Sorry for not updating yesterday I was working last night and didn't get the chance to update. Here's a long chapter to say sorry. As always love any feedback and enjoy 😊
Keira's POV:
After breakfast, we had a brief team meeting, and a short team walk, before we got ourselves ready to leave and head to Wembley. Once we were out of the team meeting, Ellie hopped off Leah's lap, where she had been sat for the duration of the meeting, and came racing over to me and held up her hands to be lifted up. "Hi birthday girl", I said, as I lifted her up and settled her on my hip. Ellie smiled at me, as she rested her head on my shoulder, one hand holding my hoodie, the other clutching her Narla teddy. I walked us towards our room, to grab my bag, Lucy's bag and Charlie's backpack.
Once I had grabbed the bags I headed back down, this time with Ellie walking beside me. As soon as she spotted Lucy she went racing, and crashed into Lucy's legs, with a big smile on her face. Lucy bent down and picked her up, tickling her, causing giggles to erupt. I held out Charlie backpack to Charlie when she appeared and she raced off over to Leah. Lucy held out her hand and I went to give her her bag, but she waved that away, and reached for my hand instead. I gave her hand a squeeze as we made our way outside. I checked to see Leah and Charlie following behind us as we got on the bus. Once on the bus, Lucy led us down about halfway down the aisle, and we sat down.
Once on the bus, I turned to Lucy and leaned over and whispered "I love you". Lucy looked at me lovingly and looked around before leaning forward and pressing a quick kiss to my lips, before pulling away and whispering back "I love you so much Kei". I smiled and rested my head on her shoulder, and watched Ellie look out the window at everyone getting on the bus.
Lucy pulled out her headphones as the bus pulled away from The Lensbury and I picked Ellie off her lap, and entertained her on mine instead, so that Lucy could begin her pre match routine. Ellie giggled and squealed as I played hide and seek with her with her blanket, causing a few heads to turn, wondering what the noise was. "Sorry guys, we'll quieten down", I apologise, which Alex cut me off saying "no need, it's good to hear the giggles, she's clearly having a good birthday, and we need some good vibes". I smiled and nodded and Ellie grabbed the blanket, handing it back to me to continue our game.
As we pulled into the stadium car park, the nerves started to hit me. We were playing in a Euros final against Germany, at home in Wembley. Lucy must have noticed my nerves and grabbed my hand, interlocking our fingers and giving my hand a squeeze, before leaning closer and whispering "we've got this Kei, enjoy it". I nodded and once the bus stopped I got Ellie situated on my hip before leaning over to Charlie. "Can you pass me Ellie's ear defenders ?", Charlie nodded and rooted around her backpack, before pulling out the ear defenders and handing them to me. "Thank you". Lucy put the defenders over Ellie's ears, and grabbed 3 face masks, handing one to Charlie, putting one on herself, and then leaning forward pressing a kiss to my lips before putting on my face mask on my face. Lucy grabbed my bag and one by one we got off the bus. As we were walking into the stadium, fans cheered and screamed our names in hopes we would sign things and take photos, but we were all in game mode.
I walked to the changing room over to my cubby with my jersey hung up in it, my shorts and warm up kit in it too. I let Ellie down and took my bag from Lucy, before taking Ellie's hand and leading her out to the pitch for our pitch inspection. Once we were on the pitch, I walked around with Ellie who was 'walking' her cuddly toy Narla. I watched as Charlie was being chased around the pitch by G, and Lucy who was chatting to Alex. I looked down when I felt Ellie tug on my hand, she was reaching up for me to pick her up, which I did but not without telling her "soon you'll be too big for mama to carry". Ellie shook her head, before resting it on my shoulder, and mumbling "mama cuddle". I nodded and held her tightly in my arms as I looked around at the current empty stadium, where in a few hours, it would be packed with people coming to watch us play and hopefully win. "Will mama and mumma win today Ellie ?", I asked, looking down at the toddler , who nodded and replied softly "win". I nodded and checked to see that she was clearly tired, having had no nap today. I slowly walked back to the group that had formed on the edge of the pitch. I stood next to Leah who smiled over at me and then looked down to then tell me "she's going to fall asleep any minute now". I smiled and pressed a kiss to the top of Ellie's head. I rubbed circles on her back, lulling her to sleep. I knew it would be a short nap, but at least she could sleep while we did our warm ups. On that note I walked over to Lucy and asked "while we warm up, who's going to look after the girls ?". Lucy smiled adoringly down at Ellie who was fast asleep against my chest and then looked back at me and replied "Jordan said she'd look after them in the changing room, and Sarina has no problem with it". I nodded and looked around to try and spot Charlie, instantly spotting her getting a piggy back from Rach.
