GAME DAY- ALEXIA PUTELLAS

CHAPTER 2

ALEXIA'S POV

As soon as I wake up the first thing I do is write to my sister, I need to tell someone what happened yesterday and I don't think anyone will understand me better than her.

"Hey sis, shall we meet for lunch? I have to tell you something"

                                                                                                    "Sure, can you pick me up when I get off work?"

"I'll be there, see you later. I love you"

                                                                                                  " Love you"

After having a quick breakfast I head to the sport city for today's training sessions, which fortunately are not very hard because yesterday we played a match and today's exercises are mainly for recovery. I also have a session with the club physio who has been treating me before and after every game since I came back from the injury to avoid other possible injuries.

- Hey Ale, we're going to have lunch, are you coming with us? - Mapi asks me as we get dressed.

- I'd love to but I'm already meeting Alba.

- It seems that the sister has gone ahead of us, say hello for me- she says when I approach her to give her a goodbye hug.

Mapi is like another sister to me, I think even for my mother and sister she is part of the family. When she came to Barça we hit it off instantly, we had already been together in the national team but when she came to the club that's when we really became friends. Besides, as her parents and her brother stayed in Zaragoza and she was alone here, we could say that my family took her in.

At first the fans insinuated that we were together, but nothing could be further from the truth, we have always been like sisters, and with time and especially with my injury we have become closer and closer, we are thick as thieves, what they do to one hurts the other, and we don't hesitate to defend each other no matter what it takes.

After greeting the fans who were waiting for me at the exit, I set off for the school where my sister works. And yes, believe it or not, my little sister is a kindergarten teacher, with a lot of effort she got her degree and now she is happy working in a school that is not far from home.

When I arrive, I park one street down from the school building and get out to wait for Alba at the entrance. While I wait for her to come out I look at my mobile phone, watching the videos the club has uploaded of today's training sessions and I post some of them in my stories, as I always do. I'm just watching one of yesterday's plays, when I feel some little arms around my leg. When I look down, to my surprise, I find Ada, the girl who jumped on the pitch with me yesterday.

- Hello, beautiful - I say, bending down to get closer to her - what are you doing here?

- This is my school- she says pointing to the building behind us.

- And you're here alone? - I ask when I don't see any adults around.