I can't .

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POV y/n:

Carlos has invited me to join Charles and his new girlfriend for dinner tonight. I stand in front of my pulling the clothes trying to avoid arriving in something black again, I find a red dress and immediately decide that this is what I want to wear tonight, I grab me black heels from the closet and get ready for the evening. After I put on my lipstick I hear someone knocking on my door I open it and see Carlos, he looks so handsome I can't help but stare at him for a moment. "Mi amor you stare." He says with a smile. "You look so handsome." I say as I run my eyes over his body, I can see all of his muscles but he still he looks like a prince, I gasp. "Mija come we need to go!" I grab his hand and follow him to his car.

When we get out of the car, Charles is waiting for us. "Hello mate." He greets me and Carlos with a hug and we walk behind him into the restaurant. I see a girl sitting at a table, she stands up as we approach. "This is Alexandra my new friend." Introduces Charles to her, I shake hands and smile at her, she looks friendly but a little shy.

POV Carlos:

Charles' new girlfriend is quite nice, it seems she gets along well with y/n. I turn my attention to Charles as the ladies talk to each other. "How long have you two been together?" I ask him. "Pfff let me think, I think 2 or 3 months." "You managed to keep it a good secret." I say with a smile. "At least better than you have." Says he teasingly. "Come on don't be like that." We joke with each other and we laugh. "But how serious are you guys now?" "We're finally in a relationship now, no more drama I hope." "Well congratulations mate. Just wait until the news comes out you'll soon have angry fans." we laugh about it but we also know it will. I love my fans but some can really overdo it. "We should go boating with the four of us one day. I nod that seems like a fun idea.

I run to my dressing room, I'm late again today and I don't think I'll get away unseen this time. When I am almost done changing there is a knock on the door. I open the door and see Vasseur standing there. "I think we need to have a talk before you get in the car Carlos." From the look in his eyes this can't be good news. "Yeah sure what do you want to talk about?" I ask while I already know what he is going to start talking about. "Look I'm not going to interfere with your private life that's none of my business, I don't care with who you are or where you are, but you do have obligations and you are running in to work too late or just on time more and more often." I nod knowing he is right. "I'll give you another warning now, but if you come in late tomorrow I'll let Giovinazzi drive, you got that?" "Yes I understand." I walk after him into the pit box and quickly exchange a glance with Charles who looks at me questioningly. "We'll talk later." I let my mouth make the words without saying anything and he nods that he understood me. Quickly I put on my helmet and get into my car.

My practice is not going as I had hoped and so I am slightly annoyed when I get out of my car again. "You will really have to try harder Carlos, you are distracted, something we are not used to from you." I try not to roll my eyes when Vasseur is talking to me. "I know, I'll do my best later with qualifying." I want to walk to my dressing room when I suddenly see y/n go in there. I smile, how happy I am to see her for a moment after this morning.

"Mi amor, what are you doing here? You are not supposed to be here at all." I say to her as I open my dressing room door, she laughs. "I know but I had to see you. Your practice didn't go so well did it?" "Please I don't want to talk about it, Vasseur has been nagging me all morning." "Really, why?" "Something about me being too distracted lately and I was late again this morning." She walks up to me and gives me a hug, for a moment I feel all the woes slip away from me. "Thanks, mi amor, that was what I needed." I wrap my arms around her waist and give her a kiss on her cheek.

POV Charles:
I walk through the hospitality looking for Carlos, his lap times were bad this morning and he was late again, I saw him walking out of his dressing room with Vasseur, this can't mean much good. I find Carlos in the cafeteria with a cup of coffee in front of him. "Hello mate." He looks up from his coffee and he looks tired. "Everything okay?" He shrugs. "I was late again this morning." "Yes I had seen that, I saw you walking away with Vasseur? Is everything okay?" Again he shrugs. "I'm just a little tired that's all. And as for Vasseur he has given me a warning that if I am late again tomorrow he will let Giovinazzi drive for me." "I think that's pretty intense. Because it doesn't go well once?" "I don't think it has to do with once. There has been quite a lot of drama here last season that I am also guilty of." "Tell you what, let me take you out on my boat after this weekend, maybe you'll perk up, no people around us for a while, you, me, our girlfriends. How about it?" He grabs his cell phone and opens his calendar. "Yes fine I have nothing to do." "Then we'll agree on that, you ask y/n if she'll go too?" He shakes his head. I app Alex to tell her we are going sailing for a few days.