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And then she leaned up and whispered in my ear, “Guilty.”
I wouldn’t survive this last game or the finals if we made it.
“Now!” Max rubbed his hands together. “I’m sure you’ve noticed the monkey bars ahead of you, we’re currently in the company gym. Physical competence is also very important at Emory Hotels, you will take turns hanging from the bar, when you drop your partner will pick up the slack, much like they should in the office. You must each hang a total of three minutes combined, and each person may only do a max of thirty seconds to keep it fair.”
Bri elbowed me. “I’m good at this, are you good at this?”
“It’s a sport, I was born to be good at this.”
She eyed me from head to toe. I was wearing black joggers and a black Nike shirt, she matched except for the purple sweatshirt and white Nike hat with her dark hair tucked underneath. “You’re big.”
“Aw, thank you—“
“—not that.” She smacked me. “I mean, you have bigger body mass, so it’s going to be harder for you to hang even though you’re very, very”—she gulped—“fit.”
“Say very again.”
“One day I’m going to put tape over your mouth.”
“Oooo role play, I like it” I held up my hand for a high five and dropped it when she flipped me off. “We’ll be fine, Bri.”
“Okay.”
“Yup.”
“Totally fine.”
“I won’t let you down.”
Ten minutes later…
“I’m TRYING!” I yelled. “But I keep slipping!”
“It’s been ten seconds!” she yelled. “And we’re losing because you keep dropping! I told you that you were too big!
“Most guys want to be big, Bri!”
“Okay, drop, I’ll do thirty more.”
“No! I need to carry this weight.”
“No.” She glared, hands on hips. “You need to share the weight.”
We both went silent.
It was our relationship in a nutshell.
Sharing the weight, the emotions, the heaviness.
Tears filled her eyes. “Now, let me do my part.”
I dropped immediately.
Not because I had to, but because she wanted to, and this was more than hanging from the monkey bars.
So I hung for ten seconds each time and I let her carry the load and realized in that moment that she’d always wanted to carry something, she wanted to feel needed in our relationship and stupidly I thought all she needed was me.
We won.
