Larry's Find

[Ishigreensa]

"Well, when they learned that I was stuck with my niece because her mommy is on the streets, and your mommy sent you to me so you wouldn't be on the streets, they decided that if I'm working in a small town like this, then I need something more than a bus to get around, and I guess they had such a hard time filling the place, they sort of figured a few bonuses added in might keep a teacher more than a year for once."

He smiled at her.

"So, honestly, I think I owe you for the car because the school probably wouldn't have thought I'd needed it without you."

He was sort of just trying to boost up her importance to him though, because the car was part of the deal already, and he knew it.  It wasn't like it was brand new or anything, but it was well maintained enough that they figured it would get him by for at least a couple of years.

"They also decided that a child your age needed a house closer to the school for the mornings you have to walk, so they actually changed the place they had set up for me.  This one is a little nicer and has plenty of room for you."

He smiled.

"They have to finish the details though, so we have to stay at the motel until Friday while they prepare it for us with water and lights turned on."

He unlocked the back door for her because believing she was eleven, he didn't know the exact law about how old she had to be to be in the front, and her size definitely screamed elementary school student to him.

"Get comfortable, sweetie. It's going to be a long ride again, so don't hold it anymore.  An infection will get worse if you keep it in the body longer than it should be.  Just wet your diaper and tell your Uncle Larry, sweetheart."

[liddlekitkat]

her eyes go wide with both shock and embarrassment, A house and a car because of me they're desperate but what if they figure out i'm not a kid. 
She looks at the opened back door with confusion, "Uncle Larry," she pauses to convey a more serious tone, "I. cant. go. to. school." she pauses for a while she knows he'll ask later but she didn't want to talk about it near the school. "and why do i have to sit in the back, i'm not a baby" her tone was irritated. small kids sit in the back shes atleast 4 inches above the federal recommendations. He really doesn't know much about kids for someone so eager to take care of what he thinks of one. 

[Ishigreensa]

"I'm not talking about that right now," Larry told her.  "We'll talk about school once we are on our way in the car.  Now get in, and you are an elementary school girl, so in my car, you will ride in back until I'm comfortable putting you in the front seat."

He reached down and hugged her.

"I'd never forgive myself if something happened to you that could have been prevented by being more careful, sweetie."

He frowned.

"You've had a pretty hard day so far, so I'm going to just have you sit in the back, and pretend you didn't try to backtalk me.  I'm the adult here, little lady.  I decide what is best for you from now on.  I'm practically legally your guardian now, because in a small town, them having acknowledged you as my niece, and buying the story we've given them, they expect you to be under my care now, sweetheart.  Papers will be filed for you within the week that gives me custody over you."

He smiled at her.

"But that's a good thing for you because it means no more bad foster homes and no more living on the streets where you have to go potty on yourself and don't get enough to eat, or have nowhere decent to sleep, and being scared all the time."

He then gently pushed her into the back seat, and even started to buckle the seatbelt for her.

[liddlekitkat]

She pushes his hand away, gritting her teeth. " I don't need you to buckle me in, i don't need to sit in the back seat i don't need to be in fucking elementary school."
She scoots away from him unintentionally toward the middle seat, seething, "I told you to stop assuming about my family, my home, my life. can we just go back the damn motel." She crosses her arms across her chest her breathing heavy seething with anger.

[Ishigreensa]

He gave her a very stern look as he positioned his hand over her lap to swat her.

"You look here," he told her.  "I don't know where you get off telling adults off, and yelling at someone that took you off the dangerous streets!  You are a child, and you will behave."

He grabbed the seatbelt end from her.

"I'm not assuming anything about your family right now.  I just know you are out here and lost.  Now, if you can go back to them, and they are not mean to you, then we'll contact them and let them know I'll put you on the next bus back home if you've traveled a bit, otherwise, we can look for your foster family right now.  It has to be a foster family.  There is nothing on the news about you missing, so it's not a real family, or at least not one that wants you.  People worry about children."

He pushed the middle seatbelt closed on her.

