What do you do when you look 7 years old, but you're actually a college student in your late teens? For Kathleen's entire life, she had fought against people treating her much younger than her actual age. Feeling obligated to grow up fast to show people she wasn't the age of her size, Kathleen never let her inner child out. Tired of fighting against the world, she explores the adult submissive world. What she finds, however, is an enjoyment of regression. Had she made a mistake? Would life be better if she just let people treat her how she looks, 7 years old?

A loud scary scream echoed through the children’s room, causing Tiffany to turn on the bedside lamp. Katie rolled over on the tumble bed and tried to figure out what cousin the scream had come from. She may be regressed this weekend, but that would not stop her from taking care of a scared cousin. Mike and Tina appeared to be still sleeping soundly, so that left Heidi. The four-year-old was sitting up on her inflated bed wiping her tears away.

Noticing the older girl looking at her, the preschooler said, “Auntie Katie, I had a nightmare. Can I sleep with you?” When it was received with a nod, Heidi climbed in with the regressed girl. After making sure the covers were over both of the children on the tumble bed, Tiff proceeded to turn off the bedside light.

“Good Morning children. Rise and shine,” Grandma Telgenhof told the room, she conveniently ignored the fact that Katie and Heidi were in the same bed.

Katie rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and looked around, noticing that Tiffany was already out of the room. She really wished that there was a clock in her bedroom to know what time it was. As she helped Heidi up and then sat up herself, she noticed Mike leave the room towards what she assumed was the bathroom with his arm full of clothes.

Grandma handed Heidi some panties and shooed her out towards the bathroom. Turning her attention to the other girls she picked up the older of the two and set her on the changing table. The regressed girl’s got a fresh diaper, complete with diaper rash ointment, before getting a set of white tights and some kitty slippers. Sitting her up, a full petticoat was dropped over her head.

Switching with Tina, Grannie did the same with the youngest girl, except her slippers were Minnie Mouse. After they were done Heidi walked back into the room, and said “Grannie where do I put my nighttime diaper?”

Once the diaper had been disposed of, Heidi was helped into her own tights, petticoat, and slippers, puppy this time. The oldest girl watched her grandma go to her closet and get 3 store dress bags out of it. Taking one of the dresses, and looking at the size she helped her middle cousin in a light blue dress with snowflake detail on the collar and skirt bottoms. After the sash in the back was tied, Grandma returned to the other dresses.

Tina was the next one to find herself in an identical dress before Grandma went to get Katie Anne’s dress. The regressed girl noticed that hers was also light blue with snowflakes on it. Soon she was properly dressed and all three girls were being ushered downstairs to get breakfast.

Walking past a mirror, the oldest girl was able to get a good look at herself. She saw that her dress was identical to her cousins. With the dress’s raised waist, she thought she looked like a five or six-year-old kindergartener again.

While the children were enjoying their breakfast, Daddie braided their hair and added light blue bows to it. He then turned to the other adults at the table and said, "If I counted correctly, there are fifteen of us here. I was thinking we could take three cars with five people each to get to church unless Dad, Mom, and Alexa prefer to visit their own church." There were no objections, so Daddie continued with his meal.

Daddy and Tiffany had somehow ended up with the three girls in the Escalade. After Katie was released she waited patiently for her cousins to be released. The regressed girl took both Heidi’s and Tina’s hands and followed the adults into the church. The girls happen to run into the Bullards at the door.

Aunty Sara helped the four girls out their coats, exposing that Stacy matched the other girls, except that her dress was green with red snowflakes. The seven-year-old girls directed the younger girls toward their friends Becca and Heather.

“I see the matching dresses are back, you two. And who are these young girls that match you two?” Becca asked.

Katie replied, “These are my cousins, Heidi is the four-year-old, and she is from Wisconsin. Tina is three years old, and she is from here.”

