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My name is Andrew, I'm 18, I'm a senior in high school, and I'm about to have lunch with the girl I've had a crush on since middle school. I'm not sure what came over me earlier, we sat next to each other in English and I noticed she seemed kind of distracted and maybe a bit distressed, and somehow, while openly wearing a diaper, I worked up the confidence to ask if she wanted to talk about it. I just thought it might be friendly to offer to talk about something that's bothering her, I never thought she'd say yes, much less ask me to lunch with her, we don't even sit together at lunch very often, I was just kinda surprised she remembered we had the same lunch period. I mean... I don't know, I thought she might kind of like me, we've gotten a little closer while doing plays together and having a bunch of classes together this year, but then again I could be mistaking normal human kindness for sexual attraction, cause I've definitely done that before with girls, and given my track record of absolutely zero romantic experience, I've learned to repress any expectations I may have. I ditched my friends to sit alone at this table and wait for her, they were off at the other side of the cafeteria probably keeping an eye on me, they'd definitely get a few good jokes in if she didn't show. I know Sabrina just had gym so she could be a little bit, but I was just anxious waiting to see if she actually showed up. The thought that she just said yes out of pity earlier while actually planning to ditch me occurred, as did the thought that this just wasn't important enough to her to remember and maybe she just forgot, but then I saw her.
She smiled and waved at me as she walked over, the anxiety and dread of her ditching me I felt in the pit of my stomach immediately moved up to my chest where I felt butterflies as my heart starting racing. It felt like I was watching her in slow motion, The way her long dark hair was still wet from showering after PE and it left wet patches on her shirt, I could see her natural freckles dotting her cheeks now that she hadn't re-applied make up after swimming, the way her new pull-up hugged her hips... Maybe it's because I needed them for longer during the day than the average guy, and still need them at night, but I find diapers on a girl so cute. It's not the most mainstream taste, most guys like a girl in lingerie or panties or whatever, but enough guys are with me that I don't feel weird about it or anything.
"Hey, you remembered!" Sabrina greeted me cheerfully, awakening me from my daze.
"Yeah of course" I said, trying to think of something to say next, I was just relieved that she had the same insecurity about me not showing up. "How was gym?" I continued, that was the best I could come up with.
"Uhh.. fine" she hesitantly responded "I just hate swimming, dealing with changing in and as out of the swimsuit and swim diaper, and my hair being soaked for the rest of the day, it's just a pain. What'd you have before this again?" She asked "Bio" I responded. She cut me off before I could continue.
"Did you get the lecture about potty training biology, Kate told me she was doing that today." "Yep, muscles and nerves in the bladder bowels only fully mature during puberty, as the nerves form synapses we get more and more control and it takes a few years afterward to strengthen the muscles enough to reliably control them without thinking... blah ... blah ... blah... it's all genetically dependent and normally occurs somewhat later for girls. The same thing they taught us in middle school" I said.
"It's so weird" she said inquisitively "like when it's biologically explained it seems so out of our control, but so many people still stress about controlling the speed at which they toilet train."
"You are right, but I do think there are some people that actively don't try to train once they're bodies are ready" I replied
"yeah I can think of a few girls like that in our class.. wait you didn't mean I do that did you!?" She accused
"no, of course not! I know how hard you try." I quickly tried to do damage control, I don't even know why I made that comment, I knew I'd mess things up.
"Yeah I guess my body may not be quite ready yet" she said, her head sinking down and her wet hair falling in front of her face.
"Great" I thought to myself "first I offended her now I made her feel bad about herself, I have to do something to make her feel better or else this is just gonna be a bummer of a lunch." I tucked her hair back behind her ear, her deep hazel eyes looked up longingly at me "it doesn't matter, it'll happen when it happens, I doubt anyone thinks less of you because you wear pull-ups, and if they do then they don't deserve you anyways." Sabrina seemed caught off guard, but not in a bad way, I knew I just kinda progressed things so I was trying to play it cool on the outside, but on the inside I was freaking out.
Sabrina regained her composure and quipped sarcastically "tell that to my parents."
"Oh do they do the whole 'interrogation' as soon as you get home thing too?" I asked.
"Oh my god yes" Sabrina chuckled "immediately it's always how many times did you make it today? How many pull-ups did you use?"
"YES, my mom would also shove her hand down the front of my pants, without even saying anything, to see if I was wet until I stopped wearing to school when I was 15" I added.
"Wow! At least my mom asks first" she giggled "My mom did demand to change me herself when I got home though, cause she 'wanted to make sure I was properly clean' as if I didn't know how to change myself. That only stopped last year after a long talk about boundaries"
"Mine did the same thing" I joked supportively. "So what was on your mind earlier? What'd you wanna talk about?"