"Now, we are going to drive to the motel, and since you are so concerned about me assuming, you are going to stop trying to hide things and just tell me about your family then.  Because you're right.  I don't know anything about them, and as entitled as you've been acting lately and being ungrateful and even lying when I worry about your health and if you are wetting, I think you better just spill the beans instead of getting mad at me when you haven't told me anything but a name, that might not even be real."

[liddlekitkat]

She grits her teeth, and speaking through her teeth she says, "I. never. Lied" 
She unclicks the seat belt and scoots to the seat furthest from him. "I tried to tell yo the truth and you called me a liar and hit me. But I needed a place to stay and you were nice so i played along. But i told you not to assume and you ignored me and kept believing what you wanted.
She puts her own seat belt on and crosses her arms again. "Can we please just get out of this place."
She fumed as she waited for him to get in the car. she hoped he wouldn't be too mad and atleast get her back to town. she didn't want to go home  but she had to figure out a plan fast

[Ishigreensa]

"You did lie," he looked at her.  "Not about your family, about what you've done when I worried about your health.  The nurse caught you lying, too, or do I need to have you back back in and you can tell the nurse you didn't lie about pottying your pants in front of her?"

He crossed his arms.

"We are not going anywhere until you clear up two things for me.  One, how much you've really been going to the toilet in your pants the last two days, and two, what your real family situation is.  I'm not putting a child on the streets, and even if you are a bit older, it's still not safe nor healthy for you to be on the streets.  I'd even help an honest young woman over 20 years of age, if she needed a place, and if she accepted.  Most wouldn't accept though, because as you get older, you'll realize that not everyone you see on the street is safe."

He sighed as she scooted away and put on her seatbelt.

"Look, I care about your wellbeing even if you think I'm being strict or mean.  If you don't like me anymore, then we need to do something because the Church, the school, and others have been involved in trying to help you because we all believed you were a child on the street that had nowhere to go, and if that's not the case, then you did lie.  Not with words, but with omission of the truth from the first time we met.  You never told me anything was wrong with what I said about your situation, and just acted like a scared little child that didn't know me enough to want to tell me anything, but if things were not like it seemed then you should have told me as soon as I brought it up, that that wasn't exactly the way it was.  If you are lying about being in such need for help, and you were just pulling a scam on me, then you should be returned to your family along with a sore bottom for playing such serious thing.  And if you were an adult, you'd actually go to jail for conning people, but I don't think you're an adult, exactly.

He sighed.

So, if you are older than eleven years old, no is the time to come clean, and tell me how much needing a new family is a lie or a misunderstanding, or if that part is real.

[liddlekitkat]

She rubbed her temples and took a deep breath, " I didn't lie I told you My name is Sarah which is true, I am twenty three also true, and i got kicked out of school  over grades again true. But when i told you the first time you called me a liar cause i was pissing my fucking pants and you know what i didn't have a response cause i don't know why it keeps fucking happening and being homeless obviously wasn't helping," She sighs exasperated.

taking another deep breath she continues sensing larry wasn't satisfied with her story, "Look I'm from Kentucky I was a student at the college a bit away from here and I majored in business, and it was fine. the first two years because of covid everything was online and i was either home or at a friends house. but When school opened back up and i could finally come out here to be on campus like i always wanted, the first semester on campus was okay but then i started making more friends and partying more." She paused she never really talked about this part and truthfully she was just ashamed.  

"So Fall 2021 i got accused of using ChatGPT for some papers and I was put on academic probation. So I  retake the classes Spring 2022 But i couldn't get my GPA to where it needed to bebeing on campus was really distracting i guess. So when I attempted to register for fall classes I was told that i could only complete registration for classes if i did some summer classes to get my gpa back up. When i called my dad to pay for the semester I told him that i also needed money for summer school and him being the nice man that he paid the school for everything. Also gave me money to get to keep my dorm for the summer."

