A workout

Chloe enjoyed the drive over. Magnus had a very nice two-seater sports car which made exciting noises and hugged the road like no car she’d ever been in. She wasn’t one to be swept away by wealth. She understood the value of a person wasn’t in what they could offer her financially. Plenty of previous boyfriends had tried using money to impress her but it hadn’t worked. They of course didn’t have the money that Magnus had but equally she knew him well enough that he wasn’t showing off to her. Money was always something that had never been limited. If he was showing off he was showing off to the world. The car was like his personality, flashy and impractical but she did enjoy the ride.

They got to the gym and she got him in as her guest so he didn’t have to sign up. He was going to but she stopped him wasting his money. He really had no idea of what it was to be frugal. Still, it was nice to work out with someone. Sean had cancelled his membership to save money and running was great but she enjoyed working out in a different way and there was the pool too.

She changed into her usual gym attire, a sports bra covered by a loose-fitting vest and her mid-thigh, tight shorts. It wasn’t as flashy as she would have liked but she tended to attract a lot of male attention when working out so she toned it down. That would be the other benefit of having Magnus there, he would dissuade the pickup artists.

Magnus was already in front of the mirror doing some stretches. When Chloe joined him he looked her up and down and kind of shrugged. “What?” she said, annoyed by his reaction.

“Nothing, it’s just, I don’t know, I expected more?”

“More what? Skin?”

“Maybe” he said defensively. “Back at uni you were always so sexy, this is just a bit normal.”

“You have no idea what it’s like to be a woman in a space like this. Every time I was here some guy would try to pick me up.”

“The Chloe I knew wouldn’t have minded. I saw you destroy some guys who came on to you when you weren’t interested. You used to enjoy the fight.”

Chloe inwardly winced. He was right, she had prided herself on cutting down cocky guys who thought they were the shit. It pissed her off being called out on it though. “Yea, well, Sean would get annoyed when they came onto me. I did it for him.”

“Admirable,” said Magnus but you know he married the girl you used to be. I don’t see why you should change because he’s getting all bent out of shape. It’s not like you were going with those guys right?”

“No, of course not” said Chloe a little too quickly. The real reason she stopped was because she used to enjoy the flirting and had even flirted back. She hadn’t meant anything by it but she had always loved the attention. Sean had got really upset by it so she had stopped and never gone back to her old ways.

“Well at least lose the vest Mother Teresa” teased Magnus.

“Fuck you,” said Chloe but she pulled the vest over her head and threw it to one side.

“That's better, now before you get sweaty take a couple of snaps in front of the mirror. Is that your best sexy pose? How did you get guys to fall for you so often?”

Chloe was getting annoyed “I didn’t need to make sexy poses to attract attention. I’m not doing this right now. Can we just work out already?”

The two of them did just that and a few minutes in Chloe had forgotten her annoyance and they chatted about this and that. After some cardio Magnus took her over to the free weights. Chloe enjoyed this, Sean was pretty much all about cardio so it was good to do something different and she’d never really explored this part of the gym as she stuck to using the machines.

She was working on her arms when Magnus nudged her “Over there, look” he said in a whisper. He was pointing in the direction of a young black haired woman with an obvious fake tan standing in front of the mirrors that they had been in front of earlier.

“Oh god, is that your type?” said Chloe

“No, well, I mean, maybe but that’s not what I’m getting at. Look what she is doing.”

Chloe watched and sure enough, she was taking pictures of herself. Chloe thought she looked ridiculous and mimicked the poses. “You might be laughing but you can’t see yourself,” said Magnus with a raised eyebrow.

“What do you mean?”

“Pass me your phone” she did. “Right now do the pose again but just smile instead of making that stupid duck face.”

She humoured him and did a couple of the poses she had seen the other girl do and tried to give a genuine smile. Magnus asked her to make small adjustments but she did as she was told, convinced that upon seeing the pictures he’d agree how dumb they look.

He passed her the phone back “See” he said. She looked at the pictures. She did see. She had always been confident in her looks but she never really considered herself feminine. Sure she wore skirts and dresses. She did her makeup and her hair but all that was just to look good. Looking at the girl in the pictures, apart from her slight dishevelment from working out she looked almost like a model. The corners of her mouth turned up, she kind of liked it.

When Magnus dropped her off at home he gave her a lingering kiss on the lips. She still wasn’t used to it but that was why they needed to practice. Still, it had been intimate enough to tweak her engine. She knew what she would find when she got in and sure enough Sean had gone to bed. She quietly cursed when she realised she couldn’t get her vibrator without disturbing him.

She sat on the sofa and pulled out her phone. She knew guys found her attractive, she drew enough attention as it was but she did miss the pull she used to have. Despite the male attention she got she never thought of herself as pretty or feminine, wild and sexy yes but not feminine even when she dressed that way but those pictures made her look that way and clearly, guys found posing like that hot or why do it?

She stripped off her bottoms and laid back. She would have to do this old school. Her mind wandered as she played with her pussy. She thought of Sean and his loving touch, she even thought about the kissing she would have to do with Magnus. That in itself was naughtily satisfying. She thought about herself wearing tiny shorts that sat low on her hips and a sports bra that showed a little cleavage and guys watching her as she worked out before plucking up the courage to ask her out. She wouldn’t say yes but it would always be tempting, especially if he was hot. In her mind, she was being fucked by a faceless stranger in the changing rooms as she came.

She felt a little guilty. She had tried fantasising about Sean but it wasn’t where her mind was right now. She had to be careful though, Magnus had awoken something in her that she put to sleep when she got married and she wasn’t convinced she wanted it to wake up.