Gymnast Neighbor, Part 1
By Fragilistic frag902@yahoo.co.uk
A traditional story of friendship, love and broken bones


Luke sat on his front porch reading a graphic novel and trying to cheer
himself up. He was 16 years old, and his best friend, Michael, had recently
moved to another town over 200 miles away. What was he supposed to do now
during the summer recess?

As he sat there, half reading, half daydreaming, a U-Haul truck and a blue
sedan pulled up in the driveway of Michael's old house across the street. Oh
great, thought Luke, the new neighbors are here already. Well he for one
wasn't going to hang around and ... then he saw her, sitting in the back seat,
about the same age as him, flawless complexion, soft brown eyes, dark brown
shoulder length hair. He changed position on the porch to where he could get a
better look.

Mom and dad got out first, then the girl, wearing blue jeans and a pink jacket
with a logo on the back, something about gymnastics, he couldn't make out the
name clearly. They were laughing and joking as they walked up the drive and
opened the front door, then disappeared out of site. Luke's heart was pounding
so loud he thought it would explode.

"Luke, take this over to the Stevens house will you please dear?" His mum
called.

"The whose house?" Luke asked, not interested in the least, and continuing to
watch the tv.

"The Stevens, you know, the new people who moved in across the street
yesterday. It's a welcome basket, I made the jam and preserves myself."

Luke picked the basket up without hesitation and tore across the street.

"Well I never", exclaimed his mom, "must be a girl involved if I know Luke."

"Come in, come in", Mrs Stevens said warmly. "Excuse the mess, we're still
unpacking."

Luke gave her the basket. "Oh what a lovely thought, please thank your mother
for me."

"My husband is out on an errand, but you must meet Alicia, she's upstairs in
her room. Alicia dear, come down, we have a guest" she called.

There was the sound of a door opening, and then footsteps on the wooden
stairs.

Alicia came down the stairs and stepped nimbly into the room. She was taller
than he had expected, about 3 inches taller than his five foot six, so that
she looked down on him even in her bare feet. She was wearing sweat pants and
a baggy athletic top.

"Alicia, this is Luke, he lives across the road, His mother made us this
delightful basket."

Alicia extended her hand and Luke shook it. Her grip was surprisingly firm for
a girl and Luke got the feeling that she was holding back when she squeezed
his hand.

"Nice to meet you Luke", she beamed, making him feel warm and tingly all over.
She was really pretty, stunning even, and Luke was uncharacteristically lost
for words.

"Um, yeah, likewise" he mumbled.

Suddenly the summer wasn't looking like such a washout after all.

They chose a local beauty spot known as Fells Peak, a winding, lazy trek up
the mountain, which guaranteed a beautiful view on a clear day like today.
Plus it was out of season so they were almost certain to have it all to
themselves.

Alicia completed the climb first, her strong legs powering her up the
mountain. She looked back and yelled down to Luke. "Come on lazy bones, catch
up." Jeeze, she didn't even look out of breath he thought, having just climbed
steadily for the past hour and a half. Luke, by contrast, had needed to stop
on several occasions to catch his breath and collapsed gratefully on the
ground.

"I'll spread the blankets, you start unpacking the food", she said to the boy
laying prone in the soft autumnal grass.

"Yeah, sure, just give me a minute", he wheezed.

They spread two large blankets out on the grass and quickly unpacked the food
and drink they had brought. Ham and turkey sandwiches, salad, eggs, pickles,
bottled water and strawberries for desert. Both tucked in to the delicious
spread, eating ravenously.

After lunch they chatted and joked, sharing stories about their respective
childhoods. Alicia's childhood was dominated by her parents desire for her to
be a successful gymnast and she told Luke of the long hours of training she
had to put in. Luke divulged his parents obsession for him to be academically
brilliant and to have a career with a big law firm like his father. Alicia
seemed to be really unburdening herself, telling Luke things about her that
made him feel that she was really staring to trust him. After a while, he
decided the time was right to ask her.

"Alicia, there's something I've been meaning to ask you for a while, but I
don't know how you'll react", Luke started.

"Sure, anything, go ahead", she replied cheerily.

"Well, it's just that we've known each other for a few months now, and I was
wondering if, you know, maybe we could go out someplace together, like the
movies?"

"What, you mean, on a date?" Alicia asked, her tone suddenly cooler.

"Yeah, why not?" Luke suggested.

"I'll tell you why not, it's because I have to be real careful who I date,"
replied Alicia frostily. "You don't get it do you?"

"Get what? That you're a gymnast? Sure, I understand, I know it's a big part
of your life, and you have to train regularly, I can accept that."

