Dark Moves Of Love ~ Neymar Jr

Chapter 17

After dinner we drove back to the compound where David's dad would pick up his car to go home. I said goodbye and gave them some time to talk. The lunch was great and I had really liked Marinho. And the conversation with David was what I needed. Honesty. No matter the outcome.

I went back to my room and found Marina there. She was sitting on her bed with her laptop.

"Livvie!" She screamed when she saw me.

"What is it?" I asked.

She motioned me to come forward. I sat by her bed.

"You won't believe what the press is saying!" She told me. "We have been on the Brazilian press for days! And now the international press is picking up on it too!" She said.

"What are you talking about?" I asked and she turned her laptop towards me. She had translated the articles. I was stunned. There were articles about the CBFwith pictures of us and Mr. Jones and they were about our work with the team. But there others, far worse.

"Look at this!" Marina said and showed me an article documenting our night at the club. I thought no one had taken pictures of me then but I appeared in a couple with David. And they only captioned it David Luiz with a friend.

"It's no big deal." I said. "They just called me a friend."

"Wait, it gets better." She said. It seemed that she thought it was a good thing, but I felt my stomach turn.

She showed me an article written about the team dinner last night. "Oh my God." I said. There were tons of pictures taken by guests of us. There were pictures of us eating and pictures the players took with fans. There were even the pictures and selfies some players took and posted on Instagram. I saw the picture I took of Neymar and the little boy and a picture of me with Neymar, Thiago and David which Thiago had posted on his account. We were all smiling and looking happy. There was also the picture of the whole team that we took in the end. All in all there were about a hundred pictures and I appeared in some of them.

"There's a separate one on Neymar." Marina said. "And you want believe what they are saying about you! It's nuts!"

With horror I looked at the screen. I grabbed her laptop and took it in my own bed. The article showed a sneaky picture someone took of me and Neymar while we were sitting next to each other, talking. There was also a picture of us coming in the restaurant in which he was holding my hand and a bunch of Instagram pictures some of the guys took. I was described as the mystery brunette that worked with the team and the author of the article was wondering if something was going on between us. And after that there were pictures of Neymar and Bruna.

My breath caught. As it turned out, Bruna wasn't Neymar's sister as I had thought. She was his ex-girlfriend. Or maybe not ex, as the article was saying. According to it Bruna happened to be dinning at the same restaurant as the team and came to say hi to Neymar. The two had broken up due to long distance a couple of months ago but they seemed to rekindle their romance and Neymar even asked her to come at the open practice today and have lunch with him and his family afterwards. There were pictures of them talking after the practice ended and entering the restaurant later. And the cherry on top? A picture of me and the guys from practice while I was showing them how to curve the ball, Neymar standing next to me and another one where David was giving me a piggyback. I guess Scolari had been right in scolding us.

I sighed. All this time I had no idea that this has been going on.

"Were did you find all these?" I asked Marina. "I had no idea that..."

"Me neither. I just thought I'd check the local news. Thankfully not much of that is reported outside Brazil. Only the first one, with us and Mr. Jones. But as the World Cup approaches, who knows?" She said.