I was sent away to boarding school at the age of twelve because my parents split up and my mother was in an important job so she could really be there all the time, we did have a housekeeper but it was thought that I should be sent away anyway.
I had only been at the school two days when I wet myself in class and had to go to the dorm to get washed and changed , I was supervised by the school matron and she told me that she was going to put a rubber sheet on my bed in case I wet it, she asked if I had wet my bed before but I said I could not remember so if I had I must have been very young. Whilst I was changing she brought a large red rubber sheet and a smaller cotton sheet which she called a drawsheet and put them on my bed over the bottom sheet, I was so embarrassed and could stop blushing as she explained that she would check it every morning and that if I did happen to wet my bed I would be moved to the bedwetters dorm next to her rooms and the sanatorium. I was terrified the other girls would find out and sure enough they did and I was called a baby and other names, they were horrible. One girl called Becky was my friend and she stuck up for me and told me not to take any notice. I told Becky what matron had said about moving me and she said she knew one of the girls in the bedwetters dorm very well and she told her that after a while matron made girls wear babies nappies and rubber pants if they continued to wet every night. I was too scared to go to sleep that night in case I wet my bed although I had not ever done it before, my worst nightmare came true, I must have fallen asleep eventually and when I awoke my bed was very wet and I got very upset and started crying. Becky comforted me but told me that matron would be in soon and that I would be moving dorms. My nightdress was soaked and I sat on the edge of my bed crying, matron came in and took one look at me then she turned back my blankets and revealed a big wet patch for all to see. Matron took my hand and led me off down the corridor to the sanatorium where she told me to undress whilst she ran me a bath and she said that she would have to telephone my mother and tell her what had happened and that I would now be joining the bedwetters.
WRITTEN BY: Silky