Obligatory Content Warning: The following story involves cubs, nakedness, nappies (diapers) and wetting, and hints at beatings.  If this is offensive to you, DO NOT READ ON.

Beth and Adam had watched as Jason and Becky changed the twins' nappies, Adam out of curiosity, and Beth to make sure the young cubs were properly cleaned and changed. Once the task had been completed, Jason and Becky had carried a cub each out along the landing to the stairs, and then down to the kitchen. Beth had quickly tidied a few small things, looked into the bathroom's waste basket, then picked it up and handed it to Adam.

"Please empty that into the bin by the kitchen door." she'd said.

Adam had taken the basket, embarrassed that the pants he'd wet last night were on the top. He'd gone down to the kitchen and done as he'd been asked, then he'd taken the empty basket back up to the bathroom.

As he wandered back along the landing he could hear Becky and Jason entertaining Julie and Jennie, and the sounds of cutlery and crockery being knocked together as they made a game of preparing the table for breakfast. Beth's bedroom door was closed, so he guessed she was probably getting dressed. He suddenly felt very alone, sat down at the top of the stairs, hid his face in his paws, and wept.

When Beth came out of her room a few minutes later, she saw Adam sitting at the top of the stairs, his face hidden in his paws. She walked down past him, then turned round to look at him when she judged she'd be about at his eye level. She reached out and gently ruffled the fur between his ears. He raised his head a little to look back at her, and blinked away a few more tears. She held his gaze a moment, thinking.

"Worried that you wet again last night?" He nodded.

"Want to talk about it?" He shook his head.

"Need your mother?" He nodded, blinking away fresh tears, and hid his face in his paws again.

"I hope she'll be able to phone later. She said she'd try." she said, and ruffled his fur again, gently. "Come down when you're ready."

Adam came down to the kitchen a few minutes later, once the general clatter of preparation had turned in part to the sounds of a meal in progress. He helped himself, and joined the others at the table.

By the time breakfast was over and cleared away, and the twins had been cleaned up, the day had warmed up considerably. Jason announced that he intended to go outside. Beth caught his eye as he walked to the garden door.

"In your night clothes?" she asked.
 
"Nope." Jason grinned as he shed his clothes and dashed out into the garden.

Becky looked enquiringly at Beth, who just shrugged, and answered "If you like."

Becky followed Jason's example. Beth sighed, and picked up the cubs' discarded night clothes, folding them into two neat piles on the breakfast table. She looked at Adam. He seemed uncertain whether or not to follow the younger cubs' example.

"If you're going to get changed, please can you take Jason's night clothes up to the bedroom?" she asked him.

He turned, picked up the clothes, and headed upstairs. As he put Jason's night clothes on the bed he caught sight of Becky and Jason playing at the end of the garden, and noticed the hose still lying where it had been left after the previous afternoon's water games. He shed his night clothes, folded them neatly, slipped on his shorts, and went downstairs. Beth was talking to someone on the phone. When she saw him, she beckoned him over, and handed him the receiver.

After a brief exchange of affectionate greetings, his mother asked him how he was feeling.

"Ok." he answered.

"You're not feeling sick at all?"

"No."

"Then why are you wetting yourself at night?"

"I don't know..."

"Are you doing it on purpose?"

"No!" he responded, vehemently.

"When did it start?"

She soon had the story out of him, and then spent a short while trying to comfort him before asking him to hand the receiver back to Beth.

Beth drew the unhappy cub into a gentle hug, and took the receiver from him.  Adam took the comfort offered, let his tears flow, and didn't listen to the rest of the conversation between his mother and Beth. Beth held him for several minutes while he regained his composure. When she finally released him he remembered he'd been on his way to join Becky and Jason in the garden, and wandered outside.

There was no sign of the younger cubs, so he wandered down to the end of the garden and looked around. Jason's den in the hedge seemed worth investigating, so he crawled in. Sure enough, Jason and Becky were there. The den only just had enough room for all three of them, so there was a bit of wriggling and tail-tucking as they made room for Adam.

"What took you so long?" Becky asked.