"But i guess this is where the lying started," she bit her lip anxiously. "Not to you though. but in general. i signed up for 3 summer classes originally but the teacher got swapped to the one who accused me of using ChatGPT." "WHICH by the way, "she says dramatically as shes getting lost in her own story. "I didn't even use improperly I wrote the stupid paper i only used it to improve the proposal but i still edited and came up with the ideas myself he just hates me." she lets out a huff. "Anyway so i dropped the class. And thats when i found out because the payments are under my name the refunds come to me. and thats when it all starts to really fall apart i guess." Her tone becoming more somber.

"So i took the refunded money and the apartment money and got me a nicer loft downtown from where you found me on a month to month lease. It was nice cause At home i had a huge room and space and the dorms were so tiny. But only having two classes meant i would have to ace both of them to get my Gpa up to the right level. I was able to to get through most of the summer semester even though going from my apartment all the way back to campus was wasting valuable time. but toward the end I missed an assignment. i think he was in cahoots with the ChatGPT teacher cause i'm sure the due date was originally later but when he saw i wasn't failing he moved it so i could miss it and fail. cause it was an important assignment i wouldn't have just missed it entirely. But whatever fuck both of them." A grumbling sigh comes from her nostrils as  her eyes start to water in frustration. 

"I ended up with an A and a C and I basically begged the Registrar to give me one more chance because i was only .15 off the GPA. And i got a pass. So i went to register for fall 2022 but 4 out of the 5 classes would be with the two teachers who just screwed me over. Cause the actual good teachers classes were full. My dad had already paid for it so I had no choice.  But my friend reminded me that I could just drop them later and worst comes to worse i could keep the money, like i did from the summer. and that was the beginning of the end. With the last of the summer refunded money me and my friends went to Miami and had a ball."  She stated to bite her thumb again staring out the window for a moment.

"when the semester started I went to maybe 2 classes but no slots in the other teachers classes ever opened up. And they were so mean to me so I i just dropped out and waited for the refund. I could tell those teachers just didn't like me and i wasn't going to waste the semester to fail anyway. But the refund took forever so i missed a payment on the loft. When it did come the landlord had a late fee of 300 fucking dollars AND raised the rent 100 fucking more so now it was 1500 a month. I didn't tell my dad but but he even got me an part time internship with one of his college buddies but i was super irresponsible and they basically loss that job within a month. Maybe that tipped off my dad i'm not really sure what made him do it but in November he called to pay for the spring 2023 semester and they basically said that there was no account to pay for as there wasn't a  student registered under my name. We had a big fight when he called for understanding and basically it ended with I better come home with the degree he paid for or the money I stole from him cause he wasn't giving me another dime. And we basically stopped talking well i more stopped responding then he stopped calling. Then he cut me off as a user on his credit cards but that wasn't till Summer 2023. But anyway I wasn't allowed to register for Spring 2023 because by dropping out i lost my registration waiver and my gpa was still to low. I think they said i could take 4 classes at the community college and transfer them in to raise my GPA but i don't know anymore. But the landlord was a bitch because they wouldn't let me get a stable lease cause i didn't have a job. So i tried a job at CVS but then they said that wouldn't count cause it wouldn't have covered the rent in the first place but that was true  i couldn't afford it without left over tuition money as it paid for most of it. I stayed there as long as I could afford but by September last year I had to find a smaller place cause I couldn't get a better job and the landlord took advantage of me being month to month to keep raising the rent." she grinds her teeth. "I swear he was just trying to get rid of me. But i guess all the hanging out and partying i was doing was wasting money anyway" 

