Love again? |Charles Leclerc|

Chapter 16.

MIA POV

Like I said... crazy couple of months.
The first thing that's changed for me is work. I quit my corporate job and decided to go my own way. I have degrees in finance, management and business so I joined Ally for her startup and we're launching big things.
She has her own company that focuses on hosting events. And so I'm there for her on the financial side to make everything work the way it should. Together, we make the perfect business partners.
Ally and I have started working with the Grand Prix organizers and we do some events for them occasionally. That means we're on the road with them quite a lot. It's so liberating...I'm really living life to the fullest now.

Things have calmed down a lot between me and Charles. We've eventually become kind of friends, I don't know... we spend a lot of time together now. Both on and off the track. It's nice to spend time with him again. Sometimes I catch myself thinking about him a little more than I should. But I quickly try to push those thoughts away because he still has a girlfriend and I try to respect that.
Although the relationship between him and Madie seems more and more off these days. I can't ask him about it because he always shuts down and changes the subject. I feel like all the time I've been around them I've never seen them together, like together as a couple. I've never seen Charles kiss Madie when no one was around... It all seems so fake to me.
Their instagram is full of love stories and posts. The media loves them...can't they tell Charles is miserable? I don't understand why....Why would they do that? What does one have against the other? I have to figure it out.... Madie and I aren't really friends... even though I tried, it was no use.
As much as Charles doesn't like me spending time with Max, that's exactly how I feel when I see him with Madie. The two of them just don't work. He can say what he wants, but I can see how unhappy he is.

I started working with Max on his project. Cha's not happy about it, but when Max approached me, I couldn't say no. Charles is just overprotective and thinks Max is doing this to get close to me.
And what if... Max and I are friends just like me and Charles right now. We have a history that Charles doesn't know about and doesn't need to know.
Max started his own charity for little racers who can't afford this whole process as far as racing goes and it's been great. We've been working on it for 2 months so far, but we've already had great feedback.

Everyone in the paddock is nice and helpful, Ally and I fit in very well with everyone.
We quickly made friends with the other drivers and always enjoy our weekends together.

The only one I really have nothing to say to right now is Lando. And it's really hurting me. I cared about him more than anyone else in the world. But it wasn't enough, he just walked away from me like it was the easiest thing in the world to do. 
I've tried, god, I've tried so hard to talk to him. But it was like talking to a wall, so we pretend we don't even know each other. He started it.

If it was up to me, we could have worked it out, we could have talked it through, but he cut himself off from me. I tried to reach him through Carlos, but it was pointless, no one understands him really.
We're both feeling hurt. I feel like he's become a completely different person in the last few months. He's acting a lot different. Every weekend in the paddock he ends up with a different girl. That's not him, he's never been that guy.

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Now we have a very busy weekend ahead of us, the last race in Europe is Monza.
Ally and I have to organize a welcome event for all the main sponsors and we also have to put together some meet ups with Ferrari fans which we are really looking forward to. It's my first race at Monza and I have to say I'm mega excited. The atmosphere here is unbelievable, it's indescribable.
Ferrari and its fans are the heart of the whole weekend.

Ally and I flew into Italy on Monday and we're trying to get everything together. We've been working with the Ferrari team this whole week and trying to create unforgettable memories for them.
We're meeting with Carlos and Charles today in the paddock to put together some sort of event for them to be close to some of the fans and spend time with them.