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HIS SWEET SMILE, MY BOY DESERVES THIS SO MUCH I LOVE HIM I’M SO HAPPY FOR HIM
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His smile <3
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WHEN DID HE CUT HIS HAIR AND WHY DID I JUST NOTICE. HE LOOKS SO GOOD
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He is the moment 🤌
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the loneliness of the long-distance bassist
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Twenty Four: There’s Been An Accident
Charles Leclerc x Nova Teller (OC)
Till the wheels fall off Masterlist
Small town meets the fast lane. What happens when two souls meet? Will it end in happiness or will they both crash and burn?
As always reblogs and feedback is highly appreciated ❤️ if you want tagging in future parts let me know ❤️
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Monza was definitely special, I knew from watching on TV this place had a magical feeling surrounding it but there was something breathtaking about being here in person, surrounded by the team and seeing all the love the Tifosi had for the two boys in red. Charles knew how to give us all a heart attack, the last few laps of the race were so intense and I was pretty sure we were only moments away from having to get a defibrillator on Fred, especially when Charles locked up so close behind Carlos.
“Je n'ai jamais vu mon fils aussi heureux. I've never seen my son so happy.” Pascale said softly, resting her hand on my shoulder.
“Peut-on lui en vouloir, tout le monde l'aime ici. Can you blame him, everyone loves him here.” I beamed, keeping my gaze focused on my man who was currently standing on the pit wall with the crowd going crazy underneath him. He was in his element signing things for them and it warmed my heart seeing him doing what he loves.
“Nova, sweetie, I was talking about you.” Pascale chuckled softly, causing me to turn my attention to her, the smile on her face was as bright as the Italian sun. “Ever since you came into his life, I noticed his outlook has changed, as you know this season hasn’t been the best for him so thank you for making him smile again.”
I felt the lump form in the back of my throat, I knew how much Pascale meant to Charles so to get her approval made this weekend even better that I could have ever imagined.
However, all that was about to change and my mood was about to plummet into the earth.
The sound of my phone ringing caused me to freeze, it wasn’t my normal ringtone that was blasting out of my back pocket, this was the sound I had set for Pops. He never rang me, most of the time he had no idea where his phone was. My stomach dropped, my mouth went drier than the Sahara desert, I had a feeling deep in my gut that whatever this phone call was about it would cause my world to come crashing down around me.
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To everyone it looked like Charles’ attention was solely on the crowd in front of him, yet in reality he was listening to everything that was going on behind him, focused on his girl and Mum. Nothing could wipe the smile off his face, even though he came fourth, Monza always meant a lot to him and now to be able to share this moment with someone as special as Nova made things so much more special.
Glancing over his shoulder, he noticed that Nova was now on the phone. The look of panic on her face caused Charles to worry, whoever was on the other end of the call must have dealt her some devastating news.
“Pops, take a breath, you aren’t making any sense.”
“What’s going on? Is everyone okay?”
“ACCIDENT?!?!?”
“Pops, who is hurt?”
Charles felt the pit in his stomach as he clambered off the pit wall, rushing over to Nova placing his hands on her shoulders. “Is everything okay, Sunshine?” he asked, trying to get a read of the situation. All of the color had drained from Nova’s face and her hands were starting to shake. “Come on, let's move out of the way of the crowd, give you some privacy,” he said softly, guiding his girl away from the fencing. The lack of response he was getting caused his mind to race, had something happened to Jax or Elenor? “Put it on speaker babe.”
Nova pulled the phone away from her ear, following Charles’ instructions.
“JT, it’s Charles, what’s going on?” he said in a panic as Nova tried to hold back the tears from spilling over her lash line.
“There’s been an accident involving Jax.”
Charles watched as fear completely took over Nova’s body, her knees giving out from her the moment her father said her brother’s name, luckily Charles was quick with his reaction, catching her before she landed on the floor.
“No, no, no, no, no,” she cried, gripping onto Charles’ hoodie.
“It’s bad Nova, really bad,” JT’s voice was starting to crack as he spoke. “Tig found him at the side of the road his Harley totaled along with Jax unconscious on the floor.”
Charles felt tears burning his eyes, as he held onto Nova letting her cry into his chest. He needed to get her back inside as he knew all attention would be on the pair of them even though no one could hear the conversation the atmosphere around the track had taken a turn. “I will be on the next flight home,” she breathed in between her cries.
The minute the phone call ended Charles quickly guided Nova back into the safety of the garage, not stopping until they were in his driver’s room along with Pascale. The air felt heavy in such a small room but all Charles cared about was getting his girlfriend back to Charming to be by her brother’s bedside.
“There aren't any flights to Cali until this time tomorrow,” his mum sighed, looking up from her phone.
“I will get Andrea to make sure the private jet is ready,” Charles hummed, running his thumb across Nova’s cheek trying to wipe away her tears. “Everything is going to be okay, babygirl.” he whispered, pressing a kiss against her forehead.
“No it won’t, you don’t understand,” Nova cried, tangling her fingers in her roots. “Jax is the best rider I have ever known. He wouldn't have just come off his bike like this, something must have happened.” Charles' heart shattered with every word she said, she sounded so broken and there was nothing he could do to fix the situation. “I’m sorry.”
“You have nothing to be sorry for, okay. Family comes first, so within the hour we will be on the flight back to Cali.”
“Char, no!” she scolded, looking up into his green eyes. “You aren’t coming with me, you have the Pirelli tyre testing tomorrow.”
“I can bail, Fred will understand.”
“Nope, ain’t happening, this is your dream and I am not letting you jeopardize anything because something has happened back home.”
Charles let out a heavy sigh, he knew there was nothing he could do to change her mind on this. Looking over at Pascale he shot her a look causing her to nod in acknowledgement. “I will go with you, sweetie,” she whispered, placing her hand on Nova’s back. “And don’t try and fight me on this, you are in no state to travel on your own and I have a feeling you might need an extra pair of hands back in Cali.”
Within the next forty minutes they were standing on the tarmac of the airport, the private jet was ready to go as soon as Nova and Pascale had boarded. Charles was struggling to hold back tears, he hated saying goodbye even though he had a plan in place but it still didn’t make this any easier, especially when his girlfriend was distraught not knowing the state of her brother’s health.
“As soon as you find out how he is, let me know,” Charles whispered, pulling out his ipad from his backpack. “Take this, I have made sure all three of the Cars movies are downloaded onto it along with Monza 19 and a few other good races.”
“Char,” Nova whimpered, smiling weakly at him as she took the device, “thank you.”
“Try and get some sleep on the flight baby, you won’t be any help to anyone exhausted.” he whispered, resting his hand on her cheek before pressing a tender kiss against her lips. “Everything is going to be okay.”
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Every step I took felt like I was being crushed further into the floor, the clinical smell of the hospital assaulting my senses. Since the phone call with Pops I had no updates so I had no idea if Jax had gotten worse or improved but I was sure as hell gonna eat the boys alive for not texting me even if it was just to say “no change.”
I felt like my heart was going to burst out of my chest with how fast it was pounding against my ribs, my stomach was in knots and I felt like I was only moments away from throwing up. Jax had to be okay, he needed to be okay. I couldn’t go on without my brother, not with how Pops was. My thoughts drifted to Elenor and that's when the tears threatened to spill over my lash line.
Did she know?
If she didn’t know how was I going to tell her that her daddy isn’t well?
I had no idea what floor Jax was on let alone what room but I didn’t need to, my body was on autopilot and with every step I took it was guiding me to my older brother. As I ventured down a corridor I could hear the sounds of Tig and Chibs bickering in the distance causing me to roll my eyes. Suddenly I found myself frozen on the spot, no matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t get my legs to move, it was like someone had just nailed me to the floor.
“Sweetie,” the calming voice of Pascale came from behind me as she placed her hand on my shoulder. “I know how worried you are but take a deep breath,” she quickly appeared in front of me, forcing me to stop, “I know this is going to be hard but I am here for you and so are your family, so fall back on us.” Following her instructions I slowly nodded, scared if I spoke I was going to break down into tears.
“I knew she shouldn’t have gone, she should be here not at some fucking race track!” Tig exclaimed, claiming my full attention. Is that what he really thought, did he really think it was an easy decision for me to go with Charles? “I knew that boy was trouble the moment I laid eyes on him. And now look, Jax is lying unconscious in a goddamn hospital bed with Nova is nowhere to be seen.”
“That’s way outta line!!!” Chibs snapped, I could practically hear the growl in his voice as he spoke. “That lassie deserved to have a break so I’d be careful what you say next because brother or not you will be the next one in a hospital bed if you carry on talking about Nova and Charles like that.”
Running my hand over my face I needed to intervene making sure this situation didn’t get any worse. I kept telling myself that Tig was only acting like this due to the stress of the situation but I think deep down I knew there was some truth to his words, ever since the morning he interrupted us in the kitchen he had been different towards me.
“If you have something to say Alexander, say it to my fucking face!” I scoffed loudly as I turned the corner, instantly being met with a very pale looking Tig. “I have just spent the last 12 hours on a plane, I am stressed to the max and very very cranky, do not fucking try me right now.”
I didn’t give him a chance to respond before barging past him, making a b line straight for Pops, the moment I was close enough I flung myself into his arms trying to find some sort of comfort in his touch. “How is he, Pops?” I whimpered, feeling like a lost five year old.
“Still unconscious, the doctors won’t let us do anything because you are his next of kin,” he whispered, pressing a kiss to the top of my head, my heart sunk knowing how hard this was on him, because of his declining health he couldn’t make the decisions needed for his son’s care “they did have to take him for emergency surgery though.”
Pulling away from him I slowly made my way to the window of the room everyone was crowded around, placing my hand on the glass my heart shattered into a million pieces seeing my brother lying in the hospital bed. The moment I laid eyes on him the tears started to fall and there was no stopping them. The doctor in the room made eye contact with, whispered something to the nurse before she quickly made her way out to me.
“Are you Nova Teller?” she asked softly.
“Yeah, that's me,” I whispered, afraid if I spoke any louder my voice would give out on me. “How is he?”
“Come inside, the Doctor will update you on your brother’s condition.” she nodded.
“I want my Pops and Pascale in the room with me.” I stated, roughly wiping my eyes with the sleeve of Charles’ hoodie.
“Of course,” she said, opening the door for the three of us to enter.
The moment I had passed her I made my way to the seat next to the bed, automatically taking Jax’s hand in mine. “Oh Jaxy,” I whimpered, taking in the road rash that covered most of his arm and cheek. Once again I found myself fighting the tears as I looked up at the ceiling of the room praying to all the gods to keep him safe.
“Miss Teller, your brother is very lucky,” the Doctor said, his tone was stern which caused me to shift in my seat, I felt like I had been transported back to 16 year old me sitting in the principal's office with Jax after we decided to spray paint the reaper on the gym wall. Pushing the memory down I took a deep breath as the doctor continued. “He has broken his right leg, but due to the severity of the break we had to surgically fix the bones back in place, meaning he now has a titanium rod holding the bones in place. He has road rash covering a lot of his left side and had to be rushed for emergency surgery due to a ruptured spleen,” he paused, looking back at his clipboard for a moment. “His toxicology report also showed he was nearly four times over the legal blood alcohol limit.”
“When will he wake up?” I breathed.
“That is all down to Mr Teller, the anesthetic has worn off now so it is just a waiting game unfortunately.”
Taking a deep breath, I looked back down at my brother. We were going to need as much help as we could get whilst he was recovering, I knew the next few months were going to be a challenge. I knew Chibs would step up covering the President’s role in the club but I had no idea how I was going to cope with getting Jax back to full health alongside looking after Elenor and Pops.
“You aren’t in this alone, sweetie,” Pascale said softly, squeezing my shoulders, like she was inside my head, “I will be here as long as you and your family need me.”
The hours had passed and I had no idea how long I had been in the room, all I knew was I wasn’t leaving Jax’s bedside.
“I swear to god, if you don’t wake up I will smother you with your goddam pillow!” I cried, clutching his hand. The tears were freely rolling down my cheeks, Jax had been one of my lifelines for so long.
I couldn’t lose him now.
He was the reason I found my voice, he taught me how to fight much to Pops annoyance, he was my partner in crime and always had my back when I needed it the most. He was also the reason why I was so happy, without him I would have never taken the plunge with Charles, I would have more than likely hidden myself away not to make a fool of myself.
“You gotta fight bro, we need you to pull through,” I paused, taking a deep breath, “I cut my time short with Char, because you we stupid enough to ride four times over the limit,” I scoffed, staring at him trying to see any signs of movement.
“I didn’t ask you to ditch him,” Jax mumbled, his voice raspy from the endotracheal tube used for the anesthetic. The sound of his voice caused me to freeze, seeing his blue eyes staring back at me. “Oh that’s it, give me the silent treatment,” he hummed, smirking at me.
“Do you know how fucking stupid that was, you had a daughter who needs you and you could have killed yourself,” I said narrowing my eyes at him. “I could punch you in the face right now.”
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Twenty Four: There’s Been An Accident
Charles Leclerc x Nova Teller (OC)
Till the wheels fall off Masterlist
Small town meets the fast lane. What happens when two souls meet? Will it end in happiness or will they both crash and burn?
As always reblogs and feedback is highly appreciated ❤️ if you want tagging in future parts let me know ❤️
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Monza was definitely special, I knew from watching on TV this place had a magical feeling surrounding it but there was something breathtaking about being here in person, surrounded by the team and seeing all the love the Tifosi had for the two boys in red. Charles knew how to give us all a heart attack, the last few laps of the race were so intense and I was pretty sure we were only moments away from having to get a defibrillator on Fred, especially when Charles locked up so close behind Carlos.
“Je n'ai jamais vu mon fils aussi heureux. I've never seen my son so happy.” Pascale said softly, resting her hand on my shoulder.
“Peut-on lui en vouloir, tout le monde l'aime ici. Can you blame him, everyone loves him here.” I beamed, keeping my gaze focused on my man who was currently standing on the pit wall with the crowd going crazy underneath him. He was in his element signing things for them and it warmed my heart seeing him doing what he loves.
“Nova, sweetie, I was talking about you.” Pascale chuckled softly, causing me to turn my attention to her, the smile on her face was as bright as the Italian sun. “Ever since you came into his life, I noticed his outlook has changed, as you know this season hasn’t been the best for him so thank you for making him smile again.”
I felt the lump form in the back of my throat, I knew how much Pascale meant to Charles so to get her approval made this weekend even better that I could have ever imagined.
However, all that was about to change and my mood was about to plummet into the earth.
The sound of my phone ringing caused me to freeze, it wasn’t my normal ringtone that was blasting out of my back pocket, this was the sound I had set for Pops. He never rang me, most of the time he had no idea where his phone was. My stomach dropped, my mouth went drier than the Sahara desert, I had a feeling deep in my gut that whatever this phone call was about it would cause my world to come crashing down around me.
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To everyone it looked like Charles’ attention was solely on the crowd in front of him, yet in reality he was listening to everything that was going on behind him, focused on his girl and Mum. Nothing could wipe the smile off his face, even though he came fourth, Monza always meant a lot to him and now to be able to share this moment with someone as special as Nova made things so much more special.
