Unfortunately for Karim, James, Iker, Gareth and Luka they had training only an hour after we got back to Madrid.
Antoine was lucky to start trainings until Monday, so he had the day off to sleep or do whatever he wanted to do.
Daniela had to get back home to look after Salome, and I assumed the other wags needed to get back home for the same reason, they all had at least a kid. For what I heard they all left the kids together with a nanny and Luka's wife, so the kids also had fun while we were away.
Daniela looked so tired and worn out that I offered myself to look after Salome for a few hours so she could rest a bit, at first she refused but I told her I took a nap the day before just before leaving for the party so at last she agreed and went to bed after we picked Salome up from the Modrics' house.
Salome was full of energy today and I didn't even want to move but I promised Daniela I would take care of her, I offered to do that so now I had no way out.
"Did you have fun with Alba and Ema, Salome?"
Salome said nothing, she just giggled as she grabbed a doll. Salome can only say a few words but she mostly babbles, somehow James and Daniela understand her, I have spent several days with her and I still don't understand what she says or wants to say.
"What about Ema's brother, Ivano? Did you play with him?" I asked her, even though she wasn't answering my questions. "I suppose Martin it's a bit too young to play with him, huh? But he will grow up quickly and you will be able to play with him too."
I lied down on the floor in front of Salome and grabbed one small dog toy, it was a poodle. Salome grabbed another dog and we started to play, but I think lying on the floor was a bad idea because my eyes kept closing, I just wanted to put my head against the floor and sleep but I couldn't do that now.
Just as I was falling asleep, I heard the bell, which kind of woke me up. I hadn't even noticed I was about to fall asleep. I sighed as Salome ran to the door, I had no choice but stand up quickly and go after her.
The bell was rung again, I grabbed Salome by her tiny waist and lifted her up and carried her with my left arm as I opened the door with my other hand.
I gasped as I saw him standing right in front of me. He had a smile on his lips and he didn't really look tired, he actually looked quite refreshed.
"Hey!" He greeted me with a big smile. "How are you?"
"Tired." I said before I could stop myself.
"And who do we have here?" Antoine asked, looking at the toddler in my arms, who hadn't said a single word or made any kind of noise since I opened the door. Salome had never seen Antoine, except when she was like a few weeks old, so he's a complete stranger to her and she got shy when she saw him.
"She's Salome, James and Daniela's daughter." I said smiling down at Salome. "Say hi, Salome."
I waved at Antoine using my right hand so Salome could copy my actions. She lifted her small hand and waved at him but right after that she dropped her hand and buried her face in my shoulder. We chuckled at her.
"Well, it seems it will take a while to get her to warm up to me."
"An hour at the most." I said smiling. "Uh, what are you doing here? Didn't you want to sleep or at least rest?"
"I slept for two hours, I feel better now." Antoine said. "If I sleep all morning I won't be able to sleep early, right?"
"Yeah."
"And I wanted to talk to you."
"Is it important?" I asked nervously.
"Yes."
"I'm taking care of Salome now, Daniela will be up in maybe an hour or two."
"We could talk and look after her, I don't mind." Antoine said shrugging.
"Okay." I said. "Come in."
Antoine closed the door after we walked inside and followed me to the living room where Salome and I had been playing before Antoine came.
"How did you get here?"
"James told me where he lived, which wasn't really that helpful because I don't know where anything is or how the addresses work." Antoine said with a small smile. "So, Karim brought me here."
"Karim? Wasn't he supposed to be training right now?"
"He left earlier, he said he wanted to sleep." He said. "Not to the coach of course, I don't know what kind of excuse he used to leave earlier."
"I'm not surprised he did that."
Salome hadn't said a single word since Antoine came. She sat in the same spot she was earlier and grabbed her dog toys and silently played right in between us.
"What do you want to talk about?" I asked Antoine, I was dying to know so I couldn't help but ask him.
"I might be rushing things, I know we just got back together yesterday but I really need to talk about this." I couldn't help but smile a bit when he said we are back together, but I didn't dare to smile more because Antoine was talking about something serious, I don't know what about, but it's important. "Especially since you are going back to San Sebastian tomorrow."
"Okay." I said nodding. "What is it?"
"You mentioned you were going to go to France to study." Antoine said. "What will happen to us if you go there?"
I looked at him a bit surprised. I hadn't even thought about that. I stayed quiet, not knowing what to say. When you are on holidays you forget important things, things that normally stress you out, like work or school. I didn't even want to think about university while I was here, especially since I didn't know if moving to France was the best for me.
"You hadn't thought about it?" Antoine asked me after a long silence.
"No." I said, I was still a bit lost. I was really taken by surprise with that question.
"Would you want to move here to Madrid?" Antoine asked me. "James is here, Karim is here, I'm here too and from what I've heard there is a campus of your university in here so it wouldn't be that hard to get transferred."
"You investigated, huh?"
