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Anna's eyes fluttered open. She wasn't sure at first what had woken her, then she heard the sob. Slowly, carefully, she sat up. She saw Kammy sat up in her sleeping bag her paws covering her face as she cried. Anna pushed herself out of her sleeping bag scrambling over to hug her friend. She had only seen Kammy cry once when Josh in first year of uni had dumped her, she didn't like seeing her friend distressed and she whispered to the sobbing husky as she hugged her.

“Kammy, kammy, what’s wrong? Gosh are you ok? Why are you crying?

Kammy rubbed at her eyes.
“I...I...I haddaaccident” she fell back into sobbing as Anna processed what she had heard and then looked down at the dark spot on the sleeping bag and worked out what Kammy meant.

“OoooohhhhhHHHH!” Then as an afterthought, “Hey it’s okay, it’s silly for them to make us drink juice boxes then go immediately to sleep right?” It was then that Anna noticed her dress felt cold, she looked down and realised she too had a large wet patch on the front of her dress, she looked back at her sleeping bag and her ears instantly flattened down as she spied the dark colouring across the smiley sun design on her sleeping bag.
“Shit!”
She muttered under her breath as she realised she was in the same predicament as her friend.
“I...I did it too!” More in disbelief than as reassurance to her friend. She hugged Kammy tighter as her lip trembled. She felt pretty humiliated
.
"Girls...back in your sleeping bags please?"
It was Ms Victoria whispering over them, the two cubs looked up at the adult with teary eyes.
"Oh ohhh dear? What's the matter?" The kangaroo knelt down and scooped up the two children into a hug, noticing immediately what the issue was.
"Oh...I see. She plucked the pair of them up off their paws one sat in the crook of each arm.
"Shhh shhhh it's okay. Let's get this fixed alright." She smiled warmly at the pair. Kammy was still crying Anna rubbed the tears out of her eyes.

"Sorry…" she muttered miserably. She had quite liked the playdress she had been put into and now it was ruined. A third outfit already?

"It's quite alright, sweetie, these things happen"
Ms Victoria hopped through to the bathroom and put Anna on the floor and sat Kammy up on the plastic changing table, stripping the distressed puppy down of her soaked clothing and cleaning her fur with a wet wipe.

"Look what I've got." Ms Victoria held up a night dress with a unicorn on it. "This is my personal favourite outfit and you get to wear it." Kammy's ears twitched, her sobbing eased and stopped as she looked at the outfit then stretched her arms up so it could be slid over her head.

"There. But I need you to be a very big girl for me now and wear these."

She pulled open a drawer and dug out a pack of drynight pajama pants and pulled a pair from the pack. They had bugs and dragonflies in pink colours on them. Kammy's ears flattened again but before she could protest Ms Victoria spoke again.

"Anna needs to wear them too, you'll be setting a good example for her, what with you being bigger than her so be a brave puppy okay. It's just until nap time is over and then you can take them off again."

Kammy had been about to protest but she looked over at Anna still stood in her soaked clothing and clamped her mouth shut. Letting the adult slip her feet through the absorbent underwear and into place. She was picked up under the armpits and settled down next to Anna who was promptly scooped up and stripped down efficiently and cleaned up. Anna blushed. She didn't want to wear pull-ups. It was okay for Kammy, she actually believed she was a seven year old but Anna was still very much a grown up and felt the whole process was very undignified. She was alarmed she had wet the bed in the first place never having done so as a potty trained child to the best of her memory.

"I...don't need them." She tried to kick her paws away as the adult kangaroo descended on her and began tugging the pull-ups onto the squirming lynx.

"It's okay sweetie, if you're dry when you wake up that's the last you'll see of them okay? It's better than waking up in a wet bed right?"

Anna paused in her struggling, remembering the cold dampness. She shivered. That hadn't been pleasant at all. That momentary thought gave the kangaroo long enough to get the pull-ups in place. Anna looked down at them, feeling a lump in her throat, she tried to swallow it, determined not to cry. A nightshirt was pulled down over her head hiding the offending garment now wrapped around her waist. She looked at the froggy nightshirt as she was picked up and set down next to Kammy.

