Looks can be deceiving (Mapi León x OC)

Chapter 38 - the best defender

A/N: I was too lazy to translate everything into German, sorry🥺

"Thanks for picking me up" I smiled at Laura as I was getting into her car, knowing her driving skills would once again make me fear for my life.

"Absolutely no problem," the blonde German said, concentrating on backing out of the small parking spot in front of my new apartment complex that Barça had organized for me. Just after the international break was over, I finally found the time to move my stuff and now the training grounds were finally within walking distance, allowing me to sleep longer in the mornings. However, for games, I unfortunately still needed a ride as getting my driver's license was just not something I had the spare time for. Quite frankly, I was also lacking motivation as it just seemed unnecessary after I had already made it to 24 without ever seriously needing one.

"We're almost neighbors now" I remarked as Laura only lived a few blocks down the street just like many of our other teammates. Especially the internationals lived scattered throughout the area, Frido and her boyfriend even in the exact same building as me.

Suddenly, a loud honk sounded, causing Laura to make a full stop in the middle of an intersection, just centimeters away from a small red car.

"Fuck, I think I just ran a red light" Laura panicked as the driver of the car that she almost crashed into rolled his window down, the walls of our car luckily drowning out his screaming almost completely. "What the heck do I do now?"

After quickly scanning our surroundings and noticing that the angry man was getting out of his car, I nervously nudged Laura in her side. "Just speed away so you don't get a fine for the red light. No one is injured anyway and we need to be at the Johan in five minutes."

Laura threw me an anxious look. "You can't be serious, right?"

"I am, Laura. For fuck's sake just drive" I urged her as the man had almost reached us, looking even more furious because we had been ignoring him.

With her hands still shaking, Laura backed away, before taking a sharp right turn, leaving the man standing alone in the intersection. By the time the angry driver would have gotten back in his car and turned around, we'd already be in the safety of the parking garage of the Estadi Johan Cruyff which was only accessible to players and staff.

"I can't believe I just did that" Laura mumbled absentmindedly, making me wonder what she was thinking about. Even though her driving skills could generally use some improvement, she'd normally never run a red light. At least not at a relatively busy intersection. All of the sudden, I realized that I had never asked her about her possible loan.

"Me neither" I chuckled before looking at her with a worried expression on my face. "What were you thinking about? Did Jonatan say anything else about the loan?"

"No, he hasn't. It's not that..." the German stuttered, her hands still shaking nervously as we pulled into the garage of the stadium. "Can I ask you something?"

"Of course, anything," I replied without giving it a second thought. All that mattered was that as of now Laura would hopefully stay at Barca.

"H-how did you realize that... Uhm... that you l-liked... girls?" Laura mumbled quietly, the last word being basically inaudible.

Being openly gay meant that I had heard that phrase many times in my life as anyone who was questioning their sexuality always came to me for advice. However, out of everyone, I would never have thought Laura to be the next one as she always just dated men. Very questionable men if you ask me though.

"Who is she?" I grinned, turning my head in the blonde's direction who had a shocked expression on her face as she desperately tried to pull into a small parking spot.