Still➛Declan Rice

T W E N T Y S E V E N

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WARNING: NSFW content ahead!
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november 4th, 2023
manchester united v west ham (H)
carabao cup competition

Natalia threw her head back in a laugh as Bruno told her a joke, Cristiano and Jesse laughing with her at the terrible way he had said it as they headed inside Old Trafford. The team were chasing the infamous treble that they last achieved in 1999 and this year felt like the year it was going to happen.

Nat wanted nothing more than to win that treble, she'd be the first Manchester United kid to do so after her Dad won it in 1999 and all she wanted to do was make him proud. She had that Premier League medal, she had the Europa League medal, now she needed the Champions League medal and she was focusing everything on that for the time being.

The Carabao cup was always an easy competition, she had always been given easy opponents that weren't on the same level as EPL clubs so they always ended thrashing them. Unluckily for her, they were drawn to play West Ham at home for their fourth round.

Her eyes wandered around the stadium momentarily before she headed up the steps and into the dressing room, humming a sweet tune she had stuck in her head. Jesse sat beside her with a beaming grin and a slight smirk on his face, wondering what Nat and Declan were going to do today on the pitch after the whole tunnel fiasco a couple of months back.

"Keep looking at me like that and I'll stick your feet to the floor." Natalia speaks, not having to look at him to know he was smirking at her.

"I'm doing nothing wrong." Jess shrugs, taking his shoes off to get himself changed. She simply shook her head at him, moving her hair through her fingers to tie it up whilst Marcus started playing music through the speakers.

The away changing rooms were silent, silent enough for you to be able to hear the Home changing rooms singing their hearts out to the songs that were playing. Declan wasn't in the best of moods, he wasn't running on much sleep and every little mistake anyone would make got under his skin.

He walked into the tunnel at the same time as Natalia and Cristiano, the pair of them singing still as they walked out onto the pitch, the latter deciding to stay quiet as he walked onto the pitch himself. The seats were already starting to fill up for the match despite the fact they were an hour and a half before kick-off8, so Nat took her time to wave at some people and sign things if they were close enough.

Declan watched her from afar with his lip caught between his teeth, unintentionally staring at her as she started doing some light warm-ups with Cristiano. Jared Bowen walked out of the tunnel and caught him, smirking at him before glancing at Natalia.

"Why don't you talk to her?" Jared asks.

"Because I don't want too." Declan shrugs.

"Yeah, sure you don't." He scoffs in response, nudging his captain before he and Declan got into doing some warm-ups too. He caught her eyes as she walked back inside, wondering where she was going before he got back to his task at hand.

Nat huffed as she walked around the bottom part of Old Trafford in search of the equipment room, which she found not too long later. She left something between the door and the frame so it didn't lock as she walked in, searching for the things Ralf had asked her to get whilst they waited for everyone else.