Chapter 16
Chapter Sixteen
Kendrick arrived at Auntie Athena’s feeling good about the morning’s chore.
The stairs leading to Samantha’s apartment were reinforced now and she wasn’t going to get hurt by falling through any of them.
He was pissed at the landlord for not taking care of it.
Unfortunately, things like that were common in big cities.
Damn slumlords. There needed to be more laws against it, in Kendrick’s opinion.
At least his Little girl was safe now, though.
He smiled at that thought. Was she his Little girl? It sure felt like she was.
Some would say he was getting way too ahead of himself. Yet it felt natural inside his soul. Like Samantha was made for him. He just knew it.
He supposed time would either confirm that or teach him otherwise.
His thoughts shifted when the front door flew open and Annika ran out of Auntie Athena’s place and down the walkway, meeting Kendrick halfway. “Those brats! I can’t stand them!”
“Whoa there, honey. Slow down. Take deep breaths and calm down.” He placed a gentle hand on Annika’s shoulder until her breathing had returned to normal and some of the red had drained from her cheeks. “Now, tell Uncle Kendrick what’s going on.”
She sighed again before saying, “It’s the brats. Tonya and her two friends. They… said they wanted to play with us and then threw snow at us! We told them to stop but they kept doing it. They even rubbed it in our hair! Then they… made fun of us… because we wear diapers.”
Kendrick had lots of questions, and it took him a moment to process it all.
“Okay, first of all, this is a nursery for Littles. Doesn’t everyone wear diapers around here?”
This actually drew a smile from Annika and it was good to see her not so angry. “Not all Littles wear them, Uncle Kendrick.”
He nodded. “Fair enough. Second question. And this is a big one. Where the heck did y’all get snow?”
This caused Annika to smile even more. “Stryker and Harrison dropped by this morning and lent Auntie Athena a machine from the movie lot. It makes snow! It’s so cool. But it’s really cold and… well… when it melts it’s even worse. Look at this! I have cold water all down my back!”
She turned around to show him the water stain on her pretty pink babydoll dress. That’s when he realized for the first time that she was shivering.
“Honey, your Daddy isn’t here so you need to ask Auntie Athena or Auntie Caroline to help you change if you need it.”
He knew she was a grown woman. Obviously, she was capable of changing clothes herself. But when at the nursery, well, Annika and the other cuties were in Little Space. Sometimes they needed a Big to help them.
“They’re helping Iris and Lana right now. Me and Cami are next.”
He nodded. “Okay, well go on inside and wait for them.”
“What are you going to do?”
He grinned. “I’m going to find Tonya and her friends. And they won’t like it when I do.”
Kendrick wasn’t sure what he was going to do.
What he wanted to do was take Tonya over his knee, blister her bottom, and then give her a good talking to.
But he wasn’t sure he could get away with that.
Obviously, she was an adult and could leave the nursery anytime she wanted to. He couldn’t force discipline on her. But she had signed the nursery covenant when she applied for membership.
The covenant stated that if one broke the rules and chose to stay, then they had to submit to corrective actions. Everyone had an agreed-upon safeword in their file, and Kendrick didn’t know what Tonya’s was, but he could easily find out as a part-time employee of Auntie Athena’s.
He’d figure all that out later. Right now, he just knew he’d had it to his limit with Tonya’s bratty behavior.
Yet there was one thing he didn’t understand.
Why did he feel so compelled to punish her? It wasn’t as if she was his Little. In fact, he might have a Little of his own now.
Memories of their kiss the night before flooded his mind. Just holding sweet Samantha for those brief moments had meant everything to him.
So why did he have the urge to correct Tonya so strongly? What was going on?
He found her in the backyard.
“Come over here right now, little girl.”
She snapped to attention. Her eyes went wide. He could read the dread in her expression.
“Me?”
“You.” He snapped his fingers loudly and then pointed to the spot on the grass just before him. “Right here. Front and center.”
When she didn’t immediately respond, he said, “Now, little girl.”
She looked to her left and then right, at her two friends, then hung her head as she trudged toward him. She kept her head down, too, looking at the ground while he spoke to her.
“I’ve had just about enough of your bratty attitude, girlie.
I’m going to clear it with Auntie Athena, but if she agrees to it, and you agree to stay here, I’m going to march you inside, bend you over, and take a paddle to your backside.
And then I’m going to suggest that Auntie puts all three of you in diapers!
You think mocking other Littles is fun? Well, we’ll see how much you like it when you’ve got so much padding between your legs that you can’t walk without waddling! ”
Tonya gasped and looked up at him. “You wouldn’t!”
“Watch me.” He let a moment pass before adding, “In fact, I’m going to go talk to Athena and Caroline now.”
“No need,” Athena said.
Kendrick looked behind him and saw the two Aunties stepping out of the back door and into the yard.
“We heard your idea and we think it’s great,” she continued.
“We sure do,” Caroline said. “Now, being as you’re a man and she’s a woman, you can’t spank her naked bottom. But you can sure paddle her over those jeans. And then we’ll handle the diapering. That is, if they agree to stay and accept their comeuppance.”
“That’s right,” Athena said. “The other alternative is they leave. And there are no more chances. They’re banned from the nursery forever.”
Kendrick was all smiles as he returned his gaze to the naughty Little in front of him. “You hear that, girlie?”
She bobbed her head, a look of defeat registering in her eyes.
“So, what’s it going to be?”
Tonya shifted on her feet and then groaned loudly. “I’ll take the discipline.”
“What was that?”
She must have understood what he was looking for, because she said, “I’ll take the discipline, Sir.” A snide look curled her lips. “But you can’t see me naked!”
Kendrick scoffed. “Don’t flatter yourself, honey. I have a date with the only woman for me later tonight. This has nothing to do with anything except wanting to give you exactly what you deserve. You’re due a valuable lesson, young lady. And it’s high time you learned it!”
With that, he took her by the elbow and marched her toward the house.
Oh, he was going to enjoy every second of this.
But she sure wouldn’t.