Chapter 10: A New Friend

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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hey guys! I'm back! And still not fluent in Portuguese or Spanish, so you're going to have to correct me if my translations are wrong! Remember, you all have the right to hit me in the head with a football if I say something stupid like "Lionel flipped his golden blonde hair back and forth as he celebrated another goal" or anything else is like that.

I JUST WANNA THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL THE SWEET COMMENTS!! THEY MAKE MY DAY SOMUCH BRIGHTER!! HUGS FOR ALL OF YOU!

*ARIANNA'S POV*

I stared at the blender, half asleep; as I added ice cubes to the strawberry-banana smoothie I was making for breakfast. Cristiano had left for practice about 10 mins ago and Gabe is coming in 5ish mins. I put my smoothie into a cup with Cristiano's sweaty face on it and went to sit on the steps outside the house, waiting for Gabe. I was nearly done with my drink when Gabe showed up. I got into the car and we laughed all the way to Barcelona as I told him about practice yesterday.

As Gabe pulled up in front of the Camp Nou, I grabbed my stuff and then exited his car. "Thanks Gabe! I'll see you tomorrow!" I told him as I walked into the stadium. Continuing to my office, I opened the door and saw the stack of the team's home jerseys that I had asked for, was sitting on my desk. I took the package that was left over from yesterday and opened it. Inside there were 30 empty photo frames. I took each jersey and placed them in the frame; then, I carefully pinned it into place. Once I was done with all the jerseys, I hung them on the walls on either sides of my desk. Now my office was complete.

As I was admiring my work, Pep walked in, "Wow, um it looks nice, but you seem to be missing a jersey."

I quickly counted all the jerseys on the wall and looked back at him confused, "Um, no, I think I've got them all..."

"You forgot this one," he says, as he holds up a Barcelona jersey. I turn it around and couldn't help but smile when I saw my name of it.

"I'll hang it up now!" I tell him as I get another frame out; I put my new jersey right behind my chair.

"Well it's nice to see you settling in; I just wanted to remind you that we have an away game with Sevilla coming up."

"Yup, I'm starting to make up some tactics, but I'm not sure how you want me to go about doing this."

"Well for the first game I'll lead you through how we do things, and as for tactics, I want you to concentrate on defensive strategies against Sevilla; I'll take care of the offensive ones! You can work with Mia on the defense today; get to know them and how they work with each other."

"Ok! That sounds good! Let's get going!" Pep and I headed towards the locker room, where all the guys were putting on their cleats. I sat down on the bench next to Neymar and listened to Pep's instructions for the day.

Once he was done talking, we shuffled out of the locker room and the boys started their warm-up laps. While they were running around the field, I looked up old Barcelona vs Sevilla games on YouTube. After a couple laps, they started stretching and going through their warm up drills: zigzagging through cones, doing basic footwork on the ladders, making triangles and passing to each other. Once they were done warming up, Pep called them all to the center circle and explained how practice is going to go.

"Ok, today, I'm going to take the offense and work on set plays, and Arianna is going to take the defense-'"

"Woohoo! Yes! Told you she thinks I'm the best!" Gerard exclaimed as he jogged down to where the defense would be practicing. Marc and Dani jogged after him, shaking their heads and laughing.

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