Solo en Mis Ojos (Carlando & Lestappen)

Chapter 6

Charles wakes up finding that it is 6pm. He groans and gets out of bed immediately getting out of it to rinse off in the shower. Once drying off he goes to his closet gets a yellow and blue polo rugby shirt and a pair of ripped bag jeans.

'I should make something to go with the wine.'

He looks in the cabinets once he comes to the kitchen downstairs. He sees he has the ingredients to make Tourte de Blettes and some Barbajuan. He hopes max will enjoy trying some Mongasque food as neutralizer for the wine.

He puts the Tourte in the oven and then breads the swiss chard for the Barbajuan then proceeds to fry the pieces in a pan.

He goes to his living room to turn on television. Charles picks up his phone and bluetooth's it to the t.v. and puts on some classical music on low sound.

His timer goes off for his Tourte and it is perfect timing because the Barbajuan is also done. Because he has a younger brother he of course takes a picture of the food and sends it to Arthur just to taunt him.

Arthur texts back saying, "Fuck you! and I want leftovers and if there isn't any then you are making more and giving those to me. But why did you make those?"

Charles explains that Max and him are hanging out and having wine together.

Arthur: You say only wine hahahaaha bullshit!

Charles ignores his brothers text and start plating the food knowing that since the time reads 7:45pm and Max is very punctual which means he will probably be here soon.

*knock**Knock*

'Speak of the devil' Charles thinks as he heads to the door.

He opens the door seeing Max nicely dressed in a different button up then before but he looks like he put in work before he came over.

Max hands Charles a bakery box. Taking Charles by surprise because he didn't tell max to bring anything.

"Thank you! Come in! Please take your shoes off at the door." Charles says heading towards the kitchen to open the package.

Max comes and sits at the dining table that is next to the kitchen.

"Hey max! How did you know I like Fraise Millefeuille?" Charles says surprised from the kitchen.

"I asked for recommendations at the bakery and I thought it looked good and they told me it was a traditional Mongasque dessert. So I thought why not?" Max says surprised but internally happy he impressed Charles unintentionally.

Charles comes and puts the two things he made one the table put the open bakery box on the table and then went back to bring two wine glasses to pour the gifted Moët in.
Charles comes back with the wine and the glasses. He is about to open the bottle when he feels a hand grab his to stop him.

"You are doing too much. I gave you the wine I should pour you a glass especially with it being a "thank you" gift." Max says from behind Charles who is stunned at the current position the fact that his rival/friend/crush is standing behind practically back-hugging in an unintentional way.

"But you are my guest. I am supposed to treat you." Charles says trying to catch his breath and steady his heart but he doesn't want to move out of this position just yet.

"Charlie I said give me the bottle so I can pour you a glass. Now go sit down." Max says making his voice go an octave deeper. Which to Charles was sexy but of course he wouldn't say it out loud.

Max grabs the bottle once Charles grip loosens. Max grabs the corkscrew and pops the cork. He then goes to Charles side of the table and pours him a glass then goes back and pours himself a glass as well. Max places the bottle in the middle of the table.

Max goes and sits back in his seat which is across from Charles who still has a red hue on his cheeks that he knows Max can see but he is too embarrassed to hide it.

Max giggles a little bit trying to hold in his laugh for how cute Charles looks right now.

"So what are the 2 dishes you made Charles? They look delicious!" Max has eaten all day so as soon as he seen the food he knew it would taste good especially with it being made by Charles.

"The one in the white terracotta pan is Tourte de Blettes and the squares are called Barbajuan. I hope you like it they are mongasque dishes and I didn't think you had tried them yet before so I thought I would share some of my culture with you." Charles says trying to get over his shyness by clearing his throat.

"Oh you are right about your assumption, I have never tried Mongasque food yet." Max says taking the spatula to cut the Tourte then putting both a piece of the Tourte and a few pieces of Barbajuan.

Max tries both of them while Charles slowly eats his listening to the little sounds of enjoyment max is making.

"Charles this is sooo good I think I need you to cook for me everyday." Max says it meaninglessly but to Charles it meant something. Charles heart warms hearing that.

"I am glad you like it eat as much as you want; Arthur might kill me for saying that." Charles laughs and max joins him.

"I think I can win a fight against Arthur." Max says sarcastically before shoveling more food in his mouth.

They together finish all the food mostly max and are now on their second bottle of wine. Both are feeling a little tipsy but max is more than, Charles because he has been drinking faster.

They move to the living room after putting all the plates in the dishwasher of course max helped Charles even though he rejected max's offer to help him.

They sit on the couch just lightly chatting about races, their teams, teammates, bosses, even family.

They are now so comfortable with each others company neither wants the other one to leave.

Charles looks at the clock to see it is now 2:30am.

"Max did you drive here?" Charles asks the guy who has been smiling at him for the past hour.

"Yes but I think I will just walk home." Max says realizing the time as well. But both are sad and they are both trying to think of asking the other one if he could stay.

"Max I think you should stay here tonight." Charles says first before max can even form the question in his head.