My brother's bestfriend

The one with the laser gun

"Olive, are you ready? Olive? Liv!"
I turn around in my bed. I'm laying with my back turned to the door. Carlos enters my room but my eyes stay closed.
"Olive! Why are you still in bed? We have to be at the airport in 40 minutes." He says. Shoot! I sit up straight and look at him.
"But it's a 25 minute drive." I say.
"That's why you have to get up." He says and I jump out of my bed to the bathroom. I take a quick shower do my hair, brush my teeth and put on some sweatpants and a blue tanktop and rush downstairs.
"Goodmorning ma." I say as I rush over to my shoes who are laying in the living room.
"Late again I see." She says.
"What can I say. It's a gift you gave me and I'm thankful for it." I say sarcastic and she comes up to me and gives me a kiss on my hair.
"Carlos has made you some breakfast. Be safe!" She says as she walks up the stairs. I walk up to Carlos who is standing at the front door with some pancakes for me. I take them and I walk out the door.
"Olive?"
"Yeah?"
"Suitcase?"
"Oh crap!" I say and I run back to my room and take the suitcase. We walk out to the car and Carlos looks at the time on his watch.
"We're 5 minutes short." He says.
"Then I'm gonna drive." I say and he looks confused at me. "Look, I don't get it. You're a formula one driver but on the road you drive like a vanilla turtle." I say.
"I do not drive like a vanilla turtle." He says.
"Yes you do. Now give me the keys." He throws me his keys and we get in. I drive to the airport and we make it just in time. We're running through the airport with our suitcases behind us. We get through the necessary check points and we arrive at Charles, Arthur and Charlotte who are sitting at the gate waiting for us. We sit down and Charles laughs.
"She slept in again?" He asks and Carlos and I look at each other.
"Pfff what makes you think that?" I say.
"Because you're not wearing your glasses." Charlotte says.
"Shoot! I knew I forgot something. Ah well, I don't wear em anyway." I say as I look at Carlos and they burst out into laughter.
"Last boarding call for flight 36a." We hear through the speakers.
"Come on people. We don't wanna be late." I say as a joke and we get on the plane. I sit next to Arthur and Carlos with Charlotte and Charles right behind us. The flight doesn't take that long as we are just flying to Italy. Charlotte, Charles and Arthur were in Spain due to a sponsor event. I open my eyes as Arthur wakes me up. We already landed and everyone is getting off the plane. So do we and we get our cab to drive to the hotel. Carlos and I get two rooms next to each other with a door that leads to each other's room. Arthur's room is next to mine and Charles' and Charlotte's room is right in front of Carlos' room. We unpack our suitcases and we decide to get something to drink in the lobby. I suddenly see someone walking towards us and I immediately roll my eyes.
"Goodmorning guys. Olive tree." He says.
"It's just Olive, Lando. It's not that hard. When will you finally get that?" I ask.
"When you stop looking like a tree." He says sarcastically and I sigh."
"I give up. If somebody is looking for me I'm in the arcade." I say. I get up and leave but then Lando protests.
"Always running away from your problems."
"I'm not running from my problems. I just saved you from being beaten up." I say and I walk away.
Lando is Carlos' best friend but we don't get along. He always finds a way to get the blood out from under my nails again and the best reaction is to not react. But with him...You cannot not react, with him. It's like he knows how to torture you with it and I hate it.
I cut off my thoughts and focus on the game. I'm on the simulator driving a formula one race when I suddenly hear someone cheering for me.
"You're doing great, Liv! Come on! Pass me!" He says and I laugh. I know it's Charles. He has always been my best friend and I really get along with Charlotte. I'm also his assistant, photographer, media manager and stylist. So we spend most of our days together. I passed Charles on the simulator and I win the game. I jump up and jump into Charles' arms. He twirls me around and we laugh.
"See you're way too good to be my assistant. You really need to go get a career into formula one." He says as he puts me down.
"Nah, you would miss me too much." I say and he laughs.
"True." Charlotte comes walking our way and I immediately get more excited.
"I past Charles on the simulator."
"Again? You should think about getting into karting or something." Charlotte and I start talking and Charles just walks behind us for a while. We play some games in the arcade until we're playing with the laser guns.
"We should go get ready right?" Charlotte asks.
"Yeah, we only have one hour left and I'm not going to get ready." Charles says as he is mocking me and Charlotte. Charlotte and I look at each other and we point our laser guns at Charles and we 'shoot' him. He fakes a death scene and we burst out into laughter.