Erin said while getting out of her seat. Josh turned a bit red at the last statement his sister made but said nothing over it. "What brands do you normally use?" Josh was asked a few moments later. "I've worn the Attends, Dipes, Tenas, and Thickies lines," Josh stated. "The Attends are OK, but they aren't very obvious under pants, unless they happen to be rather tight fitting. They also tend to start leaking after two moderate wettings. Same with the Tenas. Also with the Tenas now having a cloth-like outer cover they tend to chaff a bit if the person wearing them moves around a bit. The best I've tried are the Thickies and Dipes. Both have a plastic cover so chaffing isn't a problem. They also hold up very well to numerous wettings." "What kind do you use the most?" "I normally use the regular Dipes during the day and either the Thickies Overnight or the Extra-plus at night when I use disposables." "Well, if you have on one of the regular Dipes right now then I would have to say that those won't work for this plan." Mr. Rico said with a smile after looking at Josh's pants. Josh just smiled at this. Erin reentered the room about then and handed Mr. Rico the requested brochures along with several samples of diaper styles that she felt Mr. Rico would be interested in. "Well, you weren't kidding when you stated that some of the overnight ones were on the thick side." John's dad commented after examining one of the light blue colored diapers in front of him. "Actually, that was one of the day time diapers. The overnight, or higher capacity diapers tend to be a darker color. At least they are in the small size." On hearing this Mr. Kelly got a really evil grin on his face. "Even better. If you could give me a few minutes to look over the brochures and compare them to the samples you brought out with them I should be ready to make a purchase." Erin nodded at this and stood up motioning for Josh to do the same. Once they were out of the room, Erin led Josh into the back room. "So you want to tell me what the hell is going on. If his son gave you that black eye and fat lip what are you doing here with him?" Erin started heatedly. "Erin, cool your jets for a minute will you? First off John's dad was just as pissed about this as mom was that is why he's putting John back in to diapers and not pressing any charges against me." "What do you mean he's not going to press any charges against you?" "Well, mine and John's injuries happened during a rugby game in gym. On the last play, it looked like John was coming in for a full tackle and not just for one of the flags so I changed position a bit and flipped John over my shoulder when I stood up after having him hit that shoulder. I was only meaning to knock the wind out of him, but ended up breaking a couple of his ribs and giving him a very slight concussion," Josh told her with more than a little embarrassment. "Josh, what are we going to do with you?" he was asked rhetorically. "You should be glad the school did suspend you for that." "They did. Kind of. I have a week of in-school suspension starting Monday." Erin just shook her head at this and stated back towards the room Mr. Rico was in. "Sorry it took me so long to decide." "That's Ok. I needed some time to talk with my brother about some things," Erin said as she pulled out an order book. "Ok I'd like one case of the Dipes Ultra and a case of the Thickies Extra-plus. Both in the small size and then a case of the Dipes Ultra-plus in the Youth size. "OK. Let me go and make sure we have these in stock at the moment. I'll be back in just a second." John Sr. and Josh both nodded at this. "I want to thank you for coming with me on this Josh. I doubt I would have been able to make as good of decision as I think I did without your input. I also have to say that I was kind of surprised Looking through the Thickies brochure and saw you several times modeling the products. I wonder if they still might be looking for other models," Mr. Rico said more to himself than to Josh. "I'm not sure about the needing models for the Thickies but they seemed to need some models for the line of clothes that they do. I did some of that as well." Josh told him just before his sister came back into the room. We had it all in stock. I have someone bringing it over now. I'll see you tonight Josh. "Actually Erin, I'm spending the weekend at the Rico's." Josh told her with a look telling her not to say anything here about it. After doing some shopping for other items, Josh and Mr. Rico left to pick up John and his mom from the hospital. "Mr. Rico, I hope I'm not being to forward, but who are the youth diapers for?" "Alex, John's younger brother, still wets the bed and wears cloth diapers for it. I felt that he might like to have something that he could use if he's to tired to use the cloth diapers or maybe use them and finally except some of the sleepover invitations he gets from his friends." "I take it none of his friends know about his problem?" Josh asked. "Most of them know about it actually, and he's had them over to our place for sleepovers. He just doesn't like to go over to friends homes and take the risk of his diapers leaking or having them start to smell while he's there." "I don't think he'll have a problem with leaks with the type of diapers you got for him. One of my friends uses that style himself and I've yet to hear him complain about leaks." Josh stated. Mr. Rico then started asking Josh about his Jump training and if he had his certification card on him. Josh acknowledged that he did and would show it once they got to the Rico's house. He then spent several minutes answering questions to show that he knew what he was talking about. Josh then realized that they were close to the hospital and got a little nervous about John's reaction to his being there. Chapter 60 "What's he doing here?!" John almost yelled when he saw Josh sitting in the front seat of his dad's car. "He's here at my request. And to hear the apology that you owe him for that stunt you tried to pull earlier today." John Sr. told his son sternly. "I don't know what you mean dad I was just trying to flag