Emerald green eyed dream / Pablo Gavi

Chapter 43 - Gavi's pov

"Let's go, I'm not wasting a second to get us alone," I say and take her hand to lead us out of the stadium.

But we face a little problem as we are trying to exit from the locker room corridor. The game just ended so thousands of people are trying to get out as well. We have absolutely no chance to get past them since everyone recognises me and I still have my uniform on which certainly doesn't help.

"I should probably grab my bag and then we can try to get out from the back door," I say and turn us around.

"Yeah, that's a good idea. They will eat us alive otherwise," she answers.

There is a victory party going on inside the locker room and no one even notices I take my stuff and leave in a couple of seconds. We walk to the backdoor of the stadium to notice that yes we can get out of the stadium but the door only leads to an inner ward that has a brick wall around it so yeah we are definitely not getting out of here anytime soon.

"Should we stay here for a while so the people have time to leave and then try to get out without having to deal with reporters? It's peaceful out here and no one knows we are here," she asks.

"Yes, I have something to talk about with you and this is a good place and time for it," I say and pull her to sit next to me. Once she is comfortable and leans on my chest I start to speak, "Being without you was a nightmare for me. I didn't know if you were okay or not or whether you wanted to see me or not. I tried to come to your door to check on you but some guy turned me and pushed me back to the elevator and you didn't even answer my messages."

She looks at me with a lopsided smile and tells how England's team wanted to protect her from negative attention and how she almost got all her social media accounts hacked at once. I just stare at her as she speaks. She really didn't deserve any of that. I was living a mostly normal life while she had to battle with all that. It's so unfair. She is the sweetest person alive and I want to make sure she doesn't have to go through that alone anymore.

"I don't want to be without you anymore. It kills me. When I didn't hear anything about you for days I wasn't myself at all. I was a ghost of what I used to be just like after the night in Barcelona. I was searching for you for weeks and I got desperate because I couldn't find you anywhere. But still I couldn't get you out of my head," I burst out and turn her a little so I can put my hands to both sides of her face and look her straight in the eyes.

"When I saw you in our first game here I couldn't believe my eyes. The beautiful girl I have been searching for suddenly stands in front of my eyes. And now when I have been getting to know you I don't want to take my eyes off you at all. It's so weird I didn't even know you three months ago and now you're the light of my life," I continue.

I have been thinking about her so much it's not even hard to put my feelings into words. That is a new feature since I have been lacking in communicating how I feel my whole life. Falling in love has definitely done something to me.

Tears start running from her eyes and I brush them lightly away with my thumbs. "You have no idea. I missed you so much the last couple of days. I tried to focus on something else but I couldn't. I had no idea what you were thinking while we couldn't see each other but I hoped you didn't forget about me," she says and tears start to run from my eyes as well since her words are so sweet.

"How could I forget someone I'm in love with?" I ask and give her a light kiss.

"I don't know," she says and starts to cry harder. "You're so important to me it physically hurts not seeing you. After Barcelona I was dreaming about you for months. I thought there was something wrong with me since all my thoughts led to you even though I didn't even know your name back then," she continues.

"Princess, I'm here now and I'm not letting you go anytime soon. That's why I want to ask you something," I say.

I have probably never been this nervous in my life to ask something but here we are. Now is a perfect moment since we're both going through an emotional rollercoaster.

"You know you can ask anything," she says and looks at me.

"Will you be my girlfriend?" I ask.