My Girl || Cole Palmer

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Michaela entered the expansive and well-known training ground. Surveying the area, she was taken aback to find that nearly everyone had already arrived. Although surprised, she decided not to dwell on it and made her way into the changing room.

After entering, she set her bag down on a bench situated in front of a locker. A few girls were in the changing room but they were talking amongst themselves. Michaela removed her top and quickly put on her blue shirt which was numbered '11'. Along with her shirt, she changed into her matching shorts. It wasn't long before she felt two hands latch onto her shoulders and she spun around to be greeted by her friend, Hannah Hampton.

Hannah quickly dragged her out of the changing room and onto the grass. Michaela stood next to her teammate, as they awaited instructions from their manager, Sonia Bompastor. The team had been summoned for a practice session and as soon as Bompastor blew her whistle, she commanded the girls to line up.

"Good morning, ladies. Let's begin by warming up with some stretching," Bompastor announced as she demonstrated the stretches, urging the girls to follow along. She then ordered them to run from one side of the training ground to the other.

"Get into pairs," Bompastor demanded, to which Michaela looked straight at Hannah and Hannah nodded at her. Michaela walked over to the blonde and smiled at her.

"Practice passing to one another and make sure you're at least more than 10 feet apart." She blew her whistle, yet again, and the two girls ran off with a ball. Hannah placed the ball down before looking up at Michaela and telling her to "move back a few steps". Michaela just nodded and moved back, waiting for her to pass her the ball.

After around two hours of practising, Bompastor called all the girls in for a talk. "I'm going to finish practice early today but you're not allowed to go home, yet." Many of the girls groaned at the last part of the sentence, including Michaela. Hannah just grabbed onto her arm and dragged her away. "I wonder what's put her in a good mood." Hannah thought about her coach's behaviour.

Michaela nonchalantly shrugged at her friend, reached into her pocket to pull out her phone, and tapped on the Spotify app. With a quick flick of her finger, she selected her favorite playlist and clicked on "Baby Come Back" by Player. As the song began, Michaela playfully danced around her friend before pausing to let her hair down from its ponytail during the chorus. She swayed and moved to the rhythm of the music, prompting a small but disapproving smile from Hannah.

She then skipped to the next song 'No Games' by Serani. Michaela slowly spun her body around and faced Hannah, Michaela had a small smile on her face. She flipped her hair around and slowly moved down to the floor. Hannah burst out laughing at her friend's dance moves. Hannah got up to dance with Michaela, which they were both enjoying but Hannah quickly sat back down when the song had ended.

"Are you too afraid to dance, Hampton?" Michaela teased her, as she queued up the next song – 'Murder She Wrote' by CD & P. With her eyes closed, she slowly twisted her body halfway around, then dropped down to her knees, belting out the song. Casting a puzzled glance at her friend, she wondered why Hannah wasn't joining in. Gradually rising from the floor, Michaela turned around to see what had captured Hannah's intense gaze.

Michaela was taken aback, her jaw dropping in disbelief, while Hannah simply stared in astonishment. "Yeah, that's why I stopped," she said, motioning towards Chelsea's men's team, who were standing on the grass just a few meters away from Michaela and Hannah.

As she scanned the group, her gaze landed on each player, some of whom were stealing glances at the two girls. One particular boy stood out to her, and he held her gaze as she turned around. Inwardly, Michaela scolded herself for drawing attention to her dancing and singing in such a public setting.

"Girls, come here, please!" Bompastor demanded and they all walked over to her. The group of boys and their manager walked over too. "Some of you may have met at least one of the men here, they're part of Chelsea's men's club." There was a silence that was shared between the two groups but that was shortly interrupted by the men's manager, Enzo Maresca.

"Lads, feel free to introduce yourselves." He nodded at the men in front of him who just stood there awkwardly. There was another moment of silence before one of them stopped forward and introduced himself as Levi Colwill.

He was tall and very attractive, no wonder he had the confidence to go first. He nodded at the women and gave them a handshake. He got around to Michaela and she smiled at him before shaking his hand, "Michaela McCarthy, nice to meet you." He gave her a grin and shook her hand, "Nice to meet you too, McCarthy." He then moved on to the next girl in the group.

They were all forced to introduce themselves, there were about four guys left and the one who had been staring at Michaela before this stepped forward and introduced himself to the other girls. His eyes landed on Michaela and he had the most subtle smile on his face, if you blinked you would've missed it. "Cole Palmer." He stuck his hand out in front of himself.

She nervously bit her bottom lip and glanced up at the taller of the two, murmuring, "Michaela McCarthy." In response, Cole simply smiled at her. Cole acknowledged her brief reply with a nod and started to move to the left to greet Hannah, only to halt and turn back to Michaela.

"Great songs, by the way.". Michaela stood still for a few seconds trying to process his words. She looked up and grinned at him, "Thank you." He just nodded and walked away with a smirk on his face.

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this was not my best but then again its nearly 2 in the morning