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Sloth carried Bella on his shoulders.
He was having trouble carrying her; the girl may have only been 5 feet tall-but she still weighed quite a bit.
Which was odd since the last time Sloth picked Bella up to carry her, she wasn't that heavy.
Then again the last time Sloth got to carry Bella was the first time his group of friends picked on her in kindergarten.
Leader, whom Sloth had a cautious respect for, at first had picked Bella up to carry her thinking he could do it without trouble.
Unfortunately for Leader, Bella had been working out since that fateful day in kindergarten. Every night Bella did 25 push-ups then 25 sit-ups. Bella then repeated this but each time decreasing the number of reps by 5, it would go something like this; 25, 20, 15, 10, and ending with 5.
After performing a total of 75 push-ups and 75 sit-ups Bella immediately went to squats. Without pause, and keeping the starting pace Bella would do 150 total squats. Immediately after that Bella would throw on her Star Wars hoodie and go jogging, circles inside the 12 small closets sized backyard of Renee's house. Bella would shadowbox while jogging. After that Bella would immediately fall asleep in her bed-after taking Star Wars off of course.
Renee didn't know Bella did this every night since her first day of kindergarten at the age of 8. Bella, over the course of 8 years since her 8th birthday, had worked out for a total of 2,290 nights straight. Bella never missed a day; since she had to start early every night so she would start late in the afternoon-thankfully Bella's mom went to bed early.
Sloth was not big, but strong. A shining track star in 7th 8th 9th and 10th grade, the group didn't know this but-Sloth had skipped 4 grades and was allowed to take 7th grade early.
On the first day of 7th grade Sloth was teased by the same people who bullied Bella-they were all older that Sloth and it made him feel not good enough to be 'in' with them.
Similar to what Bella was doing since kindergarten, Sloth-after the first day teasing-went to town in the gym. Lifting stack after stack, increasing the reps daily the weight weekly, pretty soon Sloth started to grow taller.
Which of course confused Sloth at first-wasn't lifting heavy weights at an early age supposed to stunt your growth? That's what his dad told him once he got home from the first day of school.
It was his dad's comment about lifting heavy weights, which initially drove Sloth to begin to bulk up with heavy weights. Confused at his sudden height growth-he wanted to get stronger not taller-Sloth had purposely striven to get better, unlike Bella who never gone a day without-Sloth stuck to all the professional advice he could find. 3 times a week, do different workouts per day you workout, and as it turns out once Sloth started-his dad pulled out his retired personal trainer skills and began lifting with his son.
Sloth walked along the sidewalk in the middle of the group for protection, although if Sloth was being honest with himself? He could take most but defiantly not all of the people who lived on the 'evil' side.
There were most defiantly some people living on the 'evil' side that had been weightlifting since they were 16 years old, and all of them were now over 30 years old.
"Hey Sloth, how's she handling?" Leader asked.
"Not to bad. She's kind of awkward to carry." Sloth replied.
"Why's that Sloth? She's not too heavy for you, is she?" A boy asked.
"Well no it's not that. Her weight's just awkward, and besides this hoodie and backpack she has on isn't helping either." Sloth replies.
"Oh thank goodness. I'm sure you're just not used to carrying that much weight outside the weight room, right?" Leader asked.
"Of course. That's exactly right."
Sloth's growth did in fact get stunted.
Sloth went from 5' when he started 7th grade, to know only 5' 8". This wouldn't have happened normally to Sloth, because both sides of his family were in the 5' 11" to 6' 1" range. Never had any of Sloth's ancestors or family members ever strayed from between those two heights.
Despite this Sloth was still pretty tall, compared to his friends at least. Unlike his name Sloth sometimes had flashes of very fast thought, almost inhumanly fast. Using his slowly emerging super thought-which he only got once every 3 months for a brief 1 hour period-Sloth once thought how some of his friends were looking sickly. Pretty useless but Sloth couldn't think of anything else to think about.
Some of Sloth's friends looked sickly, not because of drugs or alcohol, but thanks to him. Sloth was slowly eating the brain matter out of his friends heads-adding it to his own brain-without even knowing it.