Katie and Josh had made their way to a secluded area of a nearby park. Katie had really enjoyed the walk alone, feeling her fingers mesh and intermingle with Josh's own. Her curiosity was battling with her innocence when it came to Josh. She'd enjoyed her kiss before, and now she wanted to experience it again, fully, without anyone else she knew around.
"Hey this looks like a good spot." Josh pointed to a bench. "Lets try here."
She nodded and the two college students sat side by side. There was a moment's silence, and eventually he asked. "So what classes are you taking?"
"Classes?" Katie searched her memory. She knew names of classes, but not information. "Calculus, history, geometry, that sort of thing, boring stuff."
"Those things? You seem a little young for all that," He said.
Katie cursed at herself. Technically, she was and she knew it. She was only a college freshman. "Well that doesn't matter, I mean... I am in college to have a good time."
Josh looked at her dazedly, and then worriedly. "You ... you are 21, right? I mean, I don't want to get into trouble for you coming to my party and...well the kiss."
Katie frowned. She wanted so desperately for Josh to accept her, but she didn't want to grow any older. She touched her naval ring. "I wish that Josh was my age."
The warmth tingled and she saw Josh change. The changes were subtle, his stubble grew a lot less, his hair more shaggy. He looked like a young man who had just recently graduated from high school and entered college. He blinked and said, "I mean ... that party was good...but we could have both gotten into trouble if the deans found out."
Katie nodded, smiling. Slowly her hand squeezed his. "Its the danger that makes it interesting though!" She did not realize that by making her wish, she had enacted the very nature of the ring into him. From that point on he would want to grow younger. "Besides, I liked the kiss."
"Really?"
"Yeah it was my first," She said.
"Wow, cool."
"Was it yours, Josh?" His face said no and she smiles. "I wish it was."
Instantly there was a warmth and he nodded. "Yeah its weird I guess, I never really had any girlfriends in high school."
"Would you like to kiss me now?"
Immediately he perked up and nodded, and then drew closer. Katie was expecting the same soft kiss from the first time...and it started that way. After a while though, it got ... well, to her childish mind, gross. His tongue intruded and she almost immediately gagged.
"Ack, what's that?" she asked.
"Its a kiss," he said. "I've seen people do it .... in uhm....stuff." he started again but Katie pushed him back.
"I didn't like it."
"Oh come on, its just a kiss!" He was more rambunctious now and Katie wasn't sure she liked it.
"I wish..."