Love at First Set by Jennifer Dugan EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jennifer Dugan
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I’ve just finished checking in Mrs. Patel for her silver sneakers water
aerobics class, and happily returned to my sketching, when my best friend,
James, comes up behind me. He rests his chin on my shoulder, his mop of
blond hair flopping into his icy blue eyes, and leans the bulk of his six-footsomething personal-trainer body onto the old, faded black office chair I’m
sitting in. The chair squeaks and groans in protest. I try to elbow him off.
“No, not there.” He snatches the pencil from my hand and hastily erases
the words “cardio machines,” moving them over closer to the windows of
the giant square I’ve drawn. “Put them over here near the parking lot so
they can at least people watch while they destroy their gains.”
Meet James Manderlay, head of personal training at The Fitness Place.
Twenty-eight, avidly anti-cardio—as evidenced by the “cardi-no” tank he’s
currently sporting—shockingly handsome per half our guests (which is how
we refer to the people who slog here in their sweats to work out), and owner
of well-defined abs, exactly one dimple, and a bank account full of family
money, thanks to his parents and their sketchy business practices.
He’s been my best friend since I moved to this godforsaken town five
years ago, nineteen and already desperate for a fresh start. I’d wandered
into his parents’ gym looking for a job, and found him on the ground behind
the desk. When I asked him if he was okay, he explained he had just been
dumped and was waiting for the universe to swallow him up. I nudged his
leg and asked him for an application. (I don’t have time for sentimentality.
Not when a paycheck is on the line.) James had laughed and dragged
himself up long enough to scrounge one up.
He said he appreciated my tough love.
I didn’t bother asking what other kinds there were.
The Fitness Place didn’t really need another employee, but James
convinced his parents to bring me on and I worked hard to make sure they
never regretted it. It took about a year for them to upgrade me from floater
—which meant I did everything from stock towels in the locker room to
reposition floor heaters on wet or snowy days to cut locks off jammed
lockers—to gym attendant, which largely consisted of sitting in the workout
areas and assisting people who don’t know how to use the machines
(awkward, because the number of people who think they are using a
machine correctly when they are not even in the REALM of correctly is
staggeringly high).
I’d rather pick gum from the gym locks, thank you very much.
Still, it was my job to make sure that nobody went viral for trying to use
leg machines to work out their necks or for getting thrown off a treadmill
because they mistook the speed for the incline setting and hit it up to warp.
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