Chapter 13
Andrea pulled into the parking lot of the mall and found a parking place about halfway across the lot from the front doors. She checked herself in the mirror and arranged her skirt a little before stepping out of the car. She moved to the trunk, inserted the key and opened the lid. She smiled as she looked at the next ?item? her Jim was going to have to endure.
She pulled the stroller base from the trunk and dropped the lid. After ?his? diaper bag had been hung on the handle, she opened the rear door and looked in on her baby-sized man. He looked at her with a mix of fear and reverence. She popped the release on the seat and lifted the carrier out by its handle.
Before Jim could even react, the carrier was attached to the stroller frame with a definite ?click?. Jim looked up at his wife but said nothing. She knelt down next to him as she closed the rear door.
?Jim, you know we have to do this. If we are going to be convincing for the doctors, you are going to have to be able to pass in public. Right??
Jim nodded slowly, not speaking.
?Good. Did you finish your bottle??
More nodding.
?GOOD BOY. I am SO proud of you.?
Jim?s face got red and he was about to rebut that statement when she pressed a pacifier between his lips. She took the empty bottle and slipped it into the diaper bag.
?Uh uh uh. No talking. If you do say something, it is only gibberish or single syllables. You need to act like a baby, understand? No talking. You can barely walk and usually get carried everywhere. Now, before we go in, is your diaper wet??
Jim?s eyes reflected the fact that he hated to answer the question, but he nodded to the affirmative.
?Alright, we can take care of that later. Right now we have to see how well you can pull off your little act with people that don?t know. Let?s go, cutie pie.?
Andrea stood and began the trek across the parking lot to the main entrance.
Jim sat back in the carrier attempting to be as inconspicuous as possible. It seemed like there at least ten thousand people walking around and he felt like each one was staring at him. He was facing forward and could see everything ahead of him. Nervously he sucked the pacifier firmly planted between his teeth. He dared not ponder what she had meant by ?we can take care of that later.?
Andrea was almost to the front doors when a group of teenage girls burst out, giggling. One kindly stopped to hold the door open for her as she moved the stroller through. Andrea thanked her as she passed then stopped when the girl asked how old her baby was.
?Just turned a year,? she replied.
The girls oohed and aahed as they pressed around the stroller, trying to get a glimpse of the ?baby? inside.
Jim held a blanket over his face, leaving just an eye exposed to look at the encroaching group. Their faces were pressing closer and had no idea what to do. He was about to blow his cover when he was saved by Andrea telling them he was probably tired after going to the doctor and getting his shots that day.
The pack of girls all backed off and apologized as they walked away. Andrea smiled and asked if any of them had experience babysitting and lived in their area of town. Three girls stopped and said they did. Andrea made small talk and swapped numbers with them.
Then she turned and forged into the mall. Her meandering would take a while so she took her time.
Jim watched as people slid by. Lying in the carrier as it rolled along was admittedly soothing, but he hated the predicament he was in. On one hand, nobody in the place could possibly know he was a grown man, albeit a tiny size, in the stroller. On the other, he felt like everyone was staring at him.
The girls all seemed to be looking at him. Anyone that looked like an obvious mother smiled that silly smile as they passed by. And other children would try to sneak a peek. He continued with his shy act, keeping himself almost completely covered.
The stroller swerved into a toy store.
Andrea slowly moved down one aisle and stopped to look at the toys rated for toddlers. From Jim?s vantage point he could see toys sporting all the latest children?s show characters. Purple dinosaurs and assorted cartoon characters as far as the eyes could see.
?May I help you??
The voice came from behind Jim. He tried to turn around to see who the intruding person was but could not. Andrea took the challenge.
?No thank you. I am just looking for some educational toys for my toddler.?
The salesgirl was not easily deterred.
?Oh, wonderful. How old is she??
Andrea giggled and told her HE was just a year old. They chatted for a bit, the salesgirl showed her a few items, then walked away. Andrea stepped up the aisle as Jim watched her. She looked over the large selection and finally picked up a doll that looked like a fat red alien with a circle on its head. She looked at it for a moment, undecided.
?Does your baby watch Teletubbies?? The intrusive sales woman was back.
Andrea looked up in surprise, unsure of how to answer.
?Oh, it?s a darling program, and babies just LOVE it. We have some videos for sale as well.? She pushed the flat panel on the doll?s chest and colors sprang to life on it.
?Eh oh. *giggle* ? said the doll.
They talk in the cutest baby gibberish, too.
Andrea had that nasty little smirk on her face as she set the doll, still erupting with giggles, words and songs, next to Jim. He rolled his eyes as she looked at him with that ?do NOT say a word? look.
?Perfect. You said you had videos??
She bought 2 videos and the doll. The salesgirl happily chatted with Andrea about children?s programming, the latest in baby toys and even about things that would help Andy with potty training.
Jim just wanted the silly thing to turn OFF. Every time he thought it was done, it would start again. In fact, in desperation, he accidentally hit the front panel about the time it said ?Good Bye? and it started all over again.
The clerk smiled down at him and exclaimed how smart he was, being able to make the doll start up already. Andy agreed and looked into the carrier, saying things like ?You are SO smart, aren?t you, honey?? and ?What a BIG boy!?
Jim wished he could just die.
