Chapter 2:

Sleeping Giant

PSW AU: The Amazon's Dream


“Suzy,” Sarah said while knocking on Suzanna’s door. She was a young Mexican - Italian woman with bronze skin and braided plum-red hair. She stood 1.85 metres in height with a muscular cone-shaped build. She wore an orange-red letterman's jacket with beige stripes over a sleeveless black crop top and white shorts.

Sarah knocked on the door again, louder this time, "Suzy come on! You're gonna be late!"

No response. Sarah hung her head and sighed.

(Not again. Please not again.)

She slowly opened the door and walked in. Suzanna was curled up under the blanket, her thick ash brown hair obscuring her face as she slept deeply. Sarah gulped and approached a little closer to the bed before stopping,

(I’m close enough)

“Suzy?” She cupped her hands together over her mouth and spoke louder, “Suzy, wake up!”

Suzanna continued to sleep peacefully. Sarah began to shake her lightly, then harder but the big girl wouldn't so much as stir.

Sarah let out another sigh, "I swear if I couldn't hear you breathing I'd think you were dead,"

Suzanna just kept on sleeping. Sarah felt a cold sweat roll down the back of her neck and gulped before moving to the foot side and pulling off the blanket to reveal her sleeping friend’s full form. Suzanna was fairly heavyset and muscly with golden sand-coloured skin wearing a white shirt and pink boxers. She was curled up like a bear in hibernation. The feeling of the blanket being gone caused her to stir some. Sarah moved back just a little. Better to let her wake up naturally at this stage. Touching Suzanna would have been dangerous, especially since she was starting to move. The big girl reached and grasped for the blanket, groaning as she did. When she didn’t find anything to grab she slowly sat up, her hair still obscuring her face. She continued to groan and tilt her head about as Sarah approached,

“Yo, Suzy, it’s time to get dressed. Your tryout’s in two hours,”

Suzanna, face still obscured, seemed to look up at her while still groaning. Sarah frowned,

“The PSW tryout? The one you’ve been looking forward to all year?”

No response. Sarah moved her hair out of the way,

“Are you even listening to- Uh oh,”

(I touched her cheek by mistake)

Sarah jumped back when Suzanna reached forward to grab her,

“Cuddle…” She said with a deep voice,

“No! No cuddle,” Sarah said backing away to the door, “You need to wake up and get ready,”

Suzanna crawled forward and fell face-first off the bed. Sarah sighed in relief.

(That should wake her up)

She was wrong. With deep, sleepy groans Suzanna slowly rose to her full height of 2.06 meters and lumbered toward Sarah with her arms extended for a hug,

“Cuddle…”

Sarah just barely managed to avoid a crushing bear hug and shut the door. She immediately ran to the kitchen.

(That won’t hold her)

Suzanna demolished the door and followed her. Sarah grabbed a plastic jug of cold water out of the fridge, turned around and dropped it in shock. Once again she just barely managed to get away from Suzanna, who collided with the fridge and slipped on the water. Sarah saw the shattered pieces of the bedroom door and groaned.

(Oh man, the landlord's gonna kill me. He just had that door fixed.)

She took off her jacket and threw it at the big girl's face, then opened the door to their bottom-floor apartment and ran out. Suzanna, who was still fast asleep, chased after her,

"Cuddle… cuddle…"

"No! Never again!"

Sarah ran across the parking lot as fast as she could, looking back to see her sleeping roommate gaining on her. Ahead of them was the swimming pool open to all tenants at their building. With a final burst of speed, she ran to the edge, turned around and moved into a sugar foot wrestling stance.

She took one deep breath. The moment Suzanna was on top of her, Sarah ducked to the side only to be grabbed by the waistband of her shorts and pulled into a crushing embrace as they both fell into the water with a huge splash.

All went quiet.

Suddenly Suzanna came up gasping for air. She coughed up water, shook her head and blinked. She had a wide, heptagonal face with big, round, close-set eyes that were black and a wide, plump-lipped mouth. She looked around at her surroundings in confusion,

"How'd I get here? What am I- AH! The tryout!" She said, scrambling out of the pool, "I need to get ready. Why didn't Sarah wake me?"

Once she was out of the pool she noticed Sarah floating lifelessly to the top on her back. Suzanna’s eyes immediately widened in terror.

She jumped back into the water to pull Sarah out and perform CPR. Sarah coughed up water and groaned.

“Sarah, are you okay?”

Sarah opened her eyes, then narrowed them and said in a quiet, venomous voice,

“Suzanna…”

Suzanna gulped, “Uh oh,”

In a matter of seconds, the big girl found herself tapping out to an armbar,

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sooorrryyyyyy!!!!!!!”