arsenal women- changed your tune

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You were one of the many girls who left manchester united after no silverware gained in the 2022/2023 season .
Our team has so much potential and we fell at the last hurdle in both winning the wsl and the fa cup . I wasn't prepared to hang around at a team who stayed at second place . I wanted to be winning .
Especially with the losses to the team including one of my closest friends alessia .
Another reason why i wanted to move away for manchester was to be closer to my girlfriend leah .
Being both high profile footballers we decided to keep it to ourselves, not even out teammates knew . But a couple months back in april when leah tore her acl and i wanted nothing more than to be there for her . But ofcourse i had to do it from a distance .
So that is why i decided to make my move to arsenal . Both me and leah had decided that we weren't going to tell out teammates about our relationship. So instead we both had to pretend that we had never met eachother before .

The morning on my first day i was extremely nervous the only other person than leah that i knew was alessia. I guess we were close at united but here she knows so many people for the lionesses squad where as with me playing for the spanish national team i only had laia and we never really spoke on camp .
I was staying with leah but for obvious reasons we couldn't go into together since ' we didn't know each other ' . So here i was standing outside the training ground all on my own ready to walk on to the chaos.

Due to some family commitments i was arriving later than most of the new girls . Majority of them had been training here together for around a week and here i was just about waltz in and connect with the team straight away .
Opening the door to the locker room and peaking my head round the corner to see the locker filled with all the girls chatting away with one and another . I'm pretty sure this couldn't get any worse but it had to be done .
Once i had stepped through the door the whole room turned silent , looking my way staring at my every move .
I had to walk through them all until i reached my locker , i felt so uncomfortable getting ready it was like everyone was staring at me . Judging me .
By the time i was all set to go out to training i was feeling a bit more comfortable with the girls . Quite a few of the girls had came up to me to say hi and so i was hoping training would be fine now .
I walked out to the pitch with lotte and alessia them being the only people who i really new apart from leah . Talking about leah , whenever she saw me she gave me a light smile probably knowing how nervous i was and knew it would give me some sort of comfort. Throughout the various training drills i think i played pretty well considering that most of the girls would have down the same drills over and over again .
It helped aswell that jonas was giving me small praises during the training session which gave me that boost of confidence i was going to need .
We were finishing the training session off today with a scrimmage, a chance to play a small game before the game stayed shortly. It was also a chance for me to show off my talent , prove to them that i deserve to be here and maybe prove it to myself aswell .

Kicking a ball made me feel so complete , it was like nothing else in the world mattered in that moment. It was just me and the football .
So whilst i was playing in the scrimmage i put my nerves aside and focused on showing off my best football .
It was all going great i had even managed to score a few goals past manu but a mistimed challenge for me ruined that all .
" inside now we will finish there for today " jonas said after the scene infront of us .

I didn't move just stared at scene that i has just caused . caitlin lying on the floor clutching her ankle , the ankle i had tackled .
The light shuve from katie brought me back to reality as i then followed the rest of them back inside .
Sitting on my locker with my head in my hands when it settled in what i had actually just done . Arsenal were already struggling with an injury problem with their ongoing acl problem from last year and here i was on my first day making it ten times worse for everyone .

As soon as i had the opportunity to leave the training ground i took it . Racing myself into my car and back home into the comfort of my own bed .
It wasn't long before i heard the front door open and leah voice fill our house .
" In our bedroom "i shouted out in a croaky voice .
I watch her face drop when she sees the sight of me .
" oh darling , it's alright none of the girls blame you for what happened we all know it was an accident " leah said whilst pulling me into a tight hug . I believed what leah said , i genuinely thought that the girls didn't blame me for what happens to caitlin.
So i went into training the next day acting like nothing happened . But all i was met with from the girls with sour remarks and looks .
This went on for a couple of weeks until leah couldn't handle it anymore .
We were all sat in the chill room , me sat on my own in the corner of the room not communicating with anyone .
I watched as leah stood up , walking into the centre of the room gaining everyone attention.
" guys i can't handle this anymore, y/n and me were dating and if you have a problem with that than you can talk to me about it . She has apologised about what happened multiple times and you lot have had none of it a that's your problem not hers " she said making my turn tuen a rosy pink colour .
She then walked over to me , grabbing my hand and dragging me out of the room .

Over the next few weeks the girls changed the tune quite quickly . It started off with a lot of apologies and then followed by actually connecting with my teammates. Even though it was definitely only because i was leah's girlfriend but i didn't really mind that . It was also nice for the both of us to get it out in the open .

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Not really sure if this is what the request wanted but this is what i gathered from it .
Keep requesting though i am love writing at the moment 🫶🏻

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