! Fanfic: It's easy to sing things that the system time (1 / 2) Title:
It's easy to sing things that the weather system. Betareader:
el_defe
Fandom: RPF
- Football
Characters: Stevan
Jovetić, Alberto Gilardino, Adrian Mutu, Josep Guardiola, Bojan Krkic, cited a nonsense of other people. Rating: VM16
Warning: What if, slash, angst
Disclaimer: This fanfiction
not for profit. You do not want to offend or be prejudicial against real people described. Nothing told in this fanfiction has really happened but the result is fantasy, so do not pretend to give a truthful picture of events or personalities.
Word Count: 12153w. (
fiumidiparole
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Note: This story
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, which goes all my infinite love and heartfelt thanks for what he told me this story after reading it in private. Thanks, honey. ♥ history was born - Mica know how, really. * Laughs * I found myself writing it even before it actually plotted completely, so that a lot of scenes have been added also in the running or have been eliminated, and from time to time has gone from a joke to Adrian six thousand words, and arrive at twelve thousand. ♥ Now, after this talk of interest question, I leave you to read.
IS SOON TO SING THE WEATHER SYSTEM THAT THINGS - I say goodbye, you say hello - When the proposal arrives in Florence Barça - resplendent, done with attention to a sheet white and presented by a smiling sports director - Stevan enough to look for that no, Fiorentina did not refuse. Perhaps, it is said shyly, while driving to Florence without a clear destination, leaving just scroll around the city, he would have accepted, probably, if they offered a figure that he does not think either of claims, he would accept. Tamburella plan on the steering wheel while waiting for the light to turn green, neatly lined up along with dozens of other motorists, trying to come to terms with the embryo of an idea that has crossed the head - an idea that does not know whether to call foolishly altruistic or selfish dramatically, perhaps both, equally, or perhaps the two things are so mixed that it is impossible to understand where he started one and the other ends. Stevan
closes his eyes for a moment and opens them only when they hear someone honk impatiently behind him, a sign that clearly has waited a moment before leaving to take too much red. Hop around the city without a reason to avoid areas too familiar or too tied to something important for them to bear at this time, preferring to turn to more unexplored directions. There are purple flags on the windows, everywhere I go, and he finds himself smiling. When the car stopped in front of the home of Manchester United, after we had arrived almost case, it seems almost a sign. And as he takes off his belt and opens the door, letting the heat of July invading the cockpit and caress the skin, has already made his decision. "Stevan, I did not expect to see you." Pantaleo is sitting at his desk, with a neck tie that Stevan, even in its total lack of competence in the field of fashion, do not hesitate to call creepy. Sporting director gets up and goes straight up, smiling a bit 'worried about the surprise visit, and do it immediately sit on the comfortable armchairs in front of his desk, calling for you because someone bring up something cool to drink for both. "So Stevan, "Corvino smiles politely when both are accommodated, then put on his glasses and starts to fiddle with one of the many pens that litter the floor of his desk, arranged or not in the glasses that serve as door-pens. "What brings you to me?"
Stevan joining the fingers in front of her, pensive, thinking of dropping everything. Then he shakes his head slightly, amused, and lets out a snort.
"I heard the proposal of Barça, sir." Begins, gently, trying in every way not to feel Pantaleo bypassed his authority - has seen him angry only once, in January, and the experience is widely enough to decide not want to incur his wrath. "I wondered what they think." Pantaleo takes a deep breath, shaking a bit 'on the chair with obvious discomfort, before you type something carelessly on the computer keyboard on the screen and retrieve the mail sent from Barcelona and all the details of 'deal that would be interested.
"I think it's a good proposal, a proposal and honest, which is not so obvious in recent times." Sporting director sighed, turning the screen because Stevan can read the details of the contract -
thirty-five million, a figure disproportionate that keeps bouncing in my head. "But it's a choice you have do you, being under contract with the company for a couple of years, unless we count the renewal we mentioned last month. "Stevan
lips stretch into a faint smile, while continuing to look at air Pantaleo interrogative.
"What do you think the figure was given, sir?" Modulates, almost amused when you see him tense up, should not be many players with the courage to want to hear in the face that are good for the budget of the company, he thinks, and holds a giggle at the thought. "Stevan, it is unnecessary for me to tell you what these thirty-five million will be used to our financial situation." Corvino begins, Stevan and feels the His discomfort in the way that stretches the words, it tries not to get quickly to the point that will surely hurt more. "I'm not saying sacrifice, of course, only to ... Here, say, to weigh carefully the offer. Barcelona are a great team, you could play with some of the best players in the world. "
Stevan keeps a smile, refrain from saying that he, after all, win the Champions League and everything that matters is not so much, if it has to go from Florence and an inordinately breaking promises made to people more or less important. He looks at his hands for a moment, looking to collect his thoughts - and courage - they need to pronounce the following words.
