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Gavi loved his boyfriend. He loved his hair, his smile, his body, his personality, he loved everything about the older.
There was a lot of things the media didnt know about the older, for example, how much of a suck up he was for gavi's puppy eyes; how he would take pictures of the younger any time he wore his clothes, keep it in a folder and play it whenever he missed him
How he had the inmune system of a fucking Victorian Era child.
It always amazed gavi how the man spent years playing football everyday for hours and he had that inmune system. The answer was pills. He took pills for his inmune system, and as well as hey seemed to work, sometimes, no matter how hard he tried, Vinicius would get sick. And Gavi seemed to be the only person who had the honor of knowing how bad It got when he was sick.
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Barcelona had been given a 1 week vacation, and Gavi was, to little to no surprise, spending it with the older. Now, he can't say he wasn't surprised when he was told that vinicius doesn't have said vacation. So he had to call in sick, you know. Call.
Heres another thing about Vinicius getting sick. The poor man couldn't speak more than 5 words with out seemingly coughing until he almost chocked to death. And, most of the time Gavi would take care of the older though a call, not even really take care, just watch movies, remind him to take his meds, help him sleep. Now, in real life, It was a hole different story.
So yeah, forgive him if vinicius having a cough attack next to him, while he was caressing the others hand, wasn't his biggest concern, as he was typing in Ancelottis number. He wouldnt wish this apon Vinicius no matter how mad he was at the older, at some point, Gavi was questioning who was going to die first, Vinicius, almost passing out because of this coughing every five minutes or Gavi, of a heart attack, trying to call Vinicius manager to tell him the older was sick.
He knew the second he pressed call the manager would be pissed, maybe even yell at him before Gavi had the chance to explain himself, and he probably would even blame the man. Shit, he'd be pissed to if one of his star players didj t show up to practice for 3 hours without a single soul knowing about the other wearabouts to get a call randomly but shit. He couldn't not just call him.
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That was about the most stressful call of his life. So yeah, surprise, the man did yell into the speaker without even letting Gavi explain himself, lecturing the wrong person for about a good five minutes, while gavi tried his hardest not to start crying because shit, that felt personal. When the man did let him speak it just became insanely awkward, because not only did the coach found out that vinicius was next to him knocking on deaths door but also the fact that vinicius was dating the same player that he tried to kill, a few days prier on the pitch.
Maybe the coaches weren't paid enough to deal with players bullshit.
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"Gavi" the man straight up whined while clutching onto his shirt like a child. He started coughing shortly after, the man would always call his name or tell him he loves him despite knowing how much it hurt his thought and chest to talk, it always warmed his heart. Vinicius started huging him and winning into the crock of his neck.
Gavi had a generally strong immune system, most of time when he did catch the flu, for example, it was always soft and wpudl go away after 2 days, 3 if he got really unlucky, so for the sake fo comforting his boyfriend he was fine with the older clinging onto him liem a koala.
"Baby, I love you, but I'm hungry, and I can fell your stomach making noises so yous are two, but I can't cook if you don't let me go into the kitchen" gavi trid to explain, and when vini let out a high pitched whine, starting to hold his shirt tighter, his heart melt at the sight.
Realistically, he could just walk to he kitchen and take the man with him, he was to weak to stand on his own, literally clinging onto gavi's shirt for dear life, so that's what he did, walked to the kitchen picking up the man ever so slightly, putting him his hip for support. He set him down on the counter and went to the the fridge piling out the vegetables on the cutting board, and the started chopping the vegetables when he heard the man say "Why am I sitting here like a child? I'm to old for this" with spout on his face, and Gavi couldn't help but smirk as he watched the man quickly erupt into another coughing fit while trying his hardest not to laugh at then man, but I was hard to take what he said seriously when he was sitting on the couther, sniffling every few seconds, waring baby blue pijamas and fuzzy monster socks, swing his legs back and forth complaining about being to old to be on the counter like a child.
He finished to soup quickly, usually he would have taken lounger but he didn't want vinicius to be I the kitchen any more than the man had to, honesty, he didn't understand why the man even wanted to be in the kitchen in the first place but shit, who has he to complain about his boyfriend keeping him company?
He served the soup to himself and then poured a boll or himself, he knew how much this soup helped south sick people's throat, and he's sure he saw the man almost fall oven the counter 5 times because of the coughing or sneezing.
He ate the soup and an ungodly speed, definitely burning his throat inthe process, and let a little giggle at the face vinicius made while whispering that he was a demon. He picked the older up, again by the hip and set him down on the couch, then going back to get Vinicius soup, setting it down on the coffee table and he watched the older pick whatever movie he wanted to watch, wasn't surprise when hre older picked "In time" for the thirteenth time, vinicius did eat most of the soup, before deciding he had enough, setting it back on the coffee table, getting a blackest and covering both himself and Gavi in the process, he was cuddling into Gavi's chest, as the latter taped his arms around the others torso.
They spent the rest of the afternoon like that, watching "In time" and other movies like "The city of angels", Gavi kissing his head, massaging his scalp and his back while reminding him how much he loved him everytime the couple on screen would kiss. They wouldn't trade it for the world.