Chapter 7

I already had my gym shorts and shoes in the locker room since I pay extra per month to have a personal gym locker. I got changed and saw one of my buddies from school, Joshua, he actually works at this gym so I guess it's his day off or time off or something.

"Hey Denshi! You wanna bench with me? Each set we can switch and be each other's spotter." Josh said.

"Sure. Why not." I said. I normally don't bench first, I typically do that after squatting, the elliptical, curls, and shoulder flies, but I guess benching wouldn't hurt first.

I got to bench with Josh for about 26 minutes, we shared an 100 pound barbell and each did 5 sets of 20. Some girls were looking at Josh, which is understandable. Japanese girls love buff White American dudes, the more buff Southerner they look, the better for them. Too bad he's 17 until June XD.

Personally, I'm not a fan of Japanese girls, I think it might just be that my parents combined have 30 siblings and I've only met 2 of them. And apparently I'm one of the youngest of my cousins. It could also be that I like the idea of being married to a foreign woman, child of one, or a mainlander. She could be literally anything else and I wouldn't care. Probably both honestly.

I finished my main workout completely EXHAUSTED. Josh had to go back to work so I didn't have a basketball partner (and yes I like to suffer). I love basketball, but I didn't like the people in the school basketball team nor the coach so I never joined. I fill that void at this gym. There was a 2v2 Man and Woman vs. a girl with no partner. I asked if I could join and she said yeah. She was HOT. She was most definitely a mainlander or a foreigner of some kind.

"Alright, first duo to 42 wins." The game started. I'm good at shooting threes and this girl had a long wingspan for someone that was only about 5 foot 6. She has really good control of the ball too. She passed to me, I pulled away and shot a three. We never played together before but were able to play totally in sync...

About 20 minutes later it was 30-39. We were about to win but the other team got a steal. The woman guarding me was very tall for an asian, she was at least 6 foot 2. Taller than the dude she was with XD. She was able to steal from me frequently (I'm 5 foot 10 and my wingspan is only about 6 and a quarter feet hand to hand). This lady has to be a Women's Basketball center or something.

After a bit we were 39-41 and needed just one more shot, the girl I was playing with stole from the dude and passed it to me and I got a three, making it to 44. We won.

"Whew, that was fun. Hey dude what's your name?" She asked me.

"Denshi, how about you?" I replied.

"Freedom. Nice to meet you Denshi. You shoot threes like it's nothing, but can't shoot close to save your life."

"You're pretty good on point. Also your name sounds super mainlander. What state you from?" I asked her.

"I'm from South Africa actually, though I grew up in Mississippi, and came here when my dad inherited my grandma's house here in Tokyo."

"Are you a Hippos fan?" I asked her. I'm like the only Hippos fan in the entirety of Tokyo.

"YEAH! Are you?"

"Yep. I think I'm the only Honshuan that is. Everyone and there mother here is a Twisters or a C*wb*ys fan."

We hit it off. We chatted for a bit and I learned that we go to the same high school and that we're both seniors, we just don't share any classes.

"Alright Freedom, nice to meet ya. Wanna meet up at school?" I asked her.

"Sure, I'd like that."

Thank God for weebs.

I kinda like this girl...