     I'm going to tell you about the first time my friends and I went the gym. It all started when my friend Crystal made me go on a diet with her.
     "I don't want to go!" I whined as Crystal tried to wake me up.
     "You have to go Kate, we're on a diet and we need to exercise as one of our main things to do," she said still shaking me and trying to get me into her great mood.
     I finally got up as soon as she left my room. The first thing I did was look in the mirror.
     "Oh gross!" I said as I saw myself. My hair was really puffy and messed up. After that, I took a shower and put my up in a ponytail. Then I joined Crystal and my other roommate Heather in the kitchen.
     "You're up finally," Heather said, "I want to get goin'.”
     "You just want to see Chris's nice butt, don't you?" I asked as I opened the fringe to get something to eat.
     "You know I do!" she answered.
     "You can't eat!" Crystal yelled stealing the muffin I was about to eat.
     "Hey, that's my breakfast!" I yelled at her.
     "We're a diet, you can't eat that," she said putting it back into the fringe.
     "Sorry," Heather said, "I should have told you."
     "I don't care, I'm hungry," I whined.
     "Here, eat this," Crystal said hand me a Nutragrain bar.
     "Yuk!" I said, "I'd rather starve."
     Crystal and Heather took their turns in the shower, while I sat in the living room watching MTV. When they were done, I was singing at the top of my lungs to Prodigy while putting on my make-up.
     "You're funny," Heather said picking up my lipstick and putting it on. "I love this color,"
     "Good," I said, "It's yours."
     "It is?"
     "Yeah, I took it last week you never noticed."
     Finally, we left to go to the gym. We stopped at Chris's house for a minute or two to pick him up. Then we were off to the gym.
     At the gym Heather and Chris snuck off to be alone. Crystal and I went to the lockers to change.
     "Why did I let you take me here?" I asked.
     "You wanted to come, remember last week?" she asked.
     "Oh yeah, never mind. So are there any cute and sexy guys here?" I asked putting on my tennis shoes.
     "Yeah," Crystal replied, "But he's mine."
     "I don't mean Richard, I meant other cute and sexy guys," I said tying my shoes.
     "Oh, well, I haven't met any," she said walking past me making my locker door bang shut.
     Crystal and I left the locker room and went into the gym. She got on the Stair Master, while I used the treadmill. I was telling Crystal a joke when these two guys across the room started laughing.
     "Crystal, did you ever hear that blond joke my cousin told me?" I asked pushing a button.
     "No, I haven't," she said pushing two or three buttons at once.
     "Then I'll tell you it," I replied, "How can tell when a blond is having a bad day?" I asked pushing another button.
     "Never mind Kate, I've heard that joke a million times before and-"
     Before Crystal could finish lecturing me, we heard a thwack and these two guys started laughing their heads off.
     "What the hell was that?" Crystal called as she turned off the Stair Master.
     The one guy with wavy blond hair said, "Stupid Darren here, just got hit in the face with the punching bag."
     "Shut up, it hurts!" the guy named Darren said rubbing his cheek.
     "Aw, is the poor baby okay," Crystal said sarcastically as she walked across the gym toward where the guys were. I stopped the treadmill and followed her.
     "And who is this?" the guy with wavy blond hair asked Crystal.
     "This is my friend Kate. Kate this is Daniel," she said introducing us.
     "Hi," I said, shyly shaking his hand.
     "Oh, just leave me out," Darren said to Crystal, still rubbing his cheek.
     "Well, Mr. Smart-ass, if you're going to be that way about it," Crystal said.
     "Just introduce us," I said.
     "She speaks!" Darren said with a giggle.
     "Well, of course," I replied, "I'm not completely stupid, like you."
     "At least you have a sense of humor unlike your friend here," he said referring to Crystal.
     "Now, that's not funny," Crystal yelled giving Darren a dirty look.
     "Don't look at me that way," Darren whined.
     "Do they always fight like this?" I asked Daniel.
     "Yeah, they do this everyday," he said, "It's like they're daily ritual."
     "Stop making fun of us!" Crystal yelled at Daniel.
     "Why, I like the face you make when you're mad," He said pinching Crystal's check.
BANG!! SWOOSH!!
     The back door to the gym flew open and two people fell to the ground. Crystal, Daniel, Darren, and I went over to see who they were. When we got there Heather was on the floor giggling her head off while Chris stood up.
     "What happened here?" Crystal asked.
     "I don't think we need to know that," Darren said and began to laugh along with Heather, who had finally stood up.
     "No, I meant, how did the door fly open like that?" Crystal asked Chris.
     "I don't know," he said, "I guess Heather must've turned the door knob."
     "I didn't," Heather said trying not to laugh.