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The gym, the best way to let out the anger she had been feeling all day. Nicole had only moved to Purgatory barely even three months ago, and yet she still didn’t feel accepted. If it wasn’t bad enough being Texan in a border town as well as a cop, it was worse now the whole town had found out she was gay.
Lonnie had really fucked up this time. In one of his drunken stupors at various local watering holes, he had told his fellow men that there would be no chance that any of them could ‘get in her pants’ because she was a lesbian.
Nicole was fuming, she didn’t like talking about her personal life, let alone it being the talk of the town, and this, this was deeply personal. She knew Lonnie was drunk, but it was no excuse, she had told him in confidence when he tried to flirt with her that she wasn’t and wouldn’t be into him. She wasn’t the kind of person to lead anyone on, and him being her fellow officer, she didn’t want there to be any tension or awkwardness between them, but not she wished she hadn’t.
She lined back up the punching bag and began to punch it, uppercut jabs, side punches and right in the kicker. She had to let her frustration out. With the sheer force of her punches she quickly began to tire, she threw one last punch before hugging the punch bag to cool off and then bowed out. She took a deep breath, bending over to catch her breathe and then began to walk back to the bench.
The sweat was dripping over her arms and back muscles. She was proud of how strong she was becoming, her muscles had begun to take shape, coming into form on the top half of her body. Her abs were finally coming, now forming into the six-pack she’d always wanted. She hadn’t realised her strength until the way she had tackled the Carl Cramer, the local car thief. The way she took him down and pinned him with the amount of muscle he was packing, she realised her gym time was working.
Nicole sat herself down on the bench, taking off her boxing gloves and unstrapping each hand. She began putting away her exercise gear in her organised Purgatory Police bag. She picked out her water bottle and popped the lid up, drinking it and pouring a little out onto her hand to wet her chest. Her body glistened in the light as she could feel the burning of the workout taking hold, it was the best feeling.
“Leg day tomorrow,” she muttered under the breath.
She took out her towel and began to dry herself, before putting her towel away and throwing on her police hoodie before exiting the gym. She lowered her head as she began to ignore the others residents who were lurking, the gym was in a small room attached the Purgatory community centre, and with a population of a mere 1,000 people in this town, who were aging, they hadn’t made the decision to make the gym a permanent fixture, so instead put in a room in the centre to at least give those who wanted it, a chance to workout.
Nicole hated coming here, but she needed the gym, she needed it to burn off the day. But now she was the talk of the town, she didn’t want to face anyone not unless she needed, which was mainly at work. She contemplated building a gym in her garage, as the hall was always full of meetings, church, town, art classes, cooking classes as well as other exercise classes, but she already spent too much of her free time at home. She could feel the townsfolk watching her, their eyes, burning into her skin. She gulped, her head down, focused and went in her way.
As she was walking, she began to walk past a room which was hosting an exercise class. She heard music, quiet, relaxing music, which wasn’t all too usual for this town. Usually, it would be old school 40’s and 50’s music or loud and pumping to get everyone moving to the beat for the younger generations. She stopped at the sound, stepped back a few paces to investigate. She could see the room door hadn’t been closed quite shut and decided to check it out.
As she began to peek through the cracked open door, she noticed a dimly light room hosting a variety of members of the towns and a smell that could only be as some form of incense. Every member of the class were lined in rows, stretching and doing funny pose positions on mats. Nicole didn’t quite understand what they were doing, she cocked her head trying to understand why they were stretched into some position, which she could only describe as dog-like.
As Nicole moved her head back, she began to scan the room, and what caught her eye hit her right in the heart. A small but very fit and beautiful young woman, with the most brightly coloured gym outfit. With hair for days she walked past the crack in the door. It appeared that she was helping one of the members of the class who was struggling with the position.
“That’s it, Annie, just a little more...there...you got it,” she spoke with the most high pitched, but calm and reassuring voice.
Nicole couldn’t help but stare, she was truly a vision. She was toned to the nines and her entire gym outfit of sports bra and leggings hugged her in all the right places. She could see her abs that were on show. Nicole had a thing for abs and was trying to get hers in shape, and this woman’s really put hers to shame. She was the most beautiful woman she had ever seen. She cocked her head to the other side as she watched her bend over to help another student. Everything about her had her heart racing.
Waverly was used to people being curious about her Yoga classes, after all, it was the ‘now thing’ and with her living in one of the most backwards town known to man, not everyone knew what Yoga was. Waverly had been doing Yoga for years, thanks to Yoga with Adriene on Youtube. God bless the Internet, it had helped her to find inner peace, but had also made her feel great and look great. She had invited so many people to watch her class, and luckily with her popularity and charm, she now had nearly a full class to a teach a few times a week.
The only problem she had was that she had only managed to convince the adults or senior members of the town to come join. She was so happy when she saw this new fresh young face, taking a look through the door. She really needed to drum up more interest.
Waverly smiled as she began to walk forward, and as she did, her heart began to race. The woman standing in front of her was unknown to her, but she was beautiful. Her smile was rather cute, she was much taller than her, but everything about her had a sort of comfort to it. She was beautiful. Waverly had looked at many women, but for some reason, this one filled her stomach with butterflies, a feeling she hadn’t really felt before.
Waverly gulped and sucked it in, she closed her eyes for a moment before bringing herself into professional mode. She then held her hand out to shake her hand and speak.
“Hi there, why don’t you come sit and watch from the back, you might find this class might be something you would...wait, aren’t you the new Officer around here?” she remembered she had seen her before, with Sheriff Nedley at the Supermarket break-in.
