Love, Eternal

Boat Party

Nola smoothed down her dress as she got out of the car with Charles, Charlotte, Freya and Olivier. She felt a little like a fifth wheel with the couples she was with, but shrugged it off. She walked with Charlotte chatting and catching up with her as they entered the restaurant. Nola saw plenty of Charles' friends round the table and said hello, including some of the drivers that lived round here.
"Long time no see" Lando said standing up and giving Nola a hug, he was very welcoming to Nola and she enjoyed it, he was a nice guy and the fact they were the same age meant they got on easiest.
"A whole 24 hours" Nola said to him laughing. She took a seat near them, sitting next to Freya with Lando the other side of her.
"Do you want a drink?" Lando asked Nola, she nodded and he poured the girl a glass of wine from one of the bottles on the table.
"When do you guys leave for Australia?" Nola asked him
"We're all getting the same plane again as it's easier" he said
"Ooh flight buddies" Lando was so nice, definitely one of the good ones. Nola turned her attention to Freya when she was called and chatted away to her and Olivier.

Pierre had flown back to France straight after the race Sunday night to see his family during the time off before the next race. Now he was heading to Monaco with some friends on a yacht they had to chill out and have a good time. Pierre had got a call from Charles' to say a few people where going out for dinner tonight if him and his friends wanted to join, so they made a plan and Pierre stuck with his friends on the boat. Nola popped into his head straight away, he wondered if she would be there. Pierre didn't come to Monaco enough but he loved it here. He walked into the restaurant with his friends and Charles' waved them over to one of the largest tables in the restaurant. Pierre saw Max, Alex, Lando, and then Charlotte, along with some other people he didn't know but probably people Charles knew. Then he saw the girl he was looking for, she was sitting next to her friend Freya, and another guy Pierre didn't know but they were all laughing. Nola had dressed nicely, her tanned skin shown off in her outfit, her dark hair up in a high slick ponytail. She laughed with her friends not noticing Pierre had joined them, she didn't know he was coming.
"Is that her?" One of Pierre's friends asked as they walked through the restaurant. Pierre nodded as his friend was looking over at Nola. They knew of her, they were Pierre's closest friends so of course they knew when he couldn't stop talking about her. He had already seen the photo she posted on Instagram today and he couldn't stop looking at it. Pierre sat down pretty much opposite Nola at the table.
Freya smiled at Pierre across the table, she knew of Pierre, not as well as Charles and Nola did, but she took note that he had become an attractive man since their last encounter, and he was certainly Nola's type. He had style, he cared about the way he looked and how he dressed, definitely good for Nola, if they were friends, Freya knew he was a nice person. Anyone that liked someone for this long and didn't argue back when he quite easily could of showed he was calm. Pierre turned his attention to her, Nola was breathtaking, He tried his hardest to act normal and dived into a conversation with friends after saying hello to Max, Lando, Charles and Alex.

Nola felt very awkward, she didn't know Pierre was coming, Charles must have invited him. Nola turned to Lando and started chatting to him, telling him she felt a bit awkward with the current affairs.
"Well let me introduce you to Luisinha, my girlfriend" Nola noticed a very very pretty girl sitting the other side of Lando, he had his arm round the back of her chair. "Luisinha this is Nola, Charles little sister"
"Hi it's nice to meet you" she said, Luisinha was a very nice girl, perfect for Lando.
"How do you know that? I might be awful" Nola said to her laughing
"She's not awful at all" Lando said, Nola rolled her eyes at him
"So do you live in Monaco as well?" Nola asked Luisinha
"Not properly, I only come here when Lando is home. I live in Portugal"
"Oh lovely"
"Do you live here?" She asked
"I do indeed, I love it here" Nola replied to her.

Lando, Nola and Luisinha had a nice conversation between the three of them and it was enough to make Nola feel less awkward.
"Nola, can you come to the toilet with me" Nola picked the French up easily from the English already being spoken at the table, she turned to Freya and nodded
"Oh I'll come to" Luisinha said. The three girls got up and Nola walked behind Charlotte and tapped her shoulder to get her attention. Charlotte stood up with the three girls and joined them.

"Oh my god" Freya said as she opened the door to the bathrooms
"What?" Nola asked
"He hasn't stopped drooling over you" she replied to her friend
"Don't mind her, she's a bit dramatic" Nola said to Luisinha laughing, Charlotte already knew what Freya was like
"I'm serious, Charlotte?" She turned to Charlotte
"Not to to be annoying but if you're talking about Pierre then yeah. He hasn't stopped staring at you" Charlotte confirmed
"It doesn't matter" Nola mumbled
"She's worried about moving on and what Charles will think" Freya said
"Charles already knows Pierre likes you" Charlotte said, Nola spun round and faced her. A lot going through her head like clearly he did like her if the girls were noticing in a public setting and second of all it had been a topic of conversation between her brother and his girlfriend. Freya found it hilarious.
"Brilliant" Freya said laughing
"As I said, it doesn't matter"
"He's a nice looking guy, and seems friendly enough" Luisinha said
"It's a long story" Nola shrugged "can we drop it please?" Freya huffed at her friend and nodded, accepting defeat.
"Come on let's go, I'm starving" Charlotte said and the girls all left the bathroom again and rejoined the table. Nola took her seat and Pierre caught her eye, he smiled and Nola smiled back before picking up the menu and getting ready to order her dinner.

At the end of the night everyone was fed, and some slightly tipsy. Nola and Freya being two of those people who were a little tipsy, they both knew how to have a good night.
"Nola we should continue the night" Freya said turning her friend
"Oh no no, last time that happened we couldn't find our way home" Nola laughed. They had to call Olivier to come and help them, turns out they were only round the corner, the story had them laughing for weeks.
"Pierre didnt you say you had a boat here?" Olivier said
"Oooh we should totally have a boat party!" Freya said. Nola knew her sober mind would of definitely disagreed and gone home. But drunk Nola thought the idea was fantastic, it wasn't really a battle between the two.
"I do, you're welcome to join us, we were going to have some drinks anyway" Pierre spoke, his French voice smooth as silk. Pierre watched Nola carefully, she seemed to be having a great time and he certainly wanted to see her to as long as he could
"Anyone else joining the boat party?" Freya yelled across the table. There was a few cheers along the table from Charles, Charlotte, Lando and Luisinha, the rest shook their heads. So that's what they did, the group of people that wanted to left the restaurant and walked down to the docks where the yacht Pierre and his friends had was sitting. Nola had to take off her shoes in order to walk across the dock without falling over.

"Here let me help you" Pierre saw Nola stop and he held her arm as she leaned on him and slid her shoes off and returned to her normal small height, Pierre looked down at her and smiled.
"Thank you" she said to him, his blue eyes gazing into hers.
"Come onnnnn" Freya shouted at Nola, she let go of Pierre and followed them all onto the boat.