Excuse me? ~~João Felix

"Not surprised. No one can resist my beautiful self."

Narrator

They pull up to the hotel and paparazzi swarms the car. Everyone is banging on the windows, lights are flashing, and they can't even get out the car. "Oi, where did they come from?" Oliver questions, putting his phone in his pocket.

João turns to Roman who is still dead asleep and he slaps the back of his head. "Get up. We're here." João fixes his hair, not wanting to look bad in any photos. "Did you enjoy your beauty sleep?"

"I'm already beautiful, I don't need the sleep." He rolls his eyes, gathering all of his belongings together. Roman looks to the side of him and sees a whole bunch of girls shoving their faces against the window. He jumps back, "holy fuck. That scared the shit out of me I can't even lie."

"Damn, there's a lot of people out there. I thought my sister was crazy famous, I guess not." Val laughs but she also looks a bit terrified. "I mean there's like a hundred paparazzi's out there. Jesus."

"Don't you have a lot of famous friends and stuff? Isn't this normal?" Onyx asks as he opens his bottle of water. 

"Not this much. The most I've seen at once is probably fifty-not even. Now this, this is a lot." She tells him, looking all around the car in pure shock. "I mean, you can't even get out of the car."

"Have you ever been on a red carpet?" João gives her a curious look, genuinely confused on how she hasn't seen this man paps before.

"I don't really go to big events. I don't get invited to those because no one really knows me. Plus, Florence never invites me to anything of hers. Little shit."

"Excuse me. That's my wife you're talking about." Oliver pitches in, with a serious but joking tone.

"Shut up." Val rolls her eyes playfully, still looking out the window. "The point is, I've never seen this many in one area. I don't know how you deal with this because I'm stressed out just looking at them and they aren't even here for me."

"I guess you get used to it but some times it is a lot to deal with. You don't really get to do things without people following you around." João says, unbuckling his seatbelt and grabbing his phone to call the hotel for security.

"It's even worse when you have people grabbing you just so you can be in a photo with them." Onyx adds on, also unbuckling his seatbelt. "But then you also have the nice supporters and paps, I don't mind them. I actually offer to take photos and stuff."

"Same," Roman and Oliver agree with him.

"Hey, this is João Félix, we're outside in the car. Do you have security that could come out and push everyone out?" He goes silent for a minute, "okay, great thank you."

"JOÃO PLEASE TAKE ME. ILL DO ANYTHING!!" A girl bangs on the window beside him. "FOLLOW ME TOO!! MY INSTA IS JOÃOFANPAGE. PLEASEEE I LOVE YOU."

"YOURE THE CRAZY PERSON?!"

~

They ended up going through the back of the building because they didn't have enough security. All of them are in the elevator, heading to their room. Roman is holding onto Valentina's shirt like a literal child. He's doing it for no reason at all, he just wants to be next to her. Val doesn't say anything she ignores it, even though she secretly loves how much Roman likes her. She feels really appreciated and loved.

The elevator door opens and they all walk out. The rest of the England team are all scattered in the hallway, making it hard to walk through. "What's your room numbers?" Oliver questions the four of them as the walk down the hall. "I'm 1421"

"I'm 1423" Valentina replies, looking around for her room.

"1425." Onyx answers, following behind the group.

"1424," João says, fixing his hair and saying hi to the rest of his teammates.

"1422" Roman responds, still holding onto Valentina's shirt. "We might have connecting rooms, Val." Roman winks at her and she sighs but smiles at the same time.

"Okay, this is my room. Roman you're next to me, onyx, João, and Val yours is across from us. Onyx, I think Ronaldo is next to you. So um...have fun with that." Oliver says with wide eyes.

Onyx groans loudly, "great. I'm going to get absolutely no sleep because him and Geo just love to party all night!" He claps sarcastically, pulling out his key card and opening his door. "Goodbye, wish me luck."

"Wait, are we all going for lunch or dinner? It's already three." Roman speaks up, "I'm kinda hungry."

"Just get room service." Onyx shrugs, walking in his room, and shutting the door without another word.

"He's such an ass. Who says I wanna eat by myself?" Roman frowns, still clinging onto Val.

"We can both order room service and you can just eat in my room with me." Valentina offers to him and he smiles. "But, let me take a shower first, okay?"

"Yeah, okay. I'm gonna unpack first but I can order the food so by time you get out, the food will be ready."

"Alright, I'll text you what I want."

"Okay, I'm gonna go take a fat nap. Goodbye." Oliver waves, walking into his room, and shutting the door.

João, Val, and Roman all look at each other. João looks like he wants to say something but doesn't want to say it. Valentina takes notice and questions him, "are you good?"

"Mhm" he hums, lying to her.

Valentina can tell he's lying so she crosses her arms and gives him a look. "You wanna eat with us, don't you?"

"...possibly." João looks away from them, knowing that they both have a smug smile on their faces.

"Hm...how do you feel about that Roman?"

"Not surprised. No one can resist my beautiful self." Roman blows a kiss to João. "But I suppose he can eat with us."

"I hate both of you." João flips them off, opening his door but before he walks in he turns to them. "I will text you my order. Bye."

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Just a small filler chapter bc why not 🫡
Also I feel so bad for João 😭it's his first game and he got a red card smh

ALSO 7K OMFG ILY GUYS