The Walk Home Summary: This is just a short about a guy that finds himself in diapers. It's a bit open-ended but I'm not currently intending to continue it just yet. I woke up groggily to the sound of voices and other random noises I couldn’t quite identify. Trying to sit up I become overcome by a wave of dizziness and dropped back into bed, closing my eyes and continuing to listen as my head spun. After a moment the feeling passed and I rolled over onto my side, peering out into the dimly lit, unfamiliar room in an effort to figure out where I was. I remembered going to a wild house party thrown by a friend of mine but everything past about midnight was absent from my memory. Sitting at a desk on the other side of the room sat one of my friends, James, who still lived on campus in the upper-year townhouses. Worms Armageddon, I realized a second later, was the source of the sound and what James was occupying himself with as I slept. He was the type to take care of people after nights like that, I thought, but I was normally pretty good at keeping myself together; I wondered exactly just how drunk I’d gotten at David’s shindig. Looking around for a clock I paused and read 1:13pm of a watch, my watch, that was sitting on the night table next to the bed. “What…exactly happened last night?” I asked James as I tried to slowly rise again. “I can’t remember anything past about midnight.” “Yeah, you were going pretty hard at it up until most people decided to go home, I’m not really too surprised.” he said, spinning around in his chair to face me. “You didn’t answer my question.” I reminded him as I sat all the way up, stopping to hold my head as I became a little dizzy again. “You did a bit of funnelling and then joined a bunch of us who were watching and drinking to Zoolander, we left just a bit after that. I don’t remember you doing anything particularly stupid so I wouldn’t worry too much, you were just drunk out of your skull is all. Most people were though, which makes sense seeing as we have a week now, between our last classes and exams.” “Yeah,” I eventually spoke back, sliding my legs out of bed as I sat, “I need to get studying for my physiology one soon, it’s on the first day.” I was still in a t-shirt but I could feel that I wasn’t wearing my pants which didn’t surprise me. My body felt kind of numb at times, something that usually only tended to happen when I’d really gone overboard but was odd none the less. It took me more than a second to realize that the shirt I was in wasn’t my own, seeing as it was baggier and a different colour than the one I’d been wearing, and that my pants were no where in sight nearby. “Do you know where my stuff is?” I asked, my eyes darting around his room searching. “I tossed your jeans in with a load of dark clothes, they should be in the dryer right now. You shirt and shorts are in with the lights which I just put in the wash a little while ago, they won’t be ready for a bit.” “What, did I slip in the mud or something?” I asked with a small laugh. “No, you pissed yourself.” He replied flatly, turning back to his game as I stared at the back of his head in moderate disbelief. “What? On the way home?” I further inquired. “That’s right,” he said, aiming a shot on his last enemy, “you stopped to puke at one point and I think you just kinda’ leaked. It happens, it’s no big deal.” “Damn, that’s stupid drunk.” I commented, standing up slowly and shrugging of the covers that’d be covering my lap. “Well that’s kind of embarrassing, but thanks for taking me home and…the hell!?” James spun around again to the sight of me holding up my shirt slightly and starting down at my underwear, or what I’d though was a burrowed pair of his I was wearing. A diaper, or rather several, was what it turned out I was covered in and as I looked up at James in complete confusion he chuckled and filled me in. “Yeah, about that, I couldn’t really be sure if you’d wet yourself again when I go you home so I put you in a couple diapers just to keep my bedding safe. You didn’t seem to mind at the time.” “Ho…wh…hunh?” I sputtered, unable to properly begin a coherent sentence. He started at me of a minute as I looked down at my diaper for a while and then back at him, no real words coming to mind immediately. “What’s wrong?” he asked eventually, unsure at to why I was seemingly so confused. “Well…where did you get…do you just keep diapers on-hand for this kind of thing or do I…just not want to know?” I questioned, trying my best to not sound like a total jerk. “I’ve wet the bed since I was eight, dude.” he replied, pulling down the top of his pajama pants, exposing his own diaper. “It just hasn’t stopped for some reason, my doctor doesn’t really seem to know why so I just wear diapers to bed. It’s not really a big deal, it’s not like I have to wear them any other time or have a roommate or something.” “Oh…that makes sense.” I nodded, faintly recalling that I’d heard something to that effect before, just that it’d slipped my mind. “You jeans are probably dry by now.” he said just before the dryer faintly dinged from the basement. “So yeah, you can hang out here until your other stuff is done or just I can just get it to you later if you want.” “How long does your dryer take?” I asked, not particularly caring one way or the other. “I need to be home and cleaned up by 5:30 for dinner with a friend who’s visiting.” “It’s about an hour, your choice.” “Hm…I should probably head home now, actually.” I began. “I’m…really not feeling good and it’s probably best if I just get home and try to recover before I have to go out.” “Fair enough,” he said, “your shoes, socks and jacket are at the front door and the stuff that was in