Bleeding Love [Antoine Griezmann & Neymar]

Chapter LXVIII

Since Antoine's parents thought staying in Paris was a bit boring, especially since we had been there so many times and we lived there before moving to San Sebastian, they arranged a short stay in a resort on the Alps.

We were going skiing!

Theo, Antoine, Isabelle and I got on a train and headed to the Alps after we spent the morning touring around Paris. We drank a coffee on a cafeteria almost next to the Eiffel Tower and we took some pictures in the process, Theo went with us while Isabelle got things ready for the trip. Maud and Alain were going to join us later, they had to finish working for the day.

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas together, we were even joined by Maud's boyfriend, Guillaume. He was a French-English and French-Italian translator, he also taught French in school to seven-year-olds.

I had only met him three times but we got along quite well, we had many things in common and he was a nice, charismatic guy.

After skiing for almost the whole day on Christmas Eve, we went back to our rooms and changed into quite formal clothes and headed to the restaurant of the resort and ate a fancy dinner together. Everything was so nice but the dessert was delicious.

The next morning, on Christmas, we gathered together on Antoine's parents' room after breakfast. We didn't have a Christmas tree or anything but there was a pile of several presents lying on one corner of the room.

Alain didn't want to bring the presents with us, he said it would be better if we opened them before or after our trip, after all, we were going to leave tomorrow at midday. But Isabelle found that idea horrifying and convinced us all to bring the presents to the hotel.

Theo opened one of his presents first, since he was the youngest of all of us, it was given to him by his sister, then Antoine opened one of his and after him it was my turn. I opened Isabelle and Alain's present, it was active clothes and I loved them all, which reminded me that I had to start going to the gym as often as I always went until I came back from the World Cup, damn, I missed running and doing leg exercises.

One by one we opened our presents, leaving a complete mess until there were only two presents left. One was for me from Antoine and the other was from Guillaume to Maud. I opened mine first, it was a camera, a professional camera. Antoine knew how much I love taking pictures, like now, I was the one taking pictures of this special moment.

"Thanks, Tone." I said and gave him a hug. Even after all these years, I wasn't comfortable kissing Antoine in front of his family, I wasn't comfortable kissing him in front of mine either and I was sure he felt the same way, at least about my family, especially since my mum doesn't like him.

Then Guillaume stood up and gave Maud a middle sized bright blue box. She smiled at him as she whispered a 'thank you' to him. We looked at her, waiting to see what he got for her.