Chapter 3: CHAPTER 3. Noah and Elsa
What the fvck was Elsa Quinn doing in a gym?
He paused, glancing around the room, and then back at the girl from his own high school.
She didn’t look back at him, nor did she appear to care who was in the room. She wore one of the largest, ugliest shirts he’d ever seen.
He saw the signs of perspiration under her armpits. Her thighs were also swallowed up.
She had interrupted his place of peace.
Was this the girl who Sarah was talking about? No, she was going to have to go.
This was his place, his gym.
Moving toward the running machine closest to her, he started at a steady walk.
“What the fvck are you doing here?” he asked.
She tripped, and caught herself by holding onto either side of the machine, turning to look at him.
Her eyes were so dark as she stared at him. Noah forced himself to look right back at her.
There was always something … inviting about her eyes.
During high school, he’d noticed how dark they were, and how they stared at something, trying to figure it out.
They were beautiful eyes.
“What the fvck are you doing here?” she asked back
“I’ve been coming to this gym for the past year. What is your reason?” he replied with scrutiny.
“You don’t own the gym. You can’t stop people from coming here.” she retorted
“Are you here with a gang of girls? Did they put you up to this?” Noah looked around, wondering if at any moment one of his ex-conquests was suddenly going to pop out and make an appearance.
“I can’t believe your ego. I don’t have to take this. There are other rooms.” She pressed several buttons, and left the room.
His peace had been ruined because he didn’t trust her.
Turning off his machine, he followed her, finding her standing in the weight room. She looked like a fish out of water, exactly as Sarah had described her.
“Do you have a clue what you’re doing?”
“God, do you own this room as well?” She walked back into the main hall, and there were several people walking toward them.
Grabbing her hand, he pushed her into one of the private sauna rooms.
“What the fvck are you doing?”
“You don’t have a clue what you’re doing here, so tell me who put you up to this.”
“No one?”
“You just happened to be at Bruce’s gym out of pure coincidence.” he asked suspiciously
“No, and I don’t have to tell you.”
“I’ll make your life hell at school!” he threatened
She glared. “I dare you, and I’ll make sure every single girl knows you’re here on a Saturday.”
They both stared at each other, neither of them showing signs of winning.
Noan knew it would be bad for him if the girls knew about this.
“I’m here because it’s the only place where I can get peace and quiet. You must have heard what Jessica did?”
“I heard about the scene. Who hasn’t?”
“Exactly. I come here so I can work out and be left alone. Now, I’ve told you why, you tell me?”
He was now calm, knowing she had him at a critical point.
She sighed. “I just want to point out that you interrupted my training time, not the other way around. You could have run anywhere else, and I wouldn’t care.”
“Fine, just tell me.” he almost pleaded.
“I’m doing it as a surprise to my mom.”
“I don’t get it.” he said with a confused look on his face.
“Look at me. I know you all call me fat, cow, whale, chubby. I embarrass my mom, so here I am, trying to make her proud.” she replied quickly and looked away
He’d heard all the names she’d been called, and he’d laughed at a couple of them.
But really he didn’t see a problem with her weight. So she was a couple of pounds heavier than people would like, so what?
He happened to like her tits. There were many times during gym at school where he’d stared as her tits bounced.
Out of all of the girls in high school, she had the biggest rack.
Damn.
Now his gaze landed on her breasts.
“Seriously? My eyes are up here, you creep.” She fired and he looked up immediately.
.
“You don’t have a clue what you’re doing.” Noah argued
“So? I’ll figure it out, and come college, there will be a dazzling new me, and there will be no sobbing in sight.”
“What you’re trying to do is lose weight. Where is your trainer? What are your starting points? What about your diet? There’s a lot more to losing weight than just getting on a treadmill, and hoping for the best. You want to be the best that you can be, then you need some help.” he persisted
“I don’t want to make this complicated, okay? This was just about doing something in private with no one knowing, and now you know.”
“Believe it or not, I won’t blab.” he said with a solemn expression
“Sure you won’t.”
Her sarcasm was grating on his nerves.
This couldn’t be happening. Her perfectly ordered plan of losing weight without anyone knowing was about to be completely ruined.
Elsa forced back the tears as she stared back at the star of her high school.
This sucked.
“I won’t. I’m not a fvcking liar.” he swore
“Don’t swear at me.”
They had never spoken more than a handful of words at each other during their time in high school.
“How do I know you’re not going to tell everyone?” he queried
“You keep my appearance here quiet, and I won’t tell.”
“Fine. I can do that.”
“Good. Can I go now, or are you going to lecture me about something else?” she asked.
“No, you can go.” He released her arm,
and she made her way back toward the treadmill.
The buzz she was getting had disappeared.
The entire encounter with Noah had ruined what she wanted to achieve.
She had done an hour, and that was better than nothing.
Leaving the treadmill, she made her way into the changing room. Instead of sticking around to change, she grabbed her stuff, and headed out into the parking lot.
Sarah was chipper, asking how she got on.
Elsa did her best to smile, and say thank you, but all she wanted to do was escape. Maybe get a large tub of ice cream on the way back.
“Elsa, wait.”
She tensed up, glancing behind her to see Noah rushing toward her. This was the last thing she needed.
“What is it?” she asked, turning to look at him.
He ran up to her, and she refused to be drawn to his rock hard body. This was not her. She wanted something more than a pretty face to look at.
“You’re serious about losing weight? This wasn’t some joke to find out where I was?”
He queried.
“How can you even walk with an ego that size? Yes, this was about me, and what I wanted to do for my mother. It wasn’t about you.” she replied, now getting irritated
“I’ll help you.”
Elsa jerked back. “What?”
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