PATHS, JOAO FELIX

S E V E N

malia walked into the chelsea training ground and towards the press building as she prepared herself to film the new episode of the 'clubhouse' for the clubs youtube.

the brunette took one more deep breath and prayed that joao would not be one of the three players involved today.

but obviously that would make life too easy.....the new signing stood talking to the camera operators with kai havertz and mason mount on either side of him.

the number 19 for chelsea saw the girl enter and plastered a large grin on his face as he walked towards her.

"my favourite female in the sports industry has made an appearance." she rolled her eyes at him but still smiled back and welcomed the hug.

kai walked over and also greeted her, asking how she had been and hugging her after mason.

she tried to concentrate on the german but could see joao walking over to them out of the corner of her eye.

she turned to the boy, who was now wearing a chelsea shirt, and planted a polite smile on her face.

"hi, i'm malia. it's lovely to meet you" she could see the smirk that he was resisting as she 'introduced' herself to him.

"joao. you look scarily familiar, have we met before?"

she did not appreciate the small game he was trying to play here as kai and mason watched the interaction.

"not that i know of. maybe when i was working at the world cup?" she watched as he pretended to think about it before shaking his head and speaking up again.

"nah definitely not that. anyways!" he leaned in to hug the girl like the two previous boys but turned his head slightly.

"does this bring anything back to you?" joao had said the sentence quiet enough that his teammates, who had made their way over to the coach for the video, couldn't hear.

malia was glad he couldn't see the reaction on her face. she pulled away and smiled before walking over to her place for the video.

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malia felt herself relax as the camera stopped recording and the video was over. the trio thanked her and the crew before all going to grab their things so they could leave the ground with malia.

"you coming to the game on saturday?" mason questioned her as he knew she quite often got put on coverage for the chelsea games.

she nodded in response while thinking about her schedule.

"oh! I'm also reporting for thursday night football for your match against fulham this week. i'm on quit-"

the girls sentence was interrupted as she jumped out of her skin at the sound of a car horn. she looked to her left and saw an expensive black car with the window rolled down and a blonde girl, with sunglasses covering her eyes, leaning out of the window.

"joao, hurry up. we have to go quickly the paparazzi i called are expecting us to be at the cafe in 5 minutes!"

malia resisted a laugh as she heard that sentence and from looking at kai and mason, they were doing the exact same thing.

"why would you even call them?" the portuguese boy looked baffled at the unknown blonde.

malia quickly realised who this girl must be, she tried to hide how she suddenly felt deflated, and instead looked between the two.

"I would hurry up joao, it looks like it's time to be put back on your lead, your owner seems to be getting a bit impatient. don't want to miss those paparazzi do you?"

if he wants to play games then so will she.

kai and mason could no longer control their laughs as joao looked shocked before slowly trudging to the car, throwing his bag in the back before climbing in the front.

if anyone googled 'I hate my life and want to throw myself out of this car' - the first photo to pop up would be joao felix as he sat in the passenger seat.

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A/N: team malia or joao? I also have not proof read this so ignore any mistakes