"I think enough, sir." Chuckles nervously, wrinkled polo shirts he wears. He holds his head down so that Pantaleo can not see the uncertainty in his eyes. "I accept. As you said, Barcelona is a great team. This offer, "she sighs, pointing with a nod. "It is a huge opportunity. I can not let go. " Pantaleo lets out a sigh that Stevan can not decipher, can not understand whether it is a relief to have seen him tumble so easily, or frustration in spite of everything he had hoped to keep him in Florence.
"Are you sure, Stevan?" asks the sporting director, grazing the back of his hand. "I mean, is not a decision to be taken lightly, if you can - 'Stevan
ignores everything that you are leaving behind, focusing instead on what is giving away to Fiorentina. Self-financing will not be a problem this season, and the thought makes him tick a smile at the corner of his mouth, though not completely, just to give him strength and enable him to continue talking. "I thought enough, Lord." Sigh, tapping on the desk, asking only that the talks will end as soon as possible to be alone. "I've asked my agent to make contact with Barcelona to refine the final details. "
" The decision is made, then. "There is a hint of bitterness in the voice of Pantaleo, is enough to try to Stevan motion of affection for that man, Despite everything, despite what he said just a few minutes ago, Corvino has addressed that conversation convinced not to see him go. Stevan is a little 'sorry dovergli to regret this. "There is nothing that society can do to keep you? A touch to the hand, maybe ... "
Stevan raises a hand, interrupting him. "If it were a matter of money, sir, you could never compete with Barcelona." Chuckles, embarrassed for having him be to point out this fact. "It's a question of -" we think for a second, then shrugs. "As a priority
, we say."
"Florence is not a priority, then?" Corvino says softly, as if speaking to himself, and Stevan hides a smile behind a bitter cough. Florence is exactly the priority that drove him to accept the offer of the boat, and Corvino should understand better than anyone else. "In a sense, it is." Sighed quietly. "I consider the agreement made, then?" Pantaleo jumps, and takes a couple of seconds to nod. Stevan expected to have made a phone call to his agent, before making the last chance - a chance to ask whether you can afford, since he just said he is leaving the company, and this could be an argument that would convince many team managers to not give him nothing but a kick in the ass at the time of signing the new contract. "Can I make one request, sir?" Pantaleo nods slowly, Stevan and lets out a smile.
"Do not sell Adrian." Sighed, bowing his head. Breathe a few times, trying to regain control over their voice, which was shaking so embarrassing. "You can make a difference. For
please . "
" I'll try to talk to the Valley. "Corvino admits, after a moment spent immersed in thought, and though it is a small hope, very minor and silly, you cling Stevan and closes his eyes, hiding a tears of gratitude. In a sense, the feeling of having something important back in place. "I've already talked to your teammates?" Pantaleo interrupted his thoughts, staring from behind the pen that has raised a couple of papers to sign that his secretary brought him. "I mean, you need to talk with me or with Mihajlovic - 'Stevan
shakes his head, after a moment of uncertainty, caressing the thought of disappearing into thin air, without a greeting, leaving it to others to deal with the reactions that surely there will be , although it is not sure what they are. "I'd rather do it myself, sir." He sighed, tilting her head and letting out a smile a bit 'wider than the previous ones, a bit' more sad, a bit 'more adult . Pantaleo can not help but smile in response and take him gently on the door, with a feel that no one would ever expect from him, Stevan also ignores the hiccups that can not hold a moment before the door closes behind him. "I have accepted the proposal of Barça." Stevan says it to quietly, yet he seems to have shouted, seeing as everyone around him suddenly fall silent and stare at him in disbelief; Adem takes a step forward, opening his mouth without any sound that comes out, but goes away immediately, like Scott, when Stevan try to approach him.