"Come on now you two back to bed, follow me quietly please"
The two did as they were told. Kammy whined quietly the thickness of her new underwear was really noticeable but she didn't want to make a fuss simply because Anna wasn't, she had to be grown up about this. Set a good example for her younger friend.

Whilst they had been gone in the bathroom one of the other adults had cleared away the moist bedding and replaced it with two fresh sleeping bags.

“Come on girls scooch down, heads down please, quietly now, you don’t want to wake the others.” The pair didn’t argue, both wanting to put this particular chapter of their stay to bed.

Kammy looked up at the ceiling.
“Ms V….I don’t think I’m tired enough now. I could just stay up and do my arts and crafts, I’ll be quiet honest.”

The kangaroo shook her head and then dug around in her pouch producing a teddy bear.

“Hey, this’ll help. Snuggle down now” Kammy took the bear gratefully and closed her eyes with only the smallest of pouts at her plan being thwarted..

Anna saw the exchange and Ms Victoria caught the lynx’s eye. “Do you want one too little one?” Anna didn’t really care but found herself nodding and a small stuffed giraffe was dug out of the pouch and handed to the kitten. She too snuggled down clutching the toy because that seemed to be the right thing to do. Satisfied her job was done the adult Kangaroo hopped off.

Anna kept her eyes closed, trying not to move. Going over and over in her head that she’d only been demoted to pullups until nap time was over. Without realising she nodded back off to sleep.

****

Anna’s eyes fluttered open as she was shaken awake by her shoulder. She stared up at a smiling Ashley.
“Hey! We can play again now, wake up!” Anna sat up and Ash ran over to Kammy to kick her friend awake.
“Hey! You too! UPUPUP! We can play again”
Kammy sat up and pushed her sleeping bag off of her, groggy for a moment then jumped up and pulled her nightshirt up inspecting her underwear.
“YESSS!” She could see all her butterflies and dragonflies were intact, she had stayed dry, she dropped her nightdress back down, back to her confident self. She had beaten the system.

Ashley looked at her husky friend confused.
“Kammy? You’re wearing pullups?”

Kammy waggled a finger at her fennec fox friend a smug expression on her face.
“No no no. See it’s okay. Annie didn’t want to wear her pullups at naptime so Ms V asked me to wear some so Annie wouldn’t feel like a silly little baby.”

Anna pushed herself up to her feet groggily. That wasn’t right. Ashley looked down at the Lynx. “But it’s okay for Annie to wear them she’s like what? Four?”

Anna’s eyes widened incredulously clutching her stuffed giraffe which somehow seemed bigger..
“NOooooo. I’m seven, like you guys.” She spoke as she readjusted her nightie which had slipped off her shoulder again, realising with sudden dread that she was looking UP at both her friends.
“I’m seven!” She whined stepping backwards away from her friends panicking slightly.
Ashley looked sympathetic.

“Of course, one day you’ll be seven, It doesn't matter how old you are Annie, we’re all still friends No matter what! Even if you wear pullups.”

Anna ran from them then, she needed to tell Ms Victoria something was wrong. She found the kangaroo in the kitchen area making a large jug of squash.
“Ms Vic’oria!....” Anna stopped… “Ms Vic’oria” She rolled the word around in her mouth. It was tricky to say, her tongue not quite as cooperative as it had been before nap time, this just panicked her further and she ran up to the kangaroo tugging at her tail.

“Goodness, what is it, Cupcake, what’s the matter?” Seeing the distress in the little kitten Ms Victoria worked it out quickly.

“Oh. Oh have you had an accident again? It’s okay sweetie, don’t panic let’s get you to the bathroom.”

Anna tried to back away protesting, that’s not why she was here but she was suddenly being led back to the bathroom. Her protests falling on deaf ears. She wasn’t wet that wasn’t the problem, but once they had reached the bathroom, the kangaroo pulled Anna’s nightie up and off over her head and the lynx looked down to see the drooping undergarment. Tears sprung up in her eyes this time. She was positively soaked.
“Nuhh!” She was suddenly crying and being scooped up into the kangaroos arms and hugged tightly accompanied with a gentle rocking motion.

“It’s okay sweetie, it was just an accident, it’s okay, you’re not in trouble. It’s alright.” Anna’s self pity was absolute, she couldn’t believe she had wet herself without even realising whilst she slept.

