Las Estrellas (Alexia Putellas x OC)

Just Great.....

January 22nd, 2022, Barcelona

I'm chilling at my place waiting for the right moment to go to the training center. Since we've won the Semi, we must go back to Madrid for the Final. It makes me mad, why couldn't we just stay there and wait for the Final?

As I'm scrolling through my Insta feed, someone knocks at my door. I go there slowly as I'm not expecting anyone. I open the door and see an unhappy Jennifer standing there impatiently.

"Oh, wow." I look at her surprised. "What's up?"

"Your girlfriend is a fucking dick, that's what's up." Jenni enters my apartment angrily.

"Okay..." I frown and close the door slowly. "What happened?"

"Remember our talk after the Semi?" She wonders and I nod. "I tried to express my feelings to Ale too, I told her I was having a hard time being always in her shadow and that I needed time to heal by myself."

"What did she say?" I give Jenni a glass of water and sit on my couch.

"She took it the wrong way. Like it's not her fault, she can't make people vote for me in the awards thing, that it's not her fault people don't see how useful I am for the team." Jenni explains. "But she is missing the most important point."

"Which is you need her to stay the Alexia she was before, the two of you against the world..." I sigh. "You need your best friend back."

"Why do YOU get me and not her?" Jenni sits next to me. "The worst part was when she told me maybe I should go to Madrid finally..."

"She did not say that." I look at Jenni sternly not believing Alexia could say something like that.

"Oh, hell yes she did." Jennifer's face turns mad. "So, obviously, we fought."

"And?" I nervously look at her.

"We both said things we regret." She admits. "And I might have said something about you..."

"Doesn't sound good at all." I chuckle nervously. "What did you say?"

"Well, you see last week when I was with Virg, we had a little chat about you and your previous relationship...." Jenni starts and I look down. "She told me about what happened and let me tell you, I'm sorry about that."

"Don't worry." I dismiss quickly not wanting to talk about it.

"And she told me about the things you did afterwards." Jenni almost whispers.

"The mental breakdown I had that led me to be the worst fuckgirl I know?" I chuckle sadly.

"That, yes." Jenni smiles a bit. "I wish I could have witnessed that."

"No, you don't." I chuckle and she lets a little laugh escape her mouth. "Anyway, what did you tell Ale?"

"Well, you're like her weakness now, I can't go after her family, even when I'm really mad. So, I chose the one thing I knew would hurt her." Jenni shrugs. "I told her I know more about you than she does, and if she wasn't so self-satisfied recently it wouldn't be that way."

"God..." I facepalm myself.

"At first, she didn't believe me, she was pretty sure she knows you well, that she takes care of you enough for you to be happy... so I ask her who your ex is... to test her knowledge, you know?"

"You didn't..." My eyes go wider. "We never talked about that. I don't necessarily want her to know who my ex is."

"I understood that after seeing her face." Jenni looks down. "She went blank, she was hurt that I could know something like that and not her. Worst part being I haven't told her how I know."

"So, she is thinking I've talked to you about that?" I realize.

"And that you don't trust her enough to talk to her about it..." Jenni frowns.

"Damn it, Jenni." I sigh. "What am I supposed to do now?"

"I'm sorry, I went straight to your place after our argument, I didn't want you to be unaware..." She puts her hand on my shoulder.

"I guess we have to find out one way or another..." I gulp hardly. "Let's go to the training center..."

We take my car and drive to the training center. Once we arrive, everyone is waiting for us because we must take to bus to the train station. I enter the locker room being greeted by Patri, who tells me all about her day with Leila. I'm glad those two are great again. During the entire talk, I can feel Alexia's harsh stare on me, I try to ignore it, but she is making it very hard.

"Is Ale mad at you or something?" Patri whispers in my ear.

"I don't know, she seems like it, but I have no idea of why." I lie a bit.

"Go talk to her, someone taught me good communication can avoid some disasters..." She side hugs me and encourages me.

I gather all my courage and walk to where Alexia is standing. She glares at me harshly when she sees me. I try to smile a bit but quickly it turns to a frown.

"Hey, love." I attempt.

"Don't "hey, love" me." She says coldly.

"Okay..." I sigh. "What's up?"

"Oh, I don't know, why don't you ask Jenni? You went here with her after all." She fakes a smile.

"What is this about?" I stand in front of her.

"Why should I tell you? You're not telling me things either." She sneakily spits.

"Can you tell me what's up?" I try to make her talk.

"Jenni seems to know a lot more about you than I do." She clenches her jaw. "Maybe you should ask her what's up."

"Babe..." I try to reach for her hand.

"Nope." She moves out of my way. "We'll talk later, I don't want to do that now."

She walks to the door and the team follows her to the bus. Jennifer walks past me and puts her arm around my shoulder.

"She'll get better soon." She says and kisses my temple.

"You better be right." I sigh as we walk to the bus.