𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲

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Ben was still annoyed about what he had said to his girlfriend well he didn't know if she still wanted to be with him as Harper hadn't been returning his calls, but after he brought up a time in her life that he vowed to never talk about Ben then felt that in some ways he did deserve the way she was reacting.

He had avoided going to training for the past few days but it was now time for James to drag his best friend to the training grounds,

"Ben, you awake?" James asked as he walked into the house to see the now pile of dishes that had accumulated over the past few days,

"I'm in here James but what are you doing here?" Ben was laying on the couch as he had just woken up from a much-needed nap as he hadn't really slept much throughout the past few days besides the few naps he took which were far and few apart.

"Because we have training today which means you have to get your arse up," James finished his statement in a mumble as he finally saw how awful Ben was really looking,

"Woah Woah mate sit down and we've got to have a chat," he added as he sat as far away as he could as his teammate stunk,

"What's up?" Ben asked now wondering what was on his friend's mind,

"It's not you who should be asking that?" The midfielder knew he had to be honest and just yank the bandaid off,

"What is going on with you and Harper?" He added as his best friend got up refusing to talk,

"Sit your arse down and talk about your problems now!" James wasn't usually stern but since this involved two of his best friends it meant that it was serious to him.

"How did you know it had to do with Harper?" Ben asked as he thought it wasn't really obvious that the girl hadn't stepped foot in the house for a week,

"Because one the pillows aren't fluffed and two she would have died before she watched those plates stack up over there," the older boy pointed over to his kitchen where there was now a pile of dirty dishes, and Harper didn't have OCD but she just hated things being messy as it was one thing she could control.

"I fucked up massively," the defender sighed as his teammate motioned for him to continue,

"I got jealous and yelled and then accused her of cheating on me," he mumbled still not wanting to admit how badly he had just fucked up,

"You know how bad that is right?" James always thought that the younger boy could be stupid but by doing this he was basically asking for her to walk off on him,

"That's just bloody stupid mate, I get you were jealous but that's like the one thing you don't accuse her of," he added feeling slightly bad that a massive part of was defending Harper right at the moment,

"I though she was going to leave me for one of the Chelsea boys, I know it's not an excuse but look at her. I'd be blind to not get insecure sometimes," the brunette never told the girl about how he felt an he was now starting to see how bad that was,

"You shouldn't be spending your whole relationship worrying about if she is going to leave you, Harper has a good head on her shoulders and she would go kicking and screaming before someone considered ruining what you two have. So just put your trust in the girl and stop worrying," James wasn't good with relationships but he was great with friendships and knew both people amazingly which made it easy for him to have an idea on how the other person was affected by this fight.

"Since when did you get good with relationship advice?" Ben asked with a slight smirk on his face,

"It's called being a listener but you better have a plan in place if you want to keep her as your girlfriend," James pointed at the boy who gave him a salute.

"I know I know, I'm just giving her space to process it like she asked and then I'm straight over there to get her back," Ben explained feeling proud that he had came up with a plan and all by himself too.

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Harper was finally doing her first training session with Chelsea and it was safe to say that she loved it,

"You alright there Redknapp?" Bethany who had very quickly taken on the new role as mother bear for the young girl, had made her way over to the striker who was in her own little world doing drills.

"Um yea sorry there is just a bit on my mind, what can I do for you?" Harper was used to a lot of individual drills at Arsenal but here on the blue side of London things were different,

"Come and join the group, and how about we go for coffee later and maybe we could talk about it then?" The forward was reaching out the olive branch and Harper wasn't about to just let it go by,

"Yea I'd really like that Beth," the striker smiled as the two jogged over to the crowd which greatly accepted them in,

"Harper I need you to go run something to your uncle!" The gaffer yelled as the girls let out giggles leaving the new number eight feeling confused,

"It's tradition to make the new kid become her messenger for the next month, and since you were the last one we signed so far it's you," Bethany explained realising that the Redknapp girl would have most like gone to have a catch up with her uncle,

"Well it's always nice to go say hello to the boys," Harper really wasn't fussed by it and in fact thought of way worse examples of initiations, so going to see her Uncle wasn't too bad.

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

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