Rachel was ordering pizza while Sarah dressed her Fara the first of many Lolita dresses to come. Rachel mused that while they had enjoyed some small progress on the way there, now that they were at the cabin in a more controlled environment, they could proceed with Fara far more rapidly.

“How’s it look,” Fara said as she emerged from her room wearing the new dress. Sarah was standing silently behind her.

“Dashing of course,” Rachel remarked happily. Rachel held up a finger to Fara as she was finally connected to someone who could get her and her friends their pizza.

“Dang lookin sharp girl,” Patty remarked at Fara’s attire. Patty Annabelle and Tara were all lounging in the living room while Tara was figuring out the controls to the tv.

“Thanks, I’m trying to get back into fashion you know,” Tara blushed.

“You’re being very adventurous lately, I like it.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Fara was confused, but Tara chimed in before Patty could explain.

“Patty run up there and find the input button please,” Tara said with a sigh. Patty hopped up and began to inspect the tv. “Ignore her, you know how she gets to musing sometimes,” Tara added once Patty was out of earshot. If Tara wanted her job she had to make sure Patty didn’t go off congratulating Fara on exploring a new identity that she wasn’t supposed to know about. Fara shrugged the comment off.

“Anyway Rae is ordering some pizzas for everyone,” Fara spoke plainly.

“Good I definitely didn’t want to go out after all that drivin,” Annabelle commented. True to her word most of the girls had been pretty lazy since they had unpacked, Fara was the only one that had changed.

“Boom we are in business,” Tara declared triumphantly as the tv flared to life. It had started on a cartoon channel but Tara and Annabelle quickly began arguing about what channel they should change it to. The rest chose to lounge around while this happened, Fara even found it surprisingly easy to relax in the dress she was wearing, it was made of fairly light comfortable material. Rachel joined the group after the order was placed. Standing behind Sarah and the couch and gently scratching her head.

It wasn’t long before a knock at the door signified that pizza had arrived, and the girls sprang to life finding plates as Rachel paid for the food. The commotion even roused Riley who had been sleeping upstairs in her room.

“Ok we got: pepperoni, cheese, Hawaiian, supreme, and meat lovers,” Rachel listed off the pizzas as she sat the down on the long bar. Most of the girls immediately clamored to get their favorite slice, but Rachel stopped Fara. “Just let me know what you want I’ll get it for you. You’re going to stain your dress with sauce going into that mess.”

“Oh thanks,” Fara said happily. “Ummmm hook me up with the meat and the Hawaiian.”

“Go have a seat and I’ll bring it to you pumpkin,” Rachel reveled in this brief opportunity to be motherly, even if Fara didn’t know that’s what she was doing. Plus it had the added benefit of smoothing things over between the two after their brief argument.

Eventually everyone settled with their selected slices, and the pizzas were utterly eliminated. Rachel took her seat on the couch in between Sarah and Fara giving Fara her plate and a sippy cup of juice. Fara gave a noticeable grumble but drank from the sippy without any more fuss. Everyone certainly noticed, but due to Sarah’s talk a few days earlier no one mentioned it. Riley remained silent as her concerns were frequently shot down. To Fara it appeared that no one was making a big deal out of her drinking from a child’s cup, even though they definitely noticed. It made her think that she was possibly overreacting about the whole thing and drank from it with much less trepidation.

Dinner was eating and the girls settled in to watch a corny action movie. Rachel and Sarah slowly scooted closer to Fara during the movie until Rachel and Fara’s legs were touching. Aside from a brief look Fara didn’t seem to care and by the end of the movie was leaning into Rachel. Rachel smiled, and thankfully for her the room was dark enough that nobody noticed that she was smiling more that she should for just a simple posture change.

“I reckon I’m gonna turn in,” Annabelle said as the movie entered it’s epilogue.

“Yeah same here,” Riley stood up with Annabelle.

“I suppose we have had quite the busy day,” Rachel agreed. “It’s a good idea to turn in a little early.” Tara casually tapped Patty on the chest who woke up with a start.

“What!” Patty said half awake.

“Everyone’s going to bed,” Tara said with a smirk. “You beat us all there it seems.”

“Yeah,” Patty had a slight giggle. “See you guys tomorrow.” There was a chorus of “good night” as all the girls filed off to their separate rooms.

Rachel and Sarah entered the master bedroom together, both eager to have some time alone to discuss things.

“Well?” Sarah asked.

