Hannah sat there, flipping through channels before deciding that nothing was on and shutting off the TV. She could see Lexie and Olivia out in the pool, and wanted to join them. She had been wearing the goodnight for three hours and gone to the bathroom twice, and the goodnight was still dry. Standing, her dress fell back to her knees and she went off in search of her mother so that she could have her unbutton the dress. Hannah wanted to go swimming. She found her mother in the study working on something. She smiled as Hannah entered the room.
"What'cha need, honey?" Emily asked sitting a folder down on her desk.
"I want to go swimming," Hannah said, spinning around so that her mom could undo the buttons on the back of the dress. The skirt lifted high enough that the goodnight showed. "Can you unbutton me?"
"Yep," Emily said, giggling. "You still dry?"
Hannah smiled, even though her mother couldn't see her. "Yep, still dry." Hannah paused for a second and then sang. "Mommy, wow! I'm a big kid now!" She burst into a fit of giggles.
"Go swim," Emily said, chuckling at her daughter. Hannah ran upstairs and took the dress off, laying it on the bed. The goodnight was tucked under the pillow just in case Lexie happened to peer into the room. Hannah dug out her neon pink one piece swimsuit and put it on. She grabbed a towel from the bathroom and went out back to where the pool was. Hannah dropped the towel in one of the lounge chairs and then just dove into the pool. She surfaced next to her sister.
"Hi..." Hannah said.
"Hi." Lexie replied. "Nothing on TV?"
"Not worth watching, and I don't know how much time I'm going to get to swim once we go back to school tomorrow..." Hannah replied, before submerging and swimming toward the other side of the pool. When she surfaced, she felt a warm spot radiating from her body and instantly realized that she had just peed. She pursed her lips and then swam a few laps before getting out of the water and diving back in again. Lexie and Olivia were splashing each other and being giggly little girls. Hannah floated on her back for a while before getting out of the water. She lay on the lounge chair until her mom opened the door.
"Girls, Dinner will be done soon. Come in and get showers..." Emily said. Hannah was already dry, and simply stood and grabbed her towel, and went in the house. The air conditioning felt good on her body. "I picked something out for you to wear, it's on my bed. Go use my shower."
Hannah nodded. "Ok..." and went up the steps toward her mom's room. Laying on the bed was a pink top and pink shorts that read "Too Cool." Hannah went into her mom's bathroom and started the shower. She knew that she would have to be quick so that she could get some hot water before Lexie and Olivia used it all. She quickly showered and got out, drying and walking to the night clothes that lay on the bed. There was something missing from the pile of clothes: a goodnight. She found it under the shorts with a note. Hannah read the note and smiled. She slipped the goodnight on and then put on the pajamas. Looking in the mirror she couldn't see the the goodnight, so she left the bedroom and went back down stairs. Olivia was already downstairs, she was wearing a denim shortall and a purple tee shirt. She still had to go home in a bit. As Hannah sat the goodnight crinkled, and as the room was silent Olivia heard the crinkle clearly. She gave Hannah a funny look, but didn't say any thing.
"I made Fettuccini Alfredo." Emily said, scooping noodles into a bowl and putting it in front of Olivia. She repeated the process in front of Hannah and then in front of Lexie, who had come down wearing a bright orange dress.
"Yum," Hannah said, rubbing her hands together. The twelve year old loved it when her mother made Alfredo.
"Olivia, your mom will be here shortly," Emily said. "And then you girls have school in the morning..." She gave Hannah a look.
Hannah's lips squished together and she looked away from her mother. She had seen her schedule and knew that she didn't have gym until second semester. She could conceivably wear goodnights to school for a while, at least until they had a better idea of what was going on. She didn't want to wear the goodnight to school, but with the way the last two days had been.
Hannah was about to crawl into bed when she realized that she was actively wetting her goodnight. She tried to stop the flow and was unable, flooding the goodnight and having the excess run down her legs to the carpet below. Hannah started crying, collapsing to the floor sobbing.
Emily heard sobbing from Hannah's room, and after knocking and getting no answer, she opened the door to find Hannah sitting on the floor, in a wet goodnight, wet pajamas rocking back and forth, sucking her thumb. Emily walked into her daughters room and shut the door, as she didn't want Lexie to see Hannah's condition.
"It's ok," Emily said to Hannah, stroking her hair. "Let's get you cleaned up..."