"It's for self-financing, right?" Murmured the boy, shocked. "I mean, you actually
forced to accept, I know. That is, "his eyes fill with tears, suddenly, and nearby Khouma put her arm around her shoulders, trying to reassure him as best he can, looking actually more embarrassed than ever. "Must be so, there can be no that you - ' "Adem, I meant exactly what I said." Stevan sighs, looking down. "I am that I accepted the proposal of Barcelona." Adem bleaching of a sudden, sinking her fingers into Khouma shoulder, which makes a bit 'stronger and bends slightly toward him and kissed his forehead, trying to be the more reassuring as possible, despite the quiet sobs that make the leap the boy's shoulders. "Let me go." Adrian makes its way slowly through the guys that were crowded around, asking for an explanation, and all after a moment's hesitation, let it pass as if in his serious expression there was something that simply can not be ignored by any of them, Adrian looks at him, arms at his sides and his forehead wrinkled with evident concern, then lets out a slight sigh. "Tell me that you have not done for the reason that I think, Stevan." Stevan do not even need that year, at a glance to see Adrian and draws it to itself without a moment's hesitation, she kissed his forehead with just a hint of embarrassment. "I'm the one who was supposed to go on." He sighed, leaning his hands on his shoulders and shaking slightly. "It's not fair." "Stay, Adi?" Stevan do not care to hide the way her voice trembles, and even the tears that rose in his eyes. Himself to be embraced more close, resting her face on Adrian's shoulder and leaving simply tighten, trying not to think of everything that is giving up. Adrian strokes his hair, slowly, equally moved.
"If I want, I'll stay." He sighed, ruffling his hair as she speaks, and Stevan sobs and throws her arms around his neck, feeling more of a naughty child, Adrian holds him as not wanting to let go, hiding his eyes lucid in his hair.
"And Albert?" Adrian let out in a whisper, placing her lips against his ear to hear it because no one else apart from him there would be no harm because, at this point the situation, everyone knows everything, but at that time a report is now well known and accepted universally seems to have to stay together, as you remember that day when Stevan him he confessed, with a hint of embarrassment, how and why, asking if it was right that Alberto had become the most important person around him, and Adrian had laughed softly and nodded with understanding. "He did you say?"
"I - No ." Stevan also whispers, letting his light embrace and soothed by rocking, and his voice breaks at the thought of Alberto - sought to exclude, so far, but Back it all together and stronger than ever, given that Alberto was not it never really gone, but has always remained in a corner ready to pick up something at the end he never let go. "I have not had the courage." Adria just nods, absently, and starts to pass your fingers through your hair without saying anything more, the guys around them remain for a moment to look at them, embarrassed as if they were witnessing something very intimate and private, before walking away and return to their activities to try to recover the semblance of normality that the announcement of Stevan has taken to everyone. Stevan remains motionless, saying nothing, unable to give voice to questions that pressed against his lips at the moment. Adrian is doing - again, he always, always more father and brother who only friend.
"You want me to call him?" He murmurs, in one breath, and Stevan finds himself nodding frantically, his face pressed against his shoulder without the courage to say the least, knowing that his voice would not hold. Adrian continues to stringerselo against even when pulling the phone out of his pocket and runs briefly heading to retrieve the number. Alberto not respond after two rings. "I hope it's a damn important reason, Adi." Sighed Adrian sketches and half sigh, before realizing that Alberto obviously can not see it, so it is quite useless. "I think you should go back to Florence, or at least be able to pass," he sighs, monotone, trying to let it leak out as little as possible from the voice does not want to be a hysterical Alberto on the doormat of the house who asks for an explanation for his unclear speech that put him in alarm. It's already happened once, and no thanks, not going to repeat the experience. "Just one afternoon." Alberto feels around in the background, and bites his lip, while continuing to caress the hair Stevan; feels trembling against his own body, probably more scared than I even want to admit, and holds barely a sigh.
"Why?" The nuance in the voice of Alberto says that he has failed in its intention not to worry anymore too. "Success of something serious?"
"Stevan." Adrian deliberately leaves the name open for a second, hoping that include Alberto alone. All that is able to obtain, however, a strangled sob: do not know whether to be grateful or not the fact that Albert is in a hole that the news will still come for direct or cross streets. Just wait a moment longer before you continue, know that Alberto is about to hang up to run in Florence. "He has signed with Barcelona."
change in Alberto is sudden and obvious, so that Adrian can feel a chill go down my spine with devastating clarity, tone of voice with which to talk back, After a moment, is the very image of the posting. It's like a punch in the stomach even for him, and Adrian is happy to be able to save at least that Stevan, even though he knows he can not protect him forever. Protect it from what, then.
"... I do not know anyone Stevan, Adrian."
Adi presents the Stevan phone, locking lips and getting a quizzical look in return.
"Tell us about you." He explains, in a breath, wondering if this will really resolve anything, probably not, he says, while Stevan pick up the phone with trembling fingers in the world, so that for a moment fear that it might leave fall. "I do not - I can not do anything right now." Finally, a bitter note in his voice. Stevan
taking the phone to your ear and remains silent for a moment, know that Alberto has heard those last words, while he has no idea what he and Adrian have objected, even though the face of the friend is not able to think that the thing can be worked. Despite all this, was silent for a moment, listening only breathe into the receiver.