“She’s coming along great,” Rachel said giddy. “You are such a good girl,” Rachel affectionately scratched Sarah’s head. Sarah moaned quietly and leaned into the pets. “Everything went exactly as you said it would. Now are you ready to really get things started?” Rachel coyly removed a tablet from the nightstand on her side of the bed. Sarah crawled on the bed with her as they both looked at the screen. On the display was a perfect top down view of Fara’s room. They could see Fara now carefully placing the dress back in the hinged suitcase standing in just her bra and pull-up. “Cute as ever. I can’t wait to get her into something more designer than those thin plain things.”

“We should have her in diapers soon, and as long as you conveniently only remembered to bring the cute ones.”

“You’re the one that packed dear pet so you know she only has the cute options.” Fara had casually made her way into the bathroom, and the two switched to another camera that offered a similar view into Fara’s bathroom. Fara moved to the toilet and noticed that the bowl was empty. She pulled down on the level and nothing happened. She moved to test the sink and shower and they both worked as expected.

“Great just my luck,” Sara huffed.

“Glad to see we were able to break her toilet but keep everything else on,” Sarah mentioned.

“Wouldn’t do to have a potty so close to her would it?” Rachel was amused.

Fara started to shower. Notably the camera did not offer Rachel and Sarah to see into the shower while the curtain was drawn, so Rachel passed the time by petting Sarah and playing with nipples, which left Sarah squirming and making small yelps on the bed. Fara got out of the shower, and much to Rachel and Sarah’s delight grabbed another pull-up from the bag that Sarah had left in there at the foot of her bed. Once the pull-up was on Fara curled up into the bed in just her pull-up.

“I wouldn’t have pegged her as the type to sleep mostly nude,” Sarah remarked.

“Well she won’t be asleep for much longer,” Rachel had a huge grin on her face. “I think it’s time we get her a more appropriate bed for a girl her age don’t you think?” Sarah only giggled in response.

Rachel tapped a button on the tablet. Suddenly the four legs of Fara’s bed all gave out and snapped, causing the bed to collapse and sending Fara to the ground with a loud shriek. Fara took a moment to collect herself before getting off of the bed to inspect what had just happened. What had happened was that the screws that connected the legs to the bed all retracted just enough so that the legs could no longer support the weight of the bed, just as they were designed to do. Someone with more knowledge of furniture might have noticed the very odd very advanced screws that could retract on command and that allowed Rachel to pull this off with just the tap of a button on a tablet. Fara did not. To her it looked as if the bed was just poorly put together. The legs were all broken, a huge chunk was missing where the screw was as it took the extra wood with it when the structure of the bed collapsed. Nothing about the wreckage that remained of her bed led her to suspect this was anything more than a freak accident.

“All right lets go comfort our baby,” Rachel said as she and Sarah donned their best shocked expressions and made their way to Fara’s room.

“What’s up Fara we heard a crash?” Sarah said with feigned concern as she observed the wreckage that used to be Fara’s bed.

“My bed just kinda gave out on me,” Fara sighed tiredly. “I didn’t know I’d gained that much weight.”

“I don’t think weight had anything to do with it,” Rachel said doing some fake inspecting. “Looks like shoddy repair work to me. I’ll call maintenance right away. This is not up to our company standards.” Rachel began a fake conversation on her phone as Annabelle and Tara emerged from upstairs having been woken by the sound as Tara’s room was over Fara’s and Annabelle was over Rachel and Sarah’s and she heard them get up to check.

“What’s all the racket?” Annabelle groaned.

“Minor equipment failure,” Rachel said quickly.

“Works for me. As long as no one’s hurt.”

“Just my pride,” Fara answered meekly commenting on not only the bed breaking but how she was stuck in just her bra and a pull-up. Annabelle groaned and made her way upstairs but Tara chose to remain behind sensing she may be of some use. At this point Rachel discreetly made an actual call for the movers she had on standby to come in while Fara went to find some pajamas to put on.

“Well apparently the only spare bed they have is in the storage building nearby, but there are some complications to it.”

“Complications?” Fara said pulling down a loose fitting tee over her head, to match the loose plaid pants she had found.

“Well it’s a bed we have to keep in case we have a guest with special needs. It has high bars, and sits low to the ground.”

“I mean is it like bed rails?” Fara was being optimistic. “That doesn’t sound all that bad.” As Fara said this the movers made their way into the cabin with what could only be described as a large crib. It appeared to be a struggle even for the four men that were carrying it, but with some grunting and turning in weird angles they managed to get the large bed into Fara’s room.

The thing Rachel described as a bed was in fact an adult crib, one ordered straight from Little Land like the car seats were. The mattress was slightly lower to the ground than your typical mattress, and it was surrounded by four high barred walls made of light colored wood wood. One side of the bars had a small section that was hinged and would swing outward. This had a simple in appearance gate latch to keep it shut with space for a lock. This was a fairly basic model from Little Land, and Rachel had ordered the top of line model for use later in her home. For the purpose of convincing Fara that it was a special needs bed and not a crib designed for adult babies the basic model worked better.

