The Christmas Star

Chapter 4
Reach for the Stars

Chapter Description: Ben's last chance attempt at returning to normal.

Nothing happened.

He looked at the golden star in his chubby hands, a string of drool falling on the metal surface of the star from his mouth. He shook it with his hands. Nothing.

“Whoops! A little too close there, huh?” his uncle laughed, taking the star from his hands and putting it back atop the tree.

Ben had never been so scared in his life. If he only he were a little older, he might have been able to feel the dribbling in his diaper as he began to wet it out of fear.

His uncle handed him off to his mommy again.

“C’mon, my little munchkin, time to eat!” she said, grabbing him gingerly and clutching him to the warmth of her blue sweater again. He couldn’t think straight. As they went up the stairs, he tried to think of how he could fix this.

As they reached the final step, it dawned on him that they weren’t going to the kitchen like he thought. He didn’t understand what was happening.

His mother sat down with him in the wooden chair in the corner of his room, cradling him in her arms, smiling down at him behind closed doors. As she settled in with him into the chair, she lifted up her shirt and unclasped her bra. As she pulled his tiny head towards her left breast, she slipped a finger under the elastic of his diaper and felt how wet it had become.

“Oh well, I didn’t think you’d stay dry for long anyway, it’s okay. You still have a while to learn how to use the potty like a big boy. I’ll change you in a bit.”

As much as Ben tried, he couldn’t help but begin to suckle when his mother stroked his cheek and guided her nipple into his toothless mouth. Warm milk began to jet into his mouth and slide down his throat as he began to fall asleep.

Maybe there was no way to fix it. Maybe he just had to learn to live with it.

As he noisily suckled at his mother’s breast, he drifted asleep, his family still talking quietly in the room beneath him, his mother still stroking the wisps of his hair, the star still glinting brightly on the tree.

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The End