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It was the second day of the holiday stay at Sunny’s house that all five of us Omoris spent with one another.

Facing and braving my fears of swimming and water bodies in the pool in Sunny’s backyard yesterday morning had definitely taken a toll on my overall energy, for I remained feeling fatigued and mostly in my toddler headspace for the rest of that day.

According to the weather forecast on TV last evening, today’s weather would not be much different from yesterday’s: warm, sunny, and with only a little smidgen of wind, which meant that the temperature was going to be quite high starting from the late morning or noon.

However, rather than staying home to cool off from the fairly extreme heat, Sunny had suggested that the five of us would go to a beach in the early morning before the worst heat would take over later that day. I wondered how it’d go, because to me, this sounded quite interesting in several respects.

In response to this suggestion, Kel had looked for beaches in the state of Pennsylvania itself on the maps application on his phone, but none of them were unfortunately close enough to Rustvale regarding the travel time by car. However, since Sunny had lived in Rustvale for nearly 3 years at this point, he told us that he did know a good beach that wasn’t too far away from his home, but he didn’t tell us about the exact location yet, since he wanted to surprise us.

Because we’d have to get up and ready early this morning to prevent ourselves from arriving at an already crowded beach rather than a quiet and (almost-)vacant one, Sunny had suggested all of us to go to bed for the night quite early as well (around 8:30 p.m., to be exact), of which the majority of the others disapproved, except for myself, since I definitely wanted to sleep after a long, intense and fatiguing day anyway.

Once Aubrey had hoisted me into my night-time diaper and sleepwear after getting dressed for the night herself as well, I was definitely pleased to be underneath my covers and with my comfort blanket, pacifier and Mr. Plantegg soon after.

Lastly, after Aubrey had sung me a lullaby and ‘rocked’ me (like she always did while we both laid on the mattress) in her gentle grasp while doing so, I was immediately out like a light… take a wild guess who was jealous of me having fallen asleep so quickly once again!

After a long, dreamless sleep, I promptly woke up by Aubrey’s phone, which found itself in between our respective pillows, and on which she had set an alarm last night.

I rubbed my eyes out, reluctantly opened them, arduously turned onto my right side, and took a while to have a good look at the screen of Aubrey’s phone, where I saw that it was 6:20 a.m. already.

Aubrey herself somewhat roughly kicked her covers off of herself, turned onto her left side, and turned the alarm on her phone off with a fairly slow swipe before slowly sitting up and stretching herself well.

“Good morning, Base…” Aubrey whispered as she kissed my left cheek and got my covers off of me. “Have you slept well?”

I nodded slowly, reluctantly sat up, and stretched myself, during the latter of which I let out a massive yawn that made me drop my pacifier onto my lap.

“You’re still very sleepy, I see. For all I care, you can catch up on some sleep once we’re in the car, alright?”

I nodded again.

“Alright. Now, let’s get the both of us ready.” Aubrey got up to grab a fresh diaper, the changing utilities and some clothing, the latter being for both me and herself, after which she helped me get up as well so that we could both head towards the nearby bathroom.

Once we were in the bathroom itself, my girlfriend locked the door, made sure that a disposable chair pad and the familiar miniature pillow found themselves on the floor for me to lay down onto, and took my pajamas off so that she could start changing my thoroughly soaked and dirty night-time diaper.

“Phew…! I bet you slept quite deeply, because I can definitely smell a big mess…!” Aubrey started by undoing the tabs of my diaper. “Ooh, I was right…!” She then removed the worst case of ‘damage’ with the front of the diaper before moving on to thoroughly wiping my genitals and behind clean with several oil wipes.

Once the wiping was all done, my clean-again privates got lathered into a good layer of zinc cream, after which Aubrey ensured me of a nice, soft and fresh diaper.

“Thank you…” I quietly said as I slowly sat back up.

“No problem, sweetie.” Aubrey put my used and balled-up diaper into the nearby bin and thoroughly washed her hands at the sink before drying them off and grabbing some clothing from the stack that she brought along. “Now, could you please hold your arms out for a bit?”

I nodded and did as I was told, shortly after which I got hoisted into one of my onesies. It was a chartreuse green one with a pattern of little white polka dots.

I then got up onto my two feet so that Aubrey could easily snap the underside of my onesie up before hoisting me into the next piece of clothing.

“Hold on a minute…”

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“How did I just grab two of my dresses from the stack on the top of my suitcase, rather than just one?”

“I don’t know.” I shrugged briefly and had a look at the two tank dresses that the ex-Hooligan held on to. One of them was light blue with a pattern of large, dark orange hibiscus flowers, and the other one was grey with some sort of uneven sketch-like white line pattern. “They do look quite comfy, though.”

