It's us against the world

23 - "You're my Popstar"

I smirk and rest my hand on her thigh knowing it would turn her crazy, as she stupidly told me before. I wrap my leg around hers under the table, stroking her leg with my foot, and I take my hands to my headphones so I can blast out music for the last 20 minutes of the journey. I stare out of the window, admiring the North London streets and all of the fans waving us back in from our win. I smile and rest my head back on the seat.

I start to quietly sing along to the song im listening to "Just the way you are" by Bruno Mars and everyone, and I mean everyone on that bus, turns their attention from what they were doing, onto me but I carry on slightly louder still not having any clue that I am singing and they are listening to it.

Leah wraps her arm around my shoulder, claiming me as hers, so I look at her and she is smiling at me but I look around and see the rest of the team staring at me as if they've just heard the either the greatest or the shittest song of all time, I couldn't really tell, so I whisper to Leah "Le, why are they all staring at me?"
She smiles even more "its because you're singing love,"
I'm shocked by this and ask "I am!? I didn't realise, sorry."
She notices that I am embarrassed so she adds "don't worry though, my love, you have a beautiful voice. You're a Popstar. You're my Popstar."

I grin. I know shes only saying that to make me feel better and less embarrassed around the girls, but in reality, I knew she was lying to me, but it did make me feel slightly better even if it was a lie, she knew how to cheer me up when I felt at my lowest.

I smile at her and rest my head back on the seat as we pull up at the training ground so we can all get off the coach, into our cars and back home.

I get into the back seat off Beths car as Leah goes to sit in the front next to Beth.
She looks at me as she sits down in the front, next to Beth, so I ask her cutely "Le, can you sit down next to me" then I add a really long, overdramatic "please" till she said yes to me.

She rolls her eyes but gets out of the car and into the back with me and replies "how can I say no to you, I don't think I would be able to without being harassed by a tiny human."
I frown "that's not nice Leah, say sorry." She shakes her head smirking, so I tell her again
"Leah Williamson, say sorry now."

She acts scared of me and eventually says sorry for calling me a tiny human, she knows how insecure I was about my height, why would she joke about it like that?

I smile at her, proud, and Beth drives us all the way back to the house and I wrap my arms around Leah's waist, tightly, and tell her "Le, my legs are hurting."

She grabs my hand and rubs it with her thumb and replies "that's ok, I will help you stretch them out at home okay gorgeous?"
I nod and we arrive home, just in time, as my legs were about to fall off.
Literally.

We all get out of the car and we go inside the house, I go straight to the sofa while Leah takes our bags upstairs with Beth.

Then only Leah comes downstairs to sit with me on the sofa and I ask her "can we go on a walk please Le?"
She stands back up and says "okay my love, lets go." She grabs my hand so I get up and walk to the door but shout up to Beth
"Beth, me and Leah are going on a walk. We'll be back soon!"
She shouts back down "take a key with you. I might not be here when you guys get back. I'm going over to Viv's for the night."

Leah grabs a key from the table and we leave the house to go wandering down the streets of North London.

We walk around the park for an hour and we head home soon after, but Beth's car isn't there so I say to Leah "lucky, we took a key with us."
She just nods as we walk into the house and asks "hey love, what would you like for dinner?"
I answer her while walking up the stairs to my room "anything Le, you decide. I'm gonna go get changed, then I'll come down and help you."

I run up the stairs and into my room so I can grab my clothes to get changed into, I put on my trousers but run into Leah's room and steal a hoodie from her, chuckling as I put it on, then I run back downstairs to help her with dinner.

I snake my hands around her waist, tuck my head under her arm and ask "what you making Le?"
She wraps her arm around my shoulder and replies "im making spaghetti bolognaise, is that alright love?"
She turns to look at me and gasps "is that my hoodie?!"
I chuckle "maybe it is, maybe it isn't," then I add "what do you need help with?"
She rubs my shoulder and tells me "nothing, im fine. Go and sit down, I'll call you when its ready, okay love."

I run off and sit on the sofa on my phone. I go onto instagram and spend the next 5 minutes scrolling through and liking everyone's posts.
Leah calls me to come into the kitchen so I can help her set the plates and cutlery up on the table as dinner is almost ready.
She serves up our food and sits down with me so we can eat our food.

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