Back To You (Sebastian Vettel)

Chapter 17: Jealousy

Gia turned around and left him quickly, as she didn't want to talk to him. He sighed as she left him even before he finished talking. He was so sure that she hated him. She probably didn't even want to see his face. Or maybe she is jealous?

Gia kept walking to the coffee shop until she found Mariska there. She stopped her with asking, "Gia, what's wrong? Why are you walking so fast?"

"Oh, nothing. I just looked for you." Then, Gia decided to tell her what had just happened. She sat on a stool there. "Sebastian comes here with a woman. Maybe that's his girlfriend."

Mariska was surprised with the fact that Seb paid a visit to their bookstore again. "Oh, really? He really kept his promise to come here again."

"Yeah. But that woman brought a gelato, so I told her the rule that a visitor can't bring any kind of food here."

"And then?"

"Then, I saw that Sebastian asked her to leave and she looked upset. She looked at me with a disgusting look before she left."

"Oh my goodness, I can't believe it! She thinks that she can do whatever she wants because she is famous. I don't understand why Seb wants to date her." Mariska shook her head as she didn't believe with everything she had just heard from Gia.

"You said famous?"

"Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, she is a German fashion designer," Mariska explained. "So, what did you do after that? Did you talk to Seb after his annoying girlfriend left?" Mariska asked as she was teasing her.

"Why should I? I don't think that I have to talk to him. You fancy talking to him? Just go and see him then!" Gia pointed to the direction where Seb was standing at.

Mariska wondered with the sudden change of Gia's mood. She didn't think that she had to speak like that. "Gia, I'm sorry for teasing you. I'm just kidding."

Gia realized that she had spoken with a little bit of anger and she quickly regretted it. "God... Mariska, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you."

She stroked her back gently. "It's fine, Gia. What happened to you? Just talk to me if you have a problem."

"No, I'm just... a bit tired maybe," Gia lied.

"You want to go home now?" Mariska was worrying her best friend.

"No, I'm fine. There are still 4 hours left before we close the store. I can't just leave you."

"I think that you need a little time to take a rest. You can go to our office room if you want to," she offered her.

"I think so. Thanks, Mariska."

Gia obeyed Mariska's suggestion to take a rest at the office room. When her friend wasn't seen anymore, she moved from her stool and decided to find Seb. As one of the owners, she thought that she had to thank him for visiting her bookstore. She finally found him reading next to the biography bookshelf. She greeted him. "Hi, Seb."

Seb glanced at her and smiled. "Hi. You are Mariska, right?"

"Yes, I am. Nice to meet you again here. And thanks for visiting our bookstore again. It's really an honour for us," she thanked him. She always used 'we' for respecting Gia as the owner too.

Seb laughed a little. "I'm only a visitor, like the others. Please don't see me as an F1 driver here."

Mariska admired his humbleness. "You're so humble, Seb." She could see that Seb blushed after he got praised by her. "Oh Seb, Tobi told me that there will be the German GP this weekend."

He frowned. "Tobi? You mean Tobias?"

Mariska chuckled as she realized that Seb didn't know her boyfriend's nickname. "Oh yeah, I mean Tobias. His friends and I usually call him Tobi."