"But you're not even a mother!" I almost shouted
I was speaking as if I had a mouth full of peanut butter, as I had been caught so off guard by her statement that I had started speaking with my mouth still full of salad. Maureen just laughed at me.
"I guess that's just the name the league started with... you don't actually have to be a mother to join. There is no Mother's test" She teased.
We were having lunch at the diner around the corner from the office and I looked around with embarrassment after my outburst, hoping no one from our office was within earshot. Maureen, or Mo as I have called her almost since we first met, and I have been best friends for ten years. We bonded almost instantly upon her first starting with our small firm. Sitting at lunch she had just nonchalantly mentioned that she has been wrestling other women in a 'Moms Wrestling League' for almost a full year. My initial response was more a result of the shock I felt from hearing about this for the first time. Mo and I share everything, there were no taboos, or at least I thought there weren't. That was a big part of why I was so stunned to learn that she had been doing this for almost a year and this was the first I was hearing of it.
I forced myself to slow down. I would at least finish chewing my mouthful of salad before ripping into her for keeping this secret from me for so long.
Deep breathe, trying not to chew like a cow, but anxious to get to my next several hundred questions, I was genuinely surprised by the anger that was welling up inside of me. This was a real betrayal. How could she not have mentioned this earlier, we talk about everything, there is nothing Mo doesn't know about me. Yet she had been in a 'WRESTLING' league for nearly a year and this was the first I was hearing of it.
"How did you get started?" I managed to stammer after a premature swallow of my half chewed salad.
"Do you remember Sally? She used to work in HR"
"How could I forget, she used to dress for work like she was soliciting money for sex!"
Mo chuckled and said "Well she mentioned it to me and I figured I would give it a go, it is the best exercise I have ever gotten."
This was undoubtedly true as it takes us back to how this conversation got started. Mo has always been very heavy ever since I met her ten years ago. At a short 5 foot 1 inch tall, I would guess she was usually around 150 pounds. She is fortunate in as much as she is very curvy, a good deal of her extra weight can be found in her ample breasts, and while she has always worn her weight well, there was no hiding the fact that she was a junk food junky. I never considered Mo to be fat though, her extra weight fit her bubbly personality and her eighties style teased hair frames her round face perfectly. I have always considered Mo to be extremely cute, but it is possible that her amazing personality plays a huge role in how unbelievably adorable I find her. Regardless of my mood, Mo has always been able to cheer me up just be walking into the room. That is such a rare gift that I have treasured our close friendship since we met, and I would dare say that I have never been as close with anyone as I am with Mo.
Still, I could not believe what I was hearing. A calming wave settled over me as I realized Mo was pulling my leg.
"Mo, you're so full of it, you really had me going there for a second. Now really, tell me how you lost those twenty pounds or you REALLY will be in a wrestling match much sooner than you expect."
"I am not pulling your leg, I really am in a wrestling league, and if you wanna know for sure, go ahead and come at me. I will have you crying mercy before your back hits the floor." She said with her trademark chuckle making the last two words sound like part of her laugh.
As I stared at her I could tell by her eyes that she was telling the truth. My calm was being replaced with the surprising anger I felt just a few moments prior, "How the hell did you not mention this earlier? I seriously want to kick your ass right now" I said without a trace of humor.
Her cold stare brought me back down to earth as she uttered two words I could tell she meant.
"Try it!"
A few moments of silence followed as I pondered the fact that in our ten years of friendship this was the closest we had ever come to an argument.
"I am sorry" I conceded. "It just really hurts to hear that you have been doing something like this for almost a year and this is the first that I am hearing of it."
"Well I wasn't sure how you would take it, I mentioned it to Doug and he nearly flew off the handle."
Mo's husband Doug was perhaps one of the mellowest people I have ever met, so I could see where she might be concerned about telling anyone else.
"I am not Doug, and could you really see me giving you a hard time about it?"
"That's why I am telling you."
"Yeah, nearly a year late."
Against my will a smile came across my face. I told Mo she was buying lunch and that was the end of my angst. I could not sit across the table from her and seriously be angry with her for more than a moment. Although she is a good ten years older then me, her smooth round face makes her appear that we are nearly the same age. Looking into those green eyes on her cherubic face, I could not possibly stay angry.
"You're the stingiest boss I have ever had." She replied with a chuckle and we were back on solid ground.
"So does Doug know you still wrestle?" of all the questions I had I don't know why I asked this first.
"No way!" she replied, "He was totally pissed when I told him I tried once. He totally shocked me."
We spent the next 30 minutes with Mo answering my seemingly unending stream of questions about her secret hobby. I was completely infatuated with the topic.
The league had been started by a judo instructor named Kylie. Kylie started a female only wrestling class on Saturday mornings, with about 4 women attending the first class. The class quickly grew in popularity and in no time at all women were organizing workout sessions from their homes. After some time a group of women got together and made it official, forming a league and naming it the "Moms Wrestling League", as most of the members were Moms looking to get in shape with a fun activity. They assigned tasks to league members, published schedules and hosted their first tournament. Soon enough there were tournaments being held about once a month. It has grown so quickly Mo told me over the dessert we were splitting that nearly any weekend you desired you could find a tournament somewhere.
Mo invited me along to her next training session but I had to decline. As a single mother of two and busy vice president within my company, I cannot pick up new hobbies on a whim.
"Come on" pleaded Mo, "Everyone is so nice, and it's tons of fun. Besides, you even said yourself that you were looking for some way to exercise more these days."
She had a point but I just couldn't afford the time right now.
"I would like to Mo, but I just can't manage it right now, maybe in a while."
"Well think about it, anyhow." She chided.
I agreed to think about it as we quickly got up from our booth, our lunch had run quite a bit over and we would soon be approaching the two hour mark.
As I sat at my desk for the remainder of the day I could not stop my mind from wondering to thoughts of Mo wrestling other women. By the time I was ready to leave for the day I had silently agreed to myself that I would make the time to go to a workout session at least once to see if I like it.
Sleep did not come easy for me that night as images of Mo wrestling other women would not leave my mind. As my fantasies got more and more detailed I found myself growing excited and eventually masturbated to thoughts of myself wrestling Mo. Other than a few make-out sessions in college I have never had any sexual contact with women. However I have always been attracted to women, and have had many fantasies involving other women, but have always been content with leaving those dreams in my fantasy world.
As a healthy 36 year old woman with perhaps a slightly higher than average sex drive, and very few inhibitions, I spend a good deal of my time feeling very horny. It didn't help at all that I hadn't had the slightest romantic contact in several years. I have had many meetings, regardless of whether it was with a man or a woman, where I would eventually start fantasizing about being with that person and spend the final portion of the meeting thinking about nothing but sex.
So the fact that I had gotten aroused from those thoughts of wrestling Mo did not surprise me, it was the level of arousal I attained that I found surprising. Masturbating to thoughts of rolling around with Mo in a desperate struggle gave me one of the best orgasms I had had in a very long time.
The next morning I was in the office early and I was so excited to tell Mo about my interest in a wrestling workout that I was nearly shaking. The wait for her arrival seemed endless and I was incapable of getting any work done. As I saw her walk by my office I greeted her good morning and followed her into her office, closing the door behind me.
"I have decided I want to a give it a try, when can I start?" I exploded.