Keira's POV:
As we pull into the Man City training ground, I can see a bunch of the other players already there and starting to load up on the bus. All of the City girls decided to take one bus to St George's Park instead of lots of cars.
When Lucy pulls into a spot, we all start to get out of the car, Lucy gets the suitcases and bags, while Charlie being her outgoing, friendly, self goes over to say hi to the other players and I get Elleã out of her car seat. "Where is your shoe ?", I ask her looking around the car for it as it seems to have disappeared somehow. She just giggles. "Charlie, have you seen Ellie's shoe ?", I call out. "Oh, yeah it's in the car", Charlie replies back aimlessly. "Where in the car ?", I ask again, as I still can't see it. "Under her seat obviously", Charlie replies back grinning and turning back around to the others. "Hmm, I think your big sister was helping you hide your shoe Ellie", Ellie just giggles again and tries to unbuckle herself from her seat. I strap her shoe back on her foot before unbuckling her from her seat and lifting her out of the car. I put her down on the ground and hold her hand as we walk over to everyone.
"Hey guys, are we almost ready to get going ?", I ask out to the group. "Almost, we're waiting on one person" , Alex answers. "Oh, let me guess, Jill", "Obviously", Hempo replies. We all load up onto the bus. I sit down next to Georgia with Elleã on my lap. Lucy sits in front of me with Demi and Charlie is across from her sitting next to Alex.
Soon enough Jill comes bounding onto the bus with a coffee in hand beaming happily. "I'm here", she grins. "Right well sit down so we can leave", Demi tells her. "Hey, Alex I wanted to sit next to Charlie", Jill pouts. "We'll you should've gotten here early Jilly", Alex happily replies while wrapping her arm around Charlie's shoulders, pulling her into her. Charlie just grins up at Jill. "Maybe next time Jilly" she tells Jill. Jill seems happy with that answer and moves down to sit next to Ellen. The bus pulls out of the training ground and the journey begins.
15 minutes into the drive, Elleã starts squirming in my lap. "Mama" she grabs my jumper and holds it tight in her hand. "Yes ?" I ask her, "want mumma" she tells me, "you want mummy ?", I ask her, she nods her head. "Luce ?", I nudge Lucy's seat in front of me. "Yeah" she replies. "Ellie wants you", I tell while Ellie fidgets in my lap trying to see where Lucy is. I stand her up in my lap so she can see the top of Lucy's head. She squeals in delight spotting Lucy smiling up at her. "Hello, do you wanna come over to me", Lucy asks Ellie, "yeah you do". I slowly stand up and pass her over the seat to Lucy, she giggles and everyone chuckles watching her. "Lottie !!!", she squeals when she sees Charlie across the aisle, clapping her hands, she continues pointing out who she sees. "Alex", "Jilly", "Emi"..... She seems quite happy with herself for remembering everyone's names. After calling out everyone's names she settles into Lucy's lap and starts looking out the window, pointing out all the trees and clouds she sees.
I turn to G sitting beside me, "are you looking forward to the camp G ?", I ask her. "Yeah it'll be good to see everyone again and train with each other again", she replies back. "Yeah I've missed everyone", I agree with her.
As the journey continues conversations float through the bus and some people even decide to go to sleep, Charlie being one of them, leaning against Alex, using her hoodie as a blanket. "Let me take a picture of her just to have in case I need it", Jill whispers in fear that Charlie might wake up. "In what case would you need a photo of her sleeping ?", Lucy asks her. "You never know", Jill replies back snapping a quick photo of Charlie before sitting back down.
As we pulled into St George's Park, everyone started scrambling around the bus, grabbing everything they owned that they had mislaid during the journey. Charlie was awake by this stage and was gazing out the window. As soon as the bus came to a stop, Jill ran down the aisle in an attempt to be the first of the bus. "She's such a child", I hear Ellen state. As I get up from my seat I pass Lucy who has Elleã cuddled into her chest, her tiny fingers holding onto her shirt. I smile gently at her. "You take her, I'll grab the bags" Lucy whispers to me. "Are you sure you want to move, she looks so cute", Georgia asks, "she'll be fine as long as she stays asleep", Lucy replies back, while carefully handing her over to me and getting up. We get off the bus and Lucy grabs our suitcases. As we all trudge up the steps, we can see the camera man filming our arrivals, everyone says hi as they walk past. "Ah the Bronze-Walsh crew have arrived", he says, Charlie gives him a high five and me and Lucy grin up at him, Ellie is thankfully still asleep.
We make our way inside where there are staff there welcoming us. We continue walking through and saying hi to all the staff, we drop our suitcases and bags in a room that seems to be almost filled to the brim with other suitcases and bags and god knows what else, as we walk down the hallway we can hear the noise from the common room. "I don't think I want to go in there with Ellie, I'll probably be attacked in attempts to see her", I tell Lucy, who replies back saying "I'll go in first with everyone else and let them calm down and then I'll tell them to be quiet when you walk in because this little one is asleep", while giving Ellie a gentle kiss on the top of her head. "I love you Luce", looking over at her and pulling her in for a kiss. "I love you more" she replies. I look away and notice Charlie standing in front of the closed door, looking at us. "You can go in Charlie, no need to wait for us", I tell her. "I want to go in with the you guys" she says nervously. "Well I'm gonna wait out here with Ellie just so the noise dies down a bit, but Luce is gonna go in, if you want to go with her ?", I explain to her, she just nods her head and looks at the floor. Just as Lucy goes to open the door, Charlie comes to stand next to me. "I'll wait with you" she quietly says. Lucy looks over at us, with a questioning look on her face, I just tell her to head in and look down at the little toddler sleeping soundly in my arms and the almost teenager with her arm wrapped around my waist, looking around the hallway, before settling to looking down at the floor again.
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