"Yo Homie, spot me!" Lamar called out to Franklin.

"Okay, man," Franklin responded as he descended from his pull-up.

Lamar walked over to the bench press seat. He then grabbed two empty barbells, one in each hand. He proceeded to lay down with his arms out. Franklin's eyes widened at what he did next.

"One," Lamar grunted as he brought the barbells together and set them back to the side. The barbells wobbled slightly going up and back.

"Two..." The barbells wobbled a little more. Franklin starts to grimace.

"Three... Fuck, my ribs," The barbells had started wobbling at a worrying pace.

"Four... My ribs, man." The barbells wobbled far enough to hit someone walking by.

Franklin had enough and started to yell, grabbing Lamar's barbells and setting them down. "What the fuck is wrong with you nigga? You gonna endanger these people!"

"Chill, nigga," Lamar replied, confused and unaware.

"What the hell were you trying to do anyway, chest flies? You best be using dumbbells. At least they won't hurt nobody and your ribs. Where the fuck did you learn that shit?"

"I learnt it from the Internet."

"Oh shit," Franklin sighed and put a palm to his forehead. He then pinched the bridge of his nose. He did not expect their first day at this new gym to end up like this.

Hours before...

Franklin turned his TV on, hoping to watch CNT. He was mostly out of the loop on most things TV, so he found himself amused by the commercials and shows he hadn't seen. Chop laid next to him, barking at the dog in the commercial for dog food. He was shushed with a dog treat. Then a commercial that he wouldn't forget had started playing.

"Don't you like to be fat and ugly? Well, at LS Fitness, you can be just ugly!" Pictures of an expansive and well stocked weight room, rows of treadmills and ellipticals, an upstairs track overlooking three sets of basketball courts and three sets of badminton courts, Pilates and yoga classes, boxing rings and punching bags flashed by. Overlaying it was a fat and ugly woman slimming down. "If that doesn't get your fat and lazy ass off the couch, we don't know what will... For $24.99 each month, but we will let you try it for free... For one day!"

Franklin grabbed his phone and dialed Lamar's number. After Lamar answered, he asked, "Dude, remember the construction in the middle of the city? It turned into a gym. Wanna work out with me there?"

Lamar replied, "Hell yeah, that gym looks pretty dope. We could try that one day trial thing."

"See ya there, Homie."

Back to the weight room...

Franklin gave Lamar a pair of dumbbells for chest flies. After a few sets, he put the dumbbells away and gave him an empty barbell with some plates for the bench press.

Not far into Lamar's second set of three plates into his bench press, a scream, a crack, and a crash resonated across the room.

"I feel like playing basketball now," Lamar remarked.

"Me too, Lamar," Franklin remarked.

Please note that most of these chapters are short because I typed most of them out on an iTouch. Most 4chan greentexts can be short as well, and some stories are combined. I'll try to be PC, but there will be some things that will slip due to the nature of the game or the characters.