DANY AND CEDRIC’S ADVENTURES

Chapter 3

Original title: Les aventures de Dany et Cédric

Author: fan2couche (fan2couche@hotmail.com)

Date: Junuary 2005

Translation: bebemanu (bebemanu60@yahoo.fr)

Date: December 2005

Public: All public

Copyright: fan2couche © 2005

Special copyright to: bebemanu © 2005

Publication: Tbkingdom.com © 2005 (for the French version)

Deeker.com © 2005 (for the English version)

Summary: Following an accident of pee with the bed, a teen asks questions to himself about his little brother, and about diapers...

Reproduction and publication, even partial, prohibited without obtaining the preliminary authorization of the author, the translator, and/or the editor.

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My father gave her a second small pocket of pics. My mother looked at them and put them one by one on the table. During this time, my father said us that yesterday, he had outward journey to the supermarket, at the beginning of afternoon, and that he had seen us there, buying diapers and wipes. He explained us that after, he had followed us in wood, and had seen us making the crazy boys in diaper, and taking pics of ourselves. He said that we were not malignant, and that the old trunk was worse of the hiding-places which we found. He said to us that he had gone up the diapers and the wipes, and that he had arranged them in Dany’s bedroom. At this moment, my mother said:

-You’re really very nice, like that, in diapers. I knew since a small end of time that Dany would have liked to also spend the day diapered. But about you Cédric, I didn’t know that you liked to wear diapers too. Boys, since how many time do you wear diapers, like that, in hiding-place?

With a sad air, I answered:

-Since yesterday, mom…

-And well, since you like to wear diapers, wear layers my children! It’s your problem, not mine! But as your father just said, you will wear some 24/7, until the end of the summer holidays! All both, Dany and you! And you can make a cross over the holidays by the sea! That will make us keep money! Cédric, do you want that I buy plastic pants, terry-sponge shorts, and onsies for you? To wear them all night, and by the day too, like your little brother…

I answered of a sad air.

-As you want mom…

-Then we will buy what you need tomorrow morning. While waiting, you will change you, and since you like that! Shorts, tee-shirts over, and no undies! Understood?

-Yes mom… They both answered.

We ridden to change us, and once washed, I diapered myself, and I diapered Dany too. We gone down again to the kitchen, and our diaper made noise with each one of our steps. My father said:

-Draw up the table, please, the babies!

Your cousin Franck will arrive, I invited him to eat this midday. Moreover, I already warned his parents and when he’ll be there, Cédric, you will go to diaper him. According to what I could see yesterday in wood, he has the practice that you diaper him…

We left to draw up the table for this midday. I wondered how my father had been able to know in which part of the forest we were. Franck arrived and he had red eyes.

-Hello Franck. Are you well?

-No, I’m not!

-What’s happening to you?

-Your father warned my parents of what we did yesterday, and my parents punished me until the end of the summer holidays!

-how do they punished you?

-I have to wear diapers 24/7 until the end of the summer holidays.

-Oh, us too!

-I know. It’s your father who said to my parents to punish me like that.

-I wonder well how he knew that we were there.

-By Dany.

-What?

-Yes, yesterday, your father asked to Dany which part on the forest we had chosen to make our hut. Your father saw us at the supermarket, and he followed us until in forest. He saw us in diapers, and he also saw us making pics of us.

-Now, I understand better why he found us also easily! Well, while waiting, it’s necessary to follow the punishment. Go upstairs with me, that I put a diaper to you. Franck said to me:

-I still have my night diaper on me. My father said me to keep it until I arrive here.

-It’s not serious. I will change you. And then at least, we will not have to hide ourselves anymore to put our diapers.

Once in the bathroom, I called Dany.

-Dany!

-What?

-Come here, and see me please.

-What’s happening?

-Close the door behind you!

-What do you want?

-Is it true that yesterday you said to dad which place we had chosen to make our hut with Franck and Yoann?

Sadly, he answered me:

-Yes... Why? It was a secret?

-No, but it was stupid! Dad followed us until where we were, and now, we have to wear diapers during the whole summer holidays!

-I know it...

-Moreover, this year, we don’t left for vacations!

Franck said to us:

-Me too, I don’t leave for vacation this year. In more my parents come to seek me this evening because they have something to ask to your parents.

