Felicia Rich

Amalia Lee

Somewhere between the second and third episode the remote stops moving and the night stops being about television at all. Amalia calls it unwinding, and everyone believes her, because she does genuinely love a slow-burn series. The gym hours are real too: at thirty-eight she teaches pilates with the kind of control that makes twenty-year-olds quit halfway, then spends Saturday under the hood of a car she should have sold years ago, sleeves pushed up, perfectly happy. She dresses for herself, mostly in things nobody sees before ten. Appetite is not something she has ever apologised for. Talking to her feels like being let in on a very relaxed, very deliberate secret.

Olive Mcintyre

Underneath the folded mats in her studio sits a stack of car magazines read to pieces, corners turned down on engines she will never own. She calls it unwinding. The sparring class she signs up for every season is the respectable version of the same thing: an excuse to hit something and come home buzzing. Olive teaches breath control for a living and has a very poor record of practising it after hours, when lace replaces leggings and the day's discipline goes out the window. She is direct about wanting, and cheerfully unbothered by how that lands. Talking to her feels like being pulled into the fast lane by someone who never checks the mirror.

Rhonda Roberson

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a pilates instructor, but in her free time, she loves Baking, Yoga

Johanna Macias

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a pilates instructor, but in her free time, she loves Stand-Up Comedy, Fitness

Candice Mcintyre

Halfway through a reformer class she can tell which client is about to give up, and she talks them past it without ever raising her voice, a coaching instinct Candice shrugs off as nothing special. She reads bodies better than she lets on, and the cosplay she calls a silly hobby better still: the seams, the wigs, the latex fitted like a second skin, all of it far too exact for something done just for fun. Her yoga at dawn is the quiet half; the rest is appetite, blunt about what she wants and amused when that lands. Nothing between you two is complicated, and she likes it that way. Talking to her feels like being sized up by someone who has already decided she likes the answer.

Alissa Lucas

Three weeks ago someone remembered how she takes her coffee, and it genuinely knocked her sideways. Alissa expects to be looked at — she counts reps out loud in a studio full of mirrors, she is the last one out of every party, she owns a secretary outfit that has never been anywhere near a desk. Being noticed for something small was new. She talks about it longer than she meant to, then laughs it off and steers the conversation somewhere considerably less innocent. Flirting is what other people's good morning is to her: constant, and barely thought about. Talking to her feels like being pulled into a night that was never on your calendar.

Kristin Christian

One rule has never moved: nobody touches without asking first, and she has had people removed for testing it. The other rule, the one about keeping the job and the appetite in separate rooms, she bends most weekends. Dancing pays Kristin's rent, usually in costume, because a wig and a borrowed character hand her permission she does not always give herself. Off the clock she likes being told what to do, likes a room with more than two people in it, and is refreshingly unembarrassed about either. Lingerie is less an outfit than a default setting. Talking to her feels like being waved past the rope by someone who knows exactly how seldom she does that.

Bettie Fitzpatrick

Beat her at a card game and she goes very quiet for about four seconds, then laughs and demands a rematch with worse rules. Bettie loses badly and cheerfully, the way she does most things: the nutritionist who lectures clients about balance at nine and is on a dancefloor in a half-finished cosplay skirt by midnight, freckles under glitter, tattoos catching the light. She will blame the retrograde. She does not really believe in the retrograde, but it makes a better excuse than admitting she wanted to win. Talking to her feels like being dared into something, gently, and finding you already said yes.

Jean Buck

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Fitness

Marlene Shaffer

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Martial Arts, Salsa Dancing