"Albert?"
The sound of the dial tone is the only answer he gets to his invocation. It only takes a week to arrange all the paperwork for your transfer, and Stevan is happy that things are so fast, because every day that passes its resolution falters every time you make eye contact with a partner and surprise him nostalgic or offended against him, every time he hears Adem cry at night, which divide the room into retreat, convinced not to be heard, every time you dial the same number mobile phone and the response I get is only the sound of dial tone and then a recorded voice that says, "This is the answering machine
A -
" and he stops every time, before hearing the
his name, because it would hurt even more. Stevan
part on a Wednesday in late July, with the sun warms Florence so absurd as to make him the ultimate snub of his stay in Tuscany. Vlada is that the accompanied at the airport, cursing the traffic in a way so familiar that the thought of never hearing confusing Stevan; Adrian was also proposed, to be honest, but Stevan has politely declined: it has already cried once, when taking leave, and another goodbye was too much to bear, and maybe he could not leave. As for Albert, Stevan has not even heard: did not answer any of the times he tried to call him up when he was in Cortina, and did not predict a return to the retreat to greet him, as Richard has done instead, ultimately, Stevan is convinced that Albert does not want to hear it anymore, and maybe it's better that way. Maybe, they say getting out and lifting your bags, will not hurt
. Stevan
no time before it is too late to turn back after passing the security check, the airport of Pisa is no different from a thousand other times when there was with other boys before leaving for a trip , and yet I still feel the lack. He
for a moment the impression of seeing Albert, the crowd that rushes to the metal detectors, but is only just an impression, Stevan hide a smile a bit 'nostalgic behind a cough before you turn your back again all this.
Barcelona is even hotter than Florence, and this would never have imagined, so much so that he feels about to melt as it exits the artificial coolness of air conditioning and feel the sun warm the neck and face while looking around for someone who is a point of reference.
Guardiola is not as he had imagined, despite his young age, if he had figured as a hard man, assuming that was the road which had many successes. The man who just got out of the meeting is that it has taken to the airport, however, has a smile that has nothing to severe and door wearing his shirt sleeves rolled up around the elbow with enviable nonchalance; Stevan rearranges with obvious discomfort full formal wear, long for a T-shirt short sleeves and a pair of shorts to wear, if only to avoid the risk of melting in the heat.
"I hope you had a good trip, Stevan." Greets his new coach, smiling and shaking his hand openly.
"Pretty good, I would say, if you mean that I do not like flying." The smile on the lips of Stevan is absolutely genuine, Guardiola likes, at least at first sight, and tries to put this in the handshake that exchange and the smile that accompanies it. "Thanks for the welcome, Mr. Guardiola."
"Only Pep, Stevan." Josep corrects him with a smile, before taking him inside, away from the stifling heat of the road sunny. "Did I ask insistently your presence here would have been absurd if I had not come personally to welcome you."
Stevan blush slightly at his words, thinking about the astronomical amount that Barcelona has paid for it, and feeling guilty about
accepted for the reason why he accepted
, basically, since there is some pride, but only for the sake of something that is left behind. Well to consider that thought, Stevan feels awfully stupid. "I'm glad to be here, mis -
Pep." She sighs, and he finds himself thinking that it's not a lie so beautiful and good as he could think up a second ago, for the moment, Barcelona is a beautiful city, his new coach is nice and the opportunity that was offered is great enough to make the pain fade for leaving Florence, but the relief lasts only a moment. The next moment, Pep has blathered something about him to know all the structures and entrusted it to a boy who will more or less his age, or maybe even less - Bojan , if you do not remember evil.
"Give him a ride." Pep only says, ruffling the hair on both, and the boy huffs in exasperation.
"I'm not driving." Tries to complain about, talking fast in Catalan and raising some of the voice tone, slightly hysterical, and Stevan asks him a look of curiosity, without understanding, and Pep rolls his eyes and puts his hand on his shoulder.
"Please," repeated, speaking slowly so that Stevan can understand, if not the words, at least the general meaning of the speech. "You're the only one who speaks Serbian. Do not ask for this if I do not fidassi you. "
Stevan does not even have time to wonder what would be the implied in this speech - thought that, perhaps
, may not be his own business do not even touching - that Bojan has sighed, clearly annoyed, and began to speak Serbian without even giving him a breath and dragging him away, slowing the pace only when it is far from Pep.
