After the match, the winning team stayed in the canteen to get some celebrating beers, everyone is filmed with joy, even Marco was able to push his problems aside. As almost the complete team has gone home and only a few players are left at the bar Marco feels his emotions coming back. He has told Auba what's going on and he wasn't happy about it, but he had to go home to his girlfriend who wasn't feeling good.
After one more beer, Marco decides it's time to go home. As he walks off the stairs he suddenly feels a sharp pain in the ankle he got kicked on during the match and he looses balance. He tries to grab something to make him stop falling, but he can't get grip. He hears something crack in his left leg and he screams out in pain. As Marco rolls further down the stairs his foot gets stuck between two steps and he feels his ankle pop out of place. Now crying in pain, Marco is lying at the bottom of the stairs. Two guards run towards the wounded footballer and call an ambulance. Marco is still awake, but everything is blurry and all the does is groan cause of the pain
~
As Marco wakes up in the hospital he immediatly feels a shot of pain, but it goes away as he feels a sweet liquid glides through his vains. He looks around the room, but there isn't much to see since the light is dimmed and Marco's still dizzy
"Hey you're awake!" A female voice beside him whispers
"Who are you? Where are we?" Marco asks with a raspy low voice
"My name is Aurora, we're at the intensive care because the other rooms are full and since we both just broke several bones, they decided to put us here together." The girl replies while trying to sit up, but she grabs her head while doing so
"Are you alright? What happened to you?"
"I'm fine, just not ready to move by myself. It's an embarrassing story really, what happened to you? Your face looks familiar, but I haven't seen it for a while. Do I know you?" She asks kind of avoiding Marco's question
'She doesn't recognise me! She doesn't talk to me for the fame or whatever, it has been a long time since that happened..'
"Well I fell of some stairs, very casual as well." Marco says joking and Aurora giggles
"It seems like we got a lot in common then ..."
"Marco, my name is Marco." I quickly respond "And you also fell of the stairs? How did it happen in your case? I was drunk and tripped because of my injury." Marco says scratching the back of his head
"Well my scenario is a little diffrent. I'm all alone in Dortmund and I was with some friends I made and I got drunk too, that part is the same, but the police came because one of the boys had stolen the alcohol and we all had to get outside the building. A young officer had to 'handle' me and thought it would be funny to push me in the back at the stairs in front of his mates, back luck he pushed too hard and I fell." She says looking down
"Oh damn, that's pretty fucked up. You said you're alone in Dortmund, why's that?" Marco asks genuinly gaining interest in Aurora.
"My parents we're having a rough time with my mum being sick, but all they did was command me to do stuff. Ofcourse I wanted to help, but all they did was letting me do stuff. School was intense enough and I had other shit to worry about and one day I was argueing with them, even worse than before and then I decided to run away.." Aurora answers with a shaky voice
"I'm assuming you're from somewhere near Dortmund?"
"No, not at all, I'm from the Netherlands. My parents probably know I'm in Dortmund by now. Or at least Germany. I've always wanted to go here."
"The Netherlands? Oh damn. You've come quite a long way. Why Dortmund?"
"Well I suddenly remember, excuse my concussion please, I've always wanted to come to Germany because I absolutely LOVE German football. I'm a Bayern München fan, but I've always had a favorite football player who lives in Dortmund.."
"Let me guess, Mario? Erik? Mats?"
"Nope," Aurora answers blushing "his name is Reus, Marco Reus." She shyly smiles now.
"Really? I feel honored! Why German football by the way? Dutch football is pretty decent right?"
"Wellll we kinda suck. And I love germans for some reason. I can name loads of handsome german footballers." She says giggling.
'She has such a contagious laughter..' I can't help but laugh with her
Suddenly a nurse comes walking in.
"Good evening Aurora, the doctors discovered some internal bleedings on your scan, which they want to check. You'll be back here in an hour to have dinner, Marco there are some people here to visit you. Shall I tell them to come in?" I wave to Aurora as a group of nurses moves her bed.
"I'll see you in a bit!" She says
"I'll be looking forward to it!" Marco shouts back "and who are wanting to see me?" He asks the nurse
"Mario Götze, Mitchell Langerak, Jill Schweinsteiger and Erik Durm." She says reading the names from a note
"The only one I want to see is Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. And can you please update me on Aurora? I'd like to stay in the same room as she."
"Sure thing Herr Reus." The nurse answers and leaves
'God, I don't want to see any of those people. I don't want Jill to see me like this and Götze and Langerak can go fuck themselves... I hope nothing too bad has happened with Aurora.'
~
After an hour and a half the squad of nurses comes back with Aurora, who now has a weird kind of tube into her nose.
"Hey." She says with a raw voice
"What have they done to you?" Marco asks concerned
"Well I've apparently had an internal bleeding in my head and they're checking on my insides now. The tube is so I get maximum oxygen. Supposed to help me heal the bleedings or something." Aurora answers calmly
"Will you be okay?" Marco asks not knowing why he's this concerned about a girl he has just met.
"Yeah guess so. I don't even know if I want to be okay. My parents will come get me eventually and I don't want to go back to Holland. I like Germany."
As in an impulse Marco says "You could stay at my place?" Aurora looks at him with big blue glossy eyes and a with weak smile on her face she replies with
"But I'd only be unhandy. And what would the media think, I'm way too young and they'd say weird things."
"I'd love to have some company while I'm healing. My friends, except for Auba, are assholes. And you're not that much younger right? I'm 26 now, what about you?"
"I just turned 18, 3 days ago. And what about your friends?"
"I'll tell about my friends later." Marco says waving the topic away "You don't look 18, you defenitly look like you've been through way too much for someone your age."
"How would you know?"
"I've been through quite some shit. I've done selfharm..." Marco tells without knowing why
"Really? I wouldn't expect that from you. You always seem so happy.."
"I'm a great actor, I've won as many oscars as Leonardo Dicaprio!" Marco says joking and Aurora laughs weakly, but her eyes light up and Marco's able to see the stars in them.
"Lets give this topic a place and maybe talk about it later okay? I'm getting a little emotional." Marco says wiping away some tears from his face, she nodds and smiles weakly.
"Lets take some rest now, we'll talk later, I love spending my time with you Marco." Aurora says yawning
"Same for me, sleep well. I'll be at your side if anything's wrong."
"You do not have much choice, do you?" She says joking and Marco bursts into laughter.
"No, no I don't" he says with a big smile on his face
|| A/N I'm terribly sorry for not updating, but I've had a writersblock and there have been some troubles at home. I hope you guys understand. I'll try to upload more the coming weeks though. I love all of you who've joined me on this journey and have come this far. Thanks for all the support 💕 ||
