Jen vehemently denies the request

“Record me doing WSW? No! No way!!” Jen shot down, flushing up in the cheeks at the thought.

“Why not? If you want to be on the shows, you’d have to be filmed at some time,” Gloria reasoned.

“O-on a WSW show?” Jen stammered. The idea of her being seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers from their laptops and cell phones made Jen dizzy from all the blood rushing to her face.

“How do you know about WSW?” Sonya asked, being more level headed at the moment.

“I heard you mention it that time,” Gloria explained. “Then I looked it up! It is amazing! Head to head competition with a sexy side? It’s great content and I want in! This thing could help me blow up on the socials! You could train me from the ground up, both of you! Teach me what I need to know to be a submission pro! It could be a whole documented journey that fans could watch from start to end!”

Sonya and Jen looked at each other with concern. The shed was supposed to be their secret base and a documentary about what goes on there would surely have the school looking into it.

“We want to keep this place a secret,” Sonya explained to the intrepid videographer.

“We want this whole WSW thing to be a secret,” Jen added.

Gloria nodded, unphased by the implied threat in their tones. “Mhmm… I can keep a secret!” she told them. “But I still want to have a match!”

Sonya pulled Jen to the side for a quick strategy session.

“It looks like we keep her quiet by giving her what she wants,” Sonya surmised.

“But I don’t want to be recorded!” Jen protested.

“Maybe we can work out a better deal,” Sonya suggested. She pulled out of the scrum to address Gloria. “So, would you keep the secret if Jen gives you a match, only no recording?”

Gloria thought for a moment. “Can I still take pictures? Just for the Instagram story! Maybe as thumbnails for my YouTube…”

“Just leave my face out, please…” Jen finally conceded.

“Deal!” Gloria hopped up and down excitedly. “This is going to be great! Can we do it now?!”

Jen and Sonya looked at each other again.

“I mean, I guess the mat and stuff are inside…” Sonya admitted.

“Oh. Wait. In there? Ew! No! It’s all grimy and stuffy in there!” Gloria complained.

“Well, where else would you do it?” Sonya asked.

“I was thinking, in a proper gym…” Gloria smiled innocently. “Couldn’t we, like, rent out a room or something?”

Sonya turned away to hide the utter disdain plastered over her face. She was dealing with a pampered child! She pulled Jen close again and said, “You’ve got to find a place to wrestle so that this little bird doesn’t go singing to everyone about our secret club…”

Jen nodded and turned back to Gloria. “So… Ria… about that… we don’t actually have access to a gym, that’s why we had our match in there…”

“Well, I don’t want to do it in there, I might catch a disease…”

“OK… OK…” Jen said, to keep herself calm. If she didn’t find accommodations for Gloria soon, the influencer might gossip and let the whole shed story out. “I’ll find a space… tonight. How’s that?”

“As long as it’s a gym, it works for me!” Gloria agreed. She traded phone info with Jen before taking off so that Jen could let her know where and when to meet up.

After Gloria left, Sonya turned to Jen and asked, “So, how do you plan on finding a spot to wrestle?”

“I don’t know!” Jen cried, half in tears.

The petite communications student had very little time to secure a spot at a gym. She was in a **** panic, begging Elsa and Sonya for any possibility that they had a connection. They couldn’t help. She started contemplating ways to sneak in after dark, but she didn’t know how often security swept through the campus. She remembered she and Monica were left unbothered when they had their match and no one checked in on them during their after club tag match either. It was a possibility, but if she got caught, she would be in so much trouble.

Also, the wrestling room was locked unless in use. That was probably the main reason they were never bothered. She needed a key. She dreaded asking Monica for one because Monica would start asking questions. She wondered if there was a way she could convince Coach Daniels to lend her the room. It wasn’t like she was a top wrestling prospect… but she knew someone who was…

Jen contacted Brenda, Courtney Darulo’s training partner. Courtney was the blue chip amateur wrestler, but she has always been cold and distant with the wrestling club. Brenda would be more likely to help out.