“They are, too.” Aubrey then thought for a bit. “Would you like to wear one of them, perhaps? I think it’ll be quite comfy and easy for you to wear on the beach, too.”

I was the next one to think for a bit. In my mind, I pictured myself in the light blue dress with the flower pattern, idly standing on a beach while letting the gentle sea breeze cool my legs off and the hemline of the dress flutter a little. I then realised that the thought of the sea breeze gently caressing my bare legs underneath the dress felt more pleasant than the all-too-familiar one where I barely felt it underneath my shortalls, which I usually wore on hot days.

Afterwards, I nodded and pointed at the light blue dress with the flower pattern.

“Good choice.” Aubrey smiled and nodded in approval before hoisting me into the dress that I just picked, which turned out to fit me almost perfectly if it didn’t come to the fact that it was slightly big on me. “Wow…! I hate to say it, but you look lovely in it…!”

I couldn’t help but chuckle and blush in approval while looking at how I wore the dress. Its hemline was ankle-length, so the chance that strangers would potentially see my diaper from underneath it was fairly slim, I presumed.

“Thanks…! It is quite comfy, too…!”

“That’s good…!”

“Shall I leave the bathroom so that you can get ready yourself?”

“Please do.”

And with that, I briefly unlocked the bathroom door so that I could go back to the guestroom that I shared with Aubrey, where I swiftly brushed my hair and grabbed my bag that I packed last night before heading downstairs.

“Good morning, Basil” Sunny greeted me as soon as I sat down at the kitchen island. “You’re early and ready, good job.”

“Good morning to you too, Sunny. Aubrey will be there soon as well.”

At the same time, I vaguely heard the door of the other guestroom upstairs open up, which meant that Kel and Hero were up and about now as well.

“Nice dress you got, by the way.”

“Thanks. Just now, Aubrey turned out to have brought one too many to the bathroom prior to preparing ourselves, and after some brief consideration, I decided to wear it. I think it’s very comfy and easy to wear to the beach, contrary to my shortalls.”

“I see. Well, whatever pleases you.” Sunny turned the oven near his right side off, hoisted oven mitts onto both of his hands, and carefully took a tray of freshly-baked croissants out. “Breakfast isn’t much today, but I hope you and the others will like it anyway.”

“Buddy, of course I will…! I love my croissants with a little butter and plenty of jam…!”

Sunny gently placed the tray onto the stovetop so that he could look and smile at me in a friendly fashion, even chuckling a little as he did.

A little while later, all five of us Omoris had a quick but delicious breakfast at the kitchen island, after which we brushed our teeth and double-checked our respective well-packed bags.

At 7 a.m., we all got into Hero’s car with our bags to make our way to the nearest beach, which turned out to be located in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and was thus nearly 2 hours away from Sunny’s home according to the navigator on Hero’s phone.

While Hero sat at the wheel and Kel sat in the passenger’s seat next to him, like how it usually was, Sunny, Aubrey and I sat in the back seat, with me sitting in the middle. Our bags found themselves in the car boot, with one of Sunny’s ones containing a small assortment of inflatable beach toys.

From the car radio, somewhat upbeat and summery-sounding jazz music played at a low volume so that it’d serve as not-too-somnolent background music among the conversations that we’d occasionally have.

Despite having slept well last night, I still felt quite tired, which I eventually presumed was due to what I went through yesterday. Fortunately, my own bag was just near Aubrey’s reach, and she had given me my favourite pacifier with the soft cloth attached to help me relax during the car ride.

My eyes were closed, my head leaned onto Aubrey’s shoulder, and both of my hands held one of hers and one of Sunny’s each. Like this, I felt completely relaxed, allowing me to peacefully snooze through the majority of the car ride.

“Alright” Sunny started once our car ride would only last 20 more minutes according to Hero’s navigator. “To avoid potential conflict, I think we should agree on a few rules for when we’re on the beach itself.”

I slowly opened my eyes and tried the hardest to hold my head up while listening to Sunny.

“Good one” Hero said. “Kel, are you listening?”

“Oh?” Kel said, apparently snapping out of some sort of trance he had found himself in beforehand. “Wait, Sunny just said something about rules, didn’t he?”

“Yes.”

“Alright, alright, I’ll try the best I can to listen, I promise.”

“Good” Sunny continued, after which he paused for a few short seconds before continuing. “First of all, to avoid getting completely lost into the sea by any means, I say we should go into the water until it reaches the bottom of the neck. Of course, one is still allowed to dive, but please don’t stray too far away when doing so. I don’t want to be held accountable for anything bad that happens to one or more of you.”

