warning: this chapter contains mature content (for those who've been wanting this; you're welcome)
ps. also btw thank u for all your lovely comments 🥹 i cant reply to all of them but i lov & appreciate u guys sm 😭 this chapter's just a little shorter than usual but i packed it with enough of everything 🤩 the next chapter gets the heavier stuff hehe so hope u guys get excited for that too <333
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"And yet, my heart only knows you."
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THINGS SEEMED TO BE RESETTING FOR Andie and Charles ever since Paris which was a relief for all parties involved. Though, it did come as a shock to a few people how from one weekend, things seemed terminally tense between them and then suddenly have them posing for pictures at a fashion week red carpet the next, looking more in love than ever.
Andie and Charles were focusing on being there for each other from now on and admitted to themselves that no matter how much they try to deny it, their personal lives will always find a way to interfere with their professional one... so might as well live with it instead tiptoeing around it.
Although, not all is well yet as offers were still on the table for Andie and who's to say none will come for Charles?
But never mind that for now.
They deserved to just be normal people in their 20s for once. And so, just like any other mentally and physically exhausted 20-something girl, Andie was fast asleep on the king-sized bed in a hotel in Singapore, completely knocked out even with a strong and loud thunderstorm outside her windows.
It was the Tuesday before the race weekend and she just arrived hours before. Charles was supposed to meet up with her as he arrived there the day before but he's been out with Pierre, Lando, and George the whole day. They invited Andie on their curious food-trip-slash-bar-hopping adventure in one of Asia's liveliest cities but she politely declined as she was too tired from her flight.
Charles had promised he'd come visit her room when he gets back but Lando teased him that he probably messed up again and that's why Andie wasn't joining them that night. It was a joke, of course.
But it was already around one in the morning and Andie still hadn't seen her boyfriend. She was already knocked out, having waited for his calls or texts that never came.
To put her worries aside before she slept, she reminded herself that she trusted him and that he deserves a boys' night out too to just unwind. He was probably too busy downing drinks to ever do anything else anyway.
And true enough...
Andie awoke to the soft vibrations of her phone under pillow. She groggily lifted her head up and grabbed her phone from underneath, still trying to pry open her eyes. She was met with a bright screen that had Pierre's caller ID on it. Still half awake, she swiped and put the phone against her ear.
