7 years • Lot to Learn
(Lukas Graham • Luke Christopher)
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,,Klara, I mean it! If you get her into trouble we have a problem!" I chuckled at my sister as I sat down next to Guilia. Guilia and I got along since day one and she meant a lot to me. She could make me laugh without even trying and calm me down if she needed to. Sometimes I even had the feeling we were more than friends. Maybe, we were. But actually that wouldn't make sense. I mean, she is 23. Why would she want a relationship with a 18 year old.
,,She's planning something...", Guilia chuckled next to me and I nodded.
,,Yeah, we have to be careful or she'll get lost in England while doing something stupid.", I stated as the blonde laughed. We just talked a bit until I got a notification from my phone. I looked at it and immediately a smile broke across my face.
'✨England✨ send you a video'
I tipped on the notification and smiled even more when I took my earphones out and pressed play.
(Just imagine Georgia being at Bayern before the euros as well. I love her and want her at my story💅😎)
,,Sooooo, Keira what are we doing?", I heared Georgia yell behind the camera while she recorded Keira and Lucy, who were standing a bit away from her.
,,SEARCHING FOR YOU'RE HOTEL SO WE CAN ANNOY YOU WHEN YOU GUYS ARE HERE!", Keira screamed back with a big grin while she threw her arms in the air and Lucy just stood there shaking her head. Georgia started running towards them and handed the phone to the older woman.
,,Take the phone and film Luce!", Georgia said exited as Lucy held her face in the camera.
,,I'm sorry Avery. I couldn't stop them so I thought it would be better if I go with them. So they don't get in trouble.", she whispered into the phone before turning it around and recording Georgia and Keira again who were speaking to a woman with UEFA clothes. She points into a direction as the both of them nod politely but fail miserably at hiding their laughter. Lucy rushed over to them as they stumbled away from the woman, laughing their asses of.
,,Oar germarn achsent is gud isn't it?", Georgia choked out between laughter as Lucy approached them. I heard Luce chuckling before the camera showed Keira again.
,,This direction Luce! There should be a banner with the german flag soon.", Keira said exited to Lucy before the younger women continued to walk.
,,What are you grinning at?", a voice besides me asked and when I looked up I saw Guilia looking interested at my phone trying to figure out what I had just watched.
,,A video from Georgia. It's really cute.", I smile still amused by it.
,,Oh.. Georgia sure. What is it about?", she asked and for a moment I thought I saw a glint of hurt in her expression. But it was quickly gone again so it probably was just my imagination.
,,They're searching for our hotel so they can come and visit us when we're there. Oh, you have to meet them! You'll get along just perfect, trust me!", I spoke exited and she just nodded quietly before turning to her phone again.
Georgia and I didn't really liked each other right away but now we are unseparable.
Flashback
We sat in the cabin getting ready for training. That morning, I have had a panic attack. The first in weeks and I didn't even know why. Well, I did actually but that doesn't matter. So besides the exhausted and puzzled state I was in, I also was angry at myself for letting it happen again. Sydney had been there and could calm me again and she did tell I shouldn't worry or blame myself for anything but I could tell she was worried herself. The look on her face alone afterwards was enough to tell me it had been a bad attack. And I blamed myself even more for putting another weight onto her shoulders.
So you could guess that we both wasn't in our best state of mind and our teammates didn't even asked about it. Syd tried having conversations with the others as a distraction but I just needed to be alone and they all knew it. So I sat there putting my shoes on while I was lost in my own mind. But before I could leave the cabin to go out to the pitch our coach came in, but not alone. Behind him, a young woman shuffled into the room and looked around nervously. I knew her. Georgia Stanway, english national player and Manchester City player. Well, not anymore obviously. I actually was really exited to meet her. She had always been a player I looked up to but today I hadn't the nerves for an awkward conversation with a new teammate. So I didn't even listened to any of the speaches that were hold. I just sat on the bench, staring at the wall and patiently waiting until I could get out of there.
,,Hey, I'm Georgia! What's yo-"
,,Hi.", I didn't even look at her as I stood up and followed our coach and some others out to the field. Wow, she must think I'm a bitch. And I even heard who I guessed was Sydney calling after me but I just wanted to get out. I wanted to run. No matter where, no matter from what. But I needed to run.
Some time later we had finished our warm up and started jogging. And finally I could do what so desperately needed to be done. Besides football, I loved to run. It just was my thing. I could do it for hours and I couldn't get tired of it. The difference between running and football was that you didn't have to think. You can just let you thoughts wander relax while doing something good for yourself. It was like therapy, and even if I love football so so much it never had such an effect on me. We ran our rounds until coach called us over and said we would just have some fun to get to know each other.
So when we got ready to play some little games. I walked over to my sister and gave her a tight hug. I immediately felt her sinking into my embrace as I did the same. We probably both needed it. ,,Are you okay, teddy?", she asked and I nodded.