Ms Victoria pulled the sodden underwear off the little lynx and cleaned her down, pulling a fresh pair of pullups from the pack. Anna backed away.
“NONONO!” She yelled, throwing her stuffed giraffe on the floor in frustration. The kangaroo paused and then put the pullup down on the changing table.

“Oh, okay, I understand” She smiled tenderly and plucked the little lynx off the floor carried her across the bathroom and placed her gently down on one of the red plastic potties.
“You wanna try using the big girl potty huh. Go on then. See if you can do it” The adult kangaroo stood there watching her.

Anna blushed bright red, almost as red as the potty she was now sat on, she blushed further still when she heard the patter of liquid on the plastic and her fur bristled as her caretaker clapped her paws.

“WOW! Such a clever girl! So big! Soon you’ll be wearing big girl panties just like your friends”

Anna stared at the tiles of the bathroom floor. But she HAD been wearing big girl panties hadn’t she? She was mortified but there was also something else twinging deep inside her now, what was it? Pride. She felt elation at having gotten it right. The praise hitting a deeply buried button in her. She’d done something good. She would have to do it again. A small purr escaped her as she was lifted off the potty wiped down and encouraged to step into the fresh pair of pullups. Which she did eagerly, her tears forgotten. Soon she would be just as big as Kammy and Ashley.

A new smocked dress was pulled over her head. This one was white with a pink and blue rocking horse on the chest, er discarded giraffe toy was handed back to her. .
“Now go on, off you go, go play with your friends, remember if you need to use the potty just come get me okay sweetie?” Anna nodded.
“Fank You.” She mutterly shyly with a smile feeling like she should say something else important but this strange fuzzy feeling in her head consuming her thoughts so she ran back out into the playroom, spied her friends up near the dressup box where the playhouse and dolls were and she ran over to them smiling. Ashley saw the little lynx first she got up and met Anna halfway.

“Annie, are you okay now? Do you wanna come play, we’re having a tea party!” She took the kitten by her paw, Ashley being considerably taller than her now and together the two returned to where Kammy was cramming a doll into a dress.

Kammy grinned.

“Ooh Annie. I like your dress but you need to dress up more to come to the tea party. Look I have beads!” Kammy showed Anna the two strings of large blue beads she was wearing and then she threw a pink feather boa around the Lynx’s neck and Anna giggled as some of the pink feathers tickled her nose.

“OOOH and you need a hat too, everyone knows you wear hats to tea parties.” Kammy dove into a nearby box and suddenly hats were flying everywhere, much to Ashleys delight, who picked up a rather flowery sun hat and settled it on her own head and finding some chunky bracelets she slid them onto her arms.

“Soooo pretty”

Anna watched her two friends play feeling momentarily carefree as Kammy settled an oversized straw hat onto the lynx’s head, it fell down in front of her eyes and she giggled pushing it back up just in time to see Kammy thrust a doll at her.

“This is your dolly. Her name is Tilly”

Anna juggled the dolly and her toy giraffe trying to hold them both. She looked at the doll its stupid smiley face and suddenly she remembered she didnt like dolls, she didnt want to play with dolls, actually she wasn’t a kid at all, this was some...holiday weekend. She had been an adult this morning She fell backwards in surprise her hat falling off, at the sudden revelation as if a bolt of lightning had hit her. Scrambling to her feet she stood there panting, Her two friends looking utterly shocked.

“ANNA? What’s wrong?” Ashley looked worried at her little friend. Anna looked back and forth between Kammy and Ashley.

“I’MMA GROWDUP!” She shrieked throwing the doll to the floor in her eureka moment. Her friends visibly relaxed and Anna found the doll pushed back into her paws by Kammy.

“YEAH! That’s right, and this is your baby, Yoo can do the cooking kay?” Kammy gently coaxed Anna into the little playhouse.

“We need food for the tea party so yoo an giraffe can cook sandwiches Ashley yoo hafta find biscuits, They are prolly outside and I will make the tea….Wait I don’t like tea! OH I will ask Ms V for some juice we can put it in the teapot!”

Ashley gathered up her own dolly and rushed outside to find biscuits

Anna shook her head. Kammy wasn’t listening properly.

