Solo en Mis Ojos (Carlando & Lestappen)

Chapter 4

Max wakes up, needing to get ready to do a press conference that he really doesn't want to do. But at least he will see Charles. He is excited to have an offset to checo.

He showers and gets dressed up with a nice light blue button up and some nice jeans. He grabs his keys then remembers that his car is not near his house, it's at the restaurant. Max is grateful that Charles drove him. 'I will have to thank him today.' He thinks.

Max calls a driver to take him to his car. Once he gets to his car he gets out and pulls out of the spot and leaves. He looks at the time to see he still has an hour and half left before he has to arrive at the studio.

He stops at a Carrefour to buy a bottle of wine. He remembers that last night Charles drank most white wine. While looking over the selection he finds a bottle of Moët. He grabs it then heads to the register. He can feel eyes on him as he buys it even the cashier is staring at him.

"Can you wrap it please? It is a gift for a friend." Max asks being ignorant to all the stares just trying to get his gift wrapped.

The cashier wraps it as max puts his card in the machine. He grabs it after it is handed to him and heads to the studio.

Once Max arrives, his PR manager comes and takes him to a dressing room. The stylist sits him down and fixes his hair.

After he is styled the way the manager wants him he is being walked a long hallway. As he is being lead down it he sees a door that says Charles Leclerc.

"Hang on! I need to give Charles something. I will make it to the stage in a minute." He escapes his entourage and knocks on Charles door.

Charles opens it and his eyes widen in surprise not expecting Max to be on the other side of it.

"Hey. I know you weren't expecting me but I want to thank you for helping me out yesterday. So here; please take this!" Max says holding up the wrapped bottle of wine.

Charles takes it, feeling amazed with the gift.

"It was really nothing. I was just helping a friend out because you mean a lot to me." Charles says sounding sincere.

"Well, thank you once again. I will see you on the stage." Max says walking away to avoid the awkwardness even if he really want to go into Charles room and just be alone with him for a little bit.

Heads to the stage to see checo is already sitting at the table. Max sits down next to his teammate. A few minutes later, Charles comes and they all look out to the audience that is full of interviewers.

'God, this better be short' all of them were thinking.

Meanwhile...

Lando woke up just being as joyful as he usually is in the morning. He drinks a cup of breakfast tea and looks outside to see a beautiful blue sky looking over the docks.

'I think going jogging outside would be amazing.'

Lando finishes his tea and goes upstairs to change into some exercise clothes.

He leaves his house and puts his airpods in; puts his playlist on and starts jogging towards the docks. He lets the nice morning breeze wake him, as he strides past the crowds. He eventually stops to take a picture.

"Lando?" He hears as his music stops once he swipes onto his camera. He turns around to see who called his name. He sees Carlos also in exercise attire.

"Buenos dias, Carlos." Lando says using the limited Spanish he knows.

"Buenos dias, Cariño." Carlos says acknowledging Lando trying to speak his native language.

"Are you also going for a jog on this beautiful morning?" Lando says just happy to see his friend.

"Sí, yo estoy dando un paseo. Porque el día esta muy bonito. ( yes, I am taking a walk. Because the day is very beautiful.)" Carlos says seeing Lando looking back clueless but still smiling.

"I only understood some words. I am sorry! I will learn more before I go to Spain with you in the summer." Lando says apologetically.

Carlos laughs as Lando blushes.

"Don't worry about it. I will help you through it. I will quiz you daily." Carlos says smirking which makes Lando hit him lightly on the shoulder. 

"Are you enjoying this beautiful day as well?" Carlos asks.

"Yeah I thought I should enjoy the sunshine." Lando says looking up at the sky to see a few clouds.

There was a silence, both enjoying each others company because usually they don't run into each other in Monaco, without an F1 event happening. 

"Would you possible like to finish your walk together?" Lando asks hoping to catch up more than what they did last night at dinner.

"Yeah, honestly I think that I need more human interaction." Carlos lightly laughs.

Lando takes his airpods out and puts them back in their case. 

"First lets take a selfie together then we can carry on." Lando demands and Carlos would hate himself it he rejected the offer.

The both stand in front of the seawall posing with peace signs on the their fingers. Lando approves the photo and then saves it on Instagram.

They walk side by side. Just talking about meaningless things. Little did they know that both of their hearts are beating to the same drum. One knows the reason his heart is beating like that the other one is completely naïve to it.

On the other side of town...

Logan, Oscar, Arthur and a few of the other prema boys are all hanging out playing basketball and futbol with each other.

"We should all go clubbing tonight!" Arthur says to which all of the Gen z boys agree with. 

"Are you inviting your brother?" Logan asks Arthur.

"No, I think he will be tired after what his Pr manager was having him do." Arthur says feeling sympathy for his brother. 

"So do you think that he and Max have feelings for each other?" Oscar says smirking which makes them all smirk.

The caught Logan up earlier once they got to the pitch.

"Denial is a river in Egypt... That's all I am saying." Logan says 

They hear a  whistle and they then know they have to go back to their game.