Just Friends

Part 6

The ride home from dinner was awkward to say the least. Sergio's words ringing and replaying in Alenana's mind the whole time. When they arrived at the apartment Aleana was about to go into her room but Sergio called for her.

"Yes?" Ale said poking her head out from the door.

"You know, what I said earlier. It's all true, if the chance presents itself I would be willing to be in a relationship with you. That doesn't mean I want to be in one now, I don't want what I said to affect our friendship." Sergio said, looking down at the floor. He had been embarrassed and had realized that what he said wasn't what he meant.

"Okay." Aleana said, things had cleared up in her mind but she still wanted to sleep it off. She shut her door and fell on to her bed, once again she felt like when she was younger. Blushing because of Sergio Ramos.

The next morning Aleana was seated in her living room drinking a cup of coffee and looking at more furniture that a designer was sending her.

"Ale!" She heard Sergio yell from his room. "I need your help! Immediately!"

The sight in front of her eyes scared her, almost all of Sergio's clothes turned into a deep burgundy color as well as being soaked.

"What happened?" Asked Ale as she picked up one of his shirts, making small drops of red liquid fall on her wooden floors.

"Well, I accidentally put the boxes with my wine bottles on top of my boxes of clothes, I guess the wine bottles broke on the way here. The wine soaked the cardboard boxes and soaked all of my clothes!" Sergio said. "What am I going to do? I'll have to buy a new wardrobe."

This sentence was music for Aleana's ears. If she weren't to be an interior designer, she would have studied something in fashion.

"Let's get these clothes out of here and let's go shopping." Aleana squealed.

Sergio let out a huff as he loaded the last box of his ruined clothes into his Audi. They had called a home for the homeless and asked if they needed the clothes even if they were ruined and they had said that they would gladly accept the clothes.
After dropping them off they both left to the shopping center where all of Sergio's favorite stores were at.

"We need to go to Hugo Boss first, you look really handsome in suits." Ale said walking into the store. She grabbed tons of shirts and pants that were Sergio's size.
While he was trying those on, she went over to look for more casual, daytime shirts. She went back over to Sergio to see him coming out from the dressing room in a full suit.

"Ale, it's not polite to stare." Sergio said with a smile.

"I'm just, not used to seeing you like this." Aleana said coming behind Sergio to smooth the fabric on his shoulders.

Sergio cleared his throat. "So, I should go with this one?"

Aleana nodded. "And the other burgundy one that you tried."

They walked through the shopping center for another hour and a half, going into stores and coming out with two or more huge bags filled with Sergio's new clothes. Trying to ignore the multiple paparazzi that were following them. As they went to the parking lot, more paparazzi arrived and started making a circle around Sergio and Aleana forcing the cameras into their faces.

"Aleana, what's it like dating a football player?" "Sergio, what's it like dating Aleana?" "Are you still just close friends?" Were some of the questions asked. They tried to ignore them, until it got more violent.

"Aleana what's it like dating Pilar Rubio's sloppy seconds?" One of the paparazzi asked pushing her forward, almost making her trip.

"Don't you dare touch her!" Sergio yelled at the camera man.

*picture above (ignore that he's fighting with pique and that they're in a match lol)*

"It's not my fault she can't handle the truth. Maybe Marc Bartra cheating on her made some mental damage!" The man yelled back at Sergio. Sergio couldn't handle the things the paparazzi was saying so he paused, turned back to face him and started punching him. Throwing him on the floor and beating him. The footballer and the paparazzi started throwing punches at each other.

"Sergio, stop!" Aleana tried to say yelling and pushing Sergio away.

"Fucker." Sergio said as he spat on the man. They quickly got into the car, if there were hundreds of flashes going off before, now there were thousands.

"Sergio we need to call René, to tell him about this before it gets released to the public." Aleana said while passing a bag of frozen strawberries for Sergio to put on his now black eye.

"Can you call him?"

"Sure." Aleana said dialing his phone number. After a few rings, René answered. "Hi René, it's Aleana. You need to come over to my apartment, Sergio had a little incident with the paparazzi."

René only answered a firm: "I'll be there in five."

Aleana sat down next to Sergio. "Thank you. For standing up for me."

"I'd do that for you any day. No one should say that kind of things to you." Sergio said putting his arm over Aleana's shoulder. He changed the channel on the television and put on a football game.

"I know, I just. Thank you, it means a lot to me." Aleana said before giving Sergio a kiss on his cheek.

Sergio slowly turned to face her. Their faces very close to each other, Aleana closed her eyes halfway.

"Sergio! What did you do now!" René said barging into Aleana's apartment, making them jump and move away from each other.

"Well, this stupid paparazzi said some awful things about Aleana. We got into a bit of a fight. Hence the black eye. You should have seen the other guy." Sergio said with a proud grin on his mouth.

"And then he spat on the man." Aleana complemented.

"This man could press legal charges! You could potentially go to jail because of this little stunt you did!" René said shaking his head. "Tomorrow we will need to see how much we have to pay this man to not press charges."

"I'm going to have to play with a black eye in two days." Sergio said groaning.

"You two are an explosive combination. I'm saving your ass again like when we were children and you two would make some stupid decision." René said rolling his eyes.

After a while, René left. They were watching another TV show until Sergio got up. "I'm going to go to sleep now, let's see how this eye comes along tomorrow."

"Yeah, me too." Aleana said getting up and turning the television off. "Hey Sergio."

"Yes?" He asked turning around Opening the door to his room.

Aleana went up to him and gave him a kiss. "Thank you."

"Don't- don't worry about it." He said without breath.

Aleana smiled and turned around, going inside of her room. Sergio did the same, when he closed the bedroom door behind him he fell on his bed. Once again he felt like when he was younger. Blushing because of Aleana Cuellar.