Asher and Art were wide eyed looking at the so called students in front of them. ‘She said they were in a club on campus but are they really our age?’ The two were trying hard to figure out how someone could have such a perfect chiseled physique at their age. “Oho so this is your little brother and his friend. I am Rob the president of our little club. We change up our workout routine every week and come here today. Cara has a decent circuit that we like to join in on. Let’s do our best.”

Asher was not sure how to respond to the muscle bound guy introducing himself. These guys were all super fit and intimidating. ‘One punch and these guys could send me to orbit and they are here to work out with us?’

‘Hello, I am Art. I just started working out and look forward to the circuit. If you have any advice i will gladly listen.” Art took the initiative to try and gain some insight from people who seemed to work out harder and more than anyone else.

“In that case it’s all about metabolism. You need to eat a small snack every hour to keep it burning. Get rid of that worthless fat and keep feeling the fire in your muscles.” One of the shorter boys spoke up while snacking on a piece of what looked like dried apple.

“No no don’t listen to him, it’s all about repetitions. Do something a hundred times and your muscles will fall in to line whether they like it or not.” Another boy instantly countered trying to make his techniques known.

“Ah just take what they said with a grain of salt. Both methods work but if you do half of what they both say you will end up with a perfect award winning physique like mine.” Rob smiled while flexing his arms. His white gym shirt threatened to tear under the pressure.

“You slackers, get over here and start things up!.” Cara had moved to the basketball court with the pothers to start her reps. She shook her head at those who were distracted and falling behind already.

Asher and Art ran to the water fountain and gulped some water before joining the circuit a few reps behind. The club members were almost double as fast as Cara and were pumping out more and more reps like they were going out of style. ‘These people must all have some power related to their bodies because this is just insane.’ Art and Asher were both stunned at the insane speed. They couldn’t believe that a human would be capable of anything like this.

The entire workout went by much faster since every time they switched to a different exercise Asher and Art felt that they had no choice but to push themselves faster. The body training club was intense and didn’t even look to be breaking a sweat.

“How do you all do this without even taking a break? That was insane?’ Art finally had enough and while they all grabbed water before the run home he asked Rob.

“Oh that was just a warm up. We have two more workouts scheduled for today. One at night before bed we will all do our own thing and after school on club time we will do a three hour lifting session.” That was it Asher and Art felt that they were broken.

Cara seemed to feel their pain sightly but not enough to wait up for them on the run. “Come on these meatheads will be running laps to the school for ever. We need to get home and change.” Asher almost wanted to give up there hearing that the body training club was not done at all and still had laps planned until the got to school. They were intense.

Art and Asher managed to stay much more in pace this time. Cara had only just gotten out of he shower and off to change by the time they had returned. “I call shower first!” Art sprinted up the stairs and turned the corner.

“Ahhhhhh!!!!” The high pitched screech defeaned the entire block completely. Asher held his head feeling it was about to explode in to a million pieces.

He rushed upstairs to find quite the scene. Art had naturally rushed and completely tackled Cara as she was walking to her room. Luckily for Asher’s eyes she was still wearing her towel tightly around her, however Art who had bumped in to her and somehow managed to catch her in the fall was lying on his back holding Cara up.

His hands had grasped in the second to catch her and ended up in a pretty interesting place. Asher wanted to yell but found that when he spoke he couldn’t hear his own voice. Art was looking stunned and frozen while Cara was winding up a solid fist aimed at his face. Before anything could escalate Asher’s mother kicked open the door to her room and grabbed the two on the ground by the ears.

The look of rage she had was palpable but luckily none of them could hear the angry yells coming from her mouth. She dragged Cara into her room and slammed the door shut behind her. She took Art the opposite way next and pushed him in to the shower. She glared at Asher, almost daring him to try something this morning. The shivers that went up his spine told him that if he dared to step even a toe out of line he would be sending himself to an early grave.

The entire house was in silence as everyone got ready. When the three had all gathered in the kitchen Cara had a furious look on her face. Every time Art even twitched she sent vicious glares at him. The hearing loss was still great but slowly fading since they could now start to hear the rustles from the kitchen.

Asher’s mother brought out three bags for lunch however the two she handed to Art and Cara were full of nothing but air. “Oh thank the lord I have food in mine.’ Asher was thankful he had not been part of the punishment and still received a double peanut peanut butter sandwich with plenty of apple and banana slices. The protein shackle was a nice bonus too.

The three of them left for school in a hurry, Cara took the lead and avoided being near Asher and Art. “Hey what’s going on with your sister today? Did that weird noise earlier wake her up from a nap or something?” Jane saw them and immediately joined in to their pace but Asher and Art only heard her voice as a whisper.

“Art made a move on my sister this morning; it was not the luckiest thing for our hearing.” Asher practically screamed this causing Jane to jump like a frightened mouse.

“Why did you yell that? Just say it normally I will speak up!” Jane yelled a little louder making her words easier for the two to hear. Art was strangely quiet while the two had their yelling conversation about Art’s mishap. He was looking at his hands in a daze completely stuck in his own head.

‘Great, he bumps into a girl one time and now he is completely broken. Even I was able to keep my sanity.’ Asher had no reason to get angry at Art for this accident since he knew he may have caused the bad luck to get deafened like this but he still was disappointed to see how Art had fallen into this state of day dream.

Their walk to school was much less talkative than usual since Jane quickly got tired of yelling so that they would hear them. “Art let’s go to the nurses office and see if she can fix up our ears before class!” Asher shouted this but with him not receiving a response decided to just drag Art off instead.

“Jane, we will meet you in class a little bit. Thanks for walking with us earlier than usual!’ Asher yelled this causing other students passing by to look at them. They were stunned by how shameless this kid could flirt in school. Jane found herself happy that her mask was hiding her emotions from everyone.

She managed a wave at Asher as the two went up to the nurses office. She tried her best to calm her bearing heart after Asher’s shout. ‘I knew he was happy to see me there earlier this morning. I know he would spend more time walking with me tomorrow if I show up early too.’ Jane fell in to her own day dreams as she went to their classroom. ‘Wait tomorrow is the weekend…I won’t get to see Asher tomorrow.’ Jane fell in to an emotional conundrum at the thought. ‘I will just need to find a way to get him to hang out.’ She walked in to the classroom while opening her journal, she started to scribble down ideas over and over until she had almost filled an entire page.