Footballship Stories

**Especially You** is an alternate-history football fanfiction set during the 2026 World Cup. Jude Bellingham and Erling Haaland were teammates at Dortmund six years ago. Something grew between them that neither of them named, and one careless night ended it before it ever properly started. They went their separate ways - different clubs, different countries, different lives. Erling built something with someone else. Jude built nothing with anyone, which he told himself was fine. Then England drew Norway in the quarterfinals. What follows is a story about two people finding their way back to each other across six years of silence, bad timing, and things left unsaid.