In my late twenties, I decided to get back into tabletop gaming. I had loved it as a kid and while I was at college, but I had focused on getting into shape after a childhood of being the fat kid, and then adulthood came around, I got engaged, and my career took first place. Hobbies kind've got pushed back.
The engagement didn't work out, and I realized just how much being engaged to a judgemental bitch had stopped me from doing the things I enjoyed. She even tried to get me to cut my hair short and stop me going to the gym as often as I liked, and thank the gods that I didn't because toward the end I realized that she just didn't like me looking as good as I liked to keep myself.
Her jealousy nearly utterly fucked me over.
So there I was, Saturday afternoon, standing in the hobby store, box of little plastic figures in my hands with my head spinning at how much the hobby had evolved since I had been a fourteen year old playing with embarrassingly-painted figurines at lunch time with other nerdy kids avoiding the jocks. It's odd growing up as a nerdy kid, everyone wants you to think that you're either a nerdy weakling or a buff moron, a dichotomy I grew to loathe, as the heroes I look up to; Conan, He-Man, Wolverine, Batman, are all jacked and smart as hell. So that's when I started hitting the gym in college, realizing there is no excuse not to look good AND be smart. I lost the weight, grew my hair out and got myself pretty buff, and it all happened a bit too quickly because that's when megabitch put her claws in me, realizing I looked like a guy way more experienced than I was, (virgin) but had the naivety and pliability of the introverted nerd that I actually was.
Thank hell we'd made sure she didn't get pregnant until we'd got married, giving me the time to realize what a controlling turbobitch she was and to turn and run.
Anyway, ancient history.
This time, another, more benevolent type of person was noticing me and sidling over to me.
"Bruters, huh?" the guy asked, nodding at the box of post-apocalyptic punk bodybuilders with submachineguns I was pondering over. He was likely the same age as me, but like everyone else in the hobby store, he was out of shape, hair was thinning, and had a patchy beard.
"Huh? Oh yeah." I replied awkwardly. "Used to play as a kid, thinking of getting back into it."
"Yeah, I play Hackers." the guy said. "Listen, if you're new, me and the guys are just about to start a game, wanna join us?"
"Bro, that'd be great, thanks!" I said.
"No worries, my name's Ben by the way." he said as he led me into another room where tables were set up.
He introduced me to the other guys who regarded me as a bit of an alien at first. I've always found it odd that nerdy dudes all love big buff heroes but never seem to aspire to look like them. Being a nerd with abs made me the anomaly.
As soon as the game got going and they realized I was just as dorky as them, laughing at crappy jokes and making all the same obscure references, they took me right in.
We played well up until closing time, at which point Ben gave me his phone number and added me to the group chat he and his buddies had. Every second Wednesday evening - this coming Wednesday - they would all meet at Ben's house where he had a basement with a gaming table set up. Hell yeah I was gonna join in.
***
The day came, having given me just enough time to assemble and paint my little gang of Bruters with their guns and rusty clubs ready to get utterly murdered by the guys' Hackers and Amazons. I knocked on Ben's door and instead of Ben, a woman answered, a pale-skinned chubby cutie in her mid twenties in a loose t-shirt and a set of leggings. Even through the loose tee I could see how impressively large her tits were, and a soft, round belly. Her hips were wide, her leggings hugging a pair of thick, juicy thighs. She wore a pair of librarian glasses with thick black frames, gentle, round blue eyes gazing through them and her long dark hair sit in a messy bun on her head.
"Oh sorry, is this Ben's house?" I asked, thinking I'd intruded on some gorgeous librarian chick.
"Yeah, you must me the new guy." she said warmly, turning to the side so I could see past her. Behind her was a small living room with a hardwood floor, with a wooden door on the back wall.
"That's the door ot the basement, they're all down there." she said.
