Before Vanessa can give an answer...

Before Vanessa could give an answer, a loud pop song rang through the air. Lauren let out a frightened yelp as Vanessa turned to see Lauren’s cellphone ringing on a nearby table.

“Just a second, Sweetie.” Vanessa said as she got back up and walked over to the phone. Without even checking the number, Vanessa pressed the answer button and brought the phone to her ear. “Hello?”

“Vanessa?”

“MOM?!” Vanessa yelped as she recognized her mother’s voice over the phone. Clearing her throat, she began again. “I mean, Mom. What do we owe the pleasure of your call?”

“I think the real question here is why are you on Lauren’s phone?” Wendy asked. “You know that she’s not going to like that! And the last thing I want to come home to is World War Three!”

“Well, Lauren’s in the tub right now,” Vanessa lied, “so I thought I would be able to – “Vanessa stopped dead in her tracks, her face paling as she finally registered what her mother had said. “Did you just say, “come home'?”

“I was getting to that.” Wendy explained, “It turns out my business meeting got cancelled. Which means that I spent the night at an overpriced airport hotel waiting for my flight to come in for absolutely nothing! I’m in the lobby right now, and I just called a taxi. I should be back home in say, two or three hours. Be sure to tell Lauren about this when she gets out of the tub, okay.”

“Um, sure…” Vanessa said uneasily as she looked towards her diapered older sister, who was currently sucking one of her big toes as she rolled around on her back, unknowingly wetting her diaper yet again. “I’ll let her know.”

“Good. I’ll see you girls later. Goodbye!”

With that, Wendy hung up. Vanessa pressed the end call button on the phone as she began to sweat nervously. Her mother was coming home early! And Lauren was dressed like, talking like, and now acting like a baby! Sure, her mother would get angry with Lauren for lying about her appearance, but she would go nuclear on Vanessa for turning her older sister into a baby!

“Okay, don’t panic, Vanessa…” she told herself in an attempt to calm herself down, “You can fix this. All you need to do is just snap Lauren out of her hypnotic – “A look of sheer terror came to Vanessa’s face as she stifled a high-pitched gasp. “I forgot to give the command that snaps her out of this! I am so dead!”

What was she going to do now?!