the F1 journey begins | Part 2

Chapter 9 : Friday's first practice

(Continuing Monique's POV cause why not)

At around 9:30am, we were dressed and ready. I wore a pair of white skirt, my cropped red tube top, my Ferrari hat and my pair of nike shoes. I loved my outfits. As I got out from the bathroom, I saw the way Charles' eyes grew wider and smiled. "Oh wow." he said as he grabbed my hand and turned me around as I laughed. "Thank you, sir Leclerc." I said as I looked deeply in his eyes. I saw him turn a bit red as I knew I had his attention now. We sat down on the couch as he put his left arm around my shoulder. I instantly got comfortable as I laid my head on his shoulder.

I had forgotten to see what Charles was wearing, obviously as I noticed, it was his race suit. It was soft. We waited as the others took a long time to get ready. As I was looking through Instagram, I saw Lando's post, it was the picture I had taken. I smiled as I liked it and typed in the comment section; "these two are amazing i swear. deserve credits for taking picture haha". I posted it as I looked down and saw the groups comments. I loved these people. These are my people. The people I want to spend my life with. As I had the thought, my mum had called. I instantly pressed the button as I said hello.

"Hey mum!" I said as I smiled at Charles.
"Hey dear! How are you? Enjoying your time I hope? Is Charles there?" She asked me as Charles said hello to her.
"Hello Charles! Hope your practice goes well today honey."
"I'm fine, by the way, Charles said thank you, he went to make some coffee." I said as she laughed lightly.
"Ill let you both to it, I'll be watching the practices." She said as Charles shouted a big thank you. I laughed hard as usual.
"I'll go now, your father is forcing me to go out to eat! Enjoy it darling."
"Bye mum! Love you!" I replied.
"Me too!" She said as she pressed the hang up button.

     I got up from the couch as I went to the kitchen near Charles. I started playing with his hair as he continued making his coffee. The room had a little breeze as my hair and his waved around All of a sudden, he turned to my direction, grabbed me from my hips, and placed me on the kitchen counter. I felt heat in my stomach, a feeling which now was common whenever around him, as he grabbed my neck and pulled in for a kiss. B-U-T-T-E-R-F-L-I-E-S. My stomach started to burn more as I gave permission for his tounge to come in. After we took a second as we couldn't breathe, he looked at me deeply and gave me a big smile. He could be the death of me. The only thing I could do is smile back as his hands were on my thighs. God, that was hot. I got down as he didn't talk as he grabbed me from my waist as pulled me closer from the side. He was still making his coffee as I was looking at his green and blue coloured eyes. They were glowing in the morning light. I felt like I could fall in love with him for the second time. Yes, I admit it. I'm actually in love with him. I have fallen head over heels for this man in the span of just 3 to 2 weeks. I've fallen for this handsome Formula 1 Monegasque driver. The "Prince of Monaco" as the Formula 1 fans called him. Il Predestinanto as he is famously called in Italy. I love everything about this man. His eyes. His hair. His cute face. His wide smile. His voice. The way he looks and talks to people in a certain way. The way he speaks in French, Italian and English. The way his pronunciations ruins the actual English word.  His height. His old money type of outfits. His Ferrari obsession. Everything.

After all this thought, I felt someone looking my direction. Finally noticing it was Charles, I turned towards the tall Monegasque. "Are you okay? Or is my shortie shocked hm?" he said as I smiled back at him. I looked at him weirdly again as he laughed it off. I noticed that he had finished making his coffee. We went back to the couch to find Leah and Carlos on the couch cuddled up together. I saw the balcony door slightly opening, now knowing how that was the reason for the slight breeze in the kitchenet. It was adorable. We sat down with them as we talked about how Miami had the sprint race. I was guessing my mum had forgotten that and thought there's 3 practice sessions like normal. I texted my mum as the others were talking, telling her that there's only one practice this race weekend. I turned off my phone as I rejoined the conversation. I noticed Leah was wearing her cute yellow sun dress which I always loved her in it. I instantly got up, grabbed her hand and made her stand still as I looked around her. My best friends were all so gorgeous. Once Cara and Lando came out of their room all ready, it was 10:16am. Cara wore her casual black skirt with her black top and McLaren Hat with the number 4 on it. We got out of our room and went downstairs. As we walked over to the paddock as it wasn't far, Charles gave me my paddock pass.

   Once we arrived, we slid our pass on the small glass table there was as we went through. Cara and Lando had to be seperated from us as they went into the McLaren Paddock as the remaining four of us went to the Ferrari Paddock. Charles and I went towards his side of the garage as he got his helmet and put on the hair cover first.  As time went by, Charles talked to his engineer and did a tiny conversation with Frederic Vasseur, the team principal of the team, it was time to start. I grabbed my headphones and told him that I could hear him as he got into the car and started.

     Minutes went by as I saw him drive around the Miami Circuit. All of a sudden, I felt the need to go to the bathroom as I told Charles I would take long. I removed the head set as I went to find the bathroom. As got inside the room, I saw another woman. "Well well. Look who we have here, my replacement I see." She said as I gave her a weird look. "I'm Alexandra Saint Mleux, I'm your man's ex girlfriend. I don't even think he's your man. If he is, get prepared, because he will. Soon. Be mine. Again. And darling, do not even try, I bet to you that if he sees me today, he will forget about your ass and look my direction again. Au revoir salope." She told me as she walked by me, laughed and closed the door. I shook my head as I felt myself falling to the ground with an anxiety feeling. I was having a panic attack. It was something small at first until I kept reviewing what had just happened. I ended up staying in the bathroom for half the practice session. Once I got out, I saw that Charles had his car parked although there was still half the practice to continue. I went near his race engineer as he got up and touched my shoulder. "Charles was so god damn worried about you that he retired from the whole session to find you. Where even were you Mrs?" He said as I had to lie to him. "I got locked in the bathroom." I said as I gave a nervous laugh. All of a sudden, I heard Charles from behind running to me. I turned around as he grabbed me from my hips and pulled me tight for a hug. "Where the hell were you! I got so worried since you weren't even talking on the radio. Do not do that to me again, please." I nodded as I let down some tears remembering what happened in the bathroom after the woman had left.

      "Can I talk to you? Privately?"