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Their family may not be conventional but she and her girls are happy and loved, it works. Contains consensual and non sexual age-play. Shelby and Unholy Trinity. Sugar may appear later.

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Chapter 1

It still surprises her how easily the girls fall into their, still relatively, new roles, how they seem to thrive when they come home and leave their grown up complaints and problems at the door with their shoes and backpacks. Akward mumblings of hello and stiff, nervous hugs have now changed to excitable greetings and numerous hugs and kisses as they chatter on about their day. Any anxiety they used to have is now long gone and their payments have stopped, the arrangement is now based on love rather than a business transaction. Shelby knows that her girls are jealous of her clients but she always reminds them that she loves them and that she has no attachments to her clients. Her business partner Holly had taken over some of Shelby's clients now that the dark haired woman didn't have to work ridiculously long hours to compensate for the empty house that waited for her at the end of the day. Her girls definitely had a profound love for their aunt Holly after she had stayed with them when Shelby had to go out of town for a few days. It's not exactly a conventional career to have but there is always a demand for someone like her due to the limited amount of 'professionals' and the huge amount of people who secretly have this kind of fetish; age-play. To some, like her girls, it isn't sexual..it's about letting go and embracing your inner child, forgetting about your horrible childhood and your stressful lives. To others, it is.

She remembers vividly the first time she met each of her girls, each one had reacted differently and each one had left an impression on her straight away. Quinn had come to her first appointment with her brilliant hazel eyes trained to the ground and a blush on her face, it had taken several questions from Shelby to find out what exactly the girl was looking for in her sessions and it had taken a few sessions for Quinn to completely relax and be comfortable in her role. Brittany and Santana had come together, the girlfriends had discovered in the past that they both had an interest in age play but Brittany had been much more open to the idea of experiencing it. Santana had refused to participate during the first session and had observed from the corner, despite the fact that she and Brittany had paid for a couple's session. Shelby had noticed the badly hidden longing in the latina's eyes during that first appointment and she wasn't at all surprised when her tall blonde girlfriend easily coaxed her to join in when they came back a week later. Brittany was just so unphased about things, she didn't understand why Santana had been so embarrassed about it and had just embraced her needs and wants.

The first time the three girls found out about each other had been ugly, Quinn's session had run over and, of course, Brittany's excitement had ensured that she and Santana were early for their session. Shelby knew just by the look in Quinn's eyes that the girl knew Brittany and Santana and she saw the panic in the latina's gaze while she started to harshly defend herself. It had also been the first time that Shelby had taken Santana into hand while she was in her teenage state of mind, the first time she realised the love she had for these three girls and the first time they realised their love for her. On a day of so many firsts it was also the last for one important thing; the payments. They were no longer her clients but her children, even when they were not age playing. Most of her clients all paid for the same thing, all liked to be as young as possible, her girls were different. Quinn didn't have a great childhood and it only got worse as she got older. She had told Shelby that when she was eight or nine she realised that her family didn't actually care for her, they cared about appearances, how the rest of the world saw them. Becoming Shelby's client had given her the chance to relive or even better, reinvent that time period in her life and after she stopped being just one of the woman's clients it became even more meaningful.

Santana had been hard to work out, it took her a while to actually trust and open up to Shelby. It had taken Shelby a while to work out how young the latina's mindset was, she didn't find it overly important to know but at the same time it helped to know what kind of things to buy for her and what level of care she needed. After observing the girl carefully and trying to work it out she eventually just did the simplest thing, asked Santana. The latina had looked up from her building blocks just long enough to tell her she was five, with a look of childish annoyance that 'Mama' even had to ask. Shelby has noticed a major change in Santana's attitude outside of her role, her language had cleared up big time and whenever someone had annoyed her at college she usually let it out in the form of a tantrum once she was home with Mama and her sisters, something that usually ended up with her standing in the corner rubbing the sting from her backside. It wasn't until a couple of months later that Santana explained why she naturally fell into that age, having always struggled with anger issues, having a tanrum would allow her the freedom to let her anger out. It was comforting to know that there were consequences in place that were safe and loving and that forgiveness would always come. They did hit a bump in the road when they found out that Brittany wouldn't be graduating high school with Santana and Quinn. It had caused a lot of stress and upset for all of them but now Quinn and Santana are attending James A Rhodes state college right here in Lima and Brittany is repeating her senior year with much more effort this time round and things had calmed down again.

Brittany had been the easiest, she had just came right out and told Shelby everything about her and explained her needs and wants, likes and dislikes. She is the baby of their family and the one who had always fallen into their role without any worries or embarrassment. In the year that their family had been together, the tall blonde is perhaps the one who has flourished the most. Her confidence in her abilities has grown vastly and whenever someone at school had the audacity to pass judgement on her intelligence she would shoot them down and explain why they are wrong to do so. The only time Brittany had seemed even the tiniest bit embarrassed was when she admitted that she would sometimes have accidents during the night but her Mama and sisters had been quick to inform her that it was nothing to be embarrassed about and all of them agreed that Brittany looked adorable in her diaper. Shelby has to admit, as proud of Brittany as she is, she did feel a little emotional when the girl graduated to pull-ups. Brittany is also the least stubborn of her girls, it rarely took more than a stern look and a firm tone to make the girl cease any misbehaviour, with her older sisters it was rare when Shelby didn't have to do more than that.

She had worked her schedule so that this didn't have to happen often but either way the girls would be well looked after as Holly would help out when Shelby was busy. It was a rule she and Holly had from the beginning, to not have appointments at the same time so that one of them would be available to answer the phone or the door to nervous new clients. Brittany would sometimes help out on the rare occasions where Shelby and Holly's schedules did clash and the teenager was a complete godsend, her calm and kind nature is perfect for the business and it was good for her too, especially on the days when Santana and Quinn worked. Both girls decided that they wanted to start helping out with money so had went to find weekend jobs , Santana as a barista at the nearest Starbucks and Quinn as a waitress in a quaint little cafe in town. Shelby had, of course, told them to use their money on themselves and that there was no need for them to help out but there was nothing she could do when they went to the grocery store without her and bought supplies for the house. The woman had enough of her own money to keep the house running but she knew that when they went to the grocery store or the hardware store or even to the garage for her car's yearly check up, they felt like they were contributing; something that was important to them so she allowed it. She had learned that they did prefer going to the grocery store with her, she had worked it out after having to go back out to the store every week when they had 'forgotten' something and eventually just accepted it when they gave her money towards things. The money sits gathering dust inside a jar in her bedroom, where it will stay until the girls need it, they didn't need to know yet that their money would be handed back to them at a later date and Shelby knows it will irritate them but in her defense, she wants to look after her girls and doesn't want to use their money to do so. Their family may not be conventional but she and her girls are happy and loved...it works.

To be continued? Let me know what you think :)