𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | 𝐓. 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐕𝐀

𝐏𝐑Ó𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐎

📍doha, qatar

9:25pm

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Catarina looked at her phone, the time was now 11:25pm. It had been exactly two hours since she updated her final story on instagram for the night, and decided to crawl into bed. After a fourteen and a thirty-five minute flight from Rio to Qatar she was very exhausted but her mind couldn't help but race with the thought of one of her dancers forgetting a crucial step in tomorrow's routine for the opening ceremony of the World Cup. It didn't help that her father insisted that she came to Qatar on the exact same flight as the rest of the team which landed in Qatar around 7pm which was considered late by Catarina's standards. It was especially late, since of course hand it to her dear and beloved, Brazil that just had to be the final team to actually land in Qatar. But it was also the most annoying thing because nobody else on the team had to be up by 5am for training, at least not yet. But Catarina had to be up at 4 to make sure her dancers were ready to go for the ceremony.

Catarina scowled at her phone screen again which now displayed the time as 11:40pm. She shook her head before putting her phone face down on the beside table again, as she covered her face with a pillow to try and finally get some sleep. But as soon as she tried to do that, she heard a faint knock at the door.

"Quem esta acordado a esta hora? Todos deveriam estar dormindo agora." (TRANSLATION: Who's awake at this hour? Everyone should be sleeping by now!")

Catarina mumbled to herself as she put on her slippers and padded her way softly to her hotel room door which was beside her parents and just across from her godfather Dani's room too. Dani insisted that just in case Tite and Rose were unavailable, Catarina was always welcome to ask him for help. And Catarina also knew that her older brother Matheus was also busy as he was now married and had children of his own, so Catarina knew that she couldn't really go and ask her brother for help if her nightmares had come back. Catarina looked through the peephole and unlocked the door, but no one seemed to be there.

She gulped. She was one step away from running into her padrinho's Dani's room with the possibility of waking both him and his wife, Joana up who had become like a (third) mother to her now too. But once she fully opened the door, she breathed a sigh of relief as the only thing that she found was a small box of brigadeiros, some guava fruits and a note that read,

Querida, Nina

I thought you might be a bit anxious about tomorrow so I just wanted to wish you good luck, I'm so excited to see how everything goes tomorrow, you're gonna kill it! 😁

Catarina smiled widely as she hugged the note to her chest with one hand along with the box of brigadeiros and guavas in the other. Locking the door tightly once more. She placed her snacks in the fridge and hopped into bed once more. She ginned again as she glanced over the note one more time before shoving it into the beside table drawer with a contented sigh. Catarina rolled onto her side as she closed her eyes and finally drifted off into a peaceful sleep, mumbling,

"Obrigado a Deus."