Cheating the Cycle of Life- A Padded Pony Collab

The door was opened by an incredibly strong push. The hinges groaned as the door frame was weakened by the sheer force of Lily’s kick. A small dent could be found on the front door where her foot print could be seen.

Lily Longsocks entered the living room, carelessly throwing her school bag and her winter coat onto the floor in a loud huff. She took big and heavy steps over to the staircase and ignored the pleas coming behind her.

“Lily.”

She continued up the stairs and reached the second floor, her hands were shaking and they were balled into fists.

“Lily. I just want to talk to you.”

She wanted to shove her fists through the walls and tear down the walls until the cottage was nothing but rubble. Controlling herself was easier said than done.

Tears streamed down her face, she did nothing to wipe them from her face. She went up to one of the hallway doors, she placed her hand on the door handle and twisted, causing the handle itself to bend outwards and snap in half.

The door was ultimately pried open and she tried her best to close it. Lily entered her bedroom and scanned the area. The walls had basic cream wallpaper slapped over them with a large wardrobe placed next to the window.

A child sized bed was placed along the wall opposite the wardrobe with a brown blanket and a pillow with a cover that had the images of different shaped clouds. On top of the pillow was a small teddy bear who had seen better days, its eyes were loose and various holes could be seen where the stuffing inside had begun to escape.

She walked over to her bed and grabbed her pillow, lifting it up and realizing it wasn’t under there. Her mood was getting worse and she needed it.

“No... No…”

This wasn’t happening. Of all the time she needed it, it wasn’t there. Her mind was filled to the brim with anger and her eagerness to punch another set of holes in the wall was going to become a reality.

“Looking for this?”

A familiar voice came from behind. Lily turned round and saw Cheerilee standing in the door frame. The teacher slowly dipped a hand into her trouser pocket and revealed a light purple pacifier with the emblem of a cartoony hedgehog on the front of the shield.

Lily’s eyes widened at the sight. She rushed herself over to the teacher and the attempted to swipe the pacifier from her hands. Cheerilee quickly elevated the item out of the child’s reach, causing Lily to frown.

“Give it to me!” Lily squeaked, lightly stamping one foot on the floor, causing the floor to violently shake. Cheerilee leaned up against the door frame and glared at the child.

The teacher remained quiet. Lily continued to angrily stare at Cheerilee, feeling more tears fall onto her cheeks.

“You need to calm down.” Cheerilee regained her composure and stood tall over the child. Her arms were crossed and an expression of worry was on her face.

“Calm down!?” Lily growled, pointing a finger at Cheerilee. “I want to calm down! But you aren’t letting me. I want to be left alone in peace so I can calm myself down!”

“Lily…”

“No! I don’t want to listen! I just want my pacifier and I want to be calm! Why aren’t you letting me be happy!?” Lily decided to perform another stomp, weaker than the last but still made the ground shake.

Cheerilee quickly held onto the door frame and felt the floor shake. In her haste, the pacifier dropped out of her hand and fell on the floor. Lily swooped down and grabbed it, slowly backing away from the teacher to shove the amber nipple in her mouth.

When Cheerilee realised what she had done, she saw Lily sitting on the edge of her bed, loudly suckling the pacifier. The child’s eyes looked heavy and they appeared half-closed, her head landed on where her pillow used to be with a slight thud.

“Lily…” Cheerilee sighed, feeling miserable. “I just wanted to talk about your day.” She took a few steps over to the bed and slowly lowered herself, sitting next to Lily. Her hand slowly reached over to Lily’s and she locked her fingers around hers.

Lily didn’t respond her eyes were fixed on the ceiling, still loudly suckling on the pacifier. Every now and then, the child gave light a light moan to express her relief.

“I’m not going to get anything out of you, aren’t I?” Cheerilee softly rubbed her fingers up Lily’s arm.

Lily didn’t respond. She was too busy suckling on the pacifier to notice what her aunt was saying.

