Thank you Oldbroad76 for editing.
At 27 years old and married, I thought all of the excitement in my life was behind me, and it was. For three years I was happily married and having missionary sex once a month. I worked long hours, as did my wife. We had a house and talked about kids.
For my entire life I had been following the normal blueprint that was life, but that all changed when out of the blue she left me.
Diane, my wife, one day couldn't take anymore, and in one blow, she admitted to having an affair with her boss, Jeffrey. She left me that night, and I haven't seen her since. Just her wardrobe full of clothes were left behind to remind me of her.
My name is Anthony, I am 5 foot 9, slim but toned as I go to the gym at least 3 times a week. I also have short, brunette hair, and although I hated to admit it, I have feminine features with my plump lips, bright blue eyes, long eye lashes, and naturally tanned skin.
For months after Diane left me I either went to work, the gym, or stayed at home alone. It all became one boring blur.
I didn't see it changing, and I didn't do anything to change it, but then I met Wayne.
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Ten!
I grunted and dropped the weights after my chest press. I had just finished my final set and sat up. My face was red, and I was panting.
"Nice work." A deep voice said, and I jumped.
As I turned around, my eyes opened wide to see a giant, muscular black man standing behind me. And when I say black, I mean night sky black.
His body was hard to miss as he was only wearing a vest that barely covered him. He was well over six foot tall with arms like tree trunks. I thought that he must have had nearly zero body fat as he was pure muscle.
"Erm, thanks." I replied back, finding myself nervous next to this beast.
"I'm new to this gym," He said, his deep voice almost angelic like, "And I prefer to work out with someone rather than on my own."
"Oh, fair enough." I replied, still finding myself feeling awkward with him so near to me.
My chest was still heaving and I was sweating as I reached for my water bottle, but he grabbed it first and handed it to me.
"I'm Wayne." He said, his eyes staring into my soul.
"Erm, Anthony." I replied back.
"Nice to meet you." He said.
Before I knew it, Wayne's big, black hand gripped onto mine. I didn't consider myself small, but his hand engulfed mine.
"You too," I said to him. "I'm actually just finishing up."
"Shame," Wayne replied, "maybe next time."
He walked off after that, and I let out another heavy breath. Other than at work, that was probably the most contact I'd had with another human being since Diane left me.
Realising this, I made a decision.
I stood up from the bench press and walked over to Wayne who had set himself up on a cable machine. I couldn't believe the weight he was going to be lifting. It was nearly twice what I could lift.
"Hey," I said, and Wayne turned around and smiled, showing off his shiny white teeth. "I'll be here tomorrow at 7pm if you want to train together then?"
"Perfect," He told me, "see you then."
As he stared at me, I felt something... tingling. Which lasted even after I had left the gym. I couldn't explain it, but my body reacted in a strange new way just from speaking with Wayne.
Even with that, I was excited. Maybe this was me finally taking the first step in moving on with my life after Diane.
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The next night after I finished work, I rushed to the gym. I wanted to make a good impression with Wayne, hoping to make a new friend.
When I arrived, he was already there and putting weights onto the leg press machine.
"Anthony," He bellowed out, which caught the attention of nearly everyone there, "just in time."
"Hey," I replied as I walked over, "legs today?"
"Yeah, if you're cool with that?" Wayne asked.
I nodded as I stared at him. I couldn't put my finger on his age. His ebony skin was silky smooth, but he gave off the impression of a wise, older man. I wouldn't have been surprised if he was anywhere from 30 to 50 years old.
"I'll go first," He said as he sat on the machine. "Then we can change the weights to whatever you need."
"Yeah, not a chance in hell I could do that weight." I joked back.
"Well, I have about twenty years practice on you," He joked back.
I watched as his thick legs tensed while he pushed the weights up. He was honestly a machine. He was pressing so much weight that I gulped at the sight of it.
As he pressed the machine, my eyes went all over his big, black body. Every inch bulged, and he was truly a god of a man.
"Okay, your turn," He said and stood up, barely breaking a sweat. "What do you think you can do?"
"Maybe half?" I said and struggled to take his weights off.
"No need to push yourself too hard if you want to go lower." He told me.
I agreed and took even more off before struggling to do my set.
During our work out we didn't talk a lot, and most of it was about workouts and a gym pattern that we could get into together. He seemed like a nice, warm guy.
Then when we finished and my legs felt like jelly, we made our way towards the door.
"Want to go for a quick drink?" Wayne asked me.
It's nearly 9pm,
I thought, knowing that my bed was waiting for me, and then work in the morning,
come on, try and have some sort of a life.
"Yeah, sounds good to me," I told him. "It might give my legs time to work properly again before I drive."
"Perfect, there's a place just around the corner, right?" He asked me.
"Yeah, I'll show you." I told him.
When the cold night air hit my sweaty body, I felt refreshed. The wind blew against my wet body which instantly cooled me down as I walked side by side with this beast of a man.
"So, you lived here long?" Wayne asked as we walked.
"I moved here about four years ago," I told him, "to move in with my wife."
"Oh, I didn't see a ring." Wayne said to me.
I looked at my bare hand awkwardly as we walked.
"We, erm, we separated a few months ago." I admitted.
Don't be depressing, you could actually make a friend here!
"But it's all good," I told him, "neither of us were happy."
"Women, hey?" Wayne joked back.
"What about you?" I asked, "got a wife waiting for you at home?"
"Me? No," Wayne said, "I find relationships too much of a hassle."
I chuckled when he said that, thinking back to many nights of Diane being in a mood with me over the smallest of comments.
"I get that," I replied. "So, no kids, I guess?"
"No chance," He told me. "And at my age, I doubt I'll have any."