Red Love

Chapter 9

"Mother of god...these seats are frikin fantastic!" Lexa cried with joy as we both sat down with Dylan, Aaron and Jay.

So far, Anfield was superb. Everything about it was just dazzling and it definitely lived up to my expectations. There was an enjoyable buzz around the stadium when we arrived here. Every fan had a delighted smile on their face and the whole place just oozed history.

While Dylan and Aaron went and met up with the Youth team, myself, Lexa and Jay wandered around the outside of the entire stadium. We went to the club shop, bought some scarves, watched the team bus coming in, took some pictures of the Hillsborough memorial and ate some scouse! (It's a type of stew. We didn't actually eat a person!)

But the atmosphere inside the stadium was a different story altogether and even before it had filled up, the Kop was already rocking with witty chants.

"The view from these seats are great!" I whipped my camera out and immediately started to take photos.

We were sat in VIP seats situated in the Main Stand where the view of the pitch was exceptional.

"Man, I am gonna see some good ass from here!" Lexa grabbed a pair of binoculars from her bag.

"Stalker much! When did you get the binoculars?" I giggled.

"I've had them a while. I use them for, you know, bird watching and stuff..." Lexa replied, trying not to smile.

"Bird watching, yeah, right!" I laughed and shook my head.

There was suddenly loud cheering and applause from all four stands of the stadium as both sets of players walked onto the pitch from the Anfield tunnel for the pre-match warm up. Lexa jumped out of her seat and wolf whistled loudly.

"£10 says we get thrown out before half time," Jay whispered.

"£20 says before kick off," Aaron leaned in and raised an eyebrow at an energetic Lexa.

"I'll try and restrain her before we meet the players otherwise we might have a restraining order situation on our hands," I said and Jay and Aaron nodded in agreement.

Throughout the warm up, I couldn't help but keep looking back to Jordan Henderson. It was strange to think I'd met him just last weekend and later today I'd be seeing him again. I swallowed hard and exchanged my gaze from the blonde haired Mackem and set my eyes on Steven Gerrard and goalkeeper Pepe Reina who were deep in conversation.

Beside me, Lexa sighed and withdrew her binoculars from her eyes.

"Alright?" I asked her.

"Yeah...Steven is a beautiful creature," she replied.

"Have those binoculars turned you into some kind of naturlist or something?" I laughed.

Lexa gave me a stern look and rolled her eyes. She focused her gaze on the Reds again and nudged me.

"Looking forward to seeing lover boy?"

"Lover boy?! What?I don't love him!" I tried my best to sound offended.

"Who are you talking about?" Lexa mock frowned.

"Jordan, why?"

"I was talking about Carra. I know you love him," Lexa winked.

"Shutup, I know you were talking about Jordan!" I folded my arms and frowned.

"You don't love Jamie Carragher?" Lexa scoffed.

"I know you weren't talking about him, Lexa. Anyway, it's not funny!" The more she taunted me about Jordan, the more it nagged away at me. I don't think I was ready to see him again...