ON HOLD! to the top! | élisa de almeida.

chapter nine.

the athletes had finished training and they were in the changing rooms, some of them freshening up with the showers and some just changing.

"oh yeah, you got a new agent, right elisa?" tabitha asked.

"mm," elisa replied as she put her t-shirt on.

"apparently she's dating that famous attorney," laurina joined in when elisa quickly whipped her head towards her.

"attorney? which attorney?"

"camila," laurina replied.

elisa scoffed and poked her tongue through her cheek as she finished getting ready.

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jia got out of the uber that parked in front of the psg building with a bakery bag in her hand. she put it down on one of the steps outside of the building as she stoood there and waited.

almost immediately, she heard a car pull up behind her and a woman's voice call her name.

"jia!" the said girl turned around and saw camila who had just come out of her car.

"oh, camila?" jia asked in response.

camila walked up to her, "did you come here to see me? or is this just a coincidence?"

jia laughed nervously, "ah, i don't know."

"well, i'm happy you came to find me!"

"actually..." jia said with a nervous smile.

"nevermind."

"yeah... my player is here."

"your player?"

jia nodded enthusiastically on the topic about her player. a few seconds after, both of their heads turned as they heard the door of the entrance swing open. it was elisa.

"why are you so slow?" jia asked the older. however, elisa just grabbed her wrist and walked away with her - stopping when they reached the pavement across camila.

"is it true?"

"is what true?"

"that you're dating camila? because i told you if you have any association with her, i don't want to be involved with you."

"elisa de almeida!" camila raised her voice slightly from across the street, "let go of her hand."

elisa ignored her and continued looking at jia, "tell me. are you dating camila and pretending not to just to get me as your client since you're a beginner?" camila walked up to them as the footballer continued: "you really are a strange woman."

jia scoffed, "i'm not but so what if i was?"

"if you were, you can wave that contract goodbye and stop treating me as a buy one get one free offer."

"truthfully, i don't know why you're so angry."

"because you don't know me and camila's past so just because you want someone successful to make your amateur profession bloom, it doesn't mean you can toy me around."

"i'm not with her!"

elisa just stared at the shorter with anger. belle saw the three and furrowed her eyebrows as she walked up to them. "elisa? what happened?" she sensed the tension between all of them and took a hold of elisa's wrist - slowly dragging her away; however, elisa's eyes stayed glued onto jia.

camila sighed as she held jia's wrist, "you don't need to care," she whispered in the agent's ear who was also looking at elisa.

"i'm very thankful, i'm so thankful i could start crying," elisa said sarcastically.

"let's go," camila said to jia, wrapping her arm around her shoulders as they turned and started walking away.

"camila moreau." elisa said as camila sighed and stopped before turning around.

elisa started walking forward towards her, "i won't beat you up, i'm not going to. so come closer."

camila scoffed internally, "just leave."

elisa leaned in to her enemy's ear - whispering: "how long do you think you can cover this up?" she walked away after that.

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belle and elisa both sat on the bleacher's on the psg yard.

"say something. is that woman camila's girlfriend?" belle asked. elisa just stayed silent as belle sighed and continued, "you fool. did you know about it before signing?"

"before signing what?"

"what do you mean what? the agent's contract!"

"i don't know," elisa simply replied, chin resting on her arms that were crossed on her knees, "don't bother about my problems."

"don't bother about you?" belle practically scolded her best friend.

"i don't mean it that way. that woman... she's not even an agent, she's a cheat!" she said angrily.

"when you signed, you didn't know she was camila's girlfriend?"

"she kept saying she's not."

belle sighed: "cancel the contract."

"how can i cancel it now?"

"who's it because of that you're in this situation right now?"

the footballer sighed deeply, "why is that jerk here in the first place?"

her best friend gulped nervously, "uh, i was just about to tell you. camila, she's our team's legal consultant."

"what? legal consultant?"

belle nodded, "i heard that she has some connections with the club president."

elisa squeezed her eyes shut in stress and dug her hands through her hair, "ugh! this is hell!"