On the day after Christmas, Mom and Frank get together with some friends of theirs and Mark spends the day with his family. Will has to go back to work, so I have Sienna all to myself. Sienna is a huge fitness buff. She’s thin and is extremely disciplined about what she eats. In her line of work, it’s important to look good. She’s dedicated to working out, and she asks me if I’ll join her at the 24-Hour Fitness gym, so I do. I’ve been a member of the gym for years. It only costs me fourteen dollars a month, but since I work out so infrequently, I figure this one trip to the gym is costing me about three hundred bucks or so. We exercise for about an hour, and it feels good, but I know my out-of-shape muscles will punish me tomorrow. After our workout, we go into the Jacuzzi. I pray the healing waters will stave off the worst of the soreness that is sure to hit me. We have the Jacuzzi to ourselves. “Are you dieting?” Sienna asks me as we ooze into the hot bubbles up to our shoulders, the tips of our hair getting wet.
