"Ferran, is this allowed?"
"Not really" he shrugs. "But you aren't the first girl we are sneaking into the hotel, and won't be the last" he smirks.
"What if they see us?"
"I'll deal with that, don't worry."
"And what if he doesn't want to see me?"
"He will, Val. For the past month he's been looking like shit again, like when they made him play every game under the sun. But you should have seen his face on the bus on our way to the stadium. His smile. That was my Pepi."
"You need to stop calling him that, he doesn't like it."
"I know" Ferran winks. "And this is his room."
"How did you manage to get the key?"
"I can be very charming" he smiles.
"That charm didn't work on Luis Enrique's daughter, did it?" I chuckle.
"I had not missed your witty comments, Val. Anyway, go make yourself comfortable, he'll be here any moment now. And try to fix things before fucking. Or first fuck and then talk. I don't know, whatever works for you."
"Thank you, Ferran" I say, rolling my eyes.
"My pleasure" he replies, taking my hand and kissing it like he always does before saying goodbye. "See you around, Val."
"Bye" I say, walking into the room.
Just like his own back home, it is an organized mess. There are shoes on the floor, a towel thrown on a chair, a phone charger hanging from the bed's headboard... And a book on the bedside table. "Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban."
"You've kept reading" I smile, touching its cover.
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"You spend hours traveling and in hotel rooms. Why don't you pick up a book instead of playing FIFA all the damn time?"
"Because reading is boring."
"Not if you find a genre you enjoy. For example, what movies do you like watching?"
"Anything Marvel" Pedri says, his eyes fixed on the tv.
"Those are comics, you could read them."
"But if I've already watched the movies, what's the point?"
"Sometimes, if not always, the books are better than the movies."
"Sure. And 5-0. That will be happening in real life very soon" he smirks.
"Militao and Alaba won't allow it" I reply, sticking out my tongue. "But that's not what we were talking about. What other movies do you like?"
"I don't know... Harry Potter?" he shrugs.
"Have you read the books?"
"They are for kids."
"Said the old man" I laugh.
"You know what I mean" he says, trying to tickle me.
"Pedri, don't" I warn him, moving away from him. "But you've given me an idea."
"Tickling contest followed by sex?"
"No."
"Then I'm not interested."
"We are gonna have our own movie and book club."
"What?"
"You'll read a book, then we'll watch the movie together, and then we'll discuss which one is better."
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In The Name of Love
FanfictionSummary: The plan that night was just to have fun and try to forget. And Valeria (or Val as everyone calls her) did forget. But what she didn't expect, was to do it with someone younger than her. Someone who also happened to be a football player, an...