,,It was exactly what I needed.", I mumbled and she pulled away to look at me with a gentle smile.
,,I thought that, so I asked coach if we could do it. And I told him to not let you play full time. You must be tired.", she said and I nodded. I had already assumed this since she always did it after my panic attacks. Telling coach to let us run so I could free my head. My eyes wandered over to Georgia who stood on the side. ,,You should go talk to her. I assume she was a little insecure after you left her." Immediately my head snapped towards my sister, guilt washing all over me but Sydney just laughed. ,,It's okay, just go and apologize. She'll understand." I nodded and started walking over to where the english girl was standing.
,,Hey...", I mumbled unsure how she would react. She didn't respond, just looked at me, probably waiting for me to continue. I sighed quietly as I searched for a reasonable excuse and looked at my hands, playing with my fingers. ,,I am sorry that I was so mean to you in the cabin. I just didn't had the best start in the day and the others knew and left me alone but you couldn't know and- that isn't making it any better. I'm sorry. I didn't have the right to be like this to you. Sorry." I said quietly and then looked up to see her smiling at me.
,,Don't worry, I understand.", she said gently and laid a hand on my shoulder. ,,Are we good now? I don't want anyone to hate me before we got to know each other.", she asked and I nodded quickly, laughing before looking back at my sister to see her smile and nod at me. Turning around again I smirked a little.
,,Soo, wanna show what you can?"
We messed around for the next full hour. Laughing until we laid on the ground holding our belly and getting to know each other. Sometime my sister came over to us, already changed in normal clothes and told me to get ready as well so we could go home and I could rest. And when I did so and sat beside Sydney in the car some minutes later I immediately drifted off to sleep. The next time I woke up was the next morning with a message from a certain english footballer asking if I want to do something.
End of Flashback
,,Avery, we're here." My eyes flutter open as I looked around. Everyone started to leave the bus so I quickly followed. And the moment I was out I was tackled into a tight hug.
,,Obi!", I screamed and wrapped my arms around her neck as she lifted me up from the ground and spinned us around. Before she finally let go of me and looked at my face with the biggest grin on her face.
,,God, it's been too long!", she laughed as we excitedly hold our hands.
,,Definitely!"
,,Guess who talked Martina into putting us into a room?"
,,You did not!"
,,I did!"
,,You. Did. Not."
,,I did!"
,,Lena Oberdorf, you're a goddess!" she shot me a wink. ,,I have to tell you so much! Do you remember this dude I told you about? He literally messaged me the day after and said he actually didn't even want a signature. He just asked me for it so he could throw it away in front of my eyes.", I started as she listened to me interested.
,,The fawk. The people today.", she rolled her eyes and looked at me funnily. ,,Poor man was probably heartbroken because of you. You really-"
,,Guys! We have a plane to catch.", Martina yelled as we realized we were the only ones still outside of the germany bus. My cheeks turned deep red while Lena just laughed and dragged me into the bus and to seats in the back.
,,So how is Sweindis?" We continued our conversation and just catched up with each other since we didn't got to see each other very often. Lena played at Wolfsburg and you'd assume there is a rivality between the players, and don't get me wrong there is between some of them, but not for me. Lena was my best friend of all the time. Even if I didn't got to see her much. I met her years ago in the U15, then two years after she left them in the U20 and now with the seniors. She knew a lot about me. Not as much as Syd but a lot more than others. She took me under her wing and took care of me when Sydney couldn't and always protected me. And besides that, she just was the best friend you could gossip with or do the most idiotic things with. See, her and Georgia are my best friends, Laura and Klara are like sisters for me, Sydney is my sister, Guili, well you know what I think about her and a lot of the others, even from different clubs and teams, were somewhere between family and friends. With all of them I had a great support system and I couldn't be more thankful.
,,Okay. Now to the important stuff. How do you feel about a certain blonde sitting in the front and chatting with Lea right now?", Lena smirked at me and I knew immediately what she meant. Or who, actually.
,,What should I say?", I mumbled but she just scoffed.
,,Okay, do you like her?", she asked as I glared at her.
,,Of course I do I already told you that!"
,,So you would get together with her?" She raised an eyebrow at me and I shoved her arm.
,,The fawk Obi!"
,,What? I wanna know."
,,Yeah... probably. But she wouldn't! So forget about it.", I shifted in my seat and laid my head onto her shoulder.
,,Oh Volley..", she chuckled an patted me head. Soon after, I fell asleep again.
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I decided to do a cut here. It's a little longer than the others I plan on doing longer ones don't worry. Just wanted to post again after I saw the few comments under the last parts. You can't imagine how motivating every single one is. So please feel free to comment or vote here as well, it's great to see if you guys like it. So there will be a next part of course. Same for 'knock out'. Let's see wich one is first. I also heard Lea? Any other wishes? I could also put them together like in this one where Syd is the sister and Guili the lover yk. Yeah, just comment. By the way under the picture will be some songs I listened to while writing so yaaa. Okay byee.