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Eleni's Pov

"Mum"

"Eleni" 

"What are you doing here" 

"You will have Christmas with me and my family this year" 

"Mum Christmas is months away" 

"I'm telling you now so that you don't have some silly excuse not to come but the time Christmas comes around" "Now drop that attitude of yours" "You should be grateful I'm inviting you" 

"Yes of course thanks for inviting me" 

"Ok well that's all from me I'll be leaving" 

"Already" 

"Yes I have been in town for the last few days visiting friends and family" 

"Oh" 

And with that she's gone. I break down in tears. I haven't seen my mum in weeks and that's all she had to say. I don't want to have Christmas to with her. I would rather be alone. 

Oliver's Pov 

I'm with Archie in the school after it has ended because the two of us have been asked to put up posters on each of the years notice boards. We didn't do any work so the whole student council group said it was only right for us to have to hang them up. I don't want to be here. 

Archie is yapping away like his usual self. I'm well used to it by now. I wouldn't say I'm not listening I'm just saying I could be paying more attention. 

We stop at the Seniors notice board to put up the game day posters when I see him. Jake 

I fucking hate him. 

Jake and I don't get on. Which isn't great considering both his and my dad are good friends, they are both police men at the same station. Our families have to spend quite a lot of time together because our parents insist on going out for dinners and that kind of thing. Even though we are in two different school years my parents still think we should be best friends. Fuck no. Think again. 

Not many people at school would know that we even know each other. There is many times I have wanted to slap that ugly fuckers smirk of his dumb face. Especially when he was talking about the new girl helping out with football. Archie is the only reason I didn't. He told me she wouldn't want that. I highly doubt it. Who wouldn't ?

We finish up and leave the school. No football today. 

Archie drops me home. The usual. 

I go in put my things down and get changed straight away. Training. Even though there isn't any I do it anyways. I'm exhausted. 

Today is Friday and I haven't taken a break since Tuesday two weeks ago. 

My dad gets mad at me for training so much but it's all I have. Football is all I'm good at. I'm not smart or social. I fail all my school classes. I don't get on with the teachers. So I have to be good at something and that something is football. 

I put my runners on and go. The aim is 10km. 

I run down the road and past our school I go around the church and down the road and there I see her, sitting all alone. 

Eleni's Pov

It's Saturday night training. The day before game day. The last few days have been rough and I can tell you the last place I want to be is on the side of a pitch, but here I am freezing to death. When I left my house I looked in some way presentable and it wasn't raining.