Charles Leclerc - This Love

0.24 Real Friends

Isla woke up on her couch as the sun shone in through the windows of her Monaco apartment. Lando was asleep on the floor, a jacket over him in place of a blanket presumably. Isla sat up and stretched her arms above her head. She actually had fun the night before, not like she had with Alyssa or Charles or Max. She didn't dance to her own songs for once. Whenever she went out with her friends, they always made her dance and listen to her own songs and she hated every single second of it but this time, her and Lando actually danced to normal stuff.

Lando didn't seem like the backstabbing type. Sure, neither did Alyssa but she genuinely couldn't see Lando betraying her or hurting her. Was she catching feelings? No! Absolutely not! Not again. She walked out to the balcony and smiled as the sea breeze gently blew at her face. She loved mornings in Monaco. She had only sat down when Lando had walked out after her and sat down. "Good morning." Isla chirped. "Morning." Lando croaked back. "Do you want a coffee or anything?" he asked. Oh how familiar this was. Being asked if she wanted a coffee. No, stop it! Lando is actually trying to be nice. Fuck! "No, no. Let me go and make it-" Isla went to stand up but was stopped by the gentle push of Lando. "I'll go do it. You let me stay over to sleep." He smiled. "You slept on the floor Lando." Isla chuckled. "Yeah well, you could have thrown me out but you didn't." Isla smiled to herself and returned looking back at the view. It seemed a lot brighter than it actually was, she couldn't exactly explain it but it just fell way better than it usually did.

Was it because she finally found a real friend? A friend that wouldn't let her down, that didn't care about what she was, that didn't see her as Max's ex or as a singer right off the bat. She kind of liked that. Lando returned with a cup of coffee and placed it in front of Isla, before he himself drank a tea. "I'm guessing you don't like coffee?" Isla chucked. Lando nodded. "Hate it. You'll never catch me drinking coffee." Isla squinted her eyes. She didn't believe him, not even for a second. How could someone not like coffee? "You don't believe me do you?" Isla shook her head no. Lando chuckled and took his phone out before going onto YouTube and looking himself up. He clicked on the Italian food video on Mclaren and passed the phone over to Isla to see him complaining about the coffee being on his ice cream. "You really are a child, aren't you?" Isla laughed. He may as well have been a toddler. "I'm not a child! I just don't like coffee." Isla nodded and handed him back his phone. "Well, point made I guess. Mocha is delicious though, it just tastes like hot chocolate." Isal explained but Lando wasn't buying it. "I don't believe you but I really want some chocolate." Isla smiled and ushered him to her kitchen. "It's good, I promise. You won't taste any coffee whatsoever."

Lando watched as Isla carefully crafted a mocha for him. Isla finished it off with some cream and chocolate flakes and slid it over to him. "Just give it a little taste test and if youu still don't like it I'll drink it." Lando lifted the drink up to his nose nd caught a whiff of a delicious chocolatey scent. "I'm going to trust you but I might regret it to be honest." He then took a small sip of the drink and quickly went back for a second gulp before he let out a huff of disgust. "It was nice when it was with cream but now it isn't. I tasted coffee." he pouted. Isla took the cup from him and drank it herself. Isla and Lando returned out to thee balcony and saw her phone lighting up every few seconds. She let out an annoyed huff when she saw who it was. Charles. She opened up the texts and read them all carefully.

Good morning princesse

I didn't mean to, I swear

I love you a lot

My bed isn't the same without you in it

I love you

I miss you

Isla! Answer me please!

Okay, I understand

What I did was stupid.

I'm coming over

We're talking about this

Isla set her phone to the side and awaited the Monegasque to comer pounding at the door. He could knock the door all he wanted but she wouldn't be there to answer. "Hey, wanna go for a walk?" Isla suggested to Lando. "I actually have a workout to do by the beach so we could walk there if you'd like?" Isla nodded in agreement. "I'll meet you at Max's. I just have to clean up here and you probably have to change." After a very brief farewell, Lando left and Isla stayed to clean up. Maybe she could do a work out near Lando to get her mind off of things.

Isla was just about to leave when she saw Charles standing at her doorway. "Where are you going?" he asked. Isla arched an eyebrow and pushed past him,ocking her door. "No seriously. I can't bring you where you need to go." He said trailing after Isla. "Max's place then." Charles furrowed his eyebrows. He knew Max wasn't there so why on earth was she going there? "Isn't Max in England?" Isla nodded. "So why are you going there?" Isla opened up the door to the gorgeous ferrari and got in. "I'm going to go do a workout with Lando." She replied dryly. "Lando? As in Lando Norris?" She nodded. "Is he your revenge on me?" Isla scoffed in reponse. "Well don't you think highly of yourself? No, he isn't. He is what I like to call a real friend." Charles gulped. He was quickly regretting driveing her to where she needs to go because he knew she was going to lash out but surprisingly enough, she didn't. She kept calm and composed.

When they reached Max's apartment, Charles locked her door. "Charles, I have to go." She said seriously. "Isla, can I just say something?" Isla hesitantly nodded, urging him on. "That night at the club when you met me, that wasn't the first time I saw you. I saw you walking around the paddock in 2018 and I fell in love with you. I was going to go and introduce myself but then I saw Max walk over to you and I tried to stop thinking about you but it didn't work." Isla kept a straight face as he explained everything. That he had loved her for two whole years, that he simply couldn't stop thinking about her even though she was with Max. "Charles, you having a whole ass crush on me while you were in a relationship and while I was in a relationship is not cute! When you love someone, you cherish that someone and you don't go around looking at other guys or girls. You stick to that one person." Charles felt a tiny bit annoyed. "So you didn't love me then."

"What the hell do you mean?!" Isla yelled. "You went and fucked Max!" Isla bit her tongue. She did sort of contradict herself. "But we weren't in a relationship and we never fucking will be!" Isla hopped out and slammed the door shut before walking away. She so desperately wanted her and Charles to make up butt if he kept bringing up past mistakes, what was the point? Not once, did she bring up the Alyssa incident after it happened so why was he still bringing up Max? Maybe he wasn't prince Charming after all. Maybe she deserved someone or something better.