"My mom phoned." Adam replied, and squeezed his eyes shut as he felt fresh tears welling in them. The cubs sat silently for a while.

"Lets go play with the sprinkler again." Jason suggested, and crawled out of the den. Adam followed him, and Becky came out last. Jason ran to turn the sprinkler on, and Adam was trotting down towards the house when Becky caught him from behind, her paws at his waist. The two cubs went sprawling, but Becky was back on her feet first, and Adam was surprised to find she had taken his shorts off him, and he was lying on the grass naked.

"They'd only get wet." she said, and ran on down to the house to leave them on the patio table. Adam chased after her, and was caught by the first jets of water as Jason turned the sprinkler on. Soon Adam's worries were set aside as all three cubs enjoyed playing in the sprinkler. When they went to the house looking for refreshment they found their way to the kitchen blocked by Becky's mother.

"No muddy paws in here, cubs." she said. "Best stay on the patio."

"I know what they're after. I'll bring something out." added Beth, behind her.

They all settled roud the patio table. Beth brought out drinks and cookies, and they all relaxed until a squawk from indoors indicated the twins had woken up after a morning nap. Much of the rest of the morning was focussed on looking after and entertaining the twins. Adam was even persuaded to help change one twin's nappies, while Jason and Becky watched and advised.

After the mid-day meal, when the twins were again having a nap, and the older subs were playing a game round the patio table, Beth raised a matter that had begun to worry Adam as the evening drew closer.

"I've had a word with Matron." she announced. "We've agreed that I'll take you both back to school tomorrow morning instead of this evening."

Jason was delighted, and did a little dance around the table to show it. Adam wasn't quite so openly enthusiastic, but at least it'd be one more night before he had to risk wetting his dormitory bed, though he'd probably be teased for not being back at the normal exeat end time, and he'd miss swapping news of their exeat exploits with his dorm mates.

The afternoon went in much the same way as the previous day's. The older cubs explored Becky's garden, cooled themselves by playing in the sprinkler, got covered in grass and leaves by crawling into the den and chasing around, and by the end of the afternoon they were tired and grubby. Again they shared an evening bath with the twins. However, after the evening meal Becky went home with her mother because there was school in the morning, and Beth also insisted that Jason and Adam go to bed rather earlier. They were both tired enough that they didn't complain much.

When Beth went to bed she set her alarm, though she expected the twins would wake her before it sounded. Then the twins woke her in the the night, twice.  Each time one of them needed a change, and took a while to settle after it. When the alarm woke her she heard sounds of activity in the bathroom. She went there, found Jason and Adam just about to have a shower, and saw two pairs of soggy night pants in the waste basket.

"Mind if I join you?" she asked when they both turned as they heard her enter.  They made space for her, and set about washing each other. Beth washed herself awake, and watched as the two cubs took turns to wash each other, then caught them both in turn by their scruffs and washed them thoroughly where she expected they needed cleaning most. While the dryer was blowing noisily she took the opportunity to ruffle and stroke their fur as it dried, and when they were all dry she lifted Jason into her arms and hugged him as she stepped out of the shower. Then she set him on his feet and sent them both back to his room to get dressed and packed for school, while she roused the twins and gave them their morning change.

Breakfast was a more subdued and hurried affair than the previous days, and as soon as it was done she set about getting all the youngsters into the car, together with their baggage.

The twins, having been a little grumpy as they'd been strapped into their seats, both fell asleep almost as soon as the car started moving. Jason sat between them, as before, but without the exhuberence he'd shown when they'd been coming home a few days earlier. Adam was also feeling increasingly apprehensive as they got nearer to school.

The weekday morning traffic was as slow as might have been expected, and they arrived just too late for the school's morning assembly. They were met by Matron, who told them to take their cases to their dormitories, while she had a short conversation with Jason's mother. When they returned it was time for goodbyes, and the tears this time were Smallest's, though Cub also felt himself close to tears. Eyes dried, and noses licked, they joined the stream of cubs coming out of the morning assembly, and went to their respective classrooms.