Awkward Rejection

"That just doesn't seem like a big deal to me," Xyrus reasoned.

He was talking through the car stereo system with his cell on speaker phone. A few new investors had called, wanting to get in on his innovative designs and Akira was freaking out. She looked at all problems as bad, but some problems, like having too many people begging to give you money, was something Xy considered a good problem.

"They haven't even seen the prototypes," she reminded him.

"So, set up the meeting. Just e-mail me all the deets," Xy instructed calmly.

"Okay, I guess we can make it work," Akira relented as she always did.

"Sounds good. I'm just pulling up to the gym so I'll be offline for a bit," Xy explained before ending the call.

He had decided against his home gym in order to have an audience. Sometimes, he felt he needed to know someone was watching in order to keep from quitting, and that was usually the case when it came to lifting weights.

His personal trainer was