Juan of a kind

Part Twenty One

August in Manchester is beautiful. I sit on a bench in a local park just a few miles from my house and drink a cup of coffee. I think of how lucky I am to be here and how much I want to stay. I have narrowed it down to two main reasons, my completeness at Manchester United and my feelings for Juan. Tonight is our date. I am not nervous but excited. He is making me dinner, Spanish themed as he put it. I've arranged to meet him now just for moment before we head to training, it's my first day back since the tour, I went home for a couple of days to see my family. Today is our first training session and we are nervous. Juan stayed in my room the last night of the tour but nobody saw him leave. Nothing happened, we talked about our lives and our dreams. We have similar pictures of what we want in life. I hear someone coming and I look up to see a very beardless Juan with sunglasses and a hat on.
"Well you have disappointed me, you look like a 16 year old boy Juan!".
"Shhhh I'm meant to be a secret lover remember incase the media followed you or me here".
He sits next to me on the bench and puts his arm around me, I tilt my head to touch his shoulder.
"This is nice, me and you outside together".
"I wish it could be like this always".
"I know me too".
I turn my head and Juan's lips touch mine softly. He kisses my forehead and sighs.
"I wish I wasn't a footballer sometimes and just a normal guy, it could make life much easier".
"Juan I may have never met you if I didn't come here or you here".
"I know that but I believe in faith and I believe we would of eventually met each other someday".
I cuddle into his side. I would love for us to be normal with no attention from the media. We could walk around this park without a cover up and hold hands.
We stand up to leave and Juan grabs my hand and places a kiss to me lips, this is a very passionate kiss. I feel myself becoming dizzy and then Juan stops.
"I'll see you at training".

Training comes and goes quickly. Its very difficult to concentrate thinking about tonight. When we leave David asks me for a lift and Juan comes too.
There's an awkward silence for a few moments until David speaks.
"Well??"
We look at him, "well what?" I say.
"Are ye a thing or? "
Thanks David for making this situation very awkward. Juan and myself shuffle in our positions with awkwardness.
"ahh I see, sorry".
I laugh to myself, only David could make this awkward.
"It's obvious you two fancy each other and I accept that but, I can't see you two being romantic it seems weird to me."
"David, hermano I told you how I feel about Karia, I've told you too many times if I'm honest." He giggles to himself, this makes me blush.

We drop David off. He wishes us luck on our date. We drive off.
"So, at eight I will pick you up, and bring you to my apartment. Just incase media follows you home or anything."
"Sounds perfect, I'm going to spent the rest of the day getting ready."
Oh Karia you are so smooth girl.
Juan laughs.
"You don't have to make that kind of effort for me, you look as nice to me now as you do ever."
He gets out and kisses me cheek.
"See you at 8 Karia".