Midnight ➳ Rafael Alcantara

➳ Chapter 4 ➳

➳ Here is the most iconic gif you will ever see of the two most best people ever! 

"It's an amazing experience, especially when you've loved football since you was a little child." Rafinha replies, chuckling to himself and looking ahead.

Alessia smiles at Rafinha but quickly turns back to her food. She takes a bite into a cherry tomato in her salad, munching away as she too looks up at the view of the sunset. 

"So, how long have you worked here Alessia?" Rafinha turns around to ask Alessia. Alessia turns around and smiles at him, "A couple of months now. I love my job."

Rafinha chuckles with laughter and a smirk appears on his face when he says, "I bet you love it because you met me and Neymar." 

Alessia ends up choking on a piece of lettuce making her eyes watery, as she couldn't stop coughing after Rafinha said that. 

"Oh crap." Rafinha says, getting all serious, leaning over her to grab the glass of water and passes it to Alessia who went a little red. 

"Thank you" She says quickly, then forcing the water down her throat giving her that feeling of relief. 

"I'm so sorry." Rafinha mumbles, scratching his head. Alessia looks at Rafinha, "No, it's fine honestly. Happens all the time." After saying that, they both laughed to themselves. 

"Alessia, can I ask you a question?" He asks, now all attention on her.

"Sure, what's that?" She responds, putting down her glass of water.

Rafinha moves his hands about as he speaks, "It's Neymar's birthday tomorrow. He's going to turn 25, I was wondering if we could hold a party for him here. Would you be able to help me organise it? I'll talk to your manager too." 

"OMG!" Alessia gasps, making Rafinha jump and look at her confused. "Yes, yes! We would love to! In fact, I'll go talk to him right now!" 

This made Rafinha happy, the thought of planning something amazing for his best friend. He knew how much the boys would be in on this plan and Neymar definitely must not have been aware that it was his birthday tomorrow. 

They both finally stand up, Alessia picking up her plate of salad and glass of water. "Well, can me, Messi, Suarez and Pique see you tomorrow in the morning. Bruna will make sure to keep Neymar under her control while we all set up this party." 

That was when Alessia's heart really did start thudding. The excitement and happiness pumped around her whole body, making her want to shriek but she couldn't because she'd look like a complete freak. This meant she would meet pretty much the Barca squad. She just had to tell Maryse! So lost in her thoughts, Rafinha looked quite concerned because she was frozen.

Rafinha clears his throat a few times, "Alessia?" After doing so, he finally has her attention and she smiles at him. "See you tomorrow morning." She says with one last smile at Rafinha before she skips off and hurries back to the bar. Tomorrow was going to be something else. 

➳

The day was finally over, the bar was officially closed for the day. Everyone had pretty much left but Alessia and Maryse were still there gossiping about their day. It was mainly Alessia telling Maryse about the surprise birthday party for Neymar that they were all planning on. Alessia waves her hand around as she explains, "So I'm going to ask Mr. Gomez in a bit when he's done about tomorrow."

Maryse's face lit up with a glow, "Wow, that's amazing! How do you do it?" She asks, very curious to know.

Alessia laughs as she cleans the table, "How do I do what?" 

"It's like you and Rafinha are friends or something." Maryse adds, a slight tone of curiosity. 

Alessia frowns, "No I really wish we were. I just work here, that's why he asked me." She then smiles, slightly blushing. 

"He's super cute, isn't he?" Maryse adds, blushing too as her cheeks turn a rosy pink colour. 

Yeah. That was Alessia's response, but in her head. She couldn't say it out loud, I mean it was nothing great after all. She was just a girl who had the luck to meet Rafinha, but she knew where she stood. And that was no where near him, in his world. 

➳ The next day.. 

Alessia had woken up, so excited. She looked around her room and squealed. Today, she got to meet the whole Barca squad. She could finally see what they were like in person, in front of her. So, without wasting time she got ready and let her hair down and put some mascara on. Waterproof? Maybe. That's if she wanted to cry when she met the boys and there she left.

When she arrived at the beach, she was the first one here. It was very early and Maryse was supposed to be here, but she was probably running late. Rafinha said he'd meet her early and she thought instead of waiting around, she could already start with the preparations after all, the party was in the evening. She quickly went into the kitchen and began baking a cake, getting all the food items out and ready for later so all she had to do was serve them. 

Every now and then, she looked at the hotel not too far from the beach where Rafinha said he was staying. She waited for him, but there was no sign of him or anyone. She even texted Maryse who finally replied after ten messages asking where she was. Maryse was running late and completely forgot about all the party preparations. 

Alessia smiled to herself, "Never mind. I'll get as much as I can done" and started to set up all the tables. She attached a few string lights around the tables and chairs and finally the hour flew by before she knew it and she could hear chitter chatter. Turning around to her surprise, she notices Rafinha, Messi, Pique and Suarez standing before her and Maryse too had arrived. 

The looks on their faces was amazing, their reaction to the set up was great. Maryse's eyes were open wide, her mouth open in an 'o' shape. Meanwhile, the boys were just talking to themselves and Alessia couldn't quite figure out what they were saying. 

"Hi" Was all Alessia said, seeing the five stand there. Rafinha walked over to Alessia with the others following behind and smiled at her, "Did you do all this by yourself?" 

"I-uh, yes." Alessia replies, looking down. 

"It looks amazing! Neymar is going to be shook!" Messi adds, looking around with astonishment. 

"I'm Alessia, nice to meet you Messi, Suarez and Pique. I'm a huge fan of Shakira. I love her new song." Alessia adds, with the words rushing out quicker than she had imagined. 

"I love that too! Always twerking to it when it comes on!" Pique laughs and Suarez and Messi join with the giggles. 

"Alessia!" Maryse shouts from behind. "Did you do all this? Why didn't you wait for me? I would've helped you out! And Messi? I'm a huge fan of you!" She shouts, excited. 

"Shame no one likes you" Pique whispers to Suarez but Alessia heard that. 

"Suarez, you're one of my favourite players." Alessia adds, winking at Pique who then looked at Suarez and scratched his head. 

They all started laughing until Mr Gomez came over, greeting the boys and he thanked Alessia for the lovely decorations. Alessia smiled and then realised, she should probably serve the boys some drinks and food.

"Why don't you all stay seated, I'll go get some drinks." Alessia smiled walking off. Maryse picked out a neat table for the boys to sit on and noticed Rafinha disappeared. Rafinha, decided to follow Alessia over to the bar and she had no clue he followed her there so when she turned around she gasped but before she could react, Rafinha quickly puts his hand over her mouth. 

"Sssh! Sorry, I didn't mean to make you jump." He adds, his hands still covering her mouth.

Alessia tried to reply but she couldn't so she tries looking down and indicating that she couldn't speak until Rafinha realised, "Oh, I-I'm sorry." "I didn't want you to scream."