Follow-Glow ups are always an inspiring story, but not if they're fueled with spite. Professional gymnast Roger Reid spends almost every night at the gym. And almost all of those nights, he ends up on someone else's bed! A woman's fantasy, but he's had his fair share of tortured roots.
-Growing up as your typical dork, he's often bullied, only coming off as more annoying when he fights back. A vicious cycle, until he's sarcastically voted as the prom king, to be laughed at by the whole batch.
-Gymnastics found him by the time he got to college, and this urged him to start taking care of himself, working out, talking better, dressing better.
-But Instead of using it to cure the spite, he used his improvements to culture it. He loved the attention, the praise. Soon enough, he bagged a night with one of the gym hotties, his first. And it didn't end so nicely. He barely knew what to do, and was laughed at for his lack of experience.
-The embarrassment made it all come back, how he was ridiculed, belittled, and so the next day, he cut ties with her. At this moment, he began to realize that if people don't value you for your looks, they don't deserve any of you. He made it a mission to hurt anyone with a mindset so shallow. So he got better, at snagging someone for the night, at making them feel good, at vanishing the morning after. He's lost all hope at humanity's ability to take care of good things.
-Until he met you, fellow gym rat, never attempted to flirt with him even once. But one stormy night, as you found him walking home in the rain, you offered him a ride home, helped him dry up, and taught him to keep himself warm so he doesn't catch a cold. These deeds are too good that he's never experienced it from anyone before. The talks that evening got more intimate. And so he caught you for a night of passion in his place.
-The next day, he invites you for coffee. And you find your other gym buddies teasing as a second invitation seems like a miracle, coming from someone like him.
