You Are Not Alone [Charles Leclerc]

🌠Twenty-first chapter🌠

"I'm jealous, I'm overzealous
When I'm down, I get real down
When I'm high, I don't come down
I get angry, baby, believe me
I could love you just like that
And I could leave you just this fast."
Issues; Julia Michaels

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"A ball in royal palace?" I repeated after Carola, "and tomorrow?"

"Yeah, it's every year. Charles didn't tell you?" she raised her eyebrows. Since I made that mess in Baku bar he is not talking with me. I was trying to apologize, but he is ignoring me. Week ago he flew to race in Austria. I told him I'm not feeling well to go with him and I think that he didn't mind.

"No,  he didn't," I decided not to drag Carola into drama and didn't talk about my latest escapades.

"Weird. But anyway,  as I said it's a ball in royal palace. Royal family is also there and everybody can come. You should totally go,  because it's magical," she smiled brightly, ,,beautiful dresses,  classical music and waltz..."

"Wait, wait, wait, " I stopped her chirping, "First thing: I don't have a dress. Second: I can't dance waltz. And third: I don't have a partner to go with..."

"And Charles is a ghost?" She interrupted me. Charles is mainly an idiot.

"Let's say that we have some issues," I shrugged,  dodging her question.  I saw on her eyes that she is not satisfied, but didn't ask further.

"Well, we can go shopping, I can teach you waltz, and  I can go with you as your date. So what do you say?"

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"There so many beautiful dresses, I can't decide," I sighed looking around the shop. We are already here for hours and it's hell annoying.

"Ariana,  I found a perfect dress for ya," Carola shouted and ran to me with a navy blue dress in her hands. At first it looked really nice. Until I saw that V-neck.

"Not in a milion years," I snorted and turned around, "that's perfect dress for you, because you have boobs." And I'm a runway for planes.

"You won't even consider... "

"Nope. Try it yourself," Carola just shrugged and went away. I kept looking and then a long black dress with a big skirt caught my attention. I found an empty changing room and tried it on. It fitted me perfectly, but still I was unsure if this is the right dress.