Dark Moves Of Love ~ Neymar Jr

Chapter 60

"Hey." I said as soon as I stepped in the infirmary.

Alex gave me a weak, lopsided smile. I had put on my training clothes. Practice should have started half an hour ago. I had a feeling it might take a little while longer.

"How are you?" I asked him.

"I've been better." He said. "Scolari was just here."

"I know. I was waiting for them to leave."

"So you were stalking me."

I chuckled. "What did he say?"

"He asked me what happened."

I took a deep breath. "And what did you say?" I asked. I felt a burning inside my stomach.

"I couldn't lie, Liv."

"Yeah, I know." I told him. "It's okay if you didn't." I gave him a small smile. I didn't know if it was believable.

"But I didn't tell him the whole truth either."

"What do you mean?" I asked, suddenly anxious again.

"I told him about Rafaella and me. You and him are not my secret to tell." He said, almost spitting out the word him.

"Thank you." I told him. "Alex, don't be mad but Rafaella is on her way. I called her."

He chuckled. "I'm not. I want to see her."

"She'll be here any moment. I... I have to go tell Neymar what you said. Or he'll give us up himself."

Alex nodded. I gave him a quick kiss on the forehead. "I am so sorry for this."

"This isn't your fault, so it shouldn't be your apology." Alex whispered as I closed the door of the infirmary behind me.

I walked towards Neymar's room quietly. The news had started to get out, everyone I passed was looking at me. When I reached his room I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Come in." I heard him say as soon as I knocked on the door.

"Hey." I told him. He turned around at the sound of my voice, surprised to see me there. But he made no move to come closer or say anything. "I just talked to Alex." I said, closing the door behind me.

He nodded, his face rigid, like he was biting the inside of his lips. "He didn't tell Scolari about us. Only about him and Rafaella. So he'll probably assume this is why you at—, you two fought." I corrected myself from saying 'attacked' at the last second. "I am not sure we should let him take all the blame though." I added. "Not that he's at fault, he didn't break any rules by dating Rafaella, but... well we know that's not the reason you lost in on him. Or not the only reason."

Neymar heard me without saying anything. He had been extremely taciturn after everything that had happened, it was quite unnerving.

"Say something." I told him.

"What is there to say? I'll do whatever you want. You want to tell Scolari about us, I will. You want to keep it a secret, I will. I'll do whatever you want." He sounded defeated, almost broken. I wanted to run to him, hug him, try to take the pain away, so that I would never, ever have to hear his voice sounding like that again. Yet, I stood still.

"I want..." I started saying. I sat on the edge of his bed and he turned his back on me again, looking through his bag for something. "For the record..." I started again, "I was with Alex last night. But your sister was with us."

He turned to look at me momentarily before turning his gaze to the floor. I imagined it would be a hard thing to come to the realization that his actions were not only over the top but also unnecessary.

"Rafaella is coming." I told him.

"How...?"

"I called her." I cut him. "She'll be here soon."

Truth be told at that exact moment I wasn't sure how I felt. This was my fault. The fact that this whole thing happened was entirely on me. Yet... Neymar's reaction... I couldn't just get over that.

"So that's that." He muttered, so quietly I almost didn't hear him.

"I guess." I told him. Neither of us was looking at the other. I turned around to leave, knowing that there was no point in being there any longer.

"Liv." He said before I closed the door. I turned to look at him and we locked eyes for a brief moment. "Just tell me what you want me to tell Scolari."

I feared he'd ask me. But that wasn't something I could decide on my own. Normally we'd have a conversation, the two of us, but that just wasn't possible right now.

"Whatever your gut tells you. You seem to think it can't be mistaken anyway."

"Liv... I just don't want you to get into trouble! For something that I did! It wouldn't be fair to you."

"Is it fair to Alex?"

He averted his gaze. "No." He breathed. "But there is some—"

"There you have it..." I cut him. "But... you're right too. Telling him would complicate things even more."

Suddenly the door I was holding half open, burst open startling me.

"How dare you! How DARE you! What the fuck is wrong with you! Assaulting my boyfriend!" Rafaella yelled as she charged at Neymar, without even noticing I was there.

"Rafaella!" Neymar and I said in unison. I pulled her by the arm, forcing her to back off from him.

"Let me explain." Neymar said.

"Explain what? You selfish asshole, thinking the whole world revolves around you! Why would you think that Alex could cheat on me? Better yet, why would you think that Liv could cheat on YOU? And with Alex no less!"

"She was gone the whole night! I was—"

"She was with me douchebag!" She said and shoved her phone at his face. "I was mad at you and didn't want to call you but we didn't want you to worry and we posted pictures on Instagram! So that you'd know we were together and Liv was alright! You are on that stupid app all the time anyway!"

"I didn't see them."

"Obviously! But still! It doesn't excuse what you did!"

"Rafaella." I said calmly.

"Liv." She turned to me as if she just acknowledged I was in the room.

"Did you see Alex? Do you want me to take you to him?"

"No I haven't. Yes please." She said and stormed off.

Something inside me changed as I heard the two siblings fight .

I walked up to Neymar and put my hands on his face. He looked like shit. "I screwed up so bad."

"You did." I breathed. "But it's going to be okay. I'll fix it." I said, giving him a very light kiss on the lips before following Rafaella.

I wiped tears from my eyes for the third time that day, trying to hold them back once again. I knew I would explode soon.

"You needn't soothe him." Rafaella told me. "He was so out of line, he can't even see it."

"I know his behavior was bad but there was always tension between the two of them. You know that Alex punched him no more than two weeks ago."

Rafaella nodded when we reached the infirmary.

"Find me when you're done talking to Alex, okay?" I told her as she gave me a hug. "This is as much my fault as it is Neymar's if not more."

"Hey." Marina said emerging from the corner. "I saw you pass by and followed you. Liv, what they are saying..."

"Let's go to our room." I told her and she nodded. We reached the room quickly, without running into anyone.

And then I exploded.