He was glad they were finally able to leave the toy store and head down the mall. He found that if he held the offensive object by the neck, it would not make noise.
Andy pushed him to the center court area of the mall and stopped at a bench near the children?s play area. Jim grew tense as he looked at the dozens of toddlers and pre-schoolers playing in that area, with their parents watching from benches nearby.
Andrea unbuckled him, pulled him out and laid him on the bench. He left the doll in the carrier, but took the blanket with him. He lay on the bench with the blanket over his face, not wanting anyone to see him.
Andrea unsnapped his pants and pulled them up above his waist. She then set about removing the wet Huggies from Jim?s tiny body. He was trembling with fear as his tiny genitals were exposed for the entire world to see.
Andrea noticed.
?Oh, honey. It?s OK. Just going to change your diaper. Can?t have my baby in a wet diaper, can we? Mommy just wants to rest a bit here and get you a bottle.?
Jim stiffened at the thought of being bottle-fed right here in the middle of the mall. His mind was whirling, trying to think how to get that delayed till they got home.
While he was concentrating on that, he did not notice the clean cloth diaper that was laid under him. Andy put a double diaper under him and coated his tiny limp cock with baby powder and very liberal does of ointment.
It was when she pulled the bulky diaper up between his legs that he noticed what was going on. He fidgeted and squirmed, but she held him down easily with an elbow as she pulled then ends together and pinned them tight around his tiny waist.
He could not even come close to getting his legs together now, with all that material forcing them apart.
And began to make him mad.
She smiled at his obvious frustration as she shook out a pair of plastic pants and slipped them over his sneakers. She caught both his ankles with one hand, lifted his padded bottom off the bench and pulled the plastic pants over the monstrous bulk with the other. She tucked any loose cotton inside the elastic and buttoned the crotch.
Having done that, she picked Jim up and set him on her lap. He could only feel the ointment as it oozed around inside the diaper, seeping up into his ass crack and squishing around his limp privates.
Andrea pulled a bottle out of the diaper bag and popped the top off, exposing the nipple.
Jim?s desperation at having no control over his life finally to him and his humiliation pushed him over the edge. He decided if he had to act like a baby for his wife, in the sight of God knew who, he was going find some way to know he at least had control.
And he thought he knew how.
He spit out the pacifier and it fell into her lap. She was just beginning to smile and press the bottle into his mouth when he took action.
?TITTY MOMMY,? he screamed as he clung to her sweater, pulling on it.
Andrea turned beet red as parents all around her turned to look at the mother with the demanding baby.
She hissed, ?Jim, stop. Just take the bottle.?
Jim knew she did not like being watched and kept up the tantrum. Also, he began to cry.
?WAHHH. MOMMY!!! TITTY MOMMY!!?
Andy put the bottle down with a huff and pulled up her sweater. She was thanking the Lord above that she had only changed her slacks and still wore the nursing bra. She angrily, but not that anyone could see, growled at her naughty ?child? as she pulled the flap of the bra down.
She then realized that she had just shown everyone on the mall her left breast. She grabbed a blanket and tossed it over her shoulder.
Jim?s loud cries stopped as his mouth was pressed against the offered nipple. He dry nursed contentedly, making loud slurping noises whenever possible.
It looked to all around that the mother of the loud baby was leaning down and saying happy little things in her nursing child?s ear. It could probably not have been farther from the truth.
?I swear to you, James Allen Miller, you will pay for that. I have never been so embarrassed in my entire life.?
Jim suckled. He had won this round and they both knew it. He knew he was going to have a consequence. He just hoped it would not be too bad.
Despite herself, Andrea felt the wetness of stimulation return. There was the hardening of the untended nipple and familiar twitching of her cervix.
Although it dimmed the anger she felt somewhat, it was not going to get her shrunken husband off the hook for what he had just done.
She popped the breast from his mouth after about 10 minutes and put the pacifier back in. Without a word she set him on the floor next to the bench.
Jim looked around unsure of what he was supposed to do. He looked up at his huge wife just as she was pulling her sweater down into place again. She looked at him, watching to be sure he did not try to run off.
There was no way in the world he could. The double diaper he was wearing made his legs set so far apart that he could only waddle if he wanted to get anywhere. He tried a few steps and decided that the carrier would be the best way to travel. Andrea saw the same thing.
She placed her hand on his chest as she stopped him from move toward the stroller. He looked up at her as she fished something out of the diaper bag. It looked like a telephone handset cord with something at each end.
It became clear to him what it was when she slipped the cuff at one end over his wrist and tightened the Velcro. He was almost crying by the time she had the other end on her own wrist and everything paced into the stroller.
With a nasty sidelong look, she stood and began to push the stroller through the mall. The Child Restraining Tether pulled Jim along at a pace that he could barely keep up with. Linked to his ?mommy? the ?baby? waddled down the hall of the mall, desperately trying not to trip as his tiny legs moved him forward. The bulk between his legs and the on his butt made for the perfect baby look.
Andrea walked around for an hour, stopping at various windows as she led her husband around on the ?leash?. They went to the Food Court, where she had him in a highchair, never removing the tether the entire time. Once that was done, she had him walk all the way to the car.
He was exhausted from the exertion and the frustration by that time and fell asleep on the way home. He never saw the car already parked in his driveway. It was gone before morning.
More to come?.