treat you better // pedri

thirty five

Pedri pov (😳😳)

"How do you guys just let her be friends with Jude?" I ask as I walk out to the living room as everyone is sitting there while Maeve is in the shower.

"What do you mean?" Ferran asks as I sit down.

"The shit he says to her is just cruel, why don't you guys try to interfere with that?" I question as I look at Daria and she glances at Nico.

"She says she can take care of herself so we let her, it's what she wants because she acts all tough all of the time." Daria shrugs as I give her a look.

"You're her sister and you just accept the fact her best friend says that stuff about her?"

"What did he say this time? Probably the same old stuff." She says as I scoff.

"That id leave her because id get bored that she can't give me anything." I say as she clicks her tongue.

"That's just Jude." Pablo chimes in.

"None of us like the way he talks to her but they're still close at the end of the day. She forgives him and they move on, they make it work." Nico says as I shake my head.

"That's insane, is it not?" I ask as everyone shrugs, "I feel like I'm being pranked or something, this does not feel real." I add as Ansu laughs.

"We all know about it but she tells us to never do anything so we don't, all we do is what she asks because there's no point in her being upset with all of us." Ansu says simply.

"So you just don't care he's always shitting on one of your best friends?" I ask as Ferran sighs.

"We obviously care, but she's closed off as it is and if we try to interfere we're more scared of her potentially cutting us off, and none of us want that." Ferran says quietly as I rub my jaw while staring at the ground.

"But now since you guys are dating I feel like you're going to try to fix things, but she won't want that, I'm just warning you." Gavi says as I nod.

"Yeah she told me that yesterday." I mumble as I cross my arms.

"So it's in your best interest to let it happen, even if it's hard to watch, ignorance is bliss in this scenario." Alejandro says as I sigh.

"What about Jude then, why does he do that to her, does anyone actually know?" I ask.

"He's kind of similar to Maeve in a sense he shuts down when he's going through something. Maeve will shut people out, and then Jude gets rude to the people he's closest to, the smallest thing makes him snap." Pablo explains, "but at the end of the day he still cares about Mae because she's his best friend, but he just has a bad way of showing it when he's going through something."

"He has a lot of pressure on him at Madrid," Ferran begins as I look at him, "and when that happens he acts like this, he can't handle it well and this is his way of coping with it."

"In one of the worst ways imaginable obviously." I scoff as Gavi shrugs.

"I mean Maeve does the same thing." Gavi says as I furrow my eyebrows.

"You probably just haven't experienced it yet." Daria says as I give her a look, "I mean she ran off to Italy because she didn't want to face her problems, that's what we mean." She adds with a scoff.

"If it hasn't happened yet it'll probably happen soon." Ferran says as I shake my head.

"Why do you guys sound like you're on Jude's side with it? Am I the only one who sees how big of an issue this is?" I question.

"It's just the truth. People get close and then she pulls away, it's not like a lie is being told, that's just how she is." Ansu says as I play with the charm on my bracelet.

"And it's not like she's scared to admit that, she knows it and she owns up to it." Alejandro states.

"That's just crazy," I say as I stand up, "I'll be back." I mumble as I go into Maeve's room as I sit on the bed, waiting for her to come out of the bathroom.

I tried to go to my room last night but she insisted on sleeping together, mainly because she said she had a long day and whatever happened with Jude drained her. I wasn't going to say no obviously. She's my girlfriend now and I should be able to sleep in her bed with no problems.

I wait a few more minutes as I'm scrolling on my phone and she comes out of the bathroom while whistling and she stops as she looks at me, "hey." I say as I look up from my phone.

"Hi?" She says as a question and I furrow my eyebrows together.

"What?"

"What?" She repeats back to me before she smiles.

"That's messed up." I mumble as she comes over to me, placing a kiss on my head before she goes to her suitcase, taking out a bikini and a skirt before she goes back in the bathroom. "Hey, Solis?" I call out as she opens the bathroom door slightly so she can hear me.

"What's up?" She asks as I sigh, looking down at my hands.

"Can you promise me something?" I ask as she comes out of the bathroom while tying her bikini top.

"That depends." She says as she fixes her crochet skirt that she's using as a cover up.

"Don't shut me out, no matter how much you want to, please don't do that." I say as she glances at me before laughing.

"I'm not able to, don't worry." She shrugs as she puts on a pair of sandals.

"What?" I question as she nods.

"I already tried to but it didn't work. I physically can't shut you out for some reason so there's no issue that it may happen." She says as she comes over to me.

"But you got mad at me, did you not?" I ask as she wraps her arms around my neck.

"I was able to fake being mad at you, but deep down I wasn't mad, I was more mad at myself for potentially letting you get away." She whispers as she looks at my lips.

"Well I'm here now, I won't go anywhere." I say quietly as she nods slightly before leaning into a kiss.

"We should probably head out." She says in between kisses before pulling away and I nod slightly before I look at her lips again, "one more." She whispers as she leans in again and I smile into the kiss, backing up slowly so I'm sitting on the bed and I pull her onto my lap.

"We're getting a bit carried away." I say as she shakes her head.

"That's okay." She says as she repositions on my lap as I run my hands up her back, beginning to pull the strings of her top.

"Maeve!" Nico calls out as she begins laughing, quickly getting off my lap as she looks at me quick and I lay down, blowing out a frustrated breath.

"You coming?" She asks as she grabs a button up shirt, quickly putting it on, leaving it unbuttoned as she looks at me.

"I'll be out in a minute, I need to go change too." I say as I lean up on my elbows.

"Okay." She responds quietly as she goes out the door and I stare up at the ceiling.

Taking it slow may actually kill me, but I'm willing to do it for her. I'd do anything she asked me to, and that's scary.