Fara whined and fussed as Rachel placed her small bag of candy into her purse.

“You can have some after a proper meal,” Rachel spoke sternly.

“But it’s my candy,” Fara whined. “I bought it.” Technically with Riley’s money but it was money Fara was owed so it was basically hers.

“And you can have some later. I swear you have been quite a mess today Fara.”

“A mess?”

“Yes a mess. Running off to get candy before a proper meal.”

“I didn’t run off. You two left me.”

“I’m pretty sure we didn’t,” Sarah said deliberately gas lighting Fara. “What has gotten into you today?”

“What has gotten into you!?” Fara shot back. “You two are being so mean today.”

“We’re only doing what we promised we would do,” Rachel spoke with authority. “And that is to take care of you. Your fussing about it is your own fault.” Fara pouted she wasn’t getting anywhere with either of them and having this conversation on the street was fairly embarrassing.

“Now try not to run off again,” Rachel firmly grabbed Fara’s hand. “You’re going to need us to change you when you wet your diaper again.” Fara huffed with a blush. Some passerbys definitely heard that, several of them did a double take. Adding to the embarrassment, Fara didn’t even know she was wet until Rachel had checked her a little earlier. Fara meekly hung her head down as Rachel led her by the hand. Fara really didn’t have a choice, not only did she give Rachel and Sarah authority over her, they were right. When Fara did wet again, and apparently she doesn’t even know when she wets now, she would need them to change her diaper. Fara winced, the thought was so juvenile, and it was hard to believe that needing her diaper routinely checked and changed had become the norm so quickly. If this were high school Sarah would have unlimited ammunition for her baby insults, but thankfully it wasn’t high school. Fara wasn’t sure she could handle teasing on top of everything else going on.

Rachel and Sarah managed to repeat their trick twice more while they wondered down the street. Twice they left Fara alone only to return after a few moments to scold Fara for “wondering off” again, and each time Fara’s grumpy mood led to predictable huffs and pouts.

Eventually the girls all met up for a lunch comprised of overpriced lumber jack themed pancakes. Rachel placated Fara with a decent chunk of taffy when they sat down and eventually the other girls all arrived.

“Howdy ya’ll,” Annabelle shouted a little loudly as she noticed Rachel. The other girls followed her to the table.

“How’s the day been going for you guys?” Sarah asked as the group sat down.

“Well I reckon ain’t nothing I buy here worth what I paid for it,” Annabelle complained.

“Aww what do ya mean?” Patty sang. “I gots me a snow globe, a magnet, a little desk birdy.”

“Patty enjoys knick knacks,” Tara stepped in before Patty could go through her detailed list of purchases. “How about you three?”

“Well Fara has been in a mood,” Sarah remarked quickly. Fara huffed and pouted in response.

“There are a lot of cute shops here though,” Rachel added positively.

“Seems the only thing to do around these parts is to spend money,” Annabelle remarked looking at the menu and the ridiculous cost of pancakes.

Everyone settled on some number of pancakes to eat. Rachel of course picked Fara’s food out for her, as Fara was too pouty to respond. While waiting for the food to arrive Fara felt her diaper grow even damper. She grimaced as it had now become uncomfortably wet whereas before it was tolerable. She also huffed that her only indication the she was going was feeling her diaper get wetter. Fara tugged on Rachel’s sleeve.

“Can I go get changed?” she asked meekly. Rachel gave Fara a quick glance. She was very much in a disciplinarian role today. Fara’s attitude had necessitated it, though that was partly Rachel’s fault. She choose to give a tense few moments to consider Fara’s request. In those moments the server approached the table with food and Rachel saw a perfect opportunity.

“Fara dear I’m sure your diaper is very uncomfortable, but I assure you they are absorbent enough for even you. You can wait until after our meal,” Rachel spoke plainly but loudly. Of course the server heard the whole thing and blushed as she passed plates around, of course the blush was not as deep as Fara’s.

“We do have family restrooms in the back,” The server said quietly. “If you need it.”

“It’s quite all right dear, but thank you.” The others tried their best to distance themselves from Fara. Though for them the moment passed quickly, Fara was steel reeling from the embarrassing attack for much longer. “Eat your food sweetie,” Rachel reminded sternly. Fara slowly took a bite trying to hide her face while she ate. Fara remained quiet while the others ate their food. Embarrassed by and bothered by the soggy diaper around her waist.

