Forever and always

Chapter eighteen

Olivia's pov:

July 2021

After the amazing podium Charles had to attend some interviews and the post race press conference. I then waited for him inside the ferrari hospitality, because the media wasn't allowed in here. And I certainly didn't wanna answer any of their questions right now.

"Hey Oli, something wrong?" Carlos asked, walking towards me and sat down. "I dunno, I mean it was very stupid of Charles, but at the same time I can't blame him, he's my boyfriend and he should be allowed to kiss me whenever he want to" I said looking a bit lost. "I know.. But maybe it's good that people know you are together?" he asked, looking at me. "Maybe you're right, but I just know Max will be angry and that he will be even angrier that I didn't tell him myself" I said. "You should talk to him, as soon as possible so he won't be angrier" Carlos said, laying a hand on my shoulder.

Charles came back after he was done with everything, and then we left the track together. "Are you dating?" "Is Olivia your girlfriend" "How long have you been together?" "Why did you kiss her" All these kind of questions were yelled at us as we walked towards the driver who would drive us to the hotel, people were taking so many pictures as well, it was very overwhelming and not how I wanted it to be, and this wasn't even how I wanted it to be announced.. "I'm sorry for this, babe" he said as the car door closed. "It's fine Charles, it's good that it's out, but it wasn't how I wanted it to be announced" I answered resting my head on his shoulder. "Sorry, I am stupid" he said.. "No you aren't!".. Most of the car ride to the hotel was quite silent, we both were clearly thinking a lot about things.

We arrived at the hotel and got to my hotel room. We sat down both of us completely exhausted, mostly Charles since he had the race, but I was so tired too.

"So where do we go from here?" he asked. "I don't really know," I shrugged. "I mean there is really no way out," he said. "Please, let's talk about something else, let's deal with this tomorrow" I said as I didn't want to have this talk now, not when we were supposed to be celebrating him. "But it's important," he said. "Yeah, let's talk tomorrow! You just got p2 in a race after several races with bad results, we should celebrate it!" I said smiling at him, he did too. "Okay deal, how do you wanna celebrate?" he asked and came closer to me.

"I don't really know, it's not like we can go out to a club, the media will be all around us" I said, thinking about what we could do.

"Let's go home?" he said whilst we were both thinking of a way to celebrate him. I thought about it for a while. "Let's do it" I said and agreed to go home since we had nothing to do here anyway, the grand prix was finished and there won't be a race next week, so we had nowhere else to be. "I'll go arrange a flight, start packing babe" he said getting up from the couch, gave me a kiss and then walked to the balcony where he made a few calls. I began to pack my stuff. I was ready to leave.

"There's a private jet taking off in two hours" He said as he walked in from the balcony. "Great, I'm ready" I said, walking closer to him where I gave him a big hug. "I'll take a quick shower and then pack my stuff" he said, giving me a kiss on my forehead before leaving to get a shower, to wash all the champagne and sweat off from earlier.

The two hours went by fast, we managed to get to the airport without any media capturing us, a few fans might have spotted us but that was fine. We were now sitting in the private jet, just the two of us ready to leave and get home. "I'm sorry mon amour, I really am! I don't know why I did it, I just didn't think clearly, but when I saw you I was so happy for you being there for me-" he said, having his arm around my shoulder. "Charles, how many times shall I repeat myself, it's fine. I love that everyone knows, I just wished I had talked to Max before it happened" I interrupted him, he smiled. "Have you heard anything from him by the way, or from Kelly?" he asked. "No, no one has given me any updates on him. I hope he's doing alright, I texted Kelly and Max but none of them are answering me" I said a bit sad, it was hours since I texted them, so I knew that they were ignoring me.