"Thanks." I smiled as I passed her, my broad frame and her full figure making us brush against each other, my chest brushing against her tits. Fuck even that brush felt amazing. I've always preferred chunky girls. My ex was slim, and furiously maintained herself as such. Everything about her makes me think "what the fuck was I thinking?" but I have to remind myself that I was a younger man who still had my chubby teenage introvert mentality. Back then I was still the guy who would utterly fall for for any girl who shot me a half-hearted smile. If this girl was Ben's girlfriend, he was a lucky, lucky man.
I kicked off my shoes and made my way across the livingroom, turning as I opened the basement door. The girl's eyes flicked up to my eyes, and I saw an extremely brief expression of admiration on her eyes before she regained her composure. Had she been checking me out? Fuck, I hope so. I grinned winningly at her and opened the door, closing it behind me as I padded down the stone stairs to where Ben and the guys were waiting.
It was a damn good gaming room; 4x4 table in the center, shelves on the back wall filled with boxes and books, and a desk on the opposite side which was evidently Ben's crafting table; covered in paint spills, paint pots, glue pots and scraps of sprues. Beneath it was a small fridge, beers visible through the glass door.
Halfway through the first game, I had to ask.
"Ben, dude, was that your girlfriend at the door?"
"Yeah, Anna, my wife. Sorry, I should have said, did you expect me to answer the door?" he chuckled.
"Yeah I thought I'd gone to the wrong house." I replied.
Damn, wife. You lucky bastard Ben!
We played games until late, the guys ordering a pizza (I don't touch the stuff, too greasy) then finally called it a night after a couple more games. Anna had gone to bed when I left so I didn't get to see her again sadly.
***
The two weeks until the next game night went by, helped by their active group chat. I took my lean beef and potatoes with me in a tupperware. Pizza seemed like a regular tradition on game night.
Anna let me in again, another loose tee, and leggings hugging her thighs. She looked up at me through her glasses and smiled as I stepped inside.
"Hi again!" she beamed. "They didn't scare you off last time then?" she asked, closing the door as I kicked off my shoes.
I laughed and shook my head. "I had a great time. Just the kind of fun I need." I said. I help up my tupperware. "Sorry to ask but can I put this on your fridge? The basement one will be too full of beers." I asked.
"Of course! This way." Anna said and turned, and I finally got to see her from the back, and her ass. Her ass. Round, thick and heavy, her cheeks jiggling through her leggings as she walked. Her tee covered the top half but her ass was so thick it bulged the tee hem out. I hated that I thought this, but I couldn't help it; she was utterly wasted on Ben. He was a great dude, but Anna was SO beautiful.
I followed her through another door into their kitchen, and she opened their fridge. I stood beside her, so close as I slid my tupperware onto a shelf, Anna gazing up at me, her eyes flicking to my pecs.
"Not a pizza guy then?" she asked, her tongue clearly in her cheek. I shook my head.
"Lean meat and good carbs. I'll eat homemade pizza, but that takeout stuff? Nope, garbage." I chuckled. She smiled up at me.
"I know what you mean, I've been watching my diet to lose weight and it does my head in that Ben just lives on takeout pizza." Anna said, frustration sneaking through her voice.
"You're losing weight, why?" I asked. Anna shrugged.
"I can't lay all my problems on a guy I've met twice." she smiled.
"We've already established I'm in the unique position to understand them." I said. Anna laughed.
"Yep, can't argue with that. Well, Ben and I have been trying for a baby for a couple of years now. We obviously haven't had any success, so the doctor told us both to improve our health. Ben has - and I can't believe I'm telling you this - very low sperm motility. The doctor said that my own fertility will be raised by losing weight, and by losing a bit of weight and maybe getting a little exercise, Ben's testosterone would rise and his swimmers would get a little more energetic. I'm pretty much at goal weight, but I'm still being careful with my health, but Ben is still just eating takeout every night and not lifting a finger to get any exercise." Anna sighed.
"I'm sorry to hear that." I said. Anna smiled.