Glancing over his shoulder, he noticed that Nova was now on the phone. The look of panic on her face caused Charles to worry, whoever was on the other end of the call must have dealt her some devastating news.
“Pops, take a breath, you aren’t making any sense.”
“What’s going on? Is everyone okay?”
“ACCIDENT?!?!?”
“Pops, who is hurt?”
Charles felt the pit in his stomach as he clambered off the pit wall, rushing over to Nova placing his hands on her shoulders. “Is everything okay, Sunshine?” he asked, trying to get a read of the situation. All of the color had drained from Nova’s face and her hands were starting to shake. “Come on, let's move out of the way of the crowd, give you some privacy,” he said softly, guiding his girl away from the fencing. The lack of response he was getting caused his mind to race, had something happened to Jax or Elenor? “Put it on speaker babe.”
Nova pulled the phone away from her ear, following Charles’ instructions.
“JT, it’s Charles, what’s going on?” he said in a panic as Nova tried to hold back the tears from spilling over her lash line.
“There’s been an accident involving Jax.”
Charles watched as fear completely took over Nova’s body, her knees giving out from her the moment her father said her brother’s name, luckily Charles was quick with his reaction, catching her before she landed on the floor.
“No, no, no, no, no,” she cried, gripping onto Charles’ hoodie.
“It’s bad Nova, really bad,” JT’s voice was starting to crack as he spoke. “Tig found him at the side of the road his Harley totaled along with Jax unconscious on the floor.”
Charles felt tears burning his eyes, as he held onto Nova letting her cry into his chest. He needed to get her back inside as he knew all attention would be on the pair of them even though no one could hear the conversation the atmosphere around the track had taken a turn. “I will be on the next flight home,” she breathed in between her cries.
The minute the phone call ended Charles quickly guided Nova back into the safety of the garage, not stopping until they were in his driver’s room along with Pascale. The air felt heavy in such a small room but all Charles cared about was getting his girlfriend back to Charming to be by her brother’s bedside.
“There aren't any flights to Cali until this time tomorrow,” his mum sighed, looking up from her phone.
“I will get Andrea to make sure the private jet is ready,” Charles hummed, running his thumb across Nova’s cheek trying to wipe away her tears. “Everything is going to be okay, babygirl.” he whispered, pressing a kiss against her forehead.
“No it won’t, you don’t understand,” Nova cried, tangling her fingers in her roots. “Jax is the best rider I have ever known. He wouldn't have just come off his bike like this, something must have happened.” Charles' heart shattered with every word she said, she sounded so broken and there was nothing he could do to fix the situation. “I’m sorry.”
“You have nothing to be sorry for, okay. Family comes first, so within the hour we will be on the flight back to Cali.”
“Char, no!” she scolded, looking up into his green eyes. “You aren’t coming with me, you have the Pirelli tyre testing tomorrow.”
“I can bail, Fred will understand.”
“Nope, ain’t happening, this is your dream and I am not letting you jeopardize anything because something has happened back home.”
Charles let out a heavy sigh, he knew there was nothing he could do to change her mind on this. Looking over at Pascale he shot her a look causing her to nod in acknowledgement. “I will go with you, sweetie,” she whispered, placing her hand on Nova’s back. “And don’t try and fight me on this, you are in no state to travel on your own and I have a feeling you might need an extra pair of hands back in Cali.”
Within the next forty minutes they were standing on the tarmac of the airport, the private jet was ready to go as soon as Nova and Pascale had boarded. Charles was struggling to hold back tears, he hated saying goodbye even though he had a plan in place but it still didn’t make this any easier, especially when his girlfriend was distraught not knowing the state of her brother’s health.
“As soon as you find out how he is, let me know,” Charles whispered, pulling out his ipad from his backpack. “Take this, I have made sure all three of the Cars movies are downloaded onto it along with Monza 19 and a few other good races.”
“Char,” Nova whimpered, smiling weakly at him as she took the device, “thank you.”
“Try and get some sleep on the flight baby, you won’t be any help to anyone exhausted.” he whispered, resting his hand on her cheek before pressing a tender kiss against her lips. “Everything is going to be okay.”
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Every step I took felt like I was being crushed further into the floor, the clinical smell of the hospital assaulting my senses. Since the phone call with Pops I had no updates so I had no idea if Jax had gotten worse or improved but I was sure as hell gonna eat the boys alive for not texting me even if it was just to say “no change.”
I felt like my heart was going to burst out of my chest with how fast it was pounding against my ribs, my stomach was in knots and I felt like I was only moments away from throwing up. Jax had to be okay, he needed to be okay. I couldn’t go on without my brother, not with how Pops was. My thoughts drifted to Elenor and that's when the tears threatened to spill over my lash line.
Did she know?
If she didn’t know how was I going to tell her that her daddy isn’t well?
I had no idea what floor Jax was on let alone what room but I didn’t need to, my body was on autopilot and with every step I took it was guiding me to my older brother. As I ventured down a corridor I could hear the sounds of Tig and Chibs bickering in the distance causing me to roll my eyes. Suddenly I found myself frozen on the spot, no matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t get my legs to move, it was like someone had just nailed me to the floor.
“Sweetie,” the calming voice of Pascale came from behind me as she placed her hand on my shoulder. “I know how worried you are but take a deep breath,” she quickly appeared in front of me, forcing me to stop, “I know this is going to be hard but I am here for you and so are your family, so fall back on us.” Following her instructions I slowly nodded, scared if I spoke I was going to break down into tears.
“I knew she shouldn’t have gone, she should be here not at some fucking race track!” Tig exclaimed, claiming my full attention. Is that what he really thought, did he really think it was an easy decision for me to go with Charles? “I knew that boy was trouble the moment I laid eyes on him. And now look, Jax is lying unconscious in a goddamn hospital bed with Nova is nowhere to be seen.”
“That’s way outta line!!!” Chibs snapped, I could practically hear the growl in his voice as he spoke. “That lassie deserved to have a break so I’d be careful what you say next because brother or not you will be the next one in a hospital bed if you carry on talking about Nova and Charles like that.”
Running my hand over my face I needed to intervene making sure this situation didn’t get any worse. I kept telling myself that Tig was only acting like this due to the stress of the situation but I think deep down I knew there was some truth to his words, ever since the morning he interrupted us in the kitchen he had been different towards me.
“If you have something to say Alexander, say it to my fucking face!” I scoffed loudly as I turned the corner, instantly being met with a very pale looking Tig. “I have just spent the last 12 hours on a plane, I am stressed to the max and very very cranky, do not fucking try me right now.”
I didn’t give him a chance to respond before barging past him, making a b line straight for Pops, the moment I was close enough I flung myself into his arms trying to find some sort of comfort in his touch. “How is he, Pops?” I whimpered, feeling like a lost five year old.
“Still unconscious, the doctors won’t let us do anything because you are his next of kin,” he whispered, pressing a kiss to the top of my head, my heart sunk knowing how hard this was on him, because of his declining health he couldn’t make the decisions needed for his son’s care “they did have to take him for emergency surgery though.”
Pulling away from him I slowly made my way to the window of the room everyone was crowded around, placing my hand on the glass my heart shattered into a million pieces seeing my brother lying in the hospital bed. The moment I laid eyes on him the tears started to fall and there was no stopping them. The doctor in the room made eye contact with, whispered something to the nurse before she quickly made her way out to me.
“Are you Nova Teller?” she asked softly.
“Yeah, that's me,” I whispered, afraid if I spoke any louder my voice would give out on me. “How is he?”
“Come inside, the Doctor will update you on your brother’s condition.” she nodded.
“I want my Pops and Pascale in the room with me.” I stated, roughly wiping my eyes with the sleeve of Charles’ hoodie.
“Of course,” she said, opening the door for the three of us to enter.
The moment I had passed her I made my way to the seat next to the bed, automatically taking Jax’s hand in mine. “Oh Jaxy,” I whimpered, taking in the road rash that covered most of his arm and cheek. Once again I found myself fighting the tears as I looked up at the ceiling of the room praying to all the gods to keep him safe.
“Miss Teller, your brother is very lucky,” the Doctor said, his tone was stern which caused me to shift in my seat, I felt like I had been transported back to 16 year old me sitting in the principal's office with Jax after we decided to spray paint the reaper on the gym wall. Pushing the memory down I took a deep breath as the doctor continued. “He has broken his right leg, but due to the severity of the break we had to surgically fix the bones back in place, meaning he now has a titanium rod holding the bones in place. He has road rash covering a lot of his left side and had to be rushed for emergency surgery due to a ruptured spleen,” he paused, looking back at his clipboard for a moment. “His toxicology report also showed he was nearly four times over the legal blood alcohol limit.”
“When will he wake up?” I breathed.
“That is all down to Mr Teller, the anesthetic has worn off now so it is just a waiting game unfortunately.”
Taking a deep breath, I looked back down at my brother. We were going to need as much help as we could get whilst he was recovering, I knew the next few months were going to be a challenge. I knew Chibs would step up covering the President’s role in the club but I had no idea how I was going to cope with getting Jax back to full health alongside looking after Elenor and Pops.
“You aren’t in this alone, sweetie,” Pascale said softly, squeezing my shoulders, like she was inside my head, “I will be here as long as you and your family need me.”
The hours had passed and I had no idea how long I had been in the room, all I knew was I wasn’t leaving Jax’s bedside.
“I swear to god, if you don’t wake up I will smother you with your goddam pillow!” I cried, clutching his hand. The tears were freely rolling down my cheeks, Jax had been one of my lifelines for so long.
I couldn’t lose him now.
He was the reason I found my voice, he taught me how to fight much to Pops annoyance, he was my partner in crime and always had my back when I needed it the most. He was also the reason why I was so happy, without him I would have never taken the plunge with Charles, I would have more than likely hidden myself away not to make a fool of myself.
“You gotta fight bro, we need you to pull through,” I paused, taking a deep breath, “I cut my time short with Char, because you we stupid enough to ride four times over the limit,” I scoffed, staring at him trying to see any signs of movement.
“I didn’t ask you to ditch him,” Jax mumbled, his voice raspy from the endotracheal tube used for the anesthetic. The sound of his voice caused me to freeze, seeing his blue eyes staring back at me. “Oh that’s it, give me the silent treatment,” he hummed, smirking at me.
“Do you know how fucking stupid that was, you had a daughter who needs you and you could have killed yourself,” I said narrowing my eyes at him. “I could punch you in the face right now.”
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FINALLY I'M SO HAPPY OMGGGG
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in love with the mess - day twelve
summary : Aubrey is going on tour and, for once, she’s decided to focus on having as much fun as possible. Oli can be a little shit but he does nothing short of adore Audrey and… well, maybe Noah a little, too. Noah likes the flirting, as long as no one gets too close, emotionally. But what will happen when the three of them take it too far?
content : smut (p in v, oral (f receiving), dirty talk, some degradation), angst, fluff, Yungblug appearance lol
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day twelve
Spending the whole night talking after an exhausting show, knowing fully well we had an early bus call, a four-hour drive to London, soundcheck and another show, wasn’t the wisest decision Oli and I had ever made, but it was a completely necessary one.
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sunsshinesunny · 22 days
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The real barbie is Y/n.
Y/n’s a doctor, a cop, a scientist, an agent, vet, hero, villain, astronaut, lawyer, spy, criminal, artist, chef, engineer, psychologist, architect, journalist, firefighter, event planner, mechanic, photographer, musician, actor, interior designer, bartender, fashion designer, barista, florist, forensic scientist, flight attendant, profiler, tour guide, translator, etc.
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sunsshinesunny · 22 days
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it's insane that i'm getting this on my tl, now i'm gonna have to watch Saint Seiya again
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Happy birthday Shion
I almost fucking died making this for you
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your honor i love them
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LET ME BE THE LIGHTER | MV #CH12
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series summary : max raced knowing he’d win. You raced as if you had nothing else to lose. That was something the fans of F1 had grown accustomed to since you joined. Being the only driver who could truly make the Max Verstappen break a sweat during this season, all the odds seemed to be in your favor during one eventful race where you could finally overtake him on the last few laps, breaking his winning streak and also —by consequence — yours and his peace in the near future.
warnings : swearing, fighting (just a bit but nothing too serious), one mention of an anxiety attack.
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CHAPTER TWELVE # BETRAYAL .
“Princesa…Max?” 
Verstappen quickly presses the low button of your phone’s volume and raises a finger to his lips, begging the Spanish man on your screen to lower the voice as he jumps from the bed and steps into the bathroom. 
You only shift a little in your position, furrowing your brows and sighing before relaxing your features and turning to the opposite side to continue sleeping. 
It’s four in the morning and Max thinks this isn’t a time to be calling in general, but considering Carlos was a dear friend of yours and had decided to FaceTime you instead of shooting you a quick text, then whatever he wanted to tell you may be urgent or relevant. 
“You flatter me, Sainz.” Verstappen puts a hand on his chest, attempting to sleepily smile to dissipate the growing annoyance he feels upon seeing your friend’s face at this moment. “I didn’t know I was also your princesa.”
Carlos laughs awkwardly, positioning his phone against something to free his hands and bring a dog with white fur into his lap. “Didn’t have you as someone that liked to joke around…” 
“Don’t worry, that’s because I only save my good humor for my friends.” Max spits rather bitterly and rests his back against a wall after closing the door. “Now, why are you calling? It’s four in the morning. Yn arrived a few hours ago, you know? She had a hard week —.” 
“I know, but this was important.” 
“More important than allowing her to rest? Her father passed away. She went back home for the funeral and had a rough couple of days —.” 
“Max, man, I’m her friend, alright? I know. We talked a lot during that week. You aren’t the only one worried about her. Now, I’m sorry I called so early over there. I totally forgot about the time difference but I thought I needed to discuss this as soon as possible, so please, can you wake her up?” 
“Fuck no. Let her rest and call later.” 
Max graces a thumb over the screen intending to click the red button to end this conversation and return to bed, but Carlos speaks again. “Mercedes wants to drop her for next season, Max.” 
The Dutch stops his movements abruptly and scans the screen with detail, trying to decipher if the Spaniard is playing some kind of horrid joke on him just to stop him from cutting the call, but all he finds is a palpable concern through the pixels and a tension slowly creeping between the two.
“They cannot…” Max whispers to himself. “How do you even know that?” 
Carlos stays silent for a few seconds, setting back the dog on the floor before extending an arm over the camera and grabbing something from behind it. A pile of papers comes into view first, too brightly white for Max to read what they say until the man brings the title closer to the lens, allowing him to read properly. 
It’s a contract. 
They sent Carlos, out of all people, a draft of a contract for next year. 
“Since when? How can they just…?” Unable to finish a sentence, Verstappen pressures himself to rationalize the wave of thoughts that wash over him so violently to materialize the questions that appear every second as he dwells on the information. 
None of this makes sense and he is confused at the moment. 
You’ve been giving it your all to Mercedes from day one. He knows that because he had been following the process of training your team put you through. 
Red Bull liked to keep tabs on all of their competitors and when word got around that you were the chosen one to replace Lewis, he wasted no time gathering all the information, videos, and anything people could give him about you. 