Nicole was dumbfounded, the stunning young woman was now closer to her than before and even more beautiful as she stood in front of her. She gulped as she took her hand. Her hairs stood on end as she felt the electricity of the touch fly right through her.
“Ah...yeah...yeah that's me haha...Officer Haught…”
“Officer Haught...Huh?...Right...Ok well, come on in...observe…” she too felt the electric, it wasn’t something she had felt before, and took her by surprise. She had no other choice, but to keep herself from being distracted she began to drag her in and placed her at the back of the class to watch.
“Okay everybody, we’ve been doing that one a little too long huh? You feel it in your hamstrings?” she asked and giggled, her giggle filled the whole room as people laughed and agreed. ‘You stay right here…” she whispered to Nicole.
Nicole nodded as she watched her as she walked, she couldn’t but admire her, especially her ass that fitted perfectly in her leggings.
“Ok, let’s breathe class, right straight into Cat-Cow, you will drop the belly and open the chest. Round through your spinal flexion, chin to your chest, breathing and taking in a positive energy you feel around you, drawing up your naval as you do. Keep repeating a pace that feels comfortable for you. That’s it, keep breathing in and breathing out.”
Nicole watched in sheer awe, watching her bend from the front of her body, to the back, raising her ass a little as she did, this woman was perfect, in every shape and form. She watched mesmerised as she performed the move again and again before standing to check the class were doing it correctly.
“Beautiful, beautiful work, keep breathing. Now I want you to raise high and pedal it out for me, you know the drill Kevin...” she said as she pointed to him.
The class laughed, she skipped back to the front to show them the move and Nicole smiled at her every movement. As the class drew to a close, she had seen Waverly bend in positions she never thought humanly possible, but she admitted, she didn’t quite pay as much attention that as she probably should have. It was time for the final stretches and meditation. Nicole sat on the floor for that part and decided to follow what Waverly was saying, as per her encouragement.
She felt a kind of inner peace, the hairs stood on end as she heard Waverly speak.
“Wonderful, truly wonderful class today, you are all growing strong and stronger, blooming from a small tiny seed, that blew in the wind, to a full blossoming flower. I want you to close your eyes and for a moment, think of how far you have become, and for the new members, think about how far you want to grow. How strong you want to build...”
Nicole closed her eyes, She couldn’t really help but envision Waverly, in a dream-like trance. The sensation she would feel if she was in the class, her hand touching her body as she helped her get into the positions. Nicole bit her lip as she began to see it. Having Waverly show her the moves, and watch her stunning body, perform them for her. She couldn’t help but drool at the tough.
“...and open your eyes.” Waverly ended.
Nicole coughed a little and began to wipe the drool from the side of her mouth.
“And that, concludes this evenings class, I thank you, everyone, for attending, you all did great, same time tomorrow for some and for some next week, I’ll see you all then.”
The class clapped, all stood and began to put their items away. Nicole stood up nervously as Waverly began to make her way to her, acknowledging the other members of the class as she did so.
“So...will you be coming tomorrow?” she asked.
“Yes...yes most definitely...100%. ” she said with urgency.
Waverly bit her lip and jumped with glee holding her hands.
“Wonderful, that's so wonderful…” she pulled her to one side. “You know it's so good to have another young woman, like myself in this class, I mean...Purgatory, though I love it, has sooo many older people...and I feel so…”
Nicole cut her off and put her hand on her arm. “I got you...what are Officers for right?” Nicole’s charm would flow right out of her in front of a beautiful woman. She winked as she said it.
Waverly was a little speechless at first, this woman’s charm and confidence had her stomach in knots. “Thank you, thank you thank you…”
“Hey, it’s no problem, and how much will a class be…?” Nicole asked.
“Oh umm…$7 a lesson or $22 for a block of four.”
Nicole leaned down to her began and began to get out her Wallet. She took out $22 and handed it to Waverly. “I will see you tomorrow then. Do you do this every day?”
Waverly looked at the money and took it without really thinking.
“You sure about the block of four? I mean ummm.. please don't say anything but, you can do the first class for free.”
“No...keep it, I’ll be here for all four, if not more I promise. I never break a promise, you can trust me. And like I asked is this an everyday thing or? I come to the gym most evenings so I can fit your class around it.”
Waverly huffed a laugh. “Oh...of course you do...Sadly not, I am trying...but I need more members. I work at Shorties a few days a week and a few days a week doing this class, as well as the local historian class, the keep fit class, arts and crafts class…”
Nicole looked at her surprised. “Wow, you do a lot…”
“I’m saving, I want to go to University, eventually, I mean I took online classes but, I want to get out of here, learn more and see the world.”
“You never been travelling?” Nicole asked.
Waverly shook her head. “No...never…I’ve never even left this town.”
Nicole was shocked, how could this young, beautiful woman have never been anywhere but Purgatory. Nicole couldn’t help but feel lucky too, in her dreams she could only ever even talk to a woman like this, but for her to have never left anywhere or by the looks of it really have ever met anyone. This could be her way in.
“That is such a shame, I’ve been to a few places, you have a lot to see, the world is rather a stunning place.”
Waverly knotted her fingers together and held her arms in front of her. “That’s the dream.”
“Excellent, well then, I’ll see you tomorrow then Ms…?”
“Earp, Waverly Earp.”
Nicole smiled as she picked up her bag.
“Catch you later, Instructor Earp” she winked as she turned around and walked out.
Waverly bit her lip as she watched her leave.
“Officer Haught eh...well...you are definitely that…” she uttered under her breath.
Waverly turned around and began to pack her class up. Waverly definitely couldn’t wait for her next class and she knew full well, she would be planning it as soon as she got home.