On the next day I felt like shit. I didn't get any sleep last night, cause my head was too caught up in thoughts of Nicola and what he told me last night. I can't help, but this if he was actually truthful, or not. Does he actually like me, or is he playing, cause he was drunk.
I texted all my friends to ask them the same thing. I even texted Neymar to make sure I wasn't trippin'. I told my sister, I even spoke with uncle Lewis, when he woke up this morning. Everyone told me the same thing: 'if he calls you drunk..he likes you'.
So I was convinced that he was truthful, when he called me last night. But the truth was about to be revealed sooner than I expected.
Today granddad came and said he might need some help with training and the management team of A.S Roma, since the social media admin recently quit the job. And since I'm studying business and marketing, and I'm damn good at it, granddad asked me for help.
I had the opportunity to go and see Nicola with my own two eyes. So I got ready, I put on my best suit and we were ready to go. Got into the car after uncle Lewis left to do his own thing in Italy and the day has begun.
40 minutes ride, thanks to a pretty long and heavy traffic, we were finally at the A.S Roma's stadium. I got out right after granddad and I walk straight in thanks to the pass I had.
The players were already there warming up for training. Paulo and Nicola were also there, both looking at me the minute they noticed me. I was ready to walk up to Nicola and ask him about last night, but before I could Paulo came up to me with his sweet smile. I saw Nicola's face change the moment Paulo greeted me and he turns his head to the side.
"Hey there, little coach", Paulo spoke to me and my eyes got glued on his, "it's so nice to see you here again".
"Thank you, but I'll be here for awhile", I spoke to him with a little bit cold tone in my voice, I didn't even realised that until later, "I'll work with the management team".
"That's amazing! Welcome to Roma then".
"Thank you", I gave him a small smile, "can I catch you later, I gotta talk to someone for a moment?".
"Yeah, sure", he nodded.
I walk past Paulo without even realising that my smile was gone. I was so focused on Nicola to even realise that all their teammates were watching me as I walked past them. I stop by Nicola and my smile was once again on my face, like all my worries were gone.
"Hey, friend", I spoke to him first.
"Why are you talking to me of all people, tourist?", he looks straight into my eyes and his face was dead serious, cold and unwelcoming towards me, "Don't you have other people to annoy?".
"I...I thought we are cool after last night", I was so stunned by his words that I almost choked on mine. Why is he acting like that?
"Forget what I told you last night", he stands up in front of me, "I had too much to drink and I talk nonsense, when I'm drunk. We are not cool and I don't want you to talk to me".
"I....are you serious right now?".
"Dead serious", his eyes were fixed on my face and the way he was looking down at me made me feel so insecure at that moment.
"Okay", I shrugged, "fine, if that's what you want I won't talk to you again".
I turn my back at him and walk away. I felt so hurt by his words that I wanted to cry. How can he look at me into my eyes and say all these things that he said, the apology was all fake and drunk nonsense. I walk straight into the hallway to the management office and I close the door behind my back.
Thank God that I was alone, because if someone sees me like this I won't bear to look at them again. I felt so humiliated it's unbelievable to me. I pull out my phone and I opened my gc to talk to someone. I needed to vent to someone immediately.
Someone free?
[richarlison] for you I'm always free, baby 😌
I'm not in the mood
[vinijr] what happened?
I talked to the guy I told you about last night, just talked to him
[pablogavi] and what did he say?
That he said all of this, because he was drunk and he didn't mean it
He also told me to never talk to him again
[judebellingham] fucking moron
[pedri] bitch ass move
[erling.haaland] don't get upset over one immature asshole. I'm sure he'll regret his words later.
[gabriel.martinelli] did I miss something?
[jamalmusiala10] @vale.santos you good doe? Want me to call?
[trentarnold66] add me too.
[judebellingham] me too.
Nah, I'll be okay
[jamalmusiala10] if you say so.
[jamalmusiala10] don't be afraid to call whenever you want, okay?
Okay. Thanks y'all
I completely lied to them. I wanted to talk, but I didn't want to make it that big of a deal, cause I know my friends will take it to the next level and probably attack Nicola in some way.
That's why I did what I know best. I called my baby sister Clara to tell her what happened. I was not sure, if she was at school right now, or at home, but I took my chance. And thankfully she picked up almost instantly.
"Heyyyy", she spoke with a cheery voice.
"Hey", I said with not so cheery voice.
"Oh..what's with the tone? Are you good".
I couldn't hold it in anymore and I told her the whole story breaking in tears. I don't know why I cried, it wasn't that big of a deal. I guess the feeling of humiliation was just too much for me to handle. And the way he spoke to me was just awful. Like I was the most disgusting thing he has ever seen. It hurts.
"A fucking piece of shit", Clara cursed out loud and I heard my mom yelling at her for the cursing, "how can he act like this? Who is he? Give me his Insta, I'll jump him rn".
"Calm down, Clara, it ain't that serious", I chuckled a little bit. Sooo dramatic.
"What do you mean? He clearly hurt your feelings by acting like this. He needs to get his world rocked right...oh hold on", she made a pause and I heard her chuckle, "I can just call uncle Lewis. He's still in Italy".
"NO! Don't you dare, Clara!", I warned her.
"Too late. I already decided on it".
"If you call or tell anyone about this, I'll never talk to you again, do you hear me? If you dare to tell anyone..I'll kill you".
"Okay, fine. I'll keep quiet. But I want you to do something to hurt him back", my sister said, "and I know exactly what you should do".
"I don't wanna hurt him back".
"Why not? He didn't have a problem with hurting you, right? Why would you be the better person, when you can have a revenge".
"You're too young and you won't understand, but there's a pleasure of being 'the better person' in the situation. Trust me".
"Whatever", Clara let out a sigh, "I gotta get to class, but I'll catch you later, okay?".
"Okay, kiddo".
My sister ended the call and I was left with my phone in my hand in an empty room. My tears were slowly rolling down on my face, even tho I felt a little bit better. I don't know how I even ended up in this situation.
A small knock on the door took my attention, but before I could wipe away my tears and hide my sadness Paulo walks in the room and he saw me crying. We stare into each other's eyes, our bodies frozen on the spot. I didn't know what to say, he did neither. So all I did was to walk up to him and to hug him tight. He hug me back and I buried my face into his chest.
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