48. Next Day

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I wake up because I feel someone stroking my face gently. I open my eyes and I see Leah smiling at me.
"Good morning gorgeous." She whispers.
"Hi baby. Did you sleep okay?" I ask her.
"More than okay. I feel so safe in your arms." She says while she sighs.
I crawl up to her so she can hold me. "Ditto." I say.
We don't say anything as she holds me, my head on her chest, listening to her heartbeat. I wish this moment could last forever, the thought of being separated again is hard to bare.
"I don't want to say goodbye." Leah sighs.
"Me neither. But this is our reality. We have to find a way, especially since you are my girlfriend now." I say with a cheeky smile.
Leah starts laughing. "Good thing for you that I'll do anything for my girlfriend."
I smile at her. She got me there.
"But, you have to promise me something."
"Okay..."
"You don't let our relationship stand in the way of the next move in your career. If you get a great offer from Germany or Spain or even the USA, you leave our relationship out of the decision because no matter where we are in the world, our love will always be there, okay? We will find a way."
I look into her eyes. I hear what she is saying and I do agree with her but my heart screams no. My heart screams it wants to be close to her.
"Promise me." Leah says.
"I can't promise you that. I can promise you I will do my best though."
"Ok. That will do." She says with a loud sigh.
"You are so career driven." I tell her.
She looks me deep into my eyes and smiles. "You read me totally wrong there."
"What do you mean?" I ask her.
"I'm family driven."
I look at her with slight confusion. Before I can ask her what she means she continues talking.
"I want what's best for my family, for the person I love. I want what's best for you baby."
"God, you're going to make me cry." I say as I give her a kiss on her chest, hiding my face.
She pulls me even closer, making me feel so safe and loved.
"I have a confession to make." Leah says all of a sudden.
"What kind of confession?"
"I almost turned in my armband."
"WHAT!" I say as I get up to lean on my elbows.
Leah sighs. "I've never felt like this before. You make me feel things I didn't even knew were possible, and it's great and it feels amazing.. but it also hurts. Everything that happened hurt so much, I couldn't imagine working with you and Russo on the pitch. I knew I couldn't keep my feelings out of it and that would make me a bad captain."
"You are only human Leah. We could have talked about it."
She stays quiet and looks straight forward. She takes a few seconds and she sighs and looks at me.
"You've got so much power over me, it scares me sometimes."
I lean in to give her a kiss on her lips. "I will never take advantage of that."
She smiles at me and climbs over me to get out of bed, her naked body standing in front of me.
"God. You talking about me having all this power.. I have to be honest, lying here, watching your gorgeous naked body makes me feel completely powerless."
She giggles and pulls me up. "You are cute." She says as she gives me a kiss on my cheek.
I smile at her. "We should get ready."
"I know." She sighs. "You take a shower first, I'm going to call my mum real quick."
"Tell her I said Hi."
She nods at me as she takes my robe off of the floor and puts it on. She even does a little pirouette, which makes me giggle. "Now you are just showing off in MY robe!"
She nods and jumps onto the bed with a smile.

I walk into the bathroom and turn on the shower. I can't believe she almost turned in her captain's armband. I'm caught up in my own thoughts when I hear a door slam. Oh my god, that's the room next to us. I rush over to the front door and look through the peephole.
Leah walking up to me, looking worried.
"Dani? Are you okay? What's wrong?"
"I heard a door slam." I whisper.
"Yeah?" Leah says. "Sorry mum, will call you back in a min." She hangs up the phone.
"It came from the room next to this one. I see someone but I can't see who it is." I say as I try and find a better angle.
"Baby, I don't understand what you are talking about."
"The room next to yours is occupied. I'm trying to see if it's someone we know."
Leah pushes me away softly and opens the door, her head sticking out, within a few seconds she closes the door again.
"Fuck." She says with a smile on her face.
"What is it?"
"It's Emily who has the room next to mine."
"Emily? The new staff member Emily? Oh my god Leah. What are we gonna do now?"
"Relax baby. Maybe she didn't even notice anything."
"Babe... You've got no idea how loud you were do you?"
She looks at me and her cheeks start to blush. "Apparently I don't. Well, I can be loud when I'm playing with myself too, so if she heard I can make a joke about masturbating or whatever. She would never know that you were here." She says with a cheeky smile.
She is trying to calm me down, it's sweet but it's not working.
"So, you always scream Dani when you masturbate?"
She tries to hold her laughter. "Fuck. Ok. Don't worry okay? I will figure something out." She gives me a loving kiss on my lips.
"Okay." I say while I give her a smile.
"Now hurry up with that shower, we need to be at breakfast in 20 minutes."
I hold her hand and pull her with me. "We can save some time by showering together."
She gives me her typical little laugh, she knows as well as I do that's a lie.
She walks with me and demands me a few times to keep my hands to myself. I smile at her.
"I mean it Dani, I can't get to breakfast being all turned on, especially if someone mentions the noises from last night."
"Okay." I say as I put my hands up in the air, making her laugh a little.
Within 10 minutes we are both out of the shower.
"Shall I go first? So you can call your mum?"
She nods and grabs her phone.
"See you there baby." She says as she gives me a kiss on my lips.|"See you there." I smile at her as I leave the room.

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