Luce di Stella • Kenan Yildiz

Chapter 25: Christmas Days

🎶 Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran) (Taylor's Version) — Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran 🎶

"Fuck... Where the fuck is it?" I scoffed under my breath as I stood at the check-in for the team's flight to Rome, from where we would take the team bus to play Frosinone. Since I wasn't going back to Turin, but to Monaco after the game, I already had all my Christmas luggage with me and my tote bag was overly full with a million gadgets and documents, making it hard for me to find my passport.
"You looking for this? Sexy picture by the way" I heard Kenan say behind me and I turned around to see him holding my passport in his hand.

I laughed. "Thanks, me and Dean went to get our photos together that day. It was my wannabe make-up artist phase, hence the way too dark smokey eyes" I chuckled, reminiscing the memories of that day. "I looked like a panda 90% of the time" I joked. We were waiting in a private area of the airport with only Juve staff and players around us, so we felt easily comfortable. Most of them knew by now, that we were seeing each other, not everyone however pleased about the fact that a board member was going out with a player - especially fellow NextGens. They somehow felt that Kenan had been favoured - which couldn't be further from the truth, given my doubts about him joining the first team at his age.

"Are you excited about your first Serie A start?" I asked as we sat down next to each other on the plane.
"I'll score so that Allegri will start me also next game" he replied proudly.
"You're not scoring for me?" I fake-pouted.
"Of course I am" he replied and pinched my cheek, smiling brightly.
"You won't score anyways" I teased him and he raised his eyebrows.
"If I do, you'll let me hit it" he shot back and I turned dark red, but still tried to play it cool.
"Then I'll die untouched by you" I replied, faking a yawn before taking out my iPad and acting busy. I wasn't stupid, I was giving him just some motivation - right now wasn't about getting sex (I mean, that would be a nice extra), but about winning a game and taking three points home.

And indeed, Kenan kept his promise, shooting the first goal of the game just twelve minutes in. He did the del Piero celebration with his tongue stuck out while I clapped and cheered in the stands for him - to be honest, I had expected this relationship to be more difficult, but we somehow managed. It was just us doing our jobs and sharing the precious moments while doing that. The game thankfully ended with a win for us and the mood was relaxed and cheerful as we took the team bus back to Rome.

"I fucking hate this airport" I huffed at Kenan as we navigated our way through the crowds at the check-in area. He was flying to Munich while I was headed to Nice, both ditching the team flight back to Turin, which wasn't mandatory anyways, as many players were heading home to their families for the upcoming three days.
"Why? They just renovated it" Kenan chuckled.
"I've lost my suitcase every single time I've flown in or out of here. And I don't want to deal with a lost suitcase over the holidays" I replied.
"Oh, poor Bibi. It's not like you can't afford a private jet or a new wardrobe" he teased me and I hit his arm annoyedly.

"I'm a Scrooge, what can I say" I chuckled. "Our ways part here" I sighed as I got to the easyJet check-in booths, while he had to proceed to the Lufthansa ones.
"Have a nice holiday and... Merry Christmas" he said and I smiled, it meant a lot to me that he respected my holiday beliefs.
"Thanks. I hope you have a nice time with your family too, say hi to them for me" I replied and smiled up at him. We both looked around to check if someone had his eyes on us, but everyone was way too busy or stressed to get their holidays started, so we both leaned in and quickly exchanged a goodbye kiss on the lips.

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"I'm so full" I panted and rubbed my stomach after shovelling tons of food into my mouth at our Christmas Day brunch. Pierre, Beatrice, John and Lavinia were all sat around the table with me while the kids were playing with their new toys they had just gotten from Gesù Bambino.
"So, are you and Kenan finally girlfriend and boyfriend?" Beatrice asked with a dreamy look on her face that made me roll my eyes.
"No. We're exclusive and that's fine for now, we haven't even had sex yet" I told them.

"Take it slow, you have all the time in the world" Lavinia told me.
"But what about Dean? I was kinda rooting for him..." Pierre mumbled.
"No, we weren't! We're for the exciting, adventurous love!" his wife Beatrice swooned. John rolled his eyes and put his head in his hand.
"This is all giving me a headache" he huffed and we laughed.

"You should invite him here" my godmother said with a twinkle in her eye as she brought her glass to her lips.
"He's with his family... and he only has a few days off" I mumbled, wanting nothing more than seeing Kenan, but I didn't want to bother him.
"He's not going to say no if you ask" Pierre chuckled. "You're the boss" he said.
"That's not how we work" I shot back and glared at him.
"It's Monaco, of course he wouldn't say no, especially not with this company" Beatrice giggled and nodded at Uncle John.

"Why can't you just leave them alone?" he groaned and acted dramatically, slumping down in his chair and pointing weakly over at me.
"Because he's handsome! And Bea deserves someone that good-looking and nice. She looks so happy and we just want to continue seeing her like this!" my godmother argued with her brother-in-law, all while I was biting my lip as not to laugh at how they were acting like bored and gossipy forty-year-olds.

"Alright, I'll lay down for a while, you can continue bickering about my love choices" I chuckled as I stood up and walked to my guest room here. When I shut my door behind me, I threw myself onto the bed and stared up at the ceiling before pulling out my phone and opening the chat to my very special someone.

Bibi 🥰❤️
Hey, how's it going? 😊

I didn't expect an answer too soon, but surprisingly, I got one, not sounding too much like his usual text style though.

Kenan Yildiz
Good
And with you?

Bibi 🥰❤️
You sure?
I'm good, overly full, and happy to spend time with the family 😊

Kenan Yildiz
Aww ❤️
I miss you

Bibi 🥰❤️
I miss you too ☹️

He was typing and re-typing, while I was biting my lip, contemplating what my relatives had talked about at the dining table.

Bibi 🥰❤️
Want to come visit me in Monaco?

Shit, the message was read immediately but the typing had stopped. I shouldn't have done this, I shouldn't bait him out of precious time with his family.

Kenan Yildiz
Landing at 23:15 tonight

Bibi 🥰❤️
Omg
😍😍😍
You're crazy
Your parents are going to hate me tho 😬

Kenan Yildiz
*insert TikTok sound with "We're going to Monte-Carlo"* 😏