broken promises | OP/CL

broken

It's been 5 months since you left. You actually really liked Melbourne so far, the people here were really nice, you made some good friends already, you enjoyed your classes and your apartment was a dream. You would call with Arthur every day. The only thing bothering you was Charles. The first few weeks you would call everyday as well, but then it turned into once a week and then once every other week. The calls would only be very short once as well since he said he was too busy. Which you knew he was, but you were still sad about him, he wouldn't really text you as well, always keep it short and only answer what you asked. There were no real conversations happening and you felt like he didn't care about you anymore.

Not wanting to give up on him you called him since your last call has been three weeks ago. To your surprise he answered almost immediately. "Hey y/n, sorry I don't really have time to talk to you right now.. I'll call you whenever I got the time for it okay?" You wanted to answer but, in the background, you could hear another girl's voice "Char mon cherrie are you ready for our date?" You didn't know how to react and before you could do anything Charles spoke "sorry I got to go, bye" he hung up the phone and you sat there for a while, not knowing how to react to any of that. You thought you might have misheard or just didn't recognize his mothers voice, even though you were pretty sure it wasn't his mother, you didn't want to think to much about that so decided to just ignore it.

A few days later you were missing home more than ever but Charles and Arthur both were at a race so you knew they were too busy to talk to you. You were lying in your bed scrolling on Twitter when you a picture came up on your timeline. It was Charles laughing, next to him a really pretty girl you didn't know. He was looking at her and she was looking up to him having her hands around his arm, standing very close. You kept starring at that picture for a while, still trying to think 'oh she is just a friend.' You noticed the caption where it said: 'Charles Leclerc with his Girlfriend Charlotte Sine!!' You could feel how tears rolled down your face. You grabbed your phone and called him, and just like you expected he wasn't answering. You decided to call Arthur instead but he as well didn't answer. You looked at the picture again and more and more tears kept falling. He looked so happy in this picture, she seemed to really make him happy. You weren't sure if he ever was that happy with you. You put your phone aside and cried yourself to sleep.

The next day you woke up with a missed call from Arthur, but nothing from Charles. Tears formed in your eyes again. You decided to open Instagram and saw Charles posted a story. You were scared what you would see but still opened the story. It was a repost of Charlottes story with a picture of them sitting next to each other, she was hugging him and his hand was touching her legs, he was tagged with a red heart and he put a red heart on his repost as well. You tried calling him again, still no answer so you texted him.

y/n: you shouldn't make promises if you're not even trying to keep them

the next two weeks you didn't do anything, you didn't go to your classes, didn't eat, didn't shower, didn't check your phone, all you did was lay in bed and cry, you didn't even sleep. Arthur tried to call you multiple times every day and send you a lot of texts. Your Australian friends also tried to reach you. The only one that didn't reach out to you at all was Charles. You decided to get up and checked your phone. It had died, so you plugged it into the charger and went to take a shower. After the shower and with fresh clothes you felt a little better and took your phone and went into your living room. You now checked your phone. You quickly texted your Australian friends that you were feeling sick and broke your phone, you didn't feel like telling them what really happened. After you hit send your phone rang. It was Arthur. You answered and said a soft "hey" tears started to form in your eyes again. "Thank God, y/n. I was worried sick! Are you alright? What a question I know you aren't.. where have you been?" you wiped away the tears and with a shaky voice you respond "sorry Arthur. I- I didn't mean to worry you, did you know? About Charles and.." You couldn't bring yourself to say her name "No I didn't. I found out during our last race two weeks ago. I'm sorry y/n. I didn't even know the two of you had broken up." You couldn't stop the tears now and sobbed. "That's because we didn't. He- He promised me he would wait for me to come back. He didn't even brake up with me. I never want to come back."

You talked to Arthur for an hour but than he had to go. You decided to not keep staying in bed anymore and meet up with your Australian friends. You met Jayla, y/f/n1 and y/f/n2 in one of your class and you guys instantly clicked. They have planned to go to a beach party, so you decided to join them.

You got dressed for the party in a black bikini and a white beach dress and you put your hair in two braids. You met up with your friends and walked over to the beach together. You could already see a large group of people with loud music. You came closer and your friend Jayla started waving at someone. A guy started smiling and waved back. "That's my neighbour, Oscar. I didn't expect him to be here. You guys will like him!" We walked straight in his direction and Jayla hugged him. "Oscar! Meet my friends! Those are y/f/n1, y/f/n2 and y/n." Oscar looked at you and smiled a little "Hi I am Oscar." Other people who knew Jayla came over and you met a lot of different people. You were given some alcohol and started drinking. Everyone was having, dancing, laughing and playing some drinking games, as it got later you decided to go a little closer to the water, away form the people. You sat down in the sand and starred at the water. You kept thinking about Charles and tears were quietly rolling down your face again. You didn't notice Oscar who came over with a box of pizza. "y/n, right? Mind if I join you?" You wiped away your tears and looked up to him. He softly smiled and you nodded. "Yeah sure." Oscar sad down next to you and opened the pizza box. "You want a piece? It's the last one. I noticed you didn't get some so I saved it for you." You looked down at the Pizza and then looked up to him. "Oh, thank you very much. I'm actually not that hungry." You said quietly and forced a smile on to your lips. "Well, I noticed you've been drinking quiet a lot so I think you should still eat something. But I won't force you. I'll just put the box here behind us for now." He did what he said and then looked at you again "I know you don't know me but I couldn't help but notice that you weren't really enjoying yourself here and well I think you cried? Sorry if I am over stepping, I just wanted to know if you're okay or need anything. I'm a good listener." He looked at you caringly and smiled a little. "That's nice of you. I'm feeling pretty off today but I don't really feel ready to talk to anyone about that actually." Oscars words actually made you feel a little better, but also a little sadder, how can someone you don't really know care so much about you and someone you have know and loved your whole live care so little? "Oh, I understand." He started to get up "Well if you need anything else you can just talk to me, I'll leave you be then?" You took his hand and stopped him form completely getting up "actually, do you mind just sitting me for a while?" he smiled and sat back down. "Absolutely, I will. Oh hey, do you want to hear a hilarious story about Jayla?"

And so, you sat there, talking for a while until you went back to the others. Not long after that most people started leaving so you and your friends left as well. While starting to go you looked back and saw Oscar. He looked up at you and you smiled at each other.