Unexpected love | Carlos Sainz Jr.

Chapter 7

— Carlos POV—

I arrived back in the lobby of the hotel and I noticed the brown haired girl was still waiting on me. Suddenly I realised I didn't know her name. So when I reached her the first thing I did was ask her name.

Her name is Ella, what a beautiful name, I can't seem to keep my eyes of her, but it's clear she is starting to get tired so we start the walk to her hotel.

It's a quite walk, so I decide to ask her some questions to get to know her a bit more. I also don't understand, why somebody like her would go home with someone like Tom.

'So Ella have you been to many grand prix races already' I start the conversation with a safe topic.
She seems happy to talk instead of walking in silence. 'No this is my first, for the working class it's not that easy to attend every race. I'm not sure you realise but the entry prices keep raising every year. I would love to travel the world and visit every race on the calendar. But with taking time of at work and also the high cost, that is just not in the cards for me.
But I don't want to complain to much I'm already very happy that I get to experience it in real life, finally.'

Sometimes I forget how much this sport has changed, often instead of fans that can watch the race, it's celebrities that don't even know us.
'So will you come to the fan zone for our interviews ?' I ask hopefully, I really want to see her again.

'Yes, we will go checkout the McLaren interview and the Ferrari interview' she says happily.
'What? Are you also supporting McLaren, do I have to share you ?' I ask faking shock.
Ella starts giggling, what a beautiful sound. 'God no, Lottie my friend who is joining me, is a McLaren fan. Don't worries I am all yours, Ferrari fan to the soul.'

It makes me laugh, but also gives me an unfamiliar warm feeling, I really want to ask about Tom. I don't want to come of too strong. So I start to work around the subject. ' So any reason why you didn't want to meet with Tom anymore?' I ask carefully.

There is a frown forming on Ella's face, 'hmmm deep question all of a sudden. In the heat of the moment it seemed to be a good idea, but it's not the first time my alcohol driven decisions come bite me in the ass eventually.'
'Then why get yourself in that situation? Is there a reason you don't start dating or something like that?' I'm hoping that I didn't push too hard.

'Jeez Carlos, deep much!, lets just say I got my heart broken big time by the person that I thought was my forever. So when the believed love of your life just dumps you like trash you pull up walls. I won't share the full story, but that is why I sometimes go for the quick fuck instead of starting a relationship.'

Fuck, how can somebody damage such a beautiful and kind girl. I just want to give her a big hug, but decide against it. What also stays in my head is she said an easy fuck, was I to late in interfering. Suddenly I see we stopped at an hotel.

'Is this your hotel?' I ask disappointed. ' yes, thank you so much for walking me here. I really didn't want to do this alone. So good luck tomorrow and when you see me, don't be a stranger'
I lean in to give her a goodbye kiss on the check, ' no worries, it was a nice evening walk, fully relaxed for tomorrow. As my number one fan you better be in the front row to watch my interview.' I give her a final wink and turn around and begin my 15 min walk back to the hotel.