Tuesday, December 13, 2022 10:15AM
João <3
João: Where are you ?
I miss you ☹️
Me: Sorry, baby
Nessa and I got room service
I'll see you later ?
João: Boooo ☹️
Me: I'll see you later pouty
I love you 😚
João: I love you more 😚
Do we have any plans before the game ?
Me: You can come over after breakfast and we can hang out in the room
Or we can make group plans ?
Your call, check in with the boys
João: They want to hang out in a group 😣
I want you all to myself ☹️
Me: You're so cute
I'm all yours tonight :)
Miss having you in my bed :(
João: We can sleep on the floor for all I care, I just want you in my arms again, stinky
Me: I'm not stinky ☹️
João: Just sometimes 🫶🏼
Me: Blocking your number
João: I know where you're staying at
I laugh at the text and decide that's enough of that. I eat my breakfast with Nessa and after we get dressed for the day.
"What are we doing today ?" Nessa asks.
"I don't know, but the boys decided some group plans would be nice," I say.
I take my phone out and quickly create a group chat including Nessa, João, Hugo, Cris, Cooper and myself. I text them letting them know we'll wait for them at the lobby.
Sofia's fan club 🤍
Me: We're on our way to the lobby, see you all there 😚
Cooper: What the fuck is this gc name ?
Hugo: Language, there are children present
Cris: 🙄
Cris changed the group chat name to Jofia's fan club 🤍
Cris: Better gc name :)
Me: So cute ☺️
João's POV
(A N || It's been a while)
The boys and I made it down to the lobby and as we arrive I hear someone call my name.
"Jão, Jão," she mispronounces it, but I know she's calling me.
I go over to her as to be polite, she's a journalist, and we've made light conversation before, after she's interviewed me.
"Hi," I say, wanting to be polite, "it's João actually, there's an o between the J and the ã," I correct her.
"Oh my god, how embarrassing," she giggled placing a hand on my shoulder, "have I been pronouncing your name wrong this whole time ? Why haven't you corrected me before ?"
"It's never been an issue to me, they really only pronounce my name right in Portugal and I've gotten used to the mispronunciation," I shrug glancing over at her hand placement. "I've started correcting people recently after my girlfriend told me it's a pet peeve of hers," I chuckle.
"Oh, you have a girlfriend ?" She asks removing her hand off of my shoulder and her smile faltering. "You've never talked about her before."
"Well we recently started dating, so no, I haven't talked about her, but she exists," I smile trying to be polite.
Sofia's POV
Nessa and I just got out of the elevator and I searched the lobby for the group. Before I find them, my eyes land on João, I smile to myself until I see the woman flirting with him. Nessa pulls me away from my spot and towards the boys.
"Go get your brother," I tell Hugo.
"Go get your boyfriend," he says.
"Go get him," I tell him again.
"Sofia, put your big girlfriend pants on, and go get him yourself," he says shoving me towards him.
I huff and walk over to them, "ready whenever you are ?" I tell João placing my hand around his waist. "Sorry to interrupt," I fake smile at her, "we have plans though, and everyone is waiting on him."
"You must be the girlfriend," she eyes me.
"I am," I say reaching for his hand, surprising even myself. "Shall we get going ?" I ask João.
"You didn't have to come in here all jealous," the girl says, "we were just talking."
"Don't flatter yourself sweetheart, I'm not jealous," I laugh trying to keep it together. "What's mine is mine and all you could ever do is want it, not have it," I smile at her.
She laughs, "whatever helps you sleep at night."
I laugh, "I like you, you're funny."
"And you're insecure," she snaps.
"Because my boyfriend who only has eyes for me was talking to you ?" I ask confused. "I assure you, you're not competition."
"Yeah," she scoffs, "I'm sure you don't see me as competition, that's why you came and interrupted when we were just talking."
"Are you daft ?" I ask, "that's not a rhetorical question by the way, I'm genuinely curious."
"Play nice," João says trying to contain his laughter.
"Sorry, let me dumb it down for you," I say. "We," I say pointing to myself, João and our friends, "had plans, they," I say pointing to João and the boys "were waiting on my best friend and I, we just so happened to arrive when you and João were talking. I came to get him since the whole group was here. We on the same page now ?" I ask.
She doesn't answer, instead, she rolls her eyes and walks away. João and I then start walking over to our friends.
"You're so cute when you're jealous," he whispers to me.
"Shut up," I tell him.
