enemies || leah williamson

Chapter 44- Why Am I Here?

"Williamson, why are you my next of kin?" I ask the woman who's standing next to my hospital bed, her eyebrows shooting up as soon as the words leave my mouth.

"What do you mean?" She replies, nerves evident in her voice.

"Why are you here?"

"Why am I here?" She repeats, almost in shock.

"Yeah, why are you here?" I repeat back to her, looking her up and down at the same time. "And why am I not in Manchester? You know, where I live?"

"Dria... You haven't lived in Manchester in over six months..." She tells me, making me frown. "You moved clubs..."

"Wait, what year is it? It's 2021, right? I just got out of my relationship with Ellie a few weeks ago, right? You know, because I found her cheating on me, so that gave me an excuse to escape it?"

"Dria... It's 2022. To be precise, it's..." She tells me before checking her phone. "October 17th, 2022, at 10:54 in the morning."

"So I escaped her fully?"

"Who?"

"Ellie!" I shout at her angrily. "I escaped the abuse from Ellie fully?!"

"Yes, Dria. You escaped her." She tells me, making me sigh and fall back against my hospital bed.

"You still didn't answer why you're here." I mention, making her roll her eyes slightly as she takes a seat in the seat next to me. "Or what club I play for."

"You play for Arsenal, and I'm here because we're friends now, believe it or not." She tells me, making me laugh slightly.

"So I got my wish to return to Arsenal?" I say whilst laughing before turning to look at her. "And we're only friends? Too bad, I thought we were dating or something, your loss though if we're not.

"Yeah, no, we're just friends." She reiterates, making me nod back in response.

"Cool. I'm glad to know I got the Leah Williamson to be my friend." I say whilst laughing. "Who won the Euros then?"

"England, obviously, as we're the best team." She says, making me roll my eyes.

"And Spain? How did we lose with Alexia as our captain?" I ask, sitting up slightly, intrigued at the events that I can't remember happening.

"Alexia wasn't your captain... She did her ACL just before the Euros. You captained Spain in the Euros instead." She tells me, making me scrunch my face up.

"I don't want to be captain ever. That's too much responsibility. Weird."

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After being in hospital for another day, they discharged me, but I had to have weekly checkups and go through the process of rehab at Arsenal, which was a relief to me.

The two people who come to pick me up from the hospital are Leah and Jordan, who I'm guessing is her girlfriend as I know they have a history.

They take me back to my apartment, and to my amazement, I find out I have a cat!

Due to the fact I am still on concussion protocol, I'm not allowed my phone, so Leah has taken that and has told me I'll get it back in a few days.

"Fucking hell, Dria, I didn't realise how big your place is." Leah says as she walks back into the living room from looking around the place.

"I probably had a reason for getting something so big. Who knows, maybe I'm dating someone, or I like someone enough to want to settle down with them here." I tell her, laughing slightly but feeling a strange feeling in my stomach.