"Well actually this.. kind of" Sabrina paused to take a breath before getting everything off of her chest "Filling out the same answers on the survey for like the third year in row with almost no change, flooding my pull-up on stage in front of everybody in drama, d-day is kind of getting me down this year, and it's making me rethink the whole thing, and when you said earlier that when I potty train doesn't matter I felt like you'd understand...I don't know... I feel like adults and like society motivate us to get toilet trained by saying using diapers is fundamentally gross and unsanitary despite us wearing them for like 18+ years, and that potty training is an important part of becoming an adult or whatever, but then if you're having trouble with training they try to reassure you and tell you it's not your fault and everyone is going at their own pace... and everyone's bodies are different, and it's like... I'm just confused.... Is my body gross cause I can't use the toilet? Am I less adult cause I use diapers? Or is it just tolerated for me to be gross cause my body is slow at toilet training? Should I be toilet training even if it makes me stressed, just cause everyone says diapers are gross? Like I've been using them for my entire life, I don't really think it's gross, it's just normal for me. And how would wearing underwear make me feel? Confident? Or just constantly scared of having an accident? I don't know sometimes I feel like I don't even want to potty train."
I took a second to collect my thoughts on everything she said.
"Sorry if I kinda trauma dumped on you" she apologized.
"You don't have to apologize, and yeah I never articulated that well before but I agree with you. I feel like our parents follow that narrative of 'diapers are gross' or 'diapers are for kids' cause that's how they were trained, but like now that we know more about the science of potty training and how that kind of talk can effect mental health, it really doesn't make sense. Like if your actually struggling all it does is make you feel bad about yourself and it gives everyone else ammunition to make fun of you with" I continued.
"EXACTLY!" She said excitedly "I'm glad we decided to talk" she said sweetly.
My mind just froze when she said that, of course it wasn't much in the grand scheme of things, but for me: my crush admitting that she enjoyed talking to me felt like a seminal moment in my life. However, I still had to think of something to say. "Im glad we decide to do this too" I replied, but I knew that was boring, and I felt like I was getting positive signals so I wanted to progress things again. "And I don't know if it matters to you, but I don't think you're gross, I think you're the opposite of gross."
Aaaaannnnnd I pushed it too far. I wanted to make some smooth comment to reassure her , but it came out so badly. Sabrina immediately started laughing in my face. I tried to explain to no avail "sorry, I just wanted to say that you weren't gross cause you were saying you felt gross before, and I think you're pretty.."
"No..no.. I got what you were saying, but that was so funny" she said between laughs trying to calm herself down. "Oh wow, I think I just peed a little, wow... well I'm glad you think I'm the opposite of gross"
"Do you mean what you said though? Do you actually not wanna train?" I asked
"I mean I don't know" Sabrina answered in a decidedly lighter tone, my effort at flirting seemed to have gotten her out of her funk. "I think I only say that because I was upset, training is really hard for me, if I could just choose to be potty trained or at least be on pace with the rest of the girls in our grade I definitely would, but I can't, and I think that it's easier say that I don't want to train than admit that I want to but I'm not able. If that makes sense."
"Yeah, but I don't know why you're thinking in such extremes though" I said "not training, not being able to, I think all you want is to go at your own pace and not be bothered, so do that. Go at your own pace and you'll get there when you get there. You only have to spend a few more months of your parents BS , they won't follow you to college."
"You're right, not being bothered easier said than done though, I just don't want to be starting my first job in diapers" she said, chuckling uneasily.
"It'll happen for you someday, I believe in you" I said trying to not said cheesy.
"Thanks" she responded kindly
"Speaking of diapers I don't wanna use the only one I brought today so I'm gonna go to the bathroom."
"Show off!" Sabrina said facetiously.
I put my hands on the table and stood up to go, Sabrina grabbed my wrist and looked into my eyes "you're just gonna leave me here alone?" She asked.
I knew she was just lightly flirting with me, but my brain was just blank "holy shit she actually likes me" was the only thought echoing in my head. It's the first time I've ever gotten any amount of attention from a girl so I was just blown away. I snapped back into reality when I realized my crotch getting warm. I was flooding my pull-up, my first daytime accident in months and my crush had a front row view.
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This one is a bit different: obviously I switched POVs and it's a very dialogue heavy one, which I'm trying to get better at but I still think I kinda suck. Sorry to leave on a cliff-hanger but it was getting long and I wanted to get an update out before I get distracted or bored. Next chapter will be back with Sabrina's POV. Leave comments and suggestions if you're enjoying it, I'm always open to suggestions.