Not every day you’d see a team risk it this badly for a driver with no previous experience, let alone someone who wasn’t known through F2 competitions or F1 academy. So it was only natural for him to analyze your technique and possible ways of driving; for all he knew, you could be the next in line for a championship and an actual threat —, especially because Hamilton was supposedly your mentor for many years. 
Max had no doubts about his performance and talents. He knew he’d win the season no matter what, but it was important for him to know everybody on track and you were new, so he had to study you. 
Because of that, he ended up following your path through the paddock way more closely than expected, and more than anyone he could corroborate that you were more than what Mercedes could have imagined or deserved. Although you worked incredibly as a team with George, your talent alone was undeniable. You were pulling even better results than your friend and actually turning this competition into something more enjoyable for the public and Max. 
He finally had someone to race against, fighting toe to toe for the trophy, and far from stressing over the possibility of losing, Max looked forward to the challenge and waited anxiously for every race just to prove himself worthy once more. 
The Dutch could recognize your terrific skills and admire them, so why couldn’t your team think the same? How come they were already looking for a replacement?
“This is fucking stupid.” Max finalizes his train of thought. “You aren’t any better than her,” he spats with utmost honesty, and in a fraction of a second, your voice plagues him. ‘Be nice, Emi.’ He hears inside his brain, like the voice of his conscience but in your tone as a reprimand, and he backtracks slightly. Carlos is your friend, not your enemy. “I mean, don’t get me wrong, you are good, but Yn is also pretty good as well. Why would they want her out?” 
“That’s what I wanted to discuss with Yn, man. Something here is not alright. I noticed a few things back when I replaced her for those two races. I didn’t pay them any mind at first but now everything is becoming a bit more clearer.” 
“Care to share?” 
Max grows agitated. You don’t need to receive this bad news. You had recovered quickly for the team, brushed off the possibility of taking some time off again due to your family problems, and returned for the competition without showing any signs of struggle just to avoid inconveniencing everybody. 
You put your team before you time after time and this is how they repaid you?
“This is just a theory though. I’ve got no way of confirming this but…” Carlos drops the papers on the table and grabs the camera, bringing it closer to his face. “I saw some stuff on those weeks. Some documents — by accident, of course —. And I got this thought. I mean, it's not like I had the chance to read through the stuff but —.”
“To the point, Sainz.”
“George’s car is way too different from Yn’s, or at least, it was, according to what I could read and see.” 
“Yeah, but that’s obvious, Carlos. Both cars have the same outline but different settings. They need adjustments for each driver.” 
“No, that’s not what I mean. What I noticed is that George’s car was almost fully upgraded by the time I joined and Yn’s was basically the same from beginning to end. The documents I saw quickly had some planned upgrades, but only for Russell. If anything, it looked like they were pouring all the money on him.” 
Max looks down puzzled. That could mean anything and nothing to him. All teams had different strategies and ways to design their cars and set-ups. From day one, Max never suffered a downgrade on his equipment so the idea of yours and George’s car being that different did not make much sense in his brain.
“If they wanted George’s car to be faster then they did a terrible job at it. Yn kept on surpassing him on every race.”  
“I thought so too but those notes sparked my curiosity so I asked a few of the mechanics in charge of Yn’s car about the design and stuff, and they told me they usually tried to keep the vehicle as intact as possible because they hadn’t received new equipment for upgrades in a while and they were worried the car wouldn’t resist for longer. It was too unstable according to them, so I tried my best to be careful with it because, at the time, George arrived and told me Yn’s car wasn’t planned to receive any upgrades until the end of September.” 
“It’s November, Carlos.” 
“Exactly.” The Spanish man nods along and continues. “Yn managed to bag some more wins but I’ve seen her radio transmissions specifically. She always presented some issues with the setups, the brakes, and anything else. Her car was falling apart and it worried me so I decided to go back to her old races, — like the ones for the first two or three months —, and these problems were already there back then too, they just intensified with time. I mean, what are the odds that George basically adapted to the car in a matter of days from the beginning of the season, and with Yn it took months? Because, at first, I believed that was due to the lack of experience, but then I gave the thought a second chance, and it made no sense. I saw Yn during training with Russell. They were on equal machinery back then and she got ahold of that car easily and raced it way better than him. You understand what I mean?” 
“They are sabotaging her.” 
“I’ve got no proof but also no doubts, especially now that they want to kick her out.” 
“It still makes no sense. Like, let’s roll with your story for a second, okay? Yn got the worst car out of the pair yet she managed to win more than once this season and on many occasions, she finalized on top of George. What sort of updates did they put on Russell’s car to make him fail regardless?”
“I’ve got a theory.” Carlos moves from the original location to what looks like his room and sits by the window, letting the light of the afternoon hit his face fully. “Maybe the strategy isn’t for Yn to fail in comparison but for George to save face near the end of the season. Like, if you really think about it, at some point, Yn’s car will slow down. It’s already on the brink of falling apart anyway. And when that happens, who will have the fastest and better car? George. After months of getting questioned over his skills as a leader and driver, he’d pick up the team the moment Yn starts losing, and bring in all the points. Plus, Yn already became a well-known threat to other teams, so no one would expect George to step up and outrace her or anybody else, not when all the wins and good results he had bagged so far were due to the strategy he played with Yn, where she became an actual shield between him and the rest of the grid on track.” 
Max digests the words slowly, deepening into his thoughts and picturing the strategy Carlos is painting to him. 
Dirtier plans had been pulled between drivers in the past and with the strict regulations set on the drivers, all competitors needed to come up with better moves to finalize on top of their teammates. After all, the better a driver performs, the more chances they will have to get better and richer deals in the future. 
Everybody wanted to win at the end of the day and George was no different. He had been fishing for a trophy and the public respect for a hot minute now, and this year was supposed to be all about him, not you yet you outperformed him every other day. 
If Max really wanted to think this through from a calculative perspective, then he had to consider Carlos’s words. Russell was your friend second and your competitor first. 
“Do we have a way to confirm what you are saying?” 
“Not now at least, but I bet if we get ahold of those documents I saw back then, we will confirm or discard the thoughts I have.” The man reasons and pauses briefly before continuing. “I think what we should discuss first is her future. I don’t want to end up in Mercedes, but they don’t want her either if they are already fishing for other drivers and she needs to know as soon as possible.” 
“I will let her know and you can call her later to give her the details, but omit your theories, okay? She is already under a lot of stress and we don’t know for sure if the team is sabotaging her or not.” 
“Okay, shoot me a text when you think she’s ready to talk to me.” 
“Will do,” Max sighs, more tired than ever at this moment. “And I will let you know when I get ahold of those papers too, okay? Just send me details about them, — like, I don’t know, the color of the folders? A title? Anything you remember, so I know where to look.” 
A knock on the bathroom door makes Verstappen jump on his place scaredly, and he quickly hangs up, flushing the toilet to play pretend before another knock rings against the wood. 
“Emi? Are you okay?” 
“Yes, Star. Everything alright. Just go back to bed. I’ll be there in a minute.” 
Your silent steps grow apart from the entrance of the bathroom and Max breathes out a sigh of relief, finally seeing himself in the mirror. 
Your phone is still gripped between his fingers with ferocity and the panic is visible on his face. 
Carlos better be wrong about all those theories or else because the thought of you not longer racing for Mercedes was already scary enough to send his mind into a frenzy, but if you were to depart knowing your team had failed you that badly, then Max would close the season stamping George’s car against a wall pretty badly as payback. 
No way in hell he’ll let them disrespect you like that. 
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notbabyn. small escapades with the king of my heart, mr. roscoe and his walker and shit collector, lewis. 💛
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lewishamilton. i’m the shit collector or the shit-hearer with all the complaining i heard from you during the trip?
notbabyn. more like the shit-gossiper babes. all the tea you spilt i already knew 🙄, of course i was gonna complain. your tales are as old as your age.
oscarpiastri. finally you went to that place with daisies i told you about! did you like it?
notbabyn. ofc dear 💛🤍. it was the loveliest thing ever. Next time, you, lily and i need to go
lewishamilton. you can spare the papaya boy a nice comment but cannot even give me ONE sweet caption after i took you there 😒
notbabyn. hashtag #youarenotblessed #grumpyseniorcitizen
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ynstappenrules. wait where is max?? why is she alone with lew?? is he ok with that??
theynarchive. i love love to see my family reunited 🥹
ynlovelies. now i want to see yn wear a helmet full of daisies or something. i think yellow could be a good color to use 💛 she’d look so pretty
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notbabyn. it was good but it could have been better with you there 🥺 (miss you queen)
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“The wine is delicious in this restaurant.” 
That’s the first thing you denote as soon as your glass arrives halfway served. The white and yellow-ish shadow it casts, mixed with little bubbles, almost have you thinking they messed up your order and brought you champagne, but the moment you taste it the wine soothes your tongue and throat, clinging to it softly like a hug and you cannot help but smile and relax briefly. 
Max digests your presence like a dish with his eyes pierced on your figure, and although his undivided attention is something you are well accustomed to, it only boosts your ego to see him so obviously ogling over you. 
He had prepared for this improvised date gleefully, if you may admit. From the wardrobe to the restaurant he picked, everything was impeccable and lovely in your eyes. 
To see him waiting in your driveway with his car parked and his figure resting against the passenger door, you knew you’d have a hard time focusing on your objective due to his magnetic presence. 
He was wearing exactly the colors you liked on him and an attire that left you wondering if he received some outside help from a friend or went on a last-minute trip to a mall, because you couldn’t recall ever seeing that silk-like dressing shirt in his closet, nor those dressing pants either matching with his casual shoes. 
He appeared relaxed holding onto a small bouquet of red flowers for you and a little velvet box with a white bow on top but when you got close enough to him to plant a kiss on his plumpy lips, you noticed him struggling to breathe and his arms almost hesitated to wrap themselves around your figure. 
It had you smirking devilishly and the gesture never truly left your features completely throughout the drive to the restaurant. If you weren’t admiring your boyfriend with fervor, you were laughing a bit too softly and hawking almost maliciously, and Max seemed to notice your change in demeanor which made all of this even funnier and entertaining for you. 
It wasn’t a matter of when you’d explode on his face but rather when he’d have the courage to tell you the truth about what happened in the garage. 
You could be patient. Not for many things, of course. You lacked the determination to wait for long periods to get what you wanted in a lot of instances, but if discussions were the topic and you knew you had the upper hand, you sort of enjoyed seeing the other person slowly crumble under the expectation of something happening. 
You knew this trait wasn’t one of your best but you couldn’t help it. You hated it when people lied to you, especially your loved ones so you believed, foolishly, that they deserved to waver under your gaze little by little until you deemed yourself ready to confront them. 
“I’m glad you like it, Schatje.” Max clinks the edge of his glass with yours as a sweet and short toast and takes a sip of his whiskey. “I’ve heard only good things from this place.” 
“Well, I thank you for bringing me here, love.” You give him a shy smile and mentally curse yourself for dropping your unpreoccupied facade under his gaze so abruptly. It’s nearly impossible for you to not feel the butterflies violently flying in all directions inside your stomach when he observes you so lovingly and attentively. “I think I will order the steak.” 
Max raises a hand only slightly towards the waiter who previously welcomed you two and brought you drinks, and the young man approaches your table. “My partner will have the steak with…?” 
“Salad please, but no tomatoes.” You announce. 
“Steak for the lady with salad, and you Mister?” The waiter grabs the menu you hand him as you pronounce a nearly inaudible thanks. 
“I will have the same, thank you.” The third person leaves your small bubble of contentment and Max’s hand creeps on top of yours, interlocking your fingers together and giving you a little squeeze to bring back your attention to him. “Have I told you how lovely you look tonight?” 
“Only three hundred times, darling.” You joke and giggle a little, sweetly bringing up his knuckles to your lips for a chaste kiss. “You also look incredibly handsome tonight.” 
“Really?” A small blush tints his pale cheeks, casting a different shadow on his skin freshly shaved and you extend your free hand to his face, brushing a thumb over his warmed spot tenderly. 
“Of course, dear.” Lovingly, you stare into his eyes and retreat with a smile, letting go of his grasp on your hand as well. “It’s such a shame you decided to dress up this nicely for such a horrible night.” 
Your back rests against the booth and you scan his discomfort without shame. 
It’s been enough of this wonderful acting. He knows he is lying and you know it too. He needs to stop trying so hard to get on your good graces before you end up storming off this restaurant and leaving him behind. 
“Horrible? What? Baby —.” 
“Answer me something, Max. Do you think you can keep me happy with a few dates and some expensive gifts?” You taunt him and he nearly winces over the shift in your demeanor. “Distract me with money, perhaps?” 
“No, what makes you —.” 
“Then why are you taking me on a date right after lying to my face and giving me presents?” Calmly, you wrap your hand around the wine glass and take a sip. 
The yellow shadow reflects through the glass a deformed view of the small star hanging over your neck. 
Max’s present shines over the liquid and he barely gets to see it before dropping his gaze to the table, wishing to be anywhere but here at the moment. 
“I don’t know what you mean.” He whispers through gritted teeth. 
He is very much aware of your intentions now and although he does recognize the blame is on him, he does not like your way of approaching the situation one bit. 
You do not need to make such a scene over this, let alone treat him this poorly.
“I will tell you what I mean.” The glass sits back close the center of the table and you put both elbows near the edge of it. “Toto called me saying he surprised you going through his documents earlier today and when he confronted you about it, you said you were looking for something I asked you to pick for me. — Now, we both know that’s a lie, and when I asked you about it, you straight up told me everything but the truth as well, so…will you actually tell me what was going on or do I have to agree with Toto on his decision to ban you from the garage?” 
“You played with me,” Max whispers, recalling the texts you sent him. 
“No, you played with me. What the fuck where you doing at the Mercedes garage, Max?” 
The Dutch falls back on his chair, pressing two fingers over the bridge of his nose. 
From your perspective, he is being unbelievably uncooperative right now and his actions are not helping his case in the slightest. Toto is beyond pissed with him and you and the call you received in the middle of your short trip with Lewis not only fueled your anger but also your anxiety. 
You nearly had an attack in the car as you heard every possible insult in existence coming from your boss, effectively ruining your perfect family afternoon, and while you could recognize that your tactics to approach this situation weren’t exactly the clearest nor best, the moment Max gave you only excuses and his story did not match with Toto’s, all alarms went off.
Your first thought was to blame Max’s dad and his team. They had already forced him to do something he did not want in the past and their actions affected you greatly back then, but after pondering over this possibility for way too long, you resolved that if it were the case, then Max failed once more to set his foot down and put some limits around his family and work pals, throwing you under the bus in favor of avoiding any conflict. 
If this hypothesis was proved to be correct despite your blossoming relationship and much more trusting nature, then you’d be put — once more — in an incredibly tough spot. 
You had forgiven Max before for failing to defend you and attempted to understand his situation, but you could only shield him so much before losing your temper and lashing out at him. Now more so that he was your boyfriend and not a mere stranger trapped in an unhealthy family dynamic. 
“I already told you —.” 
