Never Let Go (Of Me) • Ferran Torres

Chapter 29: No One's Ever Had Me, Not Like Him

🎶 So High School — Taylor Swift 🎶

"FUCK!" our manager Juan shouted into his phone and me and a few colleagues startled, as his shout echoed through the whole store. "FERRERO!" he shouted again and my eyes widened, shit, this couldn't be good.
"Yes, Sir?" I stammered nervously when I had walked up to him.
"Sir?" he asked confusedly.
"Sorry, Juan, your shouting makes me nervous" I admitted shyly.
"Pack up your stuff, you're coming to the training center with me and Martin. It's only the most important day of the year for us and your colleague Rita decided it's a good day to be sick" he replied.

"The training center?" I asked confusedly.
"Yeah, pack up, thank God we already loaded everything into the van yesterday" he sighed. "We're shooting all the players in the new season's kits" he explained as my face still looked like a riddle.
"Oh" I mumbled and I started to get a little excited at seeing Ferran earlier than just tonight at Pedri's start of the season-party.

And so, Juan, Martin and I crammed into the three front seats of the van and drove down to the Ciutat Esportiva while Martin explained to me the lists they had prepared with time slots for each player, as it wasn't just the men's first team but also the women's and the Barca Atletic teams that were being photographed, making it a lot of people we had to dress properly into their right kits, three to be precise. The home and away kit had already been unveiled, but not the third one, and we weren't allowed to leak it.

We arrived and started setting up everything, as the social media handlers also joined us and explained how they would also be bustling around with the photographers to shoot some content. Great, this was going to be such a hectic day. The men's team players were up first and the goalkeepers were the first ones to arrive. I gave ter Stegen the pack with his everything and thankfully, they were bringing their boots themselves.

I was currently trying to scramble through our million boxes to find a wider pair of socks while dealing with an Araujo complaining that the ones in his package were too small for him, when Ferran walked in with Pedri and Sergi Roberto. His eyes quickly fell on me but Araujo told me to hurry up and my eyes were back in the depths of the sock box, finally finding another pair this guy could try on.
"Here you go" I panted and he mumbled a quick thanks as he walked away from me again.

"Now this is a surprise. Hey" Ferran said but kept a distance to not raise any suspicions with all the other people around here.
"LINA! Can you bring Romeu some underwear?" my boss shouted all over the room and I turned dark red.
"Sorry, it's pretty hectic but since I'm here, here's your home kit, go get changed. Nice new number 7 by the way!" I shouted after giving him his package and running away to fetch some underwear for Romeu which I slid under the curtain of his changing room.

The first round of shots in the home kits was in full swing and I had some time to breathe to prepare all the away kit packages. In the corner of my eye, I saw Ferran getting his shots done and smiled at how serious he looked. He picked up his away kit when he was done and sent me a wink. Not even a minute later, his voice could be heard all over the place.
"My trousers are missing!" he shouted.
"Lina! Your call!" my boss told me and I picked up a second pair of trousers with no number, we'd have to print that on if these fit.

"Here you goooo" I said before my arm was yanked unexpectedly into the small space behind the curtain. "What are you doing?" I hissed, nervous that someone could catch us.
"Needed an excuse to do this" he whispered and took my head in his hands, his thumbs on my cheeks as he pulled me into a kiss, which I melted into quickly, crossing my arms behind his neck. He pushed me softly against the wall behind us, his hands slowly roaming down my sides, grabbing my hips to push me even closer to him. His lips left mine to leave kisses down my cheek to the skin behind my ear before going down my neck. I let out a sigh but quickly covered my mouth with my hand.