A R T H U R
"S**t" you mutter under your breath, grabbing the test,taking it into the kitchen, placing it hard onto the counter.
"Surely this is enough proof" You say, with a tiny bit of anger in your voice, making Carla once again stop preparing dinner and to turn around.
"Oh my god! Is she okay?" Carla asks worriedly.
"Clearly not. You don't think she's actually addicted to drugs do you?"
"No I don't, most people addicted don't need a test to know they took it. You said that you saw her ex leaving the club yesterday?"
"You think he drugged her?! I swear if I see that dickhead again I'm gonna "
"Art! I know you're mad but..."
"He drugged my sister! If she hadn't left when she did, she could be stuck with him again! I'm gonna call Charles."
"She wouldn't want you telling him right now"
"Then I'll only ask about the therapy" Carla nods at you and gets back to preparing the food.
You walk into the other room, grab your phone and place the test down in its place. You call Charles and within 5 rings he picks up.
"Arthur, I swear to god Aurelia is going to kill me."
"I don't care, her therapy. Are you still paying for it?"
"Of course I am, what sort of question is that?"
"Nothing"
"Why? Arthur what happened?"
"Nothing I said, I'll call you later. Bye"
"Bye?"
You go onto Google and search up the therapy centre, to find a phone number to call. Once you find the phone number, you call them straight away.
"Hello, this is a relative of Ms Leclerc, I was just calling to ask when her last therapy session was?"
"Ah Mr leclerc, we have been trying to get a hold of her for a few weeks now. She hasn't come in about 6-7 weeks. We would love for her to come back in soon so if you could get her to call her back that would be great!"
"Yeah, she will be back in a few days. Thanks for the help"
You say goodbye and end the call, placing your phone down next to you. You sigh and lean your head back against the wall.
"Dinners ready!" you hear from the kitchen and you get up and walk in.
You pick up your food from the side and take it to the table, placing it down in front of Carla.
"Thanks love." You begin eating in silence.
"Come on Art, what's wrong? You're never this quiet." You look up from your food to Carla and sigh.
"You called the therapist didn't you?" She asks.
You nod in response.
"I just don't understand how we didn't notice." "Mm"
"I mean Charles said he's still giving her the money so I don't know where it's going."
"She's not a bad person Art, I'm sure wherever the money goes it's a good thing."
"Yeah, I can't ask her about it now. It's going to have to wait until Charles stops."
"Stop what?"
"I honestly don't even know." You both hear the front door open.
"Hey guys, it started raining so I came back a bit early." You hear from the room next door.
A U R E L I A
You open the door and step inside, closing the door after you enter.
"Hey guys, it started raining so I came back a bit earlier." You say, loudly so they can hear you from whichever room they were in.
"We're in the kitchen!" You hear Carla shout.
As you take off your shoes and hat you see a familiar object on the table.
"S**t" you whisper under your breath.
You walk into the kitchen and see Carla and Arthur sat down eating.
"Hi Lia, how was your walk?" Carla asks.
"It was good thanks, except I wasn't ready for the rain"
"I have some clothes you can change into, they might not fit but better than wet clothes?"
"Yeah, thanks. Uhm Arthur?" You ask.
"Yeah Lia?"
"Have you spoken to Charles?"
"Oh, no I haven't, why?"
"No reason, I need to use the bathroom." You walk into the living room, grab the test off the table and run to the bathroom.
You look in the mirror at yourself and sighed, trying not to let tears fall out of your eyes. You looked bad enough as it was. You hear your phone buzzing from your pocket and as you take it out you see texts from many people.
Charles ~ Aurelia you need to stop messing around and come home right now.
Charles ~ Stop being a child and come back.
Charles ~ If you carry on, I'm telling mama.
You ~ I'm not a child, it doesn't matter what mama thinks.
..............................................
Gabs ~ AHHHH! I've got some news for you, call me when you can xx
You ~ Sorryyy I didn't see the message, I'll call you soon xx
*Lando Norris & Oscar Piastri followed you on Instagram*
The last notification brought a smile to your face, recently you had loved the time you spent with the McLaren boys and hoped you would all stay friends.
Putting that aside, you realise now that Arthur and probably Carla knew about the drug test and probably thought you were an addict.
And Arthur might know that you hadn't been to therapy in weeks. You felt bad for Charles, that you had lied to him about where his money was going.
But it gave you a feeling that you were finally helping people who deserve it. Instead of going to therapy, you had been giving money to a cancer research charity. So people could get the help that your father got before he died.
With a few minutes of thinking you decide to leave tonight, and find a hotel of some sort to stay in, then when you were 100% certain no-one was home, you would go and grab some clothes before booking a flight to a different country.
If there was one thing you could always do, it was to escape your problems instead of dealing with them.
|| authors note ~ hope you enjoy, and don't worry it will get better 🧡 ||