Gerard manages to drag it out for the first time with the team after a match with Racing won very well, where Stevan scored his first goal in an evening that, perhaps for the goal and maybe for the drink that English forced him to accept immediately, it seems pretty nice to just have fun, without too many thoughts. Or at least, it would be if the Bojan
stop even for a moment
to fix it is with that auction in which the teams from the first day he arrived in Barcelona, never understood what the problem is with him, but Bojan put it absolutely clear at every opportunity - not least, the sit angrily away from him in the room where they dragged him. "I think Boji is jealous." ADJUDGED Gerard slowly, shaking his head with the air of someone who knows the world and He glanced sideways at the boy sitting on a bench nearby and stubbornly intent on showing his back to Stevan and whoever accompanies him. "I mean, you and the coach."
"I and the mister?" Stevan eyes widen in surprise at these words. "Why?"
"So small and so white." Pedro laughs, and the others laugh with him and avoid pointing out that he and his twenty years are the smallest thing, at that table. "You should know how Pep insistently requested your presence here, even you were the next Golden Ball for the next ten years." Stevan blushing furiously, trying to say that no, in short, is that Barcelona has the exclusive Players of gay and even if it were a child he is not naive, but keeps his mouth tightly closed and sips his drink thoughtfully, without feeling the need to tell the world something that is good to remain in the dressing room in Florence .
"It would make sense that it was." Insisted, stubbornly. "I mean, it makes no sense. Pep is the coach. I have wanted to - I know, for some important reason. "
Gerard raises an eyebrow, then bursts out laughing.
"If you think so, you must be blind." He says, between a laugh and the next. "Just so you may not have noticed how he looks at you Pep."
Stevan shakes his head and starts to say something but stops. Quietly retraces every game, every practice, and find everything they're talking about the Kids: Pep's hand on his shoulder that stops a bit 'too long, a care a bit' too much in making him feel at home, as if Florence was eager to make him forget as soon as possible, a smile a bit 'different from those reserves to other, laugh a little' more affectionate. And at the same time Bojan's eyes hot on his back, as if you just want to see it disappear as a punishment for having disturbed his world perfect and happy. After this inspection, Stevan not know if it's happy or not to have understood what he Boji.
"Oh, the child has understood." Pedrito laughs, and this time Gerard slap hands him a solemn, with great relief by Stevan. "I'll talk to him."
Stevan drink in one breath that remains of his drink, while Gerard nods and Pedro continues to complain that the world might feel entitled to take a more slaps when he pleases, and continues staring at the nape of Bojan in front of him, slowly ponders what it means, while up from the stool on which he was squatting and moving slowly among the bodies piled in the room where the boys dragged him. Stevan
standing waiting for a long time, before sitting on the couch next to Bojan, stares at him, making clear that they intend to start a conversation and, as soon as he to open his mouth, Bojan gets up immediately.
'Boji, wait. "Stevan jumps up, grabbing him by the sleeve, and the boy wriggles from his grasp bothering yet another irritated look. Despite this - and with great relief by Stevan -, returns to his seat.
"Leave me alone, Jove." However, says, crossing his arms to his chest and reserving a cold stare and wounded - Stevan would have understood before, even if he does not know how this could make things easier, in the end, does not know how he would react if Albert was in love with someone else, the time when it was in Florence . He takes a deep breath, clasping her hands in her lap, before returning to speak.
'Boji, Pep does not interest me. "He says, in a whisper, and his eye is injured enough to understand that Gerard and Pedro were right about the cause of the mood of the boy. Only now it is more difficult to say anything. "I swear, I do not care." Continuous shooting short of breath, and words that are pronounced after a more painful than the other. "The person I love has been in Florence, and I'm afraid of losing it forever."
Bojan does not believe him, and this is evident in the way it looks, trying to figure out what we know of something that should have remained personal and of which all must be, of course, had noticed even before him, Stevan takes a deep breath, trying to regain control over his thoughts began to wander as free as any time that any talk of the Alberto recalls to mind.
"It was Alberto Gilardino, Boji, it is still him." He says with a sigh, knowing that he exposed too much, you have given to Boji something big, so personal to burn at the thought. He closes his eyes for a moment, erasing from his mind the image of Alberto. "You can believe me or not to, but it's true."
"you miss him, right?"
Bojan's words come after a long moment of silence, completely unexpected, and Stevan almost startled to hear him speak in a different shade voice, understanding and not anger. For some reason, Bojan believed him.
