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Gym Buddies (Kind Of)

Summary: the one where Perrie has a huge crush on the girl who goes to the gym at the same time as her

Perrie is kind of an exercise hardo.

She's not the type of person to do cross fit and then remind everyone continuously about how she does cross fit, and she's not one of the ones to unnecessarily flex to prove her arms are nice (even if like her arms are nice and she's damn proud of her handwork paying off).

She is the type of person who goes to the gym before school and after school though. Technically she doesn't think she should be blamed for this, she loves to run, she wants to be toned and there's a gym across the street from her school that she's had a membership to for years because of her dad. Like it's basically begging for her to use it.

She hasn't always been a die hard about being in shape, but her junior year of volleyball just passed and her senior one is coming up and if she isn't in mint condition colleges won't be as easy to get checked by. (Also she wants a sleeve of tattoos in college and thinks it'll look better if she has nice arms so check on that).

But the point is that she is a hardo, no matter what way she goes about being one. I mean come on, who enjoys running and doesn't identify as one?

It's her mind space, which leads her to spending an hour prior and an hour after school each day doing as many abs, legs, and arms reps along with whatever cardio she decides to take up.

The perks of doing this are endless.

A lot of people dislike going to the gym in the morning for fear of smelling bad at school, but Perrie's hair is kind of good however she puts it and it doesn't take that long to quickly wash sweat off. The only actual outcome of the gym in the morning is waking yourself up and having a better start.

When she first started going to the gym in the morning she assumed it would be full of other hard ore body builders or some shit but it's mainly old people which takes a lot of the stress off.

Another perk is that she gets an automatic excuse when she doesn't want to have to hangout with anyone after school. Although going to the gym is an option, saying you go to the gym immediately makes people assume your mind is made up (which it is) and kind of eliminates room for debate, and Perrie loves most of her friends but like, space is a thing she needs to keep loving them.

The best perk used to be the hydration. Or well, rather than that, the feeling of being hydrated. Perrie drinks like even bottles of water a day now at least and it feels kind of bomb to have good skin and a better physique with one step.

Then the best perk was the Honey Dew Donuts inside the exit area - no not to get donuts, that's too counter productive, but they have the best strawberry, kiwi smoothie around and to top it off it's like, healthy, which, whoa who knew that could happen.

And well, well okay so she's not saying that anything has passed the smoothie thus far, but there's kind of this girl.

Now if you've ever been to the gym on a schedule, you'll know that there are certain people who are on the same schedule as you.

You won't address each other at all really, but you might end up at the same stations, or cross paths only once a day, or have lockers near each other in the changing room. There are always people you recognize but don't really know at the gym with you.

Perrie is sure this girl goes to her school. Not because she's ever seen her, there's like three thousand people in her school so that explains that, but she's always crossing the street with her back pack only a few minutes ahead of Perrie and Perrie recognizes her in the front of the line at the sign in area.