"So...it seems I was ready, huh?" Bianca asks a worn-out Becky who laid out on the gym floor.

After the two had departed from the hotel, they bicker nearly the entire way to the gym. Desperately trying to one-up each other in anything that they could.

Once they arrived, they did the same thing. This time, with far less words.

"Hey, that—that wasn't shit!" Becky exclaims, panting with her eyes squeezed shut.

If it wasn't shit, it was surely something.

"No? It wasn't? Then what's this?" Bianca leans over and slaps her leg a few times, "do these work still?"

Letting out a yelp of pain each time, Becky moves her legs away from her with a grunt of frustration.

Besides the fact that she was extremely sore right now, such contact from Bianca was sure to make her nervous.

"It wasn't my idea to go outside and add things in the blazing heat! You completely messed up my routine!" Becky covers her face with her hands as she muffled out a whine behind them.

"Aww, poor you! You shouldn't have accepted my challenge if it was gonna be too hard" Bianca assured her with a fake showing of sympathy.

"It wasn't! Nothing's too hard for me. I just have to let you know how stupid your idea was!" Becky removes her hands from her face and plants them to the ground so she can sit up with great effort. Giving Bianca a sharp stare as Bianca gave her an amused one back, the standing woman can only laugh at the expression she showed.

"Whatever you say, Becky. If you want some more, come talk to me. You know, since it was so easy for you" Bianca turned around to take a drink of water and catch her own breath—which was in a much more stable condition.

Becky pouts her lips out and looked all around the gym to focus on anything but Bianca and her stupid, pretty face.

It was an early morning at the gym still. Nothing out of the ordinary and not too many people occupied it to her thrill.

Becky was already 'embarrassed' by Bianca one-upping her and her lungs were so blown up it appeared she was huffing and puffing like the big bad wolf, so—the fewer people, the better.

"Beck'! Oh, Becky, Becky, Becky!" Suddenly she hears a voice calling her name.

Looking around her with alert eyes, she recognizes the voice instantly and knows they're about to make this experience so much worse for her.

Not looking behind her and unable to ignore the footsteps that stopped quite close to her back, Becky speaks.

"What do you want, Seth?" she huffs out to him.

Not moving from her spot, she instead closes her eyes in defeat of not being able to ignore him. Silently praying he wasn't about to embarrass her in front of her very obvious crush, she allows him to go on.

"Me? Do I ever want anything from you?" Seth is visibly offended by this accusation.

"Even if you don't, you take something away" she murmurs.

"You're so dramatic. I don't take anything but your—"

"Time. You waste it" Becky interrupts.

"No. Stupidity. You should be thanking me, I make you so much smarter every time I come across you! How would that be wasting your time?" Seth boasts.

"I don't like liars, Seth" she speaks to him plainly.

"I'm not one, lucky for you" her tone doesn't faze him as he continues in his brash manner.

"What do you waaant?" She complains once again to him. His common persistence and her common fear of embarrassment were not a good mix as Becky would have preferred the conversation been over about 13.5 sentences ago.

"Nothing! I said that already" Seth's smug look and small pause state otherwise, "I just wanted to chat with you and your best, best friend, Bianca Belair"

"Don't say that" Bianca returns to the scene with an interruption.

"What she said" Becky agrees with her quickly but doesn't look up at her. Her presence was a touch startling and unexpected, and she was sure that if she looked up, a fluster would appear seemingly out of thin air.

"Oh, really? It seems true though. Look at you two. Being chummy" Seth makes a big smile, more so towards Becky's way who'd much rather be sinking into the floor.

"Not a chance. I'll have you know, I just kicked her ass" Bianca points her thumb down to Becky with a raise of her eyebrows and a serene expression.

"What else is new?" Seth remarks, getting a snicker from Bianca and sudden attention from Becky.

"Ok, that's enough!" Becky grimaces under her breath as she stood up from where she sat, having enough of the two's shenanigans.

She didn't mind the teasing from Bianca—any attention from her was great—but she couldn't take the tagging along from her, quite annoying, friend either.

Besides, if she had to keep this act up, she had to play it like she was truly bothered. Which was half true after all.

"Can't handle the truth?" Seth speaks once again, watching Becky move as if she was no longer completely winded.

"Of course I can! I only just said I hate liars, and now I have two of them spewing lies right into my face! I'm not gonna stand around for that!" the exaggerating gestures Becky makes with her hands directed to her face makes Bianca snicker at her in a pleased way.

"Wow, you want me to feel so bad" Bianca teases her once again before adding fuel to the fire.

"If you're not gonna stand around for this, I was thinking of a great idea to not be finished with this workout since you found it to, 'not be shit'. Remember?", quoting this with her fingers, Bianca shoots Becky a smile, "I suggest you get your high and mighty ass right on back over there"

"What?? But, I didn't have any more to do!" Complaining once again, Becky looks at Bianca with slightly wide eyes.

"You don't, but I have more. So we have more. We're in this together, right? Let's go." With this, Bianca walks away, leaving Becky's expression to be toward nothing.

