Picture Perfect || Charles Leclerc

Part Thirteen ✨

The next morning I woke up with no one next to me. The bed looked like no one slept in it, except me ofcourse.

I grabbed my phone from the nightstand and saw I had tons of missed calls from Pierre, Max and Lando. I had a shit ton of messages too.

"Charles is really drunk"

"He can't stand on his own feet anymore"

"I'm gonna take him back to my room"

Okay so, he probably slept over in Pierre's hotel room. I jumped out of my bed and stepped under the shower.

I got changed into my Ferrari merch since it is media day todayyy. I put my hair in a high pony tail and braided it.

I got on my way to the paddock to do some work in my office first. I must have a few unopened e-mails.

I walked to my office and sat down on my chair. I put in my airpods since I liked working with music. I always get a good mood when there's music.

After working for like three hours I made my way to the media pen where I would have an interview with Carlos. Before I could enter I overheard Charles and Pierre talking and heard my name being mentioned, so I decided to listen for a bit.

"So how do you feel about Shannon?" Pierre asked him.

"We're doing fine, we're just friends" Charles reassured him.

"What are you on about? Everyone can see the way you look at her. Don't take adventage of my best friend Charles." Pierre warned him.

"Then you didn't look good enough, we're just friends. She thinks the same way about me."

After that I just ran away back to my office when a couple of tears started to roll down my cheeks. Why would he even say this?

Does saying 'i love you' mean nothing to him? Does kissing each other mean NOTHING to him?

This was what I am afraid of. Feeling this pain again. And yet here I am again. Crying over him. Again.

I locked the door of my office and sat down in my chair. I started to sob quietly so nobody could hear me. I'm so fucked because I have an interview in 10 minutes.

I quickly sprinted to the bathroom and dried my tears. My eyes were still red and puffy from crying, but I guess I just have to deal with that.

I made my way to the media pen where Carlos was already waiting for me. I confidently held my head up to show nothing was the matter.

'Have you been crying?' Why does see everyone right through me come on.

'No, I just had something in my eye' I could see he didn't believe me but he decided to just drop it.

We started the interview and it finished after 15 minutes. I recorded the whole thing and walked back to my office again to work out the data. All the teams had to do some team videos where I was not needed.

I was deeply focused when I didn't notice someone came into my office. The person spoke up and I shot my head up.

'What are you doing here?' I asked him a bit harsh.

'Do I not get a kiss anymore?' He seemed surprised.

'Friends don't kiss each other, do they?' I raised my brows at him and waited for him to answer.

'Who cares? It's fun'

'Fun? That's all I am to you? Am I just a fucking rebound to you or something?' My anger was showing this time.

'I thought you just wanted to have fun!' He said confused.

'When did I ever fucking say that? Me telling you that I love you is not for fun, Charles!'

'I mean it when I say that I love you, I just thought you wanted to be friends after everything that happened'

'Well I'm just 'fun' to you anyway, so maybe it's for the best.' I stood up and left my office.

How could I be this stupid again. Ofcourse he doesn't want to be more than just friends. I continued working when he eventually left my office and after that I went back to my hotel room and took a hot shower.

When I got out of the shower, I saw that Pierre was calling me, so I picked up the phone after a couple of rings.

'Hey princess, how are you' He said to me when the call started.

'Hey I'm fine Pedro, what about you?' He had to laugh at the nickname, cause who wouldn't?

'I'm good! Do you wanna go out to dinner with me tonight?'

'Yeah sure, I can use a little distraction' My voice trailed off but I quickly picked myself up again.

'Okay! I'll pick you up at 6 okay? Wear a nice dress!' Before I could answer him he already ended the call.

It was now only 4PM and I came fresh out of the shower so I had enough time to get ready. I plopped on my bed and put on some gossip girl before getting ready.

I picked a sparkly navy blue dress which came just above my knees. It hugged my waist perfectly. I put on my black shiny heels with it and finished my outfit with silver jewellery.

I put on some light make up and decided to let my hair down today. I curled the ends a bit and I was done.

Pierre picked me up and we went to the restaurant together. We got out of the car and walked to the front of the restaurant. Before we could enter we got interrupted by a phone call.

'Kika is calling me, you can go to our table' He walked away and accepted his phone call. I couldn't even protest before the waiter took me to our table.

When I looked up from my phone I was met with someone already sitting at our table.

AN:

Hey guys sorry for not updating in a while, I didn't have time to write.
ALSO I WENT TO THE WEEKND YESTERDAYYY AAAHHHHHH!!!
I wanna go back already 😭😭

Anyways, this was a short chapter. There will be interesting things in the future of this book 🫠

Hope you enjoy, leave a comment if you want!
Much luvvv 🫶🏻🫶🏻

S.