Katie and Mika quickly put the other girls to bed before sitting down to enjoy a girls night together. As the the two girls talked Katie took special interest in what Mika was talking about. As time passed Mika was behaving and talking more like a 12 year old girl instead of a grown woman in her sixties.
As the girls now painted eachothers toenails Katie felt it was time to find out how much the ring had affected Mika. "So are you having fun Mika," she asked curiously. MIka smiled as she looked at her friend. "Of course," she answered cheerfully. "Its so cool us spending time doing this girly stuff even if we have to watch the pipsqueaks. Who knows maybe in a couple of years we can do this for money."
Katie paused and looked down at the young Asian girl. "Mika how old are you," she asked.
Mika looked up, the question was obvious but something didn't feel right. Mika knew she was 12 buff was she, something told her it was wrong. Mika looked at Katie with a curious look. "I'm 12," she answered a little unsure. "Same as you, we're in sixth grade together. Why do you ask?"
"No reason," Katie said. She'd listened to Mika talk all about things any sixth grader would talk about, and it left her with a distinct curiosity. Katie didn't understand it, but she wanted to know more.
"So you sat through the sex ed class?" Mika asked.
Katie shook her head, "no?"
"It was gross! They told us all about where babies really come from and other stuff!"
Katie listened some more, and as the time progressed, her mind boggled at all the things her friend told her, about puberty, about things her mother had never told her. She realized, listening to Mika, that her body was on the cusp of many of the changes she described. "So....I havent entered puberty yet..." katie thought. "Well..."