Olivia's pov
"Hiya, baby." I hear less mutter as she buries her head in my chest.
"Morning, my love." I kiss her head.
We were lying, both naked, with our legs intertwined.
"I am so hungover." I admit and laugh
"Me too, baby." Less agrees
"Oh shit! Less, it's already ten and we need breakfast before we go to trafalgar square. Sarina told us to be awake by 9." I tell her and we slowly start to get up.
"Five more minutes." Less whispers
"Five more minutes, that's it." I chuckle lightly and wrap my arms tightly around her.
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"You've that after sex glow. That is why you went up early. I thought Ella was joking." G laughs as we both go get breakfast from the breakfast buffet.
"If you have to know, yes. Am I not allowed to sleep with my wife? Now can we please change the subject?" I ask her
"Have you seen the newspapers?"
"No not yet. I've been advised to go and see them though."
"We're on the front cover and your goal has four pages covering it." G tells me
"Four pages?! How can they write about that for four pages?" I exclaim, shocked.
"Cause it was one of the best fucking goals in the history of football."
"You're exaggerating." I say
"She's really not, kid. People are saying it's better than any overhead kick they've seen. I mean, you were all the way at the back of the box." Ellen says, who is also next to me. "That fact you scored the winner, but by doing it like that. You should see the reactions from people all over the world. Some videos are going viral."
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Before we go to Trafalgar Square, I was asked to come and do one final lionesses live with Sarina.
I made my way outside and am given a microphone.
"How are you feeling today, Liv?" Joelah asks me
"A little rough. But alright, yeah." I admit
Being completely honest, I am so hungover it's unbelievable.
"So, a lot of things happened yesterday. Didn't they?" Josh asks and I nod my head, smiling. "Now, the russos. Both fantastic goalscorers. Especially when it comes to the most outrageous goals. First Alessia with that back heel, and then you with that bicycle kick. No body is over that, you know. And they won't be for a veryvery long time. They won't be over it by the next euros. What even happened?"
"It all happened so quickly. But I had one goal in mind and that was to put the ball in the back of the net. I had three defenders around me, and I knew that if the ball bounced on the floor, one of the German players would get it, and the chance would be gone and that's not what you need when there's ten minutes left of the game. I just knew it couldn't bounce on the floor and there was no other way to get the ball into the back of the net. It was either taking a chance and letting it bounce, or bicycle kicking it. And yeah, I mean, I just prayed that my foot actually connected with the ball, and it did." I explain and laugh, recalling the memory.
"There were lots of celebrations after your goal. Including yours. Your celebration is already iconic. What other celebrations happened behind the scenes? Who was dancing? I heard there were some speeches? What happened?"
"I think everybody was dancing last night. Rachel gave a performance last night too. She got on a mic and sung, that was good." Near to the interview, Lucy, Ellie, Kiera and Nikita were all sat on their phones. Kiera then gets up as soon as I start talking and walks away. "Kiera's walking off because she knows I'm about to drop her in it." I laugh. "The Walsh family last night was..." I smile and nod, Joelah and Josh knowing what I'm talking about.
"Yeah, I met mummy Walsh yesterday." Joelah tells us
"She's a groover."
"You and less also danced a bit last night too. Some slow dancing. Some upbeat dancing." Joelah points out
"Yeah. I must admit, I'm a bit of a groover too." I joke and we all laugh.
"So, how are you feeling this morning. The morning after a historic, a very historic, win?"
"I don't think it will ever sink in. It's just incredible, isn't it? I mean, throughout the tournament, we spoke about getting to the final, and the fact that we did, and won, is an incredible feeling. You look at the trophy and remember, but I don't think we'll ever realise exactly what we've done. I mean, I sure won't." I say
"There was an outpour of emotions last night. I mean, we've got some pictures, but talk me through what was going through your head during the final whistle?" Josh questions
"Yeah, well, me, less and Ella made a plan to just pass in a triangle for the rest of the game. I don't think the ball left our feet. As soon as the whistle blew, I just ran. I saw lessi and just ran to her." I explain
"We've already spoken about your goal, which I think we could talk about for a whole hour, but there was also another goal that you assisted. Ella's goal. Talk about that."
"Yeah, I just saw tooney in an open space and all I did was pass it to her. She made a perfect run and a perfect chip. At first, I thought it was gonna be offside, but luckily, it wasn't. I didn't even celebrate straight away because I didn't think it was real. It was just unbelievable." I state and feel a pair of arms wrapping around my waist.
"Hey, baby." Less kisses my cheek
"Hi, my love."
"Alessia, how are you feeling after yesterday?" Joelah asks and less is given a mic.
"I don't even know how to put it into words. I'm so proud of livvy and the whole team. We were all given an amazing opportunity in playing in this tournament and we wanted to make the nation proud, and we did that." Less explains and takes my hand in hers.
"Less!" We hear Ella shout lessi's name.
"I forgot about Tooney. I told her I was just coming to say hi. I'll see you on the coach, okay, baby?" Less kisses my cheek before running off to see Ella.
"Also, you're the captain, liv. Can you, it's quite a difficult question, I don't know if you can put it into words, but you've lead this team to such a historic win. Can you put that into words?" Joelah asks
"Yeah, I don't know. It's a, umm, I don't really think I did anything. Yes maybe I scored a couple of times, but I think the captaincy is everyone's. Everything that I've learnt about being captain, has come from them. Especially, Leah. I don't really know what to say, it's so hard to put into words." I stutter a couple of times, trying to think about what to say.
"What did the team say to you, about you being captain?"
"Not much, you know, not much. Sometimes, they umm, I don't know, I get a bit of banter, I don't get any respect. Especially from lessi, although she keeps reminding me that I'm captain, I think she just likes bragging that her wife is the captain." I joke
"Morning, hi." Sarina says as she gets mic'd up.
"Hello, Sarina! Good to see you! How are you?" Joelah exclaims
"I'm good." Sarina smiles
"Welcome to lionesses live. We're very honoured to have you." Joelah welcomes her
"It's nice to be here. We had a very nice journey, didn't we?" Sarina asks me
"We did."
"I've just asked liv this, but what are your thoughts when the final whistle went?" Josh asks her
"My first thought was we did it. It was incredible. Unbelievable." Sarina shares
"Let's take it back a little. Liv, of course, scored one hell of a goal, just nine minutes from full time. When she scored that goal, did you think, 'we've won this tournament?'"
"No." Sarina states
"Nine minutes from time. I mean, a lot can happen in nine minutes."
"Yeah, exactly. No I think anything could have happened in them nine minutes." Sarina states
We talk some more, and answer some more questions before me and Sarina decide it's time to get onto the coach.
Mary and Millie take our places and they start answering questions from Joelah and Josh.
Lessi then comes and sits next to me on the coach and I just start laughing at her.
"Why are you laughing?" Less asks me
"You. You look so hungover."I laugh
"That's really rude, baby." Less groans and rests her head on my shoulder. "I am though."
"Me too, baby. I'm not even gonna try and deny it. You still look so beautiful though." I say and laugh, less laughing too.
"You do too, my love. Gorgeous." She whispers against my lips and kisses me.
Everyone slowly makes their way onto the coaches and we finally set off to Trafalgar Square for the celebrations.
Loads of people had come to watch us leave our hotel, and they were all clapping as we did leave.