Pov Mapi:
I've never been one of those who fall in love at first sight, nor one of those who generally fall in love for real. In fact, I just fell in love and soon after I got tired, I didn't do it on purpose, but I had never met someone who filled me up and produced so many things in my whole body. Until a beautiful and charismatic Norwegian girl arrived, who instead of cooling my body like the temperatures in her country, warmed it up in the best way possible. I'm not talking about something erotic but rather something pure. That was one of the conclusions I came to while driving home after dropping Ingrid off at hers. I knew from the first time I saw her that she had something different, but I wanted to let myself be carried away by the game, my game, the one I always used with everyone but that after today seemed disgusting to use with her, because she was special and didn't deserve to be treated like another one on the list. I even got to the point of thinking that I had a fever and that I was delirious, because Mapi Leon didn't let herself be seduced, and I didn't want to talk about it with any of the girls because, as usual, they would laugh, and in this case, although it may seem funny, I was completely in love with that girl with whom I had spent the afternoon. I couldn't think much more until I got home and found my only psychologist, my fluff. I wanted to find myself, but above all I wanted her to find me, to not be affected by what they said about me, because even though it wasn't so bad, in those 20 minutes in the car I found it terrifying that Ingrid saw me with eyes that didn't show me how I was, and that even though today I've been a Maria who tried to free herself from what she was carrying with her, it didn't seem enough, not for her.And one more night I ended up crying in my bed, this time thinking about how a girl like her, who defined herself as: "The pretty, popular girl who attracted people" was going to be attracted to me, who in the end had the opposite characteristic, repelled everyone around her when she showed herself as she really was. And one more night being someone I'm not, there are so many that I can't even count them.
At some point during that dear night, my eyes closed from exhaustion and thank goodness, because tomorrow there was double training, which would mean double suffering and not because of physical exhaustion but because right now the insufficiency I feel exhausts me twice as much. I arrived on time, I didn't want to draw attention or for Ale to draw attention to me.
Patri: Good morning, are you ready for the gym?
Mapi: Let's say yes, do you know someone who is?
Patri: A name comes to mind.
Alexia: Good morning!!!! How are you girls? Mapi, do you look bad? Has something happened with the new girl? Patri looked at me, she hadn't noticed my face which I appreciated but as she didn't, Ale always notices even the smallest detail.
Mapi: If everything went well, she's a lovely girl, you should talk to her more.— I went into the locker room and left my things, I changed in silence and when I turned around there she was, what could Ido with her.
Ingrid: Good morning.— In almost perfect Spanish, I tapped her on the shoulder and gave her a half smile. Aitana and Alexia turned around and applauded.
Patri: Damn Maria, what a good teacher she is, or what a good student you are Ingrid, in two days you'll end up speaking better than Aitana.
Aitana: But I speak great.— The rest laughed and we continued.In the gym I worked as hard as I could, even Ale was surprised, she asked me on several occasions what was wrong with me and I didn't answer any of them, I just limited myself to grunting and continuing to squeeze myself.
When it was time to eat, I had no choice but to socialize a little if I didn't want to continue putting up with comments and questions from the captain. We had a short break that I took advantage of to walk around the sports city. I usually went with a ball in case I found peace in some goal, but today the solitude I was looking for seemed to not want to appear and as soon as I left the dining room, I heard it.