“Lies. You told me lies,” you interrupt him and the waiter approaches you with two served plates, setting them on the table and forcing you to smile politely before signaling him to leave. “Now you can tell me what’s going on or I’m walking out.” 
“Listen. It’s complicated. I’m just trying to protect you here, so if you could be a bit more cooperative I’d be way happier and enjoy my steak.” 
You take the final sip on your glass and grab a napkin, wiping any residue from your lips, and drop the cloth rather ungracefully on the table, jumping up. “Great. Enjoy your dinner.” 
Max sighs and watches you walk around the edge of the table rapidly before catching onto your wrist. “Baby…” 
Seeing his hand on your skin and then back to his pleading but exhausted eyes, you nearly feel compelled to simply drop this and discuss it later, but his attitude unnerves you and so you decide to shake off his grip and leave him on his spot, already thinking of catching a cab back to your hotel room. 
He could be damned for all you care at this precise moment. All you asked for was sincerity. 
Did you ask for it sweetly? No. Did you treat the situation with more tact? Also no, but you were angry. You couldn’t be expected to think rationally at all times and remain patient and sweet when you were getting taken for a fool by someone you actually deemed as trustworthy. 
Letting the cold air of the night hit your face, you step out of the restaurant, passing by the parked car of Max and many others, until you are four or five streets away and sure of your directions. 
The city is foreign to you but you do remember bits and pieces from the short drive from your place to the dining spot and you are almost dead set on returning by foot to the comfort of your room. 
Maybe if you tire yourself enough you’d end up having a good night of sleep as soon as you slip under the covers instead of wasting many hours tossing and turning around in bed, overthinking about everything as you usually do when stressed. 
Why was it so difficult for Max to communicate what was going on? His lack of information helped your mind run rampage over many possibilities, scaring you shitless over the many prospects of his presence in the Mercedes garage. 
His reason to be reading important papers from a rival team could vary from possible espionage to sabotage and many more, but none of the outcomes of this situation gave you any peace because Max simply shouldn’t have been there to begin with. 
You were competitors first and foremost and maybe you had forgotten about it. Maybe the thin line between your relationship and your career had finally faded and now everything was getting mixed.
“Schatje!” 
Picking up the pace, you hug yourself from another wave of cold air and pray for the next light to be red for the cars just so you can cross the street more rapidly and avoid your boyfriend. 
“Come on, love! Please stop and let’s talk!” Max’s voice booms across the open space way too loudly for your liking and you close your eyes violently for a second before reaching the end of the street and stopping because of the vehicles still passing. 
“What?” Defeated by the laws of the street and vehicle transportation, you turn around and glare at him. 
“Baby…” He catches a breather, stopping in front of your and his words fan you momentarily. “I’m sorry, please, let me drive you home.” 
“No.” 
The light turns green for you as your body turns around, and you step into the street, beginning to cross it with Max following behind you. 
“Then I will walk you there.” 
“Do whatever you want as long as you stay quiet, Max Emilian. I’m tired of hearing you babble.” 
If the situation was different you’d be apologizing for your harshness right on this instant, backtracking in fear over your own attitude and quivering under the edge of your sharply-tipped tongue, but in this case, you don’t feel an ounce of remorse. 
Your irritation is justified in your eyes and by now you don’t expect anything from your boyfriend besides excuses or more lies. 
“For fuck sake, Yn. I’m trying to solve this. Can’t you at least give me a chance to explain myself?” 
“I gave you one back at the restaurant and you did not take it.” You reach the other side of the street when Max turns you around against your will, making you face him. 
His anger reflects on you, or maybe your anger reflects on him, who knows. Both of your chests are raising rising up and down with agitation and your eyes dig holes in one another, unafraid of the confrontation but simultaneously incredibly exhausted over the prospect of arguing. 
“You want the truth? Fine.” Max spits, setting both hands on your shoulders to ground you in your spot. “Your team has been sabotaging you for months now. They don’t need you anymore and if we don’t act fast, you won’t have a seat for next season. Happy? That’s the fucking truth.”
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Silence pierces through needles. With each pause, a little stinging feeling hits you, signaling another carved point on your skin. 
You drum your nails against the white marble, touching softly onto the many grey lines across it and stopping your wincing after the third dig of the invisible needle on your flesh. 
It is with the precision of a surgeon that you trail a path to cut from every explanation you receive, and by the time all the men around you close their mouths you can comfortably picture the body for inspection, ready to get dissected by following the lines you had drawn in invisible ink. 
Another needle pokes your ribcage when Carlos gives you a look of pity through the screen and the pain prolongs with the sound of a teacup landing right in front of your hands, spitting their vapor up to your chin before you notice Lewis’ presence prepping himself on a seat in front of you. 
Max remains by your side, both arms crossed and a stern look reflecting on your camera as a painful reminder of your previous discussion. 
“Do you want to take the deal?” Your voice is devoid of any emotion and a few fingers wrap around the tiny handle of the cup, bringing it up. “Be honest with me.” 
Honesty…what a funny concept. 
Hours ago you craved it and now you feel repulsed solely by pronouncing it. 
“Not like this.” 
“I’m not asking you under what conditions, Carlos. I’m asking you if you’d take the deal.” A sip passes through your lips, burning the sharp end of your tongue and you swallow the liquid feigning ignorance of your pain. “Forget this has anything to do with me. If you could, would you take the deal?” 
“If I didn’t know about this, I would take it, but I don’t want your seat.” 
“It’s not my seat and if this is your only chance to return then you should take it.” 
Max turns to observe you with surprise painted all over his face, and his shock appears contagious, reaching Lewis as well and centering all the attention on you right now. 
“There is no way —.” 
“Don’t turn them down because of me. If you think you can do well in Mercedes you should go for it. I will find a team.” 
Your iced responses begin to melt little by little, dripping through your words with tints of consideration and the next silence that follows has you wincing again. 
The situation hurts. No matter how hard you try to mask it, the disappointment pierces through you so harshly the pain can be barely retained inside of your brain and if you were to truly express what you were truly feeling right now, all the men would hear would be sobs and complaints. 
“I will think about it.” Your Spanish friend takes note of your effort to remain calm and collected and decides to free you from any further discussions. “But please do call me if you need any help dealing with this, okay? And…” He stops, unsure of how to word this properly. “Max? I’m sorry I got you into this mess.” 
“It’s alright. I just want what is best for her.” 
Your boyfriend’s words may be the final blow you need to your crumbling anger and the moment the two men share a polite smile you decide to end the call, no longer in the mood to bear with the weight of your action. 
It is uncomfortable to be in your skin right now. Your emotions are all over the place, splattered in buckets of colors across a white wall; nothing makes sense and you cannot find a grip on reality. A part of you desperately wants to scream and argue with everybody who crosses your path, and another half of the three fights with your pride, forcing you to apologize before anything, while the remaining busies itself dissecting the situation and cutting through the hard flesh around you in order to find the correct layer you need to present yourself towards the problem at hand. 
You must say sorry. You must think of the many paths you can take. You must regulate your emotions to think clearly. You must, you must…
“Okay, dear. Let’s focus.” Lewis starts and you nod, grabbing the cup of tea and stepping out of the kitchen zone with the intention of drinking on the sofa. 
“I will leave you two to discuss things.” Max continues and you stop your movements, shaking your head in negativity. 
“No, please, stay. I still owe you an apology.” 
“Apology taken, now focus on this,” Verstappen attempts to take one of the many weights from your shoulders but you snatch it back in place. 
“No, that’s not enough.” You murmur and place the cup on your coffee table. “I’m really —.” 
“Dear, you can discuss whatever happened later. Now we should focus —.” 
“Lewis, please just…” You breathe out and drop on the couch. “Shut up. What I have to discuss with Max is also important.” 
Hiding your face on the palms of your hands, you momentarily lose sight of the two men approaching you and everything turns dark and quiet for a couple of seconds, allowing you to breathe out a sigh of frustration and a groan. 
Max takes a seat next to you, placing an open hand on your back and beginning to soothe you shyly under the confused watch of Lewis. 
“I’m gonna get a fucking migraine,” you chew over the words and look up finally, not finding a trace of your mentor but luckily having your boyfriend by your side. “I’m so sorry.” 
Your voice cracks under the pressure of your sadness and frustration inciting you to cry, but you don’t let any tears fall from your shiny eyes. 
Always the stubborn woman, you attempt to regain your composure, fearing your emotions at this moment and deeming them as weakness under the circumstances. 
“It’s okay, Schatje.” His voice lures you into a spot of comfort and before you can think about it, your arms are wrapping around his middle, craving his warmth. “I shouldn’t have hidden this from you.” 
“I shouldn’t have reacted the way I did.” Max places a little kiss on top of your head. “I didn’t mean to hurt you.” 
“It wasn’t my intention either,” he confesses. “I guess I just wanted to protect you. I thought I could deal with this myself and make your life a bit easier in the process, but I shouldn’t be making decisions for the both of us.” 
He returns your hug and you dig into his perfume, smelling it through his clothes. 
“I thought the worst,” you admit upon hearing his sincerity. “I always think the worst actually. I’m so used to things going wrong I automatically think someone is out to get me whenever I notice things out of place. I get why you wanted to protect me from this, I would have reacted the same way if I knew someone was messing with you but I don’t do well being kept in the dark, you know?  If you really want to help me you need to fight with me, not for me.” 
“I understand, love. No more secrets.” 
“No more secrets,” you repeat softly. 
Lewis returns to the small place with two more teacups for him and Max, and you separate from your partner slowly, reaching for your own tea to soothe your interior with the warmness of the drink and this time the silence does not pinch like a needle.
Still, your mind timidly begins shifting again to the task at hand and you find yourself separating fully from your lover and snapping into a place of fragile tranquility. 
It is impeding that you come with a resolution. You’ve allowed yourself to remain unfocused and hopeful for the future, already assuming your seat was secured because of your performance, but now that you knew that wasn’t the case, you needed to come up with a plan to finish this season on a positive note for the public and a new deal in a better team. 
“Let’s act like nothing is going on until I can come up with a solid plan, okay?” You announce and both men nod. “Did you take any pictures of those documents you saw, Emi?” 
“Of course. I’ve got them on my phone.” 
“Print them. We will need them as back-up in case they want to get rid of the evidence, okay?” 
“Should I contact my manager? Maybe we can start discussing with other teams about your future.” Lewis offers and takes a seat by the floor, right on the opposite side of the table and well positioned in front of you. You make a gesture of unsureness and the man sighs. “Let me help with that, okay? I suggested this team to you in the first place.” 
“Lew, please don’t feel guilty over this.” 
“Cannot help it, dear. I should have known better really. They weren’t exactly thrilled to see me go to Ferrari. Maybe they are doing this as payback.” 
“I don’t know, Lew…” You trail off and Max hums in agreement. 
“I think that’s an option,” the Dutchman chimes in. “They made his life miserable the moment he announced his departure. I don’t think it’d be that far fetched to think they would also take some of that resentment on you too. You are like his sister, plus, their favorite was George and you took away the spotlight.” 
“Let’s not put George in the same bag here. He is completely blindsided by Toto.” You remind both men of your teammate’s predicament. 
“Do we know for sure that he isn’t involved in this?” Max questions and Lewis nearly winces, shyly nodding along to his words. 
“I…” You pause. “I don’t know. I guess I’d like to believe he isn’t actively trying to sabotage me.” 
“We can start over there, then.” Lewis suggests. “First, we make sure we know who’s on your side and who isn't, then we see what we can do with that. I will call my manager. Maybe we can start drafting a public letter to the fans and announce that you won’t race for Mercedes next year.”
“No, no.” You cut him off. “No public letters. Tomorrow is media day. I will announce it there. We’ve got three more races before the season finishes. If they are so excited to kick me out then I might as well make it easier for them and break the news myself, right?” 
Max cannot help but smile sheepishly. Perhaps tomorrow will finally be a media day he will enjoy attending to.
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LET ME BE THE LIGHTER | MV #CH12
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series summary : max raced knowing he’d win. You raced as if you had nothing else to lose. That was something the fans of F1 had grown accustomed to since you joined. Being the only driver who could truly make the Max Verstappen break a sweat during this season, all the odds seemed to be in your favor during one eventful race where you could finally overtake him on the last few laps, breaking his winning streak and also —by consequence — yours and his peace in the near future.
warnings : swearing, fighting (just a bit but nothing too serious), one mention of an anxiety attack.
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CHAPTER TWELVE # BETRAYAL .
“Princesa…Max?” 
Verstappen quickly presses the low button of your phone’s volume and raises a finger to his lips, begging the Spanish man on your screen to lower the voice as he jumps from the bed and steps into the bathroom. 
You only shift a little in your position, furrowing your brows and sighing before relaxing your features and turning to the opposite side to continue sleeping. 
It’s four in the morning and Max thinks this isn’t a time to be calling in general, but considering Carlos was a dear friend of yours and had decided to FaceTime you instead of shooting you a quick text, then whatever he wanted to tell you may be urgent or relevant. 
“You flatter me, Sainz.” Verstappen puts a hand on his chest, attempting to sleepily smile to dissipate the growing annoyance he feels upon seeing your friend’s face at this moment. “I didn’t know I was also your princesa.”
Carlos laughs awkwardly, positioning his phone against something to free his hands and bring a dog with white fur into his lap. “Didn’t have you as someone that liked to joke around…” 
“Don’t worry, that’s because I only save my good humor for my friends.” Max spits rather bitterly and rests his back against a wall after closing the door. “Now, why are you calling? It’s four in the morning. Yn arrived a few hours ago, you know? She had a hard week —.” 
“I know, but this was important.” 
“More important than allowing her to rest? Her father passed away. She went back home for the funeral and had a rough couple of days —.” 
“Max, man, I’m her friend, alright? I know. We talked a lot during that week. You aren’t the only one worried about her. Now, I’m sorry I called so early over there. I totally forgot about the time difference but I thought I needed to discuss this as soon as possible, so please, can you wake her up?” 
“Fuck no. Let her rest and call later.” 
Max graces a thumb over the screen intending to click the red button to end this conversation and return to bed, but Carlos speaks again. “Mercedes wants to drop her for next season, Max.” 
The Dutch stops his movements abruptly and scans the screen with detail, trying to decipher if the Spaniard is playing some kind of horrid joke on him just to stop him from cutting the call, but all he finds is a palpable concern through the pixels and a tension slowly creeping between the two.
“They cannot…” Max whispers to himself. “How do you even know that?” 
Carlos stays silent for a few seconds, setting back the dog on the floor before extending an arm over the camera and grabbing something from behind it. A pile of papers comes into view first, too brightly white for Max to read what they say until the man brings the title closer to the lens, allowing him to read properly. 
It’s a contract. 
They sent Carlos, out of all people, a draft of a contract for next year. 
“Since when? How can they just…?” Unable to finish a sentence, Verstappen pressures himself to rationalize the wave of thoughts that wash over him so violently to materialize the questions that appear every second as he dwells on the information. 
None of this makes sense and he is confused at the moment. 
You’ve been giving it your all to Mercedes from day one. He knows that because he had been following the process of training your team put you through. 
