Always By Your Side

childhood

"she beat me again maman it's not fair" charles cried to his mom

"well at least i'm not a sore loser, look jules i got a medal" i said turning to my brother

"coccinelle apologies to charles" jules said to me

"im sorry charles you are still my best friend" i said to charles giving him a hug

"can we go to your house and play" he asked

"only if arthur doesn't come he isn't funny anymore" i said

"ok that's fine" he said holding my hand as we ran towards my mothers car

"charles"

"yes lynn"

"promise we will be best friends even when we race against each other in Formula one"

"i promise celine"

Charles and i started karting at 3 years old and now at the age of 9 we had both been carting for a while i had a few more titles than charles but that didn't matter to our friendship we kept on being friends and racing never affected that.

charles would come to my house every day and i would go to his as well our families were very close my older brother jules was charles godfather and charles older brother lorenzo was my godfather our parents had jules and lorenzo at similar times the two only being a few month apart and the same for charles and i only he was 5 days older than me charles mother had arthur after charles but my parents were happy with the two of us jules and i were extremely close charles and i would go to some of his f3 races when they were close to home and jules would come to most of our karting cups growing up.

when i was ten my father fell ill and i didn't really understand what it meant but i remember that jules stopped racing for a while and he was always home i was at charles house a lot and one day i remember we were eating lunch at his house and we were fighting with arthur when my mother came in crying and jules was sad as well charles mother pascale hugged my mom and when i asked what happened lorenzo and jules took me charles and arthur to charles room to play.

"jules did daddy die" i asked

"um yes coccinelle he was very sick but he is peaceful now" he said as tears dripped down his eyes and i broke down crying

"lynn its ok we can go see him at the funeral and visit his grave all the time i promise" charles said as he hugged me

"jules is maman alright" i asked

"she will be fine and so will we" jules said hugging me and i hugged him back

charles would unfortunately come to understand my pain when his father died in 2017 but charles and i made it through thick and thin nothing ever broke our friendship