#lourdes🦥

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little chalex for you🤭

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Charles does not think it is as embarrassing as everyone is saying it is.

First it was George.

George [9:28 pm] I would tone it down mate if I were you. This is just embarrassing

Charles just sent a video of George talking to Lewis as a reply.

Now it is Pierre.

Calamar [9:34 pm] 🤦🏻‍♂️i don’t know who you are

He has just sent a message when a text from Lando comes through. He opens their chat. It’s the same video from the same account both George and Pierre sent. He narrows his eyes at his phone. Were the three in this together? He taps the voice message.

“Mate, you-you look amazing. You look amazing. Oh, Albono, I love you. Oh, Albono, marry me.” Lando’s squeaky voice blasts through his speakers.

He replies with a lot of middle finger emojis.

The three of them have to be in on this together. Charles grumbles. So what if he stuttered through his words to check for Alex if he was streaming or told Alex he looks amazing. There is nothing wrong with that. They are friends. Just because he has been in love with Alex for years does not mean they cannot be friends. It is not that bad! It’s not. He goes back to his workout, only to get interrupted five minutes later.

The french swear words on the tip of his tongue are as familiar as they can be.

Albono🥰 [9:42 pm]

All the words disappear. His heart skips a beat.

are you free wanna play? im bored

Charles scrambles off a floor, abandoning his workout room, and rushes to his room.

give me 10 minutes

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❤️ first kiss / realization + chalex hehe 🫶🏻

Hiii Lourdes!!! I hope you enjoy this😊

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Alex shrieks as Charles bursts into his room.

“Mate, you can’t just barge in like that.” Alex holds his t-shirt over his naked torso as if Charles has never seen him topless before. Good thing he wore his sweatpants first. “How did you come in?”

“Your maman let me in.” Charles sits on the bed, criss-crossing his legs. “I have a date tomorrow.”

Alex ignores the sudden pit in his stomach and opts to pull his t-shirt over his head. “Congratulations?”

“We are going to the arcade right after school so do not wait for me.”

“Okay.” Alex draws out the second syllable.

“It is my first date. Aren’t you gonna ask who it is with?”

Alex really isn’t sure if he wants to know.

“You’re gonna tell me anyway.”

“It’s Max.”

“Max Verstappen!?” Alex exclaims. “What the fuck!?”

Charles lays back on the bed, avoiding Alex’s gaze. “He asked me out.”

“And you thought what, you’ll say yes? You don’t even like him.”

“I do not not like him.”

It makes Alex pause. “Do you… like him?”

“I don’t know. I guess I will figure out tomorrow,” Charles says.

It’s silent for a few minutes, both too busy in their own thoughts until Charles breaks it.

“Alex.”

“Yeah?”

“How are first dates supposed to go? Should we hold hands? When do we know we should hold hands?

Alex smiles. It’s the first smile he lets out since Charles came. There is something so endearing watching Charles ramble.

“Or if he kisses me?”

The smile wipes off his face. The pit in his stomach worsens, like it’s bouncing off his insides and wants to claw its way out of him.

“I have never kissed anyone before. What if I do not know how to kiss?” Charles gnaws his lower lip.

Alex involuntarily snorts. “You’re 14. I don’t think you should be worried if you know how to kiss or not.”

Charles glares at Alex. “You knew how to kiss when you were my age.” The clench in Charles’ jaw captures Alex’s attention for a second. “I heard stories going around the school.”

There is an undertone in Charles’ voice. Alex can’t really tell what it is.

“Exactly.” Alex points at Charles. “Stories.”

“So you did not know how to kiss?”

“I didn’t say that.”

Charles sits up again, playing with his hands on his laps.

Alex sighs. “What are you so worried about, Charlie?”

“I do not want anyone to make fun of me if I cannot kiss.”

The words are out of his mouth before Alex could even think upon them. “How about I teach you?”

“Teach me?”

It’s too late to backtrack now. Charles won’t let it go until he tells him so Alex saves the waste of time and energy. “Show you around a bit. How to kiss. What to do and not to do. All that jazz.”

“You will do that for me?” Charles asks.

I will do anything for you. And yeah okay, Alex doesn’t know where that came from.

“Yeah, Charlie, I would do that for you.” Alex walks up to the bed and sits next to Charles, their knees knocking together. “So, kiss me,” Alex says.

“Non,” Charles says, “you kiss me.”

Alex shakes his head at Charles’ antics and cups his cheek. “Still good?”

“Yes. Kiss me, please.”

Alex leans forward, his lips brushing against Charles.

Charles wraps his hands around Alex’s wrists.

Alex captures Charles’ upper lip between his own, swiping his tongue at the bottom one.

“Open your mouth, Charlie,” he says when Charles doesn’t take the hint.

Charles drops his jaw as wide as he can.

Alex giggles into Charles’ mouth. “Not that much.” He grabs Charles by the chin and closes his mouth until there is barely enough space left. “Just enough to let me slip my tongue in.” He does exactly that. Charles tastes like apple and peanut butter.

Charles snakes his hands into Alex’s hair, scraping his nails at the nape. A noise that he didn’t even know he was capable of making escapes him.

Alex strokes his thumb onto the dip between Charles’ lips and chin.

Charles pulls away first, their noses bumping. Their breaths fan onto each other’s faces.

Alex places his forehead against Charles’ or more so against Charles’ hair because the Monagasque refuses to do something about his hairstyle.

“Was that good?”

“I might need more proof before I come to a conclusion,” Alex selfishly says. He doesn’t wanna stop kissing Charles right now.

This time Charles is the one that initiates the kiss.

Alex kisses him and kisses him and kisses him until their mouths are red and bruised. Charles lets him.

He loops his arms underneath Alex’s and hides his face in Alex’s neck, nuzzling his nose against his skin.

And oh.

Oh.

Everything makes sense. His stomach fluttering, his heart racing, him looking forward to school. It’s because of Charles. It’s always been Charles. Since the day he knew him.

“I think you are a very good kisser. Everyone at school was right.” Charles mumbles into his jaw, placing a kiss right at the edge.

The spot tingles. It burns. Alex turns red. Hearing Charles call him a good kisser makes him feel all kinds of warm.

“You’re too. A natural talent.” Alex teases, trying to diffuse the tension. He turns his head, pressing a kiss to Charles’ forehead.

“I should go. I have homework,” Charles says.

“You should. I need to finish my assignment too.”

Charles pulls away, taking all the warmth away with him. “Sorry, I did not mean to disturb you.”

Alex tugs at a lock of Charles’ hair. “You could never.”

“See you tomorrow?” Charles gets up and walks to the door.

“Yeah.”

“Bye, Alex.”

The first thing Alex does once Charles leaves is grabs his phone. Usually, he would just go to his best mate’s place but, of course, George had to be on a Mathalon trip this weekend.

George picks up on the third ring. The familiarity of his best mate’s voice calms him down a bit. “Alex, it’s bloody 2 am. You better be dying in a ditch.”

“I think I might be in love with Charles.”

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Me whenever Lourdes does a request thing: Ummmm so can I cheat👉🏽👈🏽🥺