“Nu…” Anna didn't have chance to protest as a large plastic spoon was pushed into her other paw, The dexterity of holding the spoon, the giraffe AND the dolly was too much and she dropped the baby. Kammy scooped it up and put it on the kitchen side.

“Yoo gotta look after her carefully okay. You’re her Mom, so you can’t just drop her.”

Anna got angry then, she threw the spoon clattering it off the floor, and then grabbed up the baby and threw her on the floor too. She went to throw the toy giraffe too but it’s smiley face stopped her. Instead she turned to Kammy, her frustration pouring out.

“NO. LIS’EN ta me. Yoo. ASH! ALL GROWDUPS.”

Kammy’s mood darkened as she picked up the discarded doll off the floor.

“Yoo can’t be a growd up if you throw the baby.” She growled angrily, losing her temper with her uncooperative friend.

"I AM GROWDUP!". Anna yelled so loud it caused some of the other kids to stop what they were doing and look around at the argument. Anna realised she'd brought the room to a standstill. She looked around. Tears pricked her eyes. Took one last look at Kammy and ran. She ran out the door into the garden, she needed to think.

There were plenty of kids out here playing, Ashley was crouched near a bush gathering leaves probably as pretend biscuits, the afternoon sun was warm the small lynx made a beeline for the box she had tried to hide in during hide and seek, she just needed to be away from everyone. A quiet moment so she could work this all out. Things were beginning to unravel in her head and it frightened her. With more effort than she would have liked she scrambled up over the rim of the box and fell inside with a clatter. She sat in the corner of the box, hugging her toy giraffe tightly, trying to calm herself down. When Anna was stressed out she would often play with the braid in her hair, instinctively she reached for it and missed. It was no longer there. Her hair had shortened over the course of the day and her security blanket had simply ungrown. This new discovery just tipped her over the edge and so she curled herself up into as small a ball as she could, hugged her giraffe tightly and cried.

She didn’t know how long she’d been there she’d fallen asleep hidden in the box but she was woken, her face was a snotty mess, as she heard Ashley and Kammy calling out for her.

“Annie? ANNIEEEEE?” Where are yooooo!”

Anna stood and tried to climb back out of the box but the sides were awkward inside the box and she realised she wouldn’t be able to get out without help. Why was she even in the box? Were they still playing hide and seek? She rubbed most of the snot across the back of her giraffe and then tried to throw herself at the inside wall of the box to scrabble out, but all the hoops and ropes and balls made it difficult to maneuver in here. She waved her paws up in the air.

“HEEEY” Anna called out.

“I see her.”
Anna recognised Ashleys voice, her fox friend always sounded so clever.

Almost instantly Ashley and Kammy’s faces peered into the box. It looked like Kammy had been crying and Anna’s ears flattened, seeing Kammy's face like that, Anna suddenly remembered being mad at Kammy and had run away. She had been mean to her friend.

“I’m stuck.” She said reaching up to her friends who each took a paw and pulled the lynx out of the trap. The three tumbled backwards, Anna landing on the fox and husky. Anna immediately threw her arms around Kammy's neck and hugged her tightly.

“I’m sowwy, Im sowwy. Dun cry, ‘kay?

Kammy lay on her back in the grass, her little lynx friend hugging her and her sullen face brightened.

“Yoo didn’t hafta shout yannow. Like if you really REALLY didn’t wanna play with dollies we coulda done something else. We thought you’d runned away for good. But I’m glad you didn’t.” Kammy hugged Anna back. And Ashley threw her arms around both her friends and hugged them both equally hard.

“I’m glad that’s all sorted. We can play on the swings if you want Anna. That’s what you wanted to do earlier right?” Anna scrambled to her feet eagerly.

“YUSH! SWIINNGS” The immediate excitement swamped her thoughts, forgetting the little spat instantly as she pelted as fast as her little legs would go towards the swing set, her giraffe toy clutched to her chest as if her life depended on it.

There were a set of 4 swings, three normal swings and one baby swing. Anna made a beeline for the baby swing and stood there eagerly, her arms raised towards the sky waiting for someone to pluck her up and set her down in her swing.

