He just sat there at first. Watching the Coach with his Team working out on the mat. For over a week

He just sat there at first. Watching the Coach with his Team working out on the mat. For over a week that was all he did. He’s come in after work, watch and smoke his cigar.

At first the Jocks didn’t pay him any mind, Jock’s love being watched after all, but then some of the Jocks started giving him second, and third looks. That’s when Coach went up to and talking with him. They’d talked before, they’d even worked together in their past, so it was more to show the Jocks it was okay more then anything else.

Which was all they needed. the next week most of the Team was going up and saying hello and sitting and trying to chat with him during their breaks. After another couple of weeks it slowed down and he was just another guy on the bleachers again. But not for everyone. One Jock kept going up to him and talking. Getting to know the man and let himself be know in turn.

At the end of the spring when they walked out of the gym for the last time that year the Jock stayed by his side.