Distraction

Chapter 15

OLIVIA.
'Hi, it's nice to meet you.' I give Lewis a hug. 'Nice to meet you too.' We both sit down. We're in the lobby of my hotel. I'm taking pictures of him and Darth Steve tomorrow. I can't wait to meet that little man. We are meeting now so we can brainstorm some idees. I have some fun ideas in mind and I think he has some too. Considering he was the one looking for a photographer. 'Your photos are amazing,' he starts the conversation. I smile. 'Thank you, I appreciate it.' 'You're black too right?' He asks. Even though you can see it, I think. My curls and have a caramel skin. But my eyes sometimes make people question. 'Yeah, my mom is half African American half Dutch.' So yeah I'm black. I never really identify myself as black. I should, and I'm proud of my family history, but it never was that big of a deal. I never really had to identify myself as a color. 'Your family is from America?' I nod. 'My great grandparents came to the Nederlands after world war two. And my grandfather married my Dutch grandma. But enough about me, how is Darth Steve?'

'I'm gonna take this one now,' I say to Lewis. He nods. Leo has been calling me for the last 5 minutes, like he's dying. 'What?' I ask him in Dutch, like our normal conversations. 'Where are you? You were going to help me practice,' he says a little freaked out. Guess I forgot to tell him I'm not home this weekend. Whoops! 'I'm in Londen.' 'Why?' He is so fucking dump. I rest my head against my fingertips. 'Well you reacted on some one's instagram, not long ago.' I want him to figure it out himself, but he doesn't. Is he that nervous or something. 'No games Ollie. I'm here in your empty house.' I roll my eyes. 'At the beginning of this week you reacted, with some others, underneath Lewis his instagram, who was looking for a photographer. That's what I'm doing this weekend. We'll practice on Monday, calm down.' He finally gets it. 'Oh, okay. Have fun.' He sounds calmer now. 'Thank you dump ass.' I hang up. 'I'm sorry my little brother freaked out, I was going to practice with him this weekend,' I apologize, putting my phone away. 'Practice for what?' 'He's going to college in America in a couple of months to play basketball. I don't know why he's nervous and wants to practice more, he's good and he's already in the school.' Lewis nods. I've heard he has seen some basketball games before. 'You must be good too.' I shrug. 'I like basketball, but he doesn't really has anyone else to practice with. My mom doesn't know what and how to do it and my father passed away. Our brother lives in another county, so I'm the only one.' 'I'm sorry about your father.' I softly smile. Now we're talking about me again.

**

I check the pictures I just made. I look back through the vieuwfinder of the camera. Lewis is standing with Darth Steve in his arms, somewhere in London. People are looking at him. After I took another couple of shots I walk back to them. Darth is a happy little man, he's so adorable. I show him the photo's. 'I like them.' Good, he's the boss. 'Maybe grab some food now and then go to the county side?' It's already midday, Darth can have a nap in the car. 'Yeah sounds good.' It's just the three of us, Darth his parents aren't here. But Lewis can take care of his godson. We already had two different outfits. I can't wait for the country pictures. That was my idea.

'And you're done.' I smile at Darth Steve who is chewing on a toy. I just changed him in blue dungaree with a white t-shirt as Lewis changed in the same outfit. 'I'm done too.' I pick Darth up from the soft underground and hand him to Lewis. 'First a shot from far away?' I nod. I put the baby rug back in the car as Lewis walk into the field. 'That's good,' I say when he's not too far. I'm already loving it.

Darth start to cry when I'm about to make a closer shot of them, with the fields on the background. Darth is sitting on the fence as Lewis is holding him up, him standing behind the fence. Lewis tries to calm him down, this makes good shots too. 'Look Darthy.' I take a toy out of the car and hand it to Darth.

'Thank you for letting my take pictures of you and Darth Steve.' Carefully I give him a goodbye hug. Darth Steve is asleep in his arms. 'Thank you for taking them. I can't wait to see the final result.' 'I'll send them through text. Can I post them too?' He nods, 'yeah of course.' I smile slowly walking backwards. 'Maybe I'll see you around the track?' I stop walking. Confused I look at him. 'You and Daniel right? He follows you and I saw some pictures when you were in Monaco.' My eyes widen. Oh god he knows. So I lie, 'we're just friends. My brother lives there, Daniel came to vised when I was there.' He nods, not really believing the story. 'Oh I thought. What does your brother do?' 'My brother is mechanic for Daniel.' He nods in understanding. Still not really believing it. He has this smirk on his face. 'But I think we'll see each other again.' I start walking backwards again. 'Yeah for sure. Greetings to your family.' I smile. 'U too and to his.' I point at Darth Steve before turning around to the elevators. I'm leaving early tomorrow morning. Which is sad, I wish I could see some more of London.

**

I take a quick shot of the little boy looking at my through the seats. I grab his hand when he reaches out. He giggles. He's cute. He has deep dark brown eyes and blond hair. We play a little, for as much as we can play. But I want most of the edit bits done before getting out of the plane. The boy still wants to play, he's still looking at me with naughty face. I stick out my tongue, he does the same. I open my mouth, fake shocked. I want so much more pictures of him. 'You naughty boy.' I reach my hand out again. 'I need to go to work, but you're adorable,' I say to him. Not that he's going to answer me back. I just wave at him, he waves back. Okay Ollie focus back on the editing. I place my headphones back on my head, my favorite song of Shawn Mendes latest album is playing, ft Julia Michaels. I look at one of the photo's in the bath. Lewis isn't naked, it looks like it, but he isn't. Darth Steve was naked, but he's a baby. I didn't needed to see Lewis naked. We made these in the morning, I braided Lewis his hair. I did it with Leo his hair this week too, Lewis apparently saw it and asked me if I could do it to him too. I also made some pictures only from Lewis through the day and only from Darth. We had four different locations. In the bathroom, a simple wall, in the city and on the country side.

'I'm sorry about him, he loves attention,' the English mother of the little boys says to me as we're waiting to get out of the plane. 'No problem, I loved him. I made some pictures of him, I'd like to post them on my instagram, do you mind?' I want their permission, some people aren't allowed on the internet and I respect that. 'No yeah sure. What's your instagram, I would love to see them.' I tell her my instagram name. 'Can't wait to see them.' She smiles. 'If you sent me a dm I'll sent all of them.' 'That's so sweet thank you.' I smile.

I smile at my screen when I see I have a text from Daniel. I'm in the train right now on my way home. I can't wait to lay down in my bed. I reply to Daniel.

Danii

Hi! How was your shoot with Lewis?

We had fun, the pictures look nice

I wanna see you I miss my baby

I miss you too!!

What about after the French race this
weekend I come to you?

I do have work, Thursday I'm free early

I wanna come watch series on Friday

Hahah I'll ask my colleges if you're allowed

Arighty!
I see you on Thursday

FaceTime when I'm home?

Alright
When are you home?

Around 1 PM

Okay just call me, I'll be waiting

Bye