I'm not a puppy! (age regression)

24. Part of the Family

Eventually I pulled out what I was looking for and tossed it to jam.
"Here, just try it on"
I let them examine it and take their time. I was definitely eager to help but knew Jamie needed that little bit of control.

After a thorough inspection, Jamie slipped the hoodie over their head and wiggled to get their arms through. They looked down at the patterned sleeves and I called.
"Here, take a look in the mirror, tell me what ya think?"

I opened the wardrobe door fully, showing a built in mirror. Jamie stepped up to it and froze, staring at their own reflection intently.

The hoodie was purple, as Jamie had wanted but instead of dinosaurs it had a cartoon monster theme. It had big eyes on the front with different sized orange spots going all down arms, as well as two orange horns that poked out top of the hood.

It was a perfect fit, well a little big but that was how jam liked their hoodies. They looked positively adorable and while I thought the hoodie was a great choice I struggled to figure out was Jamie thought from their blank expression. Till I saw them try to blink away tears.

"Jamie you don't have to wear it-"
I was going to apologise but Jamie held up a hand to stop me. They wordlessly walked over to the tent in the corner, dropped to their knees and crawled inside.

Jamie turned themselves around and looked at me expectantly again. When I didn't immediately move, Jamie huffed and patted the spot in the tent next to them.

I hastily moved to join Jamie, sitting in next to them and closing over the door. Jam then bundled up the blanket around us and shoved it into my arms.

I understood what to do and jam anxiously fidgeted with their fingers as I cast the blanket up and allowed it to fall atop us, sealing us in a double fort.

Before I could even ask anything Jamie started off, keeping their eyes fixed away from me.
"I like the hoodie"
They were very quiet.
"I'm really glad Jam"
Jamie still didn't look at me but I could see a little slump of their shoulders, they were somewhat relaxing.
"But, um... I don't feel good"
I nodded, encouraging Jamie to keep going and elaborate.

Under the protection of the double fort they were far more willing to be open about how they were doing. They ran their thumbs on the hoodie cuffs and admitted.
"I feel stupid for wanting just my purple hoodie, I don't even know why. I just really wanted it. It's the dumb baby brain, making me do weird stuff and making me wanna cry"
Jamie's voice quivered at the last part and I took the moment to take over, trying to rephrase what they said to comfort them

"Jam, as someone who has torn this house apart cause I couldn't find my lucky socks on a presentation day, I can safely say it's not stupid to really want to wear something specific, far from it. We get alot of confidence from what we wear, and I'm confident you would've wanted your purple hoodie regression or not"
"Huh?"

"Yeah, I'd say the only thing your regression has done is switch around your priorities and make the hoodie an even bigger deal. Which is fair, it's your favourite hoodie, it makes you happy. We're doing something big today, hence I'm also wearing my lucky socks"

I flashed my lucky socks(covered in little dancing disco people), and Jamie finally looked at me, to smile at my goofy socks. They sniffed and rubbed at their eye.
"That makes sense... Hoodie always makes me feel better"

They still looked very tense so I took a shot over what this was more largely about.
"Jam how're you feeling about telling Tom everything?"

Jamie shrugged, before when we'd discussed this Jamie just accepted that it was gonna happen eventually. But now that it was actually happening they didn't seem as