When the Player Met Them

Chapter 31

Eli

Christmas is slowly approaching and I've been scrambling my brain on what to get Alé. Shopping for my family and Gabi was pretty easy but shopping for Alé and the rest of her family has been a task and I extremely underestimated how hard that was going to be. It's been a while since I had to shop for a girlfriend so I'm racking everyone's brain asking what they think she would like.

And with international break coming up in the next few weeks, I've been super busy with the team and we've been doing a bunch of promo shoots after training for new kits and new brand deals and I'm getting kind of burnt out.

I've done about a million promotional videos and interviews and if I have to talk into a camera one more time this week I might honestly lose my fucking mind. I can only deal with so much human interaction without going crazy and I'm right at the breaking point.

Luckily the good thing about working with your girlfriend is that I see her pretty much everyday and she makes my hard days a million times better. If it weren't for her I think I would've retired and moved into a cabin in the middle of the forest by now.

I rub my temples with my pointer and middle finger before I hear someone call my name across the studio room in the training center.

"Elijah it's your turn." One of the girls on the social media team says, motioning for me to step up at the front of the room. I just want to storm out but I know I can't.

I slowly stand up and walk over pouting, like how Gabi does when Alé tells him to get ready for bed. I look up and sit on the stool without saying a word to the social media team which sounds pretty rude but I don't care, I just want to go have lunch with Alé and then go home. That's all I want.

"Hi there." The main blonde girl says with a smile that's way to big. I just look up and give an understanding nod.

"We're just going to do some rapid fire questions to put up on instagram, You look perfect right there so don't move." She adds with a wink as she straightens her back in an attempt to show off her boobs and it takes everything in me to not roll my eyes. "Ok." I say plainly and the smile from her face slowly disappears when she see's that I'm not giving her the attention that she wants.

This must be the girl that Alé said didn't like her. I'm about to have so much fun.

"So you'll only have 5 seconds to answer each question and theres 10 questions, we'll try to go through these as quickly as possible so you can leave." One of the guys on the team says while he looks through a big notepad on the long table in front of him. "Ok cool." I say back nicely.

The blonde chimes in as she stands behind the tri-pod holding a large iphone. "First question: What's your favorite team to play against."

"Manchester." I say after a second of thinking.

"Okay good, next question: What's your favorite weather to play in?" She asks as she looks down at the note pad she's holding.

"Rain." I answer plainly. Something about playing in the rain and seeing the supporters outside watching you in the rain just feels extra special, I have no Idea why. Last time we played in the rain I remember Alé looked like a wet angel on the sidelines and I almost got a boner in the middle of a game. I smile to myself thinking about it when everyone else starts staring at me like I'm a mad man.