No Escape From You ~ Katie McCabe x Y/N (WOSO)

Chapter 32

A/N~ Had an awful day Sunday. I'm starting to feel like Ellie Roebuck in my own life. Turning up to games and not being played and getting no real explanation as to why. FML.

Anyway, enjoy x

Y/N's POV

England U20's camp absolutely flew by.

I had an amazing time, meeting and becoming good friends with loads of the girls, especially Keira.

We got really close from this camp, considering we shared a room and we pretty much spoke about everything about ourselves, including the name of her crush.

Turns out, it's no other than, Manchester City's and England Lioness, Lucy Bronze.

Which caught me off guard, but then again, they are teammates and it's Lucy Bronze. That woman is an England football legend already, as well as an absolute unit of a defender.

And of course, the most important part of camp, we won all of our games, keeping clean sheets too. With no injuries for anyone, which is always good.

However,

something else happened during the camp, something that I was not expecting, at all.

After our last training session before the last game of this camp, I got called into the Gaffer's office for a meeting.

Instantly I was absolutely shitting myself. Every worst scenario was rapidly flying around my head, panicking and worrying that I had done something wrong, or that I was not doing well enough to be here.

That walk to the office was the most anxious i'd felt in a very, very long time. It took me back to when I got dropped from the City academy.

I honestly thought that I was being sent home or going to get a bollocking for something.

But when I got there, I was met with two people, my gaffer and the senior Lionesses gaffer, Mark Sampson.

He was stood in the corner, with a wide smile on his face. I put a brave face on, and smiled as I came in, taking a seat opposite me own gaffer as I waited for this meeting to begin.

"Mark has been here for the last two games of this camp, watching you all, and he asked if he could meet with you, to discuss some things with you, if that's alright?" My coach said and I nodded, still filled with nerves at that point.

"Hiya, Y/n. Don't panick about anything. This is nothing bad. It's the exact opposite actually. I, and some of the other senior team coaches came to watch the games this week, and we were all very impressed with how you all played. But you, you really stood out this entire camp, and all of us noticed it. The graft you have been putting in is admirable"

"Scoring endless amounts of goals, creating chances left, right and centre, your leadership as well is natural, you were one of the loudest on the pitch, ensuring that everyone was keeping on their tip-toes"

"You are a natural talent and natural leader. To have the qualities that you have at just 18 is absolutely outstanding and rare. I've also seen and heard many good thinks from your club too, which is why I knew to keep an eye out on you when you're playing for England. With all that though, I would love to know if you'd like to join the senior team for their next camp for the Euro qualifiers" Mark said, I was sat there, speechless for a moment, before smiling widely with a nod and saying, "I'd absolutely love to. Thank you" and just like that, the meeting was done and dusted.

I left the office and walked down the corridors, in complete shock. I got an offer to play for the England's women's senior team, at 18.

So yeah, I was not expecting that at the end of the camp. I'm not sure if any of the other girls have had that senior call up, as I did not say anything about mine, not wanting to make it seem like I was rubbing it in or as if i've just jumped ahead of all the girls.

And I did not hear anything from the others before we all left camp. So I just guess I'll have to wait and see.

Katie was ecstatic though, I facetimed her when I got back to my flat. She was buzzing for me, which made me feel even more excited for myself about this.

Everything at the moment is going so well for me. It finally felt like a proper positive change was happening in my life. A new club, new friends, teammates, a new home, new environments.

It all seemed very overwhelming at first. Having to move away from home at this age.

However, I am now very glad that I did it, because i'm slowly but surely getting to where I aim to be.

A full-time professional footballer. That is all I want. And I'm slowly, day by day, working my arse off to get closer to that goal. There's still a long way to go yet, but i'm just going to keep my head down and focused.

The drive back to Manchester was a lot more peaceful and pleasant than the drive here. I got back relatively early, and had the rest of the day to myself, which I spent catching up on sleep.

But even then, that was rudely interrupted when Tooney waltzed through our flat with a few mates making all sorts of racket, immediately waking me up and keeping me up and all night into the early following morning.

So yeah, the past week has been pretty busy, loud and eventful, but I have throughly enjoyed it all.

But now, focus is back on United. Lots of training this week, including a game on Saturday, as well as some catching up to do with Casey.

I need to let her know about camp as she wanted to hear how it went from my perspective as well as to let her know about the offer that Mark has given me for April's international camp.

But right now, life is good. Really good.

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