Jane was an exercising nutcase, she did it every day of the year. Not that she was a gym nut or a runner, but instead she was an indoor exercise video enthusiast. Not to say that it didn’t work, Jane had a body any beach goer would be proud of. It was more that if you wanted to hang out with Jane you would have to wait for her to finish her routines before she was free. That is where Verra found herself today, lounging on a couch, staring at an upside down television while her friend followed along to a video hosted by way too happy people. Today was indoor trampoline exercises, not that Verra was observing anymore, long since bored of the video and instead she was simply zoned out with only the sound of squeaky trampoline springs to tell her what was going on.
CLUNK
The sound, surprisingly different, stood out to Verra as she glanced over to her friend who was now standing through the trampoline.
“Smooth” Verra called out. Not that Jane responded, as she started to slowly pick her feet out of the hard fabric surface of the damaged exercise gear. “Need help with that?”
“Maybe” her friend responded. Verra spun over on the couch and righted herself before making her way over to her friend. It was sorta funny the state she was in. Her feet had punched two perfect holes in the material, allowing them to be swallowed up by the device. Her giggling was clearly audible to her friend, who just looked at her annoyed. “Any time now Verra” she was starting to get impatient.
“Yeah, yeah. Don’t have to be so anal, you know” Verra braced her trapped friend with an arm, using a foot to help free her friend’s feet from the trampoline. A few minutes later, and a few near tumbles, Jane was free. “There, all good. Now that your trampolines broken you wanna go?”
“I think I have ten minutes left, mind helping with something.”
“Yeah sure, whatever.”
“Thanks Verra, it will only be 10 more minutes” Jane answered, but something in her voice made Verra start to pay attention, she had looked away for only a few moments, distracted by the box art of the exercise DVD, but what she turned around her friend was posed there, holding up a BOSU ball with the flat side facing her.
“Wait Jane, what are you planning..” was all she could spurt out before Thump the bottom om the device cracked over Verra’s head, smashing her into the floor. A colorful array of colors and shapes danced across her vision that were slowly twisted left and right as Jane ground the BOSU ball hard into the crushed girls body, flattening her further. “Glehhh” the sound rushed out of Verra from the force of the crushing.
“There, now you can help me finish my exercises” Jane talked as she lifted the ball off of Verra, leaving a flattened, and also a little smudged, disk of a girl no wider than a few milimeters. Jane peeled her flattened friend off of the floor with a satisfying slop before bringing her over to the damaged trampolie. Verra didn’t really seem to notice as her friend set her down, disoriented as she was from the impact, but she started to regain her composure as Jane came back into view. Under one are she had a box the jingled as she moved. In the other as very silver, somewhat industrial looking grommet puncher.
“I glad you wanted to help” stated Jane as she removed the damaged material from the trampoline frame, having to force the springs hard to get them to release the fabric. “I know it is such a burden having to wait me to finish my exercises” she slid Verra under the frame so she was position directly center in the frame. “But thanks to you we can work out together, isn’t that nice!” she loaded a grommet into the gun and positioned it over the edge of Verra’s body.
CRACK
A shot of pain fluttered through Verra, as if she had just gotten the world most intense piercing. “Oww” she thought to herself. Jane fed a spring through the new reinforced hole before moving over to Verra’s other edge. Another grommet was loaded into the gun.
Crack
“Oww”
The second hole was pierced. Jane went to put the spring through the hoe, but it can up short.
“Well Verra, it looks like your too small to be my trampoline. If only there was some way to make you fit” she feigned stupidity. Verra knew full well what her friend was about to do as one hand wrapped firmly around her side and another around the frame of the trampoline. With a heave she was ssssttrreetched strait to the edge, squeaking sounds from the stress emanating from her rubbery form. Jane quickly looped the spring through the grommet, giving Verra a little slack before the spring took over the duty of keeping her taunt. The process repeated
Load, CRACK, “Oww”, Squeak, load, CRACK, “Oww”, Squeak
Twelve more times, until there were sixteen equally spaced holes around the perimeter of Verra. The springs were all latched on, pulling the poor girl so taunt and flat you wouldn’t be able to detect and slack. “Say Verra? You know when I said it would be another ten minutes right? Well, all this work has made me cool right down, you don’t mind if I start again from the beginning right?” she asked her friend. Verra could only grumble in her head, annoyed at the insincere tone her friends voice carried. “You don’t mind! Why thank you Verra. Let me just reset the video her and perfect. Lets get started them.”
Jane stepped onto her friend, now just a funnily drawn shape on her trampoline. She made sure to position her feet over her friends nose just to really bug her. The new fabric held her weight well, barely bending like any good trampoline fabric should. Not that was the real test, as the video took off into a variety of exercises, sending Jane up and down onto her slowly trampled friend. But that was not the worst of it, as Jane started to build up a heavy sweat from the exertion. Now a normal trampoline would of just let the sweat pass through, but not this one. Every drop soaked into the flattened Verra, soaking her so thoroughly in sweat it slowly began to seep out her other side.
“And we are done”. The video announcer stated after the hour was up, leaving Jane a sweaty, gasping, worn out girl sitting on her friends face.
“Well that was fun” she commented to herself, unaware anymore of her friends presence. That was until a particular smell hit her nose. “EEW, is that me” Jane sniffed around. “No… not me...” she sniffed the trampoline. “Oah, Verra you reek. And your… really, really sweaty. Let me just fix that” Jane pulled a can of air freshener off the shelf and gave her friend a strong spray of it, killing most of the smell but leaving Verra just damp. For what little movement Verra had she was now giving her friend the stink eye. “Well I am going to need a shower, be right back.”
“Well this has been… interesting” Verra thought to herself as she just sat there suspended on the trampoline frame. Jane was right, she was soaked, and all she could do was sit there, waiting as she felt her friends sweat slowly drip off of her into a pool on the floor.
--Hour later--
Jane, finally refreshed from a long bath was making her way down the stairs only to pass by her mother from the basement, dressed head to toe in workout gear.
“Oh hey sweetie! Bathroom all free?” her mother asked.
“Um, yeah all free” Jane replied, a question forming in the back of her head but she just couldn’t find the perfect way to word it.
“Great. See you later.” her mom replied as she continued up the stairs. “Oh by the way, really cute trampoline you bought.”
“Thanks...” Jane replied, slight concerned now with how she was going to find her friend. Down the stairs she went, not even pausing as she went strait to her friend. There Verra was, position back in front of the tv with another exercise video credits playing. “Oh Verra, I’m sorry. I didn’t realize my mom would come down” she dropped to her kneed and immediately began pulling the spring of of her. Next she popped the grommets off before she was finally able to shake, not so gently, her friend back to shape..
“Well” Verra said, exasperated, “that was… something”. She was drenched head to to in sweat, with the ends of her hair letting little droplets fall ever so often. “Do you happen to have a towel maybe?” she asked, innocently.
“Yeah there right over here” Jane immediately turned around and went over to a rack with some towels on it. She grabbed one immediately and turned back to her friend. “Look I’m sorry again. With me it was just a game, but my mom… I shouldn’t have turned around, should I?” there, it the exact same position Verra had been before this mess was the named girl herself, standing over her friend, BOSU ball in hand. “Oh no you should not have” Verra responded with a deep grin.
THUMP
“Well you were right Jane, I really should start doing these things. Lets start right now, okay?”