“However, you’re upset and I understand.” Cheerilee nodded. “I promised the mayor that I’ll look after you and that’s what I’m going to do.” She looked at the teddy bear on the opposite side of the bed. Cheeriee grabbed it and brought it over to Lily and handed it to her.

“How about we do your special thing?”

Lily stopped suckling. Her head went up and she stared at the teacher, pacifier dropping out from her mouth.

“Now?” Lily was confused; the special thing only took place on Saturdays. “It’s a little early for that, isn’t it?”

“Nonsense.” Cheerilee cooed. “I know its Thursday. But you’ve had a bad day and I want you to be happy.”

Lily didn’t even have to bother. She leaned up and reached down for her trousers, pulling her zipper down and revealing her light pink underwear. Weak kicks soon threw the trousers off her legs, flying into Cheerilee’s face.

The trousers were neatly placed on the corner of the bed. When Cheerilee turned her head, she saw Lily now lying down with her legs spread outward.

She took this as a sign to advance to the next step. Cheerilee got up and walked over to the wardrobe and opened the doors. Inside were an assortment of clothes ranging from regular trousers, pyjamas, t-shirts, overalls and a pair of bright yellow wellingtons.

At the bottom, slightly hidden by the rest of Lily’s clothing, were several thick white diapers resting in the corner. All of them had printed images of baby bottles, rattles and random letters on the front. Cheerilee reached for one and grabbed it, closing the wardrobe doors as she made her way back over to the bed.

Lily continued more of her work and slowly pulled her underwear down to her knees, causing Cheerilee to avert her eyes slightly for Lily’s dignity.

The diaper was quickly unfolded and adjusted, it was placed under Lily’s bottom and the tapes on each side were soon pulled over and stuck to the front. Her legs were slowly pushed outwards as the thickness of the padding quickly built up by her crotch.

“There we go.” Cheerilee sang, taping the front of the diaper, impressed with her handiwork. “How do you feel?”

It was in that moment the stress and anger that pulsed through her felt like it was suddenly floating away. Lily started to change and presented her care-taker with a small smile, causing Cheerilee to respond with an even bigger smile.

“We can talk about what happened later. I’ll go and get a Sippy cup from the kitchen, how does that sound?”

“I want lots of milk!” Lily over-excitedly nodded, playfully throwing her arms up in the air.

“Warm or cold?”

“Warm!”

“Warm it is! Go get your onesie on while I head down to the kitchen.” Cheerilee threw another smile towards Lily before hopping off the bed. She exited the room and closed the bedroom door, despite the broken handle causing the door to jam.

Lily hopped off the bed and walked over to the wardrobe, gently holding the door knobs to slowly pull the doors to.

As the wardrobe door opened, Lily took a glance at the selection of clothing. Alongside the diapers, tucked away in the corner, there was several onesies neatly folded and placed besides the plastic packaging. Lily reached in and grabbed the first onesie she could see, a light purple fleece onesie with several printed images of various barnyard animals.

At the bottom, several pop in buttons were found, made for quick and easy diaper changes for the wearer.

Lily literally ripped her t-shirt off from her body, making a loud ripping noise; the shirt fell onto the floor in several pieces. In her wave of excitement she realized what she had done before mentally slapping herself. Thus leaving her clad in just the thick white diaper.

Her head dipped through the bottom of the onesie and poked out through the top, her arms soon followed with the soft material rubbing against her skin.

There was a few attempts for Lily to piece the buttons into their correct slots, she turned her head and clumsily shoved the buttons into the correct position. Once the onesie was buttoned up, the flap pressed against the back of her diaper and forced her legs to spread out further.

“W-Woah.”

Her legs quickly gave way, causing Lily to fall backwards on to her bed. Lily tried to move her legs but found it almost impossible, she giggled at the thought of having to crawl around like a toddler.