-Really? What is it?

-I don’t know Cédric!

I changed Franck, and we are gone down again. Arrived in the garden, my father said me to go to close the gate.

-Good, now, you will take off your shorts and your tee-shirt. After what I saw yesterday in the forest, you will be able to take sun and play just in diaper all afternoon!

We stripped ourselves, and we were now only dress of our diapers. My mother laughed and said to us that the diapers really suited us very well. My father left to take the camera, and made some pics of us. After eaten, we played to a lot of games. We started to like to be dressed like that. Towards 03:30 pm, my mother approached us and said:

-Are you ok, boys?

-Yes mom.

-Yes mom.

-Yes auntie.

-Franck, you can call me Annie you know!

-Ok Annie.

-Are still dry, or not?

She put her hand on each one of our diapers to check the state of them.

-All dry! It’s well, but don’t forget that you now can’t use the bathroom! It’s July 5th, and not toilets until September 3rd! Then benefit well from your diapers.

-Not mo, not that! Please!

-Oh yes my big baby! It’s too late!

My mother left in the kitchen, Dany laughed and said:

-Me don’t care, I have the practice!

-Shut up Dany!

-Dad avenged me without wanting it!

-It’s not funny Dany! Franck answered.

-Franck, is right. It’s not because I found the diapers pleasant that I wanted to wear some 24/7. But now that we have them, we have to benefit from them. Then we released ourselves in our diapers, each time that we wanted to pee. Hardest, that will be to poop in them. But for the moment, I didn’t need to poop. My mother gave us a lunch at 04:00 pm. She made us slices of bread with Nutella on them, and we drank Coke. Towards 06:10 pm, the bell rang. We staid fixed there. We wondered who that could be. It was Franck’s parents...

The night was clear, and the moon clarified the interior of my room. It was my first night in diapers since a very long time. I felt myself well, and in secure with this thickness between the legs. I started to understand why Dany liked so much to wear diapers to sleep at night. I remembered the pics that my mother showed me. The ones which had been took the day before, and where I was sucking my thumb. While reconsidering there, I took my thumb in my mouth, under Dany’s amused eyes. He smiled me, kissed me and said me:

-Good night baby Cédric.

I tightened him in my arms, and I fell asleep by sucking my thumb like a baby...

I opened the eyes, and I turned myself to look at my radio alarm clock. 02:17 am. Dany slept deeply beside me. I needed badly to pee, and it’s what awoke me. I was going to raise me to go to the bathroom, when a plastic noise and an unusual thickness recalled me that I was wearing a diaper. It’s true that the day had been rich in events, and "surprises". Result, we have to wear diaper 24/7 until the day before of the school re-entry. I was going in 9th grade (for France), and it’s generally not an age where teens have to wear diapers 24/7. I’m lengthened and after several efforts, I let myself go in my diaper. I felt my hot urine to be spread in my diaper. I really started to like this feeling, which I had discovered two days earlier. Now, I really understood why Dany liked so much to wear diapers. I ensured myself that my diaper didn’t have any leaks, and I went back on the side. I made a kiss to my little brother, and I fall asleep again. I was awaked again by a desire of pee. It was 07:41 am. With what we had drunk like Coke yesterday evening, it’s not astonishing that I need as much to pee. I let myself go once again in my diaper. But there, I had like a problem! The diaper was a little small for me, and it arrived what it must arrived! I had leaks! I wondered what my mother was going to say and I said to myself, that after all, they wanted that we wear diapers? So much worse for the leaks. I was turned over while thinking of the seven weeks which awaited us. In the final analysis, in spite of the circumstances, I was happy that Franck spends his holidays at home with Dany and me. At the college, our buddies called us the twins because we seem a lot one to the other. It should be said that Thierry was a cousin of my father, with the second degree, and that it’s for that we seem the one to the other, like twins. Since always, we always have regarded ourselves as brothers, and we profited from it in certain circumstances. I fell asleep again while thinking of all that. It’s Dany who awoke me at 10:20 am while saying to me:

- Cédric! Cédric! Wake-up, you made pee with the bed!

I awoke in start by asking to myself why my Dany was shouting.

-What?

-You made pee with the bed! Look!

-I know Dany, it’s me diaper which is too small. I had leaks this night.

-Mom will kill you!