Red Bull liked to keep tabs on all of their competitors and when word got around that you were the chosen one to replace Lewis, he wasted no time gathering all the information, videos, and anything people could give him about you. 
Not every day you’d see a team risk it this badly for a driver with no previous experience, let alone someone who wasn’t known through F2 competitions or F1 academy. So it was only natural for him to analyze your technique and possible ways of driving; for all he knew, you could be the next in line for a championship and an actual threat —, especially because Hamilton was supposedly your mentor for many years. 
Max had no doubts about his performance and talents. He knew he’d win the season no matter what, but it was important for him to know everybody on track and you were new, so he had to study you. 
Because of that, he ended up following your path through the paddock way more closely than expected, and more than anyone he could corroborate that you were more than what Mercedes could have imagined or deserved. Although you worked incredibly as a team with George, your talent alone was undeniable. You were pulling even better results than your friend and actually turning this competition into something more enjoyable for the public and Max. 
He finally had someone to race against, fighting toe to toe for the trophy, and far from stressing over the possibility of losing, Max looked forward to the challenge and waited anxiously for every race just to prove himself worthy once more. 
The Dutch could recognize your terrific skills and admire them, so why couldn’t your team think the same? How come they were already looking for a replacement?
“This is fucking stupid.” Max finalizes his train of thought. “You aren’t any better than her,” he spats with utmost honesty, and in a fraction of a second, your voice plagues him. ‘Be nice, Emi.’ He hears inside his brain, like the voice of his conscience but in your tone as a reprimand, and he backtracks slightly. Carlos is your friend, not your enemy. “I mean, don’t get me wrong, you are good, but Yn is also pretty good as well. Why would they want her out?” 
“That’s what I wanted to discuss with Yn, man. Something here is not alright. I noticed a few things back when I replaced her for those two races. I didn’t pay them any mind at first but now everything is becoming a bit more clearer.” 
“Care to share?” 
Max grows agitated. You don’t need to receive this bad news. You had recovered quickly for the team, brushed off the possibility of taking some time off again due to your family problems, and returned for the competition without showing any signs of struggle just to avoid inconveniencing everybody. 
You put your team before you time after time and this is how they repaid you?
“This is just a theory though. I’ve got no way of confirming this but…” Carlos drops the papers on the table and grabs the camera, bringing it closer to his face. “I saw some stuff on those weeks. Some documents — by accident, of course —. And I got this thought. I mean, it's not like I had the chance to read through the stuff but —.”
“To the point, Sainz.”
“George’s car is way too different from Yn’s, or at least, it was, according to what I could read and see.” 
“Yeah, but that’s obvious, Carlos. Both cars have the same outline but different settings. They need adjustments for each driver.” 
“No, that’s not what I mean. What I noticed is that George’s car was almost fully upgraded by the time I joined and Yn’s was basically the same from beginning to end. The documents I saw quickly had some planned upgrades, but only for Russell. If anything, it looked like they were pouring all the money on him.” 
Max looks down puzzled. That could mean anything and nothing to him. All teams had different strategies and ways to design their cars and set-ups. From day one, Max never suffered a downgrade on his equipment so the idea of yours and George’s car being that different did not make much sense in his brain.
“If they wanted George’s car to be faster then they did a terrible job at it. Yn kept on surpassing him on every race.”  
“I thought so too but those notes sparked my curiosity so I asked a few of the mechanics in charge of Yn’s car about the design and stuff, and they told me they usually tried to keep the vehicle as intact as possible because they hadn’t received new equipment for upgrades in a while and they were worried the car wouldn’t resist for longer. It was too unstable according to them, so I tried my best to be careful with it because, at the time, George arrived and told me Yn’s car wasn’t planned to receive any upgrades until the end of September.” 
“It’s November, Carlos.” 
“Exactly.” The Spanish man nods along and continues. “Yn managed to bag some more wins but I’ve seen her radio transmissions specifically. She always presented some issues with the setups, the brakes, and anything else. Her car was falling apart and it worried me so I decided to go back to her old races, — like the ones for the first two or three months —, and these problems were already there back then too, they just intensified with time. I mean, what are the odds that George basically adapted to the car in a matter of days from the beginning of the season, and with Yn it took months? Because, at first, I believed that was due to the lack of experience, but then I gave the thought a second chance, and it made no sense. I saw Yn during training with Russell. They were on equal machinery back then and she got ahold of that car easily and raced it way better than him. You understand what I mean?” 
“They are sabotaging her.” 
“I’ve got no proof but also no doubts, especially now that they want to kick her out.” 
“It still makes no sense. Like, let’s roll with your story for a second, okay? Yn got the worst car out of the pair yet she managed to win more than once this season and on many occasions, she finalized on top of George. What sort of updates did they put on Russell’s car to make him fail regardless?”
“I’ve got a theory.” Carlos moves from the original location to what looks like his room and sits by the window, letting the light of the afternoon hit his face fully. “Maybe the strategy isn’t for Yn to fail in comparison but for George to save face near the end of the season. Like, if you really think about it, at some point, Yn’s car will slow down. It’s already on the brink of falling apart anyway. And when that happens, who will have the fastest and better car? George. After months of getting questioned over his skills as a leader and driver, he’d pick up the team the moment Yn starts losing, and bring in all the points. Plus, Yn already became a well-known threat to other teams, so no one would expect George to step up and outrace her or anybody else, not when all the wins and good results he had bagged so far were due to the strategy he played with Yn, where she became an actual shield between him and the rest of the grid on track.” 
Max digests the words slowly, deepening into his thoughts and picturing the strategy Carlos is painting to him. 
Dirtier plans had been pulled between drivers in the past and with the strict regulations set on the drivers, all competitors needed to come up with better moves to finalize on top of their teammates. After all, the better a driver performs, the more chances they will have to get better and richer deals in the future. 
Everybody wanted to win at the end of the day and George was no different. He had been fishing for a trophy and the public respect for a hot minute now, and this year was supposed to be all about him, not you yet you outperformed him every other day. 
If Max really wanted to think this through from a calculative perspective, then he had to consider Carlos’s words. Russell was your friend second and your competitor first. 
“Do we have a way to confirm what you are saying?” 
“Not now at least, but I bet if we get ahold of those documents I saw back then, we will confirm or discard the thoughts I have.” The man reasons and pauses briefly before continuing. “I think what we should discuss first is her future. I don’t want to end up in Mercedes, but they don’t want her either if they are already fishing for other drivers and she needs to know as soon as possible.” 
“I will let her know and you can call her later to give her the details, but omit your theories, okay? She is already under a lot of stress and we don’t know for sure if the team is sabotaging her or not.” 
“Okay, shoot me a text when you think she’s ready to talk to me.” 
“Will do,” Max sighs, more tired than ever at this moment. “And I will let you know when I get ahold of those papers too, okay? Just send me details about them, — like, I don’t know, the color of the folders? A title? Anything you remember, so I know where to look.” 
A knock on the bathroom door makes Verstappen jump on his place scaredly, and he quickly hangs up, flushing the toilet to play pretend before another knock rings against the wood. 
“Emi? Are you okay?” 
“Yes, Star. Everything alright. Just go back to bed. I’ll be there in a minute.” 
Your silent steps grow apart from the entrance of the bathroom and Max breathes out a sigh of relief, finally seeing himself in the mirror. 
Your phone is still gripped between his fingers with ferocity and the panic is visible on his face. 
Carlos better be wrong about all those theories or else because the thought of you not longer racing for Mercedes was already scary enough to send his mind into a frenzy, but if you were to depart knowing your team had failed you that badly, then Max would close the season stamping George’s car against a wall pretty badly as payback. 
No way in hell he’ll let them disrespect you like that. 
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notbabyn. small escapades with the king of my heart, mr. roscoe and his walker and shit collector, lewis. 💛
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lewishamilton. i’m the shit collector or the shit-hearer with all the complaining i heard from you during the trip?
notbabyn. more like the shit-gossiper babes. all the tea you spilt i already knew 🙄, of course i was gonna complain. your tales are as old as your age.
oscarpiastri. finally you went to that place with daisies i told you about! did you like it?
notbabyn. ofc dear 💛🤍. it was the loveliest thing ever. Next time, you, lily and i need to go
lewishamilton. you can spare the papaya boy a nice comment but cannot even give me ONE sweet caption after i took you there 😒
notbabyn. hashtag #youarenotblessed #grumpyseniorcitizen
oscarpiastri. hashtag #gobacktobedgrandpa #itspastyourbedtime
ynstappenrules. wait where is max?? why is she alone with lew?? is he ok with that??
theynarchive. i love love to see my family reunited 🥹
ynlovelies. now i want to see yn wear a helmet full of daisies or something. i think yellow could be a good color to use 💛 she’d look so pretty
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notbabyn. it was good but it could have been better with you there 🥺 (miss you queen)
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“The wine is delicious in this restaurant.” 
That’s the first thing you denote as soon as your glass arrives halfway served. The white and yellow-ish shadow it casts, mixed with little bubbles, almost have you thinking they messed up your order and brought you champagne, but the moment you taste it the wine soothes your tongue and throat, clinging to it softly like a hug and you cannot help but smile and relax briefly. 
Max digests your presence like a dish with his eyes pierced on your figure, and although his undivided attention is something you are well accustomed to, it only boosts your ego to see him so obviously ogling over you. 
He had prepared for this improvised date gleefully, if you may admit. From the wardrobe to the restaurant he picked, everything was impeccable and lovely in your eyes. 
To see him waiting in your driveway with his car parked and his figure resting against the passenger door, you knew you’d have a hard time focusing on your objective due to his magnetic presence. 
He was wearing exactly the colors you liked on him and an attire that left you wondering if he received some outside help from a friend or went on a last-minute trip to a mall, because you couldn’t recall ever seeing that silk-like dressing shirt in his closet, nor those dressing pants either matching with his casual shoes. 
He appeared relaxed holding onto a small bouquet of red flowers for you and a little velvet box with a white bow on top but when you got close enough to him to plant a kiss on his plumpy lips, you noticed him struggling to breathe and his arms almost hesitated to wrap themselves around your figure. 
It had you smirking devilishly and the gesture never truly left your features completely throughout the drive to the restaurant. If you weren’t admiring your boyfriend with fervor, you were laughing a bit too softly and hawking almost maliciously, and Max seemed to notice your change in demeanor which made all of this even funnier and entertaining for you. 
It wasn’t a matter of when you’d explode on his face but rather when he’d have the courage to tell you the truth about what happened in the garage. 
You could be patient. Not for many things, of course. You lacked the determination to wait for long periods to get what you wanted in a lot of instances, but if discussions were the topic and you knew you had the upper hand, you sort of enjoyed seeing the other person slowly crumble under the expectation of something happening. 
You knew this trait wasn’t one of your best but you couldn’t help it. You hated it when people lied to you, especially your loved ones so you believed, foolishly, that they deserved to waver under your gaze little by little until you deemed yourself ready to confront them. 
“I’m glad you like it, Schatje.” Max clinks the edge of his glass with yours as a sweet and short toast and takes a sip of his whiskey. “I’ve heard only good things from this place.” 
“Well, I thank you for bringing me here, love.” You give him a shy smile and mentally curse yourself for dropping your unpreoccupied facade under his gaze so abruptly. It’s nearly impossible for you to not feel the butterflies violently flying in all directions inside your stomach when he observes you so lovingly and attentively. “I think I will order the steak.” 
Max raises a hand only slightly towards the waiter who previously welcomed you two and brought you drinks, and the young man approaches your table. “My partner will have the steak with…?” 
“Salad please, but no tomatoes.” You announce. 
“Steak for the lady with salad, and you Mister?” The waiter grabs the menu you hand him as you pronounce a nearly inaudible thanks. 
“I will have the same, thank you.” The third person leaves your small bubble of contentment and Max’s hand creeps on top of yours, interlocking your fingers together and giving you a little squeeze to bring back your attention to him. “Have I told you how lovely you look tonight?” 
“Only three hundred times, darling.” You joke and giggle a little, sweetly bringing up his knuckles to your lips for a chaste kiss. “You also look incredibly handsome tonight.” 
“Really?” A small blush tints his pale cheeks, casting a different shadow on his skin freshly shaved and you extend your free hand to his face, brushing a thumb over his warmed spot tenderly. 
“Of course, dear.” Lovingly, you stare into his eyes and retreat with a smile, letting go of his grasp on your hand as well. “It’s such a shame you decided to dress up this nicely for such a horrible night.” 
Your back rests against the booth and you scan his discomfort without shame. 
It’s been enough of this wonderful acting. He knows he is lying and you know it too. He needs to stop trying so hard to get on your good graces before you end up storming off this restaurant and leaving him behind. 
“Horrible? What? Baby —.” 
“Answer me something, Max. Do you think you can keep me happy with a few dates and some expensive gifts?” You taunt him and he nearly winces over the shift in your demeanor. “Distract me with money, perhaps?” 
“No, what makes you —.” 
“Then why are you taking me on a date right after lying to my face and giving me presents?” Calmly, you wrap your hand around the wine glass and take a sip. 
The yellow shadow reflects through the glass a deformed view of the small star hanging over your neck. 
Max’s present shines over the liquid and he barely gets to see it before dropping his gaze to the table, wishing to be anywhere but here at the moment. 
“I don’t know what you mean.” He whispers through gritted teeth. 
He is very much aware of your intentions now and although he does recognize the blame is on him, he does not like your way of approaching the situation one bit. 
You do not need to make such a scene over this, let alone treat him this poorly.
“I will tell you what I mean.” The glass sits back close the center of the table and you put both elbows near the edge of it. “Toto called me saying he surprised you going through his documents earlier today and when he confronted you about it, you said you were looking for something I asked you to pick for me. — Now, we both know that’s a lie, and when I asked you about it, you straight up told me everything but the truth as well, so…will you actually tell me what was going on or do I have to agree with Toto on his decision to ban you from the garage?” 
“You played with me,” Max whispers, recalling the texts you sent him. 
“No, you played with me. What the fuck where you doing at the Mercedes garage, Max?” 
The Dutch falls back on his chair, pressing two fingers over the bridge of his nose. 
From your perspective, he is being unbelievably uncooperative right now and his actions are not helping his case in the slightest. Toto is beyond pissed with him and you and the call you received in the middle of your short trip with Lewis not only fueled your anger but also your anxiety. 
You nearly had an attack in the car as you heard every possible insult in existence coming from your boss, effectively ruining your perfect family afternoon, and while you could recognize that your tactics to approach this situation weren’t exactly the clearest nor best, the moment Max gave you only excuses and his story did not match with Toto’s, all alarms went off.
Your first thought was to blame Max’s dad and his team. They had already forced him to do something he did not want in the past and their actions affected you greatly back then, but after pondering over this possibility for way too long, you resolved that if it were the case, then Max failed once more to set his foot down and put some limits around his family and work pals, throwing you under the bus in favor of avoiding any conflict. 
If this hypothesis was proved to be correct despite your blossoming relationship and much more trusting nature, then you’d be put — once more — in an incredibly tough spot. 
