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frozen_haymaker (frozen_haymaker) wrote in gooseberry,
@ 2017-03-06 21:02:00

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! log, olivia sanchez

Who: Olivia Sanchez, and open
What: Entertainment during the blackout
When: Backdated to March second
Where: The school's weightroom
Warnings: Probably Pg? Or PG-13 for language?

Things had been feeling quieter than normal. Perhaps it was because Reece's post smoothed over a lot of hurt feels right before they lost their use of the journals. It might've help negate festering wounds left over by the anonymous post.

She'd be lying if she claimed to actually miss the journal system. Olivia was more of a doer. At home she wasn't obsessive about facebook, here she didn't get obsessive about the journals. To her, as a prefect, they were mostly a means to help communicate in times of immediate need. So this blackout wasn't really affecting her daily rituals. She still woke up early and exercised, and jogged and went about her day.

During a free period, she decided to go to the weight room to occupy herself. She knew she was slacking a little when it came to working out. She always did during the school year. But now that they were already in March, she could feel the summer looming over her - and she knew that she needed to be in peak condition by the time the school year ended.

Sitting toward the side of the room, Olivia went about the routine of stretching. She was only planning on using smaller instruments, so she didn't feel the need to bother somebody else to come spot her. Plus working out alone was kind of cathartic. She was gonna take the privacy when she could get it.

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magicnumber
2017-03-06 10:48 pm UTC (link)

Oh man, you like working out alone, Olivia? You like privacy? Well, uh. Sorry. Because here comes Jeffy, and Jeffy isn't quiet. In fact, when he was in the weight room with anyone else, he liked to include other people in the conversation. Or in his thought process. Like, they just needed to be engaged. He didn't want anyone being lonely, basically.

Clomping his way into the weight room during a free period, a big goofy smile on his face, he was so happy to see that there was already someone else in there. Cool! A buddy!

"Hey!" he greeted Olivia as he threw his bag down in a corner and sat down right next to her and started a conversation just right in the middle. "SO. Arm day or leg day???"

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frozen_haymaker
2017-03-07 09:31 pm UTC (link)

Olivia was aware of Jeffy's existence. He was loud, exuberant, like a puppy. A lot of the sophomores more - she didn't know if there was something in the water, but she found them all adorable. "Arm," she answered. She came here for solitude, but that didn't show. She could smile at him easily. She lifted an arm to flex impressive muscle definition for a teenage girl. "Gotta keep these guns in tip top shape. You?"

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magicnumber
2017-03-07 11:43 pm UTC (link)

Jeffy decided real quick not to say that he didn’t actually really have a plan coming into the weight room today, because he wanted Olivia to think he was cool. And that seemed like something she might think was uncool. “Dude, dude,” he said, holding up his nowhere-near-as-even-kind-of-impressive bicep, “nah, never mind. I was gonna ask for tips, but that’s gotta be fake, you got muscle implants right???”

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frozen_haymaker
2017-03-09 03:25 am UTC (link)

Olivia's smile was wide and open, showing that she clearly took his insinuations for jest rather than actual insult. "'Fraid not, my excessively tall friend." Olivia tended to dress down when she came to this room. She removed her earrings, neglected to put on make up, wore yoga pants and a tank top. Her hair was tightly braided to her head, as if she were heading into a ring where hair was more of a weakness than anything else.

"There's no tips," she added. "Just gotta keep at it, create a schedule. Eat healthy, stay hydrated. Your body does good if you got a system. Overworking and underworking it confuses it. Put crap into it and it's gonna have nothing but crap to give back. All you can do is better than you did yesterday." Which was literally Olivia's motto for life. If you do better, you can't fail. Even if you don't win, it's not a failure. You are your only competition in life.

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magicnumber
2017-03-09 01:58 pm UTC (link)

Jeffy, who definitely drank plenty of water and tried to be healthy but was also fifteen years old and sometimes ate cupcakes for breakfast, nodded along to this sage advice. Yes, be consistent, have a plan, take care of your body like you want it to last forever and not just through high school, etc., etc., all great advice that he was totally going to try to remember and not really follow at all.

“Okay, okay, that's legit. You're legit. But be real. How much can you bench?” He smiled widely, eyebrows up, like, come on, she knew that question had to be coming. “AND with both of us here, do you want a spotter???” Jeffy liked using the big machines. They seemed cool. But it was a good thing you needed a spotter to use them because Jeffy also didn’t completely 100% know what he was doing on those machines.

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	magicnumber 2017-03-07 09:24 pm UTC (link)
	rip jefferson isaias key dead from anticipation over whether it was arm or leg day (Reply to this) (Thread)

	frozen_haymaker 2017-03-07 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	NO WE ARE DOING THIS (Reply to this) (Parent)