Lover - an Ona Batlle story.

Chapter twenty four: are you okay?

Coach:

"Nothing" she mumbles looking down at the floor and I raise my eyebrows

"And it's sunny outside"

"What?" She says "no it's not"

"Exactly" I reply "whatever it is, It's not nothing"

"I don't want to talk about it" she mumbles sternly

"When can we then?"

"Ferdinand!" She says raising her voice "stop going on!"

I look at her shocked, That's the first time in months she's yelled like that and I still don't even know why.

"Okay"

I lean back in my seat and sigh before closing my eyes, finally the coach moves and everyone begins to talk with on another.

Her hand makes its way up to mine and I pull away stubbornly, That's how she knows she's upset me.

Hotel:

After around 20 minutes we get off the coach before grabbing our gear and walking inside to our rooms to change. I walk off before Ona gets the chance to speak to me and make my way into our room, I turn the lights on and sit on the end of the bed waiting for her to come in.

She doesn't.

After a couple hours I change into some Pjs and get comfy under the cover, Turning the TV on I hear the door open and close. She walks in and places her stuff on the floor before going in the bathroom to change into Pjs.

"Hey" she smiles apologetically

"Hi" I reply before turning on my side

She sighs before laying down next to me and wrapping herself around me. I don't move, I let it happen.

"I'm sorry for how I behaved" she whispers whilst rubbing circles on my hand

I stay silent

"I know it was rude but I was just stressed about a few things"

I nod my head and she turns me to face her before tucking a strand off hair behind my back.

"Forgive me?" She asks and I roll my eyes

"Fine I suppose"

A small smirk appears on both our faces and we laugh together whilst hugging.

"I didn't really care too much, I just wanted you to feel bad" I grin and she opens her mouth pretending to be hurt

"Wow!" She smiles whilst pretending to be hurt

We laugh some more and I put my hand on her cheek before softly kissing her, she kisses back and then we lay in silence for a few moments

"Have you had dinner?" She asks and I shake my head

"I'm not hungry" I smile

She nods and it goes silence one more

"Ona" I whisper "can you promise me you'll tell me what's going on soon?"

"I don't know" she replies blankly and I sigh.

She gives me a small smile and I decide it's best to go to bed so that we don't get into another argument. I roll on my side and she pulls me up against her before kissing the back of my neck, I close my eyes exhausted from the game.

Breakfast & Training:

"chicas de la mañana" I smile
(Morning girls)

"mañana" they all reply whilst eating breakfast
(Morning)

I make some toast and sat down on a table of four with Ona jenni and Alexia, we sat in silence for a while until we finished our food.

"How'd you sleep?" Alexia asks me and Ona and we nod our heads

"Not bad" she smiles whilst sipping some orange juice

We finish our breakfast before getting ready and going out to training ahead of our next match. I sit on the stand with the others whilst Jorge talks on and on about stuff which no one listens too.

We grab a ball between our pairs and begin warming up, I was finally with Ona again this time. I pass the ball to her and she reluctantly passes it back, We continue doing this before she walks over to the drink stand and takes a big gulp of her drink. I thought nothing of it seeming as it was Hot here in Australia but her behaviour got weirder..

"Ona you okay?" I ask standing over her body, she has her hands on her knees and she's breathing heavily

"Sí" she groans before standing up properly and getting ready to do laps around the pitch

I stand besides her and we begin our runs - we started off slowly before fully sprinting. After 7 minutes Ona starts to collapse. I hadn't noticed as I was in front, Neither did any of the other girls; That was until I look behind to see her lying on her side gasping for air. I run back and look up to see Jorge strolling over

"She's fine" He smiles and I raise my eye brows "she's being an attention seeker"

"No she's not!" I shout, I put my hand on Ona's shoulder and wobble it a bit to see if she was awake.

"I'm fine" she stutters slowly sitting up and looking into Jorge's evil eyes.

I shake my head before helping her up and insisting I take her to the medic room however she refuses the idea of it and instead walks to the drinks..

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