Game Time

Chapter 139: Facts of Life  “LET’S TAKE THAT twenty-minute break!” Sebastian said, “There are doughnuts over there if anyone needs a snack!” Beth skipped those, instead asking Nikki to help her out of the diaper and go potty again before they started again. They had four more scenes to film, but one of them was a shopping trip – that had sucked in the first film they had done, and one was a weekend montage as they dealt with their new lives in the characters’ home. After the potty trip and a change for Carly, she asked her, “How are you doing?” “A bit tired,” Carly admitted. “I think these next scenes are some of the most emotional?” “When we’re done today, we’re just going home, right?” “That’s my plan,” Carly said. “So my Grandma’s feels like home now?” “Yeah, it really does,” Beth told her. “You know I’m sure she would love for you to stay there during the weeknights? You’re not like me and stuck in a nest?” Beth sighed, “Yes, but I’d probably see you less, leaving immediately after classes to leave campus?” “Yeah… but you’d be safer?” “I guess you know about everything?” She asked quietly. “Grandma told me some of it?” “You didn’t say anything last night?” Beth asked. “I didn’t want to be too pushy?” Beth hugged Carly, “Thank you.” “Maybe you can properly thank me later?” Carly suggested, wagging her eyebrows with a tone and behavior she’d never seen from her. “You need to behave, Little girl; you’re not too big for me to take over my knee,” she laughed. “There’s an idea…” Carly joked back. Beth facepalmed. They had enough time to grab a drink of water from the containers Nikki was watching over. Then, the shooting restarted with shots of them walking out to the parking lot. They made it clear that the dad had taken the mother’s car since car seats were already in it. Beth and Carly buckled in, and then the vehicle was programmed to drive to the Little Superstore. That sequence took five takes to get everything lined up correctly and demanded a lot of patience from Carly and Beth since they were just living props! ‘They could really just use dolls for this kind of scene,’ Beth griped internally. ‘The screenwriter owes me another massage!’ Eventually, they were ready to fill in the mom with a conversation on the way to the store in the car. The front driver and passenger chairs were again turned toward the backseat as Ava began to motherly chew out her ‘daughter.’ “So, just what the hell suddenly makes you adopt? Especially your two best friends?!?” “Mo...” Charlotte tried to interrupt. “Best friends who are both perfectly capable of using the potty, by the way?!? But you forced them into diapers?!? And then made them use them?!?!?!?! I raised you better than this, Harper Elaine!!!!!” The anger that Ava displayed was honestly impressive to Beth. She sat silently still in the booster seat, grateful that it wasn’t her mother chewing her out! ‘Ava will make a great mother someday,’ she thought. Beth responded then, though, “It’s not her fault...” She hesitated as if the word was hard to say, “Grandma.” Ava abruptly looked dumbstruck and like she’d hit a wall. The maternal need of a woman to have grandkids seemed to override her for a second, but she resumed, “How can you say that? You’ve already been accepted to college, Evelyn! So has Emma!!!” “If she didn’t do it, Annalise was going to,” Beth said with resignation. “Anna poisoned us at the end of school with cookies...” Carly sighed, “She was the only one I would have ever trusted besides Harper, and she did that to us!” Carly hissed. “I swear, Mom, I never wanted this!” Charlotte said, making tears leak from her eyes. She gripped a miniature stuffed animal she had clipped to her backpack like her life depended on it. Clearly, her character’s emotions were at an overloaded point, too. “Annalise?!?” she looks doubtful, “She’s been your friend since you were little girls too, why would she...?” Suddenly, Carly spoke up, “The rest of the cookies are still in my backpack.” Squirms in the seat. “I didn’t think about it until now, but you can test them.” “I’ll get my husband to get someone to do that; if that little girl did that, I’m going to see her punished.” She takes a deep breath, “What happened?” “Cut!” Sebastian called out. “That was gold,” Charlotte said, “I don’t really want to redo that again unless there were horrible filming issues, Will?” “I had closeup cameras on all of you throughout, one on Carly and Beth, another on you two, and then an overhead through the car roof we can cut to. I don’t think we need anything else?” “Good!” Charlotte said, “Ava, that was amazing, by the way!” “I was just sitting there glad I wasn’t the one getting chewed out,” Beth smirked. The crew laughed. “Okay, Carly, you called for a silent montage to tell the story to the mother, but I think we should go ahead and adlib it and record the exchange,” Sebastian suggested. “You can take the sound out since the audience knows the story, but maybe it’ll give a fade spot, or it’ll just be cutting room floor material?” “That works,” Carly agreed. They only did the sub-scene once, with Charlotte telling the main story and Carly and Beth adding their point-of-view in occasionally. After another cut, they resumed filming the dialogue. “Damnit! I’m going to have words with that little girl!” Ava said, clearly angry. The simulated trip to the store ended, and Ava and Charlotte exited the car, opening the back doors. Ava looked at them through the door beside where Beth was buckled in. “I’m sorry this happened to you girls. We won’t let this be the only future you two have. For now, LPS will expect to see Harper taking ‘good’ care of you. As soon as we’re done with that, we’ll get you back to being as big as we can...” Ava shook her head and glared across to Charlotte as she unbuckled Beth. Carly was just being picked up when she added, “This is not how I was supposed to become a grandmother, Harper Elaine!” “Cut!”   