You Are Not Alone [Charles Leclerc]

🌠Fifteenth chapter🌠

"Why did you leave me here to burn?
I'm way too young to be this hurt
I feel doomed in hotel rooms
Staring straight up at the wall."
I Have Questions; Camila Cabello

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*TW - alcohol abuse*

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Circuit de Catalunya; Barcelona; Spain; May 2017

For the first time I'm travelling on my own. Charles is already in Barcelona, because team needs him and we are not sharing room this time. I wouldn't say we are back on normal terms, it's still little tense between us. And then photos came. Remeber when we were a fake couple in Bahrain? To get to Alex? Well there was a paparazzi in hospital and he didn't hesitate to take some juice shots of us. Immediately we were all across social media and gossip pages.
And what's worse, Diego saw it. It took me a lot of time explaining that there is really nothing beween him and me. It seems that he believes me, but still he is acting a little bit colder towards me.

To be honest it's weird not having Charles around me, we used to fly together. On the other hand I have time to think about what happened in Bahrain. And I put all the blame on me. I was ruthlessly neglecting Charles because I was blindfold. This time I'll change this. I'm just hoping it won't affect my relationship with Diego. I'm still wondering about expressing my feelings to him. Hopefully after Barcelona I will know if he is Mr. Right.

When I already landed on Barcelona airport and had my suitcase with me I started looking for Diego. He isn't here yet so I decided to wait for him.

"Hey Ari, just landed?" My smile curled into smile when I met Alex. At first I didn't have trust in her, but she is a great girl and we really got along. And she is so fricking smart!

"Yep I did, just waiting for Diego. You?" Actually it surprised me seeing her there. Teams are always flying earlier.

"Waiting for my boyfriend Mohamed. He had some meeting in Vienna and soon he'll be landing here very soon. I'm so excited to have him here!" We chatted a little bit and I was happy to hear that she and Lance are finally getting along. Hopefully they will finally become friends. Unfortunately that Artem guy I ship with Alex still didn't try to make a move on her. Actually he is acting like he doesn't know her...well he doesn't, but give it a time, ok?

"Hey, babe, I'm sorry the traffic is terrible here," Diego kissed my cheek and briefly greeted Alex who was watching him with a suspicious look. Butterflies started widly flying when he called me babe.

"That's ok. I'll see you soon, Al," I hugged her and then we left the airport. From the corner of my eye I saw guy with black skin coming to Alex. Her boyfriend I suppose. I didn't have time to take a better look at him, because we already left the airport. Diego helped me to get my suitcase into the car. After we drove away there was a big silence. Should I start conversation or rather be quiet?

"How is your day going?" I took a risk and spoke up.

"Good...why are you asking?" he answered my question with question. And his tone wasn't one of the nicest.