For the Better - A Pedri Story

12. Te Amo, Adios.

Pedri's POV:

I do not know what it is, but I have been feeling extremely restless since I woke up this morning. Maybe because it is today that y/n is meeting up with her ex, or maybe even because I feel stupid for agreeing to this and not texting her back before their meeting.

I have spent most of the morning and afternoon trying to distract myself by playing online FIFA and taking care of hungover Gavi in my living room, but who am I kidding, all I find myself doing every minute is checking the time until she's supposed to be coming to my place, and taking out all my frustrations on other online players.

Gavi is sitting in my living room, this boy came knocking on my door late last night - or more like very early this morning - as drunk as I have ever seen him, barging in and gibberish words coming out of his mouth. I struggle to understand him at first, but after I finally came into my senses, it all finally clicked in my head, I sat next to him as he sprawled across my couch, I glanced at my clock which reads 4AM.

"Pedri, I am in love with her...but I don't think it's a good idea, I come with too many baggages..." he starts to talk again after crying out a loud sob and spilling out all the bottled up feelings he has for Lea, "the media, the fans, they follow me everywhere! I can't - I won't ask her to give up her privacy."

"Gavi, don't you think Lea knows all of these already? And yet, she chooses to be around you still, she looks happy when you're with each other, and so do you! But recently I think all of these what ifs is really putting a strain to the both you and your relationship - whatever that is!" I try to reason with him, but I am not sure if any of my words offer him consolation, or if he even heard me as he lay there not moving. I poked him a couple of times to check if he was awake, but all I got as a response were a couple of pained groans after calling out for Lea's name, so I put a blanket on my poor best friend and turned back in for the rest of the night.

Speaking of the devil, he is now in my kitchen playing really loud music as he prepare some food for us, "Pedri, come and get your plate!" I hear him yell and I chuckle at how comfortable he is at my home, but then Gavi and I have developed such a close friendship since joining Barcelona, given that we spend most days in training together, and now especially that y/n and Lea hang out with each other often.

The only thing missing in the puzzle is for Gavi and Lea to make it official and we'll be joined to the hips as one of those annoying couple friends.

I stand up from my gaming chair, ready to try out whatever experiment he has prepared and to also interrogate him as to where he was coming from last night.

"Tío, do you remember how drunk you were last night?" I ask him as he places two huge pieces of pancakes on my plate and a few pieces of bacon - a very American breakfast that reminds me of my girl, " and where were you coming from by the way?"

As Gavi tries to come up with excuses as to the reason why he got so drunk at the club last night, I notice that my phone has been going off with a lot of twitter mentions coming in, which is not unusual, but what really catches my eyes is that most of the mentions seem to read "Pedri's girlfriend.."

I hurriedly open twitter to check what everyone's on about, motioning for Gavi to hold off his trail of words for a second while I investigate the madness that I am about to find out.

I know there are some pictures taken of us back in Tegueste and there have been speculations in the media on what the real relationship is between y/n and I, but it has been a few days and this twitter blow up is more than usual.

Nothing could have prepared me for what I read next, making me stop on my breath and immediately made me lose appetite.

Pedri's rumored girlfriend caught kissing someone else!