"Anyway i found cheap place to rent that with what i had left over and my CVS job i could cover. It was small so I had to buy a storage unit to keep all my other stuff. I started talking to my dad on occasion but both of my parents were still angry but they pay for the storage unit and my phone bill. But they wouldn't put me back on the credit cards or cosign for a better apartment. So no more ubers just took the bus everywhere only ate at cheap restaurants or ate cereal at home. but money was still tight. and then Starting in  November i started getting sick on and off but missing 1 day cut into my check and i started falling behind on rent. and then I lost that apartment. I tried using the card that was paying for the Storage unit for other things but they found out and cut it off and we got into another argument...." her voice trailed off as she thought about how much she ruined her relationship with her parents. 
"Anyway I have been homeless since the middle of last month at first i could get a spot in the shelter right after work. but being in the shelter made me sicker and then i started missing work more and they let me go 2 weeks. then we had a cold patch and the shelter was filling up before i could get in. I was too ashamed to tell my dad And even when i talked to him the other day he was more  sympathetic But he still upset over the money and the job he got me that i loss he doesn't feel i learned my lesson and if i come home I'd have to work with the pickers in the farm we own and I'm just not cut out for that kind of labor so I'm not ready to give up and go home."
"So when you came along and didn't believe me. Especially after the accident i figured if you thought you I was a sick child you wouldn't think i was some sort of prostitute and ask me to do anything sexual or weird, And you kept insisting that i was and with each accident i sort of felt like a child more and more though i don't know what kids you know but i'm prolly 6 inches taller and 60 pounds heavier than any 11 year old i kno. but i just didn't know what was happening or what to do so i just played along figuring maybe food and shelter would make it the problem go away and i'd stop getting sick and then once i was feeling better i could tell the truth and you would finally believe me. but i guess that day isn't coming anytime soon"

Exasperated from talking and ashamed with finally laying out everything on the table she bends over and buries her face in her lap, "Well thats the story if you want to kick me out i understand but i guess can you atleast get me back to town."
 

[Ishigreensa]

"No, baby," he had been quiet during her whole story, though he had breathed a bit in irritation at how bad this was.  He didn't know if he was more mad at himself, her parents for not preparing her for the real world, or her for putting herself in this situation, but he kept quiet except for some obvious snorts of displeasure at the whole mess.

"No," he shook his head reaffirming.  "I told you already, even if you are twenty-three years old, I'm not putting you back on the streets just so you can keep living this shame."

Larry pulled the car over somewhere between the towns, and he got out and got in the back with her, sitting next to her, he turned to look into her eyes.

"Just so I know you aren't lying this time, can you show me your student card or something with proof that you are an adult?" he asked her.  He wanted to believe her with everything she laid out to him.  It seemed a rather far fetched scenario for even a teen with little world experience to lay out, but kids were crafty.  He didn't want her to think she could pull the stunt twice on him.

"Well, we are in a pickle, but I just lied to the school about you being my niece, your parents being homeless, and I was expected to take you in.  I don't know what the nurse at school knows about your age, but she didn't seem to have let on that she was on to it, and honestly, I feel like we got the extra car and the extra house because they were worried about putting a kid on the streets.  They even gave me a sign on bonus that doesn't make sense unless they felt sorry for the fact I had a kid with me."

He rubbed her arm.

"Honestly, your quiet game probably wouldn't have worked with anyone else.  I do take part of the blame, wanting to see a kid this whole time, but the wetting aside, your story has a lot of actions of someone that is just... well, I'd even have expected better from someone starting high school.  Partying happens in college, but not to the point that you described.  Accusing your teachers of just wanting to fail you seems a bit irresponsible too, honey.  One teacher?  Yeah, maybe they were salty after you turned in a paper with GPT chat.  Even if you were using that ap to just clean up your work, you were kind of cheating.  GPT chat doesn't let the teacher see what you actually know about grammar and how to write to be persuasive since it corrects all your weaknesses in a paper."

He rubbed her leg.

"Of course, if no one taught you that, then that's not entirely your fault, sweetie."

He sighed a moment to let her get a word in, and so he could think about how to word a proposal that he thought would help her.  He didn't want her back on the streets, and he was sure that she would not be able to hold a job down with where she was currently in her head.  She thought the landlord was just raising the price on her every month to get rid of her, but honestly, being constantly late with payments would be a good enough reason to get rid of her.  She probably just got something confused.  He wasn't going to bring that up though because he felt that she honestly believed this, and he didn't want her call her a liar on something she believed.  It wouldn't solve her problem if he just called her a liar.  In his mind, she had to learn things that she didn't apparently learn at home.

