Bedwetter

Chapter 1

I'm Frankie I'm 10and my younger sister Carole was 7 our parents left on vacation for 2 weeks we where left in the care of a new babysitter dawn ,she had been 21 years old of a friend of a mothers who got the job simply because she was available my anxiety had been building up since December when i learned of there trip.Our usual babysitter wouldn't be there because she as on her honeymoon.The anxiety surffered was caused by my tightly held secret.. i was a nightly bedwetter.

I was terrified this new girl would tease, shame or worse yet tell someone about my indiscretion. Little did I know how inadequate the level of anxiety i was suffering would be compared to the amount of shame that i was about to experience. I would probably have had a full blown panic attack if I'd known what was coming. Early on Friday in the third week of June and just after the start of summer vacation Dawn arrived promptly at 7:30. Me and Carole met her at the door followed closely by my mom. After we got After we got aquainted my mother told us to go out and play as she began her checklist of necessities. After hugs, kisses and love you goodbyes,,

Promptly at 8:00 me and my sister watched as the taxi whisked them away to the airport. "Hey guys what would you like for lunch today?" Dawn asked coming up behind us. Not hesitating, "PBJ", I said adding, "and chocolate milk." "Yeah, yeah yeah" Carole said enthusiastically. "Uh oh looks like you guys are gonna make my job hard as you can on me huh," Dawn said obviously kidding us. "Hey if everything keeps going so smooth how bout we stop at C&C for some ice cream after dinner tonight?" She asked us racking up points in her favor with us. "Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah", my response left no question how I felt about C&C ice cream. I don't remember what my sister yelled but we were both quite delighted. Dawn started back toward the house paused n said, "oh n guys my friend Kerri is gonna come over after dinner.
We'll go to C&C with her n her two kids, sound cool"? Dawn asked us. Curiosity getting the better of me I had t ask, "Are her kids boys or girls and how old are they?" "Oh they're both girls Bri is 6 and Mandi 8," Dawn responded and seeing the dejected look in my downcast eyes added.

Hey little Frankie Frank it's okay girls are cool too, I promise, give em a chance," she said ruffling my hair. Me n Carole started our day as we did most summer days, we went over Josh's my best friend. He had a little brother Nick who was 6 that my sister always played with. Anyway we busied our selves with a game of kickball. We were completely engrossed in the game as i was thinking what a pretty cool sitter Dawn was. Then it hit me. With all the commotion of my parents leaving I'd totally forgotten to clean up my bed. I was always given a choice by my mom how I wanted to handle my accidents. I had to clean up n wash my wet stuff or wear a diaper to bed. In total panic I left the game with everyone yelling, "where you going". "I'll be right back", my only reply. I booked up to my room and found everything in complete order. Not as I'd left it but all cleaned up, bed made. I didn't know what to think. I was torn, now Dawn obviously knew I wet the bed. But she was nice enough to clean it up for me. To her credit she never said a word. So I went back to Josh's and resumed playing.

The day went normal as as any usual summer day. Lunch came n went. We spent most of our day at Josh's just doing our normal summer thing. Nothing seemed amiss. Then Dawn called for us to come in for dinner time. She had all our favorites. Pizza hut pizza pepperoni for me, plain for Carole. Breadsticks and, oh yes I can't forget t mention the wings barbecue of course. Thinking how awesome dinner was and how seriously cool Dawn wa was I Burped loudly I wiped my mouth and said,"oh man that was seriously good. "Yeah it was," Carole said in agreement. "Awsome glad you liked it guys." The best is yet to come yet though,"she said pulling a giant half a watermelon from the refrigerator. "Ah yesss," I screamed, "I love watermelon!" That was when my sister Carole kicked the elephant in the room. "You can only have a small piece Frankie," she said to me repeating as much to Dawn. "Feankie can only have a small piece Dawn. He still wets his bed," she said with a dominant tone in her voice. "Shut up you little twerp," I yelled in utter shame. The cat was outta the bag now if it was even ever in there in the first place. "Woah, chill guys chill," Dawn said trying to calm us or rather me down from going critical mass," Frankie you can have as much watermelons as you want tonight okay." "But," Carole started protesting getting cut off by Dawn. "It's fine kiddo don't worry about it, I'll handle it," she insisted. Winning even more points with me I dug into a giant slice of watermelon never considering her words, I'll handle it. After I polished off my second piece I proclaimed my self finished dinner. "I'll be over at Josh's house, " I told Dawn as I stood from the table making my way toward the door. "Wait for me," Carole said and we headed out.

A few hours after dinner around 7:30 well into some hotly contested kickball, I heard Dawn yelling for me from across the street. "Frankie, Frankie come here kiddo," her voice floated into the backyard. "Carole can you go see what she wants" l asked my sister not wanting to pause our game as it was my turn to kick. With a small groan of protest Carole ascented and ran of toward our house. I smashed the very next incoming ball and found myself on second base in short order. Carole came back within a minute coming to me and saying, " Dawn says you gotta come in and get your bath now." What," I said, " tell her I don't gotta go in till 9:00, it's not even dark yet." Getting angry Carole said, " you tell her, I'm not a messenger." "Come on Carole I'm on base, what about the game?" Carole only shook her head in disgust as she ran back toward the house to tell Dawn our usual schedule rules. I wasn't really giving it any further thought. I just figured Dawn misunderstood how late I was allowed out. I had to be in by 9:00 earliest but could usually petition my mom for an extra hour most nights. It was summer after all. Gone for only another minute Carole appeared at the corner of Josh's house followed closely by Dawn. "Hey Frankie, come on kiddo it's time to get you a bath," she said as she approached me. "What, I don't gotta come in till 9:00, it's not even dark out yet," I protested," "we're playing flashing tag in a little bit," I finished. "I know but I wanna get you ready for bed now," she said as my friends from the game began gathering," " I wanna get it out of the way before my show comes on." " You can come out after your bath and finish playing," she assured me.
Growing very worried at the direction of our conversation, I told her, " I don't need any help to get ready for bed and I take a shower not a bath" "You can't get yourself ready for bed Frankie, don't be silly," she told me incredulously. "You can't possibly put your own diaper on," she said this with all my friends listening. For a few brief seconds there was total and complete silence as all my friends shared a glance among each other. The next sounds were their laughter at the thought of me going home to be diapered.. Before I could recover from the shock and respond Josh chimed in, " yeah Frankie hurry up n go get your diaper on so we can finish the game," making everyone there howl with laughter. "I don't wear them" my words coming out sheepishly and feeble. "Honey your mommy showed me where she keeps your pampers up on the shelf in your closet." That was it for me, I was toast. No way of squirming my way out of this. "They're only for vacations and stuff, I don't wear them at home,," I whined. Well that was it, in one single sentence. One in which I had no time whatsoever to consider my response, I admitted to being a bedwetter and needing, having and wearing diapers. "Frankie after you get ready for bed you can come play with Nicky. He's gotta get ready for bed too," Josh said not finished he added," he's getting on his pull ups." "He doesn't wear diapers anymore he says they're for babies," More laughter now at a fever pitch as Dawn turned t go motioning me to follow. I did as I was told, I had to get outta there n somehow fix this humiliating mess.
~Authors note ~
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