Chapter 12: CHAPTER ELEVEN - London

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CHAPTER ELEVEN - London

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Pau and Hector landed at 5pm. In the evening we walked around the city. "So?" Hector asked me when we were walking side by side, Pau and Nat talking behind us. "So? So what?" "Talk to me" "talk to you? about what?" "just anything" "just anything?" "are you deaf or am I mumbling? yes, anything." "did you see the milan game?" "oh no football" "what? why?" "we always talk about football" "yeah but I don't have anything going on in my life except for football" "you go to university. What goes on there?" "well we just started learning about enzyme activity in one lab. It's extremely interesting" "you are such a nerd" "You asked!" "okay different question. Christmas?" "mh. Well I'm really excited to see all my siblings but I'm also trying to enjoy the quiet I have here. You can be glad you're an only child" "nah. I'd love you have a sibling" "Try having six" "You don't appreciate it enough. I love my family and my parents but having someone to gossip with at Christmas and all that? Would be really cool I think" "It can be cool, but the overprotection and even worse the curiosity about everything not cool. There's also that they know everything somehow and they go around and tell everything. The absolute worst part is the snitching to your parents" "Do they actually do that?" "only Laura and Theo, but they are five so they don't know like anything super bad. The others know better than to snitch" "five year olds can snitch?" "yeah. Lukas and Fiona are lucky that my parents are not the kind of parents who ground their children" "What do Laura and Theo even know?" "Theo told my dad that Lukas snuck out last week" "seriously? 15 year olds sneak out? where to?" "party" "what?" "yeah. Life of a teenager in Berlin" "we didn't do that with 15, right?" "well drinking? we couldn't. Football was too high of a priority" "fair. But we did use to sneak out to be fair" "to go on walks and stuff" "It was still nice when we did" "Yeah"

"So what did you two talk about?" Nat asked. "Why do you always ask that? What do you and Marc talk about?" "So you're comparing the conversations that I have with my future husband to the conversations you and him have? Interesting" "Future husband?" "I'm being realistic. Anyway tell me more" "Well we talked it was nice" "When you two talked in Dortmund I had to hear about it for almost 3 hours" "You wanted to hear about it" "Still" "Well this time he didn't whip away my mascara, he didn't whisper

in my ear. He just looked me in my eyes every once in a while and when he did he just had this look on his face. You know I looked in his eyes and everything felt alright like I was safe and nothing could go wrong ever. You know I felt like my heart was beating really fast. You'd been probably be able to see it beat" "Please for the love of god let me talk to Marc. He'll just talk to Hector find out how he feels about you" "I won't let you talk to him"

It was night, just after midnight and we were waiting on Marc to return after his game. I put my head back and so did Hector who was sitting next to me. He looked at me and when I realised I looked and him too. He smiled at me. HE SMILED AT ME. I snapped his head to the other side. "What was that for?" he whispered. 'insufferable' I mouthed. I got up and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. "Why am I insufferable now?" Hector asked and I turned to him. "You keep asking that" "you keep telling me" "maybe you're just annoying" he moved closer to me. "You don't think I'm annoying" "ah because you can read my mind" "Yeah obviously I can. 'Oh he looks so good in this light with that perfect face" well he can read my thoughts perfectly. I rolled my eyes. "Fine face" I said before looking to the side. I looked back and now his face was only a couple centimetres away from mine. I could hear my heart beat. We kept intense eye contact while occasionally glancing down at the other's lips. He moved a little closer with his face when we heard the door open. "Marc's here" I said quietly. "yeah, of course he is" he mumbled and walked out of the kitchen.

"I'm not sleeping on the couch another night." I announced at breakfast. "why? You need your beauty sleep that bad?" Pau asked. "yes. you two can sort out who sleeps on the couch tonight" I said to Hector and Pau. "Rock, paper, scissors?" Hector asked and Pau nodded. Now one thing about Pau is he always choses Rock first. So Hector had it easy and chose paper. "good luck sleeping on the couch" "thanks" so sleeping with Hector in one bed. Right. Great. I can do that. Hector and I looked at each other. "und?" Marc asked me. "was?" "wann passiert da endlich mal was?" "wo?" "zwischen dir und ihm" "hat dir Nat was erzählt? ich hab ihr das alles im Vertrauen erzählt." "was? sie hat mir nichts erzählt. Ist da was?" "Ja. Nein. Fast." "ihr beide müsst euch mal zusammen reißen. Ihr passt so gut zusammen" I was speechless. "keine worte mehr?" "halt deine fresse. Ich- ehm-" he started laughing at me, "fresse" "du magst ihn" "du sagst das niemanden." "meine lippen sind verschlossen." "besser ist es"