-She has nothing to say; because it’s her and dad who wanted that we wear diapers 24/7.

I rose, and we are come downstairs to the kitchen where my mother doing the washing up. Dany was in diaper and plastic pant, and me in diaper and bathing suit.

-Oh, here are my boys! How slept my babies?

-Very well. Hello mom.

-Hello mom.

-Hello my darling.

I was going to sit me when my mother said to me:

-Wait a minute Cédric. Come and see me there one minute!

I gone to see my mother who was at the other side of the table and she said me:

-It’s well what it seemed to me to have seen... You had leaks my big boy! It doesn’t astonish me. Those diapers are too small for you. She said by checking the adjustment of my diaper.

-We will buy some with your size presently, with the pharmacy. I’m turned over to sit me, and my mother served our breakfast to us while laughing.

-Why you laugh mom? Dany asked.

-Because I would have to serve it to you in a baby bottle, that would have funnier.

-Me I would have liked! Dany said.

-Not me!

Dany had drunk its chocolate of the morning in a baby bottle until he was 8, then it’s clear that for him, it was still fresh. Once the breakfast finished, we rose, and we were going to go upstairs when my mother said to us:

-Cédric, henceforth, you will occupy yourself of the toilet of your brother, morning and evening, as I have say to you yesterday.

-Mom, it’s what I already do since the beginning of the holidays!

-I know! The morning, you will wash yourself all alone, and you will only diaper yourself. Same thing during the day. You will diaper Dany and Franck, if he wants. On the other hand, the evening, it’s me who will wash your cousin and you.

-But mom, I’m enough tall to wash me alone!

-Cédric, it’s like that and not differently! Now, slip by to the shower! And you will get down your cloths, that I wash them! Bedwetters!

We are ridden, prepared our clothes and we went to wash ourselves. Once washed and dried, I had diaper Dany and I had diaper myself. We left the bathroom to go in my room where our clothes for today were. I have make Dany lie on my bed, and I threaded him his plastic pant. Then I dressed him with a tee-shirt and a Navy blue Bermuda shorts. I then slipped on a white tee-shirt, and grey Bermuda shorts. I removed sheets of my bed, and we are gone downstairs again.

-Cédric, goes and put your sheets directly in the washing machine. I will occupy myself some while returning of the supermarket.

-Yes mom.

We left in the garden. The weather was already hot, and I took off my tee-shirt. The top of my layer exceeded of my Bermuda shorts, but that I didn’t care. The factor rang, and I went to raise the mail like that. He looked at me with a funny air and continued his round. I brought back the mail to my mother who said:

-Thread your tee-shirt, we go to the supermarket. Dany, we go away!

-I arrive immediately mom!

We are gotten into the car and left direction the supermarket. With Dany, we were going to go to the ray CD, but my mother said to us that she came there to equip us, and not to go to listen to music. We followed our mom, and she turned in the babies’ ray.

-Let us seeing... She took wipes, baby bottles, three pacifiers, and some bibs. Dany and I looked at ourselves, and we didn’t know anymore where to hide ourselves. My mother then took us along towards the child’s ray. There, she found all that she sought:

-Then... Cédric, what color do you choose for your terry shorts? Oh! But they are in promotion! Then I take to you one of each with each one of them. Like that, you’ll have six of them each one. Let us seeing, where are undies? Ah! Here they are! Then, how many onsies will I take for you? I think I have to take four of each one. No, five, to do a bearing. And you Dany, I will take three new ones for you because in your cupboard, it doesn’t have anymore but two of them there which suit you. She looked at the onsies, and for each one of us, she took three of them where they had drawings above, and two normal ones. I didn’t believe my eyes of them, and says to her:

-But mom, I won’t wear that?

-Of course yes, my darling. Babies wear onsies with drawings above!

-No! I’m ok to wear some, but not with drawings above.

-Cédric, please, doesn’t start!

I didn’t insist, and we moved towards the cashiers. Once left, we went to the downtown pharmacy.

-Hello Madam, Sir.

-Hello Madam. What can I do for you?

-I would like plastic pants for these two big boys, and their cousin.

-How old are they?

-They’re 14 years old, 13 years old, and soon 12 years old.

-Let us seeing. Then, I have two models. With or without snaps.

