Love On The Sidelines - Kenan Yildiz

Chapter 2

Ela

After having woken up at seven thirty, I did my hair and make up and then chose my outfit of the day which consisted of a beige skirt, a black cute top and black boots that reached right below my knees. My hair was somewhat curly.

I gathered my bag and left for the dining hall. For breakfast I had a croissant and joghurt. I drank my juice and shortly after Rana walked in. "Hey, girlie, what's up?"

She stood with her pretty blue dress and wavy blonde hair, "not much, I'm almost finished, don't worry," she rolled her eyes at my words, "that's not what I was gonna say," she said as I smiled teasingly at her.

"I was going to say that the boys are getting ready for the shoot, we have ten minutes until the first photos will be taken. Mete and Dogukan are setting the lights."

"Alright," I nodded, "I'm actually finished now," I said taking the last bite of my sandwich. Rana grinned and we headed to the room, where the shoot would take place. Rana headed over to the camera while I loudly said hi, so everyone could hear. The boys all smiled, nodded and greeted me back.

"Everything is set, the first boys can get their pictures taken," Dogukan said while I nodded and looked around the room to see which players were ready. I saw Arda who was talking to Kenan and called them over, "boys, if you're ready we would take your pictures first."

"Sure," they agreed and headed over to the set. "Alright Arda, we'll take you first, we're taking your headshots," while Dogukan explained the process to them I headed over to the requisits to get a big turkish flag and layed it over Arda's shoulder, which he showcased proudly. Dogukan took the pictures as Mete checked them on the laptop. I suggested some poses while I felt eyes watching me. I shrugged them off and continued working.

Dogukan stopped with the flashes, "Perfect, Arda. I think these are enough." Arda took off to the left and took a look at his shots on the laptop together with Mete while I approached Kenan who had moved in front of the camera.

He smiled softly, "hey," my heart started beating faster as my body temperature rose, "hi," I got out. "Here, I'll lay the flag over your shoulders," I said as I adjusted it to his tall frame, making me almost rise to my tip-toes even in heels. The butterflies started flapping harder.

I turned from his back to his front to make the final adjustments, him looking down at me while I did so. I bit my lip out of nervousness and took a step back and did an up and down to see if everything was set.

"Kenan, don't try to make hasty movements or the flag will slip," he nodded with a tiny smile gracing his lips. "Don't worry, Ela."

Hearing his voice say my name almost sent me into heaven.

I only nodded with a small grin and went behind Dogukan to watch him our youngstar's headshots before looking for our next victims.

Kaan Ayhan was ready to get his pictures taken and stood next in line. Once Dogukan was satisfied with the pictures, Kenan moved towards Mete, where he checked out his pictures, I moved to him and took off the flag. He jumped in surprise a little and lowered himself down to ease my job, I murmured a little 'thank you' and moved towards Kaan.

After the whole team was done taking their pictures, they moved towards the dining hall as they hadn't had breakfast yet. While they ate, we immediately started working on the pictures as Dogukan and Mete so kindly offered to take care of the set and packed all the equipment up.

"We have many great pictures, it's not too bad that they're all handsome," Rana winked at me and I laughed awkwardly. Was I crushing on him?

Get your shit together, Ela.

"I'm think we should split them by the order of the alphabet, you take the bottom part of the list, alright," I nodded, "sure."

We started editing the pictures and adding captions to each of them for all social media posts. I was finished with Yusuf Yazici and next on the list was... Kenan Yildiz.

Life is really pushing it right now.

Each picture was perfect, his handsome, chiseled face making me gaze at him with a strong urge to kiss him. He's that pretty.

Stop it, Ela. He's a soccer player and probably has a pretty, rich girlfriend already.

I sighed in disappointment and continued with his caption.

We were finished by ten after consulting to Dogukan and Mete and decided to post the headshots on all social media platforms. The comments already started rolling in, people showing their excitement for the players and the team as a whole.

"It's warm today, I'm craving some fruits, who wants to join me?" Mete asked, we as a whole agreed to go down to the dining hall with him and filled our bowls with different fruits. It was about 26 degrees outside, thankfully our building had air conditioning or I would've melted.

The dining hall was loud thanks to the conversations of our fellow players. The buffet was to the left of the entrance and we moved towards the center, our go-to table it seemed, and sat down. "Ela, you're from here right?" Dogukan asked me.

I nodded as I swallowed a piece of strawberry down, "yeah, born and raised."

Mete chuckled, "hey, your Turkish is better than some players'," the others joined them as I shrugged, "I haven't really talked all too much with them to notice."

"You could be our little translator," Rana winked playfully, "maybe," I giggled. My eyes shifted to the right and I saw Kenan together with Arda, Hakan and Kaan at another table laughing.

His dimples were so cute. He was so cute.

He's out of your league.

I turned back to the people at my table, out of sight, out of mind.