WE TOOK A break to reset cameras before filming us being carried into the store. Charlotte carried Beth inside while Ava took care of me. Both grabbed separate carts and put us inside the seats. It was too big of a seat for me, while Beth looked crammed in despite still fitting. She turned a shade of red that was fitting for the moment, and I noticed that the short dress would never cover the diaper as she sat there. There were a couple of restarts, but we were pushed through the store, starting with the diaper aisle. It was like yesterday all over again for me as two boxes were placed underneath the cart for each of us. One for daytime and one for night. Baby wipes, sippy cups, baby bottles, bibs, and a ‘real’ car seat for Beth joined the items quickly. Ava tossed in a baby monitor set without pausing to look at options. The camera focused on a ‘baby proofing’ service, which would add handle covers, outlet covers, corner protectors, and more to the house. Charlotte used a store scanner meant for bigger things to be delivered and scanned, making the purchase obvious. That was a suggestion from one of the crew members who had experience with a ‘new sibling’ right before she came back from the Winter Break. To her credit, she thought it was as much bullshit as the ‘mom’ of Charlotte’s character! Eventually, we had done enough shots of shopping and pushed into the baby furniture area of the store. Here, we reset the cameras and resumed dialogue. Charlotte whispered to her mom. “Do I have to buy them cribs?” “Until LPS stops coming, yes. We can get convertible ones… maybe in the future you can convert them to toddler beds if they’re good girls.” She made it seem like that was for an unknown audience listening in via spies. “You also need to get them a playpen and a highchair for Emma; we can probably just use the booster seat at home for Evelyn. It has straps on it, we just never used them. Go ahead and pick out cute bedding and mobiles, too. LPS will require you to show that you can be a good mommy since you’re practically just a little girl yourself.” Ava had improvised a few things around the original dialogue, but I had to admit I liked her changes. She finished her last line by gently brushing through her loose, somewhat frazzled-looking hair before putting a comforting hand on Charlotte’s shoulder. “Cut!” Sebastian called. “One of the crew members is in shot on my view,” a cameraman called. “Damnit!” Sebastian said, “You’ve got to remember to stay out of frame!” “We do need to do it again,” Will said. “Ava, I like what you did there, but why don’t you try…” Charlotte gave some suggestions, and despite the annoyance of filming it all again, it went better and was worthwhile! With that segment of dialogue completed, they moved on to filming background scenes of Charlotte and Ava shopping and picking out the ‘perfect’ cribs for the girls. The crew followed the script and got closeup footage of signage specifically showing the crib chosen for Evelyn being an extended size to '100 inches.’ Shots showing documentation for Charlotte placing the order for delivery of the cribs that will be there within three hours, which was a service for ‘urgent adoptions.’ Finally, we moved on to the clothing areas of the store and resumed dialogue recording. Charlotte held up a dress that would actually fit in well on the campus for Beth to wear, “This doesn’t look too bad?” Ava responded, “No, dear, pick cute things that a toddler will love! Their maturosis is flaring, and they’re only going to be happier babies if they’re wearing bright clothing!” she smiled after saying that loudly. Then she leaned over and whispered, “You can look for normal-looking clothing later, or maybe even your dad will bring her own clothes later.” “But...” Charlotte went to argue and stick up for her friend. Ava whispered back, “LPS will expect you to transition them to their new role. They’re your babies now, not your friends.” A hug was given to Charlotte and a kiss to Beth and myself to ‘reassure’ us. Then they went to town, picking out cutesy actual clothing mixed in with the HoloClothes. “Cut!” Gary came out and showed Charlotte which clothes were real and how to tell before we began shooting again. He had outdone himself, placing a whole cartful of options of babyish dresses, onesies, rompers, footed pajamas, nightgowns, and other clothing appropriate for an infant for my character and a toddler for Beth’s character. Both of us were changed into ‘better’ clothes during the scene with tags pulled off to scan. I could tell Beth was much happier in the bibbed overalls that actually covered her diaper! After the change, I wore an infant playsuit that looked similar to what I’d seen Aunt Bella dressed in one night. Filming moved to the check-out, where the total was a bit over five thousand dollars. Ava was seen covering the overage for her new granddaughters. Eventually, we recorded leaving the store, strapping into the car seats, and finally getting done with the shopping scenes! “Cut!” Sebastian had called out. “We’re going to take an hour’s break for lunch. Charlotte, who paid for this one?” “Carly did, actually,” she said. “Carly?” he looked at me, “How?” “Ask me some other time. I’m going to warn you, I chose something with some flavor; there’s some mild stuff for the wimps, though!” Beth poked me at that, even though, sadly, few crew members could join me for the spicy side of the Mexican-like food. One who did immediately regretted it. I didn’t laugh too loud… I did laugh, though!   