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“Stop looking at me like you want to fuck me. Like you’ve already fucked me.”
“I look at you like I want to fuck you because I do. And I have,” he says.
“Well stop it! If anyone finds out they’re going to think I won because you let me,” I say.
“And if I win, will it be because you let me?” he questions, amused.
“It’s different for men and women.”
He waves the thought away, as if I’m speaking nonsense. “Anyone who knows us, knows we will not give up our chance because we’re dating.”
“We’re not dating. Going on dates, and dating, are two very different things,” I remind him.
“I don’t care if everyone here knows about us. In fact, I want them to know. Maybe if they knew, we’d be able to share a damned bed.”
Raising a threatening finger, I snarl, “Don’t you dare say anything.”
“I won’t have to. You just did.” Reaching to me, I move away thinking he’s going to touch me, but instead he simply raises the mic away from my lips. Blood rushes to my face as I realize what I’ve just done. In my haste to tell Dean what was what, I completely forgot about the microphone.
Slowly I turn to my class. Through the glass floor to ceiling windows I can see the lot of them watching us. No one is working out, no one is moving. All eyes, and cameras, are on Dean and me. Some folks are grinning ear to ear, as though they have been waiting for this to happen all along. Not a single one of them has the decency to look away. Even Julie is watching us with nail biting anticipation written all over her face.
While I can hardly breathe. “Do you think they heard?”
Dean doesn’t answer the obvious. Steeling myself against my self-imposed embarrassment, I leave Dean standing there and walk in.
“Ladies and gentlemen, so, this was a little show we put on to show… um… you see, this wasn’t real.” Of course, no one believes me. Feeling foolish I suddenly break out into an awkward dance. I don’t know why. Maybe because I’ve seen a few celebrities do it to try and somehow take the attention away from their guffaw. All it does is make me feel silly.
Giving up, I wave my hand at everyone. “Back to work. Nothing to see here. You’re not gonna get fit by staring at this train wreck.”
Everyone gets to it, but I know they have a million questions. Dean, the coward, walks straight back to the office.
When the class is over, and all the cameras have shut off, Julie comes to stand by me.
“Am I fired?” I ask her.
She mulls it over, making me squirm for a while. I can tell she’s pissed, but she’s trying to figure out a way to salvage this circus. “I had to shut down the Twitter and Facebook feeds. Apparently, you and Dean are the hottest thing since kettlebells. If I fire you, it would probably unleash hell on me.”
“Besides, you did say that dating was allowed,” I interject, regretting it the moment her eyes nearly singe the skin off my bones.
“Discretion, Cat! Study up on it, please.”
Happy that I’m still employed - better yet, am still in the challenge - I head to the hotel. I walk into the room to find that Sheridan and my sister have arrived. All three of my girls are laying on the same bed watching Tv. Maxx Tv, that is.
“Great,” I say, throwing my keys on the other bed and walking past them to turn the television off.
“Hey, we were watching that!” Sher yells. “It’s hilarious. This girl just confessed to fucking the main guy in front of the world. Oh, wait, that was you!” She laughs so hard, she has to hold her belly.
“Ha, ha. So funny.”
“Mom, you do know that everything you do is being reported on, don’t you? Even the people who aren’t pointing a camera on you. They’re watching,” Reese says with great big eyes.
“Yes, I know that. Of course, I do. I did it for the ratings,” I tell her.
Liz lets out a little laugh, but says nothing. She’s kept what she has to say about Dean to a minimum since we got the whole story on what his teenage theft was really about.
“At least they had time to bleep out the bad words,” Sher says. “Not that we can’t tell exactly what was said.”
“Anyway, how was your trip?” I ask her.