"It's not just that. I have to be careful. You could get hurt."

"Don't worry about me, I've had relationships before, I know about splitting
up and getting hurt".

"That's not what I mean Luke. You could get physically hurt. I'm strong,
really strong, and you're, well, kinda puny to be honest," she said looking at
his skinny arms and legs.

"I've been training since the age of 5" she continued, "that's 11 years, 6
days a week for 4 hours a day. What have you been doing for the past 11 years
? Playing video games by the look of it." Luke blushed. This wasn't going the
way he had planned.

"OK, so you're an athlete, and you're strong, but you're a girl and I'm a guy,
and guys are stronger than girls," Luke said.

"Boy, do you have a lot to learn", replied Alicia. "Let me tell you something.
Most of the senior girls on the gym team have put a boy in hospital at some
time or other, either with an over enthusiastic hug or play wrestling that got
a bit too physical."

Luke looked at her to see if she was having him on. Alicia didn't smile back.

"So, maybe you're a little bit stronger than me, that's fine, I'm cool with
that. I'm not one of these macho types with a huge ego. I think it would be
great to have a girlfriend who could protect me", he joked.

"Luke, I'm deadly serious. I'm not a little bit stronger than you. I'm much
stronger than you, several times stronger in fact."

"That's just crazy talk", Luke replied.

"I'm serious, I would have to be really careful not to hurt you if we hugged
for instance. Because of my strength I can't judge pressure real well. I could
crush you accidentally. How would I explain that to your mom ?"

Luke swallowed hard. She seemed persuasive, and he was starting to have doubts
now.

"I can see you're still not convinced. Look, I'll show you", she said,
standing up.

To his surprise Alicia removed her sweater. She was wearing a white lacy bra
that struggled to contain her firm breasts. But it was her arms that Luke was
staring at. He had never seen her bare arms before, she always covered them
up. My God, they were huge. Thick and muscular, she had muscle on top of
muscle. And she wasn't even flexing. Alicia knelt down beside him and flexed
her right arm. He nearly lost it right there. A huge ridge of muscle appeared
the like of which he had never seen before, especially on a girl this young
and beautiful.

"Feel it, go on, see if you can make a dent." Luke's trembling hand reached up
and pressed the muscular peak, but he couldn't make any impression, it was
like rock.

"Told you so."

Alicia then stood up and grabbed Luke with one hand by his belt and hoisted
him into the air. She started curling him like a hand weight. "One, two,
three, four...".She counted out 20 reps and didn't even break a sweat before
lowering him gently to the ground.

"Now do you believe me?" She asked.

"Wow, that's really impressive", Luke gasped, relieved that he was no longer a
human dumbbell flying through the air.

"You're definitely strong, but you haven't proven that you're stronger than
me".

"Do you think you could do that to me?" Alicia asked.

"No, but you're taller and heavier than me so it's not a fair comparison" he
replied.

"OK then, we'll have to do this the hard way", Alicia sighed.

She squeezed her curvaceous butt out of her jeans, revealing a pair of white
panties that set Luke's heart racing. Her thighs were enormous, thick and
muscular, and her calves were almost as big around as his thighs.

"Take your top off, and your jeans" she ordered.

"No way", Luke replied. "What on earth for?"

"We're gonna wrestle, it'll be fun, you'll see."

Luke couldn't believe his ears. He had never wrestled a girl before, and
certainly not one this big.

"Come on, hurry up, or I'll take them off for you" she said, coming closer.

"Alright, alright, give me a minute."

Luke struggled out of his jeans and top, revealing his pale wiry arms and
legs, which suddenly looked very insignificant compared to the tanned muscular
arms and legs of the girl kneeling opposite him.

"Ready?" she asked.

"Wait, wait, what are the rules?" Luke asked.

"Let's see, first to three pins or submissions wins."

"OK, let's go."

Alicia and Luke circled each other on their knees, each eyeing the other
warily. They feinted and dodged, each sizing the other up. Suddenly Alicia
pounced, with lightening fast reflexes, grabbing his neck with one hand and
his crotch with the other. She lifted him high into the air, turned him over
and slammed him down on his back on to the blanket before pinning him beneath
her muscular body.

"Uffff", was all that he could manage, having just seen the blue sky briefly
flash before his eyes.

"One, two, three. First pin to me I think", Alicia gloated.

"Ready to go again?" she asked.

"Just a minute, I need to catch my breath", gasped Luke, clearly winded.

"Take as long as you like, I'm not going anywhere" Alicia replied, and then
started a very unnerving stretching routine, flexing her calves and thighs,
her biceps and triceps. Jesus, Luke thought, starting to wonder if she really
was capable of crushing the life out of him if she wanted to.

