Catch Me - Charles Leclerc ✓

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╰┈➤ December of 2023,
in Monaco 🇲🇨

It's christmas time! I am so happy, it's my favorite time of the year. But before that, I'll give you a quick update on what's going on since 3 years ago.

Charles has been very frustrated with work for the last years, unfortunately the team hasn't been able to built a good car since 2019. Well they have, but they're strategies haven't been the greatest.

Things also haven't been good for my father's team, after Lewis stolen championship.

I became a F1 photographer.

I made new friends on the paddock. Becoming a F1 photographer made me get close with a lot of the drivers and also their girlfriends.
- More recently I became friends with Ye-Jun Park, she's married to Carlos. I know Carlos is married, shocking, but even worse is that we never heard of them even dating... And well I guess it makes since, the public doesn't know but their relationship is a whole contract. Ye-Jun does seem to like Carlos, but he doesn't even care if he's seen with other girls.
- Remember the stylist me and Charles talked about, Elodie Dumont? She became stylist of a lot of drivers in the paddock, she also was a WAG, Max's girlfriend, they even have a daughter but... that's a whole another story.
- Lewis is married! Yes who would've thought. He's married to Kiyana Baxter, me and her are good friends she's a wonderful human being just like Lewis.
- Also I don't know if I mentioned but back in 2020, my father had a new secretary named Francesca. She is younger than Kiyana and older than me. Unlike myself she is very bold when it comes to express her thoughts and feelings. Kiyana is bold too, but not with her emotions. Anyways, she has a crush on my dad. I support it, but it's still a bit weird to think, but as long as they are happy, oh well. Francesca is good person and she seems to get along very well with dad, which can be very difficult specially because he gets very stress about work. She also says a lot of times that "All I said to your father was Save Me, and that's exactly what he did", from what I understood her ex was kinda crazy, but I don't actually fully understand what she meant, by saying that.
- Lando also has got himself a girlfriend, not that I didn't see it coming. His best friend's sister, Giselle, they were obviously in love with each other for a long time.
- Daniel has finally found himself a girlfriend too and even kids! He's a great stepdad and he's close to being a father too.
- There was a time that I was photographing the F2 drivers and ended up meeting a girl driver, Diana. She's a real cool person, unfortunately she's no longer a driver due to some complications. Oh she's dating Haas rookie, Ollie Bearman. They are adorable!

The last couple of years me and Charles have spent Christmas and New Year's with our families and sometimes friends all together. It was just like old times.

This year me and Charles bought a house together and so we are hosting our first Christmas party at our new house. There was a year that we spent New Year's in our apartment, but it was too small for everyone, still we had a great time.

"Is everyone ready to start opening the presents?" Rose and Arthur were acting like literal kids. Each present was opened one by one. There was still a couple of presents left, but they were brand gifts so Charles, Arthur and dad decided not to open them.

"There is still one present left." I look at Charles and wait to see who is it to "Valentina can you please come here." I look around and see my dad nodding. This is weird. I get up and stand in front of Charles. Francesca looks at me with a smirk before resting her head on my dad's shoulder "Val, 3 years ago I gave you that promise ring, as a symbol of our love. Today I want to change that ring with a new one. One that if you accept it can guide us to a ceremony of eternity." I look confused. He then grabs a tiny box from under the tree and gets on his knees "3 years ago I was sure that I wanted this day to come. But I knew that I wanted to marry you the first time my eyes layed on you, back when you moved next door." I giggle remembering how he hidden himself back then "I want to spend forever with only you by my side. It's you & I against the world Mon Amour, and I wouldn't want any other way. So if you allow me, will you marry me?" I start to cry even more and just nod hugging him.

"A million times yes." he hugs me back and spins me around the room "I was able to catch you see." I say and he laughs. If you are wondering, before every race Charles and me have a thing where he says Catch Me if you can, because he believes he is too fast for me to catch him with my camera.

"Just like you catched my heart all those years ago."

THE END

I have finally concluded this story! This chapter was more like a little updating also for you to know my upcoming stories. I hope you enjoyed this story, sorry if it looked a little rushed towards the end. To be fair I was not sure what else to had to the story anymore.

Make sure you stay tuned for the next stories of this series. And if you want to continue to see more Charles & Valentina content, you can check my tiktok where I post about this series:
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thank you for the support on the story, it truly means a lot to me💕 I hope you guys have a great year. As for me I'll try to post more regularly😭