Chapter 25

"There's a lot of people," Ana said as they arrive at the race track.

"Of course, Christopher Evans races are always packed with people, especially during these events," Finley said with his arms wrap around Ana's shoulder.

"But, it isn't like this the last time?" Emilyn asked.

"That's because that's just a normal race, they don't open it to everyone. The tickets are limited. I just got lucky that time." Fin explains. "Come on, let's head in." They try to make their way into the stadium, but there's a lot of people pushing.

"Emilyn, grab on to my shirt," Finley shouted and Emilyn quickly grabs onto his shirt before she got push away. Finally, they got into the stadium and find their seats.

"This is so cool, is so front." Fin fidget in his seat.

While waiting for the race to start, Emilyn checks her phone for any messages, "Are you here yet?" Christopher text.

"Yeah."

"Is there any trouble you run into on your way in?" He asked.

"No."

"Good."

"Good luck with the race."

"Thank you, see you soon on the tracks." Christopher texts with a smiling emoji.

Emilyn locks her phone and turns to fins Ana with a smile, "What?" She asked,

"Who were you texting?" Ana raises one of her brows. "Is it Christopher?"

"Yes." Emilyn rolls her eyes at Ana. "Why do you want to know?"

"Nothing," Ana smirks and turns her attention to the track. Emilyn frown her eyebrows and thought, "Ana is so weird."

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the annual world racing competition. Are you ready to see your favorite racers!" The announcer shouted into the mic. Everyone around me screams. "Today is the first day for the competition, the top 50 racers will move on to the next round. Now, Let's see who is competing tonight." He pointed to the big screen which shows many of the racers faces, everyone screams when their favorite racers are on the screen.

Towards the end, the picture of Jax, Pierce, and lastly was Christopher. Everyone screams crazily when Christopher's picture appears. Ana nudges Emilyn when Christopher's picture appear and Emilyn glared at her.

"Before we start the race, let's have our host and top racer give an opening speech. Everyone give it up for Christopher Evans." He hollers and Christopher came running out.

"Thank you for the introduction." Christopher took the mic from the announcer. "Welcome everyone to our 5th annual race, I would like to say thank you to everyone who came out here tonight. You will receive a great race from me and the others. So sit back and enjoy the show." He ended it with a smile.

"Thank you for that speech." The announcer took back the mic from Christopher.  As the announcer was saying something, Emilyn found Christopher's eyes scanning the bleachers and stop when it met hers. Christopher gave her a small wink. "Once again, thank you, Christopher. We will see you on the track." He nods and runs back from where he came from.

"Did I just saw Christopher Evans wink at you?" Ana whispers into her ears.

"No, I don't think so." Emilyn shakes her head, but Emilyn knows he did. But she's not gonna allow Ana to tease her. The race is starting. All the racers line their cars towards the front of the line. Emilyn scans the track for that blue McLaren that Christopher drove. during. Her eyes landed on the third row.

The horn blasted, the car speed from the starting line. Emilyn tries to keep her eye on Christopher, but it is too fast. The cars go around the huge place for about 3 rounds and then stop for a refuel. Some cars left from the refuel station and some cars just made it to the station. After the refuel, those cars start again. Going for another more 3 or 4 rounds.

The person at the side signals the flag which indicates the last round. Everyone eyes are in the finish line, anticipated to see who's going to be first. A blue McLaren flashes through the finish line and everyone cheers. The screen shows Christopher's face with a number one on the side.

After that, every car crosses the finish line, "Congratulations to everyone who made it to the top 50th." The announcer announces. "Let's take a look at the scoreboard." The scoreboard rolls out the name and the position that each race held. "That's your 50th racer who will move on to the next round. And as for today's winner, let's give it up for Christopher Evans!" He hollers. Everyone on the race track scream, clap and jump excitedly. "Once again, thank you for coming and we will see you next time." Everyone stood up and move towards the exit.

"That was so cool," Finley exclaimed. "Please go thank your 'boyfriend' for your tickets.' He smirks.

"I told you a billion times, he is not my boyfriend," Emilyn shouted.

"Geez, calm down." Finley shakes his head. "Don't have to be so uptight every time." Emilyn crosses her arms and glared at him.

"Guys," Ana said sternly. "Finley, apologize to her."

Finley huff, "I'm sorry." Emilyn turns away from him. "Can we go out now?" He whined.

"Yes, let's go," Ana said and we make a beeline towards the exit.

A message sound notifies Emilyn, "Can you meet me in front of the entrance?" Christopher text.

Emilyn text back, "Why?" But he didn't respond. "Guys," Emilyn tug on Finley's shirt."

"What?" He turns around a little annoyed in his voice. Emilyn frown at his tone of voice.

"Fin." Ana slaps his chest. "That's not how you suppose to talk to Emilyn."

"Sorry, what is it?" Finley asks again minus the annoyed tone.

"Christopher just texted me to wait for him at the entrance," Emilyn told them.

"Okay, let's go," Ana said and they go out of the seating area. Three of them stood at the entrance waiting for Christopher while watching everyone head out.

