A Child's Favorite Holiday [PATREON REQUEST]

Christmas was always an exciting time for any young child. It meant being able to get new toys, new outfits, and just new things in general. What kid wouldn’t get excited about something like that?

And of course, it was no different for those who were still children at heart, as was the case for a young woman who had made her way to the nearby mall to try and find a new toy for herself. Physically, she appeared to be in her late teens, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at her outfit. She was wearing a bright pink t-shirt with a matching skirt, and her skipping caused the skirt to flip up quite frequently to reveal the pure white diaper she was wearing underneath.

Naturally, the girl didn’t care about any awkward stares she got from the people around her as she skipped through the halls of the mall, looking for the toy store that she knew this mall had. There was a brand new plush that had just come out recently that she was dying to get to take home with her to her nursery, and she was hoping that this place would have it!

It didn’t take long for the girl to find the toy store she was looking for, and once she did, she headed inside with excitement clear on her face. Of course, she got a few weird glances from the workers in the store as well, but just as with everything else, she ignored it in favor of focusing on her goal.

Heading to the section where all the plushes were kept, the girl’s eyes lit up with childlike wonder as she wandered through the aisles, looking at all the adorable and fluffy plushes that were lined up on the shelves. They were all adorable, of course, and on any other day she’d take any one of them and be happy, but today she was looking for a very specific plush, and she wouldn’t be satisfied unless she got it.

...Which was why she kept searching the aisles over and over again, getting more and more desperate each time. She must’ve paced through the aisles at least twenty times by this point, and there were still no signs of the plush toy she had been searching for. She even tried asking the workers nearby if they had seen what she was searching for, and only got apologetic shrugs and shakes of the head in response. Seems the toy was just so popular, it had already sold out long before she had even got there…

Leaving the toy store with a sigh of disappointment, the girl began to walk back to the mall exit, the skip in her step completely gone at this point. She had come to the mall for one thing and one thing only, and she couldn’t manage to find it… She’d just have to hope that maybe she could find another store on the way home that might have it in stock, but what were the odds of that?

As she dejectedly walked through the halls of the mall that she had just been happily skipping through, she saw a mall Santa setup that she had seemingly completely ignored on her way through the mall the first time. There were plenty of children waiting to sit on Santa’s lap, and the girl almost envied them. Maybe they’d be able to get what they want from Santa…

However, right when she passed by the line of children waiting for their turn to see Santa, the man sitting on the chair in the center of the display gently grabbed the girl’s hand, and pulled her onto his lap. The girl was shocked into silence for a bit, and Santa certainly noticed this, giving a laugh before initiating the conversation himself.

“Hello, little girl!” He said with all the jolliness one would expect from Santa Claus, talking to the woman as she was actually the infant she was dressed as. “I noticed that you seemed pretty sad walking through the mall just now, and nobody’s allowed to be sad on Christmas!” He said, giving another laugh.

The girl gave a polite smile just so Santa would be pleased, but it was clear her heart wasn’t in it. She was still far too disappointed about not being able to find the toy she had been looking for this whole time. Luckily for her, the mall Santa display was close enough to the toy store that Santa had seen her go into the store, and he seemed to know what she was after without her even saying it.

“Disappointed you couldn’t find the toy you were looking for?” He asked, to which the girl gave a sad nod. With another laugh, the mall Santa reached into his bag and pulled out a wrapped gift, handing it to the girl with a smile. “Well, here. Why don’t you go head off with one of my elves, and open this gift?” He said, gently lifting the girl off his lap. One of the other workers, obviously dressed as an elf, gently took the girl’s hand and began to lead her off towards a section of the display where other kids were playing around.

Looking down at the gift she had been given, the girl noticed that even though it was wrapped, it still felt soft to the touch. But there was no way it could really be what she was thinking, right…?

As soon as she got to the waiting area the worker elf had led her towards, the girl sat down on her padded bottom, and began to unwrap the present slowly and carefully. She didn’t want to risk ruining it, after all.

And as the wrapping paper gave way to the toy wrapped underneath, the girl could hardly believe what she saw waiting for her...