("and?" Marc asked me "what?" "when is something finally going to happen there?" "where?" "between you and him" "did Nat tell you something? I told her that in confidence" "what? she didn't tell me anything. Is there something?" "yes. no. almost." "you two have to pull yourselves together. You two would make a great couple" I was speechless. "no words anymore?" "shut your mouth. I- uhm-" he started laughing at me "shut up" "you like him" "you aren't going to tell anyone" "my lips are sealed" "better be")

"okay, Nat, I know you're like really excited for your upcoming season. F1 and all. Stepping into your dad's footsteps. Very exciting stuff, but are you not like a bit scared F1 being a male sport and all? Like every F1 driver ever has been male." Pau asked. "Well I like the question" "Isn't it lowkey sexist to ask that?" "No, babe. Not really. Anyway to answer your question, Pau. There have actually been women in F1, not for a full season, but there have been. There have been a lot of comments and articles and all that criticising the fact that a woman is joining F1, but I'm not scared. I'm going to get judged and watched more than Lewis or Charles or whoever, but it just gives me more reason to prove my place" "great answer" "Has there ever been a woman in men's football?" "I think there were talks about it once or twice but no." "Yeah the women play a little different. Mostly slower play, but less faking and all that." I said. "You'd be fast enough to compete with us, me especially." Hector told me. "Yeah if there is going to be a woman in mens football it's our Elisa here" Pau said. "Well funny thing about that. That might actually happen" they all had a confused look. "what?" "well kompany came to talk to me last week and asked if I'd ever be interested in playing with the men's. I told him yes. Now there are talks with like Fifa, Dfb, Uefa all that to see if that's possible. If they can make it happen I'd start for the second half of the season." "Seriously?" "yeah. Would I lie to you?" "yeah" they all said. "but you are serious?" "yeah" "so if we play Bayern in the champions league again, we'd play against you?" "if we crush them, hector" "You'd be playing against me, yes" "and how is it looking? does it seem possible?" "Well kompany told me yesterday that it seems possible, but nothings certain yet. He's going to tell me for sure till January second latest"

"so I kind of hope we play bayern again now" Hector told me when we were out again in the evening. "Well considering you'd play against me, Bayern would win" "I don't know about that" "I scored against Barcelona on my debut" "that was the womens team" "yeah exactly. They are better than you" "oh shut up" "come on! it's true" "I guess it is. Still we beat Bayern just 2 months ago" "In German we'd call it 'Heimvorteil'" "what does that mean?" "well Heim is home and vorteil is advantage. So home advantage" "You can say that in english too" "I like german words better" "Okay. Teach me" "what?" "A couple of your favourite german words" "Mh. Fernweh" "Fernweh" he repeated in a thick accent, "yeah, Fernweh" I said softly. "what does it mean?" "it's like a longing to go somewhere that isn't where you live. There's no word for it in English or Spanish" "Fernweh. What else?" "geisteskrank" "what does that mean?" "well krank is ill translated, but we use it differently sometimes. Like in english when you say 'that's crazy', we say 'das ist krank' or 'krass', but sometimes krank. Geist is ghost. So literally translated it means ghostly ill, but we use it when something is really crazy." "Geisteskrank" he said again with a very thick accent which was really cute. "yeah." "so Fernweh and geisteskrank. What else?" "oh something that doesn't exist in like basically any other language is doch" "doch?" he asked but making the ch sound like a k which again is cute. "doch. It's like when you have a different opinion of something and someone says no it's not like that, instead of saying yes you say doch. Or when someone asks you a negatively formed question you say doch if it's incorrect" "I think I understand. Sounds like a useful word" "Very much so"

I was already lying in bed in the guest room. Hector was in the bathroom brushing his teeth, door open. He was wearing grey sweatpants and a tight-ish black shirt. The shirt wasn't tight enough to make out his chest muscles but his biceps filled out the sleeves easily. When he splashed water in his face I realised I couldn't stare anymore and went to write back the person who I'd been leaving on read for the last 10 minutes. "Who are you texting?" Hector asked while getting next to me. "just family" I said lying my phone down. He looked sceptical and picked my still open phone up. "Chris?" "My cousin. Who asked if he can stay with us in February because he is going to concert in Munich. You can google translate if you want" "No I trust you. Wait I know that word" He said pointing to a message. "Yeah I taught it to you today. I'd be a little disappointed if you already forgot" he kept quiet just looking at me. His eyes going down my face to my lips staying there for a moment and then going up to my eyes again. "goodnight, elisa" "buenas noches, hector" I said.

