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created: 2023-06-04T10:39 updated: 2023-06-04T10:
Around bedtime, Lexie went into Hannah's room and sat on the bed. "What's it like wearing diapers?"
The question caught Hannah off guard. She didn't know how to explain it, or the words to explain what effect wearing the diapers had on her. "You know how safe you feel with the blanket that grandma made you when you were born?" The blanket had fallen apart from age some two years ago and Lexie had been rather distraught.
"Yeah." Lexie responded.
"It's kind of like that." Hannah replied, with a chuckle. "Except a little wetter."
"Can I wear a diaper to bed tonight?" Lexie asked, her voice barely above a whisper. Hannah had to strain to hear her sister's voice.
"I wouldn't have a problem with it, but I would check with Mom first." Hannah smiled at her sister. "You know, if I had any control over the situation, I wouldn't be wearing them."
"I know." Lexie said. "Where did you get the pacifier?"
"I got one when Mom and I picked up the first pack of diapers, but the one I had today wasn't that one..." Hannah said, lost in thought... She wondered again where the new pacifier had come from. The childish place setting that morning had been new too. The pacifier and place setting had shared a common color scheme as well as the butterflies.
"I'm going to go ask mom if I can wear a diaper tonight like you." Lexie said, hopping off the bed and landing on her feet. Hannah smiled and watched her go, having a feeling what her mother's answer was going to be. Hannah started to get the stuff out to change her self and pulled out two diapers, a pink night shirt and her slippers. She unhooked the pacifier from the shortalls and sat it on the dresser. Not knowing when her mother and Lexie were going to come back up stairs she turned to her laptop to look at the forecast for the next few days. Flipping though the pages, she noticed that she had seen a setup like this before. Lexie and Emily came in Hannah's room and distracted her from her thoughts.
"I see your sister already got one out for you..." Emily said, chuckling.
"We were talking about it before I came down." Lexie admitted, blushing a little.
"I had an idea what you would say..." Hannah said.
"Lexie, let me get Hannah changed and then we'll get you diapered." Emily said. "Head to your room and I'll be there in a second."
"Ok." Lexie said. A smile on her face as she turned to go down the hall to her room.
After the younger girl's door had shut, Hannah spoke. "You're going to change me?"
"If you want me to." Emily said. It wouldn't be that hard for Hannah to change her self, she was still wearing goodnights as the actual diapers hadn't arrived yet. She would have to learn how to put a diaper on herself.
Hannah smiled at her mother. "I'll get mine, you can go get Lexie ready."
"Ok," Emily said, picking up one of the goodnights and leaving the older girls room, shutting the door as she went. Hannah quickly undressed and changed the goodnight and slipped the pink shirt over her head and her feet in her slippers. Clicking a few things on the computer she looked at the models for the next few days and grabbed the pacifier, clipping it to the neckline of the pink sleep shirt. She closed the laptop, unhooked it and headed downstairs with her pacifier in her mouth and her laptop under her arm. John was sitting at his desk in the den, looking at the same models that Hannah had just been looking at. He turned his head and looked at Hannah, a smile crossing his face.
"Still cute as a button." He said, before he noticed that Hannah's eyes were on the displays that sat on his desk. "Yeah, I know."
"I've seen a setup like this before..." Hannah said and then shivered. The shiver wasn't from being cold. Emily and Lexi walked into the den as well. Lexi wearing a baby blue baby doll top with matching shorts. She had a big grin on her face.
"Is that tomorrow?" Emily asked sitting her her chair.
"No, It's Wednesday" John said.
"John, I've seen that before..." Emily said, clicking items on her own laptop.
"May 3rd..." Hannah said quietly. She had been doing her own research during her study halls in the library at school. She was only a year old on that fateful day.
"What happened on May 3rd?" Lexie asked quietly. John and Emily looked at each other.
"May 3rd was the day of the EF-5 that struck Moore. All in all, almost seventy tornados touched down in Oklahoma, along with several in Kansas." John said, glancing at the monitor that displayed the convective outlooks issued by the SPC. "It was not a good day."
"I think we should keep the girls home on Wednesday..." Emily said, after looking at the models and maps herself. The schools in the metro area all understood when it would be safer for a parent to keep their child home from school on a possible severe weather day. The absents would be excused; the work would still have to be made up.
"I agree with that idea," John said, clicking on the mouse. "Tomorrow looks nice. Everything of interest is too far away to get to without leaving now, so what do you say we go to the park or maybe a hike tomorrow, girls?"
"Ok!" Lexie said rather enthusiastically. John picked up the phone and called Eric
"Eric, It's John." He said into the handset. "Yeah, I know. Hannah even recognized the setup. We're taking tomorrow off, I want to do some maintenance to the fleet while the girls are in school tomorrow, if you want to help me with that. Tuesday we will probably head west and chase this thing all the way across the plains." John listened for a few moments. "Ok, Let everyone know. Thanks." Hanging up the phone, he turned to Emily. "Get the shelter prepped. If you have time get to the NWC." The house had taken a direct hit in that storm. The shelter had been installed when the house was rebuilt. "Also, have Tina keep Olivia home and be here. Our shelter is sturdier than theirs."
Hannah glanced across the hall at the door that concealed the door to the shelter. It was a typical 6 panel oak door that one found inside a home. On the other side was a three foot thick door that closed from the inside out. It was always prepped for a tornado and would hold up to eight people with supplies for up to one week. Somehow, she knew, that before the week was up, they would be taking refuge in the room.