Burnt Coffee Grounds

Chapter 8.

𝓥𝓲𝓬𝓽𝓸𝓻 𝓗𝓪𝓱𝓷

"Hey man, I thought today was your rest day?" Dae hoots at me as I round the corner of the men's changing room.

I roll my eyes at him as I walk to my locker on the far left side of the wall. "Oh you know me, can't stay away from the gym." I huff with a half hearted smile as I unlock my locker putting my gym bag in gently.
Seung comes up from behind me and swings his arm over my shoulder causing me to jolt with shock not expecting him.

Dae and Seung are two guys who usually hang around me when I'm at the gym, either they're asking me for a spot or they're chatting my ear off as I'm doing my sets. And honestly recently since I've been working out more I could say I see them on a daily basis.

They may give me crap about being here on my rest day but honestly I would've thought those two were the owners of the buildings by how often they're here, if I wasn't the owner myself.

What can I say?

I had to invest in something during the pandemic, I would've gone insane if I hadn't done what I did.

Now, Dae is a little bit taller than average height and a slim build, he has the popular two-block hair cut and a brown eyes. And Seung is basically a clone in his build, except his hair is a buzz cut and he wears big round glasses.
The two are goof balls in their hearts but due to their professions they have to maintain a physic that can handle what their work force throws at them.

"Well mister, you're the one who always praises about how the body isn't a machine, and how you always need to give your body rest." I roll my eyes at Seung, "Oh man get off my back." I head over to the mat to start stretching my upper body by using a long 6 foot pole.

"No, Seung's right. Why are you here man? What's bothering you?" I let one side of the pole go letting the momentum and the tension carry it to the back of Dae's head. You know what would be so good right now?

Sundae.

Ou, I think I might grab some on my way to work. "Ow man! A little warning would be nice." Dae pouts as he rubs the back of his neck, as if the plastic pole actually did any damage to him.

"A warning would defeat the point, and there's no problem, nothing bothering me, and definitely no one new in my life." Seung and Dae's eyes open wide and Seung starts jumping up and down catching the attention of a couple other people in the building.

I raise my hand at them and quietly bow my head at them signaling my apologies.

"We never mentioned the possibility of someone new in your life? So that's what's rubbing you raw?" Dae winks at me as he nudges my arm.

Before I'm able to comment Seung jumps in, "Is that why you're not taking a rest day? Are you planning on sending her some pump pics to capture her heart?" They both look at me dreamily as they flex and let their imaginations run their courses. My cheeks light up like tomato's at the thought of sending something like that to her.

I don't think she would be appreciative of something so... promiscuous.

She could even block me for that! I wouldn't even judge her. I would block me too if I got those types of pics from myself. "No and No. How are you two even married?

And no she's not even like that." I whisper the last sentence under my breath as I switch my stretching to a vertical instead of a horizontal stretch on the pole, but sadly they have super-sonic hearing. "So it is a she!" I send them both glares to quiet down.

"So what if it's a she? It's not like I'm getting married to her or anything?" Dae sighs at me shaking his head. "Oh our precious little innocent man." I shake my head as I lean the pole up against the wall, and then start to roll out my neck and stretch my wrists at the same time.

"Oh yeah Vic, you've got to let us help you get her! You've got zero experience with women, and we have wives! So that makes us love gurus." I stop stretching and just give them a blank look.

"First off, you two are married to your grade school girlfriends. You didn't choose them or have to try and impress them to get them to like you. They already chose you before you guys even realized you liked them. Second off, I'm pretty sure she's not even Asian, so how would you two know how to impress a foreign lady when you've never been anywhere but different parts of Asia in your whole life. And third off, you two are firefighters. My career isn't as appealing as yours."

I head over to the free weights and they both follow me like toddlers.

"What do you mean your career isn't as appealing?!You're a doctor!" I cut my eyes at them as I pick up my warm up set.

"I have my doctorate, I'm not an actual medical doctor." Seung picks up his warm up weights as well and sits on the bench beside me using his knees to kick up the weights into safe position for him to start doing his reps.

"Eh, same thing."

I shake my head as I start to do my own reps.

"No not the same thing."

"Yeah Seung! A doctorate in nerdology isn't the same thing as being a medical doctor! Duh dumbass."

"Thank god you guys have to use your bodies more than your head other wise there would be a lot more casualties in Seoul."

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Hey guys! Sorry I took a little break for a couple of days. I got a little restless sitting in my house doing nothing but writing and watching k-dramas. So I decided to get my bum up and do something. It helped a lot. So here's a chapter for my return :) I hope y'all enjoy!