You had forgiven Max before for failing to defend you and attempted to understand his situation, but you could only shield him so much before losing your temper and lashing out at him. Now more so that he was your boyfriend and not a mere stranger trapped in an unhealthy family dynamic. 
“I already told you —.” 
“Lies. You told me lies,” you interrupt him and the waiter approaches you with two served plates, setting them on the table and forcing you to smile politely before signaling him to leave. “Now you can tell me what’s going on or I’m walking out.” 
“Listen. It’s complicated. I’m just trying to protect you here, so if you could be a bit more cooperative I’d be way happier and enjoy my steak.” 
You take the final sip on your glass and grab a napkin, wiping any residue from your lips, and drop the cloth rather ungracefully on the table, jumping up. “Great. Enjoy your dinner.” 
Max sighs and watches you walk around the edge of the table rapidly before catching onto your wrist. “Baby…” 
Seeing his hand on your skin and then back to his pleading but exhausted eyes, you nearly feel compelled to simply drop this and discuss it later, but his attitude unnerves you and so you decide to shake off his grip and leave him on his spot, already thinking of catching a cab back to your hotel room. 
He could be damned for all you care at this precise moment. All you asked for was sincerity. 
Did you ask for it sweetly? No. Did you treat the situation with more tact? Also no, but you were angry. You couldn’t be expected to think rationally at all times and remain patient and sweet when you were getting taken for a fool by someone you actually deemed as trustworthy. 
Letting the cold air of the night hit your face, you step out of the restaurant, passing by the parked car of Max and many others, until you are four or five streets away and sure of your directions. 
The city is foreign to you but you do remember bits and pieces from the short drive from your place to the dining spot and you are almost dead set on returning by foot to the comfort of your room. 
Maybe if you tire yourself enough you’d end up having a good night of sleep as soon as you slip under the covers instead of wasting many hours tossing and turning around in bed, overthinking about everything as you usually do when stressed. 
Why was it so difficult for Max to communicate what was going on? His lack of information helped your mind run rampage over many possibilities, scaring you shitless over the many prospects of his presence in the Mercedes garage. 
His reason to be reading important papers from a rival team could vary from possible espionage to sabotage and many more, but none of the outcomes of this situation gave you any peace because Max simply shouldn’t have been there to begin with. 
You were competitors first and foremost and maybe you had forgotten about it. Maybe the thin line between your relationship and your career had finally faded and now everything was getting mixed.
“Schatje!” 
Picking up the pace, you hug yourself from another wave of cold air and pray for the next light to be red for the cars just so you can cross the street more rapidly and avoid your boyfriend. 
“Come on, love! Please stop and let’s talk!” Max’s voice booms across the open space way too loudly for your liking and you close your eyes violently for a second before reaching the end of the street and stopping because of the vehicles still passing. 
“What?” Defeated by the laws of the street and vehicle transportation, you turn around and glare at him. 
“Baby…” He catches a breather, stopping in front of your and his words fan you momentarily. “I’m sorry, please, let me drive you home.” 
“No.” 
The light turns green for you as your body turns around, and you step into the street, beginning to cross it with Max following behind you. 
“Then I will walk you there.” 
“Do whatever you want as long as you stay quiet, Max Emilian. I’m tired of hearing you babble.” 
If the situation was different you’d be apologizing for your harshness right on this instant, backtracking in fear over your own attitude and quivering under the edge of your sharply-tipped tongue, but in this case, you don’t feel an ounce of remorse. 
Your irritation is justified in your eyes and by now you don’t expect anything from your boyfriend besides excuses or more lies. 
“For fuck sake, Yn. I’m trying to solve this. Can’t you at least give me a chance to explain myself?” 
“I gave you one back at the restaurant and you did not take it.” You reach the other side of the street when Max turns you around against your will, making you face him. 
His anger reflects on you, or maybe your anger reflects on him, who knows. Both of your chests are raising rising up and down with agitation and your eyes dig holes in one another, unafraid of the confrontation but simultaneously incredibly exhausted over the prospect of arguing. 
“You want the truth? Fine.” Max spits, setting both hands on your shoulders to ground you in your spot. “Your team has been sabotaging you for months now. They don’t need you anymore and if we don’t act fast, you won’t have a seat for next season. Happy? That’s the fucking truth.”
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Silence pierces through needles. With each pause, a little stinging feeling hits you, signaling another carved point on your skin. 
You drum your nails against the white marble, touching softly onto the many grey lines across it and stopping your wincing after the third dig of the invisible needle on your flesh. 
It is with the precision of a surgeon that you trail a path to cut from every explanation you receive, and by the time all the men around you close their mouths you can comfortably picture the body for inspection, ready to get dissected by following the lines you had drawn in invisible ink. 
Another needle pokes your ribcage when Carlos gives you a look of pity through the screen and the pain prolongs with the sound of a teacup landing right in front of your hands, spitting their vapor up to your chin before you notice Lewis’ presence prepping himself on a seat in front of you. 
Max remains by your side, both arms crossed and a stern look reflecting on your camera as a painful reminder of your previous discussion. 
“Do you want to take the deal?” Your voice is devoid of any emotion and a few fingers wrap around the tiny handle of the cup, bringing it up. “Be honest with me.” 
Honesty…what a funny concept. 
Hours ago you craved it and now you feel repulsed solely by pronouncing it. 
“Not like this.” 
“I’m not asking you under what conditions, Carlos. I’m asking you if you’d take the deal.” A sip passes through your lips, burning the sharp end of your tongue and you swallow the liquid feigning ignorance of your pain. “Forget this has anything to do with me. If you could, would you take the deal?” 
“If I didn’t know about this, I would take it, but I don’t want your seat.” 
“It’s not my seat and if this is your only chance to return then you should take it.” 
Max turns to observe you with surprise painted all over his face, and his shock appears contagious, reaching Lewis as well and centering all the attention on you right now. 
“There is no way —.” 
“Don’t turn them down because of me. If you think you can do well in Mercedes you should go for it. I will find a team.” 
Your iced responses begin to melt little by little, dripping through your words with tints of consideration and the next silence that follows has you wincing again. 
The situation hurts. No matter how hard you try to mask it, the disappointment pierces through you so harshly the pain can be barely retained inside of your brain and if you were to truly express what you were truly feeling right now, all the men would hear would be sobs and complaints. 
“I will think about it.” Your Spanish friend takes note of your effort to remain calm and collected and decides to free you from any further discussions. “But please do call me if you need any help dealing with this, okay? And…” He stops, unsure of how to word this properly. “Max? I’m sorry I got you into this mess.” 
“It’s alright. I just want what is best for her.” 
Your boyfriend’s words may be the final blow you need to your crumbling anger and the moment the two men share a polite smile you decide to end the call, no longer in the mood to bear with the weight of your action. 
It is uncomfortable to be in your skin right now. Your emotions are all over the place, splattered in buckets of colors across a white wall; nothing makes sense and you cannot find a grip on reality. A part of you desperately wants to scream and argue with everybody who crosses your path, and another half of the three fights with your pride, forcing you to apologize before anything, while the remaining busies itself dissecting the situation and cutting through the hard flesh around you in order to find the correct layer you need to present yourself towards the problem at hand. 
You must say sorry. You must think of the many paths you can take. You must regulate your emotions to think clearly. You must, you must…
“Okay, dear. Let’s focus.” Lewis starts and you nod, grabbing the cup of tea and stepping out of the kitchen zone with the intention of drinking on the sofa. 
“I will leave you two to discuss things.” Max continues and you stop your movements, shaking your head in negativity. 
“No, please, stay. I still owe you an apology.” 
“Apology taken, now focus on this,” Verstappen attempts to take one of the many weights from your shoulders but you snatch it back in place. 
“No, that’s not enough.” You murmur and place the cup on your coffee table. “I’m really —.” 
“Dear, you can discuss whatever happened later. Now we should focus —.” 
“Lewis, please just…” You breathe out and drop on the couch. “Shut up. What I have to discuss with Max is also important.” 
Hiding your face on the palms of your hands, you momentarily lose sight of the two men approaching you and everything turns dark and quiet for a couple of seconds, allowing you to breathe out a sigh of frustration and a groan. 
Max takes a seat next to you, placing an open hand on your back and beginning to soothe you shyly under the confused watch of Lewis. 
“I’m gonna get a fucking migraine,” you chew over the words and look up finally, not finding a trace of your mentor but luckily having your boyfriend by your side. “I’m so sorry.” 
Your voice cracks under the pressure of your sadness and frustration inciting you to cry, but you don’t let any tears fall from your shiny eyes. 
Always the stubborn woman, you attempt to regain your composure, fearing your emotions at this moment and deeming them as weakness under the circumstances. 
“It’s okay, Schatje.” His voice lures you into a spot of comfort and before you can think about it, your arms are wrapping around his middle, craving his warmth. “I shouldn’t have hidden this from you.” 
“I shouldn’t have reacted the way I did.” Max places a little kiss on top of your head. “I didn’t mean to hurt you.” 
“It wasn’t my intention either,” he confesses. “I guess I just wanted to protect you. I thought I could deal with this myself and make your life a bit easier in the process, but I shouldn’t be making decisions for the both of us.” 
He returns your hug and you dig into his perfume, smelling it through his clothes. 
“I thought the worst,” you admit upon hearing his sincerity. “I always think the worst actually. I’m so used to things going wrong I automatically think someone is out to get me whenever I notice things out of place. I get why you wanted to protect me from this, I would have reacted the same way if I knew someone was messing with you but I don’t do well being kept in the dark, you know?  If you really want to help me you need to fight with me, not for me.” 
“I understand, love. No more secrets.” 
“No more secrets,” you repeat softly. 
Lewis returns to the small place with two more teacups for him and Max, and you separate from your partner slowly, reaching for your own tea to soothe your interior with the warmness of the drink and this time the silence does not pinch like a needle.
Still, your mind timidly begins shifting again to the task at hand and you find yourself separating fully from your lover and snapping into a place of fragile tranquility. 
It is impeding that you come with a resolution. You’ve allowed yourself to remain unfocused and hopeful for the future, already assuming your seat was secured because of your performance, but now that you knew that wasn’t the case, you needed to come up with a plan to finish this season on a positive note for the public and a new deal in a better team. 
“Let’s act like nothing is going on until I can come up with a solid plan, okay?” You announce and both men nod. “Did you take any pictures of those documents you saw, Emi?” 
“Of course. I’ve got them on my phone.” 
“Print them. We will need them as back-up in case they want to get rid of the evidence, okay?” 
“Should I contact my manager? Maybe we can start discussing with other teams about your future.” Lewis offers and takes a seat by the floor, right on the opposite side of the table and well positioned in front of you. You make a gesture of unsureness and the man sighs. “Let me help with that, okay? I suggested this team to you in the first place.” 
“Lew, please don’t feel guilty over this.” 
“Cannot help it, dear. I should have known better really. They weren’t exactly thrilled to see me go to Ferrari. Maybe they are doing this as payback.” 
“I don’t know, Lew…” You trail off and Max hums in agreement. 
“I think that’s an option,” the Dutchman chimes in. “They made his life miserable the moment he announced his departure. I don’t think it’d be that far fetched to think they would also take some of that resentment on you too. You are like his sister, plus, their favorite was George and you took away the spotlight.” 
“Let’s not put George in the same bag here. He is completely blindsided by Toto.” You remind both men of your teammate’s predicament. 
“Do we know for sure that he isn’t involved in this?” Max questions and Lewis nearly winces, shyly nodding along to his words. 
“I…” You pause. “I don’t know. I guess I’d like to believe he isn’t actively trying to sabotage me.” 
“We can start over there, then.” Lewis suggests. “First, we make sure we know who’s on your side and who isn't, then we see what we can do with that. I will call my manager. Maybe we can start drafting a public letter to the fans and announce that you won’t race for Mercedes next year.”
“No, no.” You cut him off. “No public letters. Tomorrow is media day. I will announce it there. We’ve got three more races before the season finishes. If they are so excited to kick me out then I might as well make it easier for them and break the news myself, right?” 
Max cannot help but smile sheepishly. Perhaps tomorrow will finally be a media day he will enjoy attending to.
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A / N : well well well...I ended up with five different versions of the same chapter and this one ended up being the most convincing, but still, I think it kinda sucks. I don't know. Anyways, I will be working on the third and fourth chapters at the same time in the next couple of days because both of them will be connected (and pretty long) so don't grow worried if updates get slower, okay? Anyways, as always let me know your thoughts and I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week! mwah <3
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in love with the mess - day eleven
summary : Aubrey is going on tour and, for once, she’s decided to focus on having as much fun as possible. Oli can be a little shit but he does nothing short of adore Audrey and… well, maybe Noah a little, too. Noah likes the flirting, as long as no one gets too close, emotionally. But what will happen when the three of them take it too far?
content : smut (p in v, fingering dirty talk), angst, fluff
length : 6k
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day eleven
What on earth was one supposed to do when everything they’d ever craved, ever needed without quite knowing that they’d needed it at all, suddenly seemed to appear right at their fingertips while knowing that every move toward it would only make it recede further?
Waking up in an empty bed had flooded my brain with loneliness, feelings of rejection, a cold seeping into my bones, just for a moment, completely automatically, but then the rest of my senses loaded in and as soon as my hearing permitted me to realise I was far from alone in the apartment, my whole body relaxed again. A chaotic mixture of shouting and uninhibited laughter filtered through the open door, interrupted by the tell-tale noises of pots and pans and everything else Oli’s kitchen had to offer. Then, slowly but surely, the scent of coffee reached my nostrils. I inhaled it deeply, turning onto my back and snuggling into the blankets for another minute.
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Baby Jr Series Masterlist
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A Carlos Sainz x MediaEmployee!Reader Story
Status: Ongoing
Series Summary: The teasing, fleeting touches became much more on the night Carlos won, the sexual tension between you two reached a breaking point. Perhaps it was that night, or the many nights that followed, but you were pregnant with his child, putting you in a difficult situation.
Series warnings: 18+ includes smut (check chapter warnings) allusions to smut, accidental pregnancy (it’s literally the whole plot of the story), workplace romance.
current total wc: 6.9k
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God i've read all 11 chapters of this in 5 hours i need *moooooooooooooore*
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in love with the mess - day eleven
summary : Aubrey is going on tour and, for once, she’s decided to focus on having as much fun as possible. Oli can be a little shit but he does nothing short of adore Audrey and… well, maybe Noah a little, too. Noah likes the flirting, as long as no one gets too close, emotionally. But what will happen when the three of them take it too far?
content : smut (p in v, fingering dirty talk), angst, fluff
length : 6k
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day eleven
What on earth was one supposed to do when everything they’d ever craved, ever needed without quite knowing that they’d needed it at all, suddenly seemed to appear right at their fingertips while knowing that every move toward it would only make it recede further?
Waking up in an empty bed had flooded my brain with loneliness, feelings of rejection, a cold seeping into my bones, just for a moment, completely automatically, but then the rest of my senses loaded in and as soon as my hearing permitted me to realise I was far from alone in the apartment, my whole body relaxed again. A chaotic mixture of shouting and uninhibited laughter filtered through the open door, interrupted by the tell-tale noises of pots and pans and everything else Oli’s kitchen had to offer. Then, slowly but surely, the scent of coffee reached my nostrils. I inhaled it deeply, turning onto my back and snuggling into the blankets for another minute.
