You Belong With Me

13.

Charlie woke up feeling like shit, she woke up in a different bed and her phone has 100 notifications.
Stoffel missed call x30
Max missed call x10
Anna missed call
There's a knock on the door and Charles appears with a glass of water, painkillers and a bowl of cereal. He explains everything to Charlie, "I'll drop you back in half hour as I've got a gym session" Charles offers. "Thank you but I'm going to walk, I need it." Charlie declines. When Charlie is finished eating she says bye to Charles "thank you so much Charles, I'll drop the clothes off once I've washed them. I can't thank you enough."
"It's fine that's what friends are for, and don't worry about the clothes keep them"

As Charlie's walking the flashback of the previous night come into her mind and she can't face them, she feels so ashamed. Charlie really does feel like the problem, always causing other people stress. She's standing outside the apartment door and she can't do it so she goes to see Dan. When Dan answers the door Charlie just breaks down. "Woah what's up char, come in"
"I'm....always....the...fucking......problem" Charlie sobs.
"What do you mean?" Daniel asks completely confused where she's coming from. Charlie explains everything about last night. "Right I'm gonna be straight, you need to go back and face them because if you don't do it now you will keep putting it off. Say what you said to me and put your hands up and say sorry. I don't mean to be harsh on you Char but I care for you and I know Max cares about you too, don't push him away." Charlie had never seen Daniel this serious. She thanked him and decided to go home.

As soon as Charlie walked through the door she saw everyone on the sofa looking super stressed, Charlie felt so guilty. Stoffel looked up and just hugged Charlie straight away, "don't ever scare me like that again okay? Fuck I'm so sorry for kicking off at you I love you and don't ever leave again." Stoffel voice cracked, "I'm sorry too I should've never acted like that I put my hands up and take full blame" Charlie started to cry. "Come on don't cry we're good." Stoffel said wiping her tears away. Charlie's eyes fell on Max, he looks so rough. "Can I speak to you Max in my room". Max didn't say anything and followed Charlie.

"Before you say anything I'm so sorry, I never meant to hurt you. I'm taking full blame and......" Max cut Charlie off by hugging her, "don't ever leave like that again" max started to get tears in his eyes "we both had a lot to drink and things got out out of hand and I'm not going to lie I did kiss that girl to get back at you because......because I was jealous" max said the last part quietly however Charlie still heard. "I don't know what came over me......I'm just so sorry" Charlie was so upset with how she treated everyone. "You look shattered" Charlie couldn't help but notice that Max looked so rough, "i couldn't sleep knowing you had left" Max said avoiding eye contact. "Come on you can sleep in here, get some rest" Charlie said, "will you stay?" Max didn't want Charlie to leave. "I wasn't planning on leaving" Charlie said getting into bed with Max. Max lay on his back as Charlie rested her head on his chest listening to his heart beat, it wasn't long until they both were fast asleep.

It was much later when Max and Charlie woke up, they didn't want to but they had to get out of bed and have some diner. Stoffel had taken Anna out for diner so Charlie and Max decided to cook for each other. Charlie set the table and max dished up. Max and Charlie had general chit chat, "are you coming to Melbourne?" Max asks out of no where, "I don't know like after Barcelona I have really taken a liking to the sport but I don't know. I know my dad is looking over me like 'do it,go!' So I want to do it for him."
"Was your dad a big fan then?" Max asks curiously.
"Huge! Kimi and someone called Jos was his idol like he would go on and on about them" Charlie laughs as the memories of her dad on a Sunday cheering them on. When max hears the name Jos he burst out laughing, Charlie is so confused. "What?" Charlie starts laughing. "Jos? He's my dad" Max starts to smile. "No way!!" Charlie is shocked. "This gives you another reason to come to Melbourne, my dad comes to all the races"
"My dad would want me to.....fine I'll come" Charlie says making Max's heart flutter.
"By the way race weekends are very different to testing" Max warns Charlie at how busy they can be.

"Film time and i decide" Charlie says getting a blanket for her and max "and I pick the kissing booth" Max rolls his eyes as he's seen the trailer and it seems like such a girly film. Max didn't mind because Charlie was happy, Max didn't know how he felt towards Charlie....was he falling for her?

It got to towards the end of the film and Charlie was sobbing. Max had his arm round her and just pulled her closer to him. The film had finished and Charlie was telling Max about her job until Anna and Stoffel got home. As soon as they came through the door Charlie just pulled them both into a hug. "Ummm what was that for?" Stoffel asked confused, "because I love you and I'm coming to Melbourne!" Charlie announces. Stoffel is over the moon as it will be Charlie's first race.