He listened to her, almost half-heartedly, as he tried to think of a way to ask just how strict they were with her at home before she came to live on her own.  He figured they probably didn't get strict on anything, which is why she has no idea how to do things on her own.  She couldn't keep a job, she blamed everyone else for everything that happened instead of trying to change her behaviors to change it, and he didn't know why she was wetting her pants, but he knows there are free clinics, so even if she had a health problem that caused it, she obviously didn't have the survival skills to get that checked out on her own.  But how was he going to convince her that she was still a child and needed to learn to be an adult?  That's what it all boiled down to.  In his eyes, she was eleven despite her years of time on Earth and a piece of paper or plastic that said that she was alive for 23 years.  She just didn't have the skills of even an eleven year old... Did she?

[liddlekitkat]

She sobbed a bit, " it wasn't a game i didn't know what else to do. You were nice and i just went along with whatever you said i hadn't had a shower in like 5 days or a hot meal. I'm sorry okay."

She catches her breath for a bit and grabs her backpack and rummages around for a second and produces her ID, "Here" she shoves the Kentucky state license in his chest before curling up back in the ball. caught up in her story she had wet briefly a couple times without recognizing it, but not enough to leak. but as she moved she could feel the squishiness and groaned Why does this keep happening to me.  she buries her face in her hands.

[Ishigreensa]

"I didn't mean a game as in you were doing this for the fun of it, sweetheart.  I know you were in trouble, and you took an out that presented itself, though it did put you in a peculiar situation, and because I wanted to see a child, has put me in the same web, now."

He sighed.

He saw her move a little strangely and mutter something.  

Seeing her age on her license, he put it in his wallet and in his own pocket.

"Well, we can't have this getting out right now, baby.  We need to figure out what we are going to do so you don't end up on the streets, and so I don't end up losing the job over fraud, being that I lied about having custody of a "child," you."

Larry looked at her.

He sighed.  "You don't want to go back out on the streets or go home, do you?" he asked her trying to get her permission to enact a plan.  "And you don't want to worry about trying to get back into school at the same college where the teachers that worry you are still possible professors you could get stuck with, do you?"

He frowned as he thought about it, and it was blackmail, but it wasn't meant to be mean.  He was just trying to make her see reason that if she followed his plan, she wouldn't have anything negative happening to her, going back to her parents a failure, being stuck on the streets, or having to face a college that probably already had rumors floating around about her being in trouble for academic fraud.

"I need a child to stay with me to keep the house we were promised," he told her.  "And you do need a place to stay if you don't want to end up on the streets again.  You don't have the skills to hold down a job, sweetheart.  Even with all the bad luck you've run into, you still acted like a child with me all the way up until now.  You can maybe say it was an act, only, some of what you were doing, was unconsciously like a child.  I took you to eat, and you knew I didn't have a lot of money, but like a child, you wanted to order the most possible I'd give you.  That's a child's mind, sweetheart.  Children don't understand the full concept of money and how hard it is to get.  That's why you were unable to understand why you were fired from your lower end job.  Getting sick was unhandy, but they don't fire you for getting so sick you can't work.  They fired you because you missed Too much work, sweetie.  And you've been out on the streets, just peeing yourself, and haven't done anything about trying to figure out why you are doing it, have you?  You know, before I assume, how long have you been wetting the bed?  It normally starts small, and when you are not aware of it before it gets as bad as it is... so that will be important to tell the doctor anyway.  How long have you been neglecting or thinking it was nothing before it got bad enough that it is now very inconvenient, sweetie?"

He rubbed her leg.

He was trying to take it slow, but she needed to understand that just going back to what she was doing, was not going to ever get a better result.  She needed help.

[liddlekitkat]

She Shrugged, she was feeling anxious she didn't really get what he was implying but he seemed like he wasnt going to kick her to the curb. She rubs her face trying to relieve the emotional tension. "Um i don't know sometimes when i'm sick i would wet the bed but i didn't really start getting sick alot until i was staying at the shelter." she paused, trying to get a timeline in her head. 

"I think i started having to go to the bathroom a lot 3 weeks ago. And i guess maybe it was 2 weeks i had a couple accidents where its seemed to leak before i could get to a bathroom. But when i couldn't get to the shelter and businesses stop letting me in to their bathrooms. so i kinda just started going whenever i could. But i swear when you found me friday is the first time i just couldn't control it." She started to sob again. 

