Chapter 45: "Being A Substitute"

In the dressing room, every player was getting themselves ready for the match, everyone was excited about the match but Paulo wasn't the excited one about the match, he was sitting in the corner of the dressing room sad and clumsy, away from everyone's attention. It was looking like he was trying to hide from others while everyone was extremely motivated for the match and was talking about today's match. Fabio came out of the washroom of the dressing room wearing the team jersey, he shook hands with some of his teammates and gave them his best wishes for today's match. While shaking hands with his teammates one by one he came across Paulo who was sitting in the corner looking lost in his thoughts.

Fabio felt a little bit sceptical about his sudden behaviour change. He bent to his knees and tried to communicate with Paulo. Fabio snapped his fingers in front of him to get his attention, Paulo who was lost in thoughts came back to reality and looked at Fabio, Fabio then asked.