young enough - c.l

seventeen.

Charles

This woman drives me insane.

The kiss was one of the most amazing things I've ever experienced.

Thank you liquid courage.

Because I would've never kissed her without it. I'd have been too nervous.

I want to know about her accident. I want to know everything about her, why her eyes still look sad even though she smiles and why her body tenses when one gets close.

I slowly pulled away from the now make out session. I don't think I can call that only a kiss.

"I'm getting a bit tired" she said, I held her in my arms as we now laid down.

"Do you want to go to bed?"

"Not really, are you tired?" She caressed my chest softly with her thumb.

"A little bit" I gave her a tired smile, maybe I was more tired than I thought.

"I just think I'm too tired to get up from here, I'm so comfortable right now." She closed her eyes, snuggling her face close to my chest.

"Wait- here" I grabbed us a blanket and threw over us.

"So we don't freeze to death" I fixed her hair softly.

"Yeah because it's soo cold out here we're gonna go all popsicle and stuff" She chuckled and I couldn't help but join her.

"Charles it's literally a perfect night. The stars are shining bright, it's the perfect warmth and the waves sounds amazing"

"Schhhh now we have blanket and we are cuddling" I held her even tighter which made her laugh.

"You're gonna squeeze me to death aren't you?"

"I would never" I let go of her a bit, playing with her hair now instead and closed my eyes as well.

It didn't take long until I heard deeper breaths from the girl lying on my chest. She had fallen asleep.

I opened my eyes so admire her - she has gotten a few more freckles after joining us.
She was also more tan, maybe even a little bit blonder from the sun.

It didn't take long for the sleepiness to catch up to me now as well.

So I fell asleep, having the most gorgeous girl in my arms.

How did I become so lucky?

/~\

Aurora

"RISE AND SHINE LOVEBIRDS!!" A voice pulled me out from the best sleep I've had in days. Since that voice scared me I sprung up from where I had fallen asleep yesterday. My eyes met with Charles' both of us blushing at the thought of yesterday.

"Maaaaaaaax" Charles groans a bit, rubbing his eyes tiredly.

"It's breakfast time!" Max gave us a small smirk, lifting his eyebrow.
"You don't want to miss the most important meal of the day" He added.

"Fuck offfff-" Charles threw a pillow at his head, but Max just caught it laughing.

"What's for breakfast?" I asked trying to not make the whole situation of us getting caught awkward.

"Kelly made pancakes" Max now throwing the pillow back at Charles.
"Unless you two wanna stay all cuddled up and shit"

I feel my face once again turn redder by the second, as more people now joined us at the yacht.

"Goodmorning you two" Lando walked past us giving me a wink.

Does everybody know?

"How did you two sleep?" Carlos now making his way on board.

"Boooys leave them alone!" Kelly shouted from the kitchen area.

Okay everybody knows.

I bury my face in my hands a bit, mostly to hide the fact that I looked like a tomato right now.

"Come on" Charles got up and grabbed one of my hands.
"Let's go eat?" He smiled softly looking at me. I nod back at him.

We got ourselves some plates and grabbed a few pancakes.
There were blueberries, strawberries, bananas, raspberries, syrup - pretty much anything you'd want on your pancake.

As we sat down to eat Charles sat down close to me, putting his hand on my thigh.
If I'm honest I am not used to this type of attention. Sure I've kissed people before - I've been intimate but never really experienced someone staying close afterwards.

"Did you sleep alright?" His thumb making small circles on my skin. I couldn't help but let my lips form a smile at the monégasque.
"I think I had the best sleep I've had in three years" I chuckled as I said that. "Did you?"
"I have in fact also slept amazing, we should do that more often" He smirked a bit at me as he took a bite out of his breakfast.
"Drink alcohol? Sleep underneath the stars?" I nudged his shoulder playfully.
"Yeah exactly, it's like you can read minds or something"

"OKAY SO" Rose raised her voice to get some attention from everybody.
"Tomorrow Lewis, Daniel, Pierre and Alex will be joining us, today we're going hiking. So put on your best hiking boots and bring a good mood or else I'm pushing you off a cliff"

"Oof harsh" Austin chuckled a bit but stopped as soon as he noticed Rose glaring at him.

"Yes ma'am" I gave her a small salute and I tried my best to hold in the laugh that could've easily escaped.

/~\

Why would one agree to go hiking when the sun is blazing?

"All good?" Charles was standing in front of me, like a meter away. I was DYING.
"HOW are you not even sweating? I feel like a constipated pig and a hot mess. The next cliff I'm seeing I'll be yeeting myself off it thank you very much"

"You're a cute hot mess, and please don't do that. I'd be very sad" he frowns a bit.
"I think you're doing great" he adds.

"I'm struggling, how are the others so far ahead?" I looked behind Charles and the rest of the group was so far ahead it was embarrassing.

"...because they don't take a break every 30 minutes?" He chuckled a bit.
"I'm pulling you with me down the cliff, I swear" I glared at him, he held his hands up now laughing a bit more.
"You're going to have to catch me first if you want to do that love" He started running, I ran after him trying to catch him.

We were both laughing, catching our breaths as we now caught up with the rest.

"Helloooo, welcome back" Rose patted me on my back.
"Yeah no I'm cutting off all your hair when you're sleeping tonight." I hit the back of her head.
"Gasp, not the hair!!" Austin grabbed Rose protecting her head.
"You wouldn't dare"
"Pfft you don't know that" I scoffed back, but we just burst into laughter again.

Charles handed me a bottle.
"Here, some water for you"

"Thank you Leclerc" I grabbed it smiling at him and took a few sips. 

"So refreshing- how long until we're finished?" I turned to Rose now again.

"Uhm- like ten minutes? Does that work for madame?" She nudged me and I just gave her a thumbs up.

"Alright- I'm good let's do this"