Setting the weights back down on the rack, Sadie looked at herself in the mirror from across the room, unimpressed with the image glaring back at her. From what she saw, her abs could use a bit more tonning...maybe a few more reps with the weights for her triceps...couple of more kilometres on the treadmill...

"Hey! Sadie, right?" Turning around, she nodded her head to the two brunettes from last night.
"Damn girl, you left so fast last night we didn't get a chance to introduce ourselves, or buy you a drink.! I'm Traci, and this is Gail," she pointed to a small Korean that was to her right, "we're kinda like...attached at the hip because we're both Canadian, and we heard so are you, so maybe we can be triplets now!"

"Um...I'm not sure..." Sadie answered, turning her back to them to concentrate on the mirror.
Letting out a puff of air through her mouth, she turned to the leg press equipment while she put her hair up in a pony tail. "I just try to concentrate on what I need to get done, ya know?" Adjusting the hook in between the weights to her amount, Sadie laid her towel down on the bench and began to do her leg workout.

Traci and Gail looked at each other confusingly before they looked back at Sadie, watching her. "Yeah, about that..." Gail began as she walked over to the machine Sadie was at, "it kind of has to stop. You need to socialize! Last night was a perfect chance, why didn't you stay?"

Sighing, she stopped her leg excersies to look back at her Canadian co-workers, resting her arms on her legs. "Last night was a hard time for me, OK? I had a rough day, I made an ass of myself, and some sleezeball started to hit on me without even asking my name. No one was talking to me anyways and was acting like I had a third head," she explained, not noticing the laughter the girls were holding back.

"The sleezeball is your team mate, eh?" Traci pointed out. "That's Alistar, or A1. Watch out for him. He's sleezy."

"I figured," Sadie mumbled.

"You really need to lighten up," Gail suggested, taking a seat next to her on the bench.
"Seriously, Sades. Not only are you not interacting with the locker room, you're ignoring your own team mates! Well, all us girls ignore Al, but Eric! Poor Eric, how could you ignore him?" Gail asked.

"You ignored Eric!" Traci shouted, clenching her fist at her side. "How could you ignore Eric?"

"Who's Eric!" Sadie shouted back, throwing her hands in the air. She could feel her face turn red due to anger and frustration as the two Knock Outs continued to ridicule her, showing no signs of stopping anytime soon.

As Gail and Traci listed off her flaws, Sadie's attention turned elsewhere when she saw two men walk in the room. They both had on track pants and an oversized shirts with matching sweat stains on the chest and walked at the same beat. She sucked her bottom lip into her mouth as one of the guys gave her a quick glance with a wink and continued his conversation with his bald headed friend.

Her eyes stayed on him as he walked by, running his fingers through his brown, sweat drenched hair and giving a nod to Gail and Traci. They stopped talking to wave back, both of their cheeks turning a soft shade of pink as he winked at them also. The three brunettes watched in awe as he walked to the next room, keeping their attention on him until the door shut.

"I suppose I should know who that is too, right? Both of them?" Sadie asked to get Gail and Traci's attention back.

"Hmm?" Traci moaned, looking back at Sadie. "Sorry...What did you say?" Sadie stood up from the bench, throwing her towel around her shoulders and leaving the room with her water bottle in hand. Anything to get away from those two would be perfect, she thought to herself, turning a corner to get to the change room.

Tugging at the hem of her hoodie as she threw it on over her tank top, she took a look of herself in the mirror. There were small bumps from her hair being quickly tossed into a ponytail, her cheeks were red from working out with weights too much and the lively brown eyes that were her best features looked like they were sunken into her face, showing fear and insecurity.

Her stomach growled loudly, almost echoing in the empty change room. Grabbing her wallet and gym bag, Sadie exited the change room alone and headed towards the vending machine. She knew a pack of Starburst was definitly breaking her strict diet, but just this one little cheat wouldn't hurt her immune system.

Sticking the dollar bill in the vending machine, she pressed the code to get her sugar fix, only to have the machine reject her money. "Don't do this..." she moaned, shoving the dollar back in.
When the dollar was rejected again, someone took out her money and inserted four quaters into the coin slot. "Thanks," she mumbled, harshly pushing the code in and finally reciving her snack.

"This machine sucks, you should go to the one at the other end of the hall," he advised, pointing in the direction. "Just a heads up." Popping a candy in her mouth, her brown doe eyes looked up at him, realizing it was the guy from earlier that had grabbed her attention. His brown hair was still messy and un-kept like it was earlier, and the smirk that he had on when he walked back seemed to be a permenet attachment on him; when he spoke, he had a soft southern accent that was gentle and warm.

"AJ Styles." he introduced himself, sticking out his hand.

"Sadie Niall." She shook his hand, feeling the callouses and bumps on his palm against hers.
"Thanks for the Starburst..."

"Ah, no problem. Just remember to use the other machine next time, this one has a tendecy to uh...not work as well," he responded with a wink. Their hands were still attached when the small talk ended, neither of them realizing it as they stood there with their attention focused on each other. Sadie figured he couldn't have been any taller than six foot seeing as she was just underneth his shoulder.

"Would you like a Starburst?" she asked, offering him a candy.

"No thanks, I got my own craving right now," he responded, finally detatching their hands from each other. "But from the looks of it, you got somewhere to go..." the last part was hardly above a whisper as he looked over Sadie's shoulder and saw Petey, Bobby, Eric and Al staring back at him; she turned her direction to where his attention was and saw the other members as well.

"Sadie! Team meeting, now!" Bobby ordered.

"Thanks again," she mumbled, her eyes staring at her feet. "For the Starburst..." He mumbled back a "no problem," before Sadie finally moved her feet over to where her team was standing, all of their faces showing matching scowls.

Standing in front of them with her hands in her front pocket of her hoodie, Sadie looked up at them as her stomach turned into instant knots, as if she felt she did something wrong.

"You can't talk to him," Bobby spoke first. "You stay away from him at all times. Didn't Traci and Gail tell you?"

"Tell me what?" Sadie asked, tucking a strand of loose hair behind her ear. "All he did was buy me some candy."

Eric, Al, Petey and Bobby all looked each other, as if they were silently debating on who should tell her what was wrong with AJ Styles. "What is it?" Sadie asked, focusing her attention on Petey.

"Sades, how about me and you go for a little drive..." Petey offered, gently grabbing her by the arm and taking her away from their team mates. Confused, she followed him as he continued to lead her by the arm and to the outside area.

LegendSpeaking: See? Character development not really. Read and review please :)