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Tera enjoyed seeing her friend Zeli. After all, they were together so often, they were practically sisters. They didn't so much have their own closets in their own homes as share both their closets with each other (Tera was even coming around to how cute Zeli's school uniforms could be). They hiked trails and chased sharkmice together. Zeli's patience and studiousness helped Tera keep her grades acceptable.

So Tera loved visiting her best friend and being visited in return.

Really.

But not now! She was in Day Two of being stuck wearing diapers like she hadn't had to do in forever. Yeah, it was necessary, yeah, Mommy had to too, and yeah, little-shir-apprentice-healer Zeli probably knew more about her ailment than she herself did. But that didn't make it less embarrassing!

So when Mommy told her Zeli was coming over, she immediately hid in the bathroom, Wiggly coiled around her shoulders. Would she stay there the entire time? No way she could do that, she still really wanted to see hir. She just didn't want to BE seen by hir!

So when Mommy knocked on the bathroom door, Tera reluctantly opened it, revealing her mother in a fresh diaper, just as she still was.

"Hey there, honey. I know you're feeling embarrassed again, I really do, but Zeli came over to be with you. Shi already knows about us; heck, shi's already seen me, so it's not like it's a secret. And don't you want to show off Wiggly?"

Hearing his name, the weasent perked his head up and nudged her cheek.

"Yeah, I do," Tera admitted. "It's just really embarrassing, you know. There's a difference between your best friend knowing you're wearing diapers like a baby and hir actually seeing me like this."

"Yeah, so how about this? I already talked to hir. Shi's over in your bedroom, and I asked hir to look away from the door. Shi won't turn around until you tell hir to."

That still wouldn't help the crinkling sounds of the diaper between her legs, but Tera knew this was probably the best outcome. "Sure. We can do that."

"Good. I think you'll be surprised."

Tera wondered what Mommy meant by that, but went back to her room anyway. She peeked in, happy to see her best friend, turned away exactly as promised...

...And also wearing one of her diapers hirself!

"Shevace and Lohm, Zeli, what are you doing?"

Hir ears rotated back to listen to her, Zeli said, "Hey girl! Your mom said you were feeling kind of down, so I figured I'd see what it was like my own self. I gotta tell you, this is strangely comfortable." Shi got into a few poses, all the while keeping hirself facing the closet opposite the door.

"Y-yeah," Tera said, relief choking her a moment. "I didn't want to admit it, especially to Mommy, but they kind of are. Wait! Is that-? Did you powder yourself and everything?"

"Yep! I thought, it would be really embarrassing if you wet yourself in front of me." Tera immediately blushed furiously over the thought, knowing that outcome likely with her bladder control currently gone. "I'd be the odd one out, you know? Not as cool as my friend. Way too embarrassing for me, but if I joined in, I wouldn't feel as bad."

Tera knew how that translated: Zeli knew it would be embarrassing, but if shi voluntarily wet hir own diaper when Tera didn't have a choice, shi and Tera would be more than even.

Her heart swelled at what her friend was offering to do for her. She looked at Wiggly on her shoulders and a thought crossed their newly forming psychic bond.

"Give me one moment, Zeli," she said, getting out some paper and a crayon. She scribbled something real quick, only to notice Wiggly had mimicked her actions with his own paper and crayon. Seeing it upside-down, it didn't register to Tera just what the scribble was. He flipped it over and coiled back around her arm.

Shrugging her shoulders, Tera crossed to her bed, sitting down cross-legged. Wiggly slithered off and rested on his coils. As one, they held their papers face-down in front of them.

"Okay, you can turn around now."

"Are you sure?"

"Yep, but if you're really going to be a cool diaper-wearer like me, I have to make sure you did it right from the front, too, so strike a pose."

Zeli turned around, shifting between a couple of vogue poses, a slight blush on hir own cheeks. Tera looked at hir with a critical eye, and then gave Wiggly a look.

As one, they both raised their papers, revealing them to be scorecards. Tera gave her best friend a score of 10.0!

And for the new Big Person who was making Best Friend Tera Person so happy, Wiggly gave the highest score he could think of: a Belly-Rub-point-Snack!

Characters and story by me. Art by the wonderful  brownpanda.