"I do hope you're going to put up more of a fight, otherwise this will be over
in no time", Alicia said sweetly, smiling at Luke's evident confusion at what
had just happened.

"Ok, I'm ready", he said. This time they stood up and faced each other in a
classic wrestlers standoff. They locked hands, and Luke tried to force
Alicia's arms down, hoping to gain a quick advantage. He found that he
couldn't move her arms at all, and he was straining as hard as he could.
Alicia slowly forced his hands down, forcing him onto his knees, as he looked
up at her in awe. When he could stand the pressure no more she leaped on top
of him, pinning him beneath her. Luked quickly tried to roll out from under
her but was pinned by one of her muscular legs.

"Uhhhh, too heavy", Luke groaned, as her right leg crushed him into the
ground. Alicia smiled as she pressed her leg down on top of him, watching him
squirm helplessly as she crushed him with just one powerful thigh.

She then placed her arms under his body and lifted him up momentarily while
she slid her left leg underneath him and then closed her legs around his chest
in a muscular vise. She locked her ankles. "Gotcha".

"Oh God, please", Luke begged, before she had even started to squeeze, the
pressure already more than he could bear.

"Sorry, was that a submission?" Alicia asked.

"Nooohhhh", Luke gagged.

Alicia squeezed gently, her massive thigh muscles flexing ever so slightly and
constricting the helpless boy held tightly between them.

"Submit, submit, I submit", screamed Luke, tears welling in his eyes as his
chest felt like it would implode.

Alicia unlifted her heavy leg off of him and helped him up. He stood shakily,
his legs like rubber.

"Are you ok?" She asked. "I wasn't sure how much pressure to apply, so I
started off gentle, but it seems that was enough."

"That was gentle?" Luke asked incredulously, nursing his tender ribs.

"Sure, I can squeeze much harder than that. Wanna try?"

"No, no thanks." Luke said hurriedly.

"Well, that's 2 to me. One more and you're out" said Alicia.

"I'm not sure I can continue", he replied, his ribs really hurting. Had she
broken something? He couldn't risk getting more seriously injured.

"Course you can. Anyway quitting isn't an option, that's what coach always
says". Alicia smiled at him.

God, she wasn't going to let him quit. Even if he wanted to. He thought about
begging, appealing to her good natured side.

"Please Alicia, we don't need to do this anymore. Let's just call the whole
thing off."

"We said three pins or submissions, and three it's going to be", Alicia
stated.

"But you've proven you're stronger than me", Luke said in a whinny self
pitying voice.

"I always knew I was stronger than you, but you wanted me to prove it to you"
Alicia replied.

"Well I'm done." Luke sat down on the blanket.

"I'll give you to the count of five to get up, or else I'll just come and get
you. One, two, three, four, five."

Luke sat defiantly on the blanket, his arms folded across his bruised chest.

Alicia stepped over to where he sat, her massive muscular legs straddling his
seated body like giant redwoods. Luke looked up and saw his doom. He put his
hands up in a vain effort to fend her off, but she brushed them aside, grabbed
him under the armpits and lifted him off his feet into the air. She wrapped
her powerful arms around him and started to bearhug him, his feet dangling
uselessly inches from the ground.

"Arrgh, please, arrgghh, it hurts", Luke sobbed.

He felt like he was in a trash compactor, such was the unyielding strength of
her arms compressing him against her firm chest. Luke finally realized how
hopelessly outclassed he was in a competition of strength against this girl.
She really could crush him and there was nothing he could do to stop her. "I
give. I give. Oh God, please stop" he wailed.

Alicia felt his ribs bending, and knew that if she squeezed any harder he
would be spending the night in hospital. It excited her to think that she
could break him with so little effort, but decided that he had learned his
lesson and lowered him gently to the floor, releasing him from her steel grip.
She kissed him lightly on the forehead. "Three to me I believe".

Luke backed away from her. "Stay away from me, you hear, you're crazy."

"No, I'm not crazy, just a lot stronger than you, wimp." She replied, pulling
on her sweater and jeans.

She packed up her things and strode off, leaving a dazed and confused Luke to
wonder how things had gone so badly wrong. His supposedly ideal afternoon had
nearly ended with him having his ribs pulverized by the girl of his dreams.

Worse than this even, what was he going to tell the guys at school tomorrow?
He had made the mistake of letting some of them know that he was going to ask
Alicia out on a date. How could he be so stupid. Now he would look like an
dork in front of his friends. He would have to think of something, and fast.

To be continued ...