the pyramid // pedri

thirty two

"Pedri, what the fuck?" I say as I go in his room as he's tying the strings on his joggers.

"What did I do now?" He jokes as he turns to look at me.

"You told jude?" I ask as I hand him my phone as he quickly reads through the messages.

"I see how this looks bad." He says as he hands me back my phone. "Gavi made a joke when we were warming up and Jude was with us and I didn't want to have to come up with some lie after Gavi already said something."

"That's fine I don't care that much, but now he's trying to like blackmail me and saying I have to tell them."

"I mean we should tell them, so like maybe it's good." He suggests.

"Right, maybe it's good he's blackmailing me?" I say as I look at him dumbfounded.

"Well I don't know if it's exactly blackmail."

"It's literally blackmail. If I don't tell them he will. And like he doesn't even get anything out of it so I don't know why he cares so much." I mumble as he comes over to me, cupping my face.

"What are you so stressed out about it? He's acting like an idiot, so fuck him." He says as I frown.

"We need to tell them, we can't keep hiding it anymore." I say quietly as he nods.

He kisses my forehead quickly before looking at me, "I know." He whispers as I lean my head back before I walk over to the door. "Wait, are you doing it now?"

"No, im going to go drown in my sorrows." I smile as he shakes his head. "Or kill Jude, haven't decided yet."

"Tate." He says softly as I shake my head.

"Just let me tell them, you'll make it weird, and clearly telling Jude wasn't your forte and it didn't go over too well."

"Well that's just Jude." He counters as I hold up my hand.

"I'll be back, I'll tell you how it goes." I say before I leave his room.

I begin walking down the hall when I pass Pablo's door and I can hear him, ansu and ale all laughing. I knock on the door as I hear Pablo call out and I go in. "Hey Tate." Pablo says as I smile nervously.

"I have something to tell you guys, so don't like freak out or anything." I say as I rub my hands against my legs.

"You're not like pregnant are you?" Ale whispers.

"No I'm not pregnant." I mumble as I look at them. "Okay I'll just rip the bandaid off, Pedri and I are dating." I add quickly.

"That's it?" Pablo asks as I knit my eyebrows together.

"What?" I question.

"Yeah, i mean you made it sound like you did something terrible." Ansu says as I put my hands on my hips.

"You guys aren't mad?"

"Why would we be mad? If anything im happy for you, and if it makes him in a better mood at training I'll take it." Pablo shrugs.

"I'm so confused, why aren't you guys yelling at me for it?"

"Tate, I'll be real, a few years ago us three made a bet of who we thought you'd end up dating, so if anything, I get money because of this." Ale smiles as Pablo and Ansu both roll their eyes.

"You made my dating life a bet?" I laugh as Ale nods.

"I feel like typically in a friend group there will be dating at some point, so we all made a bet, not really thinking much of it." Pablo says.