BROOKLYN BABY! aurélien tchouaméni.

vii. BRUNCH !

"BONJOUR." A familiar English accent says from behind Aurora. She jumps in her seat as she turns around to see who it was. Jude lets out a chuckle as he takes a seat at the other end of the table.

"Where are the others?" She asks, squinting her eyes.

"Behind you."

She turns around and sees Aurélien leading Rodrygo and Eduardo to their table. She turns back to Jude and says in a hushed tone, "Don't forget, Bellingham. Not a word."

"I'm more worried about how you're going to act when your brother sees that you're wearing a scarf and a sweater." Jude quietly says, gesturing to the white scarf wrapped around her neck and the button up cropped cardigan she wore. "It's hot. It's Monaco. Why are you wearing a scarf and a sweater, Aurora?"

"Yeah, Aurora!"

She looks up and sees Eduardo taking a seat next to Jude. She nervously laughs as she shakes her head, "I get cold easily."

Jude raises his eyebrow as he takes a sip of his water, "Sure..."

Aurora sees Aurélien taking a seat next to Eduardo which happens to be right next to her as well. "Morning." She quietly says.

He pressed his lips together and nods. "Good Morning."

Jude watches in disbelief at the two of them acting awkward. He scoffs and shakes his head as he looks over the menu. Right when Aurora was silently praying for something to happen to avoid the awkwardness, she sees Arthur and Charles with his girlfriend approaching.

"Bonjour." Arthur calls out as he waves at everyone and sits down next to his sister, "I'm Arthur, nice to meet you all." He says with a smile, excited to be meeting some big names from one of the biggest football clubs.

Aurora playfully rolls her eyes at her brothers antics. Alexandra and Charles take a seat in front of her. He looked at her with furrowed up eyebrows. "Why are you wearing a scarf? It's summer."

"Reminder, I am a fashion student, Charles. You wouldn't get it."

"It looks stupid. It's warm, Rora. Take it off."

"You have no opinion about fashion!"

"Yeah but I know that it's too hot to wear a scarf."

Before Aurora could realize it, Arthur unwraps the scarf from her neck and pulls it off. She gasps as she grabs the scarf from him and hits him with it. Charles looks at the purple marks littered on her neck with a surprised face.

"Aurora..."

"I just burnt my neck while curling my hair last night." She says with a smile, setting the scarf down in her lap. Aurélien glances at her with raised eyebrows.

Charles squints his eyes at her, "How do you burn yourself that many times?"

"I don't curl my hair often. Not used to the curling iron."

"Oh, true."

And with that, Charles seemed to have forgotten about it. Everyone else broke into conversation leaving just Aurora and Aurélien. "You realize that you're a hair stylist and you do know how to curl your own hair?" He whispers, leaning in so no one could hear.

"You of all people know why I lied." She whispers back.

"Yeah, about that-"

"We can talk about this later. Not in front of Charles and Arthur." She mumbles, glancing back at her brothers. She makes eye contact with Alexandra who looks at the two. "Be grateful Lorenzo isn't here either."