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LET ME BE THE LIGHTER | MV #CH11
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series summary : max raced knowing he’d win. You raced as if you had nothing else to lose. That was something the fans of F1 had grown accustomed to since you joined. Being the only driver who could truly make the Max Verstappen break a sweat during this season, all the odds seemed to be in your favor during one eventful race where you could finally overtake him on the last few laps, breaking his winning streak and also —by consequence — yours and his peace in the near future.
warnings (contains spoilers): swearing (as per usual), angst and fluff get mixed here, all lines are blurry. We got mentions of a car accident (nothing too descriptive), character death, a bit of tension. Allusions to sex and first times but again, this does not contain smut (this series won’t have smut at all sorry). Mentions of injuries, past trauma, bad parental roles and violence.
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CHAPTER ELEVEN # ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE .
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notbabyn. the last two months flew by and i saved my favorite moments to share at the very last minute ⭐️
ps: i miss my favorite man sm </3 and me and lewis cried hearing lorde’s melodrama the other night…again 😬
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maxverstappen. why are you missing me? i was at yours yesterday. i mean, i get it though, i am irresistible and your life is clearly boring whenever im not around but still schat 🧡
lewishamilton. She said “i miss my favorite man” not my favorite manchild. Step aside dude.
georgerussell63. dude, she was deffo talking about me here tho. she said man not grandpa, lew.
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#captionone: went to a dog cafe 🐶🤍 #captiontwo: the man, the myth, the babygrill
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It comes in waves, Max ponders. The realization hits through waves during the day. 
It doesn’t have a particular time or a particular trigger, but there are times where you are near and do something, anything really, and he simply stops and stares a bit too much, digesting your presence with more delicacy than originally intended. 
It can happen when you are talking about something with him or through a smile as you pass by. Sometimes you don’t even register his presence before he registers yours, and as you wander around in your own little world, he admires with curiosity and love as you go on your own way, not sparing him a glance. 
He does not feel offended when you fail to catch his presence in the crowd. Yours and his feelings are at different levels at the moment; he’d recognize your laugh anywhere, you’d pin-point his voice only if it were attached to a picture of his. You are getting to know him superficially and he is getting to know you in secrecy. It is what happens when you fall first. 
Although he loathes the idea of being in love or in a stable relationship, he must admit that he had meant every word he typed on that text. It was a near torture to be this aware of his emotions while you were merely exploring yours. It sort of came off as unfair but reasonable; he had noticed your presence way too early into his life and became infatuated with the idea of your existence against his will, just like love at first sight, and admitting that came off as harsh and rather pathetic to him. He was following your steps lightly, with his heart on his palms as the only offering he could give you, and while he paced behind you, he hoped internally that you’d turn around and finally see him stripped of any shame or doubt in yours and his future. 
Tragically, it reminded him of that myth you once shared with him on a clear afternoon. Sitting with your back propped against an old tree and his head on your lap, you read cautiously through an old book you got from a street store and he rested his eyes, choosing to simply remain silent, enjoying the moment and catching onto the small hums and noises you’d produce sporadically over what you were reading until you finished a chapter and sighed. ‘Baby, do you know the story about Orpheus and Eurydice?’
He did, only partially. If he remembered correctly, Eurydice died and Orpheus went to rescue her. That was as much as he knew, so he chose to allow you to elaborate into whatever you were thinking at the moment. 
You told him that their love wasn’t meant to last by a prophecy, and once Eurydice died, Orpheus descended to Hades and asked to return her. The God of the underworld allowed him to do so after feeling compassion upon hearing his music of sorrow, and told him in order to retreat her from the realm of the dead, he should walk without looking back, as she’d be right behind him, following in his steps. But at the very last minute, Orpheus looked, not trusting that she was behind him since he hadn’t heard her in the entire way to the exit, and that casted her back into Hades and he could never get her back, dying shortly after as well. 
‘This story reminds me of them.’ You reasoned, lightly tapping onto the cover of the closed book. ‘She follows after him at all times but he still doubts that she is there and when he starts questioning this he ends up losing her, simply because he doesn’t trust her enough to be by his side just like she said she would.’
He reflected on your words, nodding along to them before taking the book from your hands to check the name of it just to look it up on the internet later. 
 His predicament was similar and completely different from that myth at the same time. He had been following after you for a while, trusting that you’d notice his presence eventually, but deeply afraid of what would happen next, after you became aware of him staying mere steps behind you. 
Would it be enough if he could just hand you his emotions on a silver platter? He had always struggled to care properly. The harshness that he had been handed way too many times throughout his life, had corroded his purest intentions to the point of putrefaction. 
He could barely hollow out singular pieces of what were once his innocence and love, all covered in many negative emotions and splattered with detachment. 
He craved you near but he feared having you too close. What if you considered his efforts as minuscule?
You were still too inexperienced and free in comparison. Your hopes laid on different paths of this life. The gravel under your shoes was fresh and smelled like wet grass with some dirt; you could bloom over the day and rest over the night. Max had given up on trying to do that a long time ago. 
He could smile and enjoy some smaller things in life but he could never stop and stare with such attention to the minuscule events that you deemed as interesting. For you, life was still good, for him, it was rotten work. The only thing that could cause him any actual thrill and happiness was the sport and your presence at this moment, but even those things didn’t promise to be a constant. So what would be of him after racing was no longer enjoyable? How could he cope if you rejected him in the long run because of your differences?
When things were stagnant, Max felt more at ease. He could tell apart the things that could last for eternity and the things that could speed past his life. Your existence wasn’t a promise to stagnation; you were constantly fleeting the scene in favor of a greater adventure, and Max wasn’t sure if he’d be able to keep up, but for now there was this little seed of joy and hope growing bit by bit in his chest that reassured him of your future with him. 
Perhaps you’d want to experience everything with him. Perhaps your need for change would force him to try new things and enjoy the uncertainty a bit more. 
Maybe he could remain behind and dream of a good outcome when you turned around. Maybe if he desired it hard enough, you’d notice his presence following your steps, and bring him to the forefront shamelessly, just so he could see the view you liked to look at so much right by your side instead of having him follow you around like a lost puppy. 
Yes, perhaps, things wouldn’t be too bad once you saw what he could and couldn’t offer.
“Hey, where did you go?” You smile, locking your phone screen and resting the side of your face on his shoulder. He blinks profusely, coming back from his thoughts and you give him a second to recompose, having noticed him silently zoning out. “Everything okay?” 
“Are you sure you want to be my girlfriend?” 
“Well, that’s not exactly the way I imagined you asking me to be yours officially but —.” 
“I mean it, Schatje. Are you sure you want to be with me?” More serious this time, you depart from his bubble of space and admire him with confusion before nodding. “We don’t have that much in common and —.” 
“Are you scared, Max?” You question and now it is his time to nod with defeat. “Hey, I was joking when I texted about us being official. I understand these things take time. You don’t need to ask me anything right now, especially if you don’t want to. We are getting to know each other.” 
“No, no. I am ready to ask you to be my girlfriend. That’s not the problem. I know what I want. I’m just not sure if what I am is what you’d want in the future.” 
“What makes you think that?” Choosing to move from your spot, you crunch to be in front of Max and put both hands on top of his, bringing them up to your lips in order to place a quick peck on his knuckles. “I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t sure I didn’t want to be with you.” 
“Doesn’t it scare you though? You have so much to learn about me anyways but you already think what you know is enough to like me.” 
“I just feel it, I guess. Of course the idea of being in my first ever relationship scares me. There are a lot of things I don’t know yet and I’m constantly panicking, thinking I will screw it up somehow, but I never doubt what you feel for me. I can tell you like me, you show it every time I’m near. That’s enough for me to jump into this relationship as long as you are ready to jump with me. I want us to be friends first and partners second. If you want to wait I will wait and if you want to move forward I will walk with you, side by side.” 
You are turning around to see him, finally. “I want to be with you,” he declares in a whisper and you smile, sending all the butterflies on his stomach into total frenzy. 
“Do you want to be my boyfriend?” You get up, extending a hand for him to grab. 
“I was supposed to ask that, idiot.” Chuckling, he gets up as well and interlocks your fingers with his. 
“Screw that. You want or don’t want to be my boyfriend?” 
“I do,” he cannot help but giggle and you tiptoe to reach his lips, kissing him briefly. “I do,” he pauses to whisper into your mouth. “I wanna be yours. Will you be mine, too?”
“Of course, Emi. All yours.”
In Max’s story, Eurydice and Orpheus are you and him, and instead of him descending to Hades, you walk side by side through the paddock. No one is behind anybody. He can see you at all times and you can see him too. There is not such a thing as losing when he honestly expresses his fears, and he knows you mean it when you say you want him by your side instead of following behind. 
In Max’s story, Orpheus never loses his lover for looking back, because his lover is on his right, alive.
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“Emi, Emi, listen to me — shut the fuck up, for fuck sake!” You pause briefly to scream looking past Max and return to the sight of him just as instantly. 
He is close to losing all his patience, much like you, but for completely different reasons. 
“He…he took me out,” the man breathes out between heaving splashes of oxygen sipping through his plumpy lips and you cannot help but sigh, kneeling to his level fully and attempting to reach for his hands. 
He is shaking and you don’t know if it is because of fear or anger. Maybe a mixture of both, and you understand the predicament he is in at this very moment. 
This was the final race for him. The season had not been finalized yet, but was close to, and tonight he was supposed to take that last win to claim the championship once more. 
Shock wasn’t exactly the word he could use to describe his feelings on that first lap. He could go for utter fear, deep anger, boiling irritation. He was fuming and visibly scared over the outcome of this race, feeling disappointed in himself and also the rest of the drivers. 
It was a shitty move regardless of how accidental it was and you couldn’t deny that if it had been you in his position, you’d be in an even worse mental and physical state. His car got the worst hit of the bunch, quickly sliding off the track violently and catching fire from the back nearly instantly. 
It was a pain to watch once the red flag was pulled, but what added insult to injury was the number of drivers that did not hesitate to move forward after the collision, ignoring the smoking fire cooking right up his ass while he struggled to get out of his vehicle. 
Four drivers got out in the collision from that first lap but only Max suffered the scare of his life trying to get out of his burning car. 
“It was an accident,” you try to reason as softly as possible and he removes his hands from yours as if you were the fire that nearly burnt him. 
“Was it?” 
“Love, you can’t possibly…” You start to argue against his anger but the words get caught up in your throat. There is no point in presenting any excuse for what just happened. Max isn’t in the mental headspace to take in external opinions. “Okay, let’s leave it.” 
If anything, he is more dead set on blaming this on someone as fastly as possible, and that someone happened to be your teammate out of all people, which not only serves to put you in a horrid position at this very moment but also works on Max’s favor to effectively shut you up. 
You aren’t one to talk. You cannot objectively see this massive crash. Max is your partner, George is your friend, taking sides would be a terrible decision but staying calm throughout this frenzy could rub off both men in the wrong way.
“Yes, let’s leave it,” he repeats as calmly as he can and you decide to step back, allowing him to be surrounded by his team. 
Attempting not to take his reaction to heart, you silently exit his garage, avoiding the scrutiny of some cameras and reporters following you around. You are well aware that you shouldn’t be with him right now. Your responsibilities lay with your team at the moment and also with your teammate George, who got himself bruised from the crash as well and currently is out of the competition, leaving you as the only remaining driver for the rest of the race. 
Your mind should be set on the next strategy you can implement and how you will face the many questions and interviews you will attend as soon as the event is over. It is an impending need for you to remain civil and unbiased throughout the fiasco or else your words and actions will be taken out of context. 
You’ve already risked enough by running straight up to Max as soon as you got out of your car.
Many fans will see your attitude as betrayal and perhaps some staff members will share the same views too, considering George had arrived at the garage way earlier than Max did. 
Weighing on all the possible outcomes for the night, you hide your shaking hands by gripping your helmet more tightly just to keep yourself grounded causing a small level of discomfort against your skin. The texture burns on your palms and fingers but the slight pain appears relieving in contrast to the erratic beating of your heart and that eases you into your comfort zone as you walk onto your garage once more.
“What was that, Yn?” Toto questions as soon as he catches a glimpse of you and two staff members part in opposite directions to make some space for you in the small circle of people they just formed. “If a major accident happens you are supposed to bring the car here and stay with us.” 
“His car caught fire —.” 
“You are supposed to be here, with your team, got it?” He jumps onto the defense of Mercedes, setting the order of priorities straight for you and you nod, choosing to not fight over this. 
The situation is critical. You must focus on the tasks at hand: following orders from your principals, carrying on with any strategy you are given, and being a contender for pole position against the remaining Red Bull, the two Ferraris, and Lando on his McLaren (considering Oscar was also damaged during the accident). 
“What do you want me to do?” Your brain begins shifting mode into auto-pilot as you ask Toto about your next steps. 
Anxiety takes the backseat, still shaking your boots but not enough to distract you fully and you find yourself quite content with your resilience against the tribulations of this big collision. Two months ago, pressure had gotten the worst of you, but now you could put your foot down and set the record straight, thinking as calculatedly as possible despite your fears and worries. 
The stakes were pretty high for Mercedes right now. Your points for this race could make or break a nearly perfectly built strategy of many months that the team had implemented, securing you the Constructors Championship you had broken your back for, so every second you spent thinking of anything but this race was a second you took away from finishing first, slowing down your car and tarnishing your performance. You had to come up first to compensate for the damage George accidentally caused, there was no other possible result that could benefit you at this point. Even coming in second could be considered a complete failure. Competition was too tight and Ferrari had both their drivers standing and more than ready to floor you with their cars despite the good relationship you shared. 
Clicking your tongue after receiving clear instructions, you walk to your car and stop near the big thirteen on the hood, hitting it with your open hand before breathing out heavily. You’d need good luck and this number meant every good thing you ever knew, so maybe it was time to use it with full force. 
So far you’ve been giving it your all in favor of the team, laying back and only taking some wins when you considered George couldn’t meet you before the finish line but now he was out and you were all alone. You could play for yourself a little here and perhaps, go back to some old shenanigans. 
During your training period, you tended to believe it was you against everybody else, from the team that evaluated your results to Lewis too. They all knew way more than you, had more experience and judged you based on what you showed, and back then, you were still freshly wounded from your family losses and had a tender heart. You believed you could make friends in such a stressful environment and that sooner or later, you’d be able to shine only with your talents.
You’ve always been a quick learner and driving came naturally to you. You knew you could compete for the seat but back then you were incapable of doing it aggressively. 
The thought of causing some major havoc with your car or even inconveniencing someone during a race, scared you. You did not want to hurt anybody directly or indirectly, but as the first month of practice progressed and you struggled to keep up, no one reached out with a helping hand to guide you and you realized you were completely alone in here.
Competitions could be cruel, especially if the environment is hostile and in the past, the Mercedes training track was anything but welcoming. 
