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Chapter 3
Bedtime

"Oh really?" Ms. Pedigrew said while giving Stella a strange look. “You wet yourself at that age? Fifteen?”

“Uh… yeah?” Stella said softly, very self-conscious now of the extremely private piece of information she had just blurted out about herself to her boss. Ms. Pedigrew didn’t respond for a moment. She was looking hard at the nervous young girl who felt like she was about to get yelled at.

“Fifteen years old…” Anne Pedigrew remarked in a lowly tone. “Really now Stella, I’m surprised at you. That was only, what was it… only seven years ago. That’s not very long at all.” Stella sat in her seat stunned at Anne’s words as if her boss was expecting her to go ahead and have an accident right there and then.

“Well… I…” Stella voice was quivering. “I mean I guess so. But that was an old problem. A medical problem. I haven’t had one for years… M-Ma’am.” Stella felt like she was a kid who had just been caught with her hand in a cookie jar. What she was saying was the truth. It had been years since she had any accident; but the fact that it was a medical problem was a bit of stretching the truth. Her doctor at the time had told her that the accidents were likely because of stress and anxiety. She didn’t want to tell her boss that though.

Despite Stella’s words Anne continued to stare her down as if she was searching for any sign of weakness from her. Stella found herself holding her breath and staying as still as possible. She didn’t know what to do…

“Oh well, it’s not like that’s something you’d still do! Hehehe.” Her boss suddenly said this in a very happy tone and was all cheerful again. Stella let out her breath when she realized she was still holding it.

“Oh, uh, yeah no of course I don’t still.” Stella muttered this out but was just happy that her boss was in a seemingly good mood again.

‘Yes yes dear I know. You’re 22 years old like you said. Much too old to be having an accident like that. Only little girls still have accidents.” Stella thought that that statement was a bit unfair because as she had mentioned thousands of older children still had accidents sometimes; but she figured it better to not bring it up.

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The rest of the meal went smoothly enough. Stella was just glad that they weren’t talking about accidents anymore. That had ended up making her a bit more uncomfortable than she thought it would. She didn’t know why it had her so frazzled. Her string of accidents had happened several years ago. She was an entirely different person now. She was no longer that scared girl in high school who still woke up warm and wet…and yet…

It was something about how Ms. Pedigrew had said what she had said. “That was only seven years ago.” And “Only little girls still have accidents.”

It all had Stella a bit mixed up in her head. Stella did her best to keep it off of her mind but for some reason she kept thinking about it. Anne told her that she could take a shower so she decided to that and wash the troubles of today away. She was just going to go to sleep soon and forget about today and tomorrow she’d go to work like nothing weird happened and the trains would be fixed and everything would go back to normal.

Stella took her time in the shower. She didn’t really feel like talking to Anne much anymore today so she tried to kill time but spending it in the shower. Finally, after what was probably one of her longest showers ever she knew that she needed to get out.

The young woman got out of the shower humming to herself and started drying herself off. For a moment she contemplated just sleeping naked but she immediately knew that that would not fly well with her boss if she was discovered. Stella exited the bathroom and made sure that Ms. Pedigrew was nowhere around before she tiptoed out of the bathroom and over to her bedroom. When she entered the room she was surprised to see a few articles of clothing had been folded out on the bed. Along with them was a little note from Anne. It read,

“Hello dear,

 I realized that you probably didn’t have anything to wear for the evening other than what you had worn to the office today. So I dug through some stuff and while unfortunately all of my clothes would be much too big for your small frame I did have an alternate. My niece accidently left one of her boxes of clothes here when she came to visit. I took a look at them and realized they should be the perfect size for you! You may borrow them for the evening. Hope they fit okay. – Anne”

Stella couldn’t help but blush a little at the note. Ms. Pedigrew wanted her to wear her niece’s clothes? Hadn’t she said that her niece was 15? Stella knew that she was small for her age but surely she couldn’t fit into something that was made for practically a child.

Stella placed the note aside and looked down at the clothes. Luckily they weren’t too childish but they were definitely much more of a downgrade from what Stella usually dressed in when she was around her boss at the office. It was a simple striped long sleeve shirt and shorts that said “Meow” across the front. Stella was just glad that the woman hadn’t left out underwear for her as well.

She quickly got dressed in her own underwear and the niece’s pajamas. To her annoyance, Anne had been right. The clothes fit her perfectly. Luckily Anne’s niece had been a teenager so the clothes weren’t too bad, but Stella really could have gone without the kitten that now decorated her backside.

As she looked at herself in the mirror Stella suddenly noticed something in the mirror. There was writing on the other side of the note left by Anne.

Stella grabbed the note and flipped it over. The other side read,

‘Oh and P.S. When you are done getting dressed can you please come to my study for a moment before you go to sleep? I would like a word with you.’

Stella felt a knot form in her stomach when she read those words. They didn’t sound good…

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This story was written by Zander Chesney You can find more of his content here : https://zanderchesneyoriginals.tumblr.com/

Comments

Anonymous

Am I the only one reading this with a British accent in my mind? Those characters are sooooo British!

Anonymous

I can't believe you end this chapter on such a suspicious tune. I'm very excited to see what will happen in the next chapter. Please update soon.

Anonymous

I love it! Please write more and a bit looonger chapters :)