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August 12th 2024

"Evelyn it's nice to see you all in one piece, how are you doing?" Matthew asked as I walked into the gym, holding his arms out to embrace me in greeting.

"Oh just dandy." I sarcastically spoke hugging him also, before putting my bag down on the floor.

"Don't worry we won't go too crazy on you today, don't want to risk anything else, Charles not coming today?" He asked as we sat on the floor ready to warm up.

I shrugged "I wouldn't know."

"Well did he come with you or no?" He asked, "I mean it isn't rocket science you do live together."

I raised a brow and chuckled, his gaze deepened "Oh man, what's the situation?" He asked as he knew my demeanour wasn't good.

I shrugged, "That's a question I ask myself also, I haven't seen him since the crash."

The door opened behind me, Charles walking in with headphones on playing his music loudly as he often did, "Nice to see you Charles." Matt greeted as Charles sat down with us without saying a word.

"Yeah it is nice to actually see you Charles, quite a change actually." I turned to tell him but he blatantly ignored me and started stretching, keeping his airpods in as he was clearly not in the mood to talk.

"What the hell?" I mouthed to Matthew but he just shrugged and told us to start the workout, I had to avoid doing too much vigorous activity so chatted to Matt the whole time.

"So what injuries did you sustain? What am I working with here?" Matthew asked me, he didn't visit at the hospital but he sent me a card, better than my actual boyfriend.

I rambled as I walked slowly on the treadmill "I had a stage four concussion which is still relatively apparent, I reopened a wound in my head hence why there was so much blood so I had a few blood transfusions. I shattered two bones in my wrist so I have metal plates in my arm now and I'm going back because they think they might have missed a broken rib."

Charles muttered besides me "Fuck."

I didn't even know he was listening.

"Yeah so I appreciated the card Matthew, thanks, it meant a lot. Some people just simply didn't bother." I spoke spitting venom, aiming at charles but he continued to run besides me.

He quizzed "You think you'll be ready to go for Italy? You definitely can't do the Dutch Grand Prix."

I nodded "I'm working towards it for sure, it's just a lot at the moment."

As we continued to talk as we moved on to the cardio Charles grabbed his phone and got up, "Oh shit I have to go." He stated and ran out quickly, raising the brows of both Matt and I.

Matthew rolled his eyes "Oh alright then-

He shut the door behind him saying "Bye Matt, bye Evelyn."

He always called me Evs.

The way he says my name is so lovely and so torturous.

"Am I that concussed or did he barely utter two words?" I asked Matthew to confirm.

"What the fuck happened between you two?" He wondered as he passed me an icy cold water of which I drank willingly.

I explained "He didn't visit me in the hospital at all, and I got out and stayed with my dad for like literally two days and I decided to head home to the apartment and I got there and all of the furniture was gone, all of his things were nowhere to be seen and he'd moved out."

"Fuck." Matthew stated.

I let out a breathe "I know, he hasn't responded to any of my texts or calls or anything I mean it's august and I crashed in fucking June."

"He posted you on your birthday?" Matthew figured trying to put the pieces together.

I shrugged "Do you think he's using me as a publicity stunt? I honestly am so confused, and he won't even speak to me about it."

"No he really loves you Ev."

"Loved maybe, but I'm not so sure anymore." I countered thinking about the entirety of our relationship.

"I don't know if you've watched the crash back or the unveiling when they took of your helmet but the whole fucking track was silent, you could just hear Charles and he was distraught. You can't fake that Evelyn."

I shrugged "I don't know."

Matthew shook his head "No, I know that man loves you and whatever the hell he's doing know he must be doing it for a reason because trust me when I say he looks at you like you're a fucking Angel, even today he didn't say anything but the way he looks at you says a million words."

"I'm so sorry I'm using this as a therapy session, tomorrow I'll be more focused." I chuckled standing up to put my drink away, "You know what, you start training again in a few weeks you need to rest up." He told me.

I wondered "Are you sure?"

He nodded "Yeah, I'll try and get information out of Charles for you and you can come back to train in a few weeks, when you're clear too."

"Thank you." I thanked him as I began to leave, hopping into my old but new Mercedes to drive home, past all of the fancy places Monaco had to offer.

I even drove the long way home just to pass by Charles' apartment, my apartment, our old apartment that held so many beautiful memories, all gone to shit as the flashbacks flood my mind, body and soul.

The time I'd spent with him, perfection and deception wrapped into one, "Fuck." I mumbled as I drove back to my family as I struggled to come to terms with the reality of who he truly was.

"Evy come and play!" Jack squealed as he ran up to the car and tapped on the windows, something I'd only allow him to do, "Yeah one second okay?"

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Mercedes: love this photo.

username29: so glad to see her looking well, the crash was horrendous!

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