Growing a thick skin was a need, much like right now. You had to bring back some of the antics you used to pull to desensitize from the stress and the pressure; you always shined brighter when you stopped caring anyway and anybody who knew you well enough could comfortably say you were relentless and a bit thirsty for a good fight. 
Anger was your favorite emotion for competitions. The more people pushed your buttons, the better your performance ended up being.
“Hey, can you hear me?” Toto checks over the radio as soon as your car departs and you take a deep breath before answering. 
“Loud and clear.” 
“Great, let’s focus on —.” 
“I heard you back in the garage. I know what I have to do,” you reply rather dryly. 
Wolff went down a screaming tangent with all the staff members, including you, and you absorbed the insults, the orders, and the hostility like water on your thirstiest moment. Now you just needed to use it on your favor. 
Checking briefly around to occupy yourself until the lights decided to go out, you ponder over everything.
What could you take from your environment right now that could be cataloged of any use? Positively speaking? nothing. The air was thick and foggy with expectation and tension. 
Fans were either celebrating Max’s downfall or raging over his absence. Teams were hopeful about this new perspective, especially the smaller ones. They had a better shot at earning points now, but the bigger teams had to fight each other for those three positions. First, second and third, were secured now, but no one knew by whom, and the uncertainty was speeding them to insanity.
This could be very much their last chance to earn a handful of points to propel themselves into first place in the Constructor’s Championship, and they needed to take it. You were also expected to take it.
Being the only Mercedes standing, with no current modifications, the odds weren’t in your favor, but people loved to see their drivers struggling to reach the top and you had the recipe to give them a good show to look at. 
Your classification was truly disastrous this week. The circuit had made you struggle like no other and by the time the security car was pulled, you were still pretty much in the back. 
You’d have to earn your position by pulse now. George’s much better car was in no position to be used by you at the moment, so the cards you played needed to be laid perfectly softly and with utmost care in favor of your team.
Now, if you took into consideration other factors, you could also say the overbearing energy the public was giving to everybody could be of use in this case. The fact that most of the fans were cheering over the horrid accident your boyfriend received only served to push you towards a violent strike.
Their reactions were truthfully heartless, but to be fair, this was a pattern that repeated with nearly every dominant driver in the sport. People could only support you so much before dropping you for the next big thing or in favor of joining a hate bandwagon. Fandoms were fickle, opinions could be changed in favor of the majority and it was better to hate relentlessly to distract yourself rather than spread positivity when you were close to receiving none in your life either. 
People thrived on drama first and foremost, and Max was almost always pushed into it against his will so it was only natural for him to receive (once again) the short end of the stick. 
Regardless, you hoped his skin was thick enough against it by now and if that weren’t the case, you’d be there to comfort him to the best of your capabilities as soon as this competition was over because now you couldn’t simply ditch your team, you had to race for them and maybe…only slightly, you could race for Max too. 
After all, they were celebrating his downfall like he hadn’t just escaped a fatality and now that you were positioned in line to begin, they cheered for you, forgetting that you were deeply connected to him and worried about his well-being.
It was almost disrespectful to receive the fans' support right now. It seemed fake to an extent. They truly did not care. They just wanted to see Red Bull and your boyfriend struggling.
On the other hand, you had to focus almost all your energy on representing your team. Toto had made it pretty clear that your loyalty should be with Mercedes at the moment, and as much as your gut told you that wasn’t the best choice, your reality presented your racing team as the only good option at the moment. 
You had managed to win two more races since your return to the grid and now you were obligated to fight for a third trophy. 
“Win the race,” you hear through the radio. “We will talk later about this.”
“Copy.” 
You know what to do. This is just like one of those races you had to do back when you were training just to get your seat in Mercedes secured. 
It’s truly only you against everybody, like in the old times.
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“Hey, baby…”
Lewis's voice reaches you from behind and barely penetrates the umbral created by your thoughts as you advance through the corridor.
The white lights reflect over the equally white walls and floor tiles, making you feel like an entity trapped in a hospital rather than a driver conducting themself to their changing room. 
What is so ungodly wrong with the emotions reaching you right now? The euphoria of the victory has subsided already but there is no emptiness filling the void inside your head, there’s something else. Your lower lip quivers and your sweaty palms hold with desperation your helmet, turning your knuckles white under the pressure you apply.
What is wrong now? What? What? What? 
“Wait up!” His steps echo over the tiles softly, just like the hand he places on your shoulder as he catches up with you, and the mere presence of his sends an erratic chill down your spine, making you shake briefly. “You did so well back then! I’m really proud of you.” 
“Thank you.” Stoicism isn’t something that plagues you that frequently, but considering the circumstances you are under, it makes sense for you to imply it. 
Lewis arm passes over your shoulder, pulling you closer, and his steps follow you to your opened door, allowing you to step in first. 
Inside your helmet, there is a small envelope that burns more than the car George accidentally sent crashing and close to exploding on the first lap. 
The letters scribbled on top are a crude remainder of the dates close to catching up with you and whatever is inside puts a dent in your current performance, forcing your victory to move into a second page just so you can prioritize this. 
You’ve done an incredible job tonight and know it, but the initial happiness vanished and now your mind is struggling to pick up the pieces you left lying on the pavement just to maximize your results during the competition.
You ran fast enough. Now it’s time to stop and let the problems catch up.
“What’s going on, darling?” He questions and you hand him your helmet with the downside up, showing him the envelope hiding inside. He takes it, still confused, and you leave your stuff on the nearest chair. Proceed to unzip the upper half of your suit, allowing it to stretch at your hips lazily. “Why would he send you anything?”
His tone morphs from the initial unsureness to a much more stern one, nearly mirroring the stoicism you apply to your first statement, and the severity he implies has you rolling your eyes with annoyance. 
You just finished giving some words to the reporters and got the envelope from a staff member. It’s clearly not open and if you can help it, you won’t break the cover to read whatever is inside before throwing it into the trash. 
What’s wrong? What? What?
Nothing you cannot fix by ignoring whatever that man has sent you so unexpectedly. 
“I don’t know and I don’t care,” you lie through your teeth, praying for this conversation to end soon. You want to go to your hotel room and rest until you have to catch the next plane to your other race. “The trash is over there —.” 
Lewis tears open the envelope and paper wrinkles form under his digits until he can truly unwrap three letters to scan the words inside as fast as he can. 
George appears behind him, suit still on his body and two water bottles on his hands. He greets you softly then passes you a bottle before putting a hand on Lewis's shoulder and scanning over what he is reading, frowning in a matter of seconds over the words he catches. 
“Oh my gosh, dear, I’m so sorry…” Your teammate begins and Lewis sighs, letting his arm fall to the side with the papers clenched under his fingers. “We need to tell Toto about this.” 
“No one is telling anybody anything, understood?” Lewis sentences sternly and you proximate yourself to his figure, snatching the papers from him. “If you want to move past this then we won’t comment it.” 
“He is dead?” You question reading over the first medical paper quickly then letting it slip from your grasp and fall to the floor. 
The next two pages are from a relative of yours, informing you briefly about the last two months and the things that happened. And towards the end, they extend their invitation to his funeral. 
“Are you okay, dear?” George questions carefully and you turn the remaining papers into a ball before kicking it to the side. “What are you —.” 
“Nothing happened, my father is dead. People do die all the time,” you pronounce. “I will attend the funeral out of respect.” 
“I will go with you,” Lewis announces and picks up the paper ball from the floor. “Did they tell you anything else?” 
“Nothing important.” His last wish was to see me. “Let’s just get changed and go to the hotel. I’m tired.” 
What’s wrong? What? What?
Your father is no longer trying to catch up with you. There is no reason to run away anymore.
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With the soft click of the doorknob twisting back to its position, Max sits on the marble table, right next to your make-up kit and a pink brush. His legs dangle a bit, barely touching with the tip of his feet the coldness on the floor, and you move to the opposite side of the place he picked, grabbing an emergency kit from a drawer and bringing it to his lap, forcing him to hold it. 
The warm lights of the bathroom cast a shadow on his lowered head, obscuring the dark bags he sports around his shiny eyes. It’s three in the morning and his heart feels heavy. 
The callous feeling under his digits isn’t comforting. The razor blade slid previously over his growing beard had not offered entire sensibility to his skin, cutting a few sectors near his jawline, and with small reddened marks and some fingers wrapped in band-aids he had dragged his tired feet to your floor, knocking two times before you allowed him in. 
‘Let me cure that for you,’ you said as soon as you caught a glimpse of his figure in the corridor and Max felt inclined to ask if you could cure the disappointment he felt instead of patching up his visible wounds because those could heal on their own. But he abstained himself from voicing his thoughts, embracing the touch of your warm skin on his hand as you dragged him towards the bathroom. 
He could say so much at this moment. He could voice certain concerns over your attitude during the race and after it. He could express how frustrated he was because of the crash and mutter a soft apology for treating you a bit harshly when you tried to check on him. 
He could pollute the oxygen with meaningless words just to devoid you of any peace, but his presence was loud enough at this very moment and he knew it. 
George had texted him after he abandoned the paddock, apologizing for the accident fully and offering to pay for any hospital fee if he happened to be severely injured or needed some sort of treatment, but Max barely sported minor burns on his hands and nothing else. It was the anger that had overtook him that ended up hurting him the most, nothing else, and the conversation could have ended pacifically if not for the texts your teammate shot him right after. 
Your father was dead. You were officially all alone. No mother, no close relatives, no grandparents, nothing. Now it was only you to occupy the space of your life completely. 
“You did a terrible job,” you murmur, grabbing a few cotton balls and dabbing them on alcohol. Two fingers slide under Max’s chin, pushing his head up and his eyes connect with you for a second. 
“I’m sorry.”
Max noticed, since you began dating, that you’d never mention your family except for really specific occasions. You’d spew wonders on your mother and grandparents. You’d show him the camera you inherited from your family, the motorbike your grandpa used to drive around as a teenager, and occasionally pull out one or two family pictures, but besides that, the family conversation remained pretty shallow per your request and your boyfriend wasn’t sure if it was okay to question you any further on the matter. 
“It’s okay. I just need to disinfect it.” You raise your tiptoes and capture the tip of your tongue between your teeth lightly, dabbing the wet cotton on some spots Max accidentally cut. 
Your head tilts a bit, exposing a specific part of your neck and a few marks Verstappen had noticed previously shine under the warm tones of your bathroom light bulbs. 
Without intending to, one of his wrapped fingers graces over the spot, making you retreat in surprise and fear, and Max’s eyes open widely before he attempts to raise both hands as a sign of peace. 
“Why did you do that?” Inquisitive, you close back the gap between you two. The softness of your voice dissipates due to his sudden action and nervously, you pass a hand over your neck, trying to touch something. “I hate it when people touch my neck so suddenly.”
“George told me,” the Dutch finally exhaled with resignation. 
Maybe tonight you will speak in full honesty again. 
“He never knows when to close his mouth, does he?” You reprimand, grabbing his chin again and slightly turning his head to the left for a better view of one of the cuts. “It’s nothing, really. Did he apologize for the accident?” 
“He did that to you, didn’t he?” Max shakes himself off of your grasp and encapsulates your body in between his legs, setting both hands on your waist. His eyes admire yours with a tranquility uncharacteristic of him and the moment you attempt to avoid him, one of his hands raises back to your cheek, cupping the side of your face. “I don’t need details. I just need to know if you are okay now.” 
“I never stopped to check,” you reply and lay on his touch briefly, closing your eyes to stop any tears from clouding your vision. “This entire time I’ve been avoiding what happened between him and me all those previous years.” 
“And now he is dead,” you nod to his words and open your eyes. “And that hurts.” 
“I think it hurts because I remember really well the times when he wasn’t mean. Especially when I was a kid. I grew up as he began deteriorating internally. I saw him go from the kindest father to my only enemy.” Max hums in response and slides under your pajama shirt the hand he had rested on your waist, beginning to trace patterns on your skin comfortingly. “Honestly, I think I want to remember him as someone who wasn’t always bad just for the sake of my own sanity, but I know he used to treat my mother poorly when I wasn’t around as a child too. I guess, at some point, I grew aware of it and began to defend her and when he saw that he didn’t have me on his side anymore, I became his target too.” 
“You were his child. Not his enemy.” 
“I was whatever his anger saw me as. Some days, when he wasn’t mad, he’d attempt to mend our relationship and give me some advice. His words were nice. He had lots of wisdom actually. He had traveled the world, met a lot of people, learned much, and still…he couldn’t apply any of his advice to himself.” Your hand cups his, brushing over his band-aids. “The blame was on us. We made him miserable. One day we were fighting and I tried to do the same as him. I used more than my words and his nose started to bleed. He laughed and congratulated me. He said we were finally even. I was just like him. Always fighting.” 
“You were fighting because you had no other choice.” 
“I was fighting because that’s what he taught me to do.” You admit and the first tear falls. “He taught me to ride a bike, to read my books, to obey my mother and to push him away whenever he tried to hurt her in any way. All I am now is what my parents allowed me to be and now they are gone. Both of them and I feel lost, Emi. All I did was to help my mother and to make my grandpa proud — and maybe I was stupid for thinking this way, but when people crossed me badly I thanked my dad for giving me thick skin and violence because it meant no one could truly hurt me, but now I feel stuck. I’ve been avoiding everything related to them because I’m afraid if I process their losses I will end up concluding that everything I did was in vain and I’m all alone. What am I now that none of them are here to see me try? Who am I making this effort for?”
“You, Schatje.” His thumb wipes away your tears before pressing his lips to your forehead. “All you do should be for you. All you are now should be something of your choice. Whatever you want to turn out to be in the future should be under your terms. There is no one else to impress except for you. It should have always been this way and now it is. You are alone in this, yes, but that doesn’t mean you will be lonely. I’m here and I promise to stay.” 
Chuckling, you kiss the edge of his palm. “I don’t like promises. People never keep them.” 
A smile creeps up on Max’s features, curling up the ends of his mouth. “You are impossible.” 
“Just say you will stay and mean it. I don’t need any promises attached.” 
“I mean it.” He captures your lips on his, holding onto you tightly and you return his fervor, clinging to his shirt forming fists with chunks of his cloth and closing your eyes. 
He is here and he means it. He can be the only thing you’ve got for sure now and that could be your start. Him and you. 
The darkest of nights closes over you at that very moment and minutes begin running slower than normal in your brain. He holds you in a way no one has ever held you before. With the delicacy and tenderness you’ve never received, and when he looks at you that night, tangled under your sheets, you know for sure he is in love with you and now you are ready to fully let yourself fall in love with him. 
So you fall asleep with his arms wrapped around your naked frame and his heavy breathing fanning your neck, not discomforting you in the slightest, and when you wake up the next day, his presence still lingers in the room and the mark of his body translates into the wrinkles of the covers. 
There is a note on the nightstand and you assume it’s just a quick excuse for his absence during the morning, but when you unwrap the paper, his words cup your heart with care and protect it from the cold of the outside. 
 ❝This is not a promise, just a fact. You like the night sky and I like you, my star. ❞ And on the other side of the small paper, he scribbled.  ❝Ps: Yes, I am in love with you. I hope you fall for me too.❞
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