never fall for brown eyes // Pedri

chapter 52

The next morning I wake up to heavy breathing coming from beside me. I open my eyes and see Pedri sleeping next to me, his hands still wrapped around me. The sun has risen and is shining through the windows bathing us in gold. He looks breathtakingly beautiful and calm as he is sleeping. I could get used to waking up like this. That dangerous thought pops into my brain and I quickly shove it away. Now is not the time to start feeling emotions that I shouldn't.

"Don't you dare to get up from this bed," Pedri complains and throws his hand to my stomach to keep me from moving. I look back to him and see that he has now opened his eyes and is glaring at me.

"What makes you think that I was going to sneak out?" I ask him, giving him a small smile. The last thing on my mind was to sneak out before he wakes up.

"I just don't want to find my bed empty as I finally decide to face reality. Especially if you'd be gone and replaced by a red angry bird, called Gavi, screaming at me for all the trauma that we've caused," He explains and laughs.

I start laughing at the image that he has now created in my head. "Oh will you stop it, we might've actually traumatised him. And that's not funny!" I complain and hit him with my pillow.

"Oh that's how you wanna play chiqui? I'll never back down from a pillow fight, so be prepared!" He declares and aims his pillow to hit me.

We end up having a little pillow fight on his bed. Which only ends with his lips on mine and his body rests on top of me.

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Pedri and I decide to eat breakfast together in the hotel's breakfast hall. Something we've never done before. We've never been together in public like this. He's holding my hand as we walk to the hall that is packed with players. I mean, we've been on a double date, which in our case wasn't really a date, and I've sneaked into his team's bus, but we've never been this public. Even the date he planned was out of the prying eyes.

Almost every player who we pass turns to look at us. I hope that Mason or anyone that I know is not here, especially Jude because he for sure would run to my brother after even glancing at me and Pedri. As much as I love him, pushing me under the bus was not cool.

"Are you sure that this was a good idea?" I ask Pedri when we pass some Spanish players who all stare at us. I'm not used to getting a lot of attention and this is just freaking me out.

Pedri pulls me to his side and wraps his hand around my shoulder. "I'm just marking my territory, so that none of my teammates ever suggest you to Gavi or anyone else," He whispers to my ear while giving a smug smile to the others.

I just laugh at his response and shake my head, this man is unbelievable. We get some breakfast and find an empty table to sit at. "Why is everyone looking at us? I could be your sister or something, why is it such a big deal that you're with a girl?" I whisper under my breath.

"Chiqui, you are most definitely not my sister. And it's not a big deal, I think everyone's just on their toes after what happened," he shrugs and lifts my chin with his hand so that my eyes meet his. "And if you are so afraid that they'll think you're my sister, I could always give them a little taste of what we do behind closed doors," he looks straight into my eyes and gives me a wicked smile. I'm dead. Definitely not breathing anymore and I think my heart just hammered out of my chest.

Our moment is interrupted by Gavi, who actually looks like a red angry bird at the moment. "When you two are done making everyone else throw up their breakfast, me and Pedri should get going. We have a game today, and I did not sleep well last night," he says and looks like he's about to murder us.

I think I've gone red from the top of my head to my toes. After last night's little incident, Gavi is the last person I want to meet. Pedri is just giving him a sly smile as he takes my hand in his and starts drawing lazy circles on my palm. He must've noticed how embarrassed I am.

"Buenos días Mr. I barge into a room without knocking first! I'm sorry to hear your night wasn't as good as ours," Pedri goes on and I kick him under the table. No need to overshare.

"He's all yours, good luck on the game," I shrug and throw my hands in the air as if to surrender. I quickly get up because I don't want to hear where this conversation is going.

I wonder if Gavi's mood is because of us stealing his room last night or Evelynn still not replying to him. I'm pretty sure it has less to do with us than it does with his princess.

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"I'm back mi amor!" I announce as I open the door to mine and Evelynn's room. I decided to take some fruits and pastries with me from breakfast to cheer up my bestie after abandoning her for the night.

"Good morning to you as well. Did you enjoy your little sleepover? Which I assume it was, or did you sleep in the corridor?" She laughs at me and raises her eyebrows.

"Oh you bet I did, except for I didn't get too much sleep," I laugh at her as she pretends to cover her ears.

We end up gossiping about my night and eating the breakfast that I brought with me. Evelynn seems to have cheered up from yesterday and she even laughs at my jokes. A thing that I notice is that she never mentions Gavi during our chat. I wonder what's going on between them. Surely she cannot think that Gavi is embarrassed to be seen with her or that what the tabloid wrote is right. I'm sure she's more than just a World Cup fling to Gavi. If it turns out that I'm wrong and being optimistic, which I'm never, I will murder that little angry bird. So I better be right.