“Ugh, this is going to be everything but easy…” I heard Kel groan under his breath. He loved swimming and being active in other respects very much, contrary to the general concept of rules.

“Second, our beach towels should be as close to one another as possible, so that one of us can easily find our shared spot again after getting lost or simply not remembering where we are. Third, um… if one of us says ‘stop’ if they don’t like something, listen to them. This also applies to you, Kel…”

Then suddenly, I felt how my hands started trembling, how their grips around Aubrey and Sunny’s hands tightened for quite a bit, and how my heartbeat increased. I felt horribly nervous…! What if I’d suddenly get lost or drown or anything? That’d be awful!

Next thing I knew, said nervousness, which swiftly turned into terror, practically possessed me, and I subsequently couldn’t make out what exactly Sunny was saying anymore.

What if I’d drown and become hypothermic again?! What if nobody would come to save me from that massive and scary water body after all?! Who would find me if it’d already be too late?!

I then vaguely and slowly but surely noticed that I was being brought back to earth by Aubrey and Sunny.

“Basil?” I heard Aubrey say in a concerned tone. “Baaasil… sweetheart, are you okay…?” Simultaneously, I started feeling how she was rubbing my left shoulder, as well as how my pacifier no longer found itself in my mouth and now laid onto my lap, soft cloth and all.

I slowly turned my head towards Aubrey and saw a genuinely concerned look in her eyes.

“You were having intrusive thoughts, weren’t you?”

After a few seconds of nothing, I nodded and immediately started sobbing, noticing that I had suddenly slipped and fell into my toddler headspace as well.

“Oh, my poor, sweet boy…” My mommy started rubbing my back for as far as she could with my back being quite close to the backrest of where I sat.

“If you don’t want to swim, Basil” Sunny said, apparently having read my intrusive thoughts the other minute, “you don’t have to. Aubrey or I can stay with you at our spot.” He laid his hand onto my left shoulder and caressed it with as much physical pressure as possible. “I know how scary you found swimming yesterday, and how much it mentally tuckered you out. The beach isn’t just to go swimming at, it’s also to relax underneath the sun or parasol, you know that?”

I nodded while still sobbing quite heartrendingly.

“It really is okay if you just want to stay and relax at our spot.”

“Yeah…!” Aubrey said. “And we’ll also make sure that nobody will bother you or lead you astray or anything…! Really…!”

I pulled my knees up so that my heels rested on the edge of my seat, and let my arms rest onto both of my knees horizontally so that I could cry into the former.

“I no wanna get wost, Mommy…!” I brought out. “I wan’ you an’ Sunny…!” I then continued crying and wailing aimlessly.

“There, there, sweet little boy. Let it all out.” Aubrey planted a gentle kiss onto my right temple and the physical pressure of her back rubs intensified.

At the same time, I felt how Sunny’s shoulder caresses intensified just as much, and subsequently heard him shush me in a gentle fashion every now and then in an additional attempt to comfort me.

“Poor Basil…” I heard Kel say from the passenger’s seat. “Yesterday really did leave him overwhelmed as heck, huh?”

“Absolutely” I heard Hero reply. “I think that for the next few days or so, we should probably take it easy.”

“Good idea” Sunny said. “Then hereby, tomorrow is nothing-day, where we’ll just stay home and do whatever we wish.”

Many minutes later, I was too tuckered out to cry anymore, and felt some more at ease thanks to my best friend and mommy’s efforts to comfort me.

From the car windows, I could tell that we had arrived at an almost-vacant parking lot near which I could vaguely see a beach, which meant that we had finally arrived at our destination.

I put my legs back down onto the car floor and noticed how warm, soaked and heavy my diaper had apparently become in the meantime.

Once Hero had successfully parked and stopped the car, we all unbuckled our seatbelts, but I, myself, stopped Aubrey from getting out up next by gently laying my hand onto her shoulder.

“I…” I brought out once Aubrey and I made eye contact. “I hadda assident, Mommy…” I was about to burst out in tears again.

“Aww, that’s okay, Base” Aubrey said as she gently cupped my still slightly tear-stained left cheek into her right hand. “Shall I change you here on the back seat before we go?”

“Yes, pwease…”

“Alright.” My mommy popped my pacifier into my mouth, gently kissed my forehead, and opened the car door next to her to get out. “Guys, is it okay if I change Basil’s diaper for a bit before we go to the beach?”

“Of course” Sunny replied. “Where were you planning on doing so, though?”

