74. Intense

                                    

                                          

It was the next day, which meant Mapi's first day back at training. She was bouncing off the walls, deciding to make breakfast because she had so much pent up energy from not training the last week. She can't imagine how Alexia was feeling, but she's just grateful herself. 
Hearing Kaia enter the kitchen, Mapi offers her a beaming smile that makes her chuckle, but the blonde doesn't mind. "Good morning, princesa." 
"Good morning, love." Kaia replies, pouring herself a coffee and allowing Mapi room to finesse around the kitchen still. "What's got you in a good mood?" She asks, playfully nudging her hip into Mapi as she passes behind her. 
"I slept amazingly, breakfast smells great, and I'm ready for training." Mapi lists as she uses her eyes to point down to the new Barça training kit she's wearing. 
"Did you just compliment your own cooking?" Kaia chuckles, taking a slow and shameless scan of Mapi, mainly her exposed arms because she decided to wear a Barça muscle shirt today. Thank you Spanish heat. 
"Yeah," Mapi looks up from the food and sees where her girlfriends eyes are. It makes her smile widen. "Like what you see?" She teases. 
"Love." Kaia corrects as she walks back to her. "I also love seeing you happy again, it makes me happy." 
"So soppy." Mapi hums amusedly, leaning in for an every soppier gentle kiss. "But I am happy, very happy." She whispers with her eyes still closed. 
"Good." Kaia says, kissing her one last time before moving off again.  
Getting back to cooking, Mapi let's her mind run for a little bit and remembers something that happened last night when Kaia had already fallen asleep. "Why have Lucy and Keira decided to take Narla to dog daycare? I thought Katrina was looking after her on the weekends." 
Kaia shakes her head, unsure. "Maybe Katrina was busy yesterday." She replies, assuming they took the car last night to go pick Narla up. 
"Or maybe Keira doesn't like how close Lucy and Katrina already are." Mapi replies under her breath. It's something both her and Kaia have said to each other, mainly teasing. 
But Kaia huffs in amusement. "Babe, they've been together for years, and I mean years. I can't remember when they weren't together." She reassures. "Lucy is head over heels." 
Mapi shrugs, taking her girlfriend word as a reliable source. "Go get changed, we need to leave soon." 
Kaia takes a glance at the clock, realising they have to get there earlier than the others so Mapi can have one final strength check before being let out on the pitch with everyone. "Ok." She accepts. 
She returns to the kitchen wearing the exact same outfit as Mapi because today is far too hot for anything else, except she has the number 7 on her training clothes while Mapi has a 4. That's the only way they can tell each others apart. 
Meeting the other two downstairs, the two new English recruits both smile at the sight of Mapi off crutches and walking completely normally, she even skips down the last step because she can't wait to get a ball at her feet. 
But Keira's attention goes elsewhere, it goes to the faded cap on Kaia's head with a single word on the front in white. "What does that say?" She asks, squinting her eyes to read the squiggly word and wondering if she misread it. 
"Papi." Kaia answers with an amused smile, side eyeing Mapi who only rolls her eyes fondly. 
It's a baseball cap Aitana bought in Ibiza without reading the print, and when she realised what it said she asked to switch with someone. So of course Kaia took the papi cap and gave Aitana her Ralph Lauren one.