We could stay on this boat all night, if it was Charles' but we did have a group of people to be back to and we had already been out for long enough as the time was creeping upon half eleven. We'd spent our time together trying to find things to speak about which we didn't know about each other, which was more difficult than it should've been for me as I felt I'd told him all my life that day we spent on the hill together.
While he sailed the boat back to the bay, I took in the peace that we had whilst we were still alone. The waves were a little choppier now but they didn't rock the boat that much and if the boat did rock slightly more, I saw Charles look at me with a nervous look, which made me laugh. It didn't take long for us to get back and then make the walk we had done earlier but this time back to the car.
The car journey was just as beautiful as it was on the way there and I meant it was beautiful in every way. However, due to it being dark the buildings were now lit up and the landscapes were more of a silhouette. Also, if it makes sense, it smelt cooler but I didn't know if that was the right terminology to use for the scent outside the car window, which was open.
It wasn't long before we were walking back into the house that everyone else was lounging in and I was met with a very smug look on Daniels face as Charles walked in front of me to join the people that were still awake. I kept my face as normal as possible so that I wasn't giving anything away but I saw Lily make her way into the hallway behind Daniel and she too had a similar look on her face.
"What are you guys looking at?" I said, trying to play it cool.
"Been up to anything" Lily said and then she pointed to just below her lip and told me to look at mine.
I pulled out my phone and opened the camera whilst Daniel and Lily both giggled between them about whatever Lily was trying to make me aware of. When I looked in the camera, I could see that my lip liner was slightly smudged but only slightly as I hadn't had much on to begin with. There was no way I;d tell these two about what had just happened because then Pierre and Lando would both end up being in the loop so I had to either think of a good excuse or pray Charles would save me from this conversation.
Charles wasn't going to help in this situation. It was up to me to get us both out of it and I had to come up with some sort of lie on the spot. My best acting was going to have to come out because this was my best friend and one of my new closer friends that I couldn't get anything past and hadn't done yet before.
"Oh, that" I laughed "we had some strawberries and chocolate, nothing fancy but I can;t believe Charles didn't tell me I smudged." I pulled a little pout face after to try and make it more convincing and unexpectedly their smug faces both disappeared. That proved that if I really needed to I could lie, not that it's a good thing but sometimes it is.
Still awake was Carlos, Pierre, Lewis, Lando, Isa and Kelly. Of course there was Daniel, Lily and Charles too but it seemed that the others were all already in bed, which was understandable as it was past midnight and unlike us lot they must have some type of sleeping schedules. I had heard them all laughing, mostly the boys, when I'd been standing in the hallway with Daniel and Lily but I didn't know why until I walked in to some weird goat game on the tv screen.
"No you don't milk the goat" Lando firmly said in Lewis' direction "you bloody are the goat, you hit people and stuff". I could tell that Lando was very passionate about this game as he handed Lewis the controller and he started bossing him around on what to do. I'd not had this insight to the drivers before so knowing that their free time right now was spent on playing a goat game was very laughable from my perspective.
Charles too was laughing, a very distinctive laugh as he started to wind Lando up by saying "but who milks the goats if they hit into people". He looked over at me with tears in his eyes, almost crying of laughter as he got told off by Lando in the exact way that Lewis had been told off less than a minute ago.
"So passionate about a goat game" Lily whispered to me, making me chuckle to myself a little, earning a glare from Lando myself as he must've thought I was joining in with the rest of them. I was but he didn't need to know that.
The game somehow got way too competitive at one point as they decided to play split screen and set themselves objective like who could get into a blue box first. Due to the high competitiveness of them all, it was half 1 in the morning when the first person decided to rage quite as they believed their goat wasn't doing what it was meant to and was broken. Funnily enough, the person that quit first was Lando.
After Lando left for bed, dragging Lily along with him, Charles soon got out of the seat he had got comfortable in and he looked over at me then moved his head in the direction of the door to the hallway. I gathered that he too wanted to go up but I didn't know that he wanted me to join him straight away. Like nobody else was there, he got up and as he walked past me he picked my hand up and pulled me along behind him as I turned to give a little smile to the rest that were in the room, including Isa who wiggled her eyebrows at me.
"Do you not care about whose watching" I quietly asked Charles as he continued to pull me behind him up the stairs by the attachment of our hands.
"Not really, too tired to care"
We entered our room and both went through our same nightly routines before joining each other in the same bed as the night before. Something definitely felt different as he was less hesitant to reach out to me and pull me closer and being so close to him had a better feeling to it than it did to me this morning waking up. I felt him stroking the side of my hair and I'm pretty sure that single action of his was what sent me to sleep as I don't recall anything more after that.
I was awoken by the room to our bedroom door swinging wide open, hitting the drawers that were behind it. Luckily, the door didn't swing open fast so it only hit the drawers lightly, not wrecking anything. I didn't know if to hide under the quilts or not when I saw Carlos' face appear from the doorway, looking shocked as he saw me laid in the same bed as Charles.
I quickly put my index finger up to my lips, telling Carlos to keep quiet as Charles was still fast asleep next to me and I'd rather him not be disturbed. I saw Carlos go through a range of emotions as he made his way further into the room, whilst his face went from being confused to a smirk as he shook his finger at me. He clearly came in to look for something because he wouldn't enter for no reason but I wished he was a little quieter on entry.
He'd rummaged through some of the drawers before finally finding what he needed, which was a shirt and I assumed it was something Daniel had told him was in here. I could hear Charles' breathing pattern change slightly and when I turned my head, I could see his eyes were opening a little so before Carlos noticed, I nudged Charles and pointed my head towards Carlos who was putting things back in the drawer he had found the shirt in. He understood what I was hinting and closed his eyes so it seemed as if he was still asleep.
Carlos soon went to make his way out of the room and turned back round to me again wiggling his finger and shaking his head at the same time. It was clear that even though he was Charles' team mate he too had no clue about Lauren and what her involvement was with Charles as he would've seen this as Charles being unfaithful. All I knew was that this was for Charles to explain and not me.
"I'll ask about this later" he whispered before he left, loud enough so that I could hear but quiet enough so that he wouldn't wake Charles, even though he wasn't asleep anyway. Carlos didn't need to know that.
I put a thumbs up and as he left the room I felt Charles sit up beside me and when I looked he was looking back at me, surprisingly with a smile on his face. I didn't expect him to look unhappy but I didn't expect him to look joyful at the fact him and Lauren's fake relationship was going to have to be explained to another person, which he didn't want to be doing.
"Your smiling" I pointed out the obvious.
"I just find it funny, Carlos somehow always figures out things without meaning to" he laughed "obviously he knows nothing but he will know somethings off"
"Is that a good thing?"
"Maybe. It means I will have to tell him the truth about me and Lauren so you don't look bad but I don't think I'll mention last night" he explained.
I knew what he was saying and doing was right but when I kissed him last night I think we forgot about the reality of everything. It did hurt a little hearing Charles say he wouldn't tell Carlos about last night but it was his career and he knew better than me so I would have to trust him to make the right decisions, surely he knew what he was doing.
"Well I best get ready for this fun day ahead" he said, which stopped me from thinking any further "I will see you later mon cherí". He gave me a small kiss on my forehead and then my cheek before he got up out of the bed, grabbed some clothes and a towel before making his way out of the bedroom, leaving me to fall back to sleep.
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rs Note
Hi, ty for 30k. You guys are the best❤️
Also thanks to someone's comments I realised I never went through and translated the french parts to english so I will do that soon :)
~Mel