before // njr

Chapter 7

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Alana's Pov

Genuinely, i have no idea why all of the sudden Neymar has the will to leave his bedroom and chose to sits with me instead, at the living room. Since the night where Ali drove me to Leyna, he's been acting really strange. I mean, REALLY strange. For exhibit A, every morning it's been my daily routine to cooks Neymar's breakfast and prepare him a cup of his favorite Chamomile tea next to his bed drawer. Nevertheless, on the other morning, he made such a weird excuse like his hand was hurting so i had to feed him on his bed while watching a Brazil Telenovela. Exhibit B, Neymar said he can't sleep last night so i have to read him his favorite Brazilian literature that i can't even pronounce properly. I wondered if he's a clingy person after i knew him closely now or he just loves to annoy me.

"I found your Instagram." Neymar laughs at his phone. I bet he found me weird for posting all the unnecessary photo dumps there, i mean Instagram is all about posting whatever the hell we want right?

"I dare you to follow mine. Kylian doesn't even want to follow me back, not until last week." I challenged him something i know he would never do.

"Done."

"What?"

I immediately check on my Instagram account and found one user that was not @neymarjr, following me. It was a private Instagram account with no profile picture and 115 followers, including Kylian. I snorted when i saw the username at the first time, i think it's very hilarious.

"This is the weirdest username for finsta, you know? "

"Hey, @enejotapopozao isn't that bad!" Neymar protests. "You should be grateful you're one of those 115 people there."

"That's not even enough number of all my friends totaled! You surely are a social butterfly."

After he accepted my follow request, when Neymar isn't looking, i stalk his private Instagram account to see what kind of person behind the @neymarjr account with 200 million followers. His last post was on December 20th which is the night before the accident. It shows a photo of shirtless Kylian with men's genital drawing on his chest while he was asleep with a caption,

'Happy birthday brother, it's an honor to became your first tattoo artist 🤪'

The next photo at the bottom of his Instagram feeds that caught my attention is a sight of Neymar's legendary ex-girlfriend—Bruna Marquezine—were kissing him underneath the Eifell Tower from 2018. As far as i scroll enough, Neymar has deleted all the posts about his previous ex-girlfriend, Bruna Biancardi, that left him after the accident happened. It seems like Bruna (Marquezine) obviously held a special place in his heart. As a person who always keep up with popular culture, i knew Neymar and Bruna has been the on-off relationship couple, where they keeps broke up and getting back together repeatedly until the last 2018.

"She's my first love." I give him a soft glance, expecting Neymar to tell more about it. "Bruna is my person, but we fell in love in a wrong timing."

"Does the concept of falling in love at a wrong timing really exist? I think, the right person shall exist at the right time. If it's not, then maybe it's not the right one." I spare him my opinion.

"Have you experienced a real love?" He asked me back and i didn't answer his question. I never had a real love besides the love i have for my family. The whole concept of relationship itself sometimes frightened me the most.

"No, but it's because i haven't found my person yet. I don't have time to land my heart on someone, Ney."

He shook his head on disbelief, "I saw the way you looked at Ali."