Isobel woke me up at 11 o'clock the next morning, I seriously couldn't understand how the girl wasn't jet lagged or even just tired for that matter, "come on wake up and get dressed we're meeting Leah in 20 minute" she shouted from the bathroom as she made her way towards me and pulled the covers off me to wake me up "piss off no we're not" I groaned as I dug my head into the pillow "yeah we are, I asked her last night if her and Rafaelle wanted to go to the beach today and maybe play some football" she said as she put her blonde hair into a clip and was glaring at me to get out of the bed "when the hell did you do that" I replied still half asleep "when I told you I had an idea and I disappeared to the toilets" as she went to check the time "can you hurry up I need a coffee before we meet them"she said annoyed walking to the other side of the room where her suitcase was. "So you ambushed Leah Williamson in the toilets" I said jokingly as she faced me again "I didn't 'ambush' her I just asked her to hang out there's nothing wrong with that is there?" I just chuckled as I went to the toilet and got myself together.
We made our way down to the bar since Isobel needed a coffee, my eyes where wondering around the room as I spotted Leah looking at me as she made her way towards us, "hey, Rafa isn't feeling great so I don't think she's coming down sorry" leah said with a awkward smile as she looked at me "I hope she feels better" I smile at her sympathetically still keeping the eye contact between us "since we're an odd number I don't mind sitting this one out and going by the pool while you two can play some one on one" Isobel said as she looked at me grinning as I looked back at her sipping on her coffee as she got up and waved at us making her way to the pool smiling, "I mean you don't have to, you can just go back up and stay with Rafaelle if she's not feeling great" obviously not meaning it really I wouldn't want anything else but to hang out with her the whole day "it's alright she's mostly just tired we could go on the beach and hang out for a bit" she said smiling at me to which I nodded and followed her out.
We walked along the beach for a while, like we had the first time we met, talking and laughing, Leah just has a way of being effortlessly funny and making people smile, she put the bag that she had resting on her shoulder on the sand beneath her as she pulled out a ball and smiled "1v1?" She asked me smiling so much like just the thought of football lightened her mood, "I can't really play" I laughed as I looked at her "i didn't ask if you can play I was asking if you wanted to" she said still holding her smile as she looked at me and took her shoes off as she ran past me and placed one shoes a couple feet from the other "take yours off well use them for the other goal" she shouted across laughing as I took them off and caught up with her placing them on the ground as she slightly move with her food to align it with hers, she only made the pitch small as there was only two of us.
She passed me the ball as she jogged to the middle of the pitch "you start" shouting across once again to me. I dropped the ball to the ground as I began to kick it, focusing more on my feet and the ball than on where Leah was, I had the ball for about 30 seconds before Leah tackled me and immediately scored as she mockingly celebrated. "It's not really fair I'm playing against a professional footballer"
She laughted as she picked up the ball and came back towards me "focus less on your feet and more on where you want go, your never going to get anywhere if your just looking down all the time" she said as she handed me the ball and went back to her side our pitch "try again"
Leah continued scoring over and over again it began to annoy me a little bit but I was enjoying muslef and enjoying the time I was getting to spend with Leah, she kept giving me pointers and little techniques so I could build up my confidence.
"I told you, you get a better aim hitting it from the side" she came up to me and placed her hand on my hips making me turn to face her slightly I couldn't help but notice the butterflies I was feeling in the pit of stomach, I couldn't couldn't focus on her words only on her touch on my body.
"just move your leg and get your foot in line with the ball" she said as keeping her hand firmly on my hips as she moved behind me "now try shoot it into the goal" her voice going softer as she said it letting go of my hips.
I took a couple steps back as Leah went in-front of me as started kicking the ball towards the goal, focusing what Leah just told me as I went to shoot it in the goal and Leah came to tackle me, being to focused on scoring the goal as my competitive side kick in. I kicked the ball as hard as I could Leah leaped to save it but was just a few second too late as I finally scored a goal. "I did it!" I shouted celebrating as I laughed and helped Leah up from the sand "yeah I let you score that one though you could use the help" she said as had pulled her up and standing directly infront of me leaving a couple centimetres between us as I smiled and said "yeah right I'm too good, I should maybe consider football as a career"I said as I got slightly closer to her "yeah well then maybe I'd get to see more of you" she said staring into my eyes again. In that moment I could feel the urge of kissing her through my whole body but I couldn't. I doubt she'd want to kiss a girl she had just met.
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FanfictionClaudia takes her gap year to go travelling, what she never expected was to meet her childhood football idle and becoming friends... or maybe more