"Yes," whispers - it's easier to talk in low tones, can hope that the trembling of her voice is due to the effort to keep it low and not because Albert is pretty damn bad. "I miss so much." Bojan nods to himself, and he offers him a shadow to smile, probably feeling a bit 'silly.
"Why do not you call him, write him, go find it -"
"It's not so easy." Stevan interrupts him immediately before that enumerates all the possibilities that he has already considered and discarded a long time, one after the ' other. "There has never been anything easy, with Alberto. But it was also nice that, or he would not have been him. "Stops for a second, collecting his thoughts and putting away the pain before it becomes simply too
. "I never asked to change at any time. Would not be fair, that's why I'm in love with him. "
Bojan says nothing, because of the dreamy smile Stevan says a lot more than he did not say in words. Both remain silent for a while '-
for a while'
, so much to worry about Gerard and Pedro who observed the exchange of words stretched on the table as two wives - and eventually Boji smiles, standing up and holding out his hand.
"I'll buy you a drink." He says only, reaching the table occupied by other students, and Stevan finds himself smiling, relieved.
Won the Liga with a day in advance and everything is just perfect. Nou Camp is the perfect
overflowing with people and raise the cup, the screams of joy are perfect for everyone and everything, it seems that the whole string around the city of Barcelona to its champions - champions again, and this is something that nobody ever gets tired. It is perfect for a moment, the way in which Pep looks, why or how they had remained alone in the dressing room, two of them, while everyone else went to celebrate, Stevan is something that can not explain, and perhaps does not want to do it.
"Are not you going to celebrate with others?"
Stevan weakly shakes his head, laughing floor, my head feels as light as if he had been drinking, and they say it is the euphoria of the moment of the evening, which is the Camp Nou lit and beautiful.
"Later, I did not want to drink at the moment." He explains, smiling slightly and nodding absently on the spot, without knowing how to behave. "You?" Pep
shakes his head and stood up, and seem perfect for a moment even his lips touch those of Stevan, uncertain for a second. Stevan
feels the hands of Pep hot on his hips, just below the edge of the shirt you wear, and which is celebrating yet another title, and for a moment think of leaving do, to ignore the voice that whispers Bojan as Pep is important to him in many,
too many ways, after all, is not necessary that he knows: he knows to be a good liar, if necessary, and it is fairly certain that Pep is the same.
are other eyes than those that the block, taking away almost breathless with surprise, other lips bent in a frown of disapproval, warm fingers that overlap with those of Pep nell'accarezzargli the stomach, another scent on the skin, another everything that is Albert is hurt because the skin is etched perhaps more in the depths of his own being.
'Pep, we can not. "Moans, taking a step back, away from him, he seems almost as if Albert's eyes light up at these words, that his lips to stretch in the shadow of a smile and that its hands shake a little 'grip on her hips - just that Albert is not there, of course. 'Boji - Please no. "Pep stops, hand frozen in midair in the act of stroking his cheek, and her smile varies imperceptibly, it hurts, because Pep loves me, he learned to know and would not be anything wrong, it would be wrong if he made two steps forward and kissed him again and then go beyond, because it knows and Pep Stevan
knows that he loves him, he feels in his gestures and the way he look, the times when he realizes that he set. It hurts because he knows enough to recognize that smile, that is subtly sad and disappointed, even if Pep does not want him to weigh him nothing, and it hurts to be the cause of that change, even if would do more harm if the smile was sad to Alberto, who also now exists only in his head.
"I'm sorry." Blows Stevan, torturing hands. Try to make eye contact with Josep, but his coach keeps his eyes stubbornly fixed on the floor, her lips bent in a faint smile. "Pep, I -"
"I told him, Bojan." Said the Spaniard, a shadow amusement in his voice, almost, and Stevan startled, because he had not thought about this possibility - not because it's wrong, not because he wants Alberto hide, simply had not thought of being able to talk to someone Alberto
really
talk, talk about how they simply his smile could shake the heart in ways that still can not explain, how he had to look as if every gesture was the most obvious thing in the world, so that had to be there, simply. "But you said you were already with someone, but I thought he said it just to get away from you."
"I'm not - 'Stevan sketches, but stops when he realizes star saying in Pep yet another lie, perhaps the worst, because it is one thing to say that is well in Barcelona - and in the end, it is also true, not as good as it was in Florence, another type of good, but it is beautiful all the same - and a account is to lie about something - Alberto
-that is still probably the central point of his life, in relation to which it continues to move despite everything that has happened. "Yes 'blows then, lowering his head, almost ashamed. "I'm sorry."
