SECOND CHANCE

TEN

Augusto Fernández's  POV

After last night's nightmare, I was really afraid to fall asleep alone in the evening, that's why I asked Gianni to stay with me for the night. I was surprised that she had no problem with it at all and was willing to stay with me all night.

When I woke up in the morning, my head was slightly raised by Gianni's breathing. I was still laying on her chest and my arms were wrapped around her waist. If someone saw us like this, they would have to think that we are a couple, but unfortunately that is not the case, although that would be the only thing I would wish for at this moment. I carefully took the phone in my hand so as not to wake Gianni, because she was still sleeping peacefully. I looked at what's new on Instagram, because after yesterday's race there will be an awful lot again. I added a few photos from yesterday's race and put the phone away again.

I waited for about 20 minutes and after 20 minutes I heard Gianni's voice.

"Good morning" her hand found a place on my back and I raised my head to meet her eyes

"Good morning" I smiled at her and she smiled back at me

"Did you sleep well?" she started caressing my back with her hand and I actually came as if I was lying on my girlfriend's chest

"I slept well, what about you, did you mind?" I asked a little nervously, because I didn't know how she felt about this

"I didn't mind, I'm glad you got some sleep, I know what it's like to have nightmares and then not being able to sleep" she smiled but I could see in her that this topic wasn't quite right

"Thank you for staying here" I got up and sat on the bed, Gianni was still laying and crunching her back

"You're welcome, it was a little thing" Gianni then looked at her phone because she had a message beeping, she just wrote it back and then looked back at me

"What time do you fly back home today?" the question came and I was confused for a moment because I didn't know what time I was leaving, but then I finally remembered

"I'm leaving at three, what time are you leaving?" Gianni checked something on her phone

"We leave at 11:00" I looked at the clock, it was 8:30 in the morning so there was plenty of time but I knew Gianni would leave at any minute

Another message came to her and she sat down on the bed and stretched some more. Then she read the message and finally looked at me.

"Sorry, I'll have to go, Luca is looking for me" she smiled

"Sure I understand" she hugged me and I hugged her back tightly I knew this girl was the only one I needed

"See you" with these words she left my motorhome and I laid back down on the bed.

The thoughts in my head were running like a race and I tried to slow them down and dwell on them a bit, but it didn't help at all. When I picked up my mobile phone, I went through all the posts from yesterday's race, there were again an awful lot of them. I spent a long time on the phone and the time for departure started to decrease, Gianni had already left and I was just waiting for my plane. After all the things I did today, I was tired, so I slept peacefully on the plane with my teammate.