35 Big Boi Buff

Zach makesure the egg is hidden well under the blanket and leaves the house.

He heads towards Grahams gym holding the note Graham left him. As he walks, the usual black vans in the area look a lot more insidious due to Zachs gained knowledge, keeping his head down he continues while remembering his escape routes.

.I'm not a young girl so they won't kidnap me... Right?.

Whispering sweet nothings to himself he approaches a large building covered in glass, clearly visible through the glass a large swimming pool is present, a floor above that a large room with exercise bikes are also being used.

.This must be it., looking at the name on the note saying "Gym Delirium" and the same name plastered across the building means that hes in the right place.

Zach walks through the automatic doors and sees the pretty receptionist looking at him impatiently, he shyly walks up and smiles at her quickly frowning face.

"Do you have an appointment?"

.Graham said to come visit anytime...

She looks at him angrily,

"So you have an appointment for now, yesterday and tomorrow?"

.I'm not a ghost if that's what your asking.

She gets her phone out and calls someone,

"You luring in kids again?"

"Right, you said that about all of them!"

"Whatever, hes here now so come deal with him."

She points to the corner of the room,

"Please take a seat here."

...

Zach waits for 5 minutes and hears something stomping towards the reception, A huge man bursts in. Graham looks about the room and sees Zach, he starts walking towards him but is stopped by the receptionist,

"Your an ass"

Graham doesn't look phased and retorts,

"And yours brings all the milkshake but i'm not complaining!"

She slaps him across the face and sits down,

Graham approaches Zach while rubbing his cheek.

"Sorry about that."

.Shouldn't you talk to your girlfriend?.

"HA! Girlfriend? I'm just her boss, feisty little thang."

.Isn't that sexual harassment?.

"What's that? Never heard of it... Ok lets get to it, i have already set up a training schedule for you!"

Zach allows Graham to pull him through a few rooms and up the stairs towards the weight training room.

"I have had this set up and waiting for you to come visit!"

...

The dedication shown by Graham creeps Zach out but he ignores it and starts training with Graham. Under the coach of Graham, Zach is doing increasingly more difficult exercises which train his muscular strength, endurance and cardiovascular fitness.

Half a day of long exercise leaves both of them exhausted, Graham sits next to Zach and hands him a familiar bottle filled with brown liquid.

"Drink this, it'll help with recovery."

.It's ok, right?.

Graham laughs and slaps Zach on the back exclaiming loudly

"I'm not a drug dealer, it's just protein shake... I got you a chocolate flavour so drink up!"

Zach trusts him and drinks it, it doesn't taste like chocolate and instead tastes of a muddy puddle.

He manages to not throw up after he downs it.

"Good aint it?"

.Yeah... Could you get another flavour next time?.

"Sure, i have a shop inside the gym so pickup whatever fancies yah. Okay, this is going to be the last exercise of the day."

Graham leads Zach to a large hall with lots of promoters shoving products in peoples faces,

"Occasionally we host for companies trying to advertise their products, this helps people get discounts and such while the companies get exposure. What we want today is exposure!."

He leads Zach through a crowd that is encircling a bench press, a man currently attempting a large combined weight of 80kg is heaving away with a red face.

"Stop"

He mutters in a quiet voice as the spotters lift the weight off of him.

"I wanna get you into the big leagues, so what better way then to show off infront of the big boys!"

The man exits looking depressed leaving the bench free,

"It's our turn!"

He leads Zach through the crowd quickly becoming the centre of attention, Graham clearly announcing that we are next and ignoring the massive line on the side has clearly earned the ire from some people.

"That's not fair, some of us have been waiting a long time!"

"Yeah, why do they get to go in?"

Graham straightens his back and reveals his massive frame,

"Aye, it's because i own the building!"

...

The complaints stop when he says this.

The person running the show walks up to Graham with a clipboard,

"So your next? write your name, phone number, email address and age here. If you manage to lift over your body weight then you will receive a 10% discount on some of our products."

....

Graham looks at the scrawny man who looks out of place,

"Give the paper to him, hes the one participating."

He points at Zach quickly making him the centre of attention.

"That fat kid is gonna try? My ass!"

"Who knows, he might be stronger than he looks?"

"Get out of the way so i can buy some new equipment!"

Zach looks at Graham while lowering his head,

.Do i have to?.

"It's a great opportunity!"

.Ok...

He completes survey and approaches the equipment, looking around to Graham he asks while looking embarrassed.

.So, how am i supposed to sit on this?.

The crowd looks at Graham's blank face, didn't he just teach him this. How could he have forgotten already!?!