Cooking up a storm

Part 7

October 15th

Abigail's POV:
After a few seconds I pulled away from the kiss and leaned my forehead against hers, "I can't tell you how long I've wanted to do that" I confessed and she looks at me in shock but she still has a soft smile on her face, "Alessia I've liked you for weeks, when I got back from out little coffee "date" I couldn't keep the smile off my face because I couldn't believe I'd met someone like you and at first I thought it was just some small crush that I could hide and eventually I'd get over it, but I couldn't every time I saw you and we spent the time getting to know each other more the feelings just grew stronger and it became harder to hide, and I think sooner or later I would've gave it away to you because I genuinely am mesmerised whenever I see you, not to mention Ella and Mary have been letting my know how obvious I am" I tell her and giggle at the end without breaking eye contact. This time it's her who pulls me in for a kiss this time a lot slower and passionate, eventually we both pull away catching our breath I look at her and just smile not believing what's actually happening. "So what happens next?" She nervously asks
"Less I'm not going to rush you or make you feel uncomfortable in any way okay, we can go completely your pace, I'll wait however long you need" I tell her softly, she squeezes my hands and pulls me into her and hugs me, "how are you even real?" She says quietly while wearing the sweetest smile
"What do you mean?" I say looking at her with a similar smile
"You are just perfect" I blush I look down
"Who knew THE Alessia Russo was so sweet and romantic Eh" I teased
"Oh give it a rest you" she nudges me shyly and I just pull her close to me wanting any sort of contact with her we stay like this for a little while just replaying everything that's just happened over in our heads occasionally chatting but remaining in a comfortable silence.

It's now about 11:30 and Alessia sits up yawning, she turns to look up at me as I release my grip from holding her, "where are you going?" I ask not really wanting her to leave
"I need to leave soon so I can drive back to mine and get a good sleep for the game tomorrow" she explained, luckily enough the game was a 5pm kick off tomorrow so the girls could have a lie in before having to meet at the training centre to travel to the game. I break out of my thoughts to see her getting up to put her shoes on and I blurt out, "why don't you stay over" I mentally hit myself for that one knowing she wants to take it slow, "aww I thought you'd never ask" she looks at me
"Only if you want to Less I know we are taking it slow and I don't want to rush you or anything like that I just want to hold you as long as possible" I ramble on and blush realising what I'm saying, she leans over giggling and gives me a quick kiss she pulls back and grabs both my hands, okay firstly, I know you don't want to rush me and I think it's adorable how nervous you are about asking me that, secondly, I'm not going to do something I don't want to and trust me I DO want to stay over but I wasn't exactly gonna invite myself was I?" She tells me laughing at the end and reassuring me she also wanted this which causes me to smile wider at her, "oh and I don't want you to stop holding me either" she winks which makes me blush even more then I already was
" right then star girl let's head up to bed then since you've got a game tomorrow" I say excitedly

We tidy up downstairs quickly and head up to my room, as we go in I mentally thank myself for tidying the other day, " can I borrow some clothes to sleep in" she shyly asks realising she didn't have any which makes me giggle at her cuteness
" yea of course sorry" I walk into my wardrobe and grab her some pyjama shorts and a Scotland top, as soon as I walk out she sees the top in my hand and gasps, "Abs you've got to be having me on"
"Why what's wrong?" I say acting clueless
"Hmmm let's see you are giving me an England player a SCOTLAND top to wear to bed, are you mad" she laughs out and I walk closer to her, "come on you'll look so cute in it, please for me" I say looking up at her with puppy eyes
"Ugh fine you're lucky you're cute evans" she says giving in, I laugh and do a quiet cheer not wanting to wake Maya, "it's fine it's not as if any of the England girls will see, your dirty little secret is safe with me darling" I say and I notice her blush a bit at the nickname which makes me happy knowing we both have that effect on each other.

Once we're both changed I quickly go check on Maya and sure enough she's still sound asleep in her bed still cuddling her teddy so I go back into my room and see Alessia in bed on her phone but she puts it away when I get into bed with her, I turn the lights out but it's not completely dark, we turn to face each other, "okay I have a question" I say not looking her in the eye
"Okay go ahead Abs"
"Now just know I'm not bothered what we do I just want you to be comfortable and happy okay" I say and she nods, " what are we telling people if we are telling them anything?" I say nervously as I don't want to make her uncomfortable
"Hey you don't need to be nervous about talking to me okay I know I said to take it slow but you can talk to me always about anything okay?" She says looking into my eyes the full time to I know how sincere she is
"I think we should keep it quiet for the time being just so we can get to know our relationship more, just us, without the questions and teasing" she says and I completely agree
"That sounds perfect to me" I tell her
"Although I think we should tell Ella because it was her who told me to come see you and tell you today and let's be honest she can tell something is up" she confesses and I just laugh
"Of course she told you that she's been telling me for weeks to tell you but i was too scared" I admit and Alessia just laughs and says, "so morale of this story is that we could've been here much sooner if we weren't so scared" I laugh and nod agreeing with her
"Oh I think there is one more person we should tell" I say and she looks at me confused
"And who's that"
"Georgia, I told her I liked you like 2 weeks ago... I had to tell someone and I didn't want to just tell Ella because she's your best friend and I didn't want to put her and any sort of weird position" I say
"Hey it's okay I'm not mad you told Georgia I actually think it's really sweet that you didn't tell Ella because you thought it might make her uncomfortable, I'm just surprised it was Georgia I didn't know you were close" she tells me
"Yea me and Georgia have been friends for about 3/4 years I met her at the Man City training grounds when I went for a tour with my university as I was meeting the head chef and medical team for my report, but anyway yea I met her then and we've been really close ever since, once I graduated she was one of the first clients I had because she wanted to make sure I had plenty of work, I was gutted when she left for Bayern but she FaceTimes me a couple times a week and we plan to meet up whenever we have time" I tell her remembering the first time I met Georgia was similar to Ella (I could hear her laughing before I could see her) I look at Alessia and she's just smiling and shaking her head
"What?" I say confused
"How is it that you are pretty much best mates with 2 of the girls I grew up playing for England with and being best friends with and we only met for the first time in the last few weeks" I laugh in realisation
"I have no idea but let's blame them for not introducing us sooner" she agrees
"They'll go mental when we tell them"
"Oh 100% but that can be a tomorrow problem, you need to sleep darling you've got a game to win tomorrow" I say leaning over to kiss her which she returns, we pull away and she turns around so I move closer to her pulling me into her and feel her relax into my arms. After about 10 minutes I can hear her breathing get heavy letting me know she's fell asleep so I lean over giving her a kiss on the forehead, "goodnight star girl" and with that I lay back and quickly fall asleep with her in my arms.

A/N:
Hey guys I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
I'll get another out within the next few days so let me know what you think so far
Also gutted to get the confirmation about Viv's injury but she'll come back stronger so will Beth, but Jonas better wrap the rest of the girls in bubble wrap now cause they're taking injury FC a bit to literal for my liking