Overlooked Until Him ~ Carlos Sainz

🇮🇪 Chapter 2 🇮🇪

MONZA - Thursday 31st August 2023

Okay, so here I am at the Monza racing weekend. God I've been thrown thousands of pity looks and been told sorry for your loss hundreds of times.

It's so irritating because I've been on the verge of tears all day. I don't know how I'm meant to keep up a straight face. It hurts too much.

Today is media day for my brother Charles, whom insisted I joined him for the rest of the races this season. Due to our Mother and brother Enzo saying that I spend too much time in my room. After a private discussion excluding me about me and my mental and physical health.

Personally I don't think I do. I spend a lot of my time writing songs for my band Little Mix, we are only small, but we make it work with small local gigs. If I come to Grand Prixs we won't be able to facetime as much and thus write our songs.

Currently we're writing a song called Love me or Leave me, which I've took the lead on as it's partially about losing the people you love.

I should probably introduce you to the family. Firstly you have my mother Pascale Leclerc, 50 years old and a caring mother. Then there is Lorenzo, 27 years old and the most annoying and most overbearing brother. After that it is Charles, 26 years old and the most overprotective brother. Finally you have Arthur, 23 years old and the fun brother. So altogether Mr Annoying, Mr Protective and Mr Fun. That sums them up.

"Carlos, this is my little sister Olivia. Olivia this is my teammate Carlos"

"It's nice to meet you" an incredibly handsome spaniard said.

"It's great to meet you to. Charles has mentioned you a few times. You used to race for Mclaren with Lando Norris!"

Whilst my brothers were distracted he slipped in.

"Yes that is correct. Between me and you. I prefer being Charles teammate because otherwise I wouldn't have met you"

I couldn't help but blush at that no one had ever complimented me before or flirted with me so this was a nice change. It made me smile which I didn't even think was possible anymore.

Until Charles and the other two came back over and interrupted throwing protective and shocked looks around.

"See you around pequeña paloma"

(Little Dove)

And Carlos left to handle some media interviews with Charles.

"What was that?" Lorenzo was the first to interrogate.

"Nothing we was just talking about his career and past teammates" which wasn't a lie.

"Okay" Thank God he bought that because I did not want Carlos to deal with the wrath of three Leclercs. Believe me they are scary. Especially when they are angry.

Soon after Carlos and Charles had to go handle their media interviews and press conferences as it was media day, leaving me with Mr fun and Mr annoying. Great.

"Hey, Livvy. What would you like to do today? We could walk around the paddock and see some of the stalls, walk around the garages and introduce you to some drivers and engineers, or we can go sit down somewhere quiet and talk and catch up on a few things?" Arthur asked. 

I knew the last one was a trap into getting me to open up about myself, and I definitely did not want to do that. I love my brothers I do, but I don't want to become a burden to them with my everlasting terrors.

 Same with the second one as they believe I need to make more friends and have a bit of a better social life.

And the first one was alright but I didn't want to spend their money, I just wanted to be in my hotel room, on my own. 

"Can't I just go back to the hotel room?" 

"Olivia, we need you to spend some time out of a room, you are always locked away to yourself. The whole point of these trips are so you can make friends and socialise." Lorenzo answered.

"But you asked me what I wanted to do. This is what I want to do." They could hear the anger rising in my voice like a lighter that is about to explode into flames. 

"Liv, calm down. We understand that is what you want to do, but we do not want you to be locked up in your room forever, thats why we are doing this." Lorenzo replied, he sounded so calm and concerned at the same time it was weird, like I didn't know that was possible. 

"But thats not fair. Why ask me and not give me any choice anyway! Thats so stupid! I'm going back to the hotel!" And the lighter burst. 

As I began to walk away, I noticed them following me, as I walked to the exit.

So, naturally I began to run, trying to get away from them as fast as possible. I could hear them running after me, but what they didn't realise is that I was enrolled in the track team at school. And, so naturally I can run a lot faster than them for a longer period of time. 

Probably, after about 3 minutes of running someone grabbed me and pulled me into their arms. I looked up to see Pierre. Freaking Fantastic. There is a 99.9% Charles has talked to him as he is his go to when something is wrong and he wants advice. 

"Hey Liv, are you okay? How come you are running?" he asked.

"Just let me go!" He is playing with fire right now. 

Especially since Arthur and Lorenzo were able to catch up. 

"Hey man, thanks for catching her." Arthur thanked him as Lorenzo got me from Pierre's arms, making sure to keep a tight grip on my hand so I do not run away again. 

"We was actually about to take her for a walk around the garages to meet some drivers, if you would like to come." Arthur conversed with him. 

Pierre happily agreed as he said he does not spend enough time with me anymore. Whatever that means.