Jeff's Alarm sounded bright and early at 5 am. "Jeez, how did I let Hannah convince me to start going to the Gym this early." He muttered to himself as he wiped the sleep from his eyes. As Jeff stumbled out of bed and threw on some fresh work out clothes he couldn't help but notice Riley passed out in the top bunk. It had probably only been a few hours since he'd gone to bed and would be several more before he'd get up. The thought made poor Jeff more than a little jealous. As quietly as he could Jeff finished getting ready and was out of his dorm less than 15 minutes from when he first woke up.
Jeff had originally started joining Hannah on her morning workouts at her request. Apparently a male student had been giving her weird vibes, always starting his routine when she did, always working out right behind her when she was on the treadmill, always jumping on a machine right after her. Needless to say he was a total creep, and so Jeff started coming along with her. Eventually even after he had finally gotten the message Jeff kept going. Maybe because he was actually seeing some results or maybe he just enjoyed spending the time with Hannah. Either way he was rolling out of bed at 5am most mornings.
Jeff made sure to stop at the dining hall at the bottom floor of his building to pick up a banana beforehand. It wasn't much but it was at least something Jeff could get into his stomach as he made his way to the Gym. It was on his way there that he saw it; a woman riding a bicycle that was clearly a man. His arms and legs were completely contorted into the shape of the wheels, his face her seat and his genitals the handlebars. Wrapped up in all the boring monotony of his morning routine Jeff had completely forgotten about the chronivac and the previous day's events.
As he stared at the odd sight of a woman riding a man-bike off to wherever her morning routine would take her Jeff felt a sudden smack on his ass. "Someone's jealous huh?" Jeff turned around quickly to see Hannah all ready for her workout. Hannah was wearing a sports-bra and athletic shorts, her tanned skin and chiseled abs on full display in the morning-light.
“Am not. I was just thinking how uncomfortable that looks is all” Jeff told her a half truth. He knew that to her that kind of thing was normal, and she would never believe him about the chronivac anyway.
“For the rider or the bike?” Hannah asked as the pair of them made their way to the gym. To which Jeff just responded. “Both”
“I don’t know Jeff, have you ever sat on a human seat before?” Hannah responded. “The human face can be surprisingly comfy”
“Oh please it’s not like you have either.” Jeff rolled his eyes.
“Have too, My cousin let me try out her boyfriend last time I saw them.” Hannah beamed proudly.. “He turned into a wheelchair for her after she was in her accident.”
“Jesus Hannah you can’t just go around ‘trying out’ a disabled women’s wheelchair.” Internally Jeff was a bit incredulous with himself that that was what he took most issue with in her statement.
“It was no big deal Jeff, it was her idea.” Hannah protested as Jeff held the door to the gym open for her.
The receptionist scanned both of their student ids and waived the pair through to start their workout. The two of them split up briefly to leave their belongings in their respective locker rooms. In the mens room Jeff made note of a rather large man with a twink flattened out as a sweat rag and quickly hurried out before he allowed himself to see too much.
The pair started their work out with some light stretching before anything else.”So Jeff I think you were dodging my question earlier. You were jealous of that bike weren’t you.” It seemed like Hannah wasn’t about to let Jeff off.
“I wasn’t. Besides, that looked way too exhausting anyway.” Jeff responded. “Okay so a bike is too exhausting then if you did have a choice what kind of object would you want to be?”
Jeff rolled his eyes. “I wouldn't. I’d be an owner. where is this coming from anyway?”
“Tanya texted us about your conversation yesterday, she said you were worried about being an object.” Hannah answered honestly.
“Dammit Tanya… wait us? Does everyone know? why would she do that?” Jeff asked.
“Oh come on we were all worried about you after yesterday, you were so down during lunch after all. We basically forced her to tell us.” This revelation wasn’t actually that surprising to Jeff. He'd known he wasn’t exactly subtle about his mental state the day prior.
“Still you’ve all got the wrong idea. I’m not going to be an object.” Jeff declared a matter-of-factly.
“Damn that's a shame, I would’ve loved to be your owner.” Hannah grunted through a squat.
“You don’t mean that… Do you?” Jeff said, taken aback.
“Of course I do, you're special to me after all.” Jeff couldn’t help but blush a little as he looked up to Hannah wiping sweat from her brow. “We should get on with our work out.” Jeff muttered quickly trying to change the subject and unsure what to do with this newfound info.
“Sure.” was all Hannah said in response as the two of them picked out their respective machines. As Jeff started a light jog on the treadmill he couldn't help his mind from wandering to thoughts of Hannah. He had never thought she thought of him that way before. As Jeff's jog started to speed up he…