We make our way back to the group and they all laugh at the interaction. They're all telling me I was jealous. I was, but I wasn't gonna say it out loud and feed João's ego. Truth is, I don't like to share. We begin walking out of the lobby and I hear her stupid voice again.
"Your fan club is weird," she says to João.
I got annoyed, more than, you can see it all over my face. I was gonna react when João snaked his arm around my waist and held me tightly. "let it go," he whispered in my ear giving me a kiss on the cheek.
"I feel like I'm gonna explode," I groan as we make it out of the lobby.
"Just be the bigger person, she's mad because I didn't give her the time of day," he shrugs.
"Be the bigger person ?" I ask, "some loud talk for someone who punched a man who bad mouthed me."
"That's different, he deserved it," he said, "she's not worth it."
"I'm annoyed," I groan.
"Just let it go," he tells me pulling me into a hug.
"It's easier said than done," I mumble into his chest, "she's a stupid bitch."
"Okay miss I'm not jealous," he laughs releasing me.
"She was super disrespectful," I say, "whether I was jealous or not is besides the point."
"But you were jealous ?" He continues to press with a stupid smirk on his face.
I roll my eyes, "perhaps," I mumble. "What are the plans anyway ?" I ask the group.
"We wanna go watch a movie," Cris said and they all agreed.
"I'm not in the mood for a movie," I sigh. I can tell that they were all excited and had even decided on a movie, "you guys can go, I'm gonna hang back."
"We'll see you at the game ?" Cris asks.
"Yeah," I nod.
I say my goodbyes to them and walk back inside the hotel. João rushes in after me.
"Hey," he says grabbing my arm and pulling me back. "I'm gonna drop them off and I'll come back for you, okay ?"
"You can go watch the movie with them," I tell him.
"Not feeling the movie either," he sighs, "besides, I wanna hang with you. I miss you," he says lifting my chin up with his hand for the eye contact.
"Okay," I smile giving him a quick kiss.
"Head up to the room, and wait for me there," he says looking around the lobby.
"Relax," I laugh raising my hands in surrender, "I'm playing nice."
"Good girl," he says pecking my lips again and walking out of the lobby.
I'm left in the middle of the lobby dumbfounded, trying to process what he's just said to me. There's this feeling in my stomach that I can't describe. He did not just call me that... but he did. I finally regain enough strength to walk back to the elevator to head up to my room. As I arrive, my phone dings so I lay on my bed to check it.
Unknown
Unknown: You've kissed him in public ?!
I roll my eyes and decide to reply. First, I decide to change her contact information, João knew who she was so there was no reason to keep her as 'unknown.'
Magui
Me: He's my boyfriend.
I don't see the issue.
Magui: What about Hayes ?
Me: What about him ?
Magui: He's gonna freak if he ever hears about it.
Me: He can go to hell.
Magui: I thought you were helping me ?
Me: If you're so worried about him hearing about the kiss, keep it hush hush 😚
I'm tired of hiding my love for a boy that's giving me the world because our exs who fumbled can't handle us moving on.
Magui: What are you on about ?
I thought we were friends.
Me: Drop the act.
I'm not stupid.
I'm always one step ahead of Hayes... and you.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer... right ?
Magui: No clue what you're on about...
Me: Keep playing dumb.
Lord knows you're trying to make me look like a fool, but you're the only clown here 😚
Magui: Sof, I really don't understand
I'm sorry if I've done anything to make you upset.
Truly, I am
Me: Yeah, whatever.
Magui: So that's it ?
Me: No.
I'm a good person.
I won't allow him to leak your nudes.
But after this, leave me the fuck alone.
João too.
You and Hayes can both go to hell.
Magui: Can you please just tell me what I've done to upset you ?
Me: God Magui, stop acting stupid.
I'm done with this conversation.
I may have played the part of the fool too well to the point where you actually believed I was one, but I'm not.
I shut my phone off and lay down on my bed waiting for João to come back. A few minutes later, there was a soft knock on the door. I get up to answer it.
"Hello," I say opening the door and letting him come in.
"Hello, hello," he says walking in and closing the door.
"What plans do we have ?" He asks.
"I don't know," I shrug. "We can hang out here," I suggest sitting on the bed.
"I love you, but I don't want to be cooped up in this room any longer," he sighs.
"Fair enough," I say, "what do you suggest we do then ?"
"Do you wanna go for a drive ?" He asks, "or do you think that'd piss off our exs too much ?"
"I think one of them is already off the rails," I laugh handing him my phone so he could look at the messages with Magui. "A drive sounds nice, but... Ruben took the car and my dad took mine, remember," I sigh.
