"Guys im serious, no hitting on her or flirting." Phil said trying to keep a straight face. Everyone nodded but not really paying any attention especially jack.
Ella walks in wearing a black crop top and skinny jeans. Phil glares at everyone as they look her up and down admiringly her.
"Hey." Ella says nervous.
"Hey El." Jack says giving her a hug. Phil always took Jack with him to see his sister during holidays so they knew each other quite well. The only thing jack didn't know about Ella is her massive crush on him. He could see how nervous she was sometimes but always let it slide and just figured something else was on his mind unaware that the 'something' on her mind was actually him. Ella wanted to stay with her brother for a bit and she arranged with the England manager, Gareth about her staying. He agreed under a few conditions, Ella would be joining them on some workouts and while they play football she would do some running as she is an athlete but nobody really knew that, only her parents and best friend Eleanor. Lastly she would help cook meals because they are short staffed and by doing all those things she would get free accommodation and get to stay and hang out with her brother, Phil. She reluctantly agreed and packed her bags and got there as soon as she could. And now she is here, meeting the players.
"Im Mason." A guy with brown hair stood up holding out his hand to Ella.
"Nice to meet you." Ella says shaking his hand.
Ella meets the players and then Phil sends Jack to help her find her room in the hotel rooms while he went to get some lunch.
"What number you got?" He asked with his accent Ella always loved.
"221" Ella replied looking at her card.
"Right next to me. Follow me." He says. Ella cant help but smile at the fact that her room is directly next to Jacks.
She follows him carrying her handbag, Jack offered almost instantly to carry her suitcase to get her to her room and Ella didn't say no. It wasn't a huge case but it did have a lot of her things in. Ella decided that if she needed any clothes she'd just go out and buy them. It was q good idea to save space in her case for shoes and makeup.
"Here." Jack says stopping abruptly making Ella almost fall into him as she was lost in thought but stopped before him luckily not falling over.
"Thank you. You dont have to stay if you dont want to." Ella says opening her room and putting her bag on the small. Its a a cute room, the view looks amazing from the window and the bed is huge and looks so comfortable.
"Dont worry about it. I want to help." Jack says walking in and putting her suitcase next to the desk.
"Thanks. Do you mind looking in my suitcase for a blue small bag?" Ella asks rummaging through her bag for her phone and charger.
A few minutes pass and they have finished unpacking.
"Thanks." Ella smiles.
"No problem."
There its is again, that smile, that accent, everything gives Ella butterflies in her stomach that she can never control around him.
They keep a long gaze looking deeping at eachother with soft smiles. Ella breaks the silence and looks away.
"Lets go get some lunch. Im starving." Ella says. She works int the kitchen Monday to Friday and luckily today is only Saturday.
"Definitely." Jack says. They leave a run into phil on their way to the cafeteria. He has a face full of food and keeps eating but stops suddenly looking at Jack and me guilty.
"Did you get food without us?" Ella ask serious. He looks around and then replies.
"No."
"Liar." Jack says. Phil is already running away as fast as he can and Jack is chasing after him fast. Ella stays stood where she is because she doesn't know she is, bad idea for Jack and Phil to leave. If she go now she wont be able to find her way around and that would be embarrassing so she decided to stay right where she is.
Atleast 5 minutes pass and its beginning to get dark as she is stood next to a window. Ella sits down against the wall looking out the window sighing knowing she will most likely be here all night and the others will think she just went to bed early after the long drive. Ella swlowly drifts off into a deep sleep not knowing that while she was asleep Jack found her and picked her up carefully and took her back to his room as he didn't know where she put the keycard to hers.
Ella wakes up when an alarm goes off in her ear.
"What the-" she groans rubbing her eyes.
"Sorry i forgot to turn it off." A lazy voice says. Jacks voice. Ella's eyes soon adjusted to the brightness and she saw Jack in jogging bottoms and a hoodie.
"What am i doing here?" Ella ask looking down to see im still in the same clothes.
"I ran off chasing Phil and we forgot that you didn't know where to go. Phil said to just let you try find your own way but when i went back to your dorm to check on you, you didnt answer. So i went back for you and took you here cause i didn't have a key for your dorm." He explained. Ella nodded her head finally getting flashbacks off sitting down against the wall.
"Where did you sleep?" Ella asked concerned for Jack.
"Floor. Turns out its kinda comfy." He says.
"Oh. Well atleast let me take you out for lunch today to make up for it." Ella suggests looking at the alarm clock next to her to see its almost lunch anyway.
"Alright. Best get ready then, almost time." He smirks. Ella smiles and leaves him to change and she goes to her dorm to change into something cute. She put on a cute dress and a pair of black boots. Its an amazing outfit but its cold outside but Ella just seems to care about Jack seeing her. She applied some light makeup and put her hair in a lazy curly bun. Ella has long naturally straight hair but she decided to occasionally curl it and today was one if those days.
Ella checks her phone to see that Phil has messaged her saying that he is going out with Mason and wont be back till around 11 but he also said that if i get bored i can annoy Jack. Ella plans on annoying Jack anyway, she usually did it about him being all famous. Her attention moves from her phone to the door as someone knocks, Jack. Butterflies dance in her stomach again, she has no idea how Jack feels about her but she can only wish he feels someway similar to how she feels about him.
