endless possibilities » colin kaepernick [complete]

ch. 22 || gym date

•Colin's POV•

I was about to go to the gym but before I went, I wanted to mess with Jalissa for a little while. She was sitting on the couch, listening to music on her laptop. When I sat next to her, she took her earbuds out.

"What are you listening to?" I asked.

She turned her computer toward me so I could see the screen, and I can honestly say I was shocked.

"You listen to Gucci Mane?" I asked, raising my eyebrow slightly.

She giggled. "Of course I listen to him. I'm from Atlanta."

"Let's see what else you listen to."

I scrolled through her music, and there was some R&B, but there was a lot of rap.

"I never would've guessed you were so into rap," I said, looking at her. "I mean, there's some hardcore stuff in here."

"Under my shy exterior is a ghetto little hoodrat," she said, making me laugh. "Does my taste in music change your opinion of me?"

"Nope. I think it's sexy."

She started blushing, which I thought was cute. I smiled at her and continued to look through her music.

"You have a workout playlist?"

"Yes sir."

I clicked on it, and it was nothing but Beyoncé songs. "You only listen to Beyoncé when you workout?"

"Yes, because she makes me feel like I can do anything."

I smiled at her answer, then closed her laptop. "Well speaking of working out, I'm about to go to the gym. You should come with me. We can take Logan to my parents' house."

"Okay."

She went upstairs and ten minutes later, she came down in a different set of clothes with Logan in her arms.

"We're ready."

We left, dropped Logan off, then went to the gym. As soon as we got there, Jalissa went straight to a treadmill and started running. She ran for about ten minutes straight, and she didn't even seem tired.

I didn't notice I was staring at her until she was standing in front of me, waving her hand in my face.

"Hello? Earth to Colin."

"Oh, sorry."

"What were you staring at?"

"You. I hope that's not creepy."

"It's kinda creepy," she said. "But since you're cute, I'll let it slide."

We smiled at each other and walked over to the weight bench.

"Are you not tired?" I asked. "You were running for ten minutes non-stop."

"Nah. I like running. I ran track in high school & college."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I did it to stay in shape for cheerleading."

"Wait a minute! You were a cheerleader?!" I asked in disbelief.

She laughed a little and lowered her head. "Yeah, I was."

"But aren't cheerleaders...loud?" I asked, trying not to offend her.

"I can get loud when necessary," she said.

"Oh, really?" I smirked. My mind was definitely in the gutter.

"Don't be a pervert," she laughed as she hit me in the chest.

"My bad," I laughed back. "But how do you stay in shape now? Because you have really great legs."

"Thank you. All I do is run, and I do squats sometimes."

"Well that explains why your butt is so nice," I said, biting my bottom lip.

She smirked, shifting her weight to one leg. "You be checkin' me out, Kaepernick?"

She spoke with a really thick Atlanta accent that, for some reason, I've never noticed until now.

"Every chance I get." She blushed for the second time today as I lied on the bench. "Will you spot me?"

"I can try."

I started doing reps, but I lost count because I was distracted by Jalissa. Even though she was just standing there, I was still distracted by her beauty. Cheesy? I know, but it's true.

Once I finished, I put the barbell down and sat up.

"You wanna try?" I asked her.

She shook her head. "No thanks. I'm kinda afraid to use these things."

"How come?"

"Because last time I used one of these, Jasmine was with me and when I was bringing the bar down, she distracted me on purpose, and I got hit in the throat."

Her sister is terrible.

"Well, I'm not gonna let anything happen to you."

She looked at me skeptically, so I stood up and put my hands on her shoulders. "I promise."

She smiled and lied on the weight bench. I took some of the weights off, so it was at 130 pounds. She lifted it, but quickly set it back down.

"It's too light," she said. "Put more weights on."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

I put more weights on so it was at 190 pounds. She lifted it again, and set it back down.

"It's still too light."

Damn.

I put more weights on, so it was at 210 pounds. She lifted it and, once again, put it down.

"Still too light."

I decided to go up to 240 pounds, and she started her reps. She did thirty-five before setting the barbell down.

"You know that was 240, right?" I asked.

"Really?!" she asked, sitting up quickly. "I used to bench 225."

I looked at her with my mouth open slightly, confused as to how she could lift so much. "How do you bench that much? You're so tiny."

"It's a mental thing, baby."

She winked at me, then walked to the middle of the gym and lied on the floor. I think she just became ten times more attractive to me, and I didn't think that was possible.

I walked over to her and got in push up position on top of her.

"What are you doing?"

"Push ups," I said casually. "You don't mind, do you?"

"Nope."

I started my push ups and every time I went down, I would kiss her, making her giggle after the fifth time.

After I finished, I didn't feel like lifting myself back up, so I just lied on top of her. She wrapped her arms around my neck and ran her hands over my scalp, which I found very relaxing.

"Lis?"

"Huh?"

"If I weren't Logan's dad, would you have ever thought about giving me a chance?"

"Well when we first met, I was pretty smitten with you, so I would say yeah."

She kissed my forehead,and I smiled while tracing small circles on her thigh. I think I'm ready to make her my girl.