"Shhh, guys, she's waking up."
Lia sleepily pushed herself up off the ground, one hand rising in a balled fist to wipe off her eyes. She felt...strange, somehow. Her thoughts felt like big, clumsy wooden blocks, awkwardly clattering around in her brain. She sat up straight, and felt something weird and soft squish between her butt and the ground. She sleepily looked down and saw something puffy and white where her pants used to be. Was it...?
"Good morning, sleeping beauty," She looked towards the source of the voice to see a grown-up crouching down to get to her eye level. Standing behind were two other grown-ups. Wasn't she a grown-up too? She didn't get it. "Sleep well?"
"Uh-huh...Sweep good..." She murmured. She remembered who these grown-ups were. He was Blake, and the other two were her other friends, Ellen and Isaac. Ellen was holding a little black box and pointing it at her...a phone! It was a phone! She tried to remember what was going on. They had been hanging out and...and...something. "Got a...diapie," She said in a shy voice, clumsily pointing a finger down towards the white thing she was wearing. "You're right, it is a diaper! When did you get so smart, huh?" Blake praised her. She permitted herself a shy grin. She liked being smart.
But her grin fell as she heard a small snicker from behind Blake. She pointed at Ellen with an insistent finger. "Blake...she...she laughed!" Lia fussed. "Ignore her, Lia, she's just being silly. Look, there's something on your diaper. Can you tell me what it is?" Lia looked down, furrowing her brow. He was right. There was a promenade of cheerful-looking yellow blobs marching across the front. She wracked her brain...could they be...? "Duckies...?" She asked uncertainly.
"Yes! And one do duckies say?" Blake asked. Spurred on by her successes, Lia broke into a grin. "Quack! Quack quack!" She cheered, bouncing up and down and flapping her arms to complete the effect. "Yes! Good job, Lia!" Ellen said, clapping her free hand against the wrist of the hand she was holding her phone with. "She really does know her duckies." Isaac added. The obvious mirth in their voices was completely lost on Lia, who joyfully soaked up the praise, sticking her fingers in her mouth triumphantly.
"Oh, no, let's not chew on our fingers, ok?" Blake said, gently pulling her hand out of her mouth and wiping the drool off of her chin with the sleeve of her shirt. "Not very hygienic." Lia whined in protest, but let him pull them away. Isaac and Ellen, no longer worried about spooking her, came over and sat down on the floor, getting down on her level. "Do you remember why you're in a diaper, Lia?" Isaac asked.
"....Nuh-uh." She shook her head.
Isaac gave her a little grin. "You said something really silly, Lia. Do you remember what you said?" Lia pondered for a minute. "...no 'member". She said finally. "Well, you said that...Oh, Blake, look. She's chewing her fingers again." She looked down at herself. She was.
"Oh, Lia." Blake sighed. "I think she just needs something to occupy her mouth. Ellen, I'm pretty sure I saw something in that box next to you?" Ellen slid over and rifled through a cardboard box on the floor, pulling out a soft-looking yellow plastic ring. Lia's eyes lit up. "Oh-oh-oh. I think someone wants a teether." Ellen sing-songed. Lia nodded, reaching for it with her free hand. "Okay, Lia, but you have to promise you'll chew on this, and not your fingers, ok?"
"Pwomise," Lia nodded eagerly, and Ellen handed it to her. Lia popped her fingers out of her mouth and bit down on the teether ring, chewing on it contentedly.
"Now where was I...oh, yeah." Isaac said. "You said something realllly silly, Lia. Super-duper silly. We were talking about hypnosis, and you said you didn't think it worked." Lia giggled around her teether. That did sound silly! Not that she really knew what hypnosis...was, exactly. But Isaac sounded like he did, and he was a grown-up, so he must know lots of stuff.
"So," Isaac continued. "We bet that I could hypnotize you. And...it kinda looks like it worked. Didn't it, huh? Didn't it?" He punctuated his story by lunging forward and giving her a sudden tickle under the chin, making her squeal and squirm. "Stoooop!" She whined mirthfully, and all 3 grown-ups laughed. "She's so cute like this," Ellen gushed. "I just hope she doesn't murder us when it wears off."
"I'm sure she'll see the humor in it." Blake shrugged. "At least she'll know not to let anyone hypnotize her from now on."
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