Ella's pov Today was the day. The day I'd been waiting for since I was little. I woke up earlier this morning since the car would arrive at 7am so I was up for 5:45am. I didn't feel tired or anything, I just wanted the car to hurry up. After having a shower and drowning myself in deodorant and perfume I went downstairs. For breakfast I had avocado and eggs on toast again but I didn't mind as it killed a bit of time because I overestimated how long I needed. I ate the food even though I didn't feel hungry before I went back upstairs to brush my teeth and put it my suitcase. I lifted the case downstairs at quickly as possible trying not to wake anyone else up but they probably wouldn't even remember what day it was. It was 6:40am so I sat on the couch trying to control my excitement and scrolled through my phone until 6:55 when I decide to take my suitcase outside and wait there. Stepping out of the door the cold air hit me instantly causing me to breathe img sharply. I liked the door and put my house keys into the suitcase and sat myself on the large rock near the driveway. Before I knew it a black BMW pulled up outside and a suited man step out asking me if I was Ella to which I nodded. He grabbed my bag and laid it down in the boot before opening the back door insinuating for me to get in.
I knew the journey would be a kind of long one so I got myself comfortable and put in one AirPod incase the driver needed to speak to me. I found it kind of funny how I was being driven around and I didn't even have a licence, not that I legally could anyway. The ride was boring. There wasn't anything to do, I could've spent the whole time on my phone but I didn't want to come across antisocial. Not that we said a word to each other all journey but you get the point. Instead I opted for staring aimlessly out of the windows while having music ballast down my ears.
There's only so long of looking out of the window before it gets incredibly boring so I just picked up my phone. I got a bit too caught in my phone when I was Brought out of my trace by the driver saying "We're nearly here." "Ok, thank you." He just smiled into the mirror at my thanks before bringing his focus back to the road. I noticed we weren't in the middle of nowhere anymore. It was a city so we were definitely early there. This made my heart beat faster and the overthinking start again. I could now see the Arsenal training ground from a distance and I was bigger than it looks online.
Stepping out of the large car I thanked the man for everything and brought my bag to the door when I was greater by a woman slightly smaller than me, probably around 5"5. I was following her to Jonas's office which seemed to be an awfully long hallway. The woman told me to leave my suitcase out side and left me at the door by myself. I nervous knocked when the door was opened and I saw Jonas standing there. "Hello, I'm so glad you could make it." He said with a wide smile. "We'll I appreciate the offer sir." "Stop with the sir please, makes me feel old. Anyway so you know this is currently just for 7 days and we'll go from there. Okay?" "No worries." I said with a shaky voice. "Hey it's alright, you don't need to be nervous. All the girls are lovely, I'm sure you'll all get along great. Everyone's new at some point they get it. And there's a few young ones in there so maybe you'll have something in common." He ushered me out of the office and I collected my suitcase from beside the office entrance and followed behind him.
He was giving me a tour of the and we reached the locker room. He knocked checking there were no girls in there and walked in with me showing me where my training clothes were. He left me for a minute to get changed, he then walked in while i was in my knees getting my boots out of my suitcase when he said "Oh you brought your boots?" I was confused. "Sorry, was I not supposed to?" "No! It's fine," he said quickly "it's just we can supply you with boots if you'd like?" "Sure, I'm gonna bring mine just incase they hurt my feet though." I picked up my boots and carried them to the boot room. Where were endless boots, all in different colours, brands, studs. Jonas asked what's your size and I told him "a uk 6" "Go pick a pair." I was stunned and didn't seem to be moving so he fave me a little push. I picked pink Nike Zoom Mercurial Superfly 9 Elite FG
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The pink colour was really a deal breaker. It honoured Josie, she was the reason I kept going when things went bad. I want to do her proud and pink represented that. "I'll take these please." I said to Jonas "Excellent choice," He said. Im going to bring you to the rest of the team now, is that okay?" "Yep no problem." I walked beside him this time and as we were nearly at the pitch he said "say here please." I was curious to what was happening but I didn't move since I didn't want to get in trouble and fuck up this chance when I haven't even been here 1 hour. Jonas return with Leah Williamson. I was gobsmacked. I knew I would meet her during this process but it was crazy in person. That when my dream got even crazier and Jonas said "Ella, you'll be staying with leave for the week." "No way." I looked at him as if he was joking "Im 100% serious." I turned to Leah to introduce myself "I'm Ella Carter." "Leah Williamson" Leah said and I stuck my hand out but was pulled into a hug. Jonas walked with us to where the rest of the team were training and told them to gather around. I felt so nervous, everyone here were footballing stars and I was just me. "As I'm sure Leah told you all yesterday, we've got a new player. She's only on a 1 week trial as there's a few things i need to see but I'm gonna let her introduce herself." Said Jonas. "Um hi, I'm Ella Carter I'm 16. I go to Wentworth High school which is about a 2 hour journey from here." I wasn't to sure on what else to say so I looked at Leah. She put her arm around me and asked "anyone have any questions?" "Yeah," Jen Beattie said "did you say you were 16?" "Yeah but I turn 17 in a few months. I'm currently doing me GCSEs at school." Most of the girls shocked. This was confirmed when Lotte Wubben-Moy said "Wow, Arsenal Women's at 16 and doing her GCSEs. Can you even drive?" "Nope I can't even have my learners." I chuckled at the girls reaction when Jen spoke up again "YOUR LITERALLY HALF MY AGE!" From just this one conversation with the team i knew I'd love it here, all I had to do was prove myself.
