By the time I arrive at the stadium its 10:30. I walk in and ask a woman for directions and she leads me to the field. I take a seat on the third row on the benches. I see Thiago and as our eyes meet. He gives me his award winning and highly contagious smile and I smile back at him. I plug in my music and listen to Austin Mahone as I watch the guys practice. I go through my Instagram and twitter.
***
Flashback
I sit between Tony's legs in the garden at the back of the school. We both study for our midterms.
"What is humanitarian law?" he asks me
"Why are you going easy on me babe" I say smiling at him.
I look up and plant a kiss on his cheek. I take my phone out of my pocket and open my twitter. I open to see Justin’s twitter page open and remember I was stalking him in the morning. I don’t even need to look at him to know that he's rolling his eyes. He nuzzles his head at the crook of my neck and starts planting kisses.
"Honey were literally in the middle of campus"
"I know baby, you don’t need to remind me"
I start closing our books and stuffing them into my bag. I stand up and we practically run to my dorm room.
***
A big tall figure is standing in front of me and it takes my eyes a few moments that Ney and Thiago are standing in front of me.
"Earth to Emma" Neymar says flicking my forehead.
"Dude, honestly that hurt" I rub my forehead
"Dude, honestly that hurt" He says mimicking my accent and me. I glare at him and kill him with my looks. Thiago bursts into laughter and no matter how beautiful it sounds I glare at him too making him stop laughing but its obvious he’s biting his lips.
"Neymar tells me you played football up until university"
"Yeah I can sort of play" I blush
"Yeah what position?" he asks curiously
"Center Back or Defensive midfielder if were short" I smile looking at anything but him knowing that’s his exact position he plays. I can tell he's smiling. He pulls me from my arm making sure not to hurt me. He takes me down the steps and Neymar follows us.
"Hey guys, lets run that drill one more time. But this time, instead of me in center back, Emma here will play"
A lot of the guys have that exact same expression as me. Shock.
I don’t know what to say but "Alright"
I throw my hoodie and phone on throw them on the ground and get into position. To my right was Dani Alves. On my left are David Luiz and Marcelo. Fred was the striker and his midfielders were Hulk, Oscar, Ney, Luiz Gustavo and Paulinio.
Fred started with the ball and passed it to Oscar. Dani tried to tackle Oscar so he passed the ball to Neymar. Ney dribbled with the ball until he came to me. I tackled him and took the ball. I kicked it far away. This earned me claps from all the guys even Scholari. Which made me nervous.
"Better as ever I see,” says Neymar.
"I’ve always been better than you."
"When we were kids she used to be really good,” he tells the guys
"That’s code for ' she used to beat my ass'" I laugh with the rest of the guys. I catch Thiago staring at me with a smirk on his face.
"Alright guys from the top"
We do the drill about 5 more times before practice is over and I'm sweating a lot.
