The Gathering 01.31 – Untouchable

            Sam
pounded the punching bag, her hands a fury as she jabbed and swiped at the
bag.  She was in the gym of the country
club working up a sweat.  Her muscles
screamed for her to stop but she didn’t, pushing herself to her limits and then
pushing more. 

            There was hard rock
playing on the speakers of the gym and she slammed her fist in the bag with
each hard pounding beat.  She wiped away
the sweat and grabbed her bottle of water. 
Taking a slow drink as she calmed her beating heart.

            “I never thought I’d
say this, but holy ***** you can smack that bag girl.”  Dana
said, walking up to Sam, smiling and Sam
nodded. 

            “Good way to exercise
the demons.” 

            “Why would you want
them to get exercise?”  Sam
was about to say something, but then shook her head, thinking that was just
typical Dana banter.  Sam stepped
back and began kicking the bag, her foot snapping hard into the plastic as the
bag swung.

            “I’d hold it but I
don’t want to get hurt.”  Dana
laughed sitting on the floor and watching Sam
from a distance.  She admired the doctor
just a bit she reveled in her life and loved it fully.

            “So are you going to
work out, or just watch me?”  Sam
asked not having really gotten to know Dana all
that well, but if Alice
loved her she was ok in Sam‘s book.  DanaDana
had spent her life in the closet, while Sam had
been born out of it. just had
a different outlook on life than she did

            “I’m going to watch
you.” Dana said, Sam
shrugged and went back to work, ignoring Dana
for the time being.  She bopped her head
to the thumping music as she kicked the bag in a rhythmic motion.  “I played tennis with your dead girlfriend’s
twin the other day.”  Dana
blurted, Sam froze in mid kick.  The wind was knocked out of her.

            “What?”  Sam
asked, she hadn’t been in the loop about anything, and she hadn’t known that
Jayden was hanging around with her friends. 
The last week had been a blur; she and Shane
had been immersed into each other. 
Seeing Bette and Tina
the day before had been the first time they’d seen anyone of the group for
almost 7 days.  Shane
had gotten a ‘doctors’ note and had stayed in bed most of the week, playing
doctor.