𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 ᪥ 𝐏𝐄𝐃𝐑𝐈 𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐙𝐀́𝐋𝐄𝐙

𝐗𝐕𝐈

𝐏𝐄𝐃𝐑𝐈'𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐕

𑁍᪥𑁍᪥𑁍

"Ah, my brother." Fer says as he walks up to my car. He places his suitcase down on the concrete and hugs me.

"Did you miss me?" I grin at him.

"Of course I did." he rolls his eyes, grinning back at me.

"Flight was okay?" I ask as I open the boot of the car so that he can put his suitcase in it.

"No." he chuckles as we get into the car. "I sat next to a mother with a screaming child. I swear someone was skinning the child alive. Although she did buy me a cupcake as an apology. Three actually, I said no but she insisted. Now, look." he holds up a paper box from his carry-on and I laugh as I start the car.

"At least that." I say, looking in the rearview mirror.

"You want one?" he asks me and I shake my head.

"No, I can't." I say and he nods.

"Anything new with you?" he asks as he takes one out of the box.

"I guess?" I say and see him looking at me confused.

"What do you mean you guess?" he asks as I glance at him.

"I, well," I start but pause, thinking how to go about this. "Okay, so, two weeks ago I saw Lara."

"What?" Fer exclaims, putting his cupcake down. "I'm gone for two weeks and this happens?"

"I'm not done." I say and see him nod from the side of my vision. "It was at a club and then I asked her if we could meet up. We ended up meeting up not long after that and we talked things out and decided to be friends."

"You two and friends?" he asks, scoffing.

"Let me speak." I say, rolling my eyes.

"Someone's moody today." he mutters.

"I'm trying to get to it." I say and saw him raise his hands in surrender.

"I won't interrupt anymore." he says and I nod before continuing.

"Right, where was I? Oh, yeah. So we met up and talked things out and all that stuff. Then a few days after, I was out with Ferran, Pablo and Fermín again in that same club I saw her again. We ran into her so I proposed her and her friends join us. They did and it was nice, you know? Just friends."

I see him nod, the cupcake finding itself in his hand again.

"Then she left with Ferran but he said he only drove her home because she didn't feel well so I didn't mind. Then, we met up a few times again, that is as a group, not alone. Then I invited her to watch the match on Wednesday and she came."

I pause, quickly pressing the break as a car speeds in front, moving into my lane right before me. I hit the steering wheel, the car letting out a honk as I very narrowly miss a car crash.

"Fucking dickhead." I mutter.

"Idiot drivers like them shouldn't even be allowed a license." Fer says, biting his cupcake. "If I were to die right then at least I were to die with this cupcake."

"God, okay." I say, carrying on driving. "Alright, carrying on, after the match she waited outside the changing room for me to finish interviews and long story short we pretty much almost kissed but then Frenkie walked out and we backed away. Then, once he left, she told me that I should probably go get changed. I felt weird after so I texted her about it and she said it was all fine and then we seemed to go back to how it was before that. She got this really good job thing and I sent her flowers, her favourite ones, you know as a congratulations, it's something big so I wanted to let her know I was proud of her."