“Here on the back seat. Don’t worry, by the way, Hero, Basil and I did make sure to pack some chair pads in his bag to make sure that the back seat will stay clean.”

“Good job” Hero said. “Do we have to wait here, or…?”

“Only if you really want to, or if you’re very interested in seeing Basil’s private parts, hahaha…! If you’d like, you can seek a spot for us in advance.”

“Good idea. I’ll come back for a bit to lock the car as soon as I can tell you’re done, okay? Ah, look at that, some people are already putting up parasols…! I think it’s a good idea to set our spot up underneath a few of those.” Hero opened the car boot to grab his bag. “I bet none of you needs to hoist themselves into their swimwear first?”

“Nope!” Kel said. “I’m all set!”

“So am I” Aubrey said.

“I’m not set yet” Sunny chuckled somewhat awkwardly. “If you’re looking for me, I’ll be in that little building to put my trunks on.” He grabbed both of his bags and left for a nearby concrete building in which facilities like a locker room were present.

Aubrey then opened the car door to my right side again, placed my bag onto the car floor in front of the seat where she sat during the ride, got a disposable chair pad out of it, draped it over said seat as well as a little over mine, and patted it twice while looking at me somewhat resolutely.

With a brief nod, I made sure to lay down on the entire back seat in a way in which my behind found itself on the chair pad. Underneath my head, I did not require my miniature pillow since the back seat itself was already soft enough for the back of my head to not hurt or anything while laying down.

Aubrey then briefly lifted my behind up by my ankles to adjust my borrowed dress upwards to prevent it from getting stained or anything, after which she also unsnapped and adjusted my onesie.

“Goodness, you’re thoroughly soaked for sure.” She subsequently grabbed the packet of wet wipes, the bottle of zinc cream and a fresh diaper from my bag as well, and started the change by undoing the tabs of my current diaper.

I felt the slightly cold environmental air touch my wet genitals and behind, and couldn’t help but shiver a little in response to it, during which I even vaguely felt my urine flow a little, which made me blush somewhat, gasp briefly, and widen my eyes. It was a good thing that that chair pad found itself underneath me while that happened…!

“It’s okay, Base. A wet chair pad is always better that than a wet back seat, right?” My mommy briefly caressed the lower left part of my partly exposed belly before moving on to wiping my privates, which made me relax a little.

Once my privates were all clean again, they nicely got lathered into zinc cream, after which I found myself in a fresh and significantly comfier diaper again.

“Thank you, Mommy…” I shyly brought out through my pacifier while fidgeting with its cloth.

“No problem, my sweet boy.” Aubrey snapped my onesie back up and removed the chair pad from underneath me. “Could you please wait in the car for a little longer while I put these in the bin?”

“Yeth, Mommy.”

“Good job. I’ll be right back.” And with that, Aubrey briefly left to dispose my used diaper and the wet chair pad in a bin just near the concrete building where Sunny recently went.

I, myself, sat back up and readjusted my dress a little to make sure that as soon as I would walk to the beach with Aubrey, nobody would be able to tell that I wore a onesie and a diaper underneath it.

Next up, I reluctantly took my pacifier out. Though it was one of my most prized sources of comfort, I did not want any passerby people to potentially laugh at me for it.

Not much later, Aubrey came back and briefly took some hand sanitiser out of my bag to clean her hands, in response to which I put my pacifier back into the bag as well.

“Are you ready, Base?” Aubrey asked as she gently grabbed my hand.

“Yes, Mommy…” I shyly got out of the car and made sure that the hemline of my dress would not get stuck in between the car door upon closing the latter.

Just as Aubrey and I were about to head towards the beach itself, Hero speed-walked our way, stopped a few feet away from us, and used his car keys to lock the car from the distance.

“Did everything go well?” Hero then asked.

“Of course…! And your back seat’s still clean, too, don’t worry…!”

“Great. Are you and Base ready?”

“Yup!”

And with that, Hero led us to our assigned spot, which had been set up very nicely underneath the two parasols that belonged to the beach staff.

Hero, Kel and Sunny’s beach towels were already present with their respective bags on top, and it was only a matter of a few seconds before mine and Aubrey’s were also there, as well as my new lime green pop-up tent that would serve as some sort of compact changing and napping spot whenever I’d find myself on the beach during the summer.

“Is it okay if I watch Basil for a bit? I can tell you need to unwind after having consoled him and such.”

“Of course…!” Aubrey took her dress off, underneath which she had worn her familiar neon blue bikini this whole time. Smart move! She then somewhat hastily stuffed her dress into her bag before grabbing a bottle of waterproof sunscreen instead, so that she could swiftly provide herself with a good layer of it. “Base, are you going to be nice to Hero?”

