So a few weeks back my University had their “February break” and most students went home for the week but I decided to just stay on campus. I have a pretty steady routine of getting up early and hitting the gym before classes and I wanted to keep that going on break. I have a 7AM class so I’m usually at the gym at around 5:30 (crazy I know) as you can imagine its not very crowded at that hour. Usually I see the same handful of people who have a similar schedule but I didn’t expect to see anyone during break. I was wrong about that.
When I walked into the gym, I saw Tom a decently tall, athletically built, ginger who I saw there pretty regularly, but had never spoken to besides some normal small talk and pleasantries. today since we were the only two people there, we actually talked a bit more and joked around some. I started messing with him pretending I was stronger than him and challenged him to a push-up contest. Even while I was doing girl-pushups he still beat me. He then challenged me to a bench-press contest and I told him how I’ve never actually done that before (more of a treadmill and yoga type girl). He was pretty shocked and said that instead of a contest, he’d show me how to do the exercise properly.