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They've known each other since they were six years old.
From dusty pitches to packed stadiums, Alexia Putellas and Isabella Araujo grew up side by side-rising through the ranks of La Masia, sharing dreams stitched in blaugrana, and learning what it meant to bleed for a badge long before they were old enough to understand the cost.
But growing up together didn't mean growing close.
Where Alexia stayed-loyal, rooted, becoming the face of FC Barcelona FemenΓ-Isabella left. Two years at Arsenal WFC changed her. Hardened her. Gave her distance Alexia never forgave.
Now Isabella is back.
One year home-and somehow, everything between them is worse.
Old resentments simmer beneath every pass. Every look feels like a challenge. Every shared space is a reminder of what they used to be-and what they'll never be again.
Until management steps in.
To protect the club's image, to quiet the rumours, to sell unity to the world, they make a decision neither of them can escape:
A PR relationship.
Convincing. Public. Relentless.
Forced proximity blurs the line between performance and truth. Pretend touches linger too long. Staged smiles start to hurt. And somewhere between press conferences and late-night arguments, the hatred they've carried for years begins to fracture into something far more dangerous.
Because the hardest thing about loving your enemy
is realising they were never really your enemy at all.