Has anyone ever had a blank look on their face when their girlfriend stuck her finger up their a**?

“Sei-kun, Sei-kun! There’s somewhere I’d like to go with you after school. Is that okay?”

As soon as classes ended, Mari came rushing over to my desk with the enthusiasm of a dog running to its owner. I paused from packing my things and looked up at her.

“Yeah, sure. Where do you want to go?”

With a bright, beaming smile, she answered.

“The gym!”

******

A few minutes later, I found myself with Mari at a fitness gym near the station.

It was a proper gym, the kind that requires a membership to use. From the way Mari said “gym,” I thought she meant a place like a sports center, but being brought to a place like this was a bit unexpected.

Feeling a bit out of place, I asked her as we approached the entrance.

“H-Hey… even if you suddenly bring me here, we can’t use the gym without a membership, right?”

A sign nearby advertised memberships starting from 8,000 yen per month. While that might be reasonable for a working adult, it was quite a bit of money for us students. I didn’t have that kind of cash on me, so I anxiously asked Mari about it. She responded with an “Oh, right!” and pulled out her wallet from her bag.

“Here you go! This one’s for you!”

With those words, she handed me a card. The card felt solid, as if it had a platinum finish. On the front, it read “Gym MUSCLE VIP Membership Card” with my name printed on it.

“…What is this?”

“It’s your gym membership card, Sei-kun! And this is mine,” Mari replied, pulling out another card and holding it up. It was identical in design to the one she had just handed me.

“W-Wait! Stop stop stop stop! Why!?”

I had no memory of registering for anything like this, and I definitely didn’t have the money for it. In a panic, I blurted out my confusion, but Mari just kept talking cheerfully.

“I wanted to go to the gym with you, so I went ahead and made the cards for us. It took about a week since it’s a VIP membership. Tehe☆”

“Tehe☆ my a**!”

I couldn’t help but shout.

“This place costs money just to go, right!? There’s no way my wallet can handle that! And VIP membership, no less!”

I couldn’t even begin to imagine how much it would cost for such a membership, and the thought made me go pale. Trying to reassure me, Mari simply said, “Don’t worry!”

“It was cheaper than I thought! The annual fee is about… 500,000 yen per person? Considering you can use it 24/7, have access to private rooms, and unlimited showers, it’s a really good deal, right?”

“That’s expensive! And I don’t have that kind of money!”

“Don’t worry, don’t worry. I’ll cover your share too,” Mari said nonchalantly.

“I make good money, after all! And we’re going to get married anyway, right? So you can just think of my money as yours!”

“I don’t have the nerves to think like that!”

“Everything of yours is yours, everything of mine is yours… right?”

“I’ve never embraced that kind of self-centered thinking!”

“Geez, you’re being so unmanly by backing out just because you hate exercising. Come on, let’s… work up a sweat together?”

“I’m scared for a completely different reason!”

“And besides, if we keep standing here talking, we’ll just be in the way of other people. If we’re going in, let’s just go in already.”

“Stop saying reasonable things all of a sudden!”

Despite my protests, Mari grabbed my arm and pulled me into the gym. When we presented our VIP membership cards at the reception, we were promptly guided to a private VIP room.

And then…

****

“……………………………………………………”

Inside a private room for VIP members.

There I was, with my lower body completely exposed, Mari’s fingers stuffed into my a**hole, and a blank look on my face.

　…Like  seriously, how the hell did it come to this?!