Chapter 2
created: 2023-06-04T10:39 updated: 2023-06-04T10:
Alex woke up the next morning, sleeping by himself in the bed that they had put in their bedroom for Delaney. The comforter was pink with butterflies all over it, something that an eight year old girl would have. Reaching up to rub his eyes, he looked across the room at his sleeping wife. Her mousey brown hair lay across the pillow. He would have gotten up and gone to lay in bed with her, but she had given him strict instructions to not leave the bed until she removed the rail on the side to keep him from falling out. It wouldn't matter if he did get out of the bed; the purple and turquoise striped sleeper zipped up the back and the zipper was locked in place by a small key. The key was barely visible in the limited light in the room, Veronica had placed it on a little chain around her ankle. Alex felt the wet diaper being held in place by the sleeper get warm and he sighed and closed his eyes and fell back asleep.
"Princess," Veronica's soothing voice gently roused Delaney from her slumber. "Mommy is going to make breakfast, and then we'll eat, and then get you changed and into a dry diaper."
"OK, Mommy," Delaney mumbled, the pitch of her voice somewhere between Alex's and Delaney's. As Alex glanced into the bright blue eyes of the love of his life, he gave a contented sigh. There was something incredibly special about this to him, Veronica had known about his girl side and had helped pick her name out. Alex had been incredibly lucky with her. She not only didn't run, but encouraged both of the parts of him that he kept hidden from the rest of the world to come out and play.
Veronica dropped the rail on the side of the bed so that Delaney could get out and follow her downstairs. "So, how about some scrambled eggs, and some sausage patties?" She didn't even look over at Delaney, knowing what the response would be. Delaney sat on the hard chair, feeling her diaper squish as she compressed it with her weight. She knew that it may not hold out through breakfast and if Veronica gave her coffee, it would be a messy diaper as well. She watched as Delaney, clad in only a pink tank top and white panties started to work on cooking breakfast for the two of them. Delaney's phone had been placed on the table and she looked at it, wondering if she'd get in trouble for playing with it. After the talk with John the night before looking over the code that didn't work, it was obvious that something else was going on with the code. Delaney had uploaded it to the servers in the office so that the rest of the team could look at the code, and so far she had seen nothing about anyone finding anything. She was itching to get back upstairs and looking at it again after getting a restful nights sleep. Suddenly the phone lit up, the screen indicating an email from John.
"Mommy?" Delaney's little girl voice came out loud enough for Veronica to hear her.
"Yes princess?" She didn't turn around to look at Delaney.
"I just got an email from John," Alex's voice came out. This was about work after all... "May I look at it."
"You may." Veronica said, scooping the eggs onto the pink plate with Hello Kitty on it and carrying it over to the table. "Eat and then we will get you changed and you can try to sort out the issue."
"Thank you." Delaney said, picking the phone and the fork up at the same time, reading the email and starting to shovel the food in her mouth using the small toddler size fork. She had an issue with eating too fast and by using the smaller placeware, it slowed her down a bit.
"Interesting..." Alex's voice said. "John forwarded me one of the other guys' comments..." Another bite was eaten and swallowed. "Apparently, there is a whole misplaced line of code in there..." Delaney furrowed her brow, trying to remember that specific file and what she'd been working on. Given that her memory wasn't that clear on that file, she put the phone down and focused on eating without making too much of a mess; something that she was only sometimes successful at. Suddenly she realized that she was wetting her already saturated diapers again. Due to the fact that the diapers were at full capacity already, the new liquid had nowhere to go and seeped out of the leg cuffs on the diaper. "Uh oh..." Delaney said standing. Veronica looked at the wetness spreading down Delaney's thighs.
"Go to the bathroom, I'll be in there in a minute to let you out and then you can hop in the shower, soggy butt..." Veronica said. Delaney did as she was told, and headed straight to the bathroom. Veronica showed up a few moments later, key in hand. Delaney was already standing there, back facing the door. Wet diapers she didn't mind; wet clothes on the other hand...
Delaney walked back into the bedroom and looked at the bed. Laying there was a baby blue Hello Kitty tee shirt, a short pleated denim skirt, a pair of white lace trimmed socks and a pair of baby blue sneakers. Next to the clothes lay two stuffers and two pink diapers and a pair of pink plastic pants. The shirt was new, Delaney had never seen it before.
"I know how much you love Hello Kitty, I saw it and couldn't resist," Veronica said from the doorway. "I think you will be incredibly cute in it; let's get you diapered."
Delaney waddled into her office and moved the mouse to wake the computer that drove the six monitors on the desk. She opened her email on one monitor and told the computer to open the file that John had mentioned on another monitor. She quickly searched for the line of code that John had pointed out, but it wasn't in the file. She furrowed her brow and then executed the search on all the code in the directory. This time she got a hit on a file that shouldn't have even been in that directory. Looking at the contents of the file on the monitor on the right, she realized that she had a problem: something had gotten placed in the work code folder somehow and this posed a problem. Switching back to the middle display the directory was listed with time stamps and the good news was that the five offending files were all dated the same, and a date that was quite a ways away from the date stamps on the rest of the files. Moving those files out of the directory, Delaney attempted to compile again as Veronica entered the office, carrying a sippy cup of coffee. She sat it on the desk next to the keyboard.
"Any luck?" She asked. It didn't matter how Alex was dressed, or who Alex was at any given point, if work needed to get done, it got done. There had been nights when Alex had been up against a deadline that he had stayed up all night to finish a project. Work came first, it provided for all of the stuff that provided fun.
"Yeah, somehow when I pulled the code for the desktop environment I'm helping with down, it ended up in here." Delaney said. "I'm not sure how that happened, but I think it's resolved now."
Veronica had just pulled the chicken nuggets and tater tots out of the oven, sitting them on top of the stove. "Delaney, come down for lunch!" she said loud enough that Delaney would have heard her. A few moments later, Delaney waddled her way into the kitchen, her hair in very misaligned pigtails. Veronica smiled; Delaney knew how to put her hair in pigtails, but it looked like she hadn't even tried. Sitting the plate down, Veronica pulled the hair ties out and slipped them over her wrist. "Mommy will help you with that after you eat." she said. Delaney dug into her food.
"Thank you for lunch, mommy." Delaney said in between bites.
"You're welcome," Veronica said, picking up a tater tot and popping it in her mouth. "What would you think about going to the zoo tomorrow?"
"Hmm..." Alex's voice came out, totally not matching the appearance of body the sound had come from. "As Alex or as Delaney?"
Veronica thought for a moment. She was in charge and she loved having her own personal little dress up doll, but she wanted Alex to be comfortable. "How about if I pick out two outfits and you can decide in the morning?" Her mind already putting together outfits in her head.
"Sounds good," Delaney's soft voice returned. She wondered what two outfits would get picked out of the vast wardrobe that Alex had. After eating, Delaney hopped up and went to go back to working on the project when Veronica stopped her.
"Not so fast, little one..." Veronica said in her mommy like voice. "Let mommy check your diaper."