him out when he did what he did." John tried to lie to his father as they pulled out of the parking lot. "John, don't lie to me. Over half a dozen people plus two teachers were telling to close to the same story for them all to be lying. Besides, this seemed to be to close to the type of stunt that got you kicked off your football team and banned from the rest of the league a couple of years back. I'm also to well aware of friction that you and Josh have been having since the year started. This was final straw. It was all I could do to keep the principal from expelling you from school. So starting right now, and until further notice, your Jump and bathroom privileges are revoked." John Jr. was told by his father in a very calm voice. "You can't do that!" I have that Jump contest in two weeks. And you can't stop me from needing to use the bathroom!" John yelled. "I'd watch your tone, young man. I don't care about the contest you're in. Your Jump status is revoked. And I didn't say that you had to stop needing the bathroom I said that you using it is." "So what do you plan on doing then!?" "You'll find out when we get home," John's mom said. "You'll pay for this, Kelly." John mumbled under his breath. "What was that, young man?" Mrs. Rico asked sharply. "Nothing," John shot back. "You go straight to your room when we get home," Mrs. Kelly replied. The rest of the ride to the Rico's house was in silence. "What are those for?" John asked loudly when he saw the cases of diapers for the first time. "I think you know what, and who, these are for. You just got out of them at night a short time ago if memory serves." John's mom stated coldly. "Josh, would you mind taking these inside with you," Mr. Rico asked kindly holding out the bags containing the other items he and Mr. Rico had picked up at the store. "Yes sir," Josh answered politely as he took the offered bag. The entire time keeping a close eye on John. before he even got half way across the yard he felt John come tearing after him. Before either of John's parents could react, Josh had John pinned to the ground with his knee pressing against the side of John's neck. "John this is the last time I'm going to warn you. The next time you come at me like this some one will get hurt and I promise you it won't be me. Do you understand what I'm telling you?" Josh asked roughly adding more pressure to John's neck. John just nodded. "I want to hear you. Do you understand that I'm not going to hold back next time?" Josh repeated. "Yes," Came the croaked reply. "Thank you." Josh stated as he got up and offered a hand up to the other boy. John just slapped the offered hand away and ran off towards the house. "I'm sorry about having to do that. If you feel you need to take me home, I understand," Josh stated still shaking a bit. "Why? John was the one that tried to attack you. All I saw was you defending yourself." Mr. Rico stated and walked off. Josh just nodded at this and followed John's parents into the house. "Mom, what's going on with John?" Alex started to ask when he saw Josh step into the house. "Oh crap," The ten year old mumbled as he took off for his own room. Josh just chuckled at the sight of a heavily diapered boy try running down the hall. "I take it that was Alex?" Josh said with a smile. "It was," Mrs. Rico stated with a smile of her own as she took the bags that Josh still held in his hand. "You can have a seat on the couch there while I go get an ice pack for that eye of yours." Josh did as he was told. Mrs. Rico returned a few minutes later with an ice pack hand held it out to Josh. "Thank you," Josh said politely as he placed the pack on his eye. "I do want to apologize about the scene in the front yard a bit ago." "It's OK. I'm sorry that my husband or I weren't able to stop John before he tried what he did. I know from the letters that have been sent home that John has had a hard time dealing with being in a class full of boys that wear diapers. He always had a problem about them when he needed to wear them to bed. Now, why don't you tell me what exactly happened this afternoon." Josh spent the next several minutes going over what had happened. Alex came back downstairs just as Josh was finishing his story. Josh was able to tell by the condition of the shorts the younger boy had on that he was no longer diapered. "So mom, what's going on with John? It sounded like he was crying when he came running in a while ago, then dad carried a box into his room and it sounded like it did when you guys used to get John ready for bed." "John got into a bit of a fight with our guest out in the yard and lost. And your dad is getting him ready for bed like we used to." "Does this mean you guys are finally doing something like you read about on the web page dad found?" Alex asked with a smile. "How do you know about that? We never talked about that in front of either of you boys." Mrs. Rico asked in surprise. "Dad forgot to clear out the memory of the site when he used my machine to research it. And I knew it wasn't for me." Alex replied with an even bigger grin. Mr. Rico came down a few minutes later. "I've already explained to John how this is going to work. He'll be spending the rest of night in his room. Josh, I want to say that I'm sorry I didn't manage to stop John before he tried to attack you." "It's OK, Mr. Rico. In a way, I should be thankful. John will now hopefully leave me alone since he knows that I won't hold back next time he tries anything. I just want you to be assured that I won't start anything." John's parents just nodded at this. "Uh... could you show me where the bathroom is? I'm needing to change," Josh said with a bit of embarrassment. "It's the second door down on the left. Though if it would be easier, you could use Alex's room. That's the first door on the right. There's a can in the closet you can use when you're done." Josh nodded at this and grabbed his duffel bag. He did notice that Alex turned a pale white when he heard his mom. "It's all right Alex. I already know and I wear them as well." Josh told the younger boy on his way past. "Man, this looks like my room did a few