Catch Her By Her Scent novel Chapter 47

"Max, get off of my mate and come over here already." I yell at him very loudly so I know that he can hear me.

Max helps Jay get up from the floor and started walking over to us. Jay finally recovered from the fight and stands fully upright. Then Jay charges toward Max and tackles him to the ground. The wrestle on the ground for a while, but eventually I turn my attention back towards Diana.

"Is he always like this?" I ask.

"All of my children are like this. They hate losing and they hate admitting that they lost. I have a theory that they never really grew up." Diana tells me watching the fight with amusement.

I look at Diana and motion with my head towards them, silently asking if she would help break them up. We walk over to them and they didn't even glance in our direction. I grab Max by the arm that he threw back to punch Jay and Diana caught Jay by the ear and we pulled them apart.

"What was that for?" asked Max rubbing his arms and looking at me.

"Well you guys wouldn't stop fighting for two seconds to come and tell us what we are supposed to be doing." Diana says pinching both of them.

When they both grab their arms and cringe away from Diana I laugh. The big macho boys that were just fighting each other are afraid of Diana and her pinching. They both glare at me for laughing at them, but they deserve it.

"Seriously guys what are we supposed to be doing? Everyone else here is doing something productive and we are standing here looking like idiots because we don't know what we are doing." I said to them.

I was happy when they looked a little guilty at not paying attention to us. They then lead us over to a corner of the gym where some weights and toning equipment was. They tell us that we are going to work on building our strength before we start sparring. We both start on the bench press. They start us with just the forty five pound bar, which seems to be to light for both of us. Jay adds twenty pounds to each of them. Sixty- five is apparently enough for Diana, but it still feels to light for me.

They keep adding weights to my bar, and it seems like forever until I finally tell them that there was enough weight on it. I bench pressed for fifteen sets and then Jay and Max said it was enough. Though I think it was just because they got over the shock of how much I lifted.

"How much did I lift?" I ask them curiously.

"You lifted two hundred and seventy- five pounds." Max said astonished.

Jay walks over to Brent and they walk outside. I wonder what Brent needed help with, but then I see Max putting on more weight to the bar that Jay was about to lift. Now I know that Max linked Brent to get Jay out of here for a couple of minutes so he could mess with the weights. I rolled my eyes at Max and went to where Diana was standing watching what was happening with amused eyes.

"What is it with men and wanting to prove they are the dominant sex? And them wanting to mess with each other to prove their manliness?" I ask Diana hoping she could offer some insight.

"They want to prove that they can take care of us. I think that the pranking is to do that to in some way, but I haven't quite figured it all out yet." She said.

Izzy walks over to us and asks, "What is going on? Brent just walked out with Jay for no reason."

"Well they want to make Jay look like an idiot for not being able to lift more than me so they took him out of the room while Max adds more weight to it." I explain to her and she just nods her head and watches.

Jay finally came back into the gym with Brent on his heels. They both walked back over the weights. Jay finally lay back and lifted the bar. We all stared in shock, I know that Max added at least two twenty's to each side. He lifted it once before his arms gave out and the bar landed on his chest.