Neighbours, Friends, Lovers

23. Run

꧁ Charlotte's Pov ꧂

Here I am in a almost empty paddock, not really knowing how I ended up by being alone and feeling lost.

Where is Charles?

I look around searching for his pretty green eyes.
The only thing I can feel now it's the adrenaline from the victory still running through my veins.
I walk through the many hospitality where I can only see engineers rushing to get all the stuff collected to go home earlier possible.

My stomach twist inside, while my chest seems to choke the air inside of my lungs.

Where the hell is he?
How he left me walk around alone?

I take my phone out of my black shoulder bag.
And press on amour❤️  and before I can take it to my ear I see someone that I would never thought to see today... Gaia is walking right through the corner

Her hair is longer, her body in the best shape ever, her makeup flawless like alway.
She walks past me like she can't see me and my chest squeezes from the pain that her non chalance but my attention swift to a voice, a very familiar calling for my name.

"Char! Char!" I hear screaming from far away.
I start looking around like a lost puppy hoping to see Charles pretty face.

"Charles? Babé!?" I scream starting to run toward the direction of the voice.
"Char! Char!" Charles voice status with a  stronger voice but a bit shaky like his heart is beating quickly.
"Char!" He says again and then I see the light.
A preoccupied Charles is looking down at me with his flushed cheeks, glazing sunkissed skin.
He smiles dryly at me stroking his fingertips on my forehead and moving a lock of hair that was impending to look at his pretty face.
I place my hand on his warm cheek like I'm used to do and instead of leaning on it he flicks at the touch like I haven't touched him with this intimacy.
Wait. Why he is looking down at me?

I look around turning my head and I see that parallel to my stare there is the ground.
I'm on the side of the street.
"No no, Char do not move your head." he commands.
Placing a hand right on the side of my head and holding it still with such kindness and delicate pressure.
My head is throbbing and my whole back is stone cold.
I try to move my legs and pull myself up but my whole body is aching.
"W-what happened? My whole body is aching?" I tell him with a husky voice.
"You fell and you hit your head." he explains to me looking at me with his breathtaking green eyes.
"Char, you did pass out for few minutes..." he informs me, still rubbing his thumb on my cheekbone almost like trying to keep me awake.

Char. He wasn't calling me like this in a while.

"Mamma mia Char you scared the hell out of me, try to stay awake okay?" he asks while I try to make up everything my mind and my eyes go blank when I notice his outfit. A workout outfit, the same outfit that he had when he told me Gaia asked him to marry her.
"No no can't be possible." I say starting to freak out.
"Cha please stay still, you hit your head pretty hard." Charles says placing both hands on my shoulders.

There is no way. It can't be what I'm thinking.

"Do not close your eyes. Let's talk."
"Alright, when you're flying to Bahrain?" I ask trying to trick my mind.
"In a week. Why?" he says and my mouth goes dry.

Fuck. It was all a dream.
He isn't my Charles. He is simply Charles Leclerc, the f1 Ferrari driver, my friend and my best friend boyfriend.

"Shit." I say gritting my teeth.
"What?" he asks letting his furrowed eyebrows frame his pretty eyes.

He isn't mine. I just hit my head and made up all of it in my head. And I also touched him with so much intimacy.

"Nothing." I say under my breath, battling frustration and confusion inside my head.
"No tell me." his voice is hollow.
"No it's just my ankle is hurting so bad." I lie even if the pain it's real. But the real pain is in my chest then my ankle.
He pulls down my sock and from his expression I can tell it's broken.
"Oh here is the ambulance." he says while I'm trying to control the shame and the disappointment that I feel inside me.
There is no way that it was only a dream. How I could dream all of this? For how long I passed out? But it was too good to not be a dream.

"Hey." he says placing a hand on my hand laid on my stomach.
He shows me a reassuring smile, a friendly smile that should be making me feel better but feeling him so distance from what I've been feeling on my skin... it's pretty awful getting waken up from reality like this.
"I'm sorry if I've touched you, I don't know what happened to me." I immediately explained my actions.
"It's fine Cha. The important is that you opened your eyes and you're fine." he says stroking his thumb on my hand.
The ambulance parks right next to me and the paramedics kneels down circling me.
They ask both us off questions and I try to answer them alla and the things that I can't answer Charles steps in since he was the awake one.
"Cha is gonna be fine." he heals placing a hand on my arm and rubbing it up and gown kindly, and show me a reassuring shy smile framed by his pretty dimples.

"Sir you are coming with us?" the paramedic asks.
"Yes" he says looking at the paramedic
"No" I say at the unison.
"I'm coming. No discussions." he says looking down at me.
"Charles I'm gonna be fine. Pls go home. I'll not let you spend your last hours here in a hospital. I'll be fine." I say placing a hand on his.
"Please Charles I can't get any better knowing that you're waiting for me. From what my aching head is sayin, I'll not surely get back home today so go home and do your things, I'm good." I say trying to make him change idea.
"Just do a thing for me, inform my family and reassure them. Tell them that I'm super find and that it's just few stratches." I say and he nods striving my check with his thumb.

I watch Charles standing out of the ambulance running his fingers through his hair a bit overwhelmed and when the doors closed finally I let my tears roll on my cheeks.

It was all a dream. All of it.
He isn't mine.
How could I really believe that someone like him would fall for someone like me?

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Author's note: hello girlies!!
I'm back and with something
That nobody of y'all could ever
Immagine!
I'm happy to give this story some
dynamic. So now get ready
for the complicate and flirtatious
parts!
Love y'all,
-V