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Coraline yawned, stretching her arms up as she kicked her sheets off her bed. Legs dangling off the end of the bed Coraline sat up onto her arms and stared down at legs that were longer then last night. Coraline knew she grew and grew quite quickly but this was ridiculous. Swinging her legs over Coraline walked over to her marked door and stood back against it before placing her hand above her head.

"How have I grown two inches?" Coraline asked curiously before frowning at her voice. It sounded weird. It sounded older. Coraline looked down at herself, at the clothes that had been too big on her last night but were now too snug. Especially around the chest area. "What the-BILL! BILL!"

Coraline opened her door, storming out into the hall and down towards the kitchen before she finally caught sight of her reflection. Coraline paused mouth open in shock as she looked at her face... her body! Coraline swallowed before giggling. This was going to be so awesome! She looked old!

"Nevermind!" Coraline yelled, turning around and around as she looked herself over. "This is so cool."

Looking around Coraline grabbed one of Bill's shirts and ran back towards her room with a happy whoop. Coraline put her 'DO NOT DISTURB' sign on her door before shutting it with a bang. Coraline needed a plan of action, Coraline needed to... get rid of her Coraline-ness.

"Okay, let's see. No key, no bracelet, no catbag, no Cat you'll have to stay here, no... wellies. Oh, but I like my wellies." Coraline said grumbling to herself as she began to write a list of things she wanted to do now that she was a Grown Up. "And I need a legend. A simple one just like Adam did. I could be Jo or ha! I'll be Caroline! Right, first I need clothes. And then I need a drink or a kiss or something! Ha this is brilliant!"

Coraline shrugged out of her clothes into Bill's oversized shirt and tugged on a pair of converse flats. Wrapping a belt around her middle she looked- well, Coraline thought she looked odd but she in fact looked hot. Peeking out of her bedroom Coraline looked around before making her escape.

"Going out!" Coraline yelled as she ran out of the Homestead. The island was in for a whole world of trouble.

OOC: Catch Coraline going up to the Compoung or trying to find something to wear.

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It had to be dinosaurs. Johnny's face fell as soon as Coraline mentioned them, only to turn slightly confused as she laid out the alternate plan. "Wait. You want to try kissing with me?"

"Well, of course. One, you're my oldest friend and two, you know it's me so you won't try any funny business." Coraline said. Coraline wasn't quite sure what funny business entailed but she had ideas of what it might entail and she wasn't quite sure, grown up body or not, she was ready for that. "And three, you're quite- you know... um. It'll be easy."

"Well, if you're sure..." Johnny paused and tried to think things through. He'd seen people kiss plenty of times on the tv and in movies, but they never explained just how they did it. Both people would just magically seem to know when to bring their mouths together and, of course, they always fit together perfectly, like magnets. He looked at Coraline. How was he supposed to know when to do this? How was he even going to know how to do this?

"I'm sure. But Johnny... You're thinking far too much." Coraline said smiling at him curiously as she watched his brain just think. Coraline took a step closer to him and another before she stood in front of him. What had seemed like a good idea five seconds ago was now starting to seem a bit well, um. Blushing Coraline looked down before she brushed her hair behind her ear and cleared her throat. "Okay, so what we'll do is-"

Coraline pressed her lips impulsively against Johnny's, aiming to surprise him and stop him from overthinking everything like usual.

Johnny froze, not knowing what to do. In movies the man usually put his arms around the woman, but there was so much of Coraline exposed that he wasn't sure just where his hands should go. Then their mouths would usually start moving. Bigmac had once declared with some certainty that this was because they were using their tongues, but that had seemed both awkward and a bit gross to Johnny at the time. Perhaps if he put his hands on Coraline's shoulders (a nice safe area) and then just pressed his lips more firmly against her's...

Coraline let out a soft oh, blushing when Johnny actually kissed back. She hadn't been expecting that, she'd been expecting flailing or running away or looking at her oddly. That's what boys usually did when she kissed them. They didn't usually kiss her back.

"Oh," Coraline said, smiling against Johnny's lips. Sliding her hand up his chest, Coraling grabbed at his top and pulled him closer. Coraline definitely liked this kissing back business.

That you had to remember to breathe through your nose was apparently another thing that movies had never bothered explaining. Johnny kept up the kiss for a while longer, then pulled back with a gasp. It was... interesting. Certainly very interesting.

"How was... How was that then?" Johnny asked, not quite able to look Coraline in the eyes and all to painfully aware of the fact that a blush was steadily creeping across his features.

Coraline's grip tightened when Johnny pulled away gasping. Looking at him curiously Coraline bit her lip and smiled, shyly, at him. Johnny had kissed her back. There had been definite kissing back.

"You're blushing, it's cute." Coraline pointed out, smiling brightly at him. Coraline had made a boy blush. Coraline had made Johnny blush. "It was definitely um." Coraline paused before adding. "Maybe we should try it again, I mean to make sure we got it right."

"Well... Do you really think we should?" Perhaps she wanted to try the tongue thing? Johnny still wasn't sure about that, but the rest of it wasn't that bad in a face-smushing way, at least as long as he remembered to breathe. The only problem was, he wasn't quite sure how much longer he could keep going before he and his new body had to retire for some highly embarrassing private time.

Coraline looked at Johnny curiously, pressing her lips together as she considered her answer. Tugging him closer absentmindedly, Coraline nodded her head as she studied him.

"Well, I mean we could always go exploring for dinosaurs now instead if you wanted to. Or we could kiss," Coraline said smiling at him. "It's up to you."

It was either a violent, nasty death by dinosaur or an embarrassing, but probably a lot less painful death by kissing. Deciding between the two didn't take much time. With a deep breath, Johnny kissed Coraline again, pulling her closer and trying to ignore how she pressed against him, despite the fact that it really did feel pretty nice.

Coraline let out a soft eep or surprise as Johnny chose her over dinosaurs. She hadn't really thought he would choose that most boys didn't. Sliding her hands up over his shoulders and around his neck, Coraline pressed her entire body against Johnny as she kissed him quite happily.

She didn't need that tongue business, she was quite happy with this for now. It made her feel rather... warm. And weird. And definitely very um.

After a while Johnny began to realize that kissing was a whole lot easier as soon as you stopped thinking about it and just went on instinct. But only to a certain degree. As the kiss went on the hands on Coraline's shoulders began to roam of their accord until he had the sense to snap out of it and stop them before things went too far. Although, judging just how far 'too far' was was getting a bit difficult.

Coraline flushed as his hands wandered a little, heat spreading across her cheeks and down her body into the pit of her stomach. Coraline finally pulled away, her lips at least and looked at Johnny curiously. Turning her head, Coraline leaned around and kissed his cheek gently.

"Do you want to come waterfall diving with me later? I mean, that's better than dinosaurs right?" Coraline asked ducking her head a little and smiling shyly at him.

"Yeah. Yeah, that'd be great, I guess." Swimming, even when it involves jumping off of waterfalls, carried far less of a risk of death than dinosaurs and was (hopefully) less embarrassing than the kissing. Embarrassing as it was though, it was still pretty nice. After a moment or two Johnny realized he was still standing awfully close to Coraline and stepped back, blushing all over again.

"Umm..."

"Really?" Coraline asked curiously, breathing out a little and grinning at him. Coraline brushed her hair back and then took a step forward when Johnny started to umm. Ducking forwards quickly Coraline kissed Johnny on the lips briefly before darting towards the stairs. "You're overthinking again. So, later okay? At the waterfall. It's a date!"

Coraline ran up the stairs before he could say anything.