"And she bosses you around? Such a friend" Seth's scoff is an humorous one as the both of them watch her walk off.

"Oh, stop it! She isn't my friend" Becky waves one of her hands beside her head as she turned her attention to look at Seth.

"Just cause you don't want her to be, doesn't mean she isn't" he reminds her with a finger point of his own.

"I don't want or need her to be anything to me, thank you very much" she corrects him while looking away once more, squinting to try and see what Bianca had up her sleeve next.

"It's okay. You can say you wanna be her girlfriend instead"

Becky only shuts her eyes. How was she able to cover the blush that spread around her face at the thought of her and Bianca dating? She couldn't, and now Seth could tell how obvious it really was.

"Holy shit, you're bad at covering things up. I hope you know that" he pats her shoulder, "good luck!" he encourages her before walking off.

Becky could only stand there in surprise before gaining some sense and opening her eyes. Picking up the bottle of water she had, she pressed it against her face to somewhat dampen the blush that she knew wouldn't leave within seconds.

"Becky!" She hears Bianca call.

Turning around to spot her where they confided in their training before, she calls out again.

"Come on, hurry up!"
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"You're so dramatic. That wasn't even all that bad" Bianca had her arms crossed as she stood over Becky on the floor with a shake of her head.

Becky couldn't lie if she wanted to about Bianca being a beast in the gym. Everybody knew that.

This one morning was all the confirmation Becky needed to know that as well. All that said, she liked her fair share of a challenge too.

So she was going to give her one of her own.

"No! This was so—" Becky stares at the ceiling with wide eyes at how blown up she actually was, which was far more than the first time.

"E-easy!"

"You really think so? So, you wanna do even more, right?" Bianca questions her.

"No!" Becky's response was frantic and quicker than the rest as she sat up from the floor, grimacing at her vision that seemed blurred for a moment from the fast movement.

"Tch. Yeah, okay" Bianca rolls her eyes with a chuckle, brushing her hands off.

"I mean" Becky crosses her arms over her chest, "no, no thank you. A champion...like myself doesn't need....much more..chiseling!"

Clearing her throat and purposefully flexing her arms, Becky flaunts to her. As tired as she was, the action didn't seem as flattering as it could've been while she panted and paused through her words quite heavily.

"Oh, right, right" Bianca could at the very least pretend to not be flattered at the action as she once again rolls her eyes back.

Becky was quite insufferable most times, but the physique was impressive. Bianca could admit that. To herself, of course.

Shaking her head at her own thoughts, she's ready to clear out.

Pleased with how the events played out, Bianca got her things together to go along with her busy schedule that she was yet to touch.

"Woah, woah," Becky notices her getting ready to go and raises her hand, "where is ya goin'?" She questions, a mischievous look appearing on her face all of a sudden.

"Anywhere but here, Becky" Bianca calmly replies. She was in a good mood after showing her up so many times in one day and she didn't want that to go sour.

"Huh" Becky peels her eyes away from her, examining the motivational quoted and trophy-plastered walls as she asked, "you're not gonna..thank me?"

"Thank you? What do I have to thank you for?" now Bianca turns her attention towards her with her hands properly folded in front of her.

"Giving you the show of your life?" Becky teases another flex of the arm, "giving you such a big ego boost?" she smirks just a little bit her way.

Bianca only chuckles at her, ready to dismiss all interaction with her before she got frustrated. Now that she had got her breath back, she knew this could go any which way she wanted, and Bianca wasn't one to want that.

"No. No, I won't thank you for that"

"C'mon, now" Becky's smirk stays as she tips her head to the side with a small squint of the eyes.

"What about giving you such a good workout? I know that same little ego there loved adding all those extra things" her eyelashes bat knowingly at Bianca.

With the smallest sigh under her breath, Bianca slowly claps her hands as she—begrudgingly—couldn't deny that. "Many thanks. Finished?"

"Mm-Mm. Me and you, are gonna be doing a lot of things together, Binky" Becky, making sure she can stand straight, rises from the floor with the same expression of mischief as she walked closer to her.

"Now your legs work?" Bianca raises her chin as she got closer. Again like earlier in the morning, very close.

"Very fine, yeah" Becky's smirk shifts to a smile, "since we're gonna be doing so much together, we have to get to know each other very well, right?" her eyes look Bianca up and down as she spoke to her.

"I'm not sure if that's something I'd wanna do with you" Bianca cautiously eyes her too, noticing her movements enough to be skeptical, "I think this was already enough."

"Oh, but you wanna make magic right? You wanna show the world what you really have? Then that's a sacrifice you must make. We're in this together. Aren't we?"

Bianca doesn't get the chance to say anything back as Becky looked away from her quicker than she expected and the next thing she knew she was gone.

Stuck with little to no information about a single thing she implied, Bianca's now left to wonder.

She wasn't upset in the slightest as she suspected at this proposal though—if anything, she was eager to see what she meant.

A feeling she didn't experience much about Becky. Unless it was getting the green light to beat her at something.

After all, challenges were her thing. Guess it's time she play the waiting game.