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When he arrived - he was early, as per usual - he noticed a figure sitting on the floor in the changing room with a towel over his head. The number on his shorts gave him away, and Juan walked over before placing a hand on his shoulder.
He pulled the towel off his head and looked up at Juan with sad eyes.
“Eden…” Juan said, not really knowing what else to say. He didn’t say anything else at all; he slid off the bench and on to the floor next to Eden. The younger man waited a few seconds before letting his head drop on the Spaniard’s shoulder.
“It’s all going to be okay, isn’t it?” Eden sounded upset, his voice teetering on the edge, on the verge of breaking at any moment.
Juan wrapped his arm around Eden’s shoulder and pulled him close. “Of course it will be.”
They sat together for the next 20 minutes when Eden jumped up off the floor. “Better finish getting changed,” he pulled on his training shirt and sat on the bench to put on his socks and boots. It was 9:30; soon the rest of the players would start arriving for the beginning of the day’s first training session.
Just as Juan heard a ruckus outside that signalled their fellow players would soon be with them, he noticed Eden stiffen. He had stopped tying his laces and looked straight at the door. Juan walked over to him and scooped the younger man into a hug. “Please, don’t worry too much,” he whispered into his ear, seconds later Luiz burst into the room with Oscar in a headlock.
“Mornin’ boys!” He said after letting his compatriot go, and bounding over to his locker.
Other players started filing into the room, nothing was different from any other day except that instead of getting involved with the banter, Eden was sitting by his locker with his iPod on. Just before they all needed to go outside, Steve, the head of PR, called Eden outside. There was nothing abnormal about that, he’d often call individual players out to talk about interviews or photo shoots that were coming up. But this time, Juan knew it wasn’t about that. He knew it was about the pictures.
The pictures that show Eden fiercely making out with another guy. They were seemingly in a park, lying on a blanket, and kissing. The pictures didn’t look professional, they seemed like the work of an ordinary camera phone, and Juan had no idea how they got out.
It was no surprise to the team that Eden was gay, he came out to the whole team pretty soon after transferring to the London club. No one on in the squad was all that bothered, but they all understood that it was something he had to do. He also told them that he had a long-term boyfriend - Benjamin - who had moved to England with him from France. Juan had met Ben a number of times, and he was a really nice guy, who clearly really loved Eden.
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