Love, Eternal

Bonjour

The next morning Nola sat eating breakfast downstairs in the hotel on her own, she didn't want to wake Charles, she wanted some quiet time. Nola knew she probably shouldn't of got so defensive but it sent her over the edge and it made her sad to talk about Anthoine. Nola sipped her coffee and looked around the room, her eyes settling on the doorway where Pierre was walking through, he made eye contact with Nola and wandered over, he had to make sure she was okay.

"Are we still angry? Or can we talk?" He asked. Nola rolled her eyes at him and he scratched the back of his head nervously
"Sit down then" She said simply, she was calmer this morning and wanted to talk to him anyway to apologise
"Nola, I'm sorry. I didn't realise it would upset you so much and that wasn't my intention, I don't ever want to see you sad. I couldn't sleep at all last night knowing that I had made you that way" he spoke, he looked down at the table while he spoke
"You lost a friend to" Nola said softly, he looked up and his eyes connected with hers once again, "and I need to remember that, I'm still sad and I'm still down, but I know I'm not the only one that is" She said. Pierre took Nola's hand that was laying next to her coffee cup and rubbed circles on the top of her hand with his thumb, it was quite soothing. Nola stared at their connected hands and then heard someone clear their throat, Pierre and Nola snatched their hands away from each other's quickly, it was a little awkward
"Have we made up then?" Nola looked up and saw Charles standing behind Pierre. Charles smiled at the two hoping all was well, he trusted Pierre, Nola nodded at her brother and then at Pierre.
"Good, well I'm gonna go get some food" Pierre said
"Me to" Charles replied and they both left the table.

Nola sipped her coffee feeling quite calm but then quite baffled by his actions just then. Holding his hand felt weird. She shook her head trying to get rid of the thoughts and stared out the window at the sun shining down. Pierre stood with Charles as they both got their food before returning to the table with Nola.

Later on, Nola boarded the jet that took Carlos and Charles to each race. The flight would only be a couple of hours so it wasn't too bad. She put her bag away and sat down next to the window, Charles, Carlos and Louisa came on to the plane as well. Nola had filled Charles in on what happened last night with Pierre and arguing with him. Although it was more she was having a go at him. He didn't do anything wrong really, it wasn't his fault that Nola was still broken, he didn't know that. Although Pierre felt horrible still about it.

"So Nola, do you fancy Pierre?" Carlos said out of the blue, Nola choked on her water, making Charles and Carlos laugh as she dabbed her mouth with a napkin and recovered quickly
"Sorry what?" She quizzed
"Do you fancy Pierre?" He asked again, okay so she had definitely heard him right the first time
"What? No" She said, what did he mean? She was confused at what may have been said or what someone may have seen and misinterpreted. Charles gave Carlos a look which Carlos noticed but shrugged off
"Just wondering, he can't take his eyes off you majority of the time" Carlos said, acting so casual. Nola looked at Louisa who shrugged. She got out her laptop and Nola took out her phone to ignore the situation and opened Instagram and was reminded by what she hadn't told Charles yet
"Oh by the way, I'm getting some lovely trolls and a death threat or two" Nola turned towards Charles, his head snapped up in his sisters direction, he was worried instantly
"Death threats? From who?" He quizzed
"Instagram" Nola said quietly, Charles got up and took Nola's phone from her and scrolled through her Instagram posts checking comments and then her messages
"Louisa can we fix this?" He looked with concern at his PR manager, hoping she would have an answer, he wasn't going to allow this, it wasn't fair to Nola
"I mean we can do a fair bit, it won't go away entirely they don't know who she is apparently" Louisa said looking through Nola's phone that Charles handed to her. "Charles have you posted about your win in Bahrain or anything?" Louisa asked him
"I'm not sure if that would work or not"
"It would, all you would need to do is make sure there's a picture of Nola with you, and then write a specific caption" Louisa told him, handing Nola's phone back to her and talking directly to Charles
"Actually yeah that could work, I do have pictures of us with the trophy" Charles said
"Write what you want to write, but just make sure you reference Nola, and say like 'so glad to have my sister by my side' or something"