“So what’s the plan after this?” Patty asked mouth full of pancakes.

“I’m still looking around here,” Annabelle answered. “There’s gotta be something worth the money.”

“I believe we may go back for a quick nap,” Rachel added. “Fara could definitely use the mood improvement.” Rachel spoke in between bites. Fara didn’t speak at all just groaned.

“I may join you,” Tara said with her mouth full. “All this walking is killing me.” No one commented on why exactly Tara hadn’t been traveling with Rachel before. They all seemed to forget that there was supposedly some car seat law since, for the past few days, Fara was the only one actually in a car seat.

After the food everyone again went their separate ways, Annabelle, Riley, and Patty staying behind to explore the shops some more while the rest made their way to Rachel’s car for a trip back to the cabin.

“So did you find anything interesting Tara?” Rachel asked as their group started the long walk back to where Rachel had parked at one end of the street.

“Not really,” Tara shrugged. “Nothing worth the time anyway.”

“Fara managed to find some candy.”

“Yeah but you won’t let me eat it,” Fara pouted as much as she could, but Sarah was holding her hand firmly so she wouldn’t “wander off”.

“You really are in a grumpy mood,” Tara said more to Rachel than to Fara.

“A nap should help with that,” Rachel spoke confidently. Fara huffed as the two talked over her, but she was suddenly hit with another feeling. She abruptly stopped and clenched.

“You ok Fara,” Sarah asked. She noticed Fara’s stop since she was holding her hand. “Oh hold up guys I think Fara needs to use her diaper.” Fara huffed and blushed because Sarah wasn’t wrong.

“Go ahead dear we’ll change you at the car,” Rachel said plainly. Fara didn’t even really have a chance to protest. The urge was so strong that she couldn’t move. She somehow blushed an even deeper red as she squatted and tensed up on the sidewalk and groaned a bit as she filled her already soggy diaper with her mess. To anyone around, and there were a few, Tara looked like a large baby. One that was taking a moment to fill her diaper. She sighed in relief as she straightened back up, the feeling of the damp diaper was now combined with the feeling of the hot mess pressed against her. “Good girl,” Rachel gave Fara a quick pat on the head and continued walking. Sarah forced Fara along as she still had a hold of Fara’s hand.

Fara huffed as she struggled to keep pace with Sarah and not feel the load in her diaper, but the others made no effort to slow their pace on Fara’s account. She whined most of the way as she was made to walk fast which only spread the mess around her bottom. Additionally they still had about half a mile to the parking lot, and it dawned on Fara that she would be wallowing in mess that whole way.

By the time the group made it to the car, to say that Fara was over the day was an understatement. Her bottom was almost completely coated in filth from the walk and this showed on her pained expression. She didn’t even have the energy to be grumpy or embarrassed about the situation she just wanted a change. Rachel noted this expression on Fara’s face and immediately got to work.

“Let’s get you out of that stinky diapee,” Rachel took Fara’s hand from Sarah. Fara was so relieved to hear that sentence that she didn’t even protest at the infantile word Rachel used or that Tara was hovering nearby as Rachel and Sarah prepared the back of the car for Fara’s change. In no time Fara was laying down holding the skirt of her dress up and sighing in relief as Rachel got to working changing her. The whole thing was a bit too gross for Tara to watch intently so she turned away. “There you go all done.”

“Thank you,” Fara sighed in relief as she flattened her dress back out over the diaper.

“Not a problem sweetie,” Rachel rubbed her hands in sanitizer while Sarah disposed of the soiled garment in a nearby trash can. “Let’s get you strapped into your car seat while Sarah gets clean.” A combination of being relieved to be in a dry diaper, and being tired from lack of sleep made Fara fairly compliant as she was strapped into the car seat. She blushed slightly as Tara suddenly sat next to her in a normal seat and smiled at her like she would smile at any toddler.

“I bet a nap sounds great to you Fara,” Sarah said as she entered the passenger seat with Rachel getting in the driver seat.

“Yes it does,” Fara answered with a long sigh.

“Same here to be honest,” Tara echoed with a giggle.

“Well let’s get back and get tucked into bed then,” Rachel sand as she pulled out of the parking lot and made her way back to the cabin.