Episode 20

Luan

When I returned to the room, he wasn't there, and from the sound of the faucet, I think he's in the bathroom. And he really was, because as soon as I returned to the room, it didn't take long for him to come back too.

Marcos: What are you looking at?

Luan: Can we talk?

Marcos: About what?

Luan: About what happened at the party.

Marcos: I'm meeting the other players at the pool, I'm going now, we'll talk another time.

He left the room very quickly, completely avoiding the subject. Ugh, why doesn't he want to talk about it? After all, he's the one who kissed me, not the other way around. But it's no use, sooner or later we'll have to talk.

I lay down on the bed to think for a bit, and ended up falling asleep, awoken by the coach calling for lunch.

Coach: Luan, Marcos, lunch in 10 minutes, please come down soon.

I heard his footsteps down the hall knocking on the next door.

I got up and went to the bathroom, taking the opportunity to wash my face and get rid of this just-woke-up face. Then I went down to lunch.

When I arrived downstairs, almost all the players were already there, so I joined them and went to serve myself.

After we all sat down at the table, I could have sworn that sometimes I saw Marcos looking at me. But I pretended not to notice, I'm tired, tired of this boy, he kisses me, then he keeps looking at me, but when it's time to talk he runs away, for me enough is enough, I'm already exhausted, from so much rodeo, either he wants to or he doesn't. And even if he wants to, there's still Rafa, so what I need is to forget all about it, and pretend nothing happened.

After lunch, everyone went to their rooms to rest, because it was a very lazy day, and since we only had a commitment at 5 pm, I also decided to go back to the room.

When I got there, Marcos was lying down, and didn't even look at me. I kept thinking about whether to bring up the subject again, I want to run away from this but at the same time I feel like I need to talk to him, so I can put an end to this situation.

Luan: Can we talk now?

Marcos: For God's sake, man, not this again, look, I drank too much, and I messed up, that's all, it won't happen again, okay?

I didn't answer, he was completely on the defensive, I lay down on my bed and got on my phone. After a while he was sleeping. I ended up going down to the pool, I needed to think, a lot, about all this, but it seems that the more I think, the more confused I get. I just wanted a dialogue, so I could understand everything, and who knows, get my life back to the way it was.

After a few hours by the pool I saw that it was already 3:30 pm, so I went up to take a shower, Marcos was still sound asleep, so I went and took a peaceful shower, then got dressed, and then he woke up.

Luan: Marcos, wake up, you need to get ready.

He wouldn't wake up, so I got closer and shook him lightly on the arm, he woke up very startled, as if he had seen a ghost.

Luan: Hey, calm down, it's okay, it's me. I woke you up because you need to get ready.

He looked at me but didn't say anything, just got up and came towards me.

He was very close, and I didn't know what he was going to do, but I knew what I was going to end up doing, with him so close to me like that. I could feel his heavy breathing, I could feel his hot breath close to my face. It was then that he moved away from me and went to the bathroom.

Damn, I hate the effect this boy has on me, this is wrong.

I finished getting ready and went downstairs, where I found the coach and some of the guys from the team.

Coach: There are a few people missing, Luan, could you go up and call the rest of the guys?

Luan: All right, coach.

As I was going up, Marcos was coming down. He didn't even look at me as he entered the elevator. Ugh, what does he want? Honestly, he confuses me.

I knocked on the doors and called the missing players and then went back down.

Soon everyone was downstairs and we headed to the opening ceremony.

Several schools were there, including Luivins High School, they had taken our title for four years in a row, including last year, where we almost managed to defeat them in the final. We have to be very careful with them, because they play well and we can't afford to lose to them again. The coach will have our hides if that happens.

Soon the presentations began, there were gymnastics and dance performances. Then we had a video of about 5 minutes talking about the championship. And only then did they start to get ready, so that the first game of the championship could begin.

Wow, two terrible teams.

The coach always taught us not to underestimate any team, but wow, these two won't even stand a chance. But okay, without underestimating, let's study them a little, to guarantee ourselves a good victory when we play against them.

After some time, the players on our team were already whispering about how bad they were, and also that they couldn't complete a pass, the only one who didn't say anything besides me was Marcos. The coach was furious with such comments. So I took my phone and sent a message to the team group, which the coach is not a part of.

"Pay attention to the game, and don't underestimate any team, the coach is already furious with your comments, and if we have to pay with harder training because of you, I'm going to use my position as captain and screw you guys over too."

Two players saw my message and started commenting to each other and within minutes no one was saying anything about the teams being bad, and the coach gave me a smile because he saw that what I did on my phone was most likely what shut them up.

I wasn't usually rude or anything to the players, much less use my position as captain to screw with them. Okay, sometimes I did, but rarely. But the coach has already been pushing us really hard in training, especially me and Marcos, because of our punishment, so if I had to have harder training because of them, I was going to kill each and every one of them.

After the game, which by the way ended in a draw, we went back to the hotel and went up to our rooms, the coach said that on Sunday there would be two more games, one at 3pm and another at 5pm and then we could go home.

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