-I’ll buy one with snaps, and three without snaps. For each one of them. And it would be necessary that I have some change.

-Well Madam, but it’s necessary that I order them for you. You will have them at the beginning of afternoon.

-It’s perfect.

-For the plastic pants, do you want them white, or with drawings above?

My mother was turned over and said to us:

-What kind of plastics pant do you want, boys?

-The ones with drawings! Dany answered

-Good, then those with drawings above. I also need diapers for my big boy. Those of his brother are too small for him, and he had leaks.

-Then, I have several models. Is it for the day or the night?

-Both, but I need something of rather thick and absorbent.

-Then I will give you a package of Molicare Super Plus, in small size. I also will give you samples of other diapers, in various sizes, for your three boys. Like that, you will be able to choose the diaper which is appropriate best.

-Thank you, it’s nice to you.

My mother immediately paid the bill, and we left.

Arrived at home, my father was discharging two large paperboards from the car’s trunk.

-Hello boys, you help me?

-What is it dad?

-It’s your great bed Dany!

-Cédric, comes! Dad gone to seek a great bed for us!

-I finished discharging the diapers with mom, Dany!

My mother asked me to put all diapers’ bags in Dany’s room, and said that she would arrange all that after eating.

I came downstairs to help my father to leave the parts of the paperboards, and to assemble them in my room. He dismounted my bed. That hurt my heart a little, because there was nevertheless eleven years that I slept in this bed. But I didn’t lose with the exchange, because I was going to have a great bed. Then, the new bed was assembled; we put the diagrid, and the mattress above.

-Here is, your bed is ready! You can largely sleep all three insides. I took a bed of 2m on 2m.

-Lunch time...! It was my mother.

We came downstairs, washed our hands, and we ate.

Once the meal finished, I went upstairs to change my diaper.

-Where do you go Cédric? My mother asked.

-I will change me.

-Wait for me, I come! Dany! Come, my darling, I will change you too.

At this time there, we heard the door’s bell. My mother said to us that that was to be Franck and his father. We precipitated in the garden, it was well them.

-Franck Hello!

-Hello!

-Hello boys.

-Hello Thierry.

My parents left, and have join us. We took Franck’s bag, and we put it in the corridor. After having drunk a coffee, Thierry, left while making to Franck a very big kiss. My mother called us, and said to us:

-Well! Boys, it’s time to change your diaper! Franck, you come too, as I put you layer in diaper too! Afterwards, it will be Cédric who will occupy of you, except the evening, where it’s me who would wash you both, and who will diaper you for the night.

-Ok Annie, I come.

We went upstairs all the three, followed of my mother. She said to us to go directly in my room.

-Good, I explain you. Here, it’s the room where you will sleep all the three. Dany’s room will be used as a nursery, to arrange your diapers, and your clothes. From now, you will wear nothing else than the clothes which will be in the cupboard of Dany’s room. You have each one two racks. In any event, your other regular clothes will be locked up in the wall cupboard of the bottom of my room. You will get dressed normally only if we have to go somewhere where it’s necessary for you to be dress as boys of your age. But that will be always with a diaper! Understood boys?

-Yes mom.

-Yes mom.

-Yes Annie.

-Good! You go to Dany’s room, and you take briefs for this afternoon. You choose those which you want!

We went in Dany’s room, and we opened the cupboard. On the racks, there were only our "baby" clothes that my mother had bought for us this morning. Franck and I chose the same clothes. We took a green onsie with cars above, and a terry-cloth short of the same color. Dany, took a blue sky onsie with white clouds above, and a red terry-cloth short. When we came back in my room, my mother said to us to remove our diapers, to go to wash ourselves, and awaiting her, naked, in my room. We left to wash ourselves and we came back in my room. We sat down, all the three, on my bed, while waiting for my mother. My father had just come back from the pharmacy, and my mother went upstairs with two large plastic bags.

-What is it mom? Dany asked.

-It’s your plastic pants, some small things, and a draw sheet to put on your bed.

-A draw sheet?

-Yes Cédric, a draw sheet! It’s just in case you would have leaks during the night.

