Rizz gods + 6 footballers
Tate
My mom and I were just out, but now I'm on the
way to pick you up, and then we have to go to the rehearsal dinner. A few of you have to ride with my mom too
Jude
Dibs
Pedri
Yeah I don't get rehearsal dinners
Like just have everyone show up day of
Who cares if it's so chaotic
Tate
Yeah tell that to the bride to be, I'm sure
she'll love that
Pedri
Pass, she scares me
Gavi
Nat isn't even scary
Alejandro
It's because she smacked him one time
Ansu
Because he was being mean to Tate
Pedri
I was 10
Isabelle
Hey respect to her for that
Pablo
Do we get like our own table
Tate
I think so, since there's 8 of us
Alejandro
Could've been 10 if Lani and Indi didn't go on a trip
Jude
Oh well, they suck🤚
Isabelle
Damn
Tell us how you really feel
Jude
I just did
Gavi
Goofy
Pedri
Rehearsal dinners are just so weird
Tate
Question for you, do you think they're weird?
Pedri
Yeah it's weird
Because why do we have to go to it
Tate
I mean you technically aren't supposed to, I'm a bridesmaid but she said you all can come to the rehearsal because you're 'basically family' how weird
Jude
Free food is free food🙌
Alejandro
Real.
Ansu
And we get to see the Cruz family
Pablo
It's been all too long
Tate
Jude please don't rizz my mom
Jude
No promises 😍
Tate
Or Nat
Jude
Boring
Pedri
Or tate at that point
Milfs are off the market tonight
Jude
Dude
Isabelle
Tate are you on the market for me
Tate
Yeah of course
You're my plus one, not Gavi's
Gavi
Okay fine be that way
Pedri
Was I never your plus one
Tate
No you got an actual invitation
Alejandro
How long until you're back
Tate
She just stopped to get coffee
Like 10
Ansu
Do we need to wear anything or look nice
Tate
Look nice.
That's her copy and pasted answer
Jude
That's so Nat!
Pablo
The period really gives it away that it's Lia
Isabelle
Why do you all call her something different
Pedri
It's either Nat or Lia
Tate's family calls her both, so some of us picked Nat, and some picked Lia. Hardly ever Natalia
Tate
Okay we're leaving the coffee shop now, get ready
Alejandro
Okay mom
Isabelle
Okay hot stuff
Gavi
Woah woah woah
Pedri
The rizz is insane
Isabelle
Yeah sorry, stealing your girl
Jude
Don't apologize for the unmatched rizz
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"So where even is the wedding?" Pedri asks as we get out of the car and I fix the bottom of my dress as I shrug.
"I think it's woodsy." I say as I turn to look at him, and we wait for everyone to get out of my moms car. "Either that or she brought us here to kill us." I add as he laughs.
"Have you seen the set up yet, Carmen? Is it nice?" Jude asks as he greets my mom with a hug and I cross my arms.
"It's beautiful." She says as Jude looks at me, giving me a quick wink before we begin walking down a path with little lanterns on each side.
"Not as beautiful as you." He counters as she laughs, lightly smacking him with her purse.
"Funny." She says as I glance at Isabelle and she's trying her hardest to not laugh.
"And I thought my rizz was good." Isabelle whispers as I raise me eyebrows slightly.
"It's certainly better than his." Gavi chimes in as I nod.
"Holy shit." I say as I stop walking, staring at the venue as my eyes can't focus on one thing. "Holy shit." I say again, much quieter as Jude whistles looking around.
"This feels very chaotic in the best way possible I think, this was done by Nat and you can definitely tell." Jude says as Pedri nods.
"You're all at table three, we're going to eat first and then do a walk through." My mom says as she comes over, fixing my dress strap. "Your father and I are are table one, if you need anything we will be close to you." She adds as I nod.
"Sounds good, thank you mama." I whisper as I give her a quick hug. She nods, walking off to find her table and I look at everyone here.
It's not even the real wedding yet and I'm already stressed. I'm looking around seeing so many familiar faces but I feel like I don't fit in, and it's my sisters wedding. Maybe it has to do with the fact that when they moved to Seville their lives kept moving while I was still in Barcelona.