Her two friends got to the swings and Ashley plucked her friend off her feet, but couldn't lift her high enough to slip her paws into the baby swing. Puffing loudly she put Anna back on the ground.

“Step aside sista! I’ve got this.” Kammy spat on both her paws and slapped them together, that's what grownups did when they wanted to do some heavy work. Anna giggled and just stayed in position as Kammy tried to half lift, half wrestle her friend into the seat with about as much success as Ashley had managed. Kammy assessed her friend.

“Maybe you’re big enough for the big girl swing instead?” She said hopefully.

Anna looked at the swing that Ashley had pulled herself up onto and the little lynx took a step back. It looked scary, there was no bar to hold onto, nothing to keep you just falling off. She panicked slightly and took a step back, completely unaware that a day ago she probably would have been mortified by the idea of being stuffed into a baby swing. She shook her head, then felt her paws leave the ground as she was effortlessly slotted into place on her swing. She squealed in glee and looked up at their kangaroo caretaker who was smiling warmly at the squealing lynx kitten.

“Fankyoo Ms Victoria.” Ashley said. “We made friends again so everythings good now”

The Kangaroo nodded in approval. “Well done, Ashley, Kammy. I’m glad the pair of you could sort things out with Annie here.” She said as she gave the baby swing a gentle push much to the glee of the occupant and her plush toy.

“It’s almost time to come in for the day, but let's get a few more photos shall we?” The adult said cheerily and she pushed Anna a few times on the baby swing and stepped back to get the trio in the same shot. Taking a few snaps she lifted the lynx out of the baby swing. Anna was already fussing at this turn of events, she wasn’t ready to leave yet, but she was settled onto the grass and a paw gathered up by Ms Victoria who was ignoring the whining lynx as she spoke to the two seven year olds.

“Come on, in we go, may as well wash up for dinner.”

To Anna it felt like Lunch had only been a few minutes ago, but she had had a nap since then and played with dolls and then had another nap and played on the swings so that was actually quite a lot done in the afternoon for a little kid. She let go of ms Victorias paw and trotted over to Ashley and Kammy taking a paw each so the trio entered the playroom and headed to the bathroom to wash up closely followed by Ms Victoria to make sure the three of them behaved themselves.

"Annie do you need the potty?" The caretaker asked helpfully. The little kit shook her head beaming as she hoisted up her dress and proudly displayed her dry pull-ups. Then showed her friends her dry underwear.
"Nu uh I'm dry I'm dry seee!" she was puffed up beaming with victory.

"Well done kiddo. What a big girl!" The praise from the adult.kangroo made Annie's grin even bigger and she jogged on the spot in glee looking at her friends feeling just as big as the pair of them.

The three washed their paws and headed to the dinner table. All the other kids were sat around passing ketchup and talking animatedly as Kammy was lifted up and settled back into her booster seat and this time Annie was settled next to her friend in her own booster seat.

Her brain was adjusting now and this didn't seem to register as a problem. What did however, was the food that was pushed in front of her. Cut into small pieces a couple of slices of ham, a dollop of mashed potatoes and some peas. She looked at kammy and ashley. Their ham was in proper slices. She plucked a bit of the ham up and decided immediately she didn't want to eat that and slopped it back down on her plate her face contorted in distaste. It was broken ham. She wanted some she could cut up herself.

A plastic fork was pushed into her paw helpfully by Ms Victoria. The little lynx looked at it for a moment then using her spare paw she scooped up some potato and carefully smoothed it onto her fork then ate it. Her feet swung back and forth as she ate carefully picking up peas squishing them onto her fork then eating them. Her ham remained untouched.

"Hey. Are Yoo gonna eat that?" Kammy pointed at the little cut up pieces of ham. Star shook her head plucked a piece up from her plate and held it out to kammy who slurped it up with her rough tongue instantly. Annie squealed and giggled snatching her paw back and quickly grabbing up another morsel, holding it out with the same result. With one paw the little lynx fed herself the rest of her mash and peas whilst feeding Kammy the meat. Luckily for both the adults hadn't noticed. Ashley had, but she simply looked skyward at her two friends antics as she finished her own food properly and without spilling a drop.

Eventually the children were allowed down from the table. Some of the kids were led away and it was Ashley who noticed several kids leaving.

