The next day I woke to find that I could barely walk from my workout. In particular, my thighs and ass were so sore and stiff so as to be almost immobile.
As I waddled around the kitchen, Carlie arrived home from work. Carlie worked as a night-shift nurse and we generally saw eachother only in the mornings on days of the week that we both worked.
"Hey Babe!" she said. I could not help but be reminded of Ryan's nickname for me. "How was the gym last night? Building those muscles for me?"
"Definitely," I grinned, flexing my arm in jest.
"You'll get there, babe" she said encouragingly. She walked over and hugged me, jokingly (and painfully) squeezing my ass.
"Ouch!" I said. "Sorry, real sore this morning."
"In your butt? You're doing butt exercises?" She asked.
"Yeah, apparently it will help me trim down at first before moving on to muscle building." I replied
"'Apparently'? Did someone tell you this?"
"Umm..." I flushed a bit. "Yeah, it was that guy at the gym I told you about."
"Dick? Big huge muscular Dick? He's having you do butt exercises? And you're listening to him?"
"His name's Ryan. And not really. He just mentioned it in passing and I looked it up. A lot of articles recommend the same thing."
"Ryan, huh? Sounds like you have a gym husband now!" Carlie was referring to the fact that we both had coworkers we jokingly called our work spouses. There was a Doctor she was friends with she called her "work husband" and there was another attorney she called my "work wife."
"Just remember," she continued, guiding her hands back to my butt, "no matter how many butt exercises you do for big Dick, you're MY girl outside of the gym." She squeeze my butt again when she said "girl" and started laughing.
"Ouch!" I said. But honestly her words had gotten me a bit hot and with her still squeezing my ass I leaned in for a kiss. She gave me a quick peck but then released and walked away. "Sorry babe, exhausted. I'm going to bed."
Disappointed and feeling a bit horny, I waddled out of the house towards the bus stop.
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I spent the day working distractedly, thinking about the fact that Ryan had my number. I still couldn't believe I had given it to him. What was wrong with me, I asked myself. I don't give my number out to people like that, especially not to some random teenage kid. I told myself that if he reached out to me that I'd ask him to delete my number.
The day dragged on. I was still very sore in my core, legs and butt. Even just sitting was somewhat painful. I distracted myself by visiting my coworker Katie - who was the one referred to by friends as my "work wife." As usual we got along well, joking about our bosses and coworkers in hushed voices, giggling as we glanced furtively around. For whatever reason, I liked to think of this as flirting but I wasn't sure Katie felt that way.
I was in the middle of telling Katie a story, my phone pinged. I stole a quick glance and saw it was a text form an unknown number. I trailed off mid-sentence and stood staring at my phone.
It read: "How you feeling, babe?
"Jerry?" Katie asked. "Everything alright."
I stared at Katie momentarily, then bobbed my head quickly "Yep - all great, gotta go though - work calls." And with that I walked as quickly as my sore ass could take me back to my office.
I stared at the phone. My heart rate had quickened for some reason.
"Who's this?" I asked, trying to throw Ryan off and discourage him from the get go. It didn't work.
"I think you know who this is babe - you were caught staring at his huge delicious cock just yesterday."
I paused, the image of Ryan's large cock draped over his leg, the outline clearly visible through the towel, filled my head.
"Hi Ryan..." I answered, feeling myself blush. I immediately realized my mistake. I had not only admitted that I was staring at his dick yesterday, but I also implied in my response that I thought it was huge and delicious. Shit! I didn't think that! But it was too late.
"Ah hah! Figured that one out right away huh Babe? haha"
I started typing, "No, Ryan. I just.." but before I could get further, Ryan followed up: "I'm just kidding babe relax! How you feeling from your workout?'
"Really sore, I could barely walk today."
"Haha ;). More of that to come I suppose babe. But sore is good! Means you accomplished something. And as I said, nothing is better for a post-workout routine than a deep tissue massage. Let's hit the gym again today and I'll show you what I'm talking about."
