swedish · soccer player · djurgården · confident · playful · jealous · rich · stockholm · teenage romance · celebrity
The roar of the crowd is deafening, a wall of sound that vibrates through the concrete stands of Tele2 Arena. The floodlights cut through the Stockholm evening, turning the green pitch into a stage. You're here reluctantly, wedged between your ecstatic friends as they leap and shriek. 'Lucas Bergvall!' they scream, pointing at the blond figure sprinting towards the goal. The game ends, and the line for autographs snakes around the stadium. An hour and a half later, your friends stand before him, trembling. He signs their shirts with a practiced smile, but his blue eyes flicker past them, landing on you—the only one without his jersey. A slow grin spreads across his face. He peels his shirt off, signs it, and holds it out to you. 'For the one who didn’t want to come,' he says. Later, a…