"Okay, let's go." I say as they all follow behind me, and we make our way to our table. When we find table three I set my stuff down and I look around, my eyes landing on Carlos.
"Tate!" He says as he comes over, giving me a quick hug.
"Hi Carlos." I laugh as he puts his hands on Pedri's shoulders, before he clicks his tongue.
"The season is going good, hmm? Top of the table." He says as the guys all nod.
"At the beginning of the year we promised you that we would, we said it was your wedding gift after all." Jude jokes as he gets up, going over and greeting Carlos.
"And I couldn't be happier about that. Xavi is on and on about you six all of the time, I never hear the end of it." Carlos says as Gavi furrows his eyebrows.
"He even talks about Pablo? How weird." Gavi jokes.
"Uncalled for." Pablo mumbles.
"Bold of you to assume he says good things about you." Carlos says as he walks over to Gavi, patting his back.
Nat and Carlos have been together for 7 years, since they were 17, so Carlos has always been a bit of a big brother for all of us. Whenever the guys were at my house, Carlos would typically be there too, and they'd all bond over football as well.
There's a 5 1/2 year age difference between Nat and I, but she always liked being a big sister, so she never minded. After all, she's convinced being a big sister was written in her DNA, and Carlos was certainly the same way with me, very protective, but I was always grateful for him and what he did for my family.
He is Xavi's nephew though, which we didn't learn about until a year into their relationship. He always claimed he had a 'famous uncle' but we always thought he was joking, funny enough it ended up being Gavi's idol. Weird how that all works, and it was a bit weird that we never put it together sooner.
He would always wear Xavi jerseys and would ways talk about him, but we thought he was just a fan. Until one day we all went to Carlos' graduation dinner and Xavi was there, it was safe to say Gavi freaked out.
"Hi, Nat." I say as I wrap my arms around her.
"Glad you could make it." She says quietly as Pedri leans back in his chair.
"She forgot about it until we reminded her about it yesterday. We had to fly with Xavi because she forgot to get tickets." He chuckles as Nat nods.
"Sounds like Tate." She says as she looks around the table at everyone.
"Oh, this is Isabelle. She's dating Gavi, and also happens to now be my best friend." I say as Isabelle smiles, standing up as Nat gives her a quick hug.
"Tate talks about you all of the time, it's good to finally meet you." Nat says as Isabelle smiles.
"Oh, really?" Isabelle asks as Nat nods.
"Mmhmm." She hums as I shake my head.
"It's good to meet you too, congratulations as well." Isabelle says before she sits back down.
"Thank you," Nat says as Carlos finishes up his conversation with Gavi, Ale and Pablo as he comes over, wrapping his arm around Nat.
"You know what Pablo just told me?" He asks, "Pedri and Tate are dating." He adds as Nat immediately gives me a look.
"Since when?" She questions as I look at Pedri quick.
"Almost 4 months." Pedri answers.
"Didn't I tell you that we were?" I question as she shakes her head no.
"You told me you guys went on a date but it ended bad, you never said you two got together after that." She says.
"I swear I told you, that's actually so awkward." I joke as I sit down and she shrugs. "We literally post each other all of the time." I add.
"I thought that was because you two were friends. Bound to happen at some point though." She says simply as I purse my lips, "be good to her." She adds as she pats Pedri's shoulder.
"Of course." Pedri smiles.
"Or I'll slap you again." She adds sweetly as she goes around the table, greeting the other guys before moving on to the next table.
"I love her already." Isabelle whispers as I laugh.
"She's fantastic." Jude says as I give him a look, "In a nice type of way. I'm definitely not hitting on her, yet." He mumbles as he holds his hands up in defense.
I scoot my chair closer to Pedri's as he moves his hand to my thigh as I play with his fingers, something I find myself doing a lot more than I thought I did.
I look at the other tables filled with people, table one being my parents, Carlos parents and his 2 brothers. Table two being the bridesmaids and groomsmen, 4 bridesmaids, 5 groomsmen. Since I'm a bridesmaid it's 5 and 5, but with all of the guys it made sense for us to sit here.
I glance at Pedri as he's staring down at our hands, a smile plastered on his face as I lean over, kissing his shoulder.
