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Recap: John and Kelly headed to the gym early in the morning. John is amazed at Kelly's flexibility and tells her that if he could bend over backwards for her, he definitely would.

Love Like Woe

I stood there and smiled as Kelly was standing still, obviously stunned by my statement. "You still want to work out or did I shock you too much?" Kelly shook her head and cleared her throat.

"I'm good. I'll spot you?"

"Sounds good to me." I situated myself on the bench and started my set. Thirty minutes later, I finished up my set and decided to take a break. "You plan on working out?"

"I do mostly cardio. Think you can keep up?"

"Give me some recovery time and we'll see." Kelly nodded and led me over to the treadmills. Five minutes of recovering and I stepped onto the treadmill. "Ready?" Kelly smiled and nodded, turning on her treadmill and started to run. I lightly jogged seeing as I was kind of winded from my weight lifting. My slow pace enabled me to get a very good look at Kelly's run and it was damn near hypnotizing. The muscles in her legs were defined but not overtly, just enough to make her legs look amazing. I saw Kelly mouthing the words to something and I half smiled. "Hey, Kelly." She turned her head to look at me. "You singing something?" She just nodded and pointed to the ear bud in her other ear. "Oh. What are you listening to?" She looked down at her mp3 player and furrowed her brow.

"Harder To Breathe by Maroon 5. Know it?" I just nodded, trying desperately to ignore the massive shiver that went down my spine. That song was sexy and it immediately brought ideas of Kelly doing sexy things into my head, which did wonders on my shorts. I turned my attention back to my running, or whatever my equivalent was because I was definitely not running at this point. Kelly, however, was running right along at a fast speed. I think the treadmill was having trouble keeping up. I decided to get off the treadmill and grab a water. As I made my way back to Kelly, I saw some dude hitting on her hardcore and keeping his eyes everywhere but her face. Kelly caught him staring and attempted to direct his attention to her face but it failed. He put his hand on her arm, attempting to get her to follow him but she wasn't having any of it. I was about to step in when I noticed the dude wasn't backing down but what I saw made me soon realize Kelly didn't need my help. As the stranger tried to drag her off the treadmill, Kelly placed her hands on the bars and jumped to kick the guy in the stomach with both feet. It knocked him down but he quickly got back up and looked pissed. Kelly threw down her mp3 player, got off the treadmill and started to lay into the guy, throwing punches and kicks like she had been doing it all her life. He grabbed her by the waist, stopping her attack for a second but she swiftly countered with a low, hard kick to the groin and a seriously killer right hook to the face. Kelly stared the dude down while he was writhing in pain but she soon turned attention back to me. She grabbed her mp3 player and water, and made her way towards me. I was about to open my mouth but Kelly stopped me by putting her hand up. She grabbed my free hand and led me back to our room. Once inside, Kelly threw her stuff on the counter and flopped on the couch. "Sorry you had to see that, John." I couldn't contain my laughter anymore and I busted out laughing so hard I almost fell over. "What's so funny?"

"Don't be sorry, Kelly. You kicked his ass. His ego is gonna be hurting for a long time after that. Where did you learn to fight like that?"

"Where I grew up was not a nice place and I have five brothers; you do the math." I just nodded and sat down next to Kelly.

"You have some serious talent, Kelly. Maybe a job in the WWE would be right for you." Kelly laughed and put her head on my shoulder.

"That is doubtful, John, but I'll 'consider' it just for you. I'm going to shower, okay?" I nodded and watched Kelly walk away, mesmerized by her ass. "Stop staring at my ass, John." I cringed; damn, I was caught.

"I'll let you look at mine if you want." What the hell? That's not creepy.

"Like I don't do that already." My head shot up and looked towards the direction where Kelly's voice came from, watching as her head popped out from behind the door. "I'm not kidding, either." My eyes widened as she smiled and finally headed into the bathroom. I just laughed and walked into the bedroom so I could change. I grabbed a towel that I had in my bag, stripped, and toweled myself off so I could put some clean clothes on. I changed into a blue t-shirt and a pair of jeans, matching a pair of black Nikes with the rest of my outfit. I sprayed some cologne on, the good smelling kind not the expensive stuff, and headed back into the living room. I turned the TV on and enjoyed some time watching a car show. I faintly heard the door open but it didn't distract me from the car show on TV. "Car show. Nice." I finally looked up to see Kelly and my jaw dropped slightly. Her hair was blow dried straight, apparently I was too engrossed in the car show to have heard the blow dryer, and it was the first time I had realized that her hair was a dark red color. No wonder she was fiesty; she was a redhead. I was surprised that I was more enamored by her hair color than her outfit because her outfit was enough to get me in trouble for staring...again. She had on a lace-up tank top under a cropped denim jacket along with a pair of denim shorts that were close to making Daisy Duke shorts look like pants. All of that was topped off with a pair of tan wedges that made her legs look like they went on for days. "Bathroom is yours, John."

"Going somewhere?"

"Yeah. I was going to get some food then grab some stuff at the mall."

"May I join you?" Kelly smiled and I swallowed hard.

"I was just about to invite you to come along, actually." She walked back into the bedroom and I followed her, kind of like a puppy, but I instantly regretted it because she had bent over to get a purse out of her luggage. I tried my best not to stare but it was really hard to do, especially with the ass that Kelly had. I distracted myself by grabbing a watch out of my bag and by the time I had stood up, so had Kelly. "Need a few minutes?" I just nodded, afraid that my voice would say something stupid and embarrass me. "Okay. I'll be waiting." She walked back into the living room and I quickly stepped into the bathroom, shutting the door behind me. I brushed my teeth and rinsed out my mouth with some mouthwash but I didn't leave the bathroom right away. I looked down and groaned. Great, I'm going to have some serious blue balls by the end of the day.

-FIN-

Phew, that was a long one. Hope ya'll enjoyed it. Next one will be out soon. : )