My captain

Big journey

Today is the day. Our world cup journey begins. We are off to Australia. I still can't believe that I actually got selected to represent England in a world cup. I never even dared to dream about that. It's a long flight to Australia though. I don't think we ever had that long of a flight. We get dinner on the plane and spend the time with watching movies and talking most of the time. We are sitting in pairs of two. You can flip the seats down so you can lay down and sleep. I'm sitting next to Leah of course. We already watched two movies and had food as we decided to try and sleep. It is pretty loud on the plane so I'm not sure if I'm going to get sleep but I want to try at least since this flight won't be over for the next 5 hours at least.

We got our seats down. We also got some pillows and a blanket from the flight attendant. I know that Leah can sleep basically anywhere so she probably won't have trouble sleeping here as well. Leah is already laying on her back. I drink something and then lay with her. I rest my head on her chest and hold on to her waist. At least my head is comfortable now.

"Are you comfortable?" Leah asks me.

"As comfortable as I can be here." I say.

"Good." She kisses my head and wraps her arm around me. I dig my nose in her shirt and try to get to sleep with her scent. It takes me a bit of time but in the end I manage to fall asleep.

I wake up in the exact same position. Leah has her nose in my hair. I can feel her breathing. I don't want to move since I don't want to wake her up. I don't know for how long I was sleeping. I hear someone laughing from the other side. I slowly turn my head over to see who is standing there. It's Beth. She looks at us with a smirk.

"What?" I groan as I see her.

"Comfortable?" She laughs.

"Yes. What's so funny about that?" I ask.

"I should continue my picture series of you two cuddling." She says and takes a picture of us. At this point I don't even try to stop her.

"Maybe you are just jealous." I tease her.

"I'm not gonna lie. I wish Viv was here." Beth says.

"Maybe you will get to play against her." I say.

"You can be lucky your wife is on your team. This is horrible." Beth says.

"I'm really lucky." I snuggle my head a bit up into Leah's neck. "I'm sure you will get to see her between matches." I say to make Beth a bit more happy. She really looks sad.

"What's going on?" I hear Leah saying as she wakes up. I hope we didn't wake her up.

"We were just talking about you and Viv." I say.

"Why?" She sounds confused.

"Just talking about the women we love." Beth says.

"I see." Leah kisses my head and I raise my body from her chest.

"How long did we sleep?" I ask. Leah reaches out for her phone to check the time.

"2 hours." She says.

"That's more than I thought." I sit up again. Leah keeps laying down and looks up at me with a small smile. She lays her hand on my lap and I hold her hand. I look at Beth still staring at us.

"Do you want to continue stalking us?" Leah says at her.

"I guess not. I'll better leave before you start to make out." She laughs and walks back to her seat. I think about these words for a moment while I fiddle around with Leah's fingers. I lay down on my side and lean on my forearm. Leah turns her head over at me and looks at me.