My Fire -Charles Leclerc

Chapter 60- do you think about me?

(Charles pov)
March 10th, 2023- Monaco
6:02 pm

I had realized slowly but surely that I did make a bit of a mistake during the interaction with magnolia after the race but in my defense I did just retire from the first race of the season.

So here I was outside of magnolia's apartment door taking a deep breath before knocking. It was weird, I knew I had feelings for her but I didn't want to tell her and make things awkward between us.

"Charles, what's up?" Paul asks opening the door

"Oh hey Paul, is magnolia here? I have to ask her a few questions." I state as he nods

"Yeah she's in her room." He says moving to the side and letting me in

"Paul hurry up, Maggie says she wants pizza and-" Freya says coming out of the room and pausing

"You are definitely not Leo." Freya chuckles as I nod

"Yeah, is now a bad time? I could always just text her?" I ask

"No I can go grab her for you, me and Freya will go get the pizza while you two chat." Paul says and I look towards the door to her room and see her turning around to go back to the room

Great start.

Maggie, Charles says he has something to discuss with you."Paul says to her and she gives a fake smile

"Does he now?" She asks

"Yeah, Freya and I are going to go pick up the pizza while you talk." Paul says and faster than the speed of light the two of them exit the apartment

"Hey." I say softly

"What do you want Charles" she sighs and runs a hand through her hair

She looks tired. She has dark circles under her eyes, the way she walks is drowsy and she just sounds tired. All I can hope is that I am not the reason why, but more than that I hope I can help.

"I wanted to check on you, last I talked to you,you were crying and closing the door on me." I say as she just shrugs it off

"I was tired." She replies simply and almost instinctively I roll my eyes

"Bullshit, I want born yesterday. You were crying and something was bothering you. Just tell me what happened, you'll feel better when you talk about it." I plead

"You don't know me Charles, we aren't friends. We are just two people who occasionally work together, I'm not going to dump my problems on you." She shoots back

I sigh taking out my phone and going to message Paul really fast

Charles
Sorry about this but me and magnolia are going to go out and get something to eat

Paul
Say no more, me and Freya will just go to her place

Charles
Thanks Paul
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"You are not leaving until you tell me at least why you closed the door on me." I say
She nods her head with a grin growing on her face

"Freya and Paul will come back and they will be here so that will be awkward won't it?" She asks

"Nope, they are going to Freyas apartment now. I told Paul I was going to take you out so they didn't need to come back here" I smile and she rolls her eyes

"Why are you doing this, I don't understand why you care so much." She sighs

There it is again. Every time I hear that sigh it's like a piece of my souls breaks off and it kills me to know that things are this bad for her.