the love of my life - Pablo Gavi

love is growing

Pablo pov:I open the front door quietly. When I walk to the living room, I see Tess lying on the couch. I slowly walk towards her, but I see her waking up. I run to her and start tickling her. 

"Stop tickling, please Pablo!" she says between laughter. Then I stop. Her hair is all messed up. "Hey lioness, how are you?" I smile at her. 'I was sleeping peacefully, until you grabbed like a lion for your prey. And unfortunately, I was that prey.' She looks at me and pouts. 

"Are you sad?" I play the game. "Yea, now I want a cookie." She looks at me with a smile. I walk to the kitchen and look in the drawer. "I'm afraid all the cookies are gone." 

I hear Tess walking towards me. 'Have the cookies run out? That's impossible! We bought a pack the day before yesterday!' 'I think we just ate a little more cookies last night at movie night than we thought.' 

I see her looking at her body. "I need to work out tomorrow, those cookies make me even fatter, and I'm already fat." I grab her hands and look at her. 'Tess look at me. You are not fat and you don't need to work out. You are beautiful and you know that.' 'But Pablo, look at me. I'm fat and not strong at all.' 'Nonsense. You are perfect.' I press a kiss on her lips. "Perfect the way you look and the way you are." "Thanks Pablo, I love you so much." "I love you too, and you know that." I wink at her and then I look at the clock. 'It's 9 p.m. That means that the supermarket is closed. 

But,' I walk to the drawer and open it, 'we have everything to make cookies.' I put my hands on her hips. "Darling, should we do a date night?" She looks at me with a smile. 'I think you know the answer already. Afcourse!' 'Splendid. 

Can you sit in the living room? I've got a surprise for you.' I guide her to the living room. Then I sprint upstairs. When I'm in the bedroom, I open the wardrobe. There are 2 of the same pajamas. I grab them and walk downstairs. 

"Can you close your eyes mi vida?" "Of course babe." Then I walk into the living room and put her pajamas on her lap. "You can open your eyes." She opens her eyes and looks at me. Then she looks at my pajamas that I have in my hands. 

"You bought matching pajamas, you serious?" She hugs me. I smile. "I was hoping for such a sweet response." Tess looks at me. 'You know me so well, Pablo. And I love that.' She kisses me. I kiss her back. 

Once we have our pajamas on, we walk to the kitchen. "Okay, what kind of cookies you wanna make Tess?" "Chocolate chip cookies for sure. And there not very hard to make.' We grab all the ingredients and start baking.

 I'm putting butter in the mixing bowl when suddenly I see Tess coming towards me. I'm too late to duck away. A cloud of flour hits my face. I gasp and I hear Tess laughing loudly. I look at her and she starts laughing even harder. "You look so funny Pablo." I also grab a handful of flour and throw it in her face. I laugh, she laughs with me. 

"We need to take a selfie, for later when we're rotting on the couch like old people." She picks up her phone and takes a selfie. 

I just put the cookies in the oven. "And now we need to clean this terrible mess." I look at her with a smile. "You're right." I look around. Flour lies on the floor, eggshells lie abandoned on the kitchen counter. Melted chocolate on the stove. 

I smile. "We're so good at messing around." "Maybe too good." Tess says smiling. 'But I wonder if we're also that good at cleaning.' 'Let's start now, we have 20 minutes before the cookies are ready. We'll manage that, hopefully.' 'But,' I pick up my phone, 'we need music.' 'I cannot function properly without music.' I look at her with a smile and then I open Spotify. 

We sit together on the couch, the box of cookies is on the table. I pull Tess close to me. "How was your day mi vida?" "It was good, but I missed you really bad." "I'm sorry, darling." 

I absolutely hate it.  The football season is about to start and that means a lot of training. 2 hours every morning. Then a 1 hour break and then training all afternoon. There was also a meeting tonight to discuss everything. 

"And how was your day, Pablo?" "It was intense. The workouts are pretty hard and the fact that you are alone at home doesn't make it much easier. I would like to be with you all day long, but Xavi thinks otherwise. 

But tomorrow I have a day off. We can go on a picnic, go shopping, go to the beach or chill in our pajamas all day. You may choose.' 

'That sounds lovely. Whe can shopping in the morning, then have a picnic on the beach and when we get home, order food and chill in our pajamas.' I look at Tess with a smile. I know it's hard for her to choose. 

"That sounds perfect." I give her a kiss on the head. Tess shifts slightly so that she is as close to me as possible. Can you run through my hair with your fingers? I always like that so much.' In response, I gently run my fingers through her.