"Hey? Where are they going?" Her ears twitched inquisitively. Their Kangaroo nanny chuckled ruffling the little fennec fox’s red hair.

Some of the kids have to go home now, they've only paid for the day experience but you lucky three have the whole weekend. There will be new kids here for you to play with tomorrow but for now it's probably time to get ready for bed.

"Hey! HEY! Can we have a sleepover?" Kammy barked excitedly. Her tail wagging excitedly as if she never ran out of energy. Annie liked this idea and she clasped her paws together putting on her best expression.
"P'easeee?"

Ms Victoria chuckled as Uncle Alex a rather large Lion caretaker approached now without any kids he clasped a large paw on Ms Victorias shoulder and smiled warmly.
“That’s my little troupe undergoing the reversal process, so I’m free if you need any help.” he looked specifically at Kammy, who dared to cheekily stick her tongue out at him, although she did take a step or two backwards as she did so incase she needed to bolt.

Ms Victoria nodded.
“That would be lovely. These three are just trying to convince me they want a sleepover.”

Alex looked perplexed.
“But isn’t that what they’re doing anyway?”

The Kangaroo nodded as she chuckled. “I’m not sure they’ve figured that out yet.”

Annie yawned and rubbed her eyes, after dinner she was feeling quite tired she was quickly wide awake as Kammy jabbed her in the ribs.
“Hey! No. You gotta stay awake, that’s the point of a sleepover, there's no sleep.”

“That’s jus’ a over then? If there's no sleep?” Annie said sleepily rubbing her eyes again but determined to stay awake.

“WELL!” Alex spoke loudly clapping his oversized paws together making the three girls jump.
“A sleepover requires popcorn, cocoa and movies don’t you think, and probably a pillowfort den.” He pointed dramatically at the adult kangaroo.

“Ms Victoria, you should find a movie and get the girls ready. I shall find the snacks and drinks. Girls it is your job to build the fort. Hop to it!”

The three kids scrambled over to where the sofa and TV were there were lots of beanbags and pillows and cushions already around the area and they began gathering all the soft furnishings together in a large nest like pile.

Anna went over to a large beanbag to pull it across but her slight form meant she didn't have the strength to budge it any more, she tugged and pulled but it didn't move, she growled in frustration and was about to have a full on meltdown when Kammy and Ash appeared on either side of her and together the three of them pulled the final piece of their nest together.

Ms victoria sat on the sofa having come from one of the adjoining rooms carrying pajamas.
“Ashley, here you go, into pajamas please” She said as she handed the fennec fox child a night shirt. “Kammy here’s yours” she handed the husky pup a light blue two piece set and a pair of pullups.

“MS V!” Kammy whined, her ears flattening. “No! I won't, honest please. It was a one time thing.” Kammy was blushing slightly, knowing she’d told Ashley she’d worn pullups to help Annie feel better, and not because she’s had a nap time accident.

Ms Victoria stared at Kammy for a moment trying to make up her mind on how to approach the situation.
“Okay Kammy, you don’t have to wear them tonight, but if you have an accident it’ll be into diapers for the whole of tomorrow, and don’t think I won't carry out the threat.”

Kammy froze. She couldn’t seen to be wearing diapers not in front of the new kids who were coming to play tomorrow. She looked at the pullups on the top of her folded pajamas with distaste but out of the two options wearing pullups tonight seemed like the better gamble. Reluctantly she began stripping and pulling on her bedtime outfit but certainly she whined and grumbled loudly to show her disapproval for the whole situation.

“Annie, come here sweetie.” Ms Victoria coaxed as the lynx trotted up to the caretaker.
“Arms up please”
The lynx complied as she was undressed.
“Still dry I see. Good girl.” Ms victoria praised the little lynx for her dry pullups as a nightshirt was pulled down over the little girls head.

“But let's just see if you can tinkle before the movie starts okay sweetie?” Without warning Anna was plucked off her paws as Ms Victoria pulled a plastic potty out from behind the sofa, yanked down Anna’s pullups and settled the feline down on it. Anna sat there, part of her was a little stunned, but part of her also knew what was expected and if she could tinkle like a good girl then she could get back to playing.