BETH SPENT LUNCH eternally grateful that Carly had ordered milder options, even as she was even more grateful several crew members joined her in her choices. Seeing Caleb regret going toe-to-toe with Carly as she dumped the spiciest of sauces on her food was entertaining, though! Owen had been busy with a play he had been doing with the theater department the previous evenings. He had finally had a chance to help that day. He seemed to feel like an outsider this time but made some suggestions here and there. “Beth?” Owen said. “Yes, Owen?” “Next year, I have to do a show for my theater class that I choose, direct, and probably act in, too. Would you be interested in joining the cast for it?” Beth was flattered, “Maybe? Let me see how everything works out next year? It’s been an interesting semester?” He nodded, “Of course, I just wanted to see if you’d be interested! The members of this cast are all doing great, but you’re the right size and kind of girl I want to use for that?” “If I can, I will,” Beth promised him. “Great!” he said with a smile. Beth thought that was a bit weird, while Carly said, “That’s cool! He’s pretty picky on acting?” Carly mentioned. “Yeah, he is,” she agreed. After lunch, they resumed filming, with the girls returning to Charlotte’s house. While she had Charlotte and the girls wait inside, Ava went back outside and brought in one of the purchases – a playpen. Ava opened it up as Charlotte watched. With a couple of unscripted directions, Charlotte picked up Beth and placed her inside, followed by Carly. It was clear by the fact the wall only reached just below Beth’s armpits that it wouldn’t contain her forever. Still, she sat down inside and held Carly on her lap in the ‘safe place’ a new mother could leave them alone as Charlotte and Ava made more trips to the car. Neither Beth nor Carly had to act much to show their fatigue and displeasure at being penned up like babies in the playpen. Jackson came from the ‘upstairs’ area where he’d apparently made it back and was working on a room for them. After he helped bring in the rest of the items, Beth and Carly were removed from the playpen and placed on Charlotte’s knees. She hugged them protectively on the couch beside Ava. Jackson sat in a recliner, looking at them from the side. The whole sequence was free of dialogue, but it took an hour to film before they finally reached the final dialogue parts in the script. Charlotte’s character asked, “What now?” Jackson gave her a tired smile, “Well, I managed to get the guest bedroom cleared out. The hallway and the office are cluttered with stuff right now, but it’s at least ready for their cribs and changing table to be delivered. You should put them to bed when that’s done.” Charlotte squeezed them tight again, “I meant... what do we do now with the girls?” Jackson rocked in the recliner several times, finally saying, “Harper, they’re your babies and responsibility now. I know this was done to protect them, but that doesn’t change that you’re now their mommy?” “Ugh!” Charlotte roared, almost at a scream but more controlled. “Dad… I mean, I’m going to school Monday, right? What do I do with them? Do I have to put them in a daycare to be mindlessly babied?” Jackson shook his head, “No, actually you don’t have to do that?” “I don’t?!? What can I do then?” “Harper, you’re their mother. You can enroll them in any institution you want. If you want them to go to preschool? They go there. Elementary school? Middle School?” He raised his eyebrows, “High school?” He pauses, “That’s all up to you.” “Wait! They can still go to high school?” Charlotte asked in shock, and a bit of hope came through. “Yes, you may re-enroll them, and they can continue. Evelyn will have to wear the Little uniform like Emma now, but they can even still graduate with you.” Beth asked, “Really?” Hope just barely dangling in front of her character. Ava chimed in, “To be honest, that’s what better be happening!” In Beth’s opinion, she played the very annoyed mother character quite well! “It will! What about their parents?” Charlotte asked. Jackson rocked the chair several times, sighed, and said, “Emma’s dad wasn’t surprised she got adopted... He was actually happy it was you who did it. Jay says he’ll come over next weekend to see her after she gets a chance to adjust. Suggested if she does need to be placed in a daycare, the one he knows his wife is in would be good.” Beth squirmed at the very real conversation Carly had written here. It was rarely shown on television that Littles had families from which they were ripped. It was one of the redeeming spots of what would otherwise be a typical ‘adoption’ film. “That would be really embarrassing for mom to see me like that… But Daddy doesn’t hate me?” Carly’s