A/N - My son had the day off from school so I am stuck at home. I figured, well why not write? LOL!

At the Gym

The next day was Friday. The ladies were happy about that because on Fridays they went to the gym where their favorite Zumba instructor gave a high-impact class at 6:30. So after giving Stevie dinner, they took him with them in order to meet his mom there so she could pick him up.

"Your mom just sent me a message on my PADD," said Lina as she sat on the bench waiting for Bea to come out from changing into her gym clothes. "She'll be here in five minutes."

"There's Captain Weirdo," Stevie whispered and pointed at the Vulcan walking into the gym. Lina had given him a serious talking-to as soon as she picked him up at daycare about shouting things all of the time.

Lina's eyes widened as she spied Captain Solok walking into the gym, "Sweetie, don't ever say that out loud again."

"But why not?" he asked, confused. "That's what you called him. And I didn't said it out loud," he whined.

Just then, Bea walked out from the back of the gym decked out in the shortest shorts possible on top of some leggings and a belly shirt. "I'm all ready for class!" she declared happily as she was wondering why Lina had that stricken look on her face.

Bea turned and saw that it was Solok walking up to them. "Uh I gotta go!" Lina said quickly, dropping the ball in her couin's lap. "Stevie's mom should be here any minute now. She's just running five minutes behind. Later!"

"Lina!" Bea hissed at her.

"Well I have to change into my gym clothes, too!" she protested as she took off for the locker room.

Bea took Stevie's hand in her own and then looked up at her former instructor. The man seemed to have a personal vendetta against her ever since she showed up at Starfleet Academy. "Sir," she greeted him frostily, a tight smile on her lips.

Before Solok could get a word out, Stevie looked up at him with a huge grin and told him, "Somebody called you Captain Weirdo but I'm not supposed to say who."

"Stevie!" Bea said in censure. She looked over at Solok's very stern face. "He doesn't know what he's-"

"Titi Bea says you're cute, though!" the little boy spilled the beans. "But Captain Wentworth doesn't like you either!"

Solok's head reared back as if he'd been hit. "Captain Wentworth? I am unaware of the name of said captain."

Stevie's mother ran into the gym then, in a rush. "I'm so sorry I'm late!" she said to Bea as she kissed her on the cheek. "Mi jefe es un imbecil!" she declared. "I told him I have to pick up mijo, but he acts like he doesn't care!"

"Don't worry about it, you're only ten minutes late," said Bea. "Lina told me, she just ran in the back to get changed."

"Thank you so much and tell her I said thank you, too!" said Stevie's mom and then she herded him out of the gym.

"Miss Wilder," Solok said. "You watch children in your spare time?"

She floundered for a second. It was the most civil he had ever spoken to her since the first day they had met. And then she remembered she was finished with all of her classes with him. "What's it to you, sir?" she asked, only halfway rude.

He was surprised at her tone. "Pardon me?"

"Well it's obvious you don't like me," she said. "You don't like humans for that matter, so what do you care what I do in my spare time…sir?" she added for emphasis.

He found himself mysteriously liking her combative stance. "Miss Wilder, this is a side of you I have never seen."

She rolled her eyes. "Well you were my professor before but you're not now, so I don't have to take your crap anymore. What are you doing here anyway at my gym?"

He was truly taken aback, then. "I shall leave, if it is what you prefer."

"Um, duh? You've been a jerk to me for three years, why would I want you around now?"

"You never showed such vitriol toward me in the past."

"You're my superior in the classroom, how convenient for you. So you get to abuse your power and make the little people cower!" She turned. "Enjoy the sight of my backside as I walk away, sir!" she said as she pointed at her well developed booty in the leggings and too-short shorts.

The ladies went to their Zumba class and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. They emerged from the room all sweaty and happy after that. "That class was great!" Jan declared.

"Who's that guy smiling at you over there?" whispered Lina.

"Oh, I don't know, but I think I want to know," she smiled at him. "Is he a Romulan? Oh, he's cute!"

He walked right up to the four ladies, then. "My name is Bochra. And I've been watching you all evening," he said to Jan.

"You're speaking my language!" she winked at him.

"Do you want to go over to the health food bar and get a protein drink?" he asked as he put out his arm.

She took his arm as she looked back at her friends. "I'll see you guys later," she said breezily as she walked away with him.

Lina and Bea grinned. "He works fast!" Bea laughed.

Rosemary looked truly miserable. "Well I lost my Romulan."

"Yeah," laughed Bea, "to a fishunderstanding!"

"You're a strong woman!" Lina said, trying to give Rosemary confidence.

"That's right, strong!" Bea threw in.

"You don't need a man!" Lina said.

"No, you don't!" Bea cosigned what she said.

"Not even a Romulan?" Rosemary whined.

Just then, Vreenak himself walked into the gym.

"How in the world did he know we were here?" Lina asked.

"Because I followed you!" he said.

"What?" Rosemary asked, confused. "You what?"

"I've been following you since yesterday!" Vreenak admitted. "And come what may, I will discover whoever this Captain Wentworth is!" Bea and Lina by that point were laughing behind their hands. "I see I am nothing more than a laughingstock to you and your friends!" Vreenak almost whined.

"He's a fish!" shouted Rosemary impatiently as she tried not to laugh.

Vreenak blanched, "First this one," he referred to Bea, "calls me 'lizard' and now you've just called me a fish?!" He looked at the other two girls and decided to put himself on the line anyway. "Rosemary, I do not know who this Captain Wentworth is that's captured your heart. But would you agree to coming with me this evening for dinner? Give me a chance? I would treat you much better than he ever could!"

"We'll be leaving soon," said Rosemary trying not to laugh too hard, but wanting the date with the tall Romulan. "I could go home and get changed and-"

Bochra and Jan walked up then. "I couldn't help but overhear," said Bochra. "We could double since Jan refuses to go out with me alone for this first time."

"Perfect!" Vreenak declared. "We'll see you two in two hours!"

The two Romulans walked out, very satisfied with themselves.

"They get dates," Lina grinned, "and you get Solok."

Bea smiled halfway. "No, Solok got a quarter moon."

"What?" asked Lina.

"Come on," Bea said to the four girls. "I'll tell you all about it on the way home."

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After the set of cousins got cleaned up, Bea picked their outfits and Lina did their hair, Rosemary and Jan left for their double date. The other set of cousins still at home sat in the apartment enjoying rocky road ice cream. "We shouldn't be eating this," Bea said as she ate another bite.

"Yeah, we just went to Zumba tonight."

"Well you burn like 900 calories in that hour, so like technically if we didn't get a huge amount of calories in us afterward we might like pass out and stuff."

"Yeah, yeah, what you said," Lina agreed quickly as she ate another bite of ice cream.

"Every time you eat rocky road it's because you're thinking of that loser. Are you still all heartbroken over that guy?"

Lina sucked her teeth. "No!" she declared as she shoveled another teaspoon of ice cream into her mouth. "Well, yes," she admitted as she chewed miserably. "He was a colossal jerk of magnanimous proportions!"

"Yes, he was," agreed Bea. "But this habit of rocky road ice cream has got to stop."

"You're eating it with me!" protested Lina.

Bea paused, trying to find a good excuse for the indulgence. "Well it would be wrong to make you eat it alone!"

"Good point," Lina nodded.