One minor warning: the main character ends up being involved with two members of the same family. If that's going to be a problem for you, this is your exit...
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"Adam," my sister said, "I need your help."
"You're moving AGAIN?!" I asked.
She laughed and said, "No."
"Alright, then," I asked, "what is it?"
"I need you to help me with my yoga class," she said, sounding exasperated.
"You know that I..."
"I know. I know. You hate yoga. I need a male partner and Steve left."
"Steve left?"
"Yeah. My class starts tomorrow. It's a bunch of my older regulars. I don't want to disappoint them."
I brooded over the situation. On the one hand, I hate yoga. My sister had tried to get me into it when she started teaching. I don't mind the eye-candy of being in a classroom that's dominated with fit females in tight clothing but stretching my body through all of those contortions inevitably leads to air squeezing from my body as noisily as possible - and I die of embarrassment every single time. On the other hand - if Steve is finally gone.
"What happened with Steve?"
"Ran off with one of the other instructors," she said.
I switched the phone to my other ear. She sounded like she was finally well and truly over him. That was a good thing - at least in my opinion. She might not think so right now. I really didn't want to be anywhere near a yoga class but my sister sounded desperate and I don't want her trying to grab another 'Steve' out of desperation.
"How long?"
"You'll do it?!"
"How long?" I repeated.
"Two weeks."
~~~
I stood next to my lithe younger sibling - in her standard yoga-instructor outfit - an ash-colored sports-bra and a pair of charcoal and ash leggings. She was whip-cord thin. She had always been skinny. She didn't have much for tits but she was cute - too cute to be stuck with Steve. Her dirty-blonde hair was pulled up into a pony tail. She was holding my hand - probably worried that I was going to run out of the classroom. I had on a pair of boxer-briefs - JUST a pair of boxer-briefs.
I felt like a poor man's Chippendale, standing (nearly naked) in front of a room full of middle-aged women. They were all wearing their yoga outfits. There were a couple curvy ones but every one of these women - obviously - was serious about yoga. Cassie had said they were some of her regulars and it was pretty evident. I was a little intimidated by some of the looks I was getting. I felt like I was standing in the livestock-market and I was the next item up for auction.
"Ladies, this is Adam. He's my brother. He's going to be helping me out."
"What happened to Steve?" one woman asked.
The woman was slightly graying, a little on the short side, hair in a business-pixie. She looked like somebody I wouldn't want to piss with.
"Took off with Wendy," Cassie told her.
"Fuck him," the woman said. "He wasn't good enough for you, Cass."
"Thanks, Wanda," my sister replied.
"I always thought he was a cock-sucker anyway," another woman said.
My sister snort-laughed. Several of the other women tittered, giggled, or grinned.
"What did you think of him, Adam?" one woman asked.
I looked from the speaker to my sister and back again.
I raised my hand to my face and pretended to be talking behind my fingers - directly to the woman - so that my sister "couldn't" hear - even though I spoke loud enough for everyone in the room to understand my words.
"He was a twit," I said. "Cassie can do much better."
The woman looked straight into my eyes and nodded. I got the impression that - if I decided to hunt Steve down and kick his ass - she and Wanda would willingly lend a hand.
"Alright, alright," Cassie said, "enough about my poor life-choices. Let's get back to why you ladies are here."
The yoga platoon fell back into ranks, waiting for their commander to direct them.
"I need to warn you that my brother hates yoga because he gets embarrassed every time he farts. I know you'll do your best to help me try to make him feel at ease. Obviously, this class is much easier to teach with a male instructor, so we need Adam to stick around."
"It doesn't hurt that he's scrumptious," someone snickered.
My cheeks pinked a little as several women reacted to the comment.
"Let's do some warm-ups and then we'll get started," Cassie told them.
I only stood by and watched for a couple seconds before realizing that I was the only one in the room that was not following my sister as she went through the forms. I fell into sync with them. Thankfully, the one fart that escaped didn't come with an audible report.
~~~
"Okay, so - obviously - since Adam is my brother - there's only so much he's going to be comfortable with me doing to him..." Cassie began.
"Wait," I interrupted. "What class is this?!"
A few snickers reached my ears.
"Couples Yoga," my sister told me, matter-of-factly, barely hiding a smirk.
Wanda's hand went up.
"Yes," my sister asked.
"I'm sure you'll have no problem getting volunteers to grapple with your brother to serve as the models for this class but I'll give you - or him - $100 if I can be first."