voice trembled as if tears could start again, even though something she hoped wasn’t as bad as she worried seemed okay. Jackson quickly and forcefully responded, “Of course not, Emma! He’s sad, but let’s face it... you had an uphill battle just like your mama did.” Beth hesitantly and softly asked, “My parents?” “They’re upset... I’m not going to lie to you, Evie. I was worried your mom was going to rip my eyes out… But they don’t hate you – and they never could.” Jackson sighed, “Your mom promises to come visit and... even offered to babysit sometimes if needed. They’ll probably come over next weekend, too. Both of your families will box up your belongings, and I’ll pick them up Sunday.” After a moment of silence that seemed right, Charlotte said, “Things are never going to be normal again, are they?” “They won’t be the same again, Harper, but you don’t have to limit them like other mommies do. You won’t be able to go to separate colleges, but you could even enroll them at the same school you attend.” “That’s legal, honey?” Ava asked in surprise. Jackson responded, “Harper is their mommy; she can do whatever she feels is in their best interest.” He paused before saying, “The one thing we do have to talk about, though, will be potty privileges.” “Since they had poopy accidents, I have to keep them in diapers? Don’t I?” Charlotte asked. “Yes, I don’t see any way around it. Your mom is going to talk about a couple other things you’re going to have to do to keep up appearances, too.” A doorbell sound came across that I knew we’d redub in the edit. Jackson stood, “That should be their cribs and things. I’ll go let the delivery crew in and help get their nursery sorted.” He left. “Cut!” Sebastian said. Two more takes later, Jackson was filmed leading up three crew members and a painting robot to go upstairs to the new nursery. When that was good after two takes, they continued with the dialogue. Charlotte began, “What did Dad not want to say, Mom?” Ava looked uncomfortable as if she was about to explain the ‘facts of life’ to her. “LPS is going to be really skeptical about you raising them... You are going to have to make a really great show of being a good mommy.” “I promise I’ll do anything! I don’t want to see them going to an orphanage – that would be even worse than Annalise taking them! Tell me what I have to do?!?” Charlotte added an urgency to her voice. “Get ready for sore nipples,” she said bluntly. “Huh?” Charlotte said. Beth gasped, “Both of us...?” Ava said calmly, “Yes, both of you. It’s an important bonding process, according to ‘experts.’ Harper, you probably need to publicly feed them in the cafeteria on Monday, too.” Right on cue, Charlotte began crying with tear tracks down her eyes. As ‘reality’ hit the trio, Beth and Carly started crying, too. It was unscripted, but it seemed right that Ava joined a group hug and a cuddle with the trio. “Cut!” Sebastian said. “Do we need that part about breastfeeding?” Ethan asked. “Yes,” Charlotte said. “Our scriptwriter did some great things in this script, and I hope, even if this isn’t seen widely, that you all get her message about freedoms being ripped out here.” “Everyone loses in this,” Beth muttered. “Basically, yes,” Carly said. Charlotte put her hand on Carly’s back and rubbed it, but they were still sitting on the couch. “Okay, we just need to record the montage of them settling into their new lives,” Sebastian said, “Let’s get this done, and then hopefully we have some weekend left!” After the sixth outfit, being fed in the booster seat, Carly in the highchair, ‘nursing’ in a rocking chair in the nursery and on the couch in the living room, diapers changed on a changing table, ‘playing’ with dolls with Carly, and a good hour of moving from activity to activity they felt they had enough for a thirty second to a minute of montage to be accompanied with a soundtrack. “That’s a wrap, folks!” Sebastian said, “Great work!” “Let’s get you out of that damn diaper,” Charlotte said to Beth. “Those are the best words I’ve heard all day!” she replied.   +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thanks for reading! 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Problem with all the diapers coming out is that they are cute... I can wear a all pink diaper, but I'm not wearing a diaper with "cute" prints. 

Why would I call them anything else? Only other word i use is "Bleie", which is Norwegian for diaper. 

Hi everyone, never posted before sorry if I do anything wrong. I'm looking for a story that I am under the impression got kind of popular, but I don't know what site it was on since it was a long time ago. It was about a girl who I think gets sent to a troubled youth high school, but it's basically a college and all the students are in dorms. I think the male love interests name was Cole, and he basically loves spanking her and putting her in diapers and they fall in love blah blah blah. There's a scene I remember where Cole spanks her while his roommate is chilling on the couch next to them playing a game.  One random detail I don't know if I dreamed or not is that I think there was a sequel being written, because I remember for some reason they all got split up at the end of the original, and then the sequel was years later at actual college I think. Anywho, thanks if anyone can decipher these ramblings!

Good chapter , maybe Jade will take the baby on an outing .