Never Let Go (Of Me) • Ferran Torres

Chapter 52: Everyone Is Gossiping

🎶 Loser Like Me — Glee Cast 🎶

Ferran POV

"You wanted to go give her WHAT?!" Pedri shouted at me in our changing room. Thank God that all of our teammates had left already - I had only stayed behind to talk to my best friend after his extra physio session that would hopefully get him prepped and ready for the Supercopa.
"She completely panicked! It doesn't even look like an engagement ring!" I exclaimed and took out the Tiffany box from my sports bag to prove my point to him. I opened it and he still looked at me incredulously, with a blank face.
"You can't be serious. I have to call Eric, I can't deal with this alone" he huffed and grabbed his phone to dial our best friend's number.

I rolled my eyes in disbelief, he was being dramatic and Cata was being too, if they would just let me speak-
"What's up?" I heard Eric's voice over Pedri's FaceTime.
"Ferran fucking proposed to Cata yesterday and she RAN" Pedri blurred out.
"WHAT?!" Eric asked shocked but burst out in laughter after.

I snatched the phone from Pedri's hand now because they were being ridiculous.
"I did not propose to her! I wanted to ask her to be my girlfriend and give her a promise ring so I took it out and-" I started, but Pedri interrupted me.
"It was a blue Tiffany box, you know, the one that every girl dreams of getting one day. Already seeing the ring box with the name's brand on it is enough to panic!" Pedri commented and I shot him a glare.

"Tiffany?! How fucking much did you spend?!" Eric shouted.
"Like 10,000€ I think?" I mumbled back.
"Totally normal" Pedri commented in the background and Eric covered his eyes with his free hand.
"Can I speak for a minute? Since she already didn't listen, it would be nice if at least you guys did" I scoffed and they sighed, giving me the time I wanted. "So I wanted to ask her to be my girlfriend and I had this whole entire romantic speech planned and wanted to give her a promise ring because yes, I'm sure that I'd want to marry her some day, but she sprang up as if I had pulled out a snake from my pocket and shouted at me that I was crazy and then she ran away without me even being able to say anything more" I sighed.

"And you think you're normal?" Eric asked, unhinged as always.
"Fine! Maybe I should have pulled out the ring box later but... I was in the moment, I didn't think she'd overreact this way and interpret it completely wrong!" I defended myself.
"Even then, Ferran. A 10,000€, diamond ring is too much!" Pedri said and pressed his hands onto his cheeks as he shook his head.
"Well, I wouldn't say that. Look at all those girls on TikTok swooning over their Dubai men who spend 200,000$ a day on them or whatever..." Eric replied.

"Yeah, but Cata's not a hooker" Pedri replied and I sighed, putting my head in my hands.
"I just... I wanted to make her a promise. I'm crazy for her, I love her so much..." I sighed and I felt Pedri sitting down next to me, rubbing my back.
"We know, Ferran... You need to talk to her and fix this..." he said and patted my back in encouragement. Thanks for the advice idiot, that's easier said than done.

Catalina POV

I didn't walk, I ran out of that planetarium and looked for the nearest bus stop or whatever. When I saw an empty taxi on the main road, I didn't even think about my finances and immediately hailed it, I just wanted to get away. What the fuck was he thinking, proposing before he even asked me to be his girlfriend?! How many screws were loose in his head and I didn't notice?! I sighed when I looked at the time display on my phone - it was too late to swing by at Sara's and besides, Dan had just returned from Las Palmas too, so they were probably enjoying their night together, as they should.

Calling in sick at work the next day was no option either, because news surely would have travelled that I was going out with Ferran and if I called in everyone would think I was spending the day with him instead of working and talking badly about me. Somehow, the Heavens rescued me however, when I got a text message from our store manager shortly before my shift would start.