I woke up in the middle of the night by the wind blowing against the window. I turned on my other side facing hector. He was facing me too. Lying there also awake. When he saw I was awake as well he had this smug smile on his face again. We didn't say anything just laid there looking into the other's eyes. His eyes glided down to my lips again as they did countless times today already. He bit his lip. Do I have to beg for him to finally kiss me? He took his hand and slid my hair behind my ear. He had his palm on my jaw and rubbed his thumb across my cheek. Oh god. Fuck. I think he could feel my pulse and my cheek getting warm. I smiled more. He continued to slid his hand down on my body and stopped on my waist. His hand just laid there on my waist. I moved one of my hands a little forward till I reached his other arm. I took my index finger and continued to lightly move it up and down his arm. He moved his head closer to mine and so did I. Our noses were almost touching. I could feel his breath. I could feel his hand on my waist. I could feel his forearm under my index finger. His eyes were looking into mine. I took my right leg and brushed it against his. He moved his left leg forward and I put my right leg on top of his leg. He started brushing his hand up and down my waist and back. We just continued to lie like that. No kissing. No talking. Just light touch and long eye contact. My heartbeat was rapid. I just wanted to kiss him. I didn't kiss him though. As much as I thought about it in that moment and trust me I did a lot I still didn't.

The next morning I woke up to our faces still close together, his hand on my waist, my leg on his and my hand was now intertwined with his. When I opened my eyes his were already watching over me. Was he watching me sleep? "Morning" he whispered. "Morning" I whispered happily. He smiled and took his hand from my waist leaving the spot feel cold. He ran his fingers through my hair. Can you please please just fucking kiss me? or anything? something? please? Then he got up. I turned on my back. Every spot of my body that were touching a part of his body just a moment ago felt colder now. He had gone to the bathroom and I started to hear the shower running. After having left my mind to think for a moment I got up, went to the kitchen and started making coffee.

I was leaning against the counter slowly drinking my coffee. "You made coffee? I love you" Nat said. "I know you do" She poured herself a mug. "So?" "So?" "How was it?" I knew what she was referring to without asking. "I mean we slept not together." "Nothing?" "Well there was this moment" "Moment?" "I don't know. Nothing like happened happened, but something did. It's just confusing. I don't know it seems like he would like want to kiss me with all the glances at my lips and eye contact and everything. He has his chances to, but he just doesn't" "Why don't you kiss him?" "you're funny. No. Never" "You know I kissed Marc first too" "I know. I had to hear about that kiss multiple times from both of you" "Well it was a great kiss for 12 year olds" "fair."

"Hector can so sleep on the couch tonight" Pau said coming into the kitchen. "Mh I don't think so" Nat said. "Why? Do you hate me?" "I own this house. Do you want to argue with me?" she said sassy and sarcastically. "I just won you another night sleeping next to him. Use it well" Nat whispered in my ear.

I went into the guest room. Hector was putting on his shirt when I came in. "Oh sorry. I should've knocked" "It's fine" he said smiling. His hair was wet from the shower. His curls were still perfect. "what did you need?" "oh. I just wanted to take a shower, get ready"

"You know you don't need all that" Hector said coming into the bathroom while I was doing my makeup. "You look beautiful without it" he continued. I smiled. "Thanks" He just watched me for a while. "You seriously are gorgeous" my heart skipped a beat when he said it. He kissed the top of my head with my wet hair and walked out the room. Butterflies exploded in my stomach. He just kissed the top of my head? I know friends can do that but after everything that happened in the last 24 hours between us this had to be different.

The day went on. We talked a lot like usual. We kept eye contact like usual. Everything was usual. Hector was already lying in bed. His arm was laying on my side on top of my pillow. I went to lay beside him. His arm now around me. I put my head on his chest. He started stroking my back. I put my leg on his. I also took my hand that was now lying on his chest to his hair and started stroking it. He put his head on top of mine after kissing the top of my head again. Seriously? my head? twice? just kiss my lips please! He took his other hand and put it on my waist again.

The next morning I woke up. Again in the same position. His head on mine, one of his hands on my back, the other on my waist, my leg on his, my hand tangled up in his hair. I kept my eyes closed for a moment. Just enjoying the warmth and comfort of his touch. I felt his head move and he took his hand off my waist and ran it through my hair again. This time he didn't get up though. Well I was basically lying on top of him. After a while he stopped running his hand through my hair. "Don't stop" I mumbled into his chest. "Our flights go in a couple of hours" he whispered. "don't remind me" "and Elisa?" "hm?" "merry christmas" he kissed the top of my head again. Okay seriously? seriously? not my head! my lips okay? my lips! just kiss my fucking lips god damn it.

Eventually we got up, packed our things and got to the airport. "What gate do you have?" Pau asked. "A39. I have to go left" "our gate is to the right" Pau said and hugged me. "bye" "bye pau" hector came and hugged me too. "see you soon, Eli" "New york" I responded and he kissed me on the god fucking top of my head. He has to be fucking kidding right? He brushed through my hair and let me go.

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A/N: longggg chapter

the next two are going to

be baddddd