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"el, we're here."

i opened my eyes to someone nudging me.

"what, seriously??" i tiredly yawned, getting of joão's shoulder.

"no. i just told you that so you would wake up." he laughed. "lunch is being served,"

i groaned in annoyance until a lady came up to us with a trolley.

"what would you guys like?" she smiled.

"could i get the chicken nuggets, please?" i said, cause i'm like the most pickiest eater ever

"can i have the chicken burger please?" joão said while the lady gave us what we wanted and placed it on the table. she smiled and walked away.

"chicken nuggets?" he chuckled. "you are such a child,"

i rolled my eyes playfully, "so what? nuggets are the best,"

i ate a chip off my plate and ate it. while scrolling on instagram, i saw a post by rosia_fèlixx4. it was her looking hot (obv) and the caption was a pink heart emoji, i liked it and commented.

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after another few hours of uno, watching tiktok, listening to rosia groaning about how she hated airplanes, and me rambling to joão about random things, the plane finally landed.

"oh thank god! any longer and i would of seriously passed out." rosia said as she eagerly unbuckled her seat belt and went down the stairs with antonio to get off the plane.

me and joão laughed at her as we unbuckled our seatbelts too and stood up. i followed him as we thanked the pilot and waited for the rest of the portugal team to get off. while waiting i saw georgina with her children.

"hey eleanor, how are you?" she said, smiling.

"i'm good thank you." i replied. "how was the flight for you?"

she laughed. "i'm used to long rides so it wasn't any different."

"oh okay," i chuckled. "well i'll see you later at the hotel, bye!"

she said bye to me as me and joão walked carefully down the stairs to get off the plane. i had assumed that someone was going to take our luggages so we didn't need to - i could get used to this luxury.

we checked into the airport and got into another coach which would take us to our hotel, me and joão sat at the back again but i let him have the window seat this time. rosia and antonio were sitting behind us again.

the drive would only take half an hour so i just watched tiktok until an edit of joão came up.

"you're so obsessed with tiktok and i wonder why.." joão teased

"you're right, i am." i smirked as he placed his lips on mine softly before pulling away.

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the coach finally stopped at the hotel and i gaped at how beautiful it was.

"careful. flies might get into your mouth," joão laughed as i rolled my eyes and closed my mouth. i guess joão was used to this, but i wasn't - and i felt very thankful.

me and him followed the team as we walked inside the hotel and checked into our rooms. apparently everyone got their own room except for me having to share with joão, and rosia sharing with antonio, ronaldo and his family also shared a bigger room.

"what a coincidence," joão said as someone gave him our key. we said goodbye to rosia and antonio and walked upstairs to look for our door number. we found number '12' and joão unlocked the door.

the room had two beds, a bathroom and a balcony.

"oh my god!" i exclaimed. "it has a balcony!" i opened the glass sliding door to the balcony and walked out, admiring the view of such a beautiful country. joão followed me.

"it's so beautiful," joão smiled, taking my hand in his.

"yeah.." i said.

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it was 5pm so joão slept for another hour but i wasn't tired anymore. while joão was sleeping on his bed, i layed on mine and texted rosia.

eleanor

heyy wyd

rosia

just getting ready. we are all gonna eat dinner together, u changed?

eleanor

what no i didn't know that but now i'll change - joão's fallen asleep tho

rosia

tell him to wake tf up cause i'm gonna be waiting for u outside ur room

eleanor

i'll be out in about 10 mins

dinner with the portugal team?? i guess it couldn't be too bad. i went in the bathroom and changed into a black top and some jeans. i put on some light makeup and exited the bathroom to wake joão up.

"joãoo" i said, nudging him slightly.

"hm?" he groaned, still half asleep.

"apparently we have to go to dinner with the team - so wake up," i explained.

he got out of bed tiredly and changed in the bathroom. once he was finished he opened the room door and rosia and antonio were standing there, leaning against the wall. joão was surprised to see them and got kinda scared

"it's about time," antonio rolled his eyes. "rosia forced me to wait with her, but we can go now."

we all walked down the stairs and into the restaurant where we saw everyone on a table. i sat next to joão and some guy called bruno fernandes.

"hey. you must be eleanor, right?" fernandes said. "it's nice to meet you,"

"yeah, i am." i smiled. "it's nice to meet you too."

"so where are you from?" he asked.

"uh - i was born in portugal but i moved to england when i was really young, but then i moved back, and yeah." i replied awkwardly.

"você é realmente bonita," he said. ("you are really pretty.")

"el." joão said. "swap seats with me,"

i thankfully swapped seats with him so that i was sitting next to ronaldo and joão instead. i noticed that joão had his jaw clenched.

"what did he say?" i asked.

"he said you were really pretty," he scoffed. "only i can say that,"

my eyes windened in surprise and disgust at fernandes. soon after that incident we started eating our food.

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after finishing our food and talking to georgina for a while, everyone started to go back up to their rooms. but instead joão dragged me outside the hotel.

"where are we going?" i said.

"we're going on a walk, cause i don't wanna go back up to the room yet."

it was 7pm and we walked for about 15 minutes from the hotel into the dark streets; qatar was truly enchanting at night. joão took me to this sort of flower garden

"it's nightime and it's still so hot-" i groaned.

"its only 20 degrees," he chuckled. "i don't know how you're going to survive in the day time."

we walked around as i told him the meaning of every flower we passed as he stared at me intently, smiling.

it was until we reached the roses when he spoke, "this one is you - i'm sure you know what it means,"

"it means love." i smiled.

joão picked out a rose and bought it and gave it to me.

"for you."

he put his lips on mine delicately as i kissed him back. i pulled out my phone and took a picture of us.

he burst out laughing, "did you just take a photo?"

i couldn't help but laugh with him too, "yes-"

i showed him the picture and posted it on my instagram story and he reposted it on his account.

"you're hilarious el.." he grinned as we started to walk back to the hotel.

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