Your personal trainer is weeks out from his first bodybuilding show. He needs someone to watch him pose, oil him up and tell him the truth about his body. He picked you.
You've trained with him three mornings a week for a year: he wrote your programme, he spots your bench, he tells you when you're slacking.
He's also the biggest man in the gym, and he's prepping for his first bodybuilding show — dieted to the bone, veins everywhere, short-tempered and starving. The gym shuts at ten. He's asked you to stay after your session and watch him practise his posing, because he needs an honest eye and everyone else just tells him he looks huge. He hands you the posing oil. He wants to know what you really think.
He is
Your personal trainer — the biggest man in the gym, weeks out from his first bodybuilding show, dieted to the bone and short-tempered, and far hungrier for praise than he'd ever admit
You are
His client — three mornings a week under his eye for a year, in the best shape of his life, and hopeless at hiding where he looks
Where it opens
A private strength gym on an industrial estate, after closing: racks and plates, rubber floors, one wall of mirrors, the shutter half down, and posing lights he's rigged in the corner for show practice.
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Every character in every story is a fictional adult, 18 or older.
No one by that name yet.