Circumstances Scene 27

And explore they did, confirming that aside from the toy room, the third floor had absolutely nothing else of interest. The fourth floor was even less interesting, because it had no toy room. But, on the fifth floor, Chastity found another unlocked door, and in her glee, immediately opened it and went inside, calling for Jack to join her. This Jack did, and they found themselves in a storeroom full of cases and cases and cases of diapers, cases of baby powder bottles, cases of baby lotion bottles, and loads of other such things. “Well, how about this,” she said as she walked further into the room. One of the packages of diapers caught her eye; well, the stack of packages did. They were all pink and proclaimed that they were Huggies: For Girls. “Talk about inventive advertising,” Chastity said sardonically as she picked one of the packages up and looked it over. She read the description on the back. “Ooh, with extra absorbent padding to keep wetness away from her skin… two strong yet refastenable tapes for security and convenience,” she read aloud.
Jack was looking over one of the packages for boys. “Jeez… and they actually sell these things?” he said.
“I don’t know,” Chastity said thoughtfully. “I might buy these.”
Jack looked at her and noticed what she was holding. “Well, there’s a difference.”
She looked at him curiously. “There is?”
“Sure. You see, girls could get away with that sort of thing and look cute, if not really cute, as you’ve so often demonstrated. Guys, on the other hand… it’d just be weird.”
“Even if they were doing it to please a girl?” Chastity put in.
“Well… less weird, I suppose,” Jack conceded.
“Sure,” Chastity said as she returned her attention to the package of diapers she held in her hand. They were cute, she admitted to herself, and they were comfortable. Maybe if they ever hit regular shelves, she’d pick up a package somewhere down the line and have some fun. With that, she set the package back on its stack and continued looking around. “Oh, this is too funny,” she said in quiet surprise as she picked up a package containing an extra large (read: teen-sized) pacifier. She couldn’t resist, and tore open the package and took one out. It was a girl’s pacifier, thankfully, and after looking it over she popped it into her mouth and started to suck on it.
Jack had heard her open the package and turned to her. “What are you doing?” he asked. She turned back to him serenely, still sucking on the pacifier. He just stared at her in mute shock.
She stopped sucking long enough to speak the word, “What?” around her pacifier and then resumed.
“That’s… a big pacifier,” he said.
Chastity took it out of her mouth. “Yeah, a lot better than the ones we used to suck on back in sixth grade,” she said.
“Raver.”
“Shut up.” Chastity made a face at him and then put the pacifier back in her mouth, sucking on it rather happily as she continued to poke around the storage room.
“You know, for someone who really doesn’t like the idea of being a baby you sure do take to it pretty easily,” Jack said.
Chastity glowered at him. “Shut up,” she repeated, but around the pacifier. Jack just smirked at her and folded his arms. Chastity huffed and pulled the pacifier out. “What?” she demanded.
“Oh, nothing,” said Jack innocently.
“Liar. What were you thinking about?”
Jack’s face took on a look of innocence. “Nothing! I swear.”
“You lie. Now tell me!”
Jack sighed. “You really want to know?” Chastity nodded vigorously. Jack took a few moments to choose his words carefully, or as carefully as he could. “You look like an overgrown toddler,” he said at last. “That’s what I was thinking.” He paused, and then added, “A cute overgrown toddler.” Chastity glowered at him from around her pacifier. “You really like that thing, don’t you?”
She smirked at him as she took it out once more. “Let’s just say I’m taking your advice and giving this baby thing a little try.”