"You would go there from Barcelona for him?" Pep asks, point blank, and Stevan jumps again, blushing suddenly, he is not hard to read the implication in the phrase, and bites his lip before he could to respond. "Yes, without hesitation." Murmured, his voice so low as to be almost inaudible. "Pep, I -"
"Do not say you're sorry." Josep laughs, softly, and kisses him on the forehead before leaving. "It's okay. I'll be waiting there to go find the others. " Stevan is just watching the door close, and bursts into tears when it is sure to be alone.
"So he will not come." Sobs, pointing to the empty room.
Alberto comes at a July day, completely unexpectedly, during the last few days the anniversary of his transfer to Barcelona. Simply, Stevan opens the door and finds him there, leaning against the doorpost, and when he sees it feels to go to fire and lose a few beats, why, then, is Albert who came looking for him and is looking like it's the thing most important of the whole damn universe.
"I come in?"
His voice - the voice of a hundred nights together, shared many moments with him and no other - enough to redeem it from its apathy, and Stevan lowers her eyes. Would you say no, simply wishes that things were simpler, would be able to leave behind Florence to start living in Barcelona, but simply nods, making way into the small apartment he rented for just over two months. "It was Adrian to tell you where I live, right?" Despite the tone of question, that of Stevan's not a question, only Adrian and Adem have come to greet him, the last period - the first arguing violently with Siniša to get a day off, the second taking advantage of a bad injury that kept him still more than was expected - and Adi is certainly the most likely suspect: a part of Stevan hopes that something that was there before the his arrival in Florence and returned to work, even if something in the eyes of Adrian, when he speaks of Sini, says he is not so easy. You
Alberto nodded, this time, and miss out a small smile in your bags still in the room, open only to make clothes and never really defeats. Stevan crosses her eyes and blushed, feeling guilty - even if guilty of what, I do not know.
"What brings you in Barcelona? "asked the boy, trying to smile and appear at ease in his house, despite the presence of Alberto to make the walls seem closer and the ceiling lower, while all he has left behind suddenly back in Florence with force. 'Holiday or work? "
" Neither. "Chuckles Albert, to be embraced by one of two soft chairs in the living room while Stevan takes place on that in front of him, resting a couple of glasses of iced tea with one another. Alberto looks at him, looking for some sign of change, and Stevan can not help but feel uncomfortable in quell'ispezione so accurate. "How are you, Stevan?" The boys shrugs, sipping his glass of tea soon and trying to understand why Albert has come, why he chose this moment because it has not called when he sent his congratulatory message, only a couple of weeks ago, because did not come about by taking advantage of Adem Adrian or at any time of the season, and especially trying to figure out why
so dramatically is always difficult, Albert, to the point of having to reduce to a series of questions to put order in his head.
"I feel good, Albert,
really.
"she says, smiling a bit 'weak, and can feel the atmosphere between them to change almost imperceptibly, frozen, and at this point looks at Alberto's eyes and gave it ago, the question that presses on the lips that pronounce
"Why did you, Albi?
both been waiting for.
Alberto, that question does not answer immediately. Some fiddling 'with the glass, and brought his fingers up and tracing trails in the random condensation that covers it, before looking up again on him. When he does, he realizes that Alberto Stevan is smiling.
"I came to you." Sigh, pronouncing every letter with such delicacy as to shiver Stevan, Alberto because he did not remember it, I do not remember so careful and reminders and
damn broken. For its part, reflects, it was a presumption to think that he was the only one to be changed in the past year. "I came because I missed you, Stevan." Takes a deep breath, then takes her hand in hers and holds it up as if to make him crack the bones. "I came because I want you to come with me to Florence, Stevan."
"I do not want to go, Albert!" Protest Stevan, wriggling from his grasp and doing a couple of steps back. "I am a Barça player now. Florence could not give me anything that I already gave Barcelona. You
not you give me nothing than it already is in Barcelona. "
Alberto lowers her eyes, aware that Stevan has changed, and nothing is the same as before; Stevan sure that this has nothing to do with what that was shaking to him for comfort, with what Florence was smiling when he came to camp, and smiled when he went away, and at that time had not stopped smiling, even for a moment, and that smile was good for the heart because it was right
com 'was
. With a sigh, Alberto Stevan asks if you love him still.
"In Florence I'm here." He says softly, stepping forward and grabbing her wrist once more, holding just enough to make it clear that is not going to leave anything unturned. "There are Adrian, Adem, Richard and everyone else."
