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CHAPTER SIX - call
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Nat and I were watching the Barcelona game. "Are you seriously not going to tell him?" she asked bringing up the topic again. "yeah. I'm just waiting for the feeling to pass. It has to at some point, right?" "I guess, but I still don't think that you're approaching this right" "Well I really can't tell him. It would make my life a whole lot more complicated. I don't need complicated. I have enough things going on as it is" "The right person takes away all complicated and all stress and won't add to it" "well every guy I've been with-" "all two of them?" "shut up that is one more than you. Anyway both of them have always just made my life more complicated. No guarantee that someone is the right one. You got extremely lucky. You know that right?" "yeah I do"
During the game they showed the barcelona bench, specifically Ale, Pablo Torre and well Hector. I just looked at his face. That perfect face. "So that is really the guy you like?" "I mean just look at him. No one should have the right to look that good. We'd have such pretty children" "You did not just seriously say that" I just kept quiet thinking about why I just said that out loud, "you are down so bad" "so bad" I said dragging out the 'o'.
I woke up from my phone ringing the next morning. "Who calls this early? Who is this?" "It's 7am. Who of us had the game yesterday?" I knew who it was now. "Shut up, Pau. I'm injured I get to be grumpy" "anyway how are you?" "tiered" "you just woke up" "exactly" "What are you up to today?" "Uni. Hanging out with Nat." "When are you training again? Soon right?" "yeah tomorrow we'll start with like upper body and stuff" "that's good. You'll be playing again in no time" "yeah I just feel like I have to play now. I have a lot of steam to blow off" "Why?" "I have a lot going on and I just want to distract myself with football, but I can't" "What do you have going on that I don't know about? Something with Amine?" "Well I broke things off and I-" "Wait seriously?" "yeah." "oh."
I was cooking Bolognese. My sister and her boyfriend, Ãlvero, were at uni and Nat had just gone out for a run. My phone was ringing. Hector. We don't usually talk on the phone so this was weird. I picked up obviously. "Hey, Hec. What's up?" "Well Nat told Marc you were cooking Bolognese and we were wondering if you were alright, because you only ever eat bolognese if something is wrong. Anyway thought I'd call. You know check in. So how are you?" I was smiling at his rambling. "As expected. I want to be on the pitch. I get a lot of people you know checking in. Most heartwarming was Gavi saying he had it way worse" he laughed a bit on the other side of the phone which made me smile. "That is something only Gavi would say" "Right? Exactly what I thought" "So I have to say this. We know about Amine. Part of the reason I'm checking in" "Wow Pau cannot keep his mouth shut, can he?" "no he can't, but we know that." "Such a Pau thing to go blabbing around" "Well it's him or Lamine always" "Yeah Lamine doesn't know that there is such a thing as too much information." "Yeah 100%. Anyway are you okay? You know with the thing with Amine" it's crazy that he asked that because no one has. I've been asked that question a lot these couple of days but just about my injury. Neither Pau nor Nat have asked that about Amine, but Hector has. So he must care, right? If I'm alright. "Uhm- You know I think I am. I knew that I would end it sooner or later. The only thing that makes it a little difficult is that he didn't know. It was unexpected for him and that was easy to notice. Even though I don't have feelings for him I still care about him and I just hope he can understand why I broke things off" "Yeah. I think you know from a guys perspective as long as you didn't cheat on him he'll come around to understand"
We just continued to talk for a long time. We laughed a lot. We were reminiscing about one of the last games we played together at La Masia with Lamine and Pau. "Oh my god I just remembered. When Pau scored his goal he fell right on his nose!" I said while laughing. "You legit tripped over him and fell down as well! You can't laugh at him!" He said while laughing as well. "shut up, I can." In that moment the front door opened and Nat came in. "Who are you laughing with?" "Hector" I told her. She looked shocked and excited at the same time. "Ernst?" "Ja" "Okay ich geh duschen. Macht weiter. Lasst eich nicht stören" ("Seriously?" "yeah" "okay I'm going to take a shower. Continue. Don't let yourselves get interrupted") "who was that?" "oh just Nat" "well I do have to go now anyway. We'll talk soon?" "yeah. We'll see each other next month too" "Oh yeah true. London is next month" "And New York" "I'm so excited for New York" "It's such a beautiful city" "exactly. Well bye" "Bye" what I didn't tell him is that I'd come see their game in Dortmund. I made plans to go there right after the draw. Mostly just to see Ale, because I haven't in months, actually over a year.
"So why were you talking to Hector?" "He just called me to check in on me" "he called you?" "yeah" "how long did you talk?" "over an hour" "wow." "I know" "What did you talk about?" "A lot. Football. He asked me about Uni. We talked about La Masia times." "You two would be cute together" "Shut up" "You're blushing" "I said shut up" "I'm just stating facts"
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A/N: these next chapters
are going to be shorttt.
Hope you don't mind!
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