The Makeover

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Authors: Thayer King
free. Dirk kept coming up with new excuses not send him his severance check. It would be stupid of him to join a second gym when he had a paid membership at Gary’s. No way was he going there. He would be anxious the entire time, wondering if someone there knew the story about how he lost his girlfriend to her trainer. Maybe it was paranoid of him to think that his love life was the gossip of every gym in Greenville, but it seemed it was fodder for the neighborhood gossips.
    Besides, Mykal was fit. And limber, he discovered as he watched her stretch her body into positions that had his muscles screaming. She had him warm up before having him do fifteen minutes on the elliptical and then switched him to the treadmill. While he used the elliptical, she got on the treadmill. When he switched, so did she. It seemed easy for the first five minutes. Mykal kept up a steady stream of encouragement, motivating him to stay on when he was huffing for air. By the time he was done, his legs were quivering noodles. But Mykal pushed him to stretch again. His clothing was soaked with sweat.
    “You did great today,” Mykal said with a smile. Her skin glistened and as she dabbed it with a towel he realized that she wasn’t wearing any makeup. He’d never seen Daria without at least one coat of war paint. She even wore lip gloss, mascara and a fine dusting of powder to bed. He’d never objected as she’d claimed she was doing it for him, but just once he’d liked to have kissed her without feeling sticky goop between them.
    He had the sudden urge to touch Mykal and see if she was as perfect as she appeared.
    “I’m going home to take a shower. I’m having dinner with my parents. I put my cell phone number at the bottom of that grocery list. If you need me, give me a call.”
    Though exhausted, he felt excited to have started on this process. “Thanks, Mykal.”
    “You’re welcome.” She pushed up on her toes and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. “See you tomorrow.”
     
    As he entered Walmart, Greg pulled Mykal’s list out of his back pocket and stared at her neat penmanship. He hoped he could find even half of it. It had been a long time since he’d explored anything outside of the frozen food and chips aisle. He picked up a cart and started towards the middle of the store.
    He intended to hunt for the food section. A large game display featuring futuristic warriors caught his eye and he couldn’t turn away. Thirty minutes later, he was leaving the electronics section with an Xbox One and four games. He wheeled his purchases out to his car and locked them in the truck. He was anxious to get home and get started but he didn’t want to disappoint Mykal.
    This time he headed straight for the food section. Finding many of the items was easier than he thought it would be. Standing in line, he checked over his list a second time to make sure he hadn’t forgotten anything.
    “Greg, is that you?” said a guy behind him.
    He turned to face his buddies Jeff, a short chubby blonde with a scruffy goatee, and Max, a really thin guy about his height with dark chocolate skin and close cut hair. Their cart was filled with frozen pizza, beer, and chips. He grinned at them. “Hey, guys!” They shook hands and patted each other on the back. He’d missed these guys and his other buddy Ben so much. Of all the things that Daria had made him give up, he missed his friends the most. They still talked occasionally, but it wasn’t the same. Gesturing at their cart, he asked, “Are you having a party?”
    “Yeah. We’d invite you, but we doubt you could convince Daria to come.” Jeff craned his neck and looked around. “Where is she? Don’t tell me she let you out of the house by yourself?”
    Greg sighed. The guys had never liked Daria. They told him he was whipped and warned him that she was a user. She had liked them even less, calling them nerds and worse epithets. He hadn’t meant to choose Daria over his friends. With Daria,

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