"Is that... her?"
Brooke was whispering, but she wasn't being discreet enough - at the other end of the free weights section, Olga noticed that Brooke was staring, and she stared straight back, with a knowing smirk playing about her lips.
Megan flushed. "Yes. That's her. Now stop staring, will you, and just spot me."
Her new girlfriend obliged, and Megan prepared for her next set of inclined bench dumbbell presses.
"I can't believe she dominated you as badly as you say," Brooke remarked. Her palms brushed lightly against Megan's elbows, as Megan focused her strength and began pushing the weights straight up. "You're the strongest woman I know, sweetie."
"Yeah, well..." Megan grunted, "she's... hell of a lot... stronger."
Brooke didn't say anything as Megan muscled her way through the set - 6 reps, with the 80-pounders, impressive for anyone. Not many women, or even men, could manage that, and near the end of a muscle-building set too. As was her habit, Megan began grunting loudly for the last few reps, just to squeeze out all the strength she could.
But she found herself trying to grunt more softly than she was used to, just in case that bitch Nina was around and wanted to make an issue of it again.
Just one more month, until she and Brooke could change gyms. Then she could make all the noise she damn well wanted, when she pumped her iron.
She thumped the weights back down on the floor, feeling irritable. "Well done, sweetie," Brooke whispered in her ear, and nibbled it slightly. "Good set. I barely helped, it was almost all you."
Then they watched, surreptitiously, in the long wall mirror, as Olga, who was coincidentally also doing the same exercise, proceeded to pump out 8 fully-controlled reps without aid, with a pair of 120lb dumbbells. Then Olga set down her weights, in a much more controlled manner - instead of basically dropping them like Megan just did - and looked over in their direction, smiling as she stretched her arms out to the sides, causing her massive upper pectorals to bulge impressively.
Megan felt her cheeks burning. She saw the wide-eyed look on Brooke's face - of course her lover would be impressed with Olga. Who wouldn't be? And that strength... with 120lb dumbbells, Megan would have to struggle to do 2 or 3 reps.
"You see now?" she muttered. "That's the beast that beat me last month."
"I'd love to see you take her down a notch," Brooke murmured, pursing her lips. She smiled down at Megan and began massaging Megan's upper pecs, pressing into the muscle with her strong fingers from above while her lover lay back on the bench. "I bet you could do it... I mean, with the way you womanhandled me..." she purred.
Brooke was fit - and very sporting. They'd met a week after Megan's beatdown, and Megan had been instantly attracted to her compact fitness athlete build, just as Brooke had found Megan's curvaceous bulk irresistible. After a nice sweaty wrestling match they'd become girlfriends.
"I'm telling you, I was... completely crushed," Megan muttered.
Brooke bent down, running her hands through her brunette locks, and laid a kiss on Megan's cheek. "I believe in you, sweetie. Besides... there's more than one way for a woman to outmuscle another," she said, grinning.
Before Megan had time to ask her what she meant, she realized Olga had gotten up from her bench and was walking over, down the length of the long free-weights rack, her eyes fixed on the both of them. Glancing at Brooke, Megan realized Brooke was holding Olga's gaze unflinchingly. As Olga approached, she leaned in and planted another kiss on Megan's cheek, while still keeping her eyes fixed on the gigantic Russian she-bear.
"Hello again, Megan," Olga said. "Or should I say, Miss American Cow?"
Megan was blushing crimson by now, especially at that dig. She could not forget how she had been made to shout, in that room, with that leering Nina on the verge of orgasm, that she was a cow. She had left out that detail, too, in her recounting of the match to Brooke.
Brooke's eyes were flashing, but she smiled sweetly up at the towering Russian woman. She was a fiercely loyal person - she would stand up unhesitatingly for any of her close girlfriends, and she didn't shy away from public confrontations. "That's very rude of you, you know. Don't they teach manners where you come from?"
Olga spread her hands, with a look of mock-innocence. "I am not being rude, Megan, we are friends, yes? We have been... very close," she chuckled. "This is just bantering, between friends. Megan can take it, yes? She is tough American woman, she knows how to take joke, yes?"
With her new lover refusing to back down in front of Olga, Megan could do no less. She stood and faced Olga squarely, crossing her arms in front of her chest, tilting her head upwards to meet Olga's mocking gaze. "What do you want?" She was glad that her chest was pumped from her workout - she flexed it, like a shield.
"I only want to say hello, especially after your little girlfriend here was making the eyes at me. I was curious to know why she was making the eyes. Maybe she wants to get to know the woman who is stronger and better than you, Megan-cow? Maybe she prefers me, hm?"
In response, Brooke slipped a possessive arm around Megan's waist, which Megan was glad to feel. "Oh, no. Nothing like that, sorry. I was just thinking of how my strong, tough Megan would beat you in a rematch." Her breasts were pressed up against Megan's upper arm as she spoke.