Training Wheels Of A Sort

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With Isabel gone and Angie, Coraline was fast running out of female grown ups to ask about breasts. She'd thought about asking Doctor Brennan but she'd probably end up using big long words that Coraline wouldn't remotely understand and whilst Doctor Brennan's scientic and detached demeanor was helpful she didn't think in this case it would help her

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[moraldyslexic]

The last thing Lennox expected to find in the laundry room was a small, bra-throwing girl, but that was exactly what he got as he headed in with a bag of clothes and bedding to be washed. Raising an eyebrow as Coraline tossed a bra behind her, he loaded a machine with soap and their sheets, then wandered over.

"Jesus Christ, man, both of our heads could fit in this one," he said as he picked up one of the bras she'd discovered, holding it up in amazement.

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Coraline blushed a furious bright red and tried to hide beneath her catbag. She really, really didn't want to explain what she was doing. Coraline snatched the bra from his hand and tried to hide the evidence of what she was doing.

"Some women have very large... chests," Coraline said looking at the floor with interest. It was true that it could house both their heads and Coraline did find it amusing but at the same time horribly mortifying. She'd rather face the Other Mother then talk about her...bits.

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"Oh, hey, no. Shit, I didn't mean to embarrass you," Lennox said quickly, feeling terrible at the way Coraline's face turned a really impressive shade of red. "I'm sorry, don't hide, it's cool. It's totally fine, I get it. I had to help Lily pick out one of her first bras and she totally yelled at me right in the department store because I was being a jackass."

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"Really?" Coraline asked curiously. Coraline couldn't imagine Lily being small anywhere- certainly not as a kid and certainly not in the chest area. Lily was very much a mum and the idea that one day she asked Lennox to help her with bras made her feel a little bit better. "I don't know what to do."

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"Yeah, I guess it kind of sucks having to go through stuff like this on the island, doesn't it?" Lennox asked, planting himself on the floor beside the box and tugging at a random strap. "Look, here's what I think and you can tell me to zip it if you want. Everyone has to go through something like this. Just wait until the boys around you start getting all embarrassed because their voices crack. I went through it. It's totally natural and I'm not gonna make fun of you if you need help finding something."

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"Not really, it's going throught it without my mum that's the worst. She's forgetful, she forgets me all the time but she's my mum and she'd know just what to do." Coraline said wondering why boys only got a stupid voice and girls got bleeding and boobs and hair and all sorts. It really wasn't fair. And the only boy who was her age was Coin. Everyone else was older then her and most of her friends who were boys were much older then her. "I don't really know any boys my age, they are all older and stupid. Apart from Edmund, he's not stupid."

Because Edmund was the bees knees, the dogs bollocks and the cats pyjamas as far as Coraline was concerned. "

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"Yeah, that would suck," Lennox agreed, still sitting on the floor. "I had to do it without my dad and I know it's worse for girls, but man, hair started growing and my voice went all weird and... other stuff and I couldn't tell my mom. It was way too weird."

So he'd told Chris. And then he'd told Gordon. And then Gordon had told Lennox's mom anyway, so it hadn't really helped him in the long run.

"I bet we could find you a girl to help if you wanted. I know she wouldn't be your mom, but she'd probably be more helpful than me," he pointed out as he tugged a sparkly purple bra from the pile and put it on over his shirt. "I don't even know what size I wear."

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"Is hair going to start growing?" Coraline asked with a somewhat startled face. She wished the bookshelf would give her something much more helpful then Pinups of the 50's and pictures of naked ladies. Coraline thought the idea of finding a girl, someone she didn't even know to be a little bit more embarassing but it would probably help so she nodded her head. She laughed when Jim modelled the bra. "You'd need pillows to stuff those, your chest is even flatter then mine. And that colour doesn't suit you at all."

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"No way, I look great," Lennox answered with a laugh before he began to tug the bra off again, struggling with the clasp a little. "Do you want me to see if Lily would give you a hand or is there someone else you think you can ask? I mean, there are tons of women on the island, right? Gotta be someone who knows about this shit."

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"All the women I know keep disappearing," Coraline said sadly. The sobering thought of Isabel and Angie being gone hurting her once again in her chest. She missed Angie, missed waking up and knowing she was there. Missed her laughing face when she teased Adam or her helpful advice for a young girl without her mum on a big island. "And everyone else is a boy or too little. And Lucy is...well Lucy."

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"Well, sometimes boys can help, too. I bet Adam knows a lot more than you think he might and I know it's probably embarrassing, but that goes away," Lennox answered. "Or we can go get Lily. She's a girl and she knows all about this sort of stuff."