There was no smell to compare to new gym, or any gym, with the equipment, the sweat and all the suffering and disappointment that came with it. She loved it. And, so what if it wasn't quite a whole new gym, there was some newness around it. The sign was new, the name was new, a few pieces of equipment that she thought were missing were new, but that was all she could afford from the financing she could arrange. No bank was really interested in lending to someone like her with her track record so she had to cobble things together from her meager savings. That ended up being a combination of the last of what you could call her career earnings money, and some crowd sourced funds from various donors, most of whom used to work out at the old gym.
While she had a small following, mostly online from her training videos and random fight clips that kept some residuals trickling in, she wasn't a celebrity name that was going to draw as much. Still, she worked with what she had and decided to use everything in her one shot of getting completely clean and starting over. Except no one ever got completely clean when they've been where she's been, so it was just starting over and hoping she could stay clean enough.
Skye's Killer Thighs wasn't the best name or slogan, but it capitalized on her signature take down move that left most of her opponents with only the option of tapping out if they let her get to them that way. And she still had them, she worked hard at them and showed them off whenever she could. Everyone in the gym wanted a piece of them too. They were the thighs teenage orgasmic dreams were made of. It didn't really matter whether you were male, female, anyone with a pulse wanted those thighs somewhere on their body and some might even go a little too far in the gym flirting and end up facing the consequences.
One of the only people she took much flak from was Dirk. He was her biggest investor and as close to a friend as she had in the area that she could trust with most things. During their encounters he always went for a no holds, or in their case, holes, barred approach, while she had her limits and rules. Anyone who crossed the line, paid the price. Dirk had toyed with the line a few times, but never went too far, so she cut him some slack. That and he was well over twice her size, so she needed all the leverage she could get to possibly take him down.
Dirk was a body builder by training and had competed for a while, but mostly did off circuit stuff in some minor strongman type gigs these days after making it big with his training products and supplements. There wasn't a sixteen-year-old in the area who didn't use some part of his products or had his logo on some workout wear. Everyone seemed to want to impress their prospective dates somehow with stuff from Dirk's; Dirk's Drinks being the most popular with the whole line of smoothies and protein shakes that everyone gobbled up. Skye had tasted Dirk's protein shake on a couple occasions and didn't really know what the big fuss was about.
It was opening day and she dressed up for the occasion, with her normal workout wear being replaced by a slightly more risquΓ© leather sports bra and latex yoga style shorts that clung to every inch of her thighs, as well as a few other things. They molded to her every curve and accentuated her puffy mound. She wasn't sure what she was a thinking after a while as she was starting to feel the tightness of the latex press against her with every step she took. She figured with the way she was going she'd be banging Dirk again that night assuming they made it until closing time.
At that point it didn't seem to matter as Dirk was the only one there, getting into his usual workout already as she had let him in before the official opening time.
After a while she started to wonder whether this was the big mistake many people said or if her advertising had done anything to drum up interest. She was about to just head back to the machines and work on some sets when she heard the bell on the door ring as someone entered. She looked over and was excited to see a couple women stroll in and stop at the counter. She ran up as fast as she could to greet them.
"Good afternoon, ladies. Here to check out the new gym?" Skye shouted enthusiastically.
"Oh my god, it's really her!" the first one said, a tall fit looking blonde.
"Pinch me, I think I may faint." Said the second one, a much shorter, heavier brunette.
Neither one looked like the gym rat type Skye thought to herself. Sure, the blonde was trim but either looked like she was blessed with good genes or maybe like a casual runner with good genes.
"Oh, fans?" Skye asked, hesitantly, not wanting to be too forward at first. "Chasing autographs and a chance to touch fame I suppose?" She continued once she caught her footing.
The women looked at each other and fawned. She was right.
"So, whose boobs am I signing first?" Skye asked. The women looked at her a little shocked. "Well, I don't see anything else with you so I assumed you're like some of the crazy fans I used to get. For parts of the body, I will only sign boobs, nothing else, but I'd rather sign hats or shirts or posters."
"Um, well..." The blonde stammered.
"What you want to just go out in the back room and fuck or something? I don't even know you." Skye replied before anyone had even asked a question. She had a few things to work on to get back to dealing with people when she wasn't appearing as her fight character persona, which was really just her normal self with a costume and some gawdy makeup.
The women looked at her again, the blonde's face was screwed up in disgust while the brunette looked to be thinking over her choices.
"What about a little of both." The brunette asked, surprising herself.
Her friend looked at her, shocked at what she had heard.
"Come by tomorrow morning before opening and we'll see what happens. Bring something to sign other than your boobs." Skye said. "Oh, but bring your boobs too. Both of you if you want, you're both cute, especially you." Skye looked at the brunette, surprising both of them as the blonde usually got most of the attention.
The women collected themselves and wandered off discussing whatever it was they still had to figure out, as the blonde still seemed unsure, but the brunette seemed to be doing a great job convincing her.
"I see you have that silver tongue still." Dirk managed between grunts on his final set of his arm day workout. He placed the dumbbells back on the rack and sat up. Skye gave him a look.