On Friday David could not wait for his father to get home so that he could show him the shortalls that he and his mother had made. As soon as he got home from school he changed into a diaper and his shortalls and went downstairs and began playing video games. It was Friday and he had all weekend to do his homework. He was still playing video games when his father came home. He jumped up and ran to meet his father at the front door. Edward was startled to have his son meet him at the door wearing a pair of very short overalls. Again, this isn't what most fathers want to come home to, nonetheless, he was glad to be home and he was happy that his son and wife were so eager to see him.

"Well what do we have here," Edward said to his very juvenile looking-son. David excitedly explained how him and his mom had gone to the thrift store and found a pair of regular overalls and then how his mom cut the legs off and hemmed them up.

Edward then asked with a very surprised sound in his voice: "Your mother hemmed up those legs?!?"

Just then Sonia came out of the kitchen to greet her husband. "Oh, don't sound so surprised.", she teasingly said. She then continued on: "There's probably a lot of things I can do that you don't know about." They both laughed and then Sonia kissed her husband to welcome him home.

Edward then asked: "What's next? A high chair or maybe a crib?"

Without thinking David responded with: "Oh! That would be so cool!" His response drew an angry glare from his father. David then realized that his father was being sarcastic and he quickly left the room and returned to playing his video game. Edward was beginning to have second doubts about the "deal" he had made with his son to allow him to wear a diaper and act like a baby. Had he done the right thing? How could he go back on his word at this point in time? Unbeknownst to the confused father, all of his doubts would be eradicated in less than a week.

The weekend and the following week went by without any other significant events or developments. On Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, David and his parents piled into the family's S.U.V. and drove to his grandparents' house, which was only about 15 minutes away. David was glad to see his aunts and uncles and was quickly off playing with his cousins. In the den the men gathered to watch football on Television while the women folk worked on Thanksgiving dinner. Edward asked his brother-in-law Don where his 14 year-old son Daniel was. Don hymn-hawed around for a minute and the said that he was at camp.

"Camp?" Edward asked, "In November?"

Don replied: "Yeah, it's kind of a special camp." He paused for a minute and then he said: "Ah Hell, it's a god damn boot camp for kids who've gotten in trouble with the law."

His answer startled Edward, prompting him to ask with genuine concern: "What happened?"

"Oh, he and a bunch of his buddies decided to borrow' somebody's car and to go for a little joy ride." Don answered back, he then continued: "But of course it wasn't Daniel's idea, it was his friends idea and Daniel was just helplessly dragged along. Of course every single one of the other kids involved said the exact same thing, that it wasn't there idea. Anyway all 5 of them got sent to a boot camp up in the mountains for the next year."

This prompted the rest of the men to relate similar stories of people they knew that either had had problems with their children or were currently having problems with their teenagers. They related accounts of neighbors, workmates, other relatives and so on. Every single person had at least one story of a teenager that they knew that was in trouble with the law. And every single one of them could trace their problems back to the kids that they were hanging around with.

As he listened to the numerous accounts of delinquent teens, Edward's head began to spin as he tried to imagine what he would do if David would ever get into serious trouble with the law. He thought to himself: "Uh, maybe wearing diapers isn't such a big deal after all. Especially if it keeps him out of trouble with the law!"

The rest of the day went like every other Thanksgiving, men watching football, women in the kitchen cooking, and kids outside running around and playing and making lots of noise. When dinner was ready everyone gathered at the table to offer thanks. At the end of the prayer, Edward thought to himself how thankful he was that his own son, David, was such a good kid and how he had never given him or Sonia the kind of grief that so many other parents had experienced with their children.

After dinner and desert everyone hung around the dinner table and visited with each other for a couple of hours. The leftovers were then divvied up, with many friendly arguments, and then one by one people gathered up their children and leftovers and whatever else they had brought and headed home.

Back home that evening Edward talked to Sonia about what had happened to young Daniel. He also shared with his wife the many other stories he had heard that day of children gone astray. They both said how much they appreciated David and what a good kid he was. Then they began discussing what they could do to keep him on the right track. Edward mentioned how every single story he had heard that day involved bad association. Edward and Sonia both thought back to their teenage days and commented how it was always the "cool" kids that were getting into trouble. They decided that the "cool" kids weren't really cool at all.

Edward then laughingly said: "Well if people start finding out about David wearing a diaper, then the cool' kids would surely want nothing to do with him."

Sonia laughed too, but then she said: "You know what? You may be on to something there. His diaper wearing may actually be a blessing in disguise!"

They talked until late into the evening about how they could help David to go public with his diaper wearing and his baby fantasies, and also how they could help him to be prepared for the fallout that would surely come from others finding out about his deep dark secret desires.