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I was suddenly and rudely awakened from a good dream, one where I was with my parents and living a normal family life. It was a dream I had been having quite a lot, lately. Sometimes the dream feels so real that I could almost swear that it was my real life and the other life was the dream. Of course, every time I awaken from this dream, I am instantly pulled back to reality. This of course did nothing to brighten my mood, so most mornings, I could and was, especially cranky! Especially mornings like this, when I was awakened by one of my siblings.
“What the hell!” I screamed in fury as I was jolted awake by a sudden stinging sensation.
I could see in those first few Nano seconds that Pym, who had zapped me with one of his stingers, suddenly regretted doing so. Before he even saw it coming, my hand smacked the flying bug sized Pym across the room and into the opposite wall.
“Sorry James, I have been trying to wake you for 10 minutes now. I guess I shouldn’t have zapped you.” Pym quickly apologized all while still trying to get over the stun of my slapping him across the room.
“Why did you have to wake me now?” I grumpily asked, in an almost whiny voice.
“James, it’s after 10am, you missed breakfast again and you’re late for training!” Pym informed me as he returned to my bedside, growing back into his normal child size as he got closer.
“10am? It’s still too early!” I answered and buried myself back under the blankets. “Besides, I’m not hungry!” My muffled voice announced under my blankets.
All I cared about at that moment was trying to go back to my dream. All I wanted in the world was to be with my parents right now and this unfortunately was the only way that I found that I could be. Unfortunately, though, I could tell that Pym was not about to let me go back to sleep and I was right.
“Come on James, you need to get up! Tony said that if you don’t then he will be forced to get you up! And you know what that means!” Pym warned.
I of course did know what it meant; Tony would drag my ass out of bed and dump me into the cold pond outside our quarters. This was definitely something I didn’t want to happen.
“Okay! Okay!” I groaned and shifted in my bed. When I felt a familiar feeling, I couldn’t help cussing. “Damn!”
“What’s wrong James” Pym asked though I am sure he had a pretty good idea what it was due to the smell emanating from the bed.
“Pym, I swear if you don’t get out of my room right now, I am going to rip your little body apart!” I yelled at him as I flung the blankets off of myself in shame and disgust.
Pym knew all too well that I was in one of those moods I tend to get in, especially after discovering that I once again wet my bed. Deep down, I knew that Pym felt sorry for me, as he too knew how embarrassing it was, to wet the bed. Pym, like myself, had wet the bed regularly up until recently, now he only wets a few times a month. In my case though, I still wet the bed almost every night and usually more than once. About a year ago I had all but stopped but then all of a sudden, it got worse once again. I saw Pym quickly make his exit but I knew by the look on his face, he had seen the evidence of how badly I had once again wet myself during the night.
Once Pym had shut my door, I couldn’t help sighing in defeat as I sat up and took in my very wet condition.
A thought shot through my mind. “How in the world could I, a bedwetting baby, ever be expected to lead this group of future Avengers?”
I knew better to waste any more time as I knew Tony would, as he threatened, be in soon to make sure I was actually getting up and ready for training. Reluctantly I got out of bed and stripped myself of my wet PJ’s and then stripped the wet bedding from my bed. Then, naked as the day I was born, I streaked to the laundry room where I shoved my pee smelling bedding into the washing machine. Making sure to add soap and starting it up before heading to the bathroom where I took a quick shower. Finally, now cleaned of my pee, I quickly dried myself and ran back to my room, where I proceeded to get myself dressed. Finally ready, I set off towards the training grounds.
As I made my way to meet up with the others, my mind slipped back to my dream and I couldn’t help feeling a warmth flow through my body for a fraction of a minute. Then as soon as that moment of happiness came, it was gone. What I was left with was the thought and disgust of being almost 13 years old and still a bed wetter! I also knew that I was in for a butt chewing from Tony about being late again and I was not really looking forward to it.