your pockets is on top of the dryer in the basement. The washroom’s down the hall to the right if you need it and there’s some aspirin on the counter if you’ve got a headache at all.” “Cool, thanks, James.” I half smiled at him as I walked over to his door. “No problem, see you later.” I was still a bit wobbly on my feet, heading over to the washroom to medicate my emerging headache and then making my way downstairs. I found my jeans and things where he said they’d be and slipped them on, stopping to stare at my diaper again. It wasn’t wet as far as I could tell, nor did I really feel that I needed to use the washroom before I left so I zipped up my fly and headed back upstairs. As I approached the front door the sunshine burst though the glass and I squinted, holding my hand up to block it as I walked. James’ room, and the rest of the house for that matter, had been dark, blinds down and no real lights on. My headache hadn’t been too bad before but as the sun brightly shone in though the windows I cursed it, the throbbing growing greater the more I opened my eyes. I slipped on my socks and shoes and rummaged though the closet, finding my jacket, pulling it on and stopping to pause on the feeling of my diaper. I hadn’t noticed it much before but now that I was walking around in my pants it felt more obvious to me, hopefully something that wouldn’t be noticeable as I made my way home. “Hm…” I mumbled as I reached for the doorknob, “at least I won’t have to stop if I need to pee on the way home.” With that amusing thought I set out, nearly blinded by the intensity of the sunlight as I shuffled somewhat less wobbly down the path home. I’d gone this way before, having visited other friends in the town houses, this had just been the first time I’d even seen James’ place. I was starting to feel better, thankfully, I passed out of the north end of campus. Some clouds had moved over the sun and helped him the world just a bit, I’d also started drinking from a bottle of water James had left in my jacket pocket so my throat felt less like some kind of aching desert. It wasn’t until I hit a series of side streets about half way home that my gut began to rumble. To my misfortune this wasn’t just some sign that I was hungry but rather a strong feeling that I needed to use the bathroom. I cursed at my luck, doing my best to hold it and hope I could make it home before I lost my grip, so to speak. After a few more streets and alleys my insides began to feel as if they were on fire, keeping control was more than just some textbook discomfort it was a war, one which really, really hurt. I couldn’t go too much further like this, I though to myself, and finally admitted that I’d never be able to make it all the way back before having to relieve myself. As additional pressure from my bladder began to mount I reminded myself that I was in a diaper though desperately looked around for some kind of place that would have a washroom. To my dismay I could find no such place and, as I entered the riverside park, noticed that even the offices that were normally open were closed unexpectedly. I knew, walking into the park, that there would be no trace of civilization until I exited some fifteen minutes later near my house. There would be no place I could stop and end the growing agony that was my lower intestinal tract. I didn’t really want to have to use the diaper I was in but as I crossed the old wooden bridge I came to accept it as all I could do, I had no other option. As I reached the other side of the crossing it began to slow slightly, there didn’t seem to be anyone around on a Sunday afternoon. I ran over into the trees and found a secluded spot in some bushes, looking around frantically before dropping to my hands and knees. Hidden the middle of a patch of shrubs I prayed that I was well concealed as I leaned on my forearms and whimpered slightly, the boiling in my gut still taking its toll on me though nearly over. Not giving it another thought I let lose and spilled into my diaper, the front end quickly growing damper as the rear filled one slight strain at a time. Shifting over a bit I moved onto my back and paused for a second as I finished wetting it, pulling my legs closer and I heaved the last bit of a bowel movement into my diaper. I could feel nothing else as I finished, just laying there in the snow, the warmth that filled the front and bottom of my diaper keeping me from the cold. I didn’t really want to get up yet, party because of how strangely relaxed I was now, and since I could smell my own mess I just lay there for a few minutes, watching the clouds and trying not to think of how I’d have to clean myself up once I got home. I’d been a strange experience, being diapered again, and certainly a life saver on my walk home. I wasn’t really sure if I wanted to try it again but I figured I’d ask James if I ever made up my mind. I carefully tried to get up without sitting on my rear, standing up against a tree while I felt a pressure in the breast pocket of my jacket I hadn’t noticed before. Unzipping my jacket a bit I reached in and pulled out a folded disposable diaper, smirking as I read what James had sarcastically scrawled across it in marker: “Here’s one for next time we paint the town red. You wouldn’t want to leak in front of the crew, now would you?” Placing it back in my pocket and climbing out of the bushes I wondered if he ever diapered himself before our party nights, figuring it might not be the worst thing to do if I wet myself again sometime. Laughing again at my own situation I waddled my way home and cleaned myself up painstakingly, hoping I’d never have to such a thing again. At least, not anytime too soon after.