Lily slowly wriggled her way over to her pillow and rested her head, grabbing the purple pacifier; she quickly shoved it in her mouth and began to loudly suckle.

Cheerilee re-entered the bedroom, holding a plastic tray with an assortment of food and drink. Lily inspected the tray and noticed her bright green Sippy cup and a small plate with some chocolate chip cookies next to it.

“I’ve got some cookies for you. I was going to give them to you on Saturday but I think we can let that slide.” The teacher slowly sat down and rested the tray on her lap, “I warmed up the milk in the microwave for exactly thirty seconds.” She picked up the Sippy cup and handed it to Lily.

Lily grabbed the cup by the handles and spat out her pacifier. The tip of the cup went into her mouth and the milk rushed down her throat.

The Sippy cup was half-empty before Lily decided to stop, her stomach now filled with delicious warm milk. She let out a small burp, causing Cheerilee to laugh.

“Aah, I needed that.” Lily licked her lips.

“Feeling better?” Cheerilee asked.

“A lot better.” Lily nodded, she leaned forward and grabbed several cookies off the tray and stuffed them into her mouth, one by one. Crumbs and small chocolate chips fell onto Lily’s onesie, but the child didn’t notice.

The last of the cookies were consumed by Lily and her stomach was filled to the brim. Lily lowered her head down on her pillow, her eyelids felt heavy and her body went limp.

“Someone’s tired.” Cheerilee sang. “I think it’s the milk has done a number on you.”

“I can’t fall asleep now.” Lily yawned, “It’s four in the afternoon.”

“You’ve had a rough day.” Cheerilee comforted the child, placing a hand on Lily’s shoulder. “Get some rest. We can talk about what happened after dinner.”

“But…” Lily moaned, “I want to play with my toys…”

“No buts,” Cheerilee hushed, “Have a good rest with teddy and we can play AFTER dinner.”

“Okay.” Lily weakly nodded, pulling the blanket up to her chest. “But can you tell me a story?”

“I think I might have a story…” Cheerilee playfully giggled.

“Well... It’s about a little girl with a special gift.”

“A special gift?” Lily’s eyes beamed.

“It was a power…” Cheerilee continued, leaning closer to Lily. “She had a super pow-”

“Could she fly?” Lily interrupted, yawning in between.

“She was super strong.” Cheerilee reached over and dug her fingers into Lily’s chest, the child burst into a fit of laughter, weakly kicking her legs at Cheerilee. “She was so strong and everyone wanted to be like her!”

“I l-like this story!” Lily gasped, smacking Cheerilee’s hand way from her.

“Sometimes, bullies would make fun of her for her gift and it would make her upset.”

“Upset?”

“Unfortunately she would get angry and use her powers for silly reasons.”

Lily frowned; she knew the story was about her, but the silliness and the fun were just too much.

“How silly?”

“Super silly.” Cheerilee giggled, “But when she was upset, there was always someone there to make her happy.”

“Who was it?”

“It was someone she trusted.” Cheerilee winked, “Someone who made sure she was happy.”

Lily smiled.

“Whenever Lily felt sad, she always counted on Cheerilee to give her a big Sippy cup with some delicious warm milk.”

“And…”

“And a big cuddle!”

The instant Cheerilee finished she lunged forward and wrapped her arms around Lily’s warm body.

“Tee-hee.”  Lily yawned. “I guess I needed that too!”

“I think it’s time for a nap now.”

“Wait…” Lily felt her eyelids close, shaking her head; she tried to lean back up but found herself being gently pushed back down by Cheerilee. The teacher leaned forward and gave Lily a small kiss on her forehead.

“Sweet dreams, Lily.”

Cheerilee held onto the tray and stood up, giving Lily one last smile before leaving the bedroom. On her way out, she dimmed the lights and closed the door.

Lily couldn’t deny it, her full tummy and the aftertaste of milk and cookies was wearing her thin. Her arms wrapped around the teddy bear for one last time and she zoned out completely.