It's us against the world

43 - coffee shop

The next day, Beth takes me in her car to a little coffee shop just a little bit down the road from our house.

"Hey Beth, you ready to do this?" I ask, half laughing. This woman is literally ready for anything.

"Yeah mate, how's your wife?" She jokes in response.

I nudge her shoulder and laugh "she's not my wife. She's with Lia I think, she said they were gonna have some girl time. I don't know." I shrug.

"Yeah, they do that every year. No one actually knows what happens though." Beth laughs at how secretive they both have been by their plans, "anyway let's get this set up."

She sets the phone up against the flower pot and sets up a live. Immediately, thousands of people join the stream and I have never looked so shocked in my entire life.

"You alright mate?" Beth asks, laughing at my reaction.

"Yeah, just- so many people." I laugh, "you want anything to drink? I'll buy."

"Go on then, can you grab me an americano, thanks." Beth smiles, trying to keep the followers engaged.

"Yeah, be back in a couple minutes." I tell her as I walk off.

I grab us both the drinks, Beth a coffee, me a hot chocolate, and sit back down again.

"Right, so what have you actually dragged me to do." I laugh, remembering that I've been left completely in the dark about her plans.

"To put it in a short way, the fans are gonna ask questions and you're gonna answer them, well, as most of them you can though." She explains, trying to not waste too much time, "what did you get?" She asks laughing.

"Hot chocolate," I state, taking a sip and looking content by my choice.

"Weirdo. Okay, let's start now." She replies, trying to shake off my choice of beverage.

"First question: what got you into football?" Beth asks, reading a question off the screen.

"Um- well, I remember going to my first football match, which was a Chelsea game but I won't lie, that wasn't what got me into football. I went with my dad because he wanted to see the stadium and I remember getting the full kit and everything.

I even had one of them caps. It was the worst thing in the world.

Can you even imagine wearing Chelsea? Ugh- I just cant.

But anyway, I went to a different football match a couple months after with my step-dad and I remember so clearly, I got a Palace shirt which still does not fit me and it was Palace vs Arsenal.

I'm pretty sure it was like 4-1 Palace and was like a massive win to keep them up. So yeah, I think that's what got me into football because I really just loved the atmosphere and the game was so beautiful, I knew that I wanted to play it."

"Mhm, so betrayer?" Beth smirks.

"I mean, it's not really my fault. But I'm a gunner now. Won't change." I confirm for the fans.

"Okay. Second question: favourite number?" Beth smiles, already knowing the answer.

"Well, my favourite number is 8 because when I started following Arsenal my favourite player played with number 8 and it was just always lucky when I was doing stuff with numbers.

Like I remember once in maths I didn't know how to do a question in a test so I guessed the number 8 and it was right so I guess I've just kept it really." I laugh, knowing how ridiculous it sounds.

"Interesting. Thought you was gonna say my number, thought I was your favourite player." Beth says as she strokes her chin, deep in thought.

"You know, I actually have to deal with this child at home. She's such a pain." I tell the fans, slightly exaggerating the truth.

The responses come through fast, they're all pretty much agreeing with me until I see a comment by Leah who I didn't know was watching this.

Leah said "well, last time I checked, you were the child here and I never realised that it was Beth being the pain, it always seemed to come from you. 🤨"

"Wow, Leah, you could've at least backed me." I tell her as I roll my eyes in a huff.

"Yeah, yeah. We all know that you are the most annoying person" she types back making me laugh.

"You are so mean! Aren't you supposed to be out somewhere?" I ask, catching her out.

"Caught 😬" she replies making me shake my head at her comments that the public can see.

"Right, that's enough. More questions." Beth shoves, annoyed that Leah has ruined our moment.

We continue asking the fans for more questions for quite some time till one question catches my eye.

"Next question: who would you say your closest friends are on the team?" Beth asks, looking at me smugly.

"Well I would have to say it's definitely not Beth." Which makes her hit me on the arm and I act like I was gonna die but I continue, "nah I'm joking, Beth's one of my best mates I'm glad I've got her. Then I would also have to say Jordan because she's such a nice person and I really enjoy chatting with her and it's easy to have a joke with her. I would also have to say Leah is one of my closest friends," I tell the fans rolling my eyes and sighing sarcastically, "she's actually really helped me and she's really lovely. Everyone's actually really lovely and it's like a massive family. Oh- you know, Katie is so easy to joke with and take the mick out of but it's really all jokes, nothing serious. I do have to say, that all the girls, especially Beth, Leah and Jords, have really helped me discover myself and helped me during my time here and, like, discovering who you truly are is hard, so I'm glad I've got these nice babes to help." I smile, wrapping one arm around Beth.

"Wow. I really sound like a motivational speaker." I smile making Beth shake her head and laugh.

I notice my phone start to ring. I look at the caller ID and see that my dad is phoning me. Why? I haven't spoken to him in almost a year?

"Be back in a sec" I tell everyone, grabbing my phone and attempting to find a quiet place where I can seem like I'm still at home.

"My dad." I mouth to Beth looking confused.

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A/n: sorry for being so inactive but I'll get another one out today
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