Book 1 of Monte Carlo Series
Escaping her chaotic past, Katrina moves to Monaco to start a new life. With a single bag and a guitar, she sets on a brand new journey to reacquaint with herself and maybe find love along the way.
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I got curious about what Charles and the others do for a living so I asked Sofia to recommend good races for me to watch while waiting for them to wake up. She told me that there were a lot of great races but she wants me to watch the Belgium Grand Prix from 2019.
I was tearing up hearing what the commentator was saying. It was a really sad day for their community with losing another life on that track. It made me realize that Charles really went through a lot just to be where he was.
I was on lap 20 when I heard someone spoke.
"Belgian Grand Prix 2019 that was a good race" I turned around and saw Max approaching us.
"Good morning, there's breakfast at the table. What do you want, coffee or tea?"
"Do you by chance have a red bull?" he asked shyly
"yeah I have, but really red bull this early in the morning?" I asked him curiously
"don't judge" he replied laughing
I grabbed a can of red bull from my fridge and gave it to max.
"Help yourself with some breakfast and if you have hangovers, I also have meds"
I pressed play again and continued what I was watching.
"If you don't mind me asking, what are we doing here?" he asked while eating
"there were a lot of miscommunications yesterday and everybody except Charles and I were sober so we just decided to let everybody crash "
"why are we watching Charlie boy's first-"
"MAX" Sofia exclaimed
"What?" he asked shocked at her sudden outburst
"Don't spoil the race result" he looked at us confused
"why?"
"This girl hasn't watched a single race in her entire life and has absolutely no idea who you all are until earlier today"
Sofia's Point of View
Katrina was so focused on the race she was watching that she didn't noticed that everybody was already up.
When she told me she had no idea who Charles and the others was, I was doubtful at first. Racing is a big deal in Monaco and Charles was the home town hero, it is quite impossible for someone to not be familiar with some of them.
"Why are we watching Belgium 2019?" George asked while munching on the breakfast prepared by Katrina earlier.
"She doesn't know who we were" Alex replied while his eyes were still watching the race.
"If she's watching that now, it means she found out?" george added
"yep. Charles and her were eating already when I woke up. I tagged charles in her post and then he followed her. she almost had a heart attack when she saw charles has millions of followers. When Charles left to pick up Pascale, she asked me to introduce her to F1 so I did. I was contemplating what race I should put on but I ended up picking Charles' first win"
"That was honestly not one of my best races but I am happy for Charles. Nobody deserved that win more than he does" Max said which everybody agreed in. It was an emotional day especially for Charles and his friends. They grew up and raced with Tonio majority of their lives. He was taken way too soon.
The race was approaching the last 3 laps and I can see from where we were that Katrina was really invested and engaged in the race. I can see the guys smile a little bit seeing her tensed reactions whenever cars were getting a little too close to each other.
"YESSS" her loud voice echoed in her living room as Charles crossed the checkered flag first.
"looks like she enjoyed it" alex commented smiling
I approached her and asked her what she thought of F1 now that she watched a race.
"How was your first race?" the guys were also looking at her awaiting her evaluation.
"I was on the edge of my seat. How do you guys do this for a living?"
"We loved racing and we've been doing this most of our lives" alex replied
"it was a good race, I cried especially when the commentators were announcing that Charles would be the first to cross the flag"
They continued discussing about the race while the guys also explained some of the technical stuff to her. I heard a car pulled up to the garage and saw Katrina's SUV with Charles getting out from the driver's side.
"Charles is here" Daniel announced turning their attention to my cousin, katrina however did not hear what he said since the post race interview started and she went back to the living room.
"what have you guys been doing?" he asked, I pointed at the television and he saw his interview playing.
"why are you watching that?" he asked me
"she wanted to get to know your world so I showed her your first win" he smiled
"How was it?" he asked me referring to her reaction to the race
"She was totally into it, she hasn't taken off her eyes from the screen since it started and she might've tear up when you crossed the checkered flag first"
Charles smiled and sat next to her on the couch.
"hey" he greeted
"hi, where's your mom?" she asked
"I dropped her off"
"did you make it in time?"
"I did, I'm glad I listened to you. I heard you watched my race"
"I did..."
"so, how was it?" he asked her
she didn't reply but instead she gave Charles a hug shocking all of us especially him.
"I know I'm three years too late but congratulations Charles, you did so well in that race despite everything that was happening in your personal life"
"thank you katrina... does this mean you'll watch formula one now?" he joked
