Chapter 21

                                    

                                          
Monaco
The plane landed and after I finally found my suitcase, I got outside the airport to catch an uber. 
"I don't even get a hi?!" I turned to a side and looked up from my phone. "Arthur?! What are you doing here!?" I wrapped my arms around him. "I wanted to surprise you and I'm here to take you home!" Charlotte is already here." he smiled, took my suitcase and started walking towards his car. "Okay amazing." I said and followed him. "Wait, how do you know Charlotte?" I stopped. "Her and Charles are pretty close for like 4 months now. I don't know she comes over often. Also her mom knows ours." said Arthur and put my suitcase in the back of the car. I was just standing there absorbing the informations Arthur's just told me. "Are you coming or not?" He laughed and sat in the car. "What the hell-" I asked myself and then sat in the car too.
We got to Leclerc's house after an hour. Arthur let me in and went upstairs to put my suitcase in Charles' room. "Isabella right?" I heard woman's voice behind me, when I walked into the living room. I quickly turned around, because it actually scared me a bit. "Ye that's me." I said and smiled. "Charles has already told me about you! I'm so happy that you're here and I can finally meet you and talk to you." she said and hugged me. "Oh you are Charles' mum! I'm so sorry, i'm just tired after the long journey or something, so i didn't recognise you at first." I laughed and hugged her too. "No worries my dear! Let's go to our garden! Charles is already making meat on broiler and I cooked fries!" she said and led me outside. "Ah that's so nice of you that you cooked for me." I patted her shoulder. "Of course! You are my son's girlfriend! You are family now!" she sad with the biggest smile. "Oh there is Charles! I'll leave you two alone for a while and I'll go check the fries." I nodded and she left.
"Hi" i said when i got closer to him. It was the only thing I let out of my mouth. First I wanted to ask him about Charlotte right away, but then I decided it will be more interesting later. But still "hi" was the only thing I said. "Mon amour finally you are here!" He forgot about the broiler and ran up to me. He picked me up and held me tight. "How was your way here? Everything alright?" he asked and kissed me. "Um ye, everything was perfect." I forced a smile. "I'm so happy you are back now! And i'm so proud of you for making this hard decision about leaving your home." he hugged me again.  "How was your travel here?" I asked him while he got back to the broiler. "Everything went well." he said and put all the meats on a plate.
"Also I invited Charlotte, if that's okay with you of course, but i was thinking that you would like to see her." I kissed him on a cheek. "That's amazing! So you and Char got along?" I was looking at him all the time to see how he reacts. "Um ye actually pretty well. She is cool." he said and continued serving on table. "Nice" i whispered to myself. He actually reacted almost I would say normal and calm.
Charles' mom came to us and smiled.  "I am so happy! You guys look amazing!" she said and hugged us both. "Thank you mom." said Charles and kissed her cheek. 
After few minutes Arthur, Lorenzo and also Charlotte came to the garden too. "Charlotte! My dear so nice to see you again!" said Charles' mom and hugged her. I stood there looking at them and I was trying not to laugh in disbelief. My anger was really raising up. I felt Charles' and Charlotte's eyes on me when she was greeting with the family.
I went to Arthur and Lorenzo to talk to them and distract myself. Charlotte knew right away that there is no way I'm going to greet her. 
We sat down and had dinner. I was sitting next to Charles and Arthur. We had wine and everything was great. Charles' mom is literally an angel and she is so kind to everyone. 
When we were just sitting there and talking Charles link our hands and put them on a table. I would let go right away but Pascale was already looking at us. "We only miss Carla here, but I'm so happy that Charles finally found himself a beautiful girl and that she makes him happy." she smiled and drank a bit of her wine. "She really does. She is amazing and the best girl I've ever met." he said and kissed me. I saw it, I saw Charlotte's face after he kissed me and I can't even describe how I felt. I knew there was something going on that I don't know about. 
"I hope Charles is nice to you Bella!" said Pascale and laughed. "Oh of course he is! He even invited my bestfriend here to spend time with family!" I smiled at Charlotte. "You and Char know each other?!" she asked shocked. "Do you want to answer?" i asked Charlotte. "Ehm ye we've been bestfriends since childhood." she said and kept looking down. In this moment i had to let go of Charles' hand, because I've had enough. It wasn't even anger anymore. I was sad and disappointed. 
"Mom, me and Charlotte will get the rest of the food from kitchen okay?" said Charles and stood up and Charlotte did the same. They already know that I know.