Forever and always

Chapter forty-nine

After clearing the track the lights went green again, and the drivers could now go out again. Charles was currently having the fastest time! - All nine drivers were out setting times, Max and Checo fought for second, but in the end Max grabbed second place. Charles was unbeatable, his time was perfect, and that secured him pole position!.

Qualifying had ended and I was so happy about the results. Charles, Max and Checo had to give interviews, when Charles stepped out of the car all the fans on the grandstand were cheering loud, it was awesome to see. I was standing together with a lot of people from ferrari, close the drivers while they gave their interviews.

Before the interview, Charles ran towards his mechanics, engineers and the other ones here, he was greeted with hugs and cheers from them. Before walking away he also quickly walked to me where I pulled him into a big hug. "Congratulations babe, I'm so proud of you" I smiled. "Thanks love!" he smiled and pulled me closer in a kiss, which was definitely something the photographers liked. "Go do your interview" I smiled, so he did and he did awesomely. I'm really proud, we're on the third race already, and he has two out of three poles, it looks like this is going to be a great season for him!.

After the interviews, I of course wished Max congrats as well, I'm also really proud of him, it looks like his season will be really good as well. While Charles and Max were doing other things that I naturally could not be a part of, I walked to McLaren garage to see if I could get a glimpse of my best friend. But I was greeted by a smiling Lando. "Hey Lando, have you seen Daniel around?" I asked. "Yeah, he's in there, just go inside it won't be a problem" he smiled. "Thanks, and congrats on fourth, it's amazing" I smiled. "Thanks Oli" he smiled before walking off, and I walked inside the McLaren garage to find my friend.

I saw him standing in the back of the garage alone, so I walked up to him and gave him a little jump scare. "Hello!" I said and touched his shoulders, so he did a little jump. "Wtf!" he laughed and turned around to see me with a smile on my face. "Livia you almost gave me a heart attack" he laughed and pulled me into a hug. "Yeah, thank you for last time" I laughed. "No, I just wanted to come by and see how you're doing?" I smiled. "I'm good, really happy that we made it into Q3".. "Yeah it's really good. and congrats you were great out there".. "Thanks Livia, but really it's so annoying Lando is always in front.. I feel like I'm a failure to this team"- "Oh no you're not, trust me Danny! You are not a failure!" I said, I could see the frustration in him. "But we have the same car, and somehow he always manages to be in front, it's not that I aren't happy for him, but sometimes I wanna be first.. It's just frustrating, but at least we both made it to Q3 today" he said, trying to look at the positive side, just like he always does. "Yeah I get it, I know it's really annoying but just try to look on the bright side, you're doing great, I'm proud of you" I smiled. "Yeah, thanks for believing in me Livia".. "No need to thank me, I'm always here for you Danny" I smiled..

After being with Daniel for a little while, he had to go out and do a few interviews. Charles were now done, so I found my way back to him. He was standing with Mattia talking a little, so I just waited in the background for when they were finished talking.

"Hi Olivia, how are you doing?" Mattia asked as they were done talking and walked towards me. "Hi, I'm really good, you?" I smiled. "Also good, thanks for asking," he smiled. "Ready to head out?" Charles asked. "Yeah, if you're done with everything" I asked, he nodded. "Well, am I seeing you here again tomorrow?" Mattia asked right before he was about to walk away. "Yeah, count me in," I smiled. "Great, then I'll see both of you tomorrow. Take care guys" he said and smiled our way. "You too," I said. "Yeah take care" Charles smiled. Then Mattia walked away.. Then Charles and I went to grab a few of his things from his driver's room, and he also quickly had to change before we left.

Then we walked together through the paddock, and out to a car which drove us to our hotel. - We didn't do much more that day..