[Ishigreensa]

"Okay, sweetheart," he frowned.  "I might have overthought this, but I'm still worried about how you'd survive on your own.  The shelters don't seem to be guaranteed by the way you are talking, and bad things happen all the time even in Tucson."

He pulled the seatbelt off her and pulled her closer to hug her.

"Can I be your adoptive uncle?" he asked her.  "I know you have a real dad you love, and I'm not taking his place.  I just want to take care of you until you learn to get on your feet.  I mean, do you have any means to get a job right now that you won't have to worry about where you are going to stay?  If you got sick at the shelter, then how can you expect not to get sick again, sweetheart?"

He rubbed her back.

"You are having a lot of problems, and you even said, basically, if you can't get your feet on the ground, your father has only one alternative, and it seems like he's going to put you doing hard labor."

He frowned at her.

"Honestly?  Have your parents even had you doing house chores when you were ten years old?  Did they ever show you how to get a part time job when you turned fifteen?  I'm sorry if I'm assuming again, but it seems you don't those skills you should have learned before.  I mean, if I'm wrong, honey... I'm listening this time.  Please tell me."

[liddlekitkat]

She stammered a bit, "I don't know i can't even keep my pants fucking dry how could i even go to work. I mean i was supposed to keep my room clean but that was about it. My parents usually hired people for everything else. Sometimes i could work for my dad in the summer if i didn't go to camp or travel but that was mostly riding the horses or answering his phone he would never have me do any of the hard farm jobs i'm his little princess."

[Ishigreensa]

"Well, sweetheart, I'm sorry to say, but you don't seem to have been taught much responsibility or how to make life work.  I know your parents love you, but they seemed to have overprotected you so much, that you didn't learn some very important things."

He sighed.

"Look.  If I take you in for a while, but I don't teach you anything, eventually, you'll be out in the street in the same situation as you are now, right?"

He waited a moment for her to think about it.

"I'm really sorry, but everyone around us at the moment believes you are eleven years old, and the best way for me to start teaching you to take care of yourself, is to raise you like you are a child for a little while.  You would like to learn to take care of yourself, wouldn't you?"

[liddlekitkat]

She didn't respond for a bit it started to sink in how deep of a hole she dug herself into, she was sure there was other options but nothing was coming to mind and she realized she put him in a bind too and he had ben so nice to her she didn't want to get him into any trouble either. With a shallow sigh she nodded her head, "I guess youre right besides i don't want you to get in trouble for my mistakes either." 

She felt a wave emotion that she couldn't quite place and though she hadn't had much to drink since the morning but she felt the warm sensation of pee filling the diaper again. she sniffled again, "um well uncle larry... i...i.im peeing again"

[Ishigreensa]

"Honey, I made mistakes, too.  This is not all your fault.  I want you to understand that.  While I don't want to lose the job, blaming you completely would be wrong.  The clues were there, I just chose to look past them and avoided asking if you were an adult.  So, that was as much my fault as yours.  If we are going to build a relationship based on trust, then you need to know that I'll take the blame for anything I do, too, and if you are truly going to be my adopted niece, then that makes me responsible for things more so that you, at least while I'm treating you like a child, okay?"

As he tried to think about how to word his next words, she told him she was peeing.

"Good girl," he told her.  You told me something that I very much need to know if I'm going to be taking care of you for a while, and there's nothing to be scared of if you tell me the truth.  I know you're having trouble, and I know it makes you feel bad, but it's now my job to take care of you.  I'll never be mad or tell you it's your fault for an accident.  Even if you could have held it and told me, honestly, we are in the middle of nowhere, so with your problems, I'd have wanted you to just wet for now, sweetheart.  I don't want you trying too hard while you are sick, because if it's an infection causing you to pee, then its important to get that infection out of your body as soon as possible, so sometimes wetting your pants is better."

He pulled her over and into his lap.

