all eyes on you - carlos sainz jr F1

01

"And now! Put your hands together and give a warm welcome to the three-time Grammy winner, Camille Descôteaux!" Jimmy Fallon says I watch on one of the many screens around me, as he turns towards the exit I'm about to walk through.

My best friend, Sarah James stands behind me and gives me a grin and a small thumbs up.

I take a deep breath and walk out onto the stage, a grin plastered on my face. As I walk onto the stage the cheering gets louder. I wave to the people in the audience as I take a seat next to Jimmy.

"Well," Jimmy says and I laugh.

"Well indeed!" I respond. He laughs in good nature.

"The last time you were a guest on this show you were, what, 17?" He asks and I nod as I think back to the occurrence that took place more than 10 years ago. "You were a rising star and had just featured on one of Taylor Swift's albums, right?"

"Yes, that would be correct." I let out a long breath as I tried not to think about all the cameras focused on my face. 11 years later my stage fright was still an issue I faced on talk shows. Sure I could go out and perform a two-hour-long concert and not bat an eye but when there are people watching this just to critique you. It's a different feeling. "God, that makes me feel old," I say laughing.

Jimmy shakes his head. "Imagine how I feel! You were 17 and now you're 28! How drastically has your life changed, Camille?" He asks and I smile.

"Well, at 17 the biggest accomplishment of my life was meeting Taylor Swift, now I have her number saved in my phone," I say, grinning.

Jimmy laughs. "Not to mention the three Grammys that you've managed to acquire in the past 5 years."

I smile. "That too, gosh. If 10-year-old Cami could see me now," I say grinning.

Jimmy nods. "And from what I hear, you're performing a concert tomorrow evening in France for the charity that your best friend, Sarah James set up. Is that true?" At the mention of Sarah's charity, I smile.

"Yes! I'll be performing in my home country of France tomorrow and then going on to Monaco to perform another concert there."

Jimmy smiles, "Wow, that's inspiring. Would you perhaps give us a snippet of your second world tour tour list?"

I nod. "So the tour is called Reputation on Tour and I'll be covering a total of 22 countries this tour, I wish it could be more but as luck would have it, every other artist decided to go on tour as well," I say smiling. "I won't reveal the full tour list yet but I will be visiting Monaco, Italy, Japan, Australia and the US, plus many more."

Jimmy groans, "Come on, we need more information!"

I smile, "That's all I can say for now or else my PR team will be furious."

Jimmy laughs good naturally, "Okay, okay. I'll press for more information another day. For now, everyone gives a round of applause for Camille!"

I wave goodbye to the cameras as 'CUT' is yelled.

I let out a sigh and Jimmy laughed. "Still not a fan of talk shows?"

"Nothing wrong with talk shows, it's the stage fright I have issues with, see you later Jimmy," I say as I stand up and he waves goodbye as someone walks over to fix up his makeup.

I walk off the stage to Sarah who wraps her arms around me and gives me a big hug. "That was great!" She says, her accent coming through.

I shake my head and sigh. "Come on, we have a flight to catch to France."

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The flight to France is long but Sarah and I sleep for most of the flight as the pilot I hired, flies us to France in the jet that I purchased not long after my first album made it big.

When we land, I look out the window shade checking for paparazzi. Unfortunately, since Sarah and I are both so famous in our fields it's hard to avoid the papz when we are together. My suspicions are right as I look out the window and see about 40 people with cameras waiting.

I groan and kick Sarah in the stomach to wake her up. She sits up and her hair is stuck to one side of her face. "What?" She asks, through a yawn.

"Paparazzi," I murmur. She groans as well.

I keep watching the window when all of a sudden one of the paparazzi is pointing at another private jet that has just landed and they all scatter towards the other plane.

In the moment of luck, I grab Sarah's arm and we run towards the car that's waiting on the tarmac for us. I look over my shoulder to see who's getting off the plane, but it's someone I don't recognise.

"Any idea who made them run away?" I ask Sarah and she shrugs.

"If it's someone we don't know, it's probably a sports player or something like that." She says as she yawns again as the car starts to drive away from the jet.

"Did we miss some World Cup or something again?" I asked Lenny, our driver.

"Non mademoiselle , there is a racing championship happening in Monte Carlo, the plane was most likely stopping for fuel." He responds, his French accent heavy.

I nod. Racing. That's why I had no idea who he was.

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The charity performance was short but sweet and the audience was a sell-out, meaning that the target Sarah and I had set for her charity had been doubled.

We catch the first flight out to Monaco so I can be ready for the performance in Monte Carlo in two days' time. The flight will be short, only lasting an hour and a half. Neither Sarah nor I can be bothered with sleeping, I felt full of energy and so did she.

"I reckon that when we get there we should go to a club," Sarah says, tucking her knees underneath herself.

I nod. "Ditto, I have so much energy right now it's crazy." I sigh as I lean back. "I wonder what became of that racing guy..." I trail off and Sarah scoffs.

"Who cares? We're going to be in a different country in less than an hour. Look it up if you're that intrigued by it." She says rolling her eyes.

I pull out my phone and look up recent private jet landings in France. Theres a few entires on Sarah and I before I come across one labbled "Le pilote de Formule 1 Charles Leclerc s'arrête à Paris aujourd'hui avant de se rendre au célèbre Grand Prix de Monaco"

"Formula One driver Charles Leclerc stops in Paris today before heading to the famous Monaco Grand Prix." I read aloud and Sarah fakes a snore.

"Boring! Sounds like a sport for snobs." She says looking down at the magazine she's reading, which she is on the cover of.

"Girl, you're in no position to judge, acting is a sport for snobs," I say with a laugh and she sticks her tongue out at me. "Formula one," I repeat. "I've literally never heard of that, sounds like they're heading to Monaco too though," I say as I turn my phone off.

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sooooooo! first chapter done! I know it's a bit of a bore, but filler chapters are needed to establish character building, the next chapter wil have a physical interaction between some of the drivers and cami.

you may be wondering why it was charles who landed but he has his own private jet so it makes more sense and I didn't want to give you guys to little so soon, i think it's improtant to write a good 3-4 chapters of character interactions and buling before the s/o and oc meet. but thats just my opinion!

i hope you guys like cami's personaility so far and sarah's friendship. sarah and cami have been besties sine birth btw, before both of them made it big they went ot primary school, middle school and high school together, so their really close.

any questions or anything else at this point please comment >>>>

otherwise! hope you liked it xx