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The following day we woke up and got ready for race day! The weather today was lovely, the sun was shining bright and was really hot, so I chose to wear a cute summer dress with some red and white pattern on it, and my hair was straightened to no one's surprise. When I had finished getting dressed, and Charles had taken his usual ferrari t shirt on, a pair of shorts and finished setting his hair which looked perfect as always, well he looked perfect. - We left the hotel and were ready to head towards the circuit.. I was actually really excited for this race, since Charles and Max are together in the first start row!.

Time just flew by so fast, and before we could look around the drivers were standing on the startgrid hearing the national anthem. I loved how much Daniel enjoyed it, he was singing along and the crowd loved it, there were so many Danny Ric here fans and I loved it!.

After the national anthem all drivers walked to their cars which were already at the start grid of course. I had just before the national anthem wished Charles and Carlos good luck, and I had also texted Max and Daniel good luck with the race..

When the clock hit 15.00 the formation lap began, and Charles led the lap with everyone else behind him. After one lap, the five red lights went out and they were on their way. Charles had a great start and Max was following him right behind, unluckily Carlos was already down to 13th, there was a problem with his tyres. And in the second lap he lost grip and was out in the gravel, it looked like his race was done for today. "Oh no!" Isa said, I was watching the race with her today, since both of us naturally were in the Ferrari garage.. "Is it over for him?" I asked, we didn't quite know yet. A safety car came out, he was for sure done for today. "yeah, he's out of the race?" Isa said sad on his boyfriend's behalf. Carlos got out of the car and was driven away from the track, after a little while he walked into the garage. We quickly talked with him, he was understandably frustrated about it.. Then we went to change, and then sat next to Mattia and the race engineers by the pitwall.

The race began again after the safety car drove off. It went really well from here, Charles kept leading with Max behind, trying a few times to overtake but without success.

At the 22th lap Seb had to retire from the race, he stopped on track in turn 5 after having a spin in turn four where he lost his frontwing, there was no way he could continue. So now Seb was out of the race as well..

Once again it began, and it was still with Charles first, he struggled a bit with the temperature in his tyres, which made Max come closer to him, but eventually after a little duel he managed to shake Max off, and were now leading with a good amount of time, and with a great temperature in his tyres.

But then at lap 39 Max told over the radio that he could smell something weird coming from the car. So the team told him to stop the car, since there was some smoke coming from the car. Unfortunately this meant Max also was done for today, which was really annoying and I really felt sorry for my brother.

The last 19 laps went smooth for Charles, he kept his first place all the way to the end, and crossed the line as winner, once again I felt nothing but proud. I ran with a few others from the team to see him drive up to parc ferme. Here he jumped out of the car while the fans were cheering loud, he ran towards his team and me. The team was clapping him on his back and his helmet. "Congratulations babe, you deserve this win more than anyone" I smiled big as he pulled me into a hug. "Thank you so much, I love you,".. "I love you too" I said and placed a kiss on the side of his helmet, since he was still wearing it. Then he went to get weighted and get interviewed before heading into the cooldown room, and eventually it was time for the podium. The podium ceremony was amazing, the Monegasque and italian national anthems were played and it truly meant a lot to Charles, he was so happy. I can't believe he is leading the championship, he deserves all the points he gets.

After we had finished everything at the track, we headed directly to an afterparty in town, it was only with people we knew, so I felt safe after what happened last time I was at a nightclub in Australia. Charles kept his eye on me all night, so did Daniel and Max, those three made me feel very special and protected, it was a bit overwhelming but really nice at the same time. We celebrated Charles's win the whole night, we drank drinks and danced nonstop. Max was really happy for Charles, and celebrated with us as well even though he might still be a bit pissed about his dnf.

We were at the club for many hours having the best night in a long time, we eventually got back to the hotel. Both Charles and I got a bit drunk, I didn't really mind because we had a great night, we were both really happy about his win, and we had so much fun and that is what matters most in the end.
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That was it for this chapter, hope you liked it. Stay tuned for the next one, thanks for reading along. Lots of love from me 🤍✨