"Can you try to be my little eleven year old niece long enough for me to teach you to take care of yourself?" he asked her.  "I promise, if you do, you won't have to leave my care until I know you are ready to be an adult and can take care of yourself, and I'd insist you don't leave, but the down side, is you'll be a child, with everything that goes with it, whether I have to spank, or I pick you up and comfort you when you feel like crying.  Okay?"

He patted her lap.

"I know this is a lot, but I really would not want to put you on the streets, so if you don't want me to take care of you, then we are getting you a bus ticket back to your parents.  I don't like the idea of you being on the streets.  I'll let you think on it and decide in the morning, but meanwhile, you are eleven years old until we decide if you are going back to your bio parents or you are staying with me longer as an eleven year old, meaning at least three years so I can start teaching you to take care of yourself."

[liddlekitkat]

She sniffles, She hated that she was being told to wet her pants, but she was also partially relieved she couldn't hold it anyway and just allowing it to go made it almost fell normal. three years is he insane. i can go home before then, she thinks to herself. 
She rest her head on his chest as she sits in his lap she felt comforted and oddly safe but could she really go back to school. He was right going back home would be way harder, finding a job feels impossible, but i should be able to finesse some 5th grade schoolwork. But what about the kids. she shouldn't really be around them much what if she slips up eveyone is going to be in trouble. There were alot of things for her to consider but she wasn't fully sure, She wants to stay just to avoid telling her dad she failed after just telling him she would pay him back. 
"Thats a lot and a long time. I....i.. don't know yet but i'll tell you soon but i feel like you really want to help and i feel like i owe it to you. but i need some time. maybe you can show me what that would mean for 24 hours and i'll give you a response after that?"

[Ishigreensa]

Larry smiled and kept patting her back.

"It is a long time, I know, honey.  It's just you are going to need some time to learn to be an adult or you'll end up in the same position, unless you parents somehow take you back, and actually teach you themselves.  I'm just worried that you don't have the skills to survive is all."

He patted her back and rubbed her back.

"I can show you how I'd take care of you, at least some taste of it, sweetheart, but honestly, there is a lot that goes into helping a child that doesn't all come up in 24 hours.  I want you to understand that I won't get to show you everything that could happen in just one day, but I can show you how I intend to do things.  Actually, we could give you until Friday, if you like to make up your mind.  That's when I have to come and report for work.  If you decide to leave on Friday, then I can just get you to come with me, and confirm that your parents got out of their situation, and want you back, maybe."

He rubbed her back.

"Just remember, if you do decide to leave, I don't think your parents are going to toughen up on you to have you learn adult skills magically, so I am worried about you being on the streets in the future if you do go back to them.  People need certain skills to survive, right?"

He helped her off his lap and sat her back in her seat again.

"When we get back to the motel, I'll need to give you a bath sweetheart.  I want to check you are not irritated from all the accidents, and if you are, we should get you some medicine for your skin."

He looked at her for a moment.

"If we are in the middle of nowhere and there is no bathroom around, you are allowed to poop yourself, but I'm not going to tell you to do that if you can hold it.  As far as we know, you only have a bladder infection or something, so there's no reason to make you do anything that upsetting, okay?"

He smiled to her.

"But you are to pee your pants for now, if there are no toilets around, okay?"

He got out of the backseat again, and started to drive her home.  He wanted to get her changed as soon as he could because he wasn't sure wearing a wet diaper too long was good for her, but he didn't want to scare her by checking her diaper right then and changing it in the car like that.  She needed time to get acclimated to him changing her before he could just change her in the car when necessary.

[liddlekitkat]

She offers a soft smile and nod. atleast she didn't have to decide right now. Her face turned up at the thought of pooping. "Thats disgusting i'm not pooping in my pants." she pauses "But if you think just peeing is best i'll follow your lead i don't know i've never had anything like this before." 
As he moves back to the front she puts her seatbelt back on and settles back in her seat to reflect on the offer. She thought her parents did a good job raising her but maybe he was right maybe they failed her and that's why she ended up like this. as she watches scenery pass by she eventually falls back asleep till they arrive at their destination. 