He hands me back my phone and scoffs "you're too good for this world, I would've told her it was her problem and not mine." He looks up at me and dangles some keys in my face "your dad said you couldn't have a car, he never said I couldn't."
"Let's go," I smile at him.
We head down to the parking lot. He walked me over to a beautiful BMW and opened the passenger seat for me to get in.
"My, my, such a gentleman," I joke as I get in, he closes the door and runs over to the driver's side to get in.
"Always, but extra for you," he winks at me.
We both buckle up and begin to drive around for a while.
"It's nice to have alone time," I laugh, "don't get me wrong, I love everyone, but I want to make the most of the time we have left together."
"Ughhh," he groans, "you really had to bring that up."
"It's all I could think about this morning," I sigh playing with his bracelet. "I'm gonna miss you when we're in different countries."
"Try not to think about it," he says pulling me close and kissing my forehead, "I've only just decided to stop worrying about it and live in the moment."
I nod in agreement and just then my phone dings. I roll my eyes knowing it's Magui but then I see João taking his phone out as well.
Jofia's fan club 🤍
Cris: Sof, we're staying for another movie
It's a dine in theater so we'll grab food here
Pick us up an hour before the game ♥️
Me: Sounds good !!
João: You guys can walk to the stadium 😌
Hugo: Shut up João
Me: Text me
We'll pick you guys up
Ignore him !!
"You wanna go grab a bite then since it's just you and I for the rest of the afternoon ?" He asks me.
"Yes please," I say.
We pull into a McDonald's drive thru and we both order. After we get our food, we park and enjoy our food and each other's company. After we finish eating, we stay in the parking lot to hang out a little longer. João places my legs over his lap and I take a picture and post it to Instagram. I hadn't realized I had posted it on my main account with millions of followers instead of my spam account with just some friends until my phone started to buzz out of control.
"Holy shit," João laughed going on his phone and liking the picture. "Your fans are in shambles... they think it's Hayes."
"Ewwws," I groan, "I'm not deleting the photo, I'm just gonna clear up that it not him," I laugh.
"How'd you post it on accident ?" He asks.
"Well I meant to post it," I laugh, "just on my private spam account with just my friends.... Not where I had my millions of fans, but oh well."
"You have a spam account ?" He asks.
"Yeah, you don't ?" I ask as I laugh at a message from my dad.
Papi <3
Papi: McDonald's ?
Seriously Sofia ?
Me: It was João's idea 🫢
"My dad is gonna kill us," I laugh showing him my phone.
"Why would you blame it on me ?" João whines.
"I panicked, sorry," I laugh.
"You're lucky you're cute," he smiles at me, leaning in for a kiss.
"You have onion breath," I laugh. He laughs and blows his hot onion breath onto my face. "You're so disgusting," I laugh shoving his face back.
"You love me," he smiles at me.
"Very much," I laugh kissing him again.
As we pull away, I feel my phone ding on my lap.
Hayes
Hayes: What the fuck Sofia
Me: ???
Hayes: "Passenger princess" really ?!
Me: Relax
Hayes: You're with him right now, aren't you ?
You're taking me for a fool
You have been this whole time.
Me: Dude I'm not taking the piss
Relax
When you act like this it really makes me think should I even be thinking of getting back w you ?
You're so fucking dramatic
We're FRIENDS
Hayes: You and I were also friends at one point
Me: And then we dated, I know
Then you cheated on me
Hayes: When will you let that go ?
Me: I don't think I could, especially when you act like this
Maybe this was a mistake
Maybe considering giving you a second chance was very stupid of me.
Sorry
Hayes: No
Wait
I'm sorry
I love you
I'm so fucking in love with you
I just get so fucking jealous
I'm sorry
I trust you
Me: That's funny
I kinda have to beg you to trust me
When I didn't cheat on you
I on the other hand, trust you
Like as if you've never done anything wrong.
João is looking over my shoulder laughing, "you're so bad."
"You act like he's any better," I laugh, "sometimes I feel bad for this, but I feel like this is gonna be the only way he's finally gonna leave me the fuck alone," I sigh.
"You're right," he says rubbing my shins, "don't feel bad for a split second, he's an ass and totally deserves it for hurting you."
I nod and we stay in silence for a bit. "Can we go back to the hotel and nap for a bit ?" I ask.
He smiles and agrees. Hayes texts me back once more and I check the messages, after checking them, I shut my phone off and make conversation with João as we drive back to the hotel.