“Yes, Mommy” I replied while taking my flip-flops off and placing them next to my bag, albeit on the sandy surface rather than my beach towel.

“Good boy.” My mommy put the bottle of sunscreen back into her bag, which she zipped up as well. “I’m counting on you.” Lastly, she briefly kneeled down to ruffle my bangs and kiss my forehead for a few times before swiftly getting back up and making her way towards the sea. “Guuuys! Wait for me! Don’t start piggy in the middle without me!”

In the distance, I could see Sunny and Kel play in the sea itself with a colourful beach ball. Piggy in the middle was always a challenging game if its players found themselves in a water body, which’d give people the illusion that their limbs and such felt heavier than outside of water.

“Alright” Hero said. “Let’s upgrade you for a bit so that the sun won’t harm you too much and you can relax worry-free.” He grabbed his own bottle of sunscreen from his bag, and made sure that my nose, cheeks, neck(line), arms, hands, legs and feet were lathered into plenty of it. “There we are…!”

“Thank you, Hewo” I said with a kind yet somewhat fatigued smile once the job was all done.

“You can lie down now if you wish. Nothing beats doing so in order to relax properly, right?”

Giggling shyly, I laid down and made myself comfortable on my beach towel.

From my bag, Hero then grabbed my sippy cup, which was filled with water, and a small and slightly worn comfort blanket of mine for me to cuddle and fidget with. I mean, other than us the Omoris, barely anyone else was present at the beach anyway, so what was judgment in the first place in this respect?

“Thank you.” I placed my sippy cup in between my forehead and my bag, and took my small comfort blanket close to my chin to idly fidget with it.

Hero kindly smiled at me and ruffled my hair in praise before applying some sunscreen to himself.

From that point on, Kel’s older brother and I would just relax and occasionally chat about all sorts of little things while the slightly warm 9 a.m. sun gently caressed the bare parts of our by sunscreen protected skin.

Other than us the Omoris, there were only about four other guests on the beach so far, who didn’t really pay attention to us, let alone notice us in the first place. Oh well, if they were to found out that I wear diapers and have a toddler headspace or anything, it wouldn’t be that much of a big deal, because the chance that we’d encounter one another again afterwards would be very, very slim anyway.

An hour later, Sunny had gotten tired of swimming and playing in the sea, so he came back to our spot, where he dried himself off and prepared himself to relax so that Hero also got a chance to spend some time in the sea without having to leave me all alone.

“Hi, buddy” Sunny greeted me with a kind smile when he sat down onto his beach towel after having dried himself off with his other towel, which now found itself around his shoulders.

“Hi” I greeted him back.

“Have you been good?”

“Yeah.” I nodded.

“That’s great.” Sunny grabbed his steel bottle of water from his bag and drank some from it. “Are you thirsty as well, by chance?”

“Yeah, kinda.” I wanted to grab my sippy cup, which Hero had recently refilled after having let me drink last hour, to have some water myself as well, but my best friend swiftly put a gentle stop to that.

“You’re still a little boy…! You don’t have to do anything by yourself…!” Sunny lightly tickled my lower neckline, which made me giggle a little. “Aww, there’s that cute smile of yours…!” Soon after, he grabbed my sippy cup and gently inserted its spout into my mouth.

I immediately started drinking, and swiftly felt refreshed again. Though it wasn’t that hot outside yet, nothing beat some fresh water on even a mere summer morning.

While I drank, I continued fidgeting with my small comfort blanket, which I now held close to my right cheek rather than my chin, and closed my eyes, letting the relaxation flow freely into my system like the gentle waves of the nearby sea.

Once my sippy cup was all empty again, I felt how its spout got removed from my mouth, and how Sunny gently treaded his hand over my forehead and through my bangs, which made me smile again.

After about half a minute or so, I then suddenly noticed that something was amiss. While I made sucking motions with my mouth as an automatic reflex to the forehead/bangs caresses, I swiftly felt that my pacifier was actually not there, which swiftly made me open my eyes again and tear up, and Sunny stop caressing me in response.

“Aww, Base…” Sunny said, “what’s wrong?”

I initially sobbed and slightly wailed aimlessly while trying to find my words.

“I…” I then managed to bring out, “I wan’ my binky…! But… but thewe people who gonna waugh at meee…! I no wan’ head pets wifhout my binky…!”

“Ah, I see. Yes, I understand why that’s an issue.” Sunny then thought for a bit. “You know what? You can have your binky if you’re willing to go into your tent.” He pointed at the pop-up tent that found itself at my right side. “Do you want that?”