[Ishigreensa]

When they get back to the motel, he sighed as he parked the car, and he went into the office letting her rest a few moments while he let them know he had a car, and he'd be out on Friday.

When he came back from the office, he opened her door and looked in to see if she was there.  She was going to need a bath, and then he would need to see if she needed any rash creme or anything else to ease her suffering.  He hoped her skirt wasn't soaked, but he did tell her to just pee herself for now, so it was his fault if it was.

He hadn't given her a key, so she'd have had to wait in the car, or by their door in a wet diaper under a skirt.

[liddlekitkat]

Sitting in silence she is woken by the noise that she was used to on the car ride. She looked around and realized she was back at the motel but she looked around again trying to find Larry but she doesn't see him. she keeps looking around and the longer she doesn't she him she gets nervous did he leave me she wonders. she undoes her seatbelt and opens the door she gets out the car and starts looking around and her heart starts beat harder. She looks at all the passing cars and gets more stressed worried who might be looking at her. she slams the door and runs upto the room and bangs the door thinking maybe he left her in the car cause she was sleep she knocks on the door but theres no response and she looks back toward the parking lot a bit of panic on her face.

[Ishigreensa]

When he didn't see her at the car, he started to panic.  Did she just get a ride back and return to the streets?  She's going to get hurt, or worse!  She really can't take care of herself!  Maybe she just went to the room.  He was so dumb!  She IS like an eleven year old, not understanding anything, and this sort of proved it!  Hell, even an eleven year old knows to stay put and wait if their parent left them for a moment because you don't leave kids in the car for very long!

He ran to the motel door, the motel did have just a two floor sort of apartment feel with all the doors facing outside to the parking lot.  He looked up at the area, and he sighed.  He saw someone standing right in front of his room, and he was sure that she was about the same height of the girl, Sarah.

He mumbled to himself.  "No more leaving her on her own unless she's aware of the plan.  She can't be trusted to stay put otherwise."

He walked up to her and sighed in relief as he got close enough to positively identify her.

"Honey, are you okay?" he asked her.  "Why'd you leave the car, sweetheart?"

[liddlekitkat]

She sighs in relief when she sees a familiar figure in the parking lot. and leans up against the wall as her breathing starts to return to normal. as he walks up she wipes her eyes. "I don't know i woke up and i didn't see you in anywhere i looked around and couldn't find you so i panicked and thought you went to the room so i came here but then no one answered the door and I just didn't know what to do so i just kept scanning the parking lot till i saw you finally."

[Ishigreensa]

He put a hand on her shoulder, and he rocked her a moment.

"Sweetheart, unless we decide differently on Friday, if you ever find yourself lost again, stay where you are if you can, and if you are really scared, go to the main office and tell the manager or person in charge that you lost your Uncle Larry Hauches, and if they ask you how old you are, just tell them you're eleven, and tell them you're not supposed to tell anyone your name.  That's a common safe thing we teach kids, so they shouldn't bat an eye at that."

He hugged her.  

"I'm really sorry.  I thought you'd sleep a little long, and I just wanted to square away with the landlord her that we'd be moving on Friday and pay the extra for having an extra person in the room.  I told him my niece is here with me for a few days because something happened at home and you can't go home just now, which is kind of true."

"You need to get your diaper changed, and I need to get a good look at what is going on down there, so I know if you have a rash from wearing wet clothes all the time."

He smiled.  "I know you said you only noticed it getting that bad a couple of days ago, as far as full on wetting, and I believe you, but if you were leaking a lot and not noticing until you were wet, then you'd have moisture around your privates even longer, so I need to check, baby."

He opened the door for her.

"I might as well undress you, when I give you a bath because I want to see if you've injured yourself in other places, too or if you have any owies."

He didn't stir her.  He knew it was going to be uncomfortable for her, but he had to take care of her, if he was really calling her an eleven year old that had no sense of how to take care of herself, and being twenty-three and not being able to take care of herself, she had to know that sounded even worse than just eleven and not knowing some basic stuff.

He didn't chase her into the bathroom or anything.  He just watched where she was going while he started to get her some clothes ready.