Chapter 14

Changing into the clothes, Daru walks into the hallway.

Walking into the kitchen, he sees Alex sitting on the sofa. "Good morning," he greets.

Alex looks up from her tab as soon as she hears Daru's voice. "Good morning," she replies with a smile.

Daru pours himself some water, and Alex gets up and paces towards him.

"Um, you look…" Before Alex could say much with her oh-so-sweet smile, Haley's voice comes from the stairs.

"Hot."

She walks towards them, swinging her hip with a cat-like gait.

"You look hot in those," she says.

Daru looks down at himself. The sleeveless shirt is a bit tight on his pecs. The pants, too, constrict a bit on his thighs.

"Really, I thought I looked like a thot bodybuilder."

"Isn't it a bit too tight?" Daru flexes his chest a bit while looking towards Haley and then Alex.

Alex blushes.

Haley walks to his side. "Not in the slightest," she says, touching his biceps. "In fact, you should wear this more often," she adds, looking at his body. Doing a once-over, she looks at his eyes toward the last.

For a second, she holds the contact, only then to turn towards Alex. "Don't you think so too, Alex?"

"Ah… yes, yes, you should." Alex nods as she talks through the red of her face, parts of which might be the rush of hormones, the other jealousy.

Keeping the empty glass down, Daru takes Haley's hand from his arm. He cups her soft hand and taps the back of it with the other. "Thank you for the compliments, girls," he says, not forgetting to look towards Alex too. "How about we set the place up before Claire comes?" he continues.

In the living room, Daru moves the couch back to make more space. Alex and Haley put the mats down for themselves and Claire. The three mats are in a row, while the center mat is a few feet forward.

Just on time (like the plot dictates), Claire walks in. "I guess we can start right away."

Daru smiles and replies, looking at all three, "Why not."

Claire takes the center mat, while Haley to the right and Alex to the left.

"Let's start with a bit of a warm-up to get your body lightly stretching," says Daru.

"We will start with some neck rolls."

"Easy and slow, half-circle clockwise, then anticlockwise."

"1, 2, 3… 8."

"Alright, now stretch your arms across your chest. 1, 2, 3, 4, now the other…"

"Good. Now let's do arm circles. 1, 2, 3, yes, like you're pushing the air lightly. Don't put pressure on it; let them go slowly if you want. 7, 8."

"Now arms on your waist, and twist your hips. 1, 2… 8."

"Alright, now take some deep breaths and relax your body."

After a few seconds, Daru continues, "Come on now, let's do some abductor stretch."

"The left, the right, the left, the right."

"Hold each side as much as you can."

"Good. Now let's do a standing bicycle."

"1… 8."

"Alright, now take a 20-second break."

The girls start to feel the warmth in their muscles. They take light breaths as they relax while standing.

"Now some lunges…"

Daru walks around them, guiding and increasing the pace a bit to get their hearts pumping.

After doing a routine warm-up, Daru guides them into a slow routine of long stretches of upper and then lower body.

"Today we will only get familiar with our bodies. We will increase the intensity in future lessons."

Leaving Claire, the girls might not have come into this for the yoga, but now they are into stretching itself.

After all, it feels good to do this. Slowly relaxing your physique calms the mind. Holding your stance and poses grows your attention and focus, and more so the mind and muscle connection.

He then guides them to some squats.

"Alex, you have to relax your back and concentrate on your legs. Yes, like that, good, keep it going."

"Haley, you don't have to go that low, and don't hunch your back. Take a wider stance, yes, now slowly go down, yes, now up, wonderful."

Daru walks from Alex to Haley, correcting their forms, then walks to stand in front of the three.

"You are doing great, Claire. That's a good form. Yes, work your glutes. Good. You are a natural."

Hearing his praise, Claire smiles broadly. Her face heats up and gets more red with something other than the blood pumping.

"Alright, now we are almost done. Let's lie down. Keep your back straight, good. Now we stretch your groin and thighs."

Daru instructs them to do the lying butterfly pose.

"Good. You are doing well, girls. Don't put too much pressure. We will increase flexibility as we move forward. Now just get used to the stretch."

He then walks towards Claire and says, "I think you can do a bit more."

"Okay," Claire says, looking up at him.

"Let me help you."

Kneeling on one knee beside her, Daru shows his hand as if asking permission, to which Claire nods.

Dary holds her feet together, And then pushs them up towards her pussy.

 He can see how her privates strech the outline of her pantys visible.

"Hmm," Claire hums a bit in tension as he pushes slowly.

Daru touches her stomach and says, "Relax. Let the tension in your abdominal go. Spread your legs more. Try to touch your knees to the floor."

He caresses his thumb lightly on her waist.

Claire bites her lower lip, with eyes closed.

Daru holds still her legs with both feet in his grip as Claire hums again.

Letting this go on for 20 more seconds, Daru says, "Alright, now slowly pull your legs straight."

As he lowers her feet, he lets go after halfway.

Claire, lying now after Daru takes his hand away, and her legs now straight.

Sigh

She sighs, not sure herself at what.

"Okay, now just rest for a minute. Don't move, just let your body relax."

After that feeling good, the girls walk to their rooms with content smiles.

Now with only Claire and Daru left.

"So, how was it?" Daru asks Claire, the only two left.

"It was good, actually way better than I expected. You give us more attention than what one instructor would have with 20 other people," says Claire.

"And Phil was right; we do need to save money, especially now that…" she just lets the last part go unsaid, looking at space.

Shaking her head back to the present, she continues with a smile, "And my back feels so much better now."

"Well, if you want, I could give you a massage," Daru offers innocently.

Claire thinks for a second, then shakes her head right after.

"No, it's alright."

AN: I don't really like this chapter, more than half way through I realized I was just typing my yoga routine. 

 Tell me if you like it, or where I could have improved. These fanfics are a way for me to improve my writing to write my more ambitious original projects. So you input is more valuable to me than anything else.