(The fourth installment in the Lance Sheldon Chronicles)
As Lance walked into the weight room of the gym, he scanned the floor for her. She, Jennifer Eldridge, was a woman with a beautiful smile that matched her warm, caring personality, and amazingly tight, hot body. He had taken notice of her about six months prior. She had her back to him doing bicep curls. When she bent over to pick up a barbell, Lance, seated directly behind her, felt a stirring in his pants.
What an amazing ass that girl has
, was the thought that came immediately to his head. He was just finishing his own set, when Jennifer walked up to the rack diagonally in front of Lance to rerack her barbell. As she put the barbell back into its rightful place, she looked up to see Lance looking at her and smiled.
"Hi," she said. "Certainly feels like a Monday night, doesn't it?"
"It does indeed," Lance replied, feeling the lump in his pants growing bigger as he took in the full frontal view of one of the tightest bodies he'd ever seen. Trying discretely to cover his most inconvenient bulge, he folded his arms and looked down to avoid making eye contact. "Funny since it's Thursday," he said with an uneasy laugh.
"That's the one thing getting me through my work out tonight; knowing that tomorrow is Friday."
"Gotta love Friday. What are you working tonight?" Lance asked, looking to make conversation and lessen the uneasy feeling. Finishing his question, he looked up to see Jennifer staring at his protrusion. A smile came to her face.
"A.. ah⦠full body workout for me tonight," she mumbled absentmindedly, as she looked up at Lance's face, the smile replaced by an even keeled serious look. "You?"
"Legs and shoulders," Lance spit out, feeling the slight uneasiness of the moment. "I'm Lance." The statement came out rushed, but Jennifer didn't seem, or act, like she noticed.
"I'm Jennifer. It's nice to meet you. Are you always a night person?"
"For the most part. Once in a while I'll make it in at 5am, but I've had a difficult time getting my butt out of bed lately."
"Being able to get up that early at all is impressive. You'd never find me up that early."
"Well, it looks like the hard work at night is paying off. You look great."
"Thank you very much. You look pretty good yourself. Keep up the good work."
"Thank you very much. I will. I suppose we should get back to it, huh?"
"I suppose we should. Have a great rest of your work out."
"Thank you. You too." Lance smiled, walking over to the next exercise in his routine.
Outside of that initial conversation, Lance and Jennifer would see each other several times a week and make light conversation, but more often, one would look up from their exercise to see the other looking in their direction. On occasion, when Lance would be checking Jennifer out while she was doing one of her hardcore sets, she would look up, see Lance watching her, and smile. As he smiled back, he couldn't help but notice Jennifer's nipples harden beneath her spandex shirt. Once, Lance mentioned possibly attending one of the gym's exercise classes together, and Jennifer seemed to entertain the idea, but neither of the two ever followed up.
He was in luck this night. Knowing Jennifer's usual spot, Lance's glance went right to where Ms. Eldridge was doing some ab work. She finished her set, looked up, and waved. He returned the wave and walked over to her.
"Good evening, Ma'am."
"Good evening, Sir."
"How long have you been here?"
"Only about 20 minutes. What are you working tonight?"
"Biceps, triceps, and abs. You?"
"Legs and back."
"You've only been here for 20 minutes? Running a little late tonight?"
"Yeah. I was at the office till late, and instead of just going home to relax and have dinner, I forced myself into working out."
"Dedication is a great thing. Was a late day for me too. I figured I'd do the same thing: come in and wait to eat, and relax till after my workout."
"Dedication a great thing, huh? Depends on your perspective. I'd rather be home with a glass of red wine and some linguine with garlic and butter sauce, but this will feel good when it's over. Well, if either of us want to get out of here at a decent hour, we both better get to work, Mr. Sheldon. Enjoy your workout."
"Thank you, Ms. Eldridge. You too."
The two went about their workouts, one working out equally as hard as the other, each getting in a traditional stare every so often until, from a distance, Jennifer waved to Lance and made her way out of the weight area headed to the shower.
What I wouldn't give to rock that girl's world,
he thought.
* * *
With his workout over, and sweat glistening from his body, Lance grabbed his towel and made his way to the shower.
Standing under the shower, soothing, warm water running over him, Lance's thoughts returned to fantasies of Jennifer.
I bet she looks amazing naked. Wonder if she likes having a man go down on her. Bet she gives amazing head.