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"Geri, please," Cristiano pleaded, trying to prevent himself from crying. They were at Iker's, partying, bidding him goodbye and wishing him good luck. It was supposed to be Iker's best time of his life. He was supposed to enjoy his last night with his soon to be former teammates, to drink himself to sleep.
Instead the latter found himself trapped in between Piqué and Messi, trying to prevent them from killing each other. Xavi was standing only a few inches away, with a disapproving look plastered all over his face.
"Geri, please don't do this," Cristiano begged once again, trying to pull Gerard away from Iker but the blond haired man won't budge. Instead he looked at Cristiano, disgust visible in his face.
"Shut the fuck up," He yelled pushing Cristiano away, pointing an accusatory finger at him. "This is happening because of you.."
"Don't you dare," Lionel snapped, trying to get away from Luis' and Sergio's strong hold. He was currently being held by Luis, Sergio, Gareth and Neymar was trying to calm him down, the kid looked scared to hell. Never had he seen Lionel in this state, so angry and threatening towards another fellow teammate. "You messed up, you had your chance and you fucked up. It's time to let it go. It's my turn now."
"Enough," Xavi tried to calm this down before it got out of hand, he walked to Iker's guest room door frame, standing near Gerard, facing Cristiano.
" No. I kept quiet for too long, he needs to know," Lionel spitted, smirking. "You're wondering if I slept with him ? Hell yeah I did and enjoyed every moment of it."
"Leo, please," Cristiano urged the Argentine to keep quiet but Lionel was having none of it. He was tired of hiding, tired of pretending. Gerard had every right to know and Lionel was the one going to burst his bubble.
" No you stop, don't you see ? He's trying to manipulate you.. again" He stated never breaking eye contact with Gerard. "He's going to get emotional and try to make you look like the bad guy here. But hey, I know what he did to you, I know everything and I'm not shutting up."
"Leo," Xavi yelled trying to get Lionel to shut up. "Don't make it worse that it already is,.. please."
It all started when Gerard had drank a couple more cups than he should have and started saying BS about how he fucked up and god knows what.. At first Xavi didn't pay much attention to it but then Gerard started searching for Cristiano, asking everybody if they had seen the portuguese striker. Getting a negative reponse from the RM players, Gerard decided to go search for him. Still Xavi hadn't paid much attention to it and kept sipping his drink.
In all honesty, Xavi didn't know shit about whatever happened in between Gerard and Cristiano. But he definitely knew that something happened when they used to play for Manchester United. Whatever it was, seemed to eat Gerard alive.
The kid won't stop looking at Cristiano, oggling him up and down like he was some delicious meat to eat. Xavi always had a feeling it was more than just lust, more than sex. It was something so strong that Gerard was willing to throw the strong friendship he had with Lionel by the window.
Then Iker came asking him if he knew where Cris went, and Xavi told him no.
But this was until they heard screamings and muffled noises. Dani stopped the music looking around worry and confusion evident on his face.
Not wasting anymore time they all rushed upstairs, coming face to face with an angry Gerard who forced the guest room door opened or more likely broke down the door. The latter had an iron grip on Cristiano's arm, throwing a cold glare at him.
Xavi was sure he could handle the situation from there but this was until Lionel decided to punch Gerard in the face and pushed Cristiano behind him as if he was trying to protect him from Gerard.
"Cristiano," Xavi called out trying to get the portuguese attention but failed miserably. The younger man was looking at Gerard with fear, tears streaming down his face. Xavi and Iker exchanged worried glances. Xavi knew that he had to do something to get Cristiano out of here otherwise things could get worse. "Cristiano.. Cristiano come here, I'm taking you home."
"He's going nowhere." Gerard shouted trying to push Dani, Marcelo and Fernando Torres away from him, he was not letting Cristiano go, not again. He needed to fix this, to fix himself, to fix them. He deserved a better explantion than the BS Cristiano tried to feed him when he attempted to break up with him. Yeah, that's right Cristiano tried but didn't succeed. He was still Gerard's and the latter had every right to get angry, finding his boyfriend in a rather intimate discussion with Mr. Messi over there.
"Do you think I'm letting this one slip ?" Gerard asked Cristiano trying to get closer to him but there were a bunch of people preventing him from doing so, trying to put as much space as needed in between the two of them. Everyone knew how bad Gerard handled alchool and what he was capable of. "Sleeping around like the slut you're. Cheating on me with my teammates..."
Well Xavi knew that if they weren't cautious enough, Gerard could end up hurting Cristiano or worse, himself.
"Geri, please," Cristiano kept begging him to stop, because this whole situation was getting very ridiculous and embarrasing. Nobody needed to knew what the hell was going on in between them. "Nobody needs to hear this.."
Gerard ignored him and allowed himself to get pulled back by Karim. " First it was Carlos as in Carlos Tevez, then came Evra and many others."
There was a long silence where nobody knew what to say.
"But what hurt me the most was Wayne," Gerard laughed bitterly, his eyes getting wetter by each seconds. He shook his head looking at Cristiano. Probably wondering how someone as nice and kind as Cristiano could have betrayed him like this ? "Damn, Cris. He was my friend, my fucking best friend.."
" Gerard, you don't have to do this." Dani stated, patting his cheek to get his attention. "It won't solve anything. You're drunk, hurt and angry. Sleep on it." But his piece of advices went unheard as Gerard pushed him out of his way.
"Were you planning to sleep with the whole team too ? Banging every Man U players.. was I a simple fuck toy ? And now you were planning on fucking Barça's studs ?"Gerard yelled, trying to get to Cristiano, but Xavi took it as an opportunity to grab Cristiano's arm and to pull him out the room and past Gerard.
"Crisitano, let's go. I'm taking you home. " Xavi told him trying to get his attention but it was a lost cause. The younger man was not answering he seemed to be in a state of shock. He had his arms crossed tightly, and head hunged low in shame. As Gerard kept rambling on how he was a filthy whore and deserved to suffer.
"Heard your mama wanted to get rid of you, didn't she ? What a shame she didn't succeed," Gerard shouted while Xavi and James were pratically dragging Cristiano out of Iker's house to James' car.
Cristiano chose this very moment to break down in tears, trying to get back inside the house but Xavi and James trapped him agaisnt a black SUV. It was Messi's. There was no way James was allowing Gerard to do anymore damage.
"Cris, please. Let us take you home," He spoke quietly, heart breaking seeing Cristiano in this state. Cristiano was the smiley type of guy, the first one to party, and to joke around. He was always the one cheering James up by making a fool of himself. The only time he saw Cristiano crying was when his grandmother passed away.
"I've to fix this, it's my fault. If only I knew,"
" There is nothing to fix Cristiano. I'm not talking to you as FCB's captain, but as the man who saw Gerard and Lionel grow up together." Xavi didn't knew much about Cristiano but Iker always said that Cristiano was actually a good guy when you get to know him outside the pitch. And it broke his heart to see him like this. "Their friendship wouldn't have lasted anyway, too much drama going on."
When Fabio and Pepe came out of the house, looking for Cristiano, in blood stained shirts, Xavi knew there was nothing better to do than to take Cristiano away from here.