My mother unpacked the plastic pants which were all with drawings above. Franck and I didn’t like that too much, but it’s Dany who had chosen them, and there were all the same ones. Franck and me, we got the same size and the same stoutness. There’s only the size which changed for Dany. She gave us our plastic pants, and said to us to choose some for now, and to go to arrange the others in Dany’s room’s cupboard. Dany choose the one with the sheep above. Franck and I, we chose the same. We choose the one which was blue with cars above. My mother looked us with an amused air, and she said to us:

-Well, I start with the smallest. Let’s go Dany, lengthens you.

Dany lengthened on the towel which my mother had just extended on my bed. My mother put cream and talc on Dany, and then she proceeds to diaper him. She then threaded him his plastic pant, then his onsie and closed the snaps between his legs. She slipped on him his red terry-cloth shorts, and said:

-Here is my darling, you are ready!

Dany rose and was looked himself in the mirror. He started to laugh while seeing himself, because with his terry-cloth short, hiss diaper arose even more than usually.

-Well, it’s up to you Cédric!

With against heart, I lay on the towel, and I let my mother do. I had shame to be naked in front of my mother, and that she was diapering me. But it was well necessary that I’m accustomed to it, because I will have to be diapered during seven weeks. After having closed my fresh diaper, my mother took my plastic pant, threaded it to me, and went up it over my diaper. It moulded very well my diaper, while maintaining it perfectly. My mother asked me to put myself upright, and said to me:

-Put your hands up in the air that I thread you your onsie.

She threaded it to me, and then she closed the snaps between my legs. I then slipped my feet into the holes of my terry-cloth short, that she went up on my buttocks, hiding my blue plastic pant. My new diapers were much thicker than Dany’s ones and the terry-cloth shorts that I had, emphasized even more my layer.

-Well, my big baby is ready! I looked myself in the mirror, and I was really ridiculous in this behaviour. To be dressed as a baby at 14 years old, that wasn’t to be common... My mother finished by Franck who let himself do. Once dressed, my mother made a few pics of us and said to us to go to play outside. Franck and I had a little shame to leave like that. Dany, didn’t care of it. We asked to my mother if we could put on a tee-shirt over, but she answered that we would spend all the holidays like that, and that it was necessary that we accustomed to it. She said that if we were too hot, we could take off our terry-cloth shorts and our onsie, but that we have to stay in diapers and plastic pants.

-Cédric, what will we do today?

-I don’t know Franck.

-We go in woods to finish the hut?

-We will not leave the house like that nevertheless?

-We will not stay locked up at home until the end of the holidays.

-Yes, you’re right. I answered to Franck.

-Dany!

-What?

-Go to seek your bicycle, we go in woods to finish the hut!

-I arrive!

We gone to seek our bags, what to drink, to eat, and my mother gave us what to change our diapers in the afternoon. We took our bicycles, and left in woods. On our bicycles, our diapers weren’t seen too much, but we couldn’t hide our onsies. Hardly, in the street, we crossed people who were turned over on our passage. It’s necessary to say that they were not accustomed to see three teens dressed as some babies, especially in full day. Arrived in woods, we put ourselves at ease and we continued our hut. We had, all the three, removed our terry-cloth shorts, and we were now in onsie, with our diaper under it. I asked Dany and Franck if they were wet, and they answered me:

-No, not yet. And you?

-Me yes.

-Baby made wee in his diaper!

-Dany, stop! It’s not funny, and we are not babies.

-Oh, really? Then why are we wearing a layer, and why are we dressed like babies in full day?

-I know, but it’s not a reason to say it each time.

We continued to build our hut when of only one blow we heard:

-Hello young boys!

We remained petrified, and we didn’t dare to move anymore. We turned over all the three, and we saw who it was. It was the forester guard who walked around. We were very red, and we didn’t know what to do. I answered.

-Hello Sir.

-Oh, but your hut is soon finish?

-Yes, we almost finished it.

-I see that. Yesterday I wondered who had been able to make a hut in this part of woods. I suspected a little that it was you, but I wondered why here? Now I know... You are very cute like that! It’s not all the days that I see some teenagers dressed like babies.

We came down from the hut, and we went to see him. While seeing us in front of him he added:

-But it’s real babies that I have in front of me! They even have diapers. Well, I leave you quiet, boys. And don’t worry; I will not repeat it to anybody. In any event, here you are quiet, because nobody will come to disturb you. Well, enjoy yourselves!

-Goodbye Sir.

