Juliette has attended every Arsenal match with her Grandma since she could remember. Since her Grandma's passing she had kept up the tradition.
Becoming a regular she begins to catch a certain defenders eye...
Will it be a blossoming romance? Or w...
After Jonas' pre warm up meeting we head out onto the pitch as I run out, I hear the few member's of the crowd clap. I instantly start looking round trying to spot where my family are. I look up at the stands spotting Mum and Jacob I mean how could I not with her bright red hair and her frantic waving. I blow kisses back to my mum my eyes scanning along the line of my friends and family, and I see Jules who is smiling and waving, I smile and wave back before turning around to crack on with the warmup.
After the warmup we head down the tunnel to the changing room. Getting changed into our red home shirts and white shorts. I read the poem that my Mum wrote me. A bit of superstition, but it's important to me! We line up and headed out of the tunnel, the Emirates Stadium erupted.
The game started and within what felt like seconds Chelsea scored. We regrouped and fought for the next 30 minutes. 1 minute before half time Caitlin scores! Going into half time 1-1. The second half commences, and Chelsea are all over us. So much so that Sam Kerr dribbled past all of us shot and scored. Disappointment took over all of us. Regrouping once again we decided this isn't the end score this can't be, we won't let it be. We fought for the last 10 minutes of the game, then from the corner of my eyes I see Stina sprint towards the goal, the ball leaves her foot and lands in the back of the net. The stadium goes wild, followed by the full time whistle! We've equalised, a draw! Everyone's cheering and we have our team chat quickly followed by our lap of the pitch to thank everyone for coming.
After the game we're doing our lap of honour and I hear north London forever being played through the speakers, it's as we reach the hospitality box that my friends and family are in and I see my mum paired with Jules and my brother Jacob sharing an Arsenal flag draped around all of them both singing "NORTH LONDON FOREVERRRRR, WHATEVER THE WEATHERRRRR THESES STREETS ARE OUR OWNNN" Mum spots me still singing and elbows Jules who smiles and waves at me. I feel an arm come around my neck and look to see its Katie, I smile and we both wave back as Katie's family are next to mine and everyone's singing so we all join "AND OUR HEARTSSSS WILL LEAVE YOU NEVERRRRRR WHATEVER THE WEATHER" I sing along with the 40,000 others laughing to myself.
We sign a few autographs and take photo's with the fans and then head back down to the changing rooms. The only way I can describe it is like utter chaos! Heading into the changing rooms I go and grab my toiletries bag before making my way to the showers, and everyone was waiting for one, it was a hot sweaty match! I eventually shower, looking at my phone and seeing it's taken me 20 minutes, I pop my tracksuit on and fling my hair up in a bun. I grab my phone and then make my way out to the corridor where I see one of our security members who escorts me as there's still lots of fans around. Making my way up the stairs and down the corridor I thank the security before opening the door to the box where my family are. As I open the door I hear
"There's my baby!" and before I know it I'm engulfed in a hug with my mum and brother.
"Hey, sorry I took longer there was a queue with the shower" I say
"Leah, Jules was just about to leave I told her to stay!" Mum says with a frown.
"You're leaving already?" I turn to Jules seeing a sheepish smile on her face.
"I've got work tomorrow morning and need to get home!"
"Well quickly pop in for a photo and then you can go" I ask raising my eyebrow.
"Of course, pass me your phone" I go to grab my phone from my pocket before looking to the waitress.
"Would you mind taking a picture of us?" the girl looks at me mouth wide open and eyes wide open, I hear Jules laugh next to me. Before making her way to go and stand next to the girl, I reach out wrapping my hand around her shoulder pulling her into my side.
"When I said pop for a photo I meant for you to be in it you doughnut" I laugh.
"Oh hahaha whoops"
"Funny face's everyone 3,2,1" the picture is taken and I thank her before taking back my phone.
"Thank you for the tickets again it means a lot the experience was incredible!" Jules says before turning around to leave.
"Wait hang on!" I say "I'll walk you out I wanted to chat to you about something"
"It's probably not a great idea for you to go outside of this door in The Emirates Stadium" I laugh thinking to myself yep you're right!
"That's true, I was just wondering if we could meet up for a coffee just to chat about the PR side of stuff before the meeting next week. I just feel that in that meeting you might not get a lot of time to talk with a certain someone around and I would just value your insight into everything if that would suit you"
"Of course, that sounds good, just text me any availability you have. It's probably best that the coffee chat doesn't get spread about, it's just easier to keep it between us less drama at work!"
"Okay great, well I'll shoot you a text tomorrow and we shall arrange it all" I ask, Jules nods before saying good bye and turning around and leaving.
I feel someone appear next to me I look and see my mum.
"Hey, you okay?" I ask her leaning my head on her shoulder.
"Jules is lovely, got on like a house on fire with Jacob!"
"Yeah she's great, one of the best people in the business!"
"You should invite her to the next one she was a hit with everyone" I nod. "Well go and collect your things and then we can head off, are you coming to stay tonight?"
"I am if that's okay, I'll go grab my stuff and meet you by the car park?" Mum nods before I say goodbye to everyone before going to grab my bag from the changing room.
Later that night I'm all cosy in my childhood room. I pull out my phone responding to texts and notifications. I go to look at my pictures seeing the picture that was taken earlier that night. I go onto my Instagram before deciding to upload it onto Instagram stories and add the caption 'My Team'.
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I go to tag my Mum and brother in it before thinking I'll tag Jules in it as well. Was that weird? I don't think so... It was a work thing, right? I post it and go to Jule's profile clicking the request button to follow her. Again, purely professional right?!