Heidi opened her mouth to ask why her Aunty said she was her cousin. That question never got out of her mouth because Stacy somehow redirected the chat to another subject, dolls, which somehow made the young girl forget her question.

They did not talk very long before Auntie came to collect the four girls and directed them towards Church. The three from the Olsen party were directed into the full pew that held the rest of the Olsen party. Aunty and Stacy sat in the pew in front of them where Uncle Bullard was already sitting.

When the children were released to the children's church, Katie directed Tina towards the three-year-old classroom, before helping both Mike and Heidi find the four and five-year-old classroom. She told all three of them that she and Stacy would gather them later.

In Stacy’s and Katie’s normal classroom, they learned about Thanksgiving, not unlike the lesson the regressed girl had yesterday at school.

Back at home, the children were directed towards the parlour where they were given JC Penney Christmas catalogs, Sears Wishbooks, and for the girls American Girl catalogs. Mike was given a paper that said:

“Dear Santa,
My name is Mike Rose and I am 5 years old. For Christmas, I would like:”

Katie was given four almost identical pages, except they had the names of: Katie Telgenhof, seven years old; Kathleen Telgenhof, nineteen years old; Heidi Doore, four years old; and Tina Rose, three years old.

“Katie please be a sweetie and help Tina and Heidi fill up their Christmas lists,” Grandma Olsen asked.

Nodding, the regressed girl took Kathleen’s list and wrote a new mobile phone and a new laptop on it. She figured that list was done because the younger side was taking over. Besides, only children’s clothes fit her body. Setting that list aside Katie picked up her list and wrote the Disney trip with the makeover on top of the list. The Samantha doll soon joined that list.

“What did you write on your list, Katie?” Tina asked. Once the other two girls found out, they wanted the trip added to their lists too.

Cracking open the JC Penney's catalog the girls started flipping through the pages. The regressed girl thought the catalog sure had gotten smaller over the years. They continued flipping the pages since the first few pages were not interesting to them. Flipping to a page filled with Hello Kitty stuff, a few things were added to the older two young girls' lists. A camera, television, and cordless mouse of the Hello Kitty variety were added to Katie’s list. Heidi just wanted the television, and Tina just looked at the page bored.

“Micheal Allen Rose, what the world are you doing?” rang from up the stairs, causing Katie to look at her cousins in wonder. The regressed girl’s thoughts of that being Grandma Olsen’s voice were confirmed when she came down the stairs carrying Mike in one of her dresses, specifically the lavender taffeta dress from when she saw the Wizard of Oz at the resort.

“Look what I found upstairs, trying on an expensive dress, obviously without permission,” Grannie told the gathered adults who had gathered in the parlour.

The cross-dressed boy pleaded, “I was just curious.”

Katie looked at him/her and thought that the fact that she had put it on over her suit looked silly, plus since that dress was floor-length and poofy on the regressed girl it swam on the younger ?girl?.. She also was just wearing the dress not the other under skirts that go with it.

“Mike Allen, what have I told you about trying other people’s stuff on without permission?” Auntie Alexa asked.

The red with embarrassment and obviously scared little boy? girl? Just mumbled something while looking at their feet.

Daddie looked at Katie and then Mike and pointed out, “I don’t have a problem if they want to wear one of Katie’s, just maybe not that dress. That is assuming Katie doesn’t have an issue since they are her clothes. Buttercup?”

“If Megan wants to wear one of mine that is fine. I believe there is another Christmas Dress in my closet, so she can match the theme.” Katie said after some thought.

Tiffany bent down and picked up the still scared child, and told the gathered crowd, “I will get Megan dressed in something a little more appropriate for the day” which was answered with nods, but Auntie Alexa’s seemed a little hesitant. As the other adults went back to the game or the kitchen, the regressed girl wrote the next thing Tina had requested.

A little while later, a still nervous Megan came down the stairs. She was wearing the Christmas dress from the photoshoot, which didn’t look too bad on her, being at least two sizes too big. She wore white tights, and Mike’s Mickey Mouse slippers. The short hair that was formerly on her head was covered with one of Katie’s play wigs, specifically her pink long straight hair one.