“It looks like a crib,” Fara said a little disheartened. The movers were packing up the rubble of Fara’s old bed and carrying it away.

“That’s not an inaccurate description,” Rachel was apologetic. “It’s the best we can do, however. They will have to rebuild another normal bed and it will not be finished by the time we leave.”

“I know it’s not the best,” Sarah added with a shrug. “Beats the floor though.” Fara stared at the crib mouth agape for a moment before answering.

“You know I can just sleep on the couch,” Fara said anxiously. Rachel and Sarah were both taken aback. In all of their meticulous planning they hadn’t considered this fairly obvious solution.

“Uh well …” Sarah started and looked anxiously at Rachel.

“Surely you don’t want to sleep on the couch dear,” Rachel struggled to keep from stuttering as she came up with a quick excuse. “It must be horrible for your back.”

“Oh no it’s actually really comfortable it’s fine.”

“But all your stuff is in your room,” Sarah added.

“Well I can still use the room,” Fara chuckled slightly. “I’ll just sleep out here. Bathroom in there doesn’t work anyway so I’m closer to the toilet too.” Rachel and Sarah were at a loss. At lot of their plan involved Tara being in that room. Her not being there put them way behind, if not derailing the whole thing entirely.

“I can certainly have someone come by and look at that,” Rachel finally blurted out. “I’m so sorry you’re having all this trouble it really reflects poorly on my company.”

“Shit happens,” Fara shrugged. “I’m fine though really. I’ve slept in worse conditions.”

“Well if you won’t take it I will,” Tara said confidently.

“What Tara?” Fara had almost forgotten Tara was there.

“Well there’s no sense sleeping on the couch when there’s an open bed. I understand you’re uncomfortable with it, but it doesn’t bother me. So let me take it and then you can have my room.”

“Oh Tara,” Fara wasn’t sure how to respond.

“I mean it sucks that I gotta sleep in a crib, but if it keeps someone from slumming it on the couch.”

“Tara you don’t have to do that.”

“It’s fine don’t worry about it. It could’ve happened to me as easily as sit happened to you, so let’s just pretend it happened to me.” Tara was playing a gambit here. If there was one thing she knew about Fara was that she was kind, excessively so. She wouldn’t let a friend suffer on her behalf. By putting herself on the chopping block she appealed to Fara’s kindness, and Fara would not disappoint.

“No Tara it’s my bad luck you shouldn’t have to suffer for it. You stay in your room I’ll take the new bed.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah yeah. You were right there’s no sense wasting a bed,” Fara approached the new bed with trepidation, opening the door and casually sitting inside it. She did her best to appear normal but on the inside she felt a little weird about it. The walls were high and close together making the thing look more like a cage then a bed, which wasn’t strictly inaccurate. For it to be a cage someone would have to lock her in it, so Fara thought that it would be fine since no one would do that.

Rachel and Sarah gave an approving look to Tara as she left to go back to her room. They all knew that Tara had just single handedly saved their little project with that gambit.

“Sorry again about all of this,” Rachel apologetically leaned against Fara’s door.

“No big deal guys,” Fara was still trying to not let her emotions through about how uncomfortable it made her. She didn’t want to upset Rachel again.

“Well try and sleep well,” Sarah was trying to smooth Fara’s mood over. “Personally I like sleeping with barred walls around me but I can see how it might make you uncomfortable.”

“Whatever you perv,” Fara giggled. With her mood eased Rachel and Sarah made their way back to their room and both gave a huge sigh of relief.

“You better give Tara employee of the year cuz she just saved our ass,” Sarah said flopping on the bed.

“Indeed,” Rachel mused. “I’m embarrassed that neither of us anticipated such a simple alternative. What other holes are there in our plans?”

“Look mistress, I think this was a case of over planning, missing the forest for the tress you know.” The look on Rachel’s face showed her fears were not allayed. “It was an unexpected hitch, but we handled it didn’t we. I’m sure there will be more, and we’ll handle those too.”

“Well for the moment we can take solace that things are back on track.” Rachel had pulled up the tablet again. This time the crib in the room dominated the view. Fara had fallen asleep fairly quickly considering her circumstances. Rachel looked on lovingly. Fara had disrobed again, the pajamas were hanging off the rails of the crib. She was sleeping in a contorted position with her pull-up in view since she had kicked the covers off. “Oh very soon you will be mine,” Rachel mused as she tapped a button on the tablet. As she did, the door to the crib that Fara had left open slowly shut, thanks to the motorized hinges Rachel had added to the crib. Fara only stirred slightly as the gate latch on the crib shut the door in place.