After about 10 minutes food gets brought out to us and we eat before we go back on the same path, walking to where the ceremony is being held. All 7 of them go get seated and I stand with my arms crossed as I stare at the ground. "What's wrong?" Nat asks as she comes over to me.
"Nothing. I just don't like being separated from all of them." I say as she smiles.
"Things really haven't changed." She laughs as I nod.
"Oh trust me, I know." I mumble as she looks around.
"Do you remember Seb? You'll be walking down the aisle with him." She says as I sigh. "If I knew you were dating Pedri I wouldn't have paired you two up, I was trying to work my magic." She adds.
Sebastian is 22 and he's one of Carlos' best friends. Despite Seb being 2 years younger than Carlos, they played football together and became inseparable. And while we were younger I had a huge crush on Seb, mainly because he was older, but he was also the nicest out of Nat and Carlos' friends.
Nat waves him over as I shake my head, "please don't walk away right now." I say as I grab her hand as she takes a step back.
"You have to talk to him for like two minutes before we do the walk through, you'll be fine." She whispers as I shake my head.
"Nat, please." I say as she smiles, letting go of my hand as she makes her rounds to the other pairings.
"Tate, it's so good to see you." He says as he comes over and I smile as I give him a quick hug. "How have you been?" He asks as we line up in order, us being second after the maid of honor and best man.
"Yeah, good. I'm still living in Barcelona actually." I say as he nods.
"I heard, Lia and Carlos were upset when you chose to stay in Barcelona versus coming to Seville with the rest of your family." He says.
"Just one of those decisions that I had to make, it worked out though." I whisper as the music begins playing, our families walking down the aisle in order.
"Yeah, how so?" He asks as he tilts his head down so I can hear him.
"I'm dating Pedri." I say as he interlocks our arms, getting ready for our cue.
"Oh is that so?" He says as I nod, "I've always liked him, Carlos would talk about him or Gavi the most."
"He's a good guy." I say quietly.
"Oh, I bet." He whispers as we begin going down the aisle. My eyes drift to Pedri and he's sitting with his arms crossed, and I look next to him as Isabelle winks, holding a thumbs up as I look away, trying to not laugh.
When we reach the end of the aisle we break off onto our sides as we wait for everyone else to come out. I look down the path at Nat and I smile, it's not even the real wedding yet and she already looks beautiful. I'm so happy for her. "We need to do it again." She says as I purse my lips.
Less happy for her.
We do it two more times, before she decides we have it good enough, and I look for all of the guys and Isabelle as I begin walking down the path. "I'll see you tomorrow." Seb says as I nod.
"Good night, Seb." I reply as I go back to the reception area and they're all sitting at our table, eating some dessert. "Are we ready to go?" I ask as I put my hands on Pedri's shoulders, squeezing slightly as he rolls his shoulders back.
"Let me finish this cake first." Jude says as Pablo gives him his slice as well.
"There will be plenty of cake tomorrow too." I say as he shakes his head.
"The more the better." He mumbles I look at Pablo and he shrugs. "You'll also need to get Gavi before we leave too. You're such a bad mom you didn't even notice he was missing." Jude adds as I look at the empty seat.
"Where is he?" I question as Isabelle nudges her head at another table where Gavi is talking with Carlos, Seb and the other groomsmen. "G!" I call out as he turns to look at me, frowning as he turns back to the guys.
I watch him as he says his goodbyes and as Seb gives him a hug we make eye contact and he tilts his head slightly giving a specific look as I smile, looking away. "What was that?" Isabelle whispers.
"Just some dumb thing he'd do when we were younger." I say as I grab my bag.
"Then he's been trying to rizz you since you were younger, that was wild." She scoffs as I shake my head.
"It's him being nice."
"No. That's him hitting on you." She insists as I shrug.
"Even if it was, I'm dating Pedri." I say as she nods.
"Dude has a masters degree in rizz, if I wasn't dating Gavi that'd make me fold." She whispers as I laugh.
"Yeah, well it's definitely worked in the past on me." I mumble as she looks back at Seb before we begin walking down the path.
"Good luck with that tomorrow."
"Geez, thanks."
"Just keeping it real." She says as she pats my back before going over to Gavi.
I'll need the luck, that's for sure.