STAY THE NIGHT || Charles Leclerc

FIVE

Wednesday, 5 January 2022
Charles' pov:

I fell asleep way past midnight, having tried to comfort Olly, who's tears just wouldn't stop falling. Eventually, I must've fallen asleep too, waking up in the morning as Olly rolled over to face me. I noticed that the bedroom curtains had been left open, and the large windows were covered in droplets of rain.

"Morning Olly" I muttered, focusing my attention on her again "How are you feeling?"

"Like shit" she replied. A tear ran down her face, and she was quick to brush it away with her thumb "My head hurts so bad"

"I'll go get you some paracetamol, stay here okay?" I said as I crawled out of her bed and headed towards the bathroom, where I knew Olly kept all of her medicines. It didn't take me long to find the box of paracetamol in the cupboard under the bathroom sink. I grabbed a glass of water from beside the sink and filled it with water before returning to the bedroom.

"Here you go, take these." I said to Olly as I handed her the tablets and water "I'm going to make some breakfast, would you like some?"

She nodded, "Thank you"

"Don't worry about it Ol, why don't you go and wash while I get it ready?"

She nodded again, swinging her legs out of the bed and slowly standing up. I gently laid my hand on her shoulder and she looked up at me, her small stature exaggerated by the small gap between us "It won't take long, okay? Just get ready and I'll be in the kitchen when you're ready"

Olly gave me a small smile before heading into the bathroom and locking the door behind her.

I spent a few moments making the bed before heading to the kitchen to make breakfast. I'd spent a lot of time at Olly's apartment over the last year, so I knew where she stored most of the things in her kitchen. It didn't take me long to find what I was looking for, and I began to prepare some fruit and yogurt with muesli. I spooned some yogurt into two bowls and added the muesli before considering what fruit I was going to add. There were apples, blueberries, bananas, grapes, strawberries...

"Hey" came Olly's voice from behind me

"Hey Ol" I said as I turned around to face her "Breakfast is almost ready, I was just seeing what fruit you had"

"Uh there's definitely some strawberries and grapes in there, maybe a few blueberries too, I can't remember if I ate them all... Oh and there should be a few apples in the fruit bowl too"

"Okay, great. I'll do the strawberries and apples then, is that okay with you?"

Olly nodded in agreement and I turned back to the worktop where I grabbed the strawberries and apples out of the fridge. I quickly cut both fruits up and put them into the bowls before sliding a bowl across the table to Olly.

"Here you go"

"Thank you"

We ate breakfast mostly in silence, me distracted by my phone whilst Olly looked out of the apartment window over the Monaco harbor, seemingly lost in her own thoughts. I looked at my training schedule that Andrea had sent me at the beginning of the week. Wednesday... oh shit. I thought to myself. I was meant to be going for a run with him in twenty minutes. I hurriedly opened my messages and began typing a message to him

CHARLES
Hi Andrea. There's some stuff going on with Olly, so I can't make training today. I'll explain next time I see you. Sorry for canceling so late, I'll do a workout here to make up for it.

Andrea
Adding an extra 30 minutes for next
session ;) tell Olly I said hi

"Do you have training today?" asked Olly, looking up at me from across the table

"Mmm..." I mumbled as he swallowed a mouthful of yogurt "Not today, I was meant to go for a run with Andrea later today but I canceled"

"Charles! Your training is important, especially with a new season coming up. You shouldn't have canceled it"

"Today wasn't that important Olly, trust me. Besides, I didn't want to leave you on your own yet"

"As long as today wasn't too important Charles, I don't want you missing your training for me"

"It wasn't" I reassured her "What did you want to do today?"

"Honestly? I want to lay on the sofa and binge watch Gogglebox all day. Realistically, I need to go shopping. I'm running pretty short on groceries"

"Okay" I said, considering the options Olly had given me "How about we watch TV this morning, then maybe we can go out and do the shopping later?"

Olly nodded, clearly happy with the plan that I had decided for the day. I agreed to wash the stuff up from breakfast, and Olly thanked me before heading into the living room to turn on the TV.

*

"I don't understand how you like this show so much. It doesn't make any sense"

We were both sitting on the sofa, watching the third episode of Gogglebox for the day. Olly clearly didn't feel like talking much, as most of the morning had been spent in silence. I understood, and had joined her in watching Gogglebox, a show that I honestly didn't understand the point of.

"It's a great show" she replied, sipping the warm cup of coffee I had made for her a short while earlier "I can watch multiple shows at the same time, and I get to find out about new ones I haven't heard of yet"

"But why not just watch the shows? I don't understand how you enjoy watching people watch tv, Olly. You British people just don't make any sense to me"

"As a Brit, I normally wouldn't allow that. However, I'm tired and I'm not going to argue with you"

"Sorry" I mumbled

"It's okay" she reassured me "You French people are weird too"

"I'M NOT FRENCH!" I was quick to correct her "I'm monegasque, it's totally different"

"Mmmm, same thing" she teased, laughing as I folded his arms across my body in a huff

"I hate you Ol"

"Awh, don't worry Charlie, I love you too"

A/N: Suzuka weekend !!! I'm so glad it's finally back, it's literally one of my favorite circuits. Let me know what your favorite circuit is in the comments!

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