She stood at the bottom of the steps and looked around, almost longing for something… what she was longing for Katie couldn’t figure it out. Tiffany stood behind her on the steps while Megan was looking around. It was almost as if the college student was blocking the escape route.

Grandma Olsen walked up to her newest granddaughter, causing the said girl to look at her feet as if she was in trouble. Grannie lifted her face up, smiled at her, and handed her a paper. She said, “Go get your catalogs and fill this out please, Sweetheart,” with a kiss on her forehead. She looked at the paper and saw it was like the other Christmas lists but this one started with:

“Dear Santa,
My name is Megan Rose and I am 5 years old. For Christmas, I would like:”

She was sure yet if this was a good thing or not, especially since her secret was out in the open. Anytime now one of her cousins is going to laugh at her. But she walked towards her catalog, showing her bum off to the world as she unceremoniously plopped down on the floor to start her list.

“Megan please come join us, please lay down on the floor next to me,” Katie told her cousin.

Megan looked nervous and said, “You three will not tease me?”

“Tease you about what,” Heidi asked, looking away from the catalog she was looking at before.

“This dress!”

“Do you think the dress is something to be teased about?” Katie asked.

Megan looked confused, “Yes … No … Yes … I am so confused,” while coming closer with her catalog.

“Would you rather not be Megan?” the regressed girl asked.

Megan looked at her feet next to Katie and whispered, “No… No… Yes… This is just the longest I have worn a dress. Usually, I just put them on, look in the mirror, and put them back. Something I didn’t get a chance to do earlier in your purple dress. The easy route would be to take the dress off and act as earlier didn’t happen, but then I would be looking at you three, four if you count Bobbie Jo, with envy.”

“That dress looks nice on you big sister,” Tina said, causing a very red face on the new girl. To hide her face Megan quickly laid down next to Katie. The quickness of it, caused the skirt to be messed up, exposing the ruffles on her borrowed tights.

The oldest girl bit her tongue for a moment. Heidi quickly grabbed Tina and pointed out that she had to go to the bathroom. All that reaction caused the five-year-old to pout and mumble “I thought no one was going to laugh at me.”

“Megan, the way you laid down was not very ladylike, plus you are showing your ruffles on your borrowed tights out to the whole world. As cute as they look, a proper little girl does not show her panties off.”

The new girl just nodded sadly.

“Please get up again, and lay down slowly, smoothing your skirt under you as you do it. Once you are down, reach back and make sure the skirt is laying nice and covers your bottom.”

Once the younger girl had done that, she turned to her catalog and list to hide her embarrassment. Katie gave the young girl a bit of encouragement by saying, “It is ok, in time it will come second nature to you.” While this was going on the other girls were coming back into the room and lying down opposite of Katie in the same manner.

Turning to the lists and the catalogs, the four girls continued with their search. When the two youngest girls were distracted, Katie took the opportunity to lean in and whisper into Megan’s ear, “Little girls who are just curious do not try on the most expensive dress in the closet. So expensive it is kept in an opaque dress bag.” While she was doing that she was teasing Megan by poking her sides lightly.

“Sorry, it was the fullness of the dress bag that attracted me to the dress. Am I in trouble?” Megan asked.

Katie responded, “I personally am not upset, but I shouldn’t be the one you should be worried about. Grandma and your Mommie seem to be more upset about you borrowing it without permission. But some of that might be because of what dress you borrowed.”

“I don’t know what to write on this list,” Megan admitted.

Katie wondered out loud, “So Megan has everything she ever wanted?”

“No I have nothing,” Megan admitted.

Katie asked, “Would Megan like her own dresses? Her own toys so she doesn’t have to borrow Tina’s? Or maybe her own wig so she has long hair?”

