Friends With Time ⌛ (Tyler Galpin x Reader)

Day 2

Note from the author: the songs are free to be whatever you want, but I imagine the 1st peppy song as Walk Off The Earth's cover of Cheerleader, and the workout song as Levels by Avicii! Feel free to play them as you read. :)

Day 2:

The first few chords of a song rip through the morning air, the sheets automatically pulling back on your bed.

Your eyes fill heavy, as though filled with sand, as you blink them open in a sterile white environment. For a moment, you forget, then... The Bubble.

The beat of the song drops, and you jump out of bed, grabbing the alarm and setting it back on the desk with a clomp. You rush over to the mirror, tying your hair back into a ponytail, then pull open the sliding door to the wardrobe. Your pajamas are a white two-piece set, blending you into the environment as the peppy song plays, and you pull out a white workout set out of the closet.

Whoever chose your wardrobe must've had good taste- outside of the clothes you brought from home, most are in your personal style, even if they are as white as the Bubble's surroundings.

The song changes, and you glance in the mirror one last time. Your hair is pulled into a high ponytail, and the leggings end in a ballet-shoe-esque tie that adds a nice detail to the white set. You open the door to your room and hurry over to the TV just as the song is ending, grabbing the remote and clicking it on to reveal the cameras of an assortment of people in identical bubbles, all in different colors.

There's a black bubble with a man wearing black workout clothes, a yellow bubble with a woman in yellow, and, in the largest camera box in the front of the call, the personal trainer from the Academy appears.

"This is your workout video for the day," she says, and you hear the sound over the speaker system that played the music. She describes the equipment you need- three sets of dumbbells, a yoga mat, and the portable white punching bag tucked away in the corner- and you follow, grabbing the items as she lists them.

The peppy song fades into a high-energy song you recognize, and you start the workout, following after the familiar rhythm of the Academy trainer. You jump up and down in the motions, your body strong and responding quickly as you race through strength training, cardio, and kickboxing.

You're covered in a light sheen of sweat when the trainer waves to you and clicks the TV off, and you grab the remote, turning your screen off. You exhale, grinning and turning to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Fitness reqs were one of your favorite parts of the Academy- you love the way you feel after a hard workout, the way everything in the world seems so much sharper.

You open the mini-pantry to see what's stocked inside it, then pull what you need for breakfast from the giant storeroom: protein powder, acai powder, and granola, frozen fruit from the freezer section, and fresh fruit from the refrigerator section.

Arms full of a balancing tower of food, you turn to flick off the light at the end of the storeroom before you remember something. The Hyde likes coffee, doesn't he? He worked at a coffee shop. The Weathervane, you remember.

You stomach curls in your gut as you remember the monster, the way he tried to kill you yesterday, but you hobble over to the drinks shelf and add coffee to your swaying stack of food, anyway.

You blend up your acai bowl, humming to yourself as you drop a banana into the blender and toss the peel back into the trash can. You pour the purple liquid into two of the white, porcelain bowls- one for you and one for the monster- then top both with cut banana and mango around the rim and granola arranged in the center.