Response for Dee's back to school challenge

Thanks to Alf for looking this over for me and making some great suggestions for future chapters.

A/N - I was thinking about a response for this challenge and decided to Google fun classes. I found one that is adults only and would bring out the kid in anybody... Adult P.E. Classes that offer silly childhood fun including, Duck Duck Goose and relay races.

So here I am, Stephanie Plum spending yet another day being thrown around by Hal. The guys have all been taking turns working with me on self-defense moves; some days are better than others. Today is definitely one of those days that is bad, I can't seem to focus on anything. Since coming to work for Rangeman, Hal had become my partner and one of my closest friends.

"Bombshell, what's the problem today?"

"I have no idea Hal, I just can't seem to get myself together." Could be that Ranger has been in the wind for almost two weeks now.

"Could it be that you are just missing Ranger?" Do all of these guys have to have stupid ESP?

"Part of it I guess. Don't you ever get bored doing the same things day after day?"

"What do you mean?"

"Come on Hal, you do the same workouts almost every day. It get kind of boring after a while, at least for me."

"Not for me, look Steph I have been doing this for years and so have the rest of the guys. How about we call it a day, I think you need a break."

It figures, nothing ever seems to bother these guys.

"Thanks Hal, I am going to head upstairs to change."

A couple of hours later I was sitting at my desk trying to finish up a priority search when I started thinking about this morning. It's not that I don't want to learn and get into shape but it is boring. That got me to wondering if there was any other way I could do some training and at the same time not have it be boring. I decided to do an internet search and see what other kinds of things were out there. Who knows, maybe I could come up with one that would be fun.

Bingo! While doing my little search I found the perfect thing, Adult P.E. Classes. According to the article they do all types of different activities like the ones you used to do in p.e. class in school...dodge ball, kickball, ultimate Frisbee. If nothing else this would be something fun to do with the guys, I'll have to mention this to Ranger. And just as I finished the thought I felt that familiar tingle, I turned around and he was walking right towards me. I jumped up and into his arms.

"Babe."

"I am so glad you are back, I was starting to get lonely without you here."

"I missed you too, how about we go upstairs for a while."

"Don't you want to check in with the guys first?"

"They can wait, this can't."

And we were off to the 7th floor, after several hours of Batman loving we took a shower and had a very late dinner. Ranger then checked in with the guys. Once he was finished we sat in the living room talking for a while.

"Did everything go okay?" I asked.

"Yeah, just some loose ends that had to be tied up. Heard you had some problems today?"

"I don't know if you could call it a problem, more like getting bored. It's just that doing the same thing day after day you would think I would be getting better at all of this, but I don't feel like I am."

"Babe you have come a long way since you first started your training."

"I know, like I said I think I am just getting bored." Now is the perfect time to bring up the class I found. "Hey Ranger, what if I tried something else?"

"Like what?"

"Well I was online searching for some classes and found one that I could really get into, and I thought it might be fun for us all to go together at least once." I could tell I was starting to amuse him. "I'm not saying that I want to give up my training but I hate to exercise and you know that, this is just a little something extra."

"Okay I'll bite, what is it?"

"Basically it's gym class." That got me a raised eyebrow and a smile. "I know it doesn't sound like your type of thing, but I could have a lot of fun. They do classes several times a week and on weekends, I was thinking that maybe we could get a group of guys to go and check it out one weekend. It would be a fun way to unwind and get some exercise at the same time."

"Steph, can you really see any of us doing a class like that?" I looked over at him and yup he was still amused.

"They have private classes for groups, come on Ranger it would be fun."

"Who were you thinking of taking with you?"

"You, Hal, Tank, Lester and Bobby."

"Give me all the information and I will look into it."

"Seriously?" I was shocked, I didn't think he would go for it.

"Yes, now let's go back to bed it has been a long and hard two weeks without you."

"You're on Batman."

A couple of days later Ranger called a meeting with Hal, Tank, Lester, Bobby and me, all met in the conference room.

"Gentlemen, it has been brought to my attention that someone is bored with their workouts." He was smiling and he spoke, and the guys all turned to me. "Steph here has found a place that she thinks we should try."

"Does this mean we are going to do it?" I interrupted, and then realized what I said. Of course Lester picked up on it right away.

"This is starting to sound interesting."

"Les, get your head out of the gutter."

"Fine, Bombshell why don't you tell us about this class.

"Well like I told Ranger it is basically gym class for adults. I hate to exercise you all know that, but this is right up my alley. They do private classes for larger groups, I am not saying that I want to do this all the time, but I think it might be fun."

"Hope you are all ready because on Saturday we are going. I have also asked Ram, Vince, Binky and Cal to join us. When I talked to the director that runs the program, he told me it was easier to do some of the events with at least five people on a team."

"Bombshell, what have you gotten us into?"

"Nothing you can't handle Tank, you know a little dodge ball, floor hockey, ultimate Frisbee."

TBC

Next up – Saturday morning gym class with Steph, Ranger and the Merry Men.