I Made a Promise

Chapter 26

-couple weeks later-
-beginning of June-
~Skylar's POV~
It was 6am. I was out with some friends late last night. So I'm exhausted. But then I got woken up by my phone ringing. It was Daniel.

Skylar: hello?
Daniel: hey baby, are you busy?
Skylar: it's 6am.
Daniel: right, I meant are you busy today?
Skylar: um... no. Why? What's up?

Daniel: ok. I have plans for us today.
Skylar: what do you have in mind?
Daniel: that's a surprise. But put on workout clothes and I'll be at your place by 7:15.
Skylar: ok. Love you.
Daniel: love you too. See you.

Once he hung up, I was a bit confused.
What could we be doing today? And why so early? And why do I have to put on workout clothes?
Still, I got up and got ready.
I put on a sports bra and leggings. I did my hair into French braids and put on my gym shoes.

At 7 I heard the front door open. Daniel came in.
"Hey baby.." I smiled and gave him a kiss.
"Hey beautiful." He grabbed my waist and kissed me.
"You ready?" He asked me.
"Yea, where are we going?" I asked him.

"Well, first, we're gonna get breakfast. Then we're gonna go on this... workout." He said.
"What kind of workout?" I asked him.
"Well, I was thinking we could go to the gym first, then go on a jog or something, you know? It's supposed to be a nice day." He said.
"Ok. That sounds nice." I said.
We both love working out. We enjoy it and it's a form of stress reliever for both of us.

We went down to his car.
"Where do you wanna eat?" He asked me as he started the car.
"Maybe like a Starbucks? You know I hate eating a lot before going to the gym." I said.
"Ok, let's go there." He said.

We went to Starbucks. We each got coffee, I got a muffin and Daniel got a sandwich.
We ate in the car.
"So, I was thinking we could do this different type of workout. It's supposed to be a bit difficult, but I want to see how we would do." He explained to me.
"Ok, what does it consist of?" I asked

"Weight lifting, push-ups, pulls-ups, running. It's supposed to be intense." He said.
"Oh wow, you think I could really do that?" I laughed.
"Well, let's see. I think you could." He told me.

We got to the gym and went inside. It was 7:45am, the gym doesn't open until 10, but they let cops in earlier, so we were the only ones in there.
"Ok, first, is pull-ups." Daniel said as we went over to a pull up bar.
"Ok, how many?" I asked him.
"100." He said.

"What the hell? 100?" I asked him like he was crazy.
"Yea, come on you can do it." He chuckled.
I looked at him unsure.
"Like.. all at once?" I asked him.
He laughed and nodded his head.
"And it has to be done in under 2 minutes." He said.
I looked at him like he was out of his mind.

"Yea, how about I do it first?" He chuckled.
"Yea, you do that." I chuckled.
He got up on the bar and did the pull-ups like nothing. And with 50 seconds left.
"Not too hard." He chuckled when he got down.
"You're a cop. Of course it wasn't hard for you." I laughed.

"Your turn. Come on." He laughed.
I went to the bar and jumped up to grab it.
"Alright, 2 minutes 100 pull-ups.... Now." He told me.
I started and about 30 pull-ups in, my arms were already hurting.
"You can do it. Come on, babe. 41, 42, 43...." He was counting.

My arms were burning when I got to the 70s. They felt numb, but in so much pain at the same time.
"Come on, come on, 15 more. 20 seconds." Daniel told me.
I couldn't even feel my arms anymore. My muscles were screaming.

"90, 91, 92.... Come on, 10 more seconds." He told me.
My arms were about to fall off.
"98... 99... 100!" He said. I let go and jumped down. I bent down, exhausted.

"My god, my arms feel like noodles." I laughed.
"You did it, and with 2 seconds to spare." Daniel chuckled.
I laughed.

"I can't feel my arms." I laughed.
Daniel kissed my forehead.
"I'm proud of you." He smiled.
I put my hand on his cheek and kissed him.

"How much more is this workout?" I asked him. This was the first thing.
"There's a few more things." He said.
We went over to the .
He picked up some weights and put them by me.

"Ok, next is to do bicep curls." He explained.
"Ok, how many?" I asked him.
"50 on each arm. 2 minutes." He said.
"Ok, that seems doable." I said.
"You want me to go first?" He asked me.

"Uh, yea sure." I said.
He got some other weights and I started the timer.
He did them all within less than a minute.
"Ok, this isn't fair. You're a cop, you're used to this." I laughed.
"Come on, you can do it." He said.

I took my weights and it was easier than I expected it too. I only took just over a minute.
"You did that good." Daniel smiled at me.
"Thanks, that was actually pretty easy." I laughed.
We went over to this leg workout machine.

"Ok, so we gotta do 100 reps each." He said, adjusting the weight.
"Ok, I'll go first this time." I said.
"You sure?" He asked me.
"Yea, yea I'm sure." I said.

I did the reps. It was a little hard, but not too much.
Daniel did it too. We did all the workouts. After we were done, it was noon. Those were intense.
"Alright, so I'm thinking we should skip that hike. Because I'm feeling insanely tired and I'm guessing you feel the same." He told me as we grabbed our stuff.

"Yea, that's probably best..." I said.
We went down to his car.
"I have to get something from my place real quick." He said.
"Alright, let's go." I said.

We drove to his place and went inside.
We went to the kitchen.
He opened up the cabinets.
"Here." He said, and threw me a bar.

"What's this?" I said, looking at it.
"It's a protein bar. Eat it, because you didn't eat a lot of breakfast and you don't wanna pass out from that workout." He said.

Then I heard some beeping.
"What's that?" I asked him.
"Uh, it's nothing. Just give me a second." He said, and went to his room.

I thought that was weird, but I brushed it off and sat at the kitchen island. I ate the protein bar he gave me.
He came back out after about 5 minutes.
"What was wrong?" I asked him.
"It was nothing. Don't worry about it." He told me.

"But-" I said, but he stopped me.
"Do you wanna shower? Maybe we can go and get some lunch or something." He said.
"Um.. yea, sure. Do you still have those clothes here that I left last week?" I asked him.
"Yea, guest bedroom." He said.
"Ok." I said. I went into the guest bedroom and looked through the drawers and found my clothes.

I went into the bathroom and took a shower. I was wondering what Daniel had to do that he just went into his room. And when I asked him about it, he changed the subject. But I just figured he had to do something. Maybe for work. Maybe a phone call.

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