Jessica was a fitness guru and trainer at the local gym in the town of Whitesands, she had been there since she had come out of college and never strayed from her home. At first, she had been a woman dedicated to her job, a woman driven to train and keep healthy all those who came to her side, seeking help.
But, as the Gym grew, and she found herself in the need of doing management more than training, her drive soon ceased to be as strong as before. Naturally, she had employees who were driven just as she had been, but she felt herself heartbroken when she realized she hadn’t anymore those same motivations.
Then, one day, she saw this plump young woman entering her gym. Instead of the common clients who usually came in there to grow buff and strong, this woman seemed driven to grow as thin and fit as possible. Jessie found herself fascinated by this girl, so much so that often she found herself training beside her, under the disguise of being a new client and not the owner of the place. Her employees helped keeping the ruse, they had noticed the lack of motivation from their boss and, seeing as she seemed to be gaining back her old driven mind was a boost for their confidence.
After a few months of training together, Jessica had learned quite a bit about the girl with which she was training. They had soon grown closer, under many aspects thinking alike, and so a friendship started although, Jessie hadn’t revealed herself yet.
Susan was a plump young woman, she had just abandoned her studies at her college, deciding by herself that her dream of becoming a teacher was just that…a dream. Returning to her home stead of Whitesands she found a small job as secretary in one of the local companies and she maintained herself there but, sitting down all day long had started to have a negative effect on her waist. The freshman fifteen, which she had been found herself under, began to grow becoming soon the freshman thirty.
To slow down or, maybe, even change the trend she joined the local gym and began doing some light exercises all by herself. Soon enough though, as weeks passed by, she often found herself training near a girl which she could only describe as an Amazonian goddess. The girl seemed to be an expert on the fitness side of things, and, under her tutelage, Susie began to grow healthier and toned than she ever was. As months passed away, the two of them began to be close friends and, although, her friend was a tad intimidating at times, Susie knew she could trust her with her life.
As time passed their friendship grew as well, until Jessie couldn’t hold her secret in anymore. She had to tell the truth to Susan, especially since she considered her one of her closest friends.
One evening, as the gym was pretty empty, and only the two of them were there, Susie came out of the shower stall, clean as a whistle and with her wet hair still enclosed in some towels. As she entered the locker room, she saw her friend Jess, sitting on a bench, looking rather down and sad.
“Jess? Everything alright?”
The Amazonian trainer sighed once more, before turning a sad smile toward the girl which she had befriended so easily.
“H-Hey Susie…It’s… It’s alright. Everything is…who am I kidding? Look, can you…could you sit down here for a minute, will ya?”
Susan, increasingly getting worried for her friend, quickly sat beside her, caressing her shoulder with a hand as she waited for her friend to tell her what was going on.
“You see, Susie…All this time, all these months…I’ve been a terrible friend.”
“What are you saying? Now, Jess don’t say anything like that. You know it’s not true.”
“It is. Look, I’ve been lying to you all this time and I can’t keep the ruse up anymore. I just can’t.”
As Jessie said that she rose from the bleachers and stood against the locker, both hands against it as her head hung down in shame. Susan was getting worried, what could have happened to let her usually strong and fiery friend to feel this ashamed. Still, she silently waited for her friend to open herself up.
Jessie, stood silent for a moment and then, breathing deeply, she turned toward her friend getting everything out.
“Susie, have you ever wondered why we were able to stay so late here in the gym? Haven’t you ever noticed that nobody seemed to be interested in the two of us, not even the trainers? Didn’t’ seem strange to you that I haven’t once used my card to come and go from the Gym?
The truth, Susie, is that I lied to you. My name’s not Jess Burgess. I’m Jessica Horowitz. I’m the owner of this gym…and…in all this time…all I did was lie to you. I was feeling lonely, training didn’t seem to be that much invigorating for me, anymore.
Then I saw you coming in, the way you tried your best, the attitude with which you passed each day here to try and train yourself from scratch…That got me all fired up. But I was afraid. I couldn’t come to you, revealing myself to be the owner, and expect you to treat me as a normal training buddy. So, I lied. And I kept my real identity secret to you for all this time…
But…I can’t…I can’t keep holding this within me.
I…I’ll leave you alone now…I…I know I shouldn’t have lied to you but…it doesn’t matter anymore…”
As soon as she finished speaking, seeing that Susie was still staring at her in shock, Jessie turned around and began to slump away, but as soon as she had turned her back on Susan, the same stood from the bench and rushed forward, hugging Jessie from behind.
“Did you really think you lied to me? For all this time?
Oh, Jess, I’ve always known you were the owner. Well, maybe not the first time we met, but after then, I saw your picture hung up on the reception wall. I may not be the smartest gal around but, I’m not that dizzy yet.
And why would you even try to lie to me? Do you really think that I would care for something like that?
Come on, you know me better than that.
Now, Partner, why don’t we go out tonight. Let’s close this issue with some beers. Nothing better than cheap alcohol to close this kind of situations…what do you…*oof*…?”
Just as Susan was finishing her speech, Jessie closed on her and hugged her with all her might, as the other girl simply shushed her and soothed her.
Since then the two made of it an habit to have one night a week of meeting up in pubs and wasting themselves away on alcohol. In a few months, though, as their friendship grew closer, something happened that would mark a turning change in their lives. It was their cheat day and they had passed the whole evening wasting themselves until they both reached a point where they simply couldn’t stand anymore. In their drunken state, Susan joined Jessie in her flat, and they passed the night there.
That night, the two of them shared the same bed and as the night became morning, they soon realized that they didn’t simply sleep together, but did so much more. The more shocked of the two was Jessie, she couldn’t believe that she had done it again. She couldn’t remember much but, she thought of having forced herself on her friend and this, once more, brought her down. But when morning came, and Susie rose from the bed, joining her in the kitchen, Jessie didn’t know what to expect from the girl standing behind her.