Yes?!1

I arrived at the gym a few minutes earlier than 9 p.m. and waited in the locker room for the last people to finish their training as the guys were arriving too. Jeff and Jim were the first ones to show up, followed by Simon and finally Carl. He went straight for his locker and started getting changed without paying much attention to any of us - especially me.

Fuck! I’ve screwed it.

“Hey.” I came up to him while he was changing his shirt.

“Hi.” He shortly answered me.

“Did I do something wrong, Carl?” I was annoyed at that point. If he wanted something more from me, he could’ve said it before.

“I don’t know.” He dropped his phone while changing into his shorts. When he picked it up and got back up, he banged his head in the corner of the locker door. “Fuck this!” He screamed, slammed it shut and raged at me. “I wasn’t the one screwing every cunt I found in some corner.”

“Did I miss the part where we had to plead exclusiveness to this Club?” I shouted at the same tone he used. “Or that I had to plead it to you?”

“Carl?” Jeff came to his side and massaged his left shoulder.

“I—” Carl sighted and lowered his voice down to a normal conversation. “It’s because I like you. For the first time I found someone I’ve dreamed of and you don’t seem to even care about me or anything around you, for what matters.”

“What?!” I decided to ignore the part that he seemed to know me from before. He couldn’t even possibly, because we’d just met last week. “If you wanted us to be a thing, you could’ve just said it.” I paused and embraced his lower back. “I could tell you were trying to impress me this weekend.”

He uncrossed his arms, lost the angry look and hugged me back, massaging the back of my neck.

“And you did it, ok?” I completed with my head between the mountains of his chest.

“Does that mean I won’t have a chance with you?” Simon asked behind me.

“No.” Carl answered and let go of me. They were all watching us and I realized I had a goofy smile on my face.

“I mean, I can always supervise.” I said to make us laugh.