Pfff! We escaped it beautiful. I don’t dare to imagine what could have arrived to us if that had been somebody else. It could have been certain of our buddies, and there, that would have been shame for us because all the college would have known it. But good, it was not the case. At 04:00 pm our hut was finished, and we benefited from it eat a little. I asked to Franck and Dany if they needed to be changed, and they answered me yes. I left all that it was necessary, and I changed Dany and Franck who had poop in his layer. Apparently, it liked it. When I decided to change myself, Franck asked to me whether he could change me. Not knowing too what to say, I answered yes. I lay on the plaid, and I let him do. His gestures were not very precise, because he didn’t have the practice. He opened my onsie, slipped down my plastic pant, removed my diaper, and cleaned my buttocks and my dick. I have reddens because I started to be hard. He said me:

-It’s like me the other day.

-Yes. Excuse me, I don’t do it voluntary.

-I know, but seem nevertheless you to like that.

I became very red and I answered him:

-It’s necessary to say that your hands are soft and to be change by a boy doesn’t arrange the things.

-If you don’t want me to change you anymore, it’s not serious, I would understand.

-No Franck, it’s not what I wanted to say.

I looked at where was Dany. As he was in the hut I timidly said to Franck:

-It’s even pleasant.

-I know. It’s for that that I like when you change me. Because, that makes me some things.

-You know, it’s the first time that I become hard like that when in front of a boy.

-And does that obstruct you?

-No, not really.

-Me I find you nice and cute, with or without your diaper.

I didn’t believe what I was hearing and I have reddens once again.

-It’s not necessary to have shame Cédric! I will say you something, but swears me not to repeat it with anybody.

-Of course yes, I swear it to you.

-I prefer the boys...

I stayed without voice for a few moments and I said:

-Where is the problem Franck? You’re my cousin, and you’ll be it always, that love you the girls or the boys.

-Thank you Cédric. But you know, when I said to you that I found you nice, I really thought it.

-It’s nice to you to tell it to me.

The discussion stayed there about it, but I was asking to myself many questions. He gave me my plastic pant, my onsie, and we went in the hut to join Dany.

-You take a lot of them? What did you do?

-Franck wanted to change me, to try.

-What? He changed you?

-Yes Dany. Why?

-Could I try too?

-We will see Dany.

One finished arranging the interior of the hut, and then we decided to come back home. We came back home at 05:25 pm and my mother was already there.

-Oh, here are my boys. All is ok? You had fun?

-Yes, our hut is finished.

We drunk glass of coke, and we left in the garden. As the weather was hot, we took off our shorts and our onsies. My mother left and gave us cakes. She said us that tomorrow my father would assemble the swimming pool.

-Cool! Dany Shouted. We will be able to bathe.

-Yes, but that will not exempt you from your diapers. This afternoon, I made you some swim diapers so, tomorrow you can bathe all the three.

-Really? And how is a swim diaper? Dany asked.

-You will presently test them, before that I change you, after the shower.

-But mom, why are we obliged to wear diapers to go in the swimming pool?

-Cédric, we said to you that you will be diapered 24/7, all the three, until the school re-entry, then it’s also valid for the swimming pool. I made some Navy blue, and purple. They are quite thick, very absorbing, and according to them, they are tight. You will like them.

-With what did you made them mom?

-I found that on Internet. They explain all, and it’s very easy. I made three for each one of you.

We were surprised by what my mother had just said to us, but at the same time, we were happy because we will be able to go to bathe in the swimming pool. It’s not a small inflatable swimming pool, but a large rigid swimming pool, and it takes almost a day to fill it. When my father came back, he asked to us whether we could help him.

-What to do? I asked him.

-To assemble the swimming pool! Because if you want it to be ready for tomorrow afternoon, it’s necessary to start to assemble it now. We ate our cakes and we helped my father to leave the case out of wooden, where it was arranged, in the garage. The reinforcement was then assembled, and the cover was put. My father connected the filter and the circulating pump of water. All was ready.

-Dany! Go and open the water my darling.

-Yes dad!

Dany turned the tap, and the swimming pool started to fill gently. If all were well, the programme of tomorrow afternoon was already done. That didn’t enchant us too much to wear a diaper to bathe, but there we hadn’t the choice…

DANY AND CEDRIC’S ADVENTURES

Chapter 4