Royal Speed | Leclerc & Verstappen

8 | brotherly trust

-|- Monaco 2021 - summer break -|-

"What's wrong? What happened?" Arthur asked as I was rushing to the back of the yacht.

He and his friends had come out of the water and were drying themselves off with some towels.

"We can't stay here, not with that boat next to us." I blurred out and wanted to rush further, but my brother held me back on my arm.

"Why, what's wrong Charles? Do we the security?" Arthur quickly returned and looked over to the other yacht before snapping his head back to me, confusion in his eyes.

Our little conversation had attracted attention and Amelie and also Theo stepped over.

"What's wrong?" she asked and even laid her hand on my shoulder, looking all worried.

Arthur, who was still looking between me and the other yacht wanted to return something when his head suddenly stopped. A short smirk was seen on his lips before he cleared his throat and turned his head towards us again.

"Nothing Amelie, I just need to speak to my brother in private, please." my brother returned pretty mature, which surprised me.

Even though I didn't want to, I looked quickly over at the boat, where I saw Verstappen still standing with two of his friends, a male and a female, facing his side towards us. I wasn't sure why, but the fact, that the woman wasn't his girlfriend, caused me all kinds of feelings, additional to the usual emotion chaos inside me.

"I'm here if you need anything." Amelie said and slightly squeezed my shoulder before she walked over to the others, followed by Theo.

"Let's go upstairs." Arthur mumbled and I only nodded in return as I followed him to the upper deck of the yacht, my private area here.

It was like a balcony of my room, but on a boat and it had two sunbeds and even a little pool on it. While I slowly took a seat across from my brother I nervously bit my bottom lip, not sure what Arthur wanted to talk about.

As he then gestured me to start talking, I just raised my eyebrows and shrugged my shoulders, giving him the sign that I didn't have anything to say.

"I saw him Charles, it's Verstappen isn't it?" he then said and my heart beat fastened at his name.

"I'm not sure, I haven't even looked at the people on the yacht." I whispered, not daring to look him into the eyes as then I wouldn't be able to lie.

"Your red face tells me otherwise and don't say it's a sunburn, cause we aren't here long enough for you getting on." Arthur joked and smirked at me, before he carefully took my hand in his, "Do you want to tell me what's really going on?"

"I don't know." I mumbled, still looking down as I felt some tears coming up.

It was childish and ridiculous and it was freaking me out, every day I didn't see him, but the fact that he was now standing hot hundred meters away in nothing but his swim short was brutal for my mind.

"What has really happened that night?" my brother asked quietly.

"Nothing."

"You sure? Cause since then you are different." Arthur added before he started smiling and I looked up at him, "You even looked his address up."