Sure Thing • Gavi

Chapter 6: Boys & Girls

🎶 Paper Rings — Taylor Swift 🎶

Gavi POV

"Ale! Blue shirt or white shirt?" I asked, very stressed.
"Blue. Why are you so chuffed anyways?" he asked.
"Yeah, who is this girl?" Fermín now asked, peeking into my room.
"I met her at the Nations League final" I answered, knowing that if I gave more information that would start a discussion.
"When? Who is she? How did you meet her? Don't be so secretive!" Ale chuckled.
"She interviewed me after the game" I admitted.
"WHAT?!?!" Mario now shouted from the room next to mine.

The guys all assembled around me quickly.
"Pablo! A journalist?! You stay away from those, I thought!" Javi now asked.
"She's not a sports journalist. Well, she was, but just for that evening. She does politics. She's cool, she's in Ibiza with friends, I thought it was a nice gesture to ask her out, don't read too much into it." I said, trying to downplay the situation.
"You never do something like this. Girls are like rose thorns for you, you carefully avoid them. And now you're going out with a journalist - wait, how old is she?!" Fermín asked.
"24 I think" I replied.
"You think? So she could also be 30 and look really young?! What are we going to talk with a group of 30-year-old girls?" Ale asked agitatedly.
"She's 24, I stalked her on LinkedIn" I said annoyedly.
"'Stalked her on LinkedIn' - do you even listen to yourself? That's social network for old people!" Mario laughed.
"Listen, Pablo. We love you, we just want to protect you. We'll go out now and make ourselves a picture" Fermín said and hugged me.
"It's just dinner. And it will be good for you guys to talk to real women, not girls who are running around half-naked doing stupid TikTok dances" I said and went to the bathroom to finish getting ready.

We had driven down to the sea with an Uber and the girls were already waiting for us in front of the restaurant, but I only had eyes for Vicky. I quickly snapped out of my trance and looked at my friends and their eyes had popped out and were laying on the floor by now. I grinned.

"Hey" I said and greeted Vicky with two kisses on the cheeks.
"Hi! These are Chiara, Irene and Ana" she said and introduced me to her friends, whom I also greeted.
"These are... Ale, Cristo, Javi, Fermín, you probably know him, Ale and Mario" I said and pointed at each of the guys.
We then made our way inside where I had booked a table under my name. Vicky and I continued chatting and our friends were just following us. Us two sat down in front of each other and I don't even know how the others had chosen their seating arrangements, as I only had eyes for her.

The waiter brought us our menus and I noticed that she was exchanging weird glances with her friends, maybe they didn't like fish. They had a lot of seafood here and I quickly scanned the menu for other options to tell them about, but the waiter blocked my action and asked if we were ready to order. The girls all ordered the same salad and I was a bit taken aback. Maybe they were those type of fitness girls, counting every calorie. But when I looked back at the menu, I understood why. It was probably because it was the cheapest thing on it, still costing a whopping 78€.
"Vicky. I asked you guys out, I'm paying, order what you want" I whispered.
"No, it's fine, but... thanks" she whispered back and smiled.
"Ok, but at least choose a nice wine" I whispered.
Why were we whispering?
She just grinned and nodded.
And indeed, she ordered a red wine and the waiter couldn't stop praising her for her choice. I think he especially couldn't stop looking at her cleavage and tried to drag out his stay at our table because of that. I was getting impatient, I definitely wasn't leaving a tip. Finally, we had all finished ordering and he disappeared.

"So, what have you guys done these days?" a girl asked, I think it was Chiara.
"Bit of partying, lots of eating and lots of swimming" Mario replied and grinned.
"Have you guys heard about Experimental Beach?" Vicky asked and we shook our heads.
"No, what is it?" I asked curiously.
"We went there today and we loved it. It's like a beach club, but... a bit more relaxed. Cool design, great cocktails and a bit more laid back than Nikki Beach or Pasha" she explained.
"Cool!" I said ecstatically, I was definitely checking that out, I loved discovering new places.
"Yeah, but... You guys are young, you probably want the full party experience when in Ibiza. Maybe that's a bit too chill for your... electric energies" she chuckled and did some weird gestures with her hands, that I interpreted as 'electric'.
"I'm electric all year, I can do a bit of relaxing on the few days off." I said and laughed.
The rest of the evening basically went on like that, it was Vicky and me talking, laughing and joking around, I didn't even notice the others.

Unfortunately, we had finished up way too soon and it was time to ask for the bill, which I covered with no discussion. When we were outside it was time to say goodbye, even though I didn't want to.
"Shall I call you girls an Uber?" I asked.
Vicky laughed.
"No, we're autonomous" she replied and walked over to some Vespas. She got on one and unlocked it, pulling out a helmet and putting it on her head. Fuck, she was so cool. Her friends were saying goodbye to mine in the meantime, but I was still standing next to her.

"We're going away to Formentera tomorrow, so I doubt we'll meet again this week" I said.
"Cool, enjoy it! The weather is so great, I love summer" she gushed. I almost wanted to say And I love you, but thankfully I stopped in time.
"Yeah, we should totally meet up when we're both in Barcelona again. I'm going home for a few days after Formentera and then I should be back" I said and crossed my fingers behind my back.
"Sure, let's just hear from each other then" she said and leaned in to kiss me on both my cheeks.  The girls fired up their engines and drove away, while waving at us.

They looked like a badass cool biker gang and us guys stood there dumbfounded, like little boys waiting for their mums to pick them up.