greased

Chapter 9

Saturday, July 12th, 2014
Estádio Nacional de Brasília
Brasília, Brazil
Marc's POV:

My friends and I are at the Estádio Nacional de Brasília, sitting with Neymar in the VIP section.

Today is the World Cup third-place playoff game between Brazil and the Netherlands.

Honestly, I can't stop thinking about the argument between Nicky, Tiana, and James from the other night.

It was intense, yet weird.

It's a good thing that Nicky doesn't know what happened between Tiana and James a few days ago.

Flashback

My friends and I followed Tiana and James to the door of Tiana's hotel room.

"James, let me see your face," Tiana said.

He nodded and slowly removed his hand away. James' eye is black and blue, and it's pretty ugly. 

Everyone either slightly gasped or had their eyes widened.

"Is it bad?" James asked.

"Your eye is black and blue, but I can take care of it, though. I have a first aid kit in my room," Tiana replied.

She turned around and faced my friends and me.

"I'll take care of James. Everything's going to be fine," Tiana said and took James inside her hotel room, closing the door.

"This night was such a disaster," Courtney said.

We nodded in agreement.

"And on that note, I'm going to bed," Ashton said. "I would rather sleep than deal with more drama."

"I'm with you on that, Ashton. Goodnight, guys," Michael said and walked into his hotel room.

Everyone else did the same, except for Liane, Wendy, Ariana, Diana, Darren, Justin, Nathan, and me.

"We all want to know what's going on in her hotel room, so we might as well stay," Diana said.

We all agreed and quietly huddled around Tiana's door.

"Deadass, I've never seen Nicky that angry before, but I understand where he's coming from," Darren said.

"Yeah, but it shouldn't have happened in front of the entire Brazil squad," I said.

"I'm surprised that no one didn't come out of their rooms and watched the whole thing," Liane spoke.

"You know, all of this is one big mess," Nathan said. "The sole purpose of this vacation was to relax and get away from our problems, but instead, we created more."

Everyone agreed with Nathan.

"I'm worried that it's going to get worse from here," Ariana said.

"Guys, James is about to say something," I said.

"Ow... Ow!" James exclaimed.

"Just relax, the ice will do its work," Tiana said.

I looked through the peephole. James has a bag of ice on top of his eye.

"Thank you," He said.

"You're welcome," Tiana replied, closing the first aid kit.

It was silent for a few minutes.