ℝ𝕚𝕧𝕒𝕝𝕤 [ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕃𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕖𝕣𝕔] ✔

Part 5

"Hey, Y/n wait up" she rose her eyebrow in confusion and looked to her right where Charles suddenly popped up. They were on their way through the airport to go to Austria for the first race weekend of 2020. "What do you want?" that came out a bit meaner than she had first wanted, but she couldn't exactly take it back. "Rude. But anyway, I just wanted to give you these" he barely noticed the mean tone. Wow. She looked down at her hand which Charles had grabbed and left a little box of pills in it. 

"Are you trying to drug me?" she narrowed her eyes trying to see through the prank or whatever this was. No way he was just being nice to her. "Actually, no. It's sleeping pills for the flight. Don't worry you can take them, I just noticed how uncomfortable you looked last time when he flew to Barcelona" was this actually an attempt of him being nice? This was almost too good to be true. "And what makes you think it wasn't just because I sat next to you?" she thought to herself that her joke was funny, but it seemed like he was actually being serious. 

"Alright... thanks I guess" she mumbled the last part. And then sassy Charles returned. "What? I couldn't quite hear the last part? Mind repeating?" he smirked. She shook her head and took a deep breath. "Thanks I guess" and then he cracked up laughing. Suddenly he put an arm around her, which caught her completely off guard. This was the most physical touch they had ever shared. Like ever. "Would you hear that ladies and gentlemen... Y/n just thanked me" and for some reason his laughter was so contagious that she ended up laughing as well before unlocking herself from his arm around her. "Alright alright, that's enough for today please" but Charles just winked at her and boarded the plane. 

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"Y/n! Over here!" she searched for the sound in the crowd by the paddock and finally smiled when her eyes met her three favorite British boys and former racing buddies. Alex, Lando and George were waving wildly at her showing off their mental age, which was basically kids, not that she was any surprised. These guys would never mature. 

"Hey boys" she smiled at the familiar feeling of hugging her fellow racing friends. Of course they knew all about Charles and their rivalry since they had all raced together at some point, and they were Charles' friends as well. "I can't believe you're all grown up. I mean not so much you, Lando, but Alex and George, wow" she said laughed and soon they had to join in her laughter. Maybe except Lando, who crossed his arms. "Real mature, Y/n. I see Charles and his humor is rubbing off on you" he said getting her attention. She hated when the three of them made silly jokes about her and Charles. But it was all for fun of course. 

"Nope. Not at all. Charles is still a pain in the ass, I've just learnt how to handle it" she said trying to defend herself, but the boys couldn't help but laugh. "Sure, whatever you say. But we are dying to know how it's going with you two" Alex said highlighting the word 'dying'. "Just like F3 and F2. Except we keep it down as much as we can in front of medias" she said oblivious to what they actually meant. 

"But what about you two? You know, personal" Alex continued waving his eyebrow like he was signalizing something to her. "Personal? What do you- oh hell no! First of all, ew. Second, we're not even allowed to date, and third, ew" but once again her reply caused them to laugh. "But doesn't that make it more interesting. You know, like forbidden love" George said in a failed attempt of singing the last two words. "Oh God, George please stop" she said almost horrified.

"Okay, can we change subject please. Just tell me about you guys, how has F1 been since you joined?" And then they all left the paddock to wander around and talk about pretty much everything, so Y/n could catch up with everything since her friends left F2. But of course her peace wouldn't last long, when she got a phone call from her PR girl Tabatha. Apparently she had to come back to the motorhome to film a YouTube video with Charles. 

"Oh come on my dinosaur is way better than yours" so actually Y/n found herself quite enjoying the challenge they had to do. They were to build a little tree dinosaur, but of course they both cheated like crazy trying to sabotage the other. Basically everyone that was around them while filming and Charles and Y/n herself had bursted out laughing almost so hard they had tears in their eyes. "Not a change, mate. I'm winning" she said in between laughs. And when they both had to hold up their very ugly dinosaurs, Y/n pushed Charles' dinosaur out of his hand so it broke and she couldn't stop laughing. 

Then Charles attacked her also laughing by tickling her and pushing her of her little chair. In the end they both got disqualified, but none of them really cared. "Thank you guys, that was it for today. Now go get some rest, and we'll see you tomorrow for track walks" Tabatha said to the both of them. 

When they left the motorhome to get some dinner, they suddenly found themselves still laughing and having a fun conversation. "Wait... did we just have genuine fun together? Y/n said even surprising herself while drying her eyes from tears. "Hm... I think so" Charles said sounding just as surprised as her. "But you're still annoying" he added. "And you're still a pain in my ass" and with those normal sassy comments they walked side by side both with a good feeling to get some dinner. heck, they even ate together. This was so unfamiliar for Y/n that when she laid in her bed ready to sleep, she spend about half an hour thinking about her day, before finally falling asleep. 

A/N I hope you like it so far?