years back," Josh thought to himself with a smile. On seeing that the cloth diapers Alex had been wearing when he first entered the house were scattered about the floor and a changing pad was still spread out on one of the beds Josh now understood why Alex reacted the way he did. With another smile, Josh opened his bag and started pulling out a clean diaper. Seeing wipes, powder, and lotion still on the night stand Josh didn't bother removing those items from his bag. "I'm surprised the tapes held," Josh thought when he pulled down his shorts exposing a heavily soaked diaper. Making sure he was over the changing pad, Josh started undoing the tapes holding the diaper on. After wiping himself off with a couple of wipes, Josh placed those in the used diaper and wrapped it up. Once he placed the old diaper in the Diaper Genie that was mentioned, Josh decided to pull his shorts up and use the restroom since he felt a BM coming on and hated doing that in his diapers when he could avoid it. "Are you all right?" I came to see if you needed an help and you weren't here." Mrs. Rico asked with a little concern. "I'm fine. I just use the toilet whenever I can for BMs. It makes for an easier clean up than using my diapers." Josh replied to his hostess. "That makes sense. Do you need an help getting the fresh one on?" "No. I'm fine. Thanks for asking though." With a smile, Mrs. Rico left the room so Josh could finish getting a clean diaper on. Josh was pleased to see that Mrs. Rico had already opened the new diaper and sprinkled it liberally with powder. Once he had spread a generous amount of lotion over his butt and balls, Josh cleaned his hands off and sat on the new diaper. After a small bit of moving the diaper around, Josh had it centered and pulled the front up snuggly between his legs and put tapes on firmly. Making sure everything looked OK in a nearby mirror, Josh pulled his shorts back up and went back into the living room. Josh became a bit nervous when he saw a quarterly skydiving magazine on the living room table that had his picture on it. "No need to be nervous about that, Josh. Your mom told me about your last jump when we spoke earlier." Mr. Rico said when he saw the look on Josh's face. The let Josh react a little. Mrs. Rico entered the room a few minutes later announcing that dinner was ready. "Alex before you sit down I'd like you to take your own diapers into your room and put the cloth ones that you had on earlier either back in your closet or in the diaper pail." Alex turned a bit red as he set about to do as he was told. "Do you want me to let John know that dinner is ready?" Alex asked as he walked past. "No he's spending the rest of the night in his room." Alex was told by his father. with a bit of an insiders grin, Alex started pushing the case of diapers down the hall to his room. "I'm surprised he left his diapers on the floor of his room like he did with how he reacted when he saw you Josh. Normally he's a lot more careful about that. Of course with how often he goes around in the afternoon and evening in just his diapers and a shirt, I'm surprised he even bothers taking them offs, Mrs. Rico stated with a grin once her youngest son was out of earshot. "Josh, after dinner, I'd like to talk to you about something concerning your jump qualifications," Mr. Rico told the younger boy seriously. Josh nodded at this and made some other small talk with the elder Rico's while they waited for Alex to return. This seemed to take a bit longer than they thought it would. On seeing how puffed out looking Alex's shorts seemed to be, Josh understood why. Once dinner was over, and Josh and Mr. Rico had finished the talk about Josh's Jump quals. Josh and Alex headed downstairs to play some video games. "How long have you liked wearing diapers during the day?" Josh asked as Alex set a game up. "What do you mean? I know my parents told you about my needing them at night, but I don't need to wear them during the day." Alex replied going a bit red. "I didn't ask about you needing them during the day. I asked about you liking to wear them during the day." Josh clarified with a smile. "What makes you think I like wearing them during the day?" Came the lame reply. "The fact that I saw you wearing some when I walked into the house earlier. And the fact that you have one on right now." "I'm not wearing a diaper right now." Alex shot back, though both boys knew this was a lie. Josh didn't press things any further and let the subject drop. Several hours later Mrs. Rico came down to let the boys know that it was bedtime. As Josh figured he would, Alex threw a minor fit about it, but did as he was told once he knew that his mom was serious. "Josh would you mind waiting outside while I get ready for bed?" Alex asked as the boys were herded upstairs by his mom. "Why should he wait out in the hall? You both wear diapers to bed and if I'm not mistaken you're both diapered right now. So there isn't any reason to be modest about it." Alex's mom stated as she had both boys enter Alex's room and strip down. As Josh suspected, Alex was indeed wearing one of the Dipes that his father had picked up earlier that day. Josh and Mrs. Rico both weren't surprised to see that the diaper was soaked. Josh knew that Alex wanted him to wait out in the hall so he wouldn't get caught in a lie. Josh Just gave Alex a knowing look but said nothing about their conversation from earlier. Josh started preparing his own diaper as Alex was getting taken care of by his mom. Within ten minutes, both boys were thickly diapered, Josh in one of his Thickies Overnights, and Alex in several cloth diapers and some powder blue plastic pants. Since the nights were still on the warm side, Josh and Alex both just opted to wear T-shirts to bed. "Josh, thanks for not telling my mom that I lied earlier about not having a diaper on." Alex said softly once his mom left the room. "Don't mention it. I figured it wasn't really a lie since I was certain you were diapered at the time." Josh replied sleepily. "Well, thanks anyway. I hope you have fun tomorrow." came the yawned reply. Soon both boys were sound asleep.