"Yeah." He said nodding. "I thought of it just after you left with Karim yesterday and well I researched before proposing the idea to you."
Again I said nothing to him. It was like my brain was frozen and not able to think. My mind went completely blank after that question.
"I want to be with you." I whispered.
And being with him meant calling my current university to ask for a transfer to Madrid, which shouldn't be so hard but who knows if they are still accepting applications and then call the university in France to let them know I won't go.
"I want to be with you too." Antoine said to me just before Salome gave him a small plastic pig she had there. "Thank you!" He said, smiling to her, Salome went back to sit at the same spot she was and continued to play with her toys.
Salome again stood up, this time with a small farmer toy in her small hand and gave it to Antoine as well. Antoine thanked her again and ruffled her already messy brown hair.
"I know it isn't an easy decision, especially since you haven't had the chance to think about it."
"I will talk to the university." I said before I could process what I was saying. "I will ask to be transferred here."
Immediately Antoine had a huge smiled on his lips, since we were both on the floor he just crawled closer to me and wrapped me in his arms, he pulled away and then without warming he kissed me on the lips.
It felt so strange but so good to kiss Antoine again. For a moment I thought I was dreaming because I thought Antoine would never talk to me again.
We broke apart and I turned to look at Salome, who was pouting at us. I chucked at her expression.
"Don't be jealous, come here!" Antoine said extending his arms wide, Salome still looked upset but she stood up and walked towards us and Antoine wrapped her in a hug.
"See? It didn't take long for her to trust you." I told him. "Less than half an hour, I think."
"Not even kids can't resist my charm." Antoine said winking at me, Salome was still in his arms.
"What charm?" I asked jokingly.
"You know it way too well, you can't resist it either."
It was then we were interrupted by the front door being opened. We all heard carefully so we all stayed quiet, seconds later we saw James with an exhausted expression on his face. Nevertheless he smiled and waved at us.
"Papi!" Salome exclaimed, Antoine put her on the floor and she ran towards James.
"How are you?" I asked him, as he picked his daughter up and held her in his arms.
"Exhausted." James said, it was obvious he was. "And you?"
"I'm tired too." I said.
"Glad you could make it here." James said to Antoine.
"I needed help!" Antoine admitted. "Karim brought me."
"Oh, right." James said nodding. "I will take a nap and then we will go out to eat lunch, okay?"
"Do you want to go out?" I asked him. "We could eat something here if you are too tired."
"It's your last day here, we have to go out." James told me. "We're tired but we'll survive."
"Okay."
"You have to come as well, Antoine." James said to him. "Just give us about an hour and a half."
"That's perfectly fine for me." Antoine said smiling.
James then excused himself and rushed upstairs and almost at the same time, Daniela came downstairs, where Salome kept giving Antoine toy after toy.
"Thank you so much, Margie." Daniela said to me. "You can go to rest now."
"I'm good." I said.
"You should take a short nap." Antoine said.
"If it's because you don't want to leave Antoine alone, don't worry." Daniela said grinning. "Salome and I will keep him good company."
"I'll be fine." Antoine reassured me.
"Okay." I finally said, feeling the tiredness once again. "Can you wake me up in an hour?"
"Of course." Daniela said smiling. "Salome will be more than glad to do that."
"I don't doubt that." I said chuckling as I stood up from the ground.
"Thanks, Margie." Daniela said suddenly, I stopped in my tracks and turned to look at her.
"For what?" I asked a bit confused.
"For taking care of Salome and letting me sleep first." Daniela said. "I really needed it."
"It's nothing." I said smiling. "I'm glad I can help."
With that, I turned around again and went upstairs, straight to my room and let myself fall on my comfortable bed. I closed my eyes and finally I could rest.
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I've got one random question. Have you ever kissed a good or best guy friend?
Or eventually date your best friend?
And I also have something good to tell you. My friends aren't exactly good friends but they are the only ones I've got. My mum went on a trip and I wanted to invite them both and drink and have fun, one told me she had finals (she's studying medicine) I didn't fully believe her and the other just didn't reply after a while.
You know on whatsapp the two checks turn blue when someone reads your message? Well she didn't even open the conversation, it's the second time she does that and I just know she's ignoring me.
Anyway, yesterday I posted a picture on instagram that said "If I'm the only that starts the conversation I'll eventually stop." or something like that and about two hours later she fucking texted me!
She apologized for not replying (Obviously she knew the picture was an indirect to her) and asked me when I was going to the sport club that is close to her house.
And by pure chance I'm going this week there, let's see what happens.
I was ready to just quit and not give a fuck about our so called friendship because none of them make an effort and I'm sick of it.
And just so you know I'm going to this sport club because there's this really important squash tournament with the best players of the world (For those who don't know, I play squash)
The #9 and #13 of the world and coming plus other great players and it's one chance per year that I have to see professional players play right in front of me <3 <3
Anyway, sorry if I bored you and thank you all for reading my story and please comment, vote and fan! <3 <3