spotlight // njr

Chapter 13

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I'm really excited that my Father, Gerard and Thibaut will come to Paris to celebrate my 23rd birthday. I asked Bianca, Beatrice and all of my girl friends to helped me throw a beautiful birthday party.

I really missed my Father so much, its been a while since i visited him in Brussels because i was too busy. Ever since i came to Paris after a couple weeks of my graduation, i barely seen my family after.

My Father live in Brussels, Gerard live in Barcelona and Thibaut live in London. We all live in a 4 different country and sometimes i do get this terrible homesick and all i want was just be with them.

"Missing your Papi i guess?" asked Bianca, she's taking her facial mask from the sheets and put it to her face.

I nodded. "I just want to be a little girl again and not facing this hard reality."

"Can you do it with a pressure at the back? My back feels sore for working all day." I asked to my massager.

We're in my condo right now and i called a person from Beauty Salon to came. If i could make my own Beauty Salon in my Condo, then i will. I love beauty treatment.

"I miss my parents either, they're in Turkey with my brother."

"I always wanted to go to Turkey, maybe someday you'll bring me there?"

"I will." She smiled.

I heard a knock on my door and Bianca volunteered herself to opened it, I saw Kylian and Neymar stopped by after their training. Bianca greet her boyfriend and continued her manicure work. Both of them are looking at me and i rolled my eyes.

"Don't look at me, i'm naked duh!" I could hear my massager tried not to laugh.

"Since when did you have your Beauty Salon in your condo?" Neymar asked.

"I always do this, this queen is lazy to go outside." I looked at them. "Bianca, why are you invited them? I thought today was supposed to be our girls day"

"Not anymore." Kylian answered.

"Sorry." She chuckled.

I finished my massage and now it's the time for me to have my face treatments, my massager took my bathrobes and i wake up from the massage bed.

After we finished our beauty routines, we're planning to go to cinema together. I'm the one who bought us tickets and after that we're waiting outside the cinema until the film is starting.

Bianca and Kylian left to bought us some popcorns and Neymar was pampering his fans to take photos and talk to him. I played with my phone and Neymar came to sit beside me.

"How's your birthday planning going?"

"Great, i can't wait for 3 more days!" I stared at my phone. "And there will be my family, anyway i invited the whole Barcelona's team tho."

"So did you invite the whole Chelsea's team too?" He do sounds like a jealous boyfriend.

"Yeah," I nodded. "But i'm not sure if Eden's coming."

"I was gonna ask for Willian."

"Oh, i'm sure he'll come." I murmured. "So, introduce me to your new girlfriend..."

"What are you talking about? I don't have a girlfriend." He stated.

"Don't hide it from me, i saw photos of you hanging out with a girl"

He smiled. "She's my sister, Rafaella."

I couldn't help but grinned like The Grinch from that child cartoon. Then, Kylian and Bianca came with popcorns in their hands, we entered the cinema and i sat between Bianca and Neymar.

"I know you're jealous." He smirked.

"Jealous? Hahaha of course not," I whispered. "I want to enjoy this movie so please stop talking!"

"I won't until you admit it."

"Hey! I'm not jealous with you and we already made a promise not to like each other."

"But the truth is you're jealous with me, it means that you like me." He wanted to get some popcorns of mine but i jerk his hand away.

"And you have butterflies too because of me." I glanced at him. "Just admit it that you like me too."

"I'm not."

"Prove it."

"Okay, whoever kissed someone first at your birthday party until midnight will prove it."

"Fine, i'll prove it to you!"

After the movie is over, we went to Neymar's house or should i say mansion? at Bougival. I do always have one question to myself, why does footballers always like to live in a huge mansion when they actually living alone?

We arrived at Neymar's house and i could see her sister is sitting on his living room. She came to approach us and Neymar introduced me and Bianca to her sister.

"... and Rafa this is Juli."

"Hey Juli!" She hugged me. "Ney talks a lot about you."

"Rafa you better go to your room before you spilled everything." Neymar rolled his eyes and her sister just laughing before she left us.

"So you talk about me a lot huh?" I teased Neymar.

He rolled his eyes. "Shut up"

I feel there is a text coming from my phone, i checked it and it came from Beatrice. She said that she already have a list about the public schools we're about to visit. She found a caterer for the party and she reminds me to make a slide presentations for the campaign.

I'm so lucky that i got her as my new working partner because she's a lot more trustful and hardworking than Freya. Even she always volunteered herself to help me outside the work.

"Is there anything happen between you two?" Kylian asked, breaking the atmosphere between us.

"What do you mean?" Both of us said in unison.

"Like, you two are dating?"

Neymar and I burst out our laughter while Kylian and Bianca just stared at us with a straight face.

"Me dating him? I'd rather date a cow." I wiped my tears because i laughed too much.

"If i stuck in an island with her, i choose to drown her."

"But i always caught both of you staring at each other, everytime one of you looked at the other direction." said Bianca. "And Juli, when i borrowed your phone to look at our picture together, i saw dozen photos with you and Neymar in your bed."

"What?" It's been a long time since i opened my phone gallery. I checked my phone gallery as soon as she said that and shit, these are photos from the night we got wasted together.

"I caught Neymar stalking Juli's instagram at the dressing room." Kylian spilled.

"You guys are misunderstood, it was the photos when both of us got wasted and there's nothing happened that night, i swear." I explained.

"And i was stalking Juli's instagram because i want to found her old photos so i can humiliate her."

"Nice try Junior." I rolled my eyes. "You know what? I think i should go contact my caterer for the party, i see you guys soon, Ciao."

I tried to avoid this conversation and find an excuse to leave. I'm standing in front of Neymar's house and realize i didn't bring my car. I tried to get an uber but somehow there is no uber driver in this area. Neymar came from inside and i hide my face in embarassment.

"Let me take you home." He smiled. I pouted my lips and waited for him to get his car.

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sorry for the late update, i just finished my exam week. love you guys. s.