A/N: Sorry it took me so long to produce this . . . short piece. Forgive me. Although I'd have to warn you though, this might not be up to par with the previous ones mostly because I had to force myself to write this out. Muscle . . . just isn't something I love to write about. Well, please read and review nonetheless! Thanks!

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I was minding my own business, getting some exercise in when someone familiar and annoying took the empty treadmill next to me. I prayed silently to myself that as long as the said person next to me grinning widely from ear to ear would keep his mouth shut, I wouldn't mind his presence. However . . .

"I didn't know you came here to exercise, kitten. I thought you'd be by master's side?"

An invisible vein mark throbbed on my forehead, "Are you following me, Haru?"

"No," the cow immediately replied.

"Then pretend you don't know me and exercise somewhere else, preferably on the other side of the room," I sneered, turning off my machine and wiped my sweaty brow with my towel. I stepped over to the bench and picked up my water bottle, unscrewing the cap and guzzling down the refreshing liquid.

"I don't want to," I heard the cow answer. I turned to glare at the boy, who was younger than me by a year and spoke,

"And why not?"

"Because, this way it's easier," the cow confessed.

I raised a brow in confusion and side-stepped around the Ox to lay myself on the weight bench,

"Easier? What are you talking about now?"

"It'll be easier to tease you of course," the cow smirked. I just scoffed, flexing my hands against the cold steel bar and began bench pressing my 116 lbs. Once I started exercising, I had a habit of just focusing on what I'm doing at that moment as the environment around me and the people have completely faded to black. That was until someone decided that it was fun to press their lips on my left bicep. I was startled to the point where I almost dropped the weights on top of me.

I opened my eyes in shock, while Haru looked at me with a blank expression on his face, "Oh? Were you busy?"

I placed the weights back into its secured place and growled, "I could've died if I hadn't kept my grip tight!"

"But you didn't die. I expected that much from you, since you do almost everything so diligently," the Ox righted himself up.

"Are you going to exercise or are you going to continue to bother me?" I asked with a slight glare towards the cow's direction. Haru just sat on the bench and shrugged,

"You're far more interesting than building up my muscles."

I felt the corner of my lips twitch with irritation and turned my head, "Do whatever you want."

The Ox smiled, "I have every intention of doing so."