"Emilyn, I want to apologize. I didn't mean to be annoyed by you." Finley said. "I don't know what's gotten into me. Can you forgive me?"

"Finley, I know we fight all the time. But I will always forgive you. Because you are like my brother, we are like siblings who always fight." Emilyn smiled at him.

"Aww, come here." Finley pulls her into a hug. "Love you, little sis."

"Love you," Emilyn said back. "Now get off of me." She pushes Finley away and he chuckles.

"What do you think he wants?" Ana asked.

"I don't know, he didn't reply after that." Emilyn shrugs her shoulders. So, they waited. Waited until everyone clear the area, but still no sign of Christopher.

"I'm kind of hungry." Finley groaned.

"Me too," Emilyn said.

"If that guy doesn't show up in 5 minutes, we are leaving," Finley said.

"Sorry for the wait," they turn their heads in the direction of the voice. Christopher came running towards them with Jax and Pierce following after. "I'm sorry for making you wait, I got caught up with the interviews."

"Is fine, I understand," Emilyn told him. "So what do you want me here for?"

"Since is late, I want to ask if you want to go for a late dinner?" Christopher glances behind her shoulder, "And your friends can join too."

Emilyn turns to ask them, they both nod their heads, "Sure, we would love to."

"Hey! What about us?" Pierce said. "Are we invited?"

Christopher rolled his eyes at them, "yes, you are. Didn't I tell you guys, just now?"

"I've probably have forgotten." Pierce shrugs. Christopher shakes his head.

"So where are we going?" Emilyn asked.

"Just follow me."

"Hey, umm Christopher can you drive Emilyn?  Finley and I need to talk privately." Ana asked, Emilyn look back at her asking what is she trying to do with her face.

"Yeah, of course," Christopher replies.

"Great, so let's going." Ana pushes Emilyn towards Christopher. Emilyn trip over her foot and fell, but someone caught her by the waist.

Emilyn looks up, "thank you." Christopher then lifts her into a standing position.

"No problem." Christopher smiled at her and they just stare at each other again.

"Ahem," someone coughs. "We should get going now?" Jax snickers, nudging Pierce on the shoulder and walk ahead.

Emilyn looks away from his stare and follows after Pierce. Christopher caught up to her and asked, "so how did you enjoy the race?"

"It was interesting, thanks for inviting me and my friends." Christopher gave me a toothy smile. Ana and Finley left to go get their car at the open area car park. Emilyn follows three of them to their own personal underground car park.

"Thank you," Emilyn said as Christopher opens the car door for her to enter the passenger seat. Once he got in, he drove out of the car park with two cars following behind. "There they are." Emilyn pointed at the white Porsche at the side of the road with their blinkers on.

Christopher drove past them and press his horn to alert them. They pull out of the side and follow.

"So where are we going?" Emilyn asked

"Not telling."

"Okay, then how far is it?"

"About a 30-minute drive."

"Okay, do you want to play our game?" Emilyn asked, trying to kill time. Instead of being bored in the car.

"Sure."

"Okay, what's your favorite food?" Emilyn started.

"Favorite food? Hmm...this is a little hard, but if I got to choose one it will be a burger."

"What type of burger?"

"A normal one with a patty, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes. But no pickles, I hate pickles."

"Why? Pickles are the best thing to be in the burger, it has this sour and sweet flavor which compliments with the burger." Emilyn said.

Christopher chuckles, "I just not a fan of it.  My turn, if you didn't have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time?"

"That's a good one, I probably try to marathon a full season of my favorite," Emilyn answer. "Okay, my turn, what would you do instead of managing a company."

"I would do racing full time. I love racing more than managing a company."

"Because is more fun and you don't have to do paperwork, right?" Emilyn said.

Christopher let out a little laugh, "yeah. what or who you encounter changed your life forever?" He asked

"Ana," Emilyn said the one word. "I wasn't known to have many friends and when I met Ana in high school, she always been trying to get me out more, be more adventurous and always be there for me," Emilyn told him. "She helps me through a lot of things."

"That's really nice of her, is good that you have a friend like that." Christopher turns to Emilyn and smiled at her before turning back to the road.

"Yeah, I'm really grateful." Emilyn said, "What is the dumbest thing you've done?"

"None."

"What? How is that possible?"

"Because I'm Christopher Evans." He said with a smirk.

Emilyn scoff, "A name isn't going to prove that you haven't done anything dumb." Emilyn shakes her head not believing what he said.

"If you were able to turn back time, what would you do?" Christopher asked the next question.

"Uhmm..." Emilyn sigh. She opens her mouth to answer but got cut by a ring on her phone. "Sorry, I got to take this. Yes?"

"Ask Christopher, to send the location. We got lost." Ana said.

"Okay," Emilyn cover the phone. "Can you send me the location? Ana and Finley got separated from us."

"Here take my phone." Christopher passes Emilyn his phone. "The password?"

"0313." Christopher gave her the password. "Go to my messages and find Pierce." Emilyn clicks on Pierce's contacts and found the location. She took that and forward it to her contact. "You got it?"