It took some convincing that Jen genuinely wanted to borrow the room for training purposes and that Brenda didn’t need to come in to help out, but eventually she was able to score the room for the night. She just owed Brenda big time for the access. Jen sent Gloria the meetup time and location and prepared herself for a match.

When the time came, the two stood outside the gym, waiting for Brenda to let them in.

“So…” Gloria said, wanting to break the awkward silence. “How long you been wrestling for?”

“Not long… I actually only started a few weeks, maybe a month or so ago?”

“Wow… so you’re new to this too!”

“Yeah, so maybe I wouldn’t be the best teacher…” she admitted. She was about to talk about Monica and the club but held her tongue. “What about you? Have you ever wrestled before?”

“Me and my brothers, some. Like pro wrestling, nothing like submission wrestling,” Gloria revealed. “I got pretty tough fighting the guys off though. I can be scrappy!”

“So why didn’t you challenge Sonya instead of me?”

“Well, first of all, that big mami would pulverize me!” Gloria laughed. “Second of all, I know you! I’ve seen you in classes and always thought you were kind of cute!”

Jen held her breath and looked away, embarrassed.

“I had no idea you were into girls, so when I saw you with the tall blonde, I was…” she sucked in air and exhaled slowly. “Mesmerized!”

Jen stole a look at Gloria. She was an attractive young woman as well. She had a slim figure which was hidden under the influencer’s stylish outfit and a face that looked bright and energetic when she smiled. Jen tried to think about what she knew about her classmate. Classes were normally lectures where everyone paid attention to the professor so she didn’t know much about her contemporaries in school. She did recall Gloria though, as she was the most flamboyant one, wearing cool outfits, hanging around with groups of people. She would almost always be surrounded by a crowd of guys fawning over her. She sort of reminded Jen of her roommate, Hayley who probably hung around the same social circles. It had never occurred to Jen that Gloria might be into girls as well.

“I think you’re very pretty too…” Jen meekly admitted.

“Aww, thanks!” Gloria smiled.

“Hey!” A voice called out. It was Brenda. She came up to the two and looked over Gloria. “So she’s the new girl?” she asked.

“Uh, yeah, I wanted to train her up before she formally joined up, just to have the basics down…” Jen lied. She felt bad for misleading Brenda like this, but had to in order to keep WSW a secret.

“I’m Gloria, you can call me Ria!” Gloria greeted.

“I’m Brenda, nice to meet you!” Brenda replied, shaking her hand. The stout wrestler opened the door to bring them in. “You sure you don’t want me to stick around to help out?” she asked.

“No, no, I don’t want to get Ria in over her head! Plus this is just a tryout to see if she’s even really interested in wrestling… we wouldn't want you to waste your time!” Jen reasoned, “Besides, you must be busy with your own things, don’t worry about us!”

“Alright then,” Brenda shrugged. She opened up the wrestling room and the change room and then left the keys with Jen. “Promise to get this back to me tomorrow.”

“Absolutely! Thank you so much for this!” Jen replied.

Finally alone, Jennifer took Gloria to the change room to get into their submission wrestling gear.

“Do you mind if I record an intro before the match? You won’t be in it!” Gloria asked

“I think that’s alright then…” Jen replied, covering her chest just in case.

Gloria pulled out her phone and placed it on a shelf of an open locker, getting herself in frame. She smiled and hit record.

“Hey Peeps! I am about to start my women’s submission wrestling career today! I am changing right now into submission wrestling gear about to go into my very first match! Wish me luck!”

Jen watched as Gloria casually stripped in front of the camera. The aspiring influencer turned her back to the screen to hide her naughty bits.

“Now, I watched my opponent in a match before and… mm mmm! Girl had moves! But you know who else got moves?” Gloria swiveled her hips and jutted out her butt. She gave her ass an audible smack! “This diva! Now we find out who ends up on top! You hear me, girl? I’m coming for ya!”

Jen couldn’t help but feel a rush of adrenaline preparing for her match with Gloria. She wanted to shout back at her adversary, but didn’t want to be in the video, so stayed quiet but still felt hyped up for the match.