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PART ONE - CHAPTER ONE; DECLAN RICE

PART ONE – CHAPTER ONE;

DECLAN RICE

5th June – 10th June 2021

The Euro's summer was finally here. It was long awaited and highly anticipated. Declan Rice, Mason Mount, Ben Chilwell and John Stones were all counting their lucky stars that they had been included in the squad selection and they all just hoped they could make their country proud.

So as the first week of camp starts they finally get a chance to soak it all in, that they had finally made it.

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"Jeez Declan, is there anyone that you haven't told?" said Daisy as he smiled wide at her after telling two of the kit team that Daisy was in fact his girlfriend, a phrase he had been using for the past couple of days to anyone they might possibly meet, or on some occasions just passing by.

"Baby, I just wanna show you off that's all" he tells her as his arm that sits around her shoulder pulls her in closer, her head leaning into his chest as her hand around his waist holds him tightly too.

"There's showing me off and then there's walking around like I'm some trophy" she sniggered as she looked up at him smiling as he grinned at her.

"Just happy that's all Dais" he said smiling at her "just so happy you're here" he admitted, already feeling like this camp would be so different than all the others.

He was so used to heading off to camp to hang out with his mates, although he would always feel a sense of home sickness for being separated from his family. However, he never felt that way about leaving Laura. She would always wish him luck and they would message in the morning and night but nothing much else, they seemed to work like that.

Whereas with Daisy the thought of the bare minimum contact with her, before he knew she obviously had the job, was killing him. But now he had her with him and everything felt right again.

"Me too" she admitted as they kept walking towards where Daisy's room was, passing the hand painted portraits on the wall as Dec spots his one.

"Look at that" he points at it while looking at Daisy "it was when I had my old hair, shocking trim" he said with a laugh as Daisy laughs too.

"It wasn't that bad" Daisy said with a smirk still on her lips.

"I can't believe you actually kissed me looking like that" he smirks again as she laughs, flashbacks in both of their minds of that summer in Dubai where they first crossed that line.

"Maybe I just liked you for you" she said smiling at him as he turned her to face him completely now, as she leans up to kiss his lips before pulling back and stepping out of his grasp "even with that completely shocking trim" she winked at him before walking ahead as he burst out laughing watching her go.

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"So, are you still going to travel back and forth?" Declan asked as he sat on Daisy's bed after they had made their way up here, once Dec had told Pickford as they passed him on the stairs that Daisy was his girlfriend, which his response was 'sound mate' before walking away, Dec's hands gripping onto her thighs as she looked down at him.

"I'm not sure" she admitted, having been thinking this through since she got to St George's Park.

Dani had told her that even though she would only be needed for training days and not match days or rest days, as they would normally use old photos, she could either travel back home the night before the match and come back up either late the day after a match or the following morning, or if she wanted to she could just stay here for the full 6 weeks.