Something real- Pablo Gavi

Chapter 22

I woke up with a massive headache. I guess crying yourself to sleep does that to you.

I rolled over and looked at my alarm clock

Great it's 10:30 already

I roll back over and bury my face in my pillow

I sit like that very still for a good three minutes
Enjoying my three minutes

Then boom my door flys open and hits the wall startling me up

"Come on Carmen you can't just sleep forever" Jean says walking into my closet grabbing clothes for me to change into

"No. Please no I want to sleep I don't want to do anything please I'm begging." I say pleading

"You should know it's bad because mama Antonella had to text me to come over to get you up and -" he looks down at his watch as he pauses

"Good god we are going to be late" he says rushing grabbing my dads jersey and some jeans and throwing it at me

"Hurry up and change you have two minutes" he says

"I'm still confused what is going on" I ask standing up

"There is a game, champions league. PSG is playing Bayern and your supposed to be there now" he screeches pushing me into the bathroom

He shoves me in my bathroom and slams the door

I reopen the door quickly and shout at him
"Stop slamming my doors and you better be buying me coffee" I yell

"Whatever" he yells back

I close the door, change and put on lip balm

I look in the mirror

Well this is the most unattractive I've ever looked I think to myself

I walk out and grab my psg zip up

"Let's go mierda" I say to him motioning to the door to my room

"Good thing I have your brush in my car still" he says laughing

I flick him off and walk out to his car

He unlocks it and we get in.

We pull out the driveway and go grab coffee before arriving at the stadium

We walk in and go to the family area
Just before kick off. whew

My mom waves us over as she's sat next to Bruna

"Oh my god Carmen I thought you were really going to miss it, everything alright niña?y mom says giving me a hug

"Yeah everything is ok, I just slept in" I say

"Well good thing your here because otherwise Ney would be all whiney, you know him" bruna says

"Yeah I heard he was all cranky after the last match I missed" I joke while giving her a hug

I go back and sit next to jean and he's playing iPad games with ciro

"It's so concerning that everyone likes my brothers more than me" I joke

"They are just better don't worry it's nothing personal tho" he says laughing

The game kicks off and immediately off the bat stuff has already gone wrong.

Kimpembe just got fouled hard and was taken off the field in a stretcher.

They say he hurt his ankle so bad start.

At halftime Bayern is up 1-0

Ay halftime we stay in our seats
I'm really tired so I lean my head on jeans shoulder

"It's alright, I know you haven't picked up your phone today but nobody is talking about it anymore" he whispers

"Mhm" I say

A camera pans over the family section

Probably just to see reaction from the previous half's results
I never bother to pay attention when that happens
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The match ends 2-0 Bayern winning

We walk out of our seats and towards the tunnel

Jean had to leave early to help his sister with stuff

So I was alone again sorta

In the tunnel right outside the changing room player started tricking out one by one
The first to come out that I was close with was Marquinhos

He had this defeated look on his face

It's destroying when you see certain people sad like that

I walk over and give him a hug

"Don't worry, you win some you lose some that's how the game works" I say

"Yeah it's just different this time" he says

I nod and he goes over to Carol and they begin to speak

Next come my father and Neymar

"Carmen, I thought you died child" Neymar say walking up and hugging me

"Still alive, good game" I say to him as he releases me

"Were we at the same game?" He asks jokingly

"Not funny Ney, I'm being serious you guys fought hard" I say

"There is always more to be done" he says shrugging before moving to Bruna

"Hello niña, I'm very happy you made it" my father says

" I wouldn't miss it" I say hugging him

"It was a tough game it will be better in the second leg hopefully" he say rubbing the back of his neck

I agree with him and we remain talking and waiting

"Wait why haven't we left yet?" I ask

"Oh warren is coming back with us so we gotta wait." My dad says

" ohhhh" I respond

Warren comes out and I greet him the same way I greeted the other and then I remembered I had a phone I hadn't checked since last night.

I looked and saw over 250 notifications

Hell no. I thought to myself
I shoved my phone back into my pocket and got in the car with warren and we began talking about the game.