I nodded again and slowly sat up, in response to which my black-haired friend started by giving me a big hug and some back rubs to comfort me.

“It’s okay, little buddy… it’s okay if you have to cry…”

I sobbed my heart out in a fraction of Sunny’s towel that was draped over his left shoulder. With my forearms, wrists, palms and fingers, I felt his soft skin and how it was also fairly warm due to exposure to the sunlight, and these very details managed to calm me down slowly but surely.

While getting comforted, I additionally felt my diaper become warmer and slightly heavier, but not to the point where I needed an urgent change just yet.

Once my sobs had stopped, Sunny gently coaxed me to get off of my beach towel, which he subsequently replaced into my pop-up tent.

“I’ll replace my own beach towel as well so that it’ll be closer to you and your tent, okay?”

I nodded, reluctantly let go of Sunny, shuffled towards my pop-up tent on my lower legs, and made myself comfortable in there by laying down onto my beach towel, curling myself up a little on top of it, and taking my small comfort blanket close to my chin and cheek again to continue fidgeting with it.

I somewhat focused my gaze on my fingers and small comfort blanket, partly letting my sight go blurry as I did, while taking in my current surroundings. This was my first time of finding myself in this very pop-up tent, and my first impressions of it were that it made me feel safe and comfortable, as if in a cocoon or bubble of sorts. Through its only opening, I could see a fraction of the outside world, but the majority of them could not see me back, which made a perfect circumstance for a diaper change or a potential nap on the beach, because both of these activities required plenty of privacy, of course.

I was then somewhat snapped out of my trance by Sunny, who now laid next to me on his beach towel and gently tapped the teat of my pacifier onto my lower lip in a fairly quick pace, which made me latch onto it like some sort of automatic reaction soon after.

“Fank you…” I lisped before happily sucking away on my favourite comfort object and noticing how I relaxed almost straight away. Ooh, yes, that felt so much better…

“You look to be very comfortable in your tent.” Sunny smiled a small but kind smile while he spoke to me. “Are you, too?” Meanwhile, he tapped and swiped his phone’s screen for a small number of times.

“Mm-hmm…” I nodded slowly. “Ith thafe… pwotect me wike bubble…”

“Ah, your own little bubble…! That sounds very promising…!” Meanwhile, my best friend briefly reached his hand into his bag, out of which… a sound came?

“Yeah… ith wike, um…” I thought for a bit for as far as I could in my toddler headspace. “…naptime in my bedwoom, owh, uh… on youwh thofa… wif da bwanket…”

“Ah, the nap you took after lunch yesterday?”

“Mm-hmm…”

Soon, I somehow heard gentle guitar jazz music play from Sunny’s bag, which made my eyes focus their gaze on it in curiosity.

“How youwh bag do dat…?”

“That’s not my bag itself that plays the music, silly little boy…!” Sunny chuckled softly and playfully ruffled my bangs in some sort of ‘happily frantic’ fashion. “There’s a speaker inside of it, which I just turned on and connected to my phone because your calmness suddenly made me feel like listening to some fitting music. Do you think it’s good music?”

I continued listening for a bit, and after about half a minute or so, I nodded in confirmation.

“Do you want me to send the artist to you later on? I think maybe your plants back at your home would love it, too.”

“Pweathe do…”

“Alright.” Sunny smiled at me again in a friendly yet also slightly tired fashion, put his phone back into his bag, and resumed gently caressing my forehead and ruffling my bangs, which made me smile and slowly close my eyes again.

For the next several minutes, I felt completely relaxed. The combination of Sunny’s presence, his forehead/bangs caresses, my comfort objects, the gentle guitar music, and the sounds of the sea in the background did a great job at keeping my mood good and my spirit at ease.

But the one detail that was definitely the cherry on top of it all was nothing more than my pop-up tent. Inside of it, it was eventually just as warm as I remember it being in Hero’s car when the air conditioner wasn’t on, but I didn’t mind it for one bit, especially not with the fact that I currently wore one of Aubrey’s dresses, which allowed the environmental air to reach every inch of my bare skin and gently caress it with its warmth.

At some point, I must’ve fallen asleep in my pop-up tent out of nowhere because of how very relaxed I kept on feeling beforehand, for the next thing that woke me up approximately 45 minutes later was the fact that I found myself on someone’s back and was gently getting carried somewhere.

“Is it okay if I change him on the back seat once more before we go?” I then heard someone ask close within my earshot. It was Aubrey.

“Of course” I then heard Hero say. “Then Sunny, Kel and I can throw ourselves back into our regular clothes in the meantime, if that’s okay with you.”

