You Belong With Me

23.

Anna and Stoffel had spoke through everything, they both hated arguing but one another had felt like they were in the right. Anna could see why Stoffel got so annoyed and Stoffel accepted the fact that Anna was only trying to help Charlie.

"Is Charlie in?" Stoffel asked max as he and Anna walked through the door. "Yeah she in her room getting ready for tonight" Max replied as it was currently 4:30pm and she was meeting Dilara and Victoria at 5:30. "Tonight?" What's happening tonight?" Stoffel was confused as they hadn't organised anything for tonight. "Oh she's meeting Dilara and Vic for a few drinks" max replied going back to watching his tv show.

Stoffel knocked on Charlie's door. "Come in" Charlie replied as Stoffel walked into her room. "You look nice" Stoffel complimented. Charlie smiled at him. "So how come you're going out" Stoffel was curious, he knew Charlie liked to party but she went out last night. "Well I had such an amazing time last night and I want to get to know Dilara and Vic more." Charlie smiled as she continued to do her makeup. Stoffel just exited her room not saying anything else.

As Charlie was ready there was a knock at the door. Max answered it and appeared Vic and Dilara already holding a drink. "Hey sis" Max hugged Vic. "Where's Charlie" Dilara asked Max. "I'm coming" Charlie said as she appeared in the living room. "You look absolutely jaw dropping, the lads are going to love you" Vic laughed. Max gave her a stern look. "Thanks! You both look amazing too, and no lads for me thank you very much." Charlie laughed. "Oooo saving yourself for someone" Dilara giggled nudging Max. "Have you two started drinking without me" Charlie laughed as she noticed both girls were rather giggly. "Wellll we had to have one for the walk" Vic said as she raised her cup in the air. "Come on then let's go! Max, can you tell Stoffel I said bye I don't know where he is and I think he's avoiding me." Charlie hugged max bye and left with the girls. Max felt happy at the fact Charlie hugged him as he felt like they were finally getting on good terms.

Charlie had an amazing time with Vic and Dilara and shes really felt like she's made new friends. The two girls decided to get a taxi home as their apartments were further away than Charlie's. Charlie wouldn't say she was fully drunk but it took her twice as long to walk home than normal.

All the lights were out in the apartment which meant everyone was asleep. Charlie couldn't get her key to work so she spent like 5 minutes trying to open the door. Once she eventually opened the door, she wasn't quite about entering the apartment. Charlie decided to carry on drinking. She grabbed a bottle of Bacardi that Stoffel keeps in the cupboard. She added coke to it however the ratio was not very good. As she downed that she then wanted a cheese toastie, however she had great difficulty opening the bread bin resulting the whole loaf of bread ending up on the floor. She decided to find the cheese, it was on the top shelf of the fridge. With Charlie being short she couldn't reach, as she stood on her tippy toes to reach the bowl of grated cheese the bowl flipped and the cheese landed everywhere. Charlie started giggling to herself sitting in the floor with slices of bread and grated cheese all around her. All this noise had woken up Stoffel.

"For fuck sake Charlie" Stoffel huffed as he saw Charlie. Charlie just laughed at the situation. "Right come on let's get you to bed" Stoffel said as he he lifted Charlie to her feet putting his hands round her waist to guide her. Charlie tried to walk to Max's room, "nope that's not your room Charlie." Stoffel guided her to her room and placed her on the bed. He wasn't in the mood to look after her as he's always looking after her. As Stoffel walked back he didn't bother cleaning up the mess, he would make Charlie do it tomorrow.

When Charlie entered the kitchen the next morning she felt like a naughty teenager with her parents punishing her. Max, Anna and Stoffel all stood in the kitchen with their arms folded looking cross. "Morning" Charlie half smiled despite it being 2 in the afternoon. "Right, you will not leave this apartment until it's spotless. Me and Anna are going out for an event with my sponsor and Max is meeting Daniel up the pub, Charlie I hate to do this but please stay in tonight." Stoffel commands. If you know one thing about Charlie it's that she hates being told what to do, if she's told not to do something 90% of the time she will do it. Charlie just nodded and starts to clean up the kitchen.

Max left at around 5 and Stoffel leaves in ten minutes. Charlie was dressed in ripped high waisted jeans and an off the shoulder top, however she put a dressing gown over her and lay in bed. Stoffel came in and it looked like Charlie was ready for bed. After 30 minutes of Stoffel and Anna had finally left so she decided to text Daniel.

Charlie
Do not read this out loud or tell max.
What pub are you at?

Daniel
Umm okay and the crown, it's legit round the corner. Why? I thought you were 'grounded'.

Charlie
Don't worry you'll see in a bit ;)

Charlie made her way to the pub and she saw Max, Daniel and Nico Rosberg all say round a table. "Heyyy ladsss" Charlie said with a beer already in her hand. "Fuck sake Charlie, Stoffel is going to kill you" Max laughed at Charlie's behaviour. "Wait why?" Nico asked confused. "Charlie's 'grounded' she's been partying too much and Stoffel had told her she has to stay in tonight" Max explains. "Okay first I'm not 'grounded' and second Stoff can't tell me what to do. The more he stops me, the more I will do it." Charlie smiles. "Just don't get me in the shit" Max said not wanting to get in trouble with Stoffel. Charlie then frowns as its come to her as why she's reacting this way, "it's just.... When I lost my parents all I felt was hurt so I turned to drink. I wouldn't say I had a problem but I liked to party a lot, I started to hang out with the wrong crowd. Stoffel hated seeing me like that, it destroyed him. I think after everything's that's happened over these past months has brought back that feeling." Daniel pulled his arm around Charlie pulling her in.

"Anyway so what do you lads do at a pub, let me be a lad for the night" Charlie smiled pushing the tears back, she changed the subject wanting to see what the boys gets up to. "First of all the tradition is to see who can down a pint of beer the quickest" Daniel smirks cheering her up. "Ah come on mate she's a girl, they don't drink beer." Nico laughs. Charlie just smirks and downs all of her beer in one. The boys just sit there is amaze. "Not too bad for a girl eh?" Charlie nudges Nico.

The night was filled with laughter and a lot of sports talk. Charlie liked this feeling apart of boy talk. It wasn't too late but Max wanted to get home before Stoffel and Anna did. "Charlie, we better be off. We need to get home before Stoffel does." Max explains, Charlie agrees and Daniel and Nico also walk back with them. Charlie wasn't drunk or even tipsy, she had just had a nice time.

By the time Max and Charlie got home Stoffel and Anna were already home sat on the sofa. As Charlie walks through the door Stoffel just gives her evil eyes. "Okay Stoff, no need for that. So what I went out. What you gonna do, ground me again." Charlie said sassily. "Look I'm sorry, but I'm your friend I'm trying to look out for you." Stoffel argued back. "Well a friend wouldn't stop me having fun would they!" Charlie started to get annoyed. Stoffel knows Charlie and he knows she's always up for an argument however he wasn't going to give it her. "Okay I'm sorry. I shouldn't have tried and stop you go out but you have to understand that going out every night and getting drunk isn't going to sort your problems." Stoffel said trying to calm Charlie down. Charlie just sighs looking to the floor "I'm sorry too" Charlie and Stoffel hug and make up.

All 4 of them we sat in the sofa, "you coming to France?" Anna asks Charlie. "Nah I can't deal with 3 race weekends in a row" Charlie laughs "but I'm going to fly out to Austria and then go to Britain with you guys" Charlie smiles. "Are you excited for silverstone?" Max asks as its her home race. "I'm super excited, I can't wait to be back in the Uk!" Charlie gets excited.