Teenage Dream • Fermín Lopez

Chapter 7: Start of the Trip

🎶 Alane — Robin Schulz, Wes 🎶

The next day, I obviously wanted to know what went on last night and texted Isa to meet me for lunch. We decided to drive to Huelva and to also spend the afternoon at the beach.
"Soooo, how did things go yesterday?" I asked with a mischievous grin on my face.
"Good. Good. He... we... the sex was great" she replied, without me really noticing the nervousness in her voice, as the stab to my heart occupied my feelings.
"Oh, great" I said and smiled at her.
"Yup" she just said and we stayed in silence until we had arrived.

Thankfully, the topic was dropped and after a quick lunch by the sea, we hit the beach and laid in the sun.

📍 El Portil Punta Humbria Huelva
clara_1106 Endless Summer 🌊

carlos_1106 Thx for inviting me
Replying to carlos_1106:
clara_1106 next time
isa_bragas_ Best photographer 😎

We were both laying on our towels, catching the sun, as my phone dinged:

Fermín ⚽️
You're really blessing your followers with all your bikini pics on Insta this year

Clara
Are you... hitting on me?
While I'm here with your past night's conquest?
😂

Fermín ⚽️
Ouhhhh this is interesting
What did she say?

Clara
That the sex was great 😏

Fermín ⚽️
Really? 😄

Clara
Yup

The days passed and eventually, it was time to pack my suitcase for my trip to the US. To say that I was excited, was the understatement of the year and I spent all day before we left, choosing outfits carefully and trying to not forget the most necessary items. And then the day arrived, on a bright and early morning at 7, Carlos and I stood outside our house, suitcases in hand, waiting for Fermin's parents to pick us up. We first drove to the airport in Seville, from where we took a flight to Lisbon. The connecting flights were tricky, and we had to spend a night in the Portuguese capital before we would take a flight to San Francisco the next morning.

Fermín and Lola were the nicest though, we explored the city together for a day and in the evening, we went to an authentic Fado restaurant - not a touristy one - and I maybe had one glass of Port wine too much, but hey, I had to fill up on all the alcohol that I could as I wasn't legal to drink in the States yet. It was going to be a pretty dry holiday.

📍 Lisbon
clara_1106 Portugal for a day 🇵🇹

fatimarin Enjoyyyy ❤️
_ferminlopez Eu quero ser o sorvete
Replying to _ferminlopez:
clara_1106 You are disgusting

The next morning, we took our flight to San Francisco and after thirteen hours in the air, during which I binged Bridgerton for the 73818277th time, we arrived in California in the early afternoon. As we were pretty knackered from our flight, we decided to rest for a few hours at our hotel and meet again in the evening to go have dinner together.

Fermín ⚽️
Have you guys arrived?

Clara
Pretty sure your mum already sent you a thousand pictures and I saw my brother texting you, so not sure why you're asking me this dumb question now?

Fermin ⚽️
You just have to ruin every nice move I make

Clara
Because they're always stupid moves you make

Fermín ⚽️
Heard you watched some porn on the plane

Clara
THAT WAS BRIDGERTON
NOT PORN!!!!!

Fermín ⚽️
Disgusting

In the evening, we went to Scoma's, an iconic restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf and then took a small walk along the piers before we returned to our hotel. The next day, we took a bus tour to get a good overview of the city to then be able to decide what we wanted to see more of. After a quick lunch break with burgers, we decided to walk through Chinatown and North Beach. We were pretty knackered in the evening and Fermín and Lola decided to stay in, while Carlos and I didn't want to miss out on anything and went to Mister Jiu's, a Chinese-American restaurant that we had passed in Chinatown this afternoon and which had inspired us, before walking through the city at night.

On our second (and last) day here, we ventured out onto the bay and visited Alcatraz. My brother was traumatised after the visit, while I wasn't left very impressed.
"I'm going to have nightmares for weeks" Carlos repeated for the hundredth time as we were having lunch.
"If you try and come cuddling tonight, I'm going to kill you" I shot at him.

Suddenly, Lola received a FaceTime call from Fermín and surprisedly, she picked up. We hadn't expected to hear much from him since the players' schedule was pretty packed.
"Hello darling" she said and waved at him happily, showing us the phone too.
But Fermín looked awful. "Mum..." he groaned.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"I... I'm dying" he moaned.
"What?!" she exclaimed.
"I've been throwing up all morning..." he managed to say.
"Maybe you're pregnant" my brother said and laughed, delivering the obvious joke that no one aside from him found funny.
"Stop being a drama queen. You've probably just caught a virus" I shot at him.
"The whole squad is sick... The game tonight is cancelled" he managed to tell us, while dramatically putting his hand on his front.

"No!" I shouted.
"Wow, you're sadder about the game than about me actually being sick" Fermín said and rolled his eyes.
"What did the doctor say?" his father asked and his son told him more about the state everyone was in, but that they were expected to hopefully get better soon. He hung up eventually as he was really tired and now I did feel a bit bad for him, so I shot him a message.

Clara
Sorry about before
I hope you're feeling better soon

Fermín ⚽️
Thx
Maybe I was being a bit dramatic

Clara
Men always are when they call their mum

Fermín ⚽️
🙄
How was San Francisco?

Clara
So cool
Excited for LA
We're flying tomorrow
Hope you'll be better soon so I can watch you play
Do you know any hot players from Arsenal?

Fermín ⚽️
If I would, I would do them the favour to never introduce you

Clara
🖕🏼

📍 Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
clara_1106 Basic girl pic ✌🏼 Bye bye SF

carlos_1106 so basic
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clara_1106 As if you didn't take 8281817 pics yourself
isa_bragas_ 😍