“Of course. I don’t think you’d like to have any sea water in your car seats, right?”

“Hahaha, no…! Good one…! Alright, we’ll be back soon.”

“See you guys soon…!”

After hearing the familiar sound of Hero’s car getting unlocked by its wireless keys, I slowly but surely opened my eyes, and saw that Aubrey and I found ourselves at the parking lot of the beach again, where the number of cars had increased quite drastically since our initial arrival a few hours ago.

“Ah, you’re awake…! Did you have a good nap, sweetie pie?” Aubrey couldn’t help but chuckle in a friendly fashion.

“Mm-hmm…” I brought out, noticing that my pacifier still found itself in my mouth despite the fact that I currently found myself in the pinnacle of public. “We goin’ home…?”

“We sure are, but not before I changed you first while the others get dressed back up as well. Would you like to open this car door so that I can lay you down onto the back seat?”

“Otay…” I carefully held my hand out towards the handle of the car door in front of which we stood, and successfully managed to open it soon after.

“Good job!” With her knee, my mommy then managed to open the car door further, after which she turned around, carefully let me sit on the part of the back seat that was the closest to the door, and then turned back around to briefly pick me up and subsequently lay me down over the entire back seat. “Can you wait for a bit while I put most of our stuff in the car boot?”

“Yeah…” I then briefly took my pacifier out to yawn widely.

Chuckling, Aubrey briefly squeezed the soles of my still bare feet in a playful fashion before grabbing the majority of the bags near us, opening the car boot, and placing said bags in there before closing it again and going back to me, where she placed my bag onto the car floor, zipped it open, and took a disposable chair pad out, which she unfolded and laid underneath me by lifting my behind up by my ankles.

Up next, while still holding my underside up, she adjusted my borrowed dress upwards, and subsequently laid me back down to properly unsnap and adjust my onesie, revealing my now heavily soaked diaper that was indeed in quite a dire need of a change.

“Let’s get that soggy butt of yours changed, sweet little boy.” Aubrey undid the tabs of my current diaper, but did not remove it from underneath me just yet, for she appeared to have noticed something in said diaper.

I had a brief look at the contents of my diaper as well, and noticed that I had apparently messed myself a little while I slept for the past several minutes, which I somehow didn’t even feel while getting carried on Aubrey’s back beforehand. In response to getting to know this, I couldn’t help but squeak softly in embarrassment, blush, and hide my face behind the soft cloth that was attached to the ring of my pacifier.

“It’s okay, it’s just a little mess. I’ll get it cleaned up in no time, alright?” Aubrey used the unstained front of the diaper to remove some potential ‘damage’ from my behind before removing the entire thing from underneath me and moving on to thoroughly wiping my privates from front to back.

While the change continued, I cuddled and fidgeted with my pacifier’s soft cloth to keep myself busy, and before I knew it, my clean-again privates found themselves in a good, cooling layer of zinc cream, and I, myself, wore a nice, soft and fresh diaper again.

“Fank you, Mommy” I said once I felt my onesie get snapped back up.

“No problem, sweetheart. You may sit up again, by the way.”

“Otay.” I carefully did as I was suggested, and rubbed my eyes out once I actually found myself seated in the middle of the back seat as well.

For a little while, I sat alone in the car, until Aubrey came back from putting my previous diaper and chair pad in the nearest bin, cleaned her hands with some of the hand sanitiser from my bag, had a seat on the back seat next to me, closed the car door, and placed my bag back into the car boot over the backrests, making sure it was well within her reach once again.

“You no hafta take youwh bikini off?” I asked, thinking of earlier this morning when Aubrey took her dress off and revealed her bikini that she had apparently worn underneath it the whole time.

“I already did, sweet Base” Aubrey chuckled as she caressed my right shoulder and kissed my right cheek. “It’s just a matter of grabbing your underwear, fumbling swiftly and athletically underneath your dress, and voila…! That’s what makes dresses like mine so convenient…!”

“Yeah, dath twue.” I nodded a well-meant nod. “Didya have fun wif Hewo an’ Kel an’ Thunny?”

“I sure did…!” My mommy buckled me up before doing the same to herself. “With Kel and Sunny, I played piggy in the middle, and when Hero came in Sunny’s stead, we did a swimming race with rubber rings, which is pretty dang difficult with both the water and rubber ring slowing you down…!”

I chuckled, finding it all too remarkable that being slowed down during any type of game that involved running or going fast otherwise was very frustrating.

“You just relaxed in the parasols’ shade with Hero and Sunny to recover from yesterday’s intensity, right?”