I suddenly remembered what I had been intending to do. I slowly typed out a message and clicked send with trepidation.
"Ryan, I appreciate you reaching out to me. But I think it's inappropriate for you to be texting me. It's strange, given our age difference. I'm not sure we should be planning to go to the gym together or anything."
There was a pause on the chain. For some reason my heart hammered inside of my chest. Then he answered.
"Babe, you're making way too big of a deal over this. I just thought you could use a couple pointers. Listen, I'm heading to the gym tonight around 9:45. No pressure, but if you're there I'll give you a few pointers, that's it!"
I thought about it for a few minutes. Carlie would be working tonight. But still, I was nervous for some reason and responded: "Thanks, Ryan. I think I'll skip today - too sore."
"Alright, but you'll never develop muscles like these being lazy."
I didn't know what he meant until - ping. I looked at my phone. He'd sent me a picture.
I glanced around, making sure no one was coming in. Then opened the image.
The pic was of Ryan, lying on a couch. Taken from his perspective, the picture showed his view looking down his body, wearing only tight, white, calvin klein boxer shorts.
I swallowed hard.
Most prominent in the picture were his huge pecs, at the bottom of the screen, dark and strong. I followed his rippling muscles over his washboard abs to his legs. One was propped up, displaying his large ripped quads. Once again his cock was impossible to ignore, the outline of the behemoth clearly visible through the tight boxers, draped over his left leg.
Another message appeared at the top of my phone screen: "Don't you want my muscles, babe?"
After a few more seconds of staring at the picture, I responded. "Yeah, okay. See you at 9:45."
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I arrived at the gym at 9:30. I had spent most of the day doubting myself. I alternated between strangely excited and angry about the fact that I had given in to Dick. He was such an arrogant prick, that was clear. But for some reason, I couldn't shake the desire to impress him. Maybe it was because I wanted to build muscles like his, even at only eighteen years old.
I started my workout. As I had told myself I would do last time, I dumped Ryan's recommended routine and went back to chest, biceps and back. How was I going to develop muscles like his otherwise?! My workout proceeded and I found myself repeatedly glancing at the door and at the clock. By 10:15, I was thoroughly annoyed, thought I couldn't say surprised - he was such an arrogant Dick. As I worked through my exercises - push ups, lat pulldowns, shoulder raises - I found I was feeling pretty pumped. I felt that in the short time I had been exercising, I had made some real gains. As I looked at myself in the mirror doing bicep curls, my eyes caught movement in the mirror at the front door and I focused there. There he was. My god he was big. Even with his normal sweatshirt and sweat pants, he still struck an incredibly imposing figure. The thick sweatshirt was tight enough at the shoulders to hint at his size underneath.
I glanced at the clock - 10:25. He was 40 minutes late. Unbelievable. I continued my workout but noticed as Ryan walked over to me.
"Hey baby!" he said. "What'd we say about working those muscle groups? Those are man muscles. You're not there yet."
What an ass. "Hey Ryan. Please call me Jerry. I thought we were meeting here at 9:45?"
"I know, but I got tied up with a teacher at school. You're not mad at me are you babe?" He winked at me and smiled.
Though I tried to stop it, in spite of myself, I gave a small smile back. It was hard to stay mad at him.
"Here's what we're gonna do babe. I'm gonna teach you a few heavy lifts, and then you'll do a bunch of toning and tightening exercises. Heavy weights and low reps to build muscle, and low or no weights with high reps to tighten everything up." As he said this he approached and ran his hand over my stomach and up my side, his hand picking up on the slight mushroom top there.
I stepped back, embarrassed. I was about to tell him off but of course, at that moment he chose to take off his clothes. First he pulled his pants down, revealing again those tight white shorts he wore so well. (Wore so well? What was I thinking?) He then stripped off his sweatshirt but as he did so, his usual muscle shirt rode up. Only a few feet from me, this displayed his tight, firm abs in better light than I had seen in the sauna. My breath caught.
I was careful to avert my gaze and look instead at his handsome boyish face once he had the sweater off.