Lost and Found

Chapter 29

Anthoine had told Sara when he would arrive at the track in Belgium that Saturday and with her trustworthy camera, she was already waiting. She would spend yet again another weekend at the track but with three of the people she cared most for in the world, it was the best way to be able to catch up with all three of them.

Carlos had to be at the track earlier than Anthoine had to and Sara had joined him but once he was busy, she had the time to sneak away. After letting Carlos know she was going to see if she could find Anthoine or Pierre.

It gave her the possibility of snapping a few photos without him knowing. Anthoine's birthday was coming up and Sara was already busy with printing out photos and putting them in a new album but she still needed more. That weekend – or better said that Friday as she had already taken so many photos – she would do her best to put the final racing photos together before dinner the next day, she would snap some more casual photos.

She saw Anthoine coming her way and turned it on. She took a few and then through the lens of her camera, Sara also watched Juliette enter the paddock. She raised her paddock pass to the scanner and the now familiar sound of the pass being accepted rang in Sara's ears. She bit her lip as she watched her leave with her Mercedes crew.

"Hey." Anthoine walked up to her, striking some silly pose that got Sara out of the trance she was in. It was still strange watching her former best friend walking around as nothing had happened in their past. "What's up?"

"Juliette," Sara whispered as she lowered her camera and stepped forward to greet Anthoine with a hug.

"It still does a lot to you, doesn't it." Sara nodded.

"One side of me is still absolutely fuming." She said, clenching her jaw. It was the biggest side. "She acted like a total bitch and then just up and left. She didn't even say goodbye. Not that I would have accepted it, but this made it all the worse." Anthoine nodded. It wasn't the first time he heard Sara talk about Juliette like that and while knowing Juliette's side of the story, he knew Sara didn't and wouldn't until Juliette herself would tell her. "But the other side of me just wants to get over it. Maybe I overreacted and I miss the friendship we used to have, the four of us. Despite loving the three of us together, it's just not the same, I feel like something is missing."

"Just forget it for now okay? We are going to have this weekend to have fun. Speaking about that, dinner tomorrow, at seven-thirty?" Sara nodded slowly.

"That should be okay."

"Great, Julie-" There was a small pause in Anthoine's sentence. "agreed to reschedule our phone call, I had forgotten we were going to call at that time, so I don't need to move the reservation."

"That's great. I'm really looking forward to it." Sara's smile was honest and the anger she had felt towards Juliette moments ago had subdued. She hadn't even noticed the slight hesitation. "I mean, it gives me a great opportunity to-" She raised her camera again, sneaking a picture before Anthoine quickly put his hand on top of the camera to lower it again. "Make some more photos." She looked at the photo. It wasn't that good, but it was Anthoine, so she loved it either way.

"I am going to destroy that thing one day. You take it with you wherever we go and I'm pretty sure you have more than enough footage to blackmail me."

"I guess you will just have to live with it. It is not like I am going to just throw all the photos away, or delete them." Anthoine shook his head.

"Incroyable."

Xxx

Later that day, Sara looked at the screens from inside the McLaren hospitality. Carlos was still doing an interview and would have to go straight into his briefing after, so she wouldn't see him for a while. She bounced her leg up and down and chewed on her lip. Anthoine had qualified p13, which could set up a good race. At least, a race with a decent amount of points.