"Are you going to just keep staring at Cinder like that?" Victoria asked.
If Leroy was blushing before, his face was now redder than Cinder's lipstick and hair.
"If you want her to give you some workout pointers, just go over and ask," Victoria said. "She's one of the best trainers here."
He took another look at her and decided to take Victoria's advice.
As he got close to her, she started doing some warm up stretches.
"Kinda bold of you to take photos this close." She said without looking at him.
He stopped and realised the camera was still around his neck.
"Oh! No I wasn't-"
"Relax." Bunny interrupted with a smile as gentle as her voice. "She's messing with you, she does that."
She then gave Cinder the softest stern look possible.
He looked a little embarrassed while Cinder gave a cocky grin.
"I've never been to a gym before and Victoria said you were one of the best trainers. Could you help?"
"I appreciate the complement. But it's supposed to be my day off. I'm only here because Gallant said he needed Bunny, Gardenia, and me out of the house because he had a surprise for us. So I'm here, but this session's just supposed to be for the three of us."
She bent backwards and caught Bunny's puppy dog eyes.
"However, I suppose you can join. Just don't cause any trouble." She then gave a look that said "Happy now?" to Bunny who gave a sweet, thankful smile.
Now that Cinder had brought Gallant up, Leroy's curiosity got the best of him.
"Sorry to ask, but is it true about you three being in a harem?"
"No, it isn't," Leroy heard a familiar voice say.
He turned to see his history teacher, Miss Gardenia Ware, walking up to her roommates in workout clothes.
It's always awkward when teacher and pupil run into each other outside of school. Even in a small suburb where they live close to each other. Especially when the pupil has a crush on the teacher. Outside of the school building, they cease to be real people to each other and instead become just an idea that still exists when they grade or do homework.
And the idea of Gardenia that existed in Leroy's head was quite different from the one who existed in reality, as he had imagined her being willing to do all kinds of freaky things with teenage boys.
But Leroy's wild fantasies weren't enough to prepare him for seeing her showing off this much of her body. It was the most revealing outfit he'd ever seen her in, which was saying something since when she taught class Gardenia preferred to wear short skirts and button-up shirts several sizes too small for her curvy figure.
Right now she wore a yellow crop top, the same shade of yellow as the highlighters she passed out at the beginning of each semester for her students to mark passages in their text books and notes that would be important to remember for quizzes and exams (and, Gardenia liked to think, life). She showed off slender arms and a flat, tight stomach. Dark navy blue yoga pants and open-toed black stiletto heels, wildly impractical for working out in, made her look like she had legs for days, even though she was almost a foot shorter than Leroy.
She was wearing big black earrings that covered her earlobes, eyeglasses in heavy looking frames that kept sliding to the tip of her cute tiny nose, and shiny lip gloss in a subtle shade of red. Her jaw was slightly on the square and masculine side, and when she smiled some of her teeth were slightly chipped and crooked, though perfectly dazzlingly clean. Neither of these things could detract from her sex appeal.
Gardenia grabbed her long hair, like flowing chocolate, and pulled it into a ponytail as tight as her physique.
"A harem is a living space for a man's wives, concubine, and children. And as you can see, we are people, not living quarters."
Out of the corner of Leroy's eye, he saw Cinder mouthing along to Gardenia's rant.
"She says that so often, I've got it memorized."
"Oh, by the way," she addressed Gardenia, "I actually looked up what the word means and it does mean the wives of a single man. So we are, specifically, in a polygyny harem as a polyandry is multiple husbands for a single woman. And I'll have you know looking that up took me down a very weird rabbit hole for at least three hours."
Bunny put a hand on Cinder's shoulder.
She looked at Bunny who pointed out how hurt Gardenia was.
"Look, I'm sorry, but if I had to hear you say that one more time, I was going to lose my mind. I'll make it up to you if you promise not to correct someone like that again."
Gardenia composed herself and nodded.
Cinder thanked her as she got into position.
Bunny gave an apologetic look to Leroy. "Sorry you had to see that. We normally get along, honest."
"Bunny, are we starting or not? And Leroy, I suggest you put the camera somewhere."
He was about to take it off when he had an idea. "Would the three of you mind if I took some pictures of you demonstrating instead? So I can practice at home?"
Cinder gave him a suspicious look, but Gardenia vouching for him, and Bunny commenting "Where's the harm?" had her relent.
"Alright, but I better not find them online."
Who did Leroy take a picture of first?
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