Dark Moves Of Love ~ Neymar Jr

New Year's Day Special

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope the New Year brings you joy, happiness & make your dreams & wishes come true!

The New Year's Day Special follows the Christmas Special & it's also from Neymar's POV. We see what happens in the half time break of the first match from his perspective. I hope you like it! Please vote if you do! xx

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When the referee blew the whistle indicating the half time break I kneeled to the ground trying to catch my breath. I looked up towards the general area where Olivia was, unable to spot her in the thousands of people there. When I scored my goal minutes ago, that's where I went to celebrate, hoping she'd realize it was for her.

I stood up to my feet as the crowd erupted in cheers again. I walked towards our bench and grabbed a water bottle as Scolari started giving me instructions. The man couldn't waste a second. We headed to the locker room and when he was done with me he moved on to Fred. I saw Thiago listening to coach Tandres, his brow furrowed, his eyes focused on his coach.

I got inside and changed clothes quickly. I took breath after breath, trying to calm myself and get ready for the rest of the game. I had a yellow card now which complicated things; I had to be extra careful. I couldn't miss the next game.

She'd know what to tell me, I thought. She knew just the thing to say in stressful situations. It was as if she sucked all the anxiety out of me and absorbed it, that's why I always felt like I could do anything when she was there. Her mere presence would make things better. Her mere presence...

I left the locker room in a hurry. I bumped into a security guard. "How can I go to stands?" I asked him.

He froze when he saw me. "Neymar? Why?" He asked puzzled.

I nodded quickly. "I don't have much time, tell me please."

"That way." He said pointing to his left. "But hurry! The game starts in 10 minutes!"

I started running to the way he had pointed. People starred at me as I passed by, talking to me, words of encouragement, words of excitement.

At that moment I was glad for having listened to Demis explaining to David exactly where the seats Scolari had gotten for them, were. And they were next to a corridor thankfully, so I would only have to be in plain view for seconds. As long as I found the right turn...

I stopped for directions once again. 7 minutes. The thought of turning back was unacceptable.

I found the corridor I was looking for, praying it was the right one. When I got out to the stands people started going crazy, asking why I was there and trying to come close to me. I looked around, searching for her, for anyone I knew... Noone...

"Neymar, what are you doing here?" I heard in English as a hand pulled me back. When we were back inside I turned to see who it was.

"Mr. Jones?" I asked in disbelief.

"What are you doing here?" Mr. Jones asked me. Behind him I could see two small children on their tiptoes trying to get a good look of me.

"I..." I started. What could I tell him? What possible reason could I have for being up here?

"Look, you have to go back down, the game starts in 3 minutes!"

"Are the others here?" I asked, my voice barely audible, I was so out of breath.

"Over there." He said, pointing behind me. I turned to look and saw them, Alex, Michael, Marina, everyone was there but Olivia. "You have to go!" Mr. Jones said again and I looked at my watch.

I didn't know I still had it in me to run this fast. I think I broke some kind of personal record.

I couldn't believe she wasn't there. That all this was for nothing. Even the best laid plans have holes in them and this wasn't one of those. And what should I do? Find her after the game and say 'Hey I was just looking for you before, must have missed you?'

I felt my feet slowing down unintentionally. Great, instead of resting before the rest of the game I went ahead and exhausted myself completely, all for nothing. As I passed by the same guard as before he shot me a puzzled look. I turned at the last corner before the locker rooms, hoping I'd at least have enough time to drink some water before having to go back out when I saw her, her back towards me, looking for something, someone. Me.

"LIV!" I yelled.