Alberto kissed him, pulling him. Stevan feels his despair, felt in the grip of his frantic fingers around your wrist at the point of hurt, and closes her eyes pushed back the sob in his throat in despair that rose to his lips and pushing against the chest of Alberto to silence Instead of hugging and crying as he wants to do. He closes his eyes, thinking how it could be - hot and sunny Florence that welcomes him on his return, his apartment near Fiesole, so familiar as to be home even more of Podgorica, at times, challenging Siniša Adrian beat punishment and laughter that accompany every moment of training, to regain the feeling that very purple shirt and number eight on the shoulders, back, Alberto ahead while playing, to give him more courage than many other words, Girl smiling and joking as kindergartners, Alberto still pressing and carries it with him to the end of training. It's a good feeling, of course: Florence is much more house than it is still Barcelona, although he can say.
But he has made his choice, just under a year ago. He chose to do something about that house, something more
that stay there and score all the goals he could score. He chosen to let someone who could do the same thing but better
, chose to sacrifice himself, basically, to leave a security and take away any doubt. A part of him - the one who cries every night, silently, hoping that Albert called him and tell him that she still loves him, that nothing has changed - tells him to listen, to take his hand and return to Florence, even for a couple of days, but the other party - the one that somehow has grown, which has metabolized the pain by making it part of himself - he shakes his head and pushes harder, from the grasp of Alberto. "I'm sorry, Albert," Stevan argues, in the tone of voice still it can find, and his heart would sink and could say only the truth, if truth were not even more painful to endure any lie. "But even this is enough."
Alberto greenhouse lips, without another word, and let go of her wrist without a word, before you turn your back. Stevan watches him leave, slamming the door behind him, trying to delude him not to hurt more than it feels to think of him only what he did, repeating every word he uttered, slowly, and most go on the more convinced that he had done what is probably the biggest mistake of his life.
Stevan do not know why it is off the street looking for him when he saw disappearing around the corner, does not know what stupid hope to put things in place led him into the car and began to search for every street in Barcelona know, to the airport and the train and
everywhere, peering desperately every passerby, every face, every single detail that might be but Albert is not, it is almost dark when it stops, leaning wearily head over heels. A moment later he is already rummaging in his pockets in search of the phone. Fortunately, the called number answers after only two rings free.
"Can I come and sleep with you?" Mutters, his voice mixed with tears who already feel my eyes sting. I do not know why the first impulse was to call Bojan, but that's okay.
Boji is a second in silence, and in that moment of silence Stevan can clearly hear the sound of bed sheets and move some whisper, despite the boy's hand rested on the microphone. Try to smile, realizing what is happening, but what you get is only a face that frightens him first, when the sensed reflected in the glass of the car.
"Sure you can." Is the response arrives, uncertain at first but gradually more and more convinced, Stevan and lets out a sigh of gratitude and begins driving, this time with a half.
Comes after ten minutes, and Bojan if found in the arms before they even open the door completely. Pep out quietly from the bathroom, his shirt still unbuttoned and wrinkled, and briefly shake hands in greeting, before going out the door quietly. He had not realized how the two boys were bound, and perhaps not even if they had noticed them before that night. Boji
respond to greetings before embracing closer Stevan, despite the Montenegrin is taller than him. Appears to be smaller, while clinging to the mesh clean sobs that has just worn only for not going to open the door half-naked, and Boji finds himself gently stroking her hair with air maternal and understanding.
"He came
him, right?" There is no need to say who because it is perfectly clear, there is only one person who could have this effect so devastating and destructive to Stevan, and the boy nods without the courage to lift the face. Boji holds a sigh, taking up to stroke his hair, trying in every way to calm her sobs. "It went well, right?"
Stevan nods again, running his hands over his face to wipe away the tears and try to settle down a bit, 'but only to get even more worse things. His voice, when he began to speak, is hoarse as if he were returning from the worst sore throat his life. "I told him - 'Stevan hesitate for a second, stifling yet another hiccup. He takes a deep breath, blowing the following words in a row, as if saying all along - and as quickly as possible - could not do evil that continue to do, although if it is repeated thousands of times in mind, on the way he has done to the house of Bojan. "I told him it was not important, that
is not important. I was a coward and I hurt for not having to admit that I'm so in love with him to make me short of breath every time I think. " Boji says nothing, when Stevan begins to sob, continues to stroke his hair and forehead and to remain silent, not daring to interfere in her pain, whispering nonsense words just to distract him until the boy falls asleep, his hands clenched into fists that his shirt and shaking his head that does not frown relax even in your sleep, as if he could not even sleep to forget. With a sigh, the rest a light blanket over his shoulders and let it continue to sleep.
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