“Mm-hmm…!” I nodded again. “When Hewo be wif you an’ Kel, Thunny pway thome muthic fwom hith bag…!”

“From his bag, you say? Does he have a magic bag?”

“I fink tho…!”

“You really are something, Base.” Aubrey draped her left arm around my body, carefully pulled me somewhat closer to her, planted several small kisses onto my cheek, and finished off with a long kiss, after which she let go of me and put her arm over the backrest to grab my sippy cup from my bag, which she handed to me.

“Fank you, Mommy.” Still smiling from the kisses I just got, I swapped my pacifier for the spout of my sippy cup and quenched my thirst with my third refill of water today.

Aubrey also grabbed her own water bottle from her bag, which stood just near mine, and quenched her own thirst as well.

After our brief drinking break, Kel, Sunny and Hero, who were all dressed in their regular clothes again, came back, put their bags into the car boot, got into the car itself, and buckled themselves up as well, shortly after which Hero set the navigator on his phone up again, started the car, carefully got off of the spot where he had parked beforehand, and left the parking lot to let our ride back to Sunny’s home commence.

In the upper left corner of the screen of Hero’s phone, I vaguely saw that it was already 11:15 a.m.. How did time fly by so quickly? Sure, back on the beach, I relaxed my heart out and eventually fell asleep out of nowhere, and the other Omoris had a lot of fun playing in the sea, but still…!

“Alright, everyone” Sunny said as he grabbed one of his bags, which was a large cooler bag, from the car boot over the backrest and placed it onto his lap. “Who wants some snacks? I packed them last night, as well as some lunch that we should have once we’re halfway through our current ride.” He grabbed a round, plastic container from the bag and held it towards the front seat row. “Kel, could you please take this? There’s enough in there for both you and your brother.”

“Of course” Kel replied as he took the container from Sunny’s grasp and swiftly opened it. “Neat! Mini apple fritters! Would you like one, Hero?”

“Yes, please” Hero replied with a kind smile as he grabbed one apple fritter from the container with his right hand, after which he took one bite of it. “Mmm…! This tastes pretty divine, not going to lie…!”

“Oh my goodness, it indeed does!” Kel had swiftly helped himself to an apple fritter as well. “I’ve never tasted such perfect apple fritters before!”

“Even though I usually only like them while they’re still hot, I can’t agree more.”

Meanwhile, Sunny handed a second container of apple fritters to me, but I still felt too little to open it by myself…

“Mommy…?” I asked Aubrey while looking at her with pleading baby-doll eyes. “You open dith, pweathe…?”

“Of course, Base” my mommy replied with a kind smile, “and you asked it so kindly, too, good job…!” She gently took the container from me, opened it up, handed an apple fritter to me, and kissed my right cheek.

“Fank you…”

“Would you like to have one as well, Sunny?”

“No, thank you” my best friend replied as he showed his own significantly smaller container of apple fritters. “I made sure that there are six of them for each of you, by the way. Same applies to you, Hero and Kel.”

I reluctantly took my pacifier back out so that I could take a bite of my own apple fritter… and just like Hero said, it indeed tasted pretty divine! The combination of the quite sour apples, the slightly earthy cinnamon and the almost-mind-blowingly sweet glaze, all packed in a fairly crispy layer of dough, was one of the most perfect ones I had ever experienced!

“Is it yummy, Base?”

“Mm-hmm!” I nodded heartily before taking my next bite, after which I couldn’t help but lick my fingers as well.

“One of my neighbours made too many of those two days before your arrival, and with how amazing they both look and taste, how could I possibly have said no to her kind offer?”

“Please tell said neighbour she did an awesome job at making them…!” Aubrey said after swallowing her most recent mouthful. “They’re beyond amazing…!”

“I’ll try to once we’re back home, I think she’ll be very happy with all of your praise.”

The rest of the car ride back to Sunny’s home, including the one stop at a gas station parking lot for a toilet (except I didn’t need another diaper change yet), lunch and gasoline break when we were halfway through the ride, went very smoothly for all five of us, and ultimately, we all arrived back home safely as well.

It was a lovely morning at the beach in Old Greenwich, regardless of what we did there. Even though we were all completely tuckered out after it, it was absolutely worth the fact that we had to get up early for it. Do we prefer it over an afternoon or possibly an evening at the beach? Absolutely. Would we do it again? Absolutely, albeit next year, since for the remainder of our current holiday stay at Sunny’s house, we still have plenty of other fun things to do, but not before having had ‘nothing-day’ tomorrow so that we can all continue recharging from how much fun this morning was.