"Yeah," Emilyn open her message and forward it to Ana. "Hey, Ana. I send it to you already."

"Yup got it. See you there." Then she ends the call.

***

"Here we are." Christopher parks his car in the empty space. Emilyn places her fingers to open the door, but Christopher told her to wait. "Let's go." Christopher opens the door for her.

"That's what you want to do." Emilyn giggle and got out of the car. "Are the others here yet?"

"I'm not sure, let's go inside first," Christopher said and they walk into the restaurant with him opening the door for me again.

"Thank you," Emilyn said. She looks around the place and notices something, "Hey, I think I came here before." She told Christopher.

"You did?" Christopher asked

"Yeah, I think so. It looks quite familiar."

"Pierce and Jax are over there." He pointed to the table at the end and Emilyn follow after him.

"Hey, guys." Jax greets them and hands us the menu as they sat down.

"So, where are your other friends?" Pierce asked.

"They couldn't follow up and they got lost. They are going to be here soon, I think." Emilyn checks her phone to see if Ana has texted or not.

Right on time, they both enter the restaurant. "Sorry, we got lost." Ana pulls out her seat next to Emilyn and Finley next to Ana

"So, have you guys order yet?" Ana asked.

"Not yet," Emilyn told her.

"Okay, what are you getting Em?" Ana leans towards Emilyn and asks.

"I don't know, but somehow this place seems familiar to me."

"You don't remember?" Ana asked, Emilyn shook her head. "We came here before, like a year ago."

"Oh," Emilyn recall the memory. "It was on my birthday? Is it?"

"Yeah."

"You came here before?" Christopher asks.

"Are you eavesdropping?" Emilyn scrunches her eyebrow.

"Don't mind Emilyn, she's always forget something," Ana interject and let out a short laugh. "How do you know this place?" Ana asked Christopher.

"I just found it online. I know that she likes to eat pizza, especially homemade pizza." Christopher told Ana.

"You are so right, the pizza here is to die for." After that short conversation, they ordered 3 pizzas.

"Pierce, stop looking at her like that." Jax scolds him.

Pierce scrunches his eyebrow and rubs his chin, "You seem familiar?" Pierce said looking at Ana.

"I'm sorry, but I haven't met you before. So I don't think you will recognize me." Ana said.

"I know you from somewhere, are you Cameron Conner's daughter?"

"Yes, I am. Somehow I can't run away from others recognize me as his daughter." Ana shakes her head.

"You are Anatasia Conner." Pierce point and repeat her name.

"Yes, you don't have to point that out," Ana said.

"Sorry, just got excited to met the famous daughter of Cameron Conner." Pierce apologize.

"Don't worry about that, I'm used to it."

***

"Thank you for sending me back." Emilyn stands in front of Christopher outside of her door. "You don't have to walk me to the door."

"Is a must, I just need to know if you are home safely."

"So, here I am. Safe in front of my door now." Emilyn chuckle. "I have a great time tonight, you know you don't have to pay every single time."

"I invite you for dinner, I should pay," Christopher said

"Next time, I'll pay," Emilyn smiled at him.

"Okay, that's a deal." Christopher shows his pearly whites.

"Is getting late, you should head home."

"Yeah." He fidgets his foot from left to right. "Goodnight."

Emilyn bobbed her head, "goodnight." He turns around to walk to the elevator, but Emilyn stops him. "Christopher."

"Yes." He turns around quickly.

"I'll go back time and see my parents again." Christopher frowns confuse about what Emilyn said. "That's the answer to the question you asked."

"Oh, I'm sorry for the loss of your parents." he walks a few steps forward, reaching Emilyn. "But, if you need someone to talk to. You can always talk to me." Christopher tugs the strand of hair that fell behind her ear. She couldn't control the blush that grew on her cheek.

"I will." Emilyn smiled at him, trying to not lose it. Christopher stares right at her and it felt like time has stopped. She could stare at him forever with those beautiful blue eyes of his. A door open loudly which makes them break away. It was one of the neighbor's door down the hall open.

"I should get going now." Christopher rubs the back of his neck. Emilyn nod. "Bye." He said and she replies.

Christopher took a few steps back and head to the elevator, not before turning around and wave to Emilyn one last time.

Emilyn got into her apartment as fast as possible, shutting the door. Her heart is beating like crazy against her ribcage.

"Oh no," Emilyn said softly, feeling her heartbeat. "I think I've might have some feelings for Christopher Evans. I like him."

"Oh no, this can't happen," She mumbles, pacing the living room floor. "He got someone he likes, I can't like him." Emilyn is having a discussion with herself. "But what if I told him, he might like me back? No, no way." Emilyn shakes her head.

"There's no way he will like me back." Emilyn's brain is so messed up right now, is either telling him or not telling him. What should she do?

BTW, Christopher asked-22 and Emilyn asked-26

A/N: Hey, hey my reader. Here's another chapter for you guys. Hope you enjoy it. Should Emilyn tell what she feels for Christopher Evans? What if she tells him and he told her that he likes someone else and the person is not her.

Find out the next chapter to see if Emilyn decided to tell Christopher or not. Vote, comment.