She sat there for a few moments and sure enough was rewarded for her concentration as she relieved herself sat on the potty in the middle of the living room area. Kammy and Ashley were playing among themselves, aware of what was going on but paying it no attention. This was perfectly normal behaviour as far as they were concerned. They were happy their smaller friend was doing so well in her potty training.

Ms Victoria clapped at her, a rush of praise swept over Annie making the little lynx purr again as she was wiped down and her pullups pulled back in place with a gentle pat to the bottom Ms Victoria pushed the potty training lynx over in the direction of her friends and picked up the full potty, just in time for Uncle Alex to appear with a tray carrying a large bowl of popcorn and cocoa.

“I’ve just gotta sort this out and clean up and I’ll be right with you” She hopped off to attend her duties.


Kammy stood up, her arms out.
“Look what I can do!” She turned around and fell backwards flopping onto the pillowy cushion pile with an Ooomf. Giggling she scrambled back onto her paws and did it again. Standing again she put her paws on her hips.
“See it doesn’t even hurt a teeny bit.”

Ashley did it too giggling as she scrambled out of the pile of cushions and repeated the process, Kammy joining in the new game. Annie too wanted to see what it was like as so for the next few minutes all three girls kept throwing themselves into the nest they had built, much giggling could be heard, including from Uncle Alex watching the three children tiring themselves out.

It was Ms Victoria who called for an end to the game as she returned from cleaning placing the empty potty back down nearby in case it was needed again and sat on the same sofa as the large lion caretaker..
“Come now girls, settle down or we can’t watch the movie” She chimed. “Get comfy.”

Kammy instantly scrambled under some blankets and cushions burying herself almost to the point where only her ears could be seen.

Ashley sat between the legs of Ms Victoria and Uncle Alex resting her back on the sofa the two adults sat on. Annie looked around for somewhere to be.
Alex handed the two older girls a plastic tumbler full of warm cocoa.

“What! No Marshmallows? This isn’t cocoa without marshmallows!” Kammy sat up from her comfy hidey hole looked at her beaker with an expression bordering on pure outrage.

“If it’s not good enough for you I can get you a glass of water.” Uncle Alex said as he made to remove the cup from Kammy's paws, but quickly realising she was outmatched she clutched the warm cocoa to her chest.

“It’s okay I’m sure I’ll survive.” She said dramatically as if she’d endured some near fatal war wound.

“I think what you mean to say is Thank You Uncle Alex” He smiled, his gaze never leaving the husky and after a few seconds Kammy’s ears flattened submissively

“Thank you Uncle Alex” she parrotted back understanding this was more a requirement and not a request.

“That’s better.”

Annie was trying to climb up on the sofa, trying to occupy the space the lion had made in order to deliver the cocoa. It would be the closest space to the popcorn and oddly Annie couldn’t remember if she’d even had popcorn before. She must have, surely. She was only half succeeding getting up onto the sofa when large paws wrapped around her lifted her from her paws and the seat was suddenly occupied by the lion again, she made an attempt to fuss about it but was then settled on his lap a warm sippy cup being pushed into her paws.

“Both hands now sweetie, hold it properly okay” he said gently.

This killed any form of protest Annie may have had as she suddenly concentrated on sliding her paws around the two handles making sure she wouldn’t spill her drink, she sucked from the little nozzle on the lid, a warm rumble emanating from the lynx as she purred her appreciation as the cocoa filled her mouth. This was the most delicious thing she had ever had.

She snuggled into her position. It was easy to see the screen from here.
Ms victoria pressed play on the remote. Annie sat there wondering what they would play once the movie was over as she sucked on her sippy cup. She’d had a really nice time playing with her friends, she felt quite content.

It was ten minutes into the movie when Ms victoria heard Alex chuckle, she looked over to see him gently removing the half filled sippy cup from the paws of the dozing lynx. She smiled tenderly.

“Bless. Didn’t even make it past the beginning credits.”

An hour later the movie was over. The other two girls had also zonked out during the course of the movie. The two adults gently moved the three children into their sleeping bags, Ms Victoria reuniting kammy with the same plushie she’d been given at nap time and returning the little plushie giraffe to the tiny lynx.

“Night night girls.” She called softly. “See you all in the morning”