Introduction
I glanced over towards Nancy and gave her an evil stare, This was the same look Soph was giving her. There was nothing normal about the amount the amount of sweat beads that were falling from my face, my armpits and other assets. I hated spin. Nancy flicked her fire engine red bob in my direction before she winked at me and I looked towards Soph who was nearly collapsing over the handles of the bike. Why I ever signed up to this shit is beyond me. I promised myself I’d give this fitness thing a go. It wasn’t that I wasn’t happy with the way I was, but I was nothing in comparison to my supermodel skinny best friend. I glared at the side of Nancy’s pretty turned up nose, olive skin and tiny boobs and I almost wanted to throw up. How can anybody look that good sweaty? I continued to cycle harder on the bike as instructed. I smirked at Soph who was now throwing her hands in the air in an attempt to surrender.
“I give up! Sod this!” She was puffing like an old fashioned locomotive almost as if she’d been smoking 40 a day since she was 12. I heard Nancy laugh, who encouraged my outburst of laughter. Bless her, she really didn’t know what she was signing herself up for did she? I smiled to myself as I panted my way through the last 10 minutes of the class, wiping the sweat droplets from my head with my towel and guzzling down my bottle of water. Anybody who does this for fun is completely off their head. This included my dear old friend Nance. She hopped off the bike with such grace I almost want to punch her in the face. I giggled to myself as I watched Sophia get off hers, rubbing her arse with vigour and pulling some very peculiar faces. She shot me a disapproving look and cut me daggers.
“This my lovely Avaya,” she pointed at her sweaty little pale face, big brown eyes and her sweaty cleavage whilst she stared down at me “this is not happening again!” Nancy laughed and I found myself catching her laughter again.
“Oh please Soph! Grow a pair you’re 20 for heaven's sake!” Nancy sniggered. I frowned with her as I stood by her side in an attempt to back her up. “And you Mrs! You were the one who said it’d be a good idea so don’t you start!” She pointed towards me as the instructor walked past us towards the gym doors exit. She had no red cheeks, showed barely any signs of exhaustion and had not one peice of sweat anywhere on her body. Which was unsuprising really considering she had about as much meat on her as a beanpole. I smiled politely at the instructor as our eyes met and glared back towards Nancy.
“It may have been my idea, but I don’t know if I’m all that happy about doing it again. Anyway, we all dance and that’ll be enough.” Soph sniggered next to me.
“Well done genius; could have told you that before coming here. Now I’m not going to be able to walk for the next week, let alone dance.” A splurge of laughter escaped my lips as I patted her back firmly. We made our way towards the exit. These were my two very different, yet very best friends.
I watched as the two of them pranced around my tiny two bedroomed home where my single mother and I lived. It brought back fond memories from my childhood, only back then Nancy didn’t have fire engine red hair, she was a blondie and Soph was always the slightly ginger friend though she covered it well now with her dark brown hair dye. I giggled to myself and premeditated Soph dashing the pillow at me.
“Alright dreamer?” She raised her one eyebrow towards me and I nodded.
“Yeah I’m good actually,” I watched as Nance examined my facial expression to see if I was telling the truth and watched as she placed herself next to me on my bed. “Do you remember when we were kids? We skipped school and hid in here? Thinking mum wouldn’t find us?” The memory of us doing that was as clear as day as I said it out loud I could almost see her terrified little face hiding under my bed. I heard Soph cackle and watched as she stopped filling in her eyelids with dark makeup.
“Oh yeah, I remember it like it was yesterday! Your mums face when she found us was hilarious.” I laughed and Nancy crossed her arms in an attempt to protect herself.
“You guys were always a bad influence on me. I was grounded for a month after that!” We all laughed. She had always been the golden child, the one that was always well behaved. She was the neat one and achieved everything first. Soph on the flip side was the rebellious child. I will never forget the time when she got so blind drunk she forgot where she lived and let herself in my house at 3am after she hooked up with Matty. I giggled to myself as the memory came to life. I was just the boring one, boring just about summed me up actually. My hair was thick, it was dark and the wave was unruly. I caught my reflection in the mirror which was opposite where I was perched on the bed and ran my hand over it the cool glass. My green eyes stared back at me. I sighed as the realisation I was nothing special washed over me. I huffed as I looked down towards my hips and pulled a sad face towards Nancy.
“Oh come on beaut. We have to get ready for tonight.” I shook my head, I’m really not feeling this… do I really have to go? I wanted to beg them. I knew what would happen. Soph would be going on her man eating
