I Woke Up 85 by M.P. Arsent
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Somehow I didn't think I was going to like being a minor celebrity. When we finally got to sit down and eat,people did leave us alone. On the way out though I was stopped more than once. This kind of thing went on for the rest of the day as Karl and I were just out and about messing around and just enjoying the day.
Eventually I got back to my room and found it empty. I figured Pete and Susan must have stopped on their way back to check on Susans mother.
11pm finally rolled around and I got the usual from Karl and sent the usual back. Shortly after I was asleep and never heard Pete come in. Yet when 5:45 rolled around there he was sound asleep. I slipped on my jogging stuff and headed out to find Gordon waiting on me for a change.
"Was wondering if you were going to make it today. Kinda lonely jogging by myself."
"Yeah sorry about that Gordon,but I was kinda beat."
"Yeah I imagine so. That was a hell of a show you guys put on."
"We did kinda whup their asses didn't we."
Soon enough Karl had joined us and we completed our laps and were inside and showered and changed for our Monday classes.
We all came to order for our first class and Mr Mcembers walked in.
"Before we get started, Congradulations are in order for Mr Sawyer who took all around honors at the gymnastics meet this weekend."
There was a smattering of applause which I simply acknowledged with a wave to the class. Thankfully this was the only time it was done throughout the day.
After class I headed over to the gym for just a regular workout. There were a few 'well dones' as I was getting changed. I worked the weight room and then went to change for a swim.
"Well Sawyer,you must think you're really hot shit now."
I recognized the voice as being the same one who had gotten in Garys face a few days ago.
"Hey I just did what I do. That I happen to be good at it is just the icing on the cake. I'm sure you're good at what you do,football team if I'm not mistaken."
"Damn right football's a real sport."
"You don't think it takes ability or a certain physicality to do gymnastics?"
"You clowns could never take the beating to play football."
"Probably not,but I doubt many of your guys could do what I do either."
"What jump around?"
"Care to put up or shutup?"
"Whadda ya mean?"
"I'm perfectly willing to admit that I'm not one to play football,but I'm not afraid to give it a shot. Are you ready to try doing any gymnastics?"
"You're serious?"
"As a heart attack."
By this time there was more than one interested party listening to our exchange. The guy looked around at the faces and turned back to me.
"You're on. When?"
"Well we're right here,might as well give the gymnastics a shot right now if you're not to wiped out from whatever you were doing?"
"It will have to wait until tomorrow. I have an appointment today. And you'll be at the next scrimmage on Thursday?"
"What time?"
"4 pm"
"Can you arrange for whatever gear I'll need?"
"A set of shoulder pads and a helmet should be easy to come by. I'll even make it easy for you. You survive the warm up drills and a couple of plays."
"And I'll arrange for the proper equipment for you and I'll even let you choose the apparatus you want to work out on."
"Done."
"Then I'll see you here tomorrow at 4?"
"You're on."
I offered him my hand on it and he shook,and tried to get me to give in with as much pressure as he could. I squeezed right back until we both gave it up.
I then went for my swim and Karl showed up a bit later,and I told him about the bet. Needless to say he was upset.
"Why the hell did you let yourself get sucked into this thing with the guy from the football team? You know he is going to have his guys pound the hell out of you just because."
"First of all love, it was my idea. Second, football isn't the end all of sports like this guy thinks. He needs to have a little respect for the other atheletes."
"I hope to hell you plan on getting some pointers from Pete before Thursday."
"Yeah I was going to talk to him about it."
"I'm betting from what you said there are going to be more than a few interested faces around tomorrow."
"I'm counting on it love. If there aren't any witnesses this doesn't count."
"What do you think coach is going to say,either one of them?"
"No idea now shut up and swim already."
We did our laps and then headed into the whirlpool for a bit before showering and then headed out to dinner at the cafeteria. We had a bit of a walk after supper,had our goodnight kiss and then I headed for my room and book work until 11 when I got my usual message from Karl and sent mine back.
The usual routine followed on Tuesday morning followed by classes and I was at the gym a bit ahead of time. 4 came and went and the guy wasn't there. I knew full well that there could be any number of reasons for the guy to be running late,so I waited.
4:15 rolled around and the guy finally showed up.
"Sorry about being late. My last class ran a little long."
"Not a problem,shit happens. Let's stretch out first just for forms sake."
We proceeded to stretch and warm up a little bit.
"So which piece of equipment did you decide to work on?"
"This thing."
"That is what we call a pommel horse. You look like you have good upper body strength,so this shouldn't be too much of a problem for you. Do you have any problems with balance or an inner ear infection or anything?"
"Not that I know of."
"Ok one of the most basic moves on the pommel horse is the scissors."
I mounted the horse and as slowly as I could showed him how to do the scissors movement.
"It takes a bit of coordination."
"Guess I have to give it a shot."
He got hold of the pommels grips and got himself into the swing portion of the movement,but the first time he tried to actually do the scissors movement got his legs all tangeled up.
"If we were in competition that would cost you major points. Once you start to move on the horse any stoppage like that would cost you seriously. Don't feel bad though. I did the same thing the first time I tried it."
There were a few curious eyes around by now as Karl had thought there would be. Which didn't bother me but this guy was watching them.
"Forget them. The only way to get this is to pay strict attention to what you are doing. Try it again?"
"Damn straight I'm going to try it again."
It took him a few minutes,but he finally got the hang of it.
"That didn't take you too long to get the hang of. Cirling the pommel is the next basic move and should be a bit easier now that you have scissors down."
I got on the horse and showed him the move and he was able to copy it fairly easily.
"Want to move on to something a bit more challenging?"
"No I think you've made your point. Show me a full routine though? I've never actually watched you guys at this."
"Sure."
I went and did a full routine on the horse with a simple dismount that I was able to stick. There was a smattering of applause from the sidelines.
"And then in a meet you go around and do all of these other pieces of equipment too?"
"Yep most of them we only get one shot at,the exception being the vault. We get two shots at that and usually do two different vaults."
"Well I'm ready to concede that there's a hell of a lot more to this than I thought. I'll forfeit this little bet."
"Oh no. I still intend to show up for the scrimmage."
"If you say so."
"I do. Too many people have heard about this for me not to show up. Just don't sic the whole friggiing team on me."
"Standard practice I promise."
"Your coach alright with this?"
"Yeah he actually thinks it's a good idea. He thinks too many of the guys have the same attitude I came in with that this isn't a real sport. I won't lie to you. I don't think I could throw a decent pass right now. My arms and shoulders are killing me."
"Those muscles just arn't used to moving in those directions. You should probably hit the whirlpool before you leave. I usually do."
"I just might do that. Sorry about how I was putting you down before."
"I suppose when gymnastics is done right it looks a hell of a lot easier to do than it actually is. You just had to expeirence it to appreciate it. Difference is I know football is a beating every time you take the field. My roomie played in our high school and he had some impressive bruises."
"You knew your roomie before getting here?"
"Yeah we kinda lucked out that way."
"My roomie and I got to know each other last year and decided to try and stay together this year. Probably will try for the next two as well. Makes it a hell of a lot easier than getting to know someone new every year."
"I heard that. If you've had enough let's get out of here."