While Duke and Jess started to feel more like their age, whatever was causing such seemed to be either stalling or nonexistent when it came to Sarah and Terry...at least, mostly.
The two of them had found some new clothes, and were ready to head out on to their date. Terry was utterly excited about the idea, while Sarah had mixed feelings.
Terry was feeling way too energetic now, it was almost uncanny. Honestly he'd forgotten what it was even like to be this young. This full of sheer energy! Just being on a date with Sarah felt...like his heart could be beating a million miles a second. He was a middle school kid again - a strong middle school kid, but a middle school kid nonetheless. And honestly? He couldn't think of a single better thing to be doing with his time than spending it with Sarah.
And on Sarah's part she was nervously checking out Terry. She felt kind of bad doing so, but for how they were now, at least in comparison to the immature other middle school boys, Terry's maturity from his actual age plus his athleticism resulted in a resurgence of romantic feeling.
Terry brought her out to the side of a small lake, sitting by her on a bench and putting his hand on hers. It felt so amazing, being like this, he would've never thought it could be so. Man, Terry thought, I don't even know what we could do like this, but I'm just...so excited.
Terry decided to see if she was up for it, and so looked her way and asked, "Hey...uh, Sarah...?"
"Yeah Terry?" She brightened up. He was so cute like this. So much smaller, grinning so confident seeming. She was reminded why she was so taken with him.
"Can I uh...kiss you?" He blurted it out, and was kind of surprised by how taboo it felt.
Sarah seemed to deliberate about it, and eventually decided - screw it, we're not kids. We're adults, trapped like this, and I am not going to let this have its way with me. "Give me your all, Terry, s-show me how passionate you can be!"
Terry took that as encouragement and locked lips with Sarah, hungrily kissing her and trying to engage himself as he would when he was older. Sarah for her part was charmed by just how energetic he was being. He'd never kissed like this, so clumsily yet so incredibly excitedly. She returned it, letting her hand go under his tank top and rest on his pectoral.
The session continued, Terry almost feeling light-headed from how it felt. He broke the kiss for a moment. "Ohh, Sarah...you gave me what I really wanted...lemme keep kissing you..."
She assented, but was quickly feeling like maybe they should get to work soon on putting this to rights. But then...Terry was so incredibly into this, and she didn't want to hurt his feelings by stopping too soon. This might be all he could do at present...