“Oh good suggestions, Katie,” the crossdressed girl responded before writing a few items on her list.

“Girls, please put your catalogs away and come to the table, it is dinner time.” Grandma Telgenhof mentioned from the dining room door. The four girls found themselves at a folding table, instead of the overflowing table that the ten adults were at. Bobbie Jo, on the other hand, was sitting in a highchair near her parents. Katie was surprised while she was looking around, by Grannie Olsen asking her to raise her arms. A white pinafore was dropped over her head, and after Katie leaned forward, tied around her waist. She looked at Megan sitting across from her, who was wearing a pinafore over her dress.

Grandma Olsen said, “I do not trust you four, so you will wear that to protect your dresses.” She continued by getting what each girl wanted to drink. Katie’s response to the question was her old standby of Peach Ice Tea.

A little later each girl was given their drink of choice with a lid on their glass. That was soon followed by a small portion of turkey, stuffing, and all the fixings. Soon the whole overflowing room was blanketed in quiet as everyone started to eat their meals.

The meal had been over for a bit, and the kids were in the den watching a Christmas special on the television. Aunty Alexa walked into the room and checked both Tina’s and Katie’s bottoms. She then escorted the two girls upstairs to Katie’s room.

Tina was done first and ushered out of the room. When it was Katie’s turn, Alexa said, “You are kinda the expert on Megan. Ok, it is not exactly the same. My mother and I knew of Megan’s existence but ignored it because it was not hurting anything.”

Katie just nodded her head, as Auntie continued, “She always tried to hide her evidence, but there were always clues she had shown her face. The future that she will be facing scares me a bit since transgender people are not accepted very well.”

“To tell the truth, I can not admit to being an expert on gender. She is five, you do not know yet what her future will hold. She may be just playing dress-up. She could be a crossdresser, or maybe she does want to change her gender. It is too soon to know, I am not sure she knows yet herself either. Let her explore herself, and be available to talk to.” Katie told her new Aunty.

Aunty nodded and continued, “As for today, I am not really upset about the fact she showed herself. I am upset she did not ask for permission. Also, the fact that the dress had to cost three hundred to five hundred dollars did not help. The Rose family is not made out of money, unlike my brother.”

“As her cousin, I probably shouldn’t be suggesting this. Both of you will feel better afterwards. Punish her for the transgression of not asking permission as you would punish any five-year-old girl,” Katie suggested.

The adult nodded as she helped the regressed girl to the floor, Katie was allowed to join the other kids in the den. Megan’s Mommie soon stood at the kitchen door and said, “Megan Allison, it is time for your punishment for earlier.”

“ALEXA!” came screaming from inside the kitchen from both Grannie Olsen and Katie's Daddie.

Aunty said to the peanut gallery, “Quiet you two, and trust me.” She directed her new daughter to the kitchen where she had sat a chair in the corner.

Once Megan had sat on it, Alexa leaned down and told the young girl, “I want you to understand why you are getting punished. The most important thing I want to point out is you are not getting punished for showing yourself. You are getting punished for borrowing the dress without permission, especially the dress you borrowed.” She mumbled under her breath, “As beautiful as it is.” Continuing to her daughter she said, “If you had damaged it, you would have put your Mom and Dad in the poor house replacing it.”

“Now sister … “ Daddie started.

Alexa turned around and said, “Quiet you, I told you to allow me to handle this.” Turning back around she spun her daughter’s chair to face the corner.

What felt like an hour for the little girl, but was only five to ten minutes on an actual clock, Alexa came back and turned the chair around. Patting her daughter on her pink head, “Remember no borrowing stuff without permission. Now go play, Megan.”

Later that evening as the kids were getting ready for bed, Megan was offered the choice of Mike’s Superman footed Jammies, or one of Katie’s princess nighties. The young girl excitedly said, “I get to choose? The princess ones please, Miss Tiffany.”

Author's Note:Comments and questions are always welcomed -- Thanks Becky