The movie

3

Anna's POV

It's been almost 2 weeks now since I've last seen Max. He's just been sim racing to prepare for the first race of the season in Bahrain or at least that's what I've heard from Christian. I've just been figuring out how the camera Red bull gave me works. It's not too difficult so I'm excited to start. Last time I saw Max obviously things weren't great but I decided to just sorta of ignore it. It's his problem that he can't deal with what Red bull has chosen to do. All I need to do is get on with it and get through to him. I just hope he has sorted out his thoughts since then.

Currently I was waiting at the airport for Max to show up. Christian informed me where we would meet. The flight to Bahrain was to take off in an hour and Max still hadn't shown up. What has this guy to do except winning races?. While I was gathering my thoughts I saw max coming towards me. He was wearing jeans with a Red bull shirt and cap. He was carrying a big bag which I assumed were his clothes. He looked at me and quickly walked past me. I took that as my cue to walk with him.
"Good morning Anna, how have you been?, I've been great thanks Max." I said mockingly
This was just straight up disrespectful.
"Still not your friend." He said while he kept walking.
"You can keep talking to me like I'm dirt on your shoe but I'm not going anywhere."
"Stay, leave I don't really care as long as you stay out of my way."
I was about to talk back but decided to bite my tongue. I wasn't in the mood to make a scene at the airport and neither did I think it was gonna be useful.
I followed him, we got both of our bags and went straight to the gate thanks to Max we didn't have to wait long for the plane to start boarding.

I looked at my boarding pass and they gave me a business class seat once again. I honestly can get used to this. Max was following me and sat down next to me. Did they really get him a seat right next to me?.Did they expect me to start filming right away?. Many questions filled my head but I couldn't ignore his face while he was sitting next to me. He was closed off again. No anger, no sadness. Nothing. He just stared at the ground. I wonder what he's thinking right now. Is he nervous about the race?. Is he worried about something?.
"Are you alright?."
The question left my mouth before I was even aware of what I was doing.
"Leave it" he said without moving an inch.
There's so much going on in his head. I can just feel it and not being able to get through to him just because I don't know him well enough is the most frustrating thing ever.
This was gonna be a long flight

We're about six hours into the flight now, only 50 minutes left. After our really short conversation we both decided to do our own thing, after about an hour, he fell asleep. Unconsciously dropping his head on my shoulder. It caught me off guard at first but I quickly adjusted. He looked so peaceful, like there was nothing going on. It was kind of adorable. In the spur of the moment I carefully grabbed the camera I had kept with me. I turned the camera towards me and started filming. I thought about saying something but I left it. The video shows enough right. After taking a short video I put it back.

"Dear ladies and Gentleman, we will be landing in about 50 minutes" the pilot announced. It woke up Max. He quickly got off my shoulder and looked at me. Confusion more than evident on his face. It looked like he was about to say something but decided not to. I felt disappointment within me for some reason. Like i wanted to make progress but just couldn't. He put his earphones in and looked at his phone like nothing happened. 50 minutes are starting to feel like hours again.

We finally landed in Bahrain, I've never been to Bahrain which made it even more exciting.
"Hey, it's good to see you again Max" Gianpiero said As he was leaning against the car that was gonna bring us to the hotel.
It might sound weird that i know Gianpiero but I'm a very thorough person. I need to know everything all the time.
"Who's this" I asked while looking at Max, trying my hardest to not make it sound fake.
"Gianpiero, nice to meet you." Gianpiero said before Max could even say anything.
"He's my engineer, and my support when everything goes to shit again." Max said with a big smile om his face before going in for a hug. This was a totally different Max. He must be real close with him. I made a mental note to myself to remember that. It might be useful for the movie.

We got into the car, it was about a 20 minute drive, it was pretty close to the circuit so I'm sure we'll be going there today as well. While Max and Gianpiero were talking I decided to take some short videos of max talking to Gianpiero and the drive itself.
"Will you knock it off already?" Max screamed out of nowhere.

Max's POV
She looked at me with fear in her eyes. I wonder what makes her be so scared of me. Yes I've been pretty tough on her but the way she looked at me, it wasn't me she was scared of.Her face changed from fear to anger.
"I'm just doing my job Max, go bitch about it to somebody else." She said before turning her head back to the window.
Guess that hit a nerve.
We finally arrived at the hotel, we put our bags in the hotel room and continued our journey to the circuit.
This circuit is alright with me. Nothing particularly interesting but alright. The very opposite seemed to be the case for Anna.

Anna's POV

The sun had started setting and the track looked more than beautiful than ever. Tv doesn't do it justice by far. I was probably supposed to stay with Max but I couldn't contain myself from walking on the track. It wasn't like listening to Max's conversations was particularly interesting and I'm pretty sure I would be awaiting another screaming session and I wasn't really feeling it. I took the walk as an opportunity to clear my mind. Max has been an absolute dick the entire time and getting him to open up is gonna be a big challenge so I figured I deserved some alone time and decided that once we had gotten back to the hotel I'd go and take a bath, Max would probably be out with some people from the team anyway. While enjoying my time alone someone bumped into me.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention."
I looked up and saw the one and only Lando Norris standing in front of me.
I have been following him ever since he was in formula 2. He's so talented and seeing him standing in front of me felt so surreal.

"I don't think I've seen you before, who do you work for?'
"Red Bull actually, I'm trying to film Max for his movie?"
"Trying?" he said while trying to hold back his laughter.
"Yeah, he's something" I said, trying to be careful not to insult him.
"It will be fine, he's a tough nut to crack but he's actually really nice"
"Let's switch jobs, you can film Max all day and I'll drive"
"Look at you, already trying to stealing my job" he said playfully which made me blush.

'Anna, we're going" I heard somebody screaming behind me which turned out to be Max.
Did he really have to interfere just now?.
"Looks like you gotta go, I'm sure we'll see each other a lot more now but just in case we don't how about I give you my number?"
It felt like he was flirting with me but I didn't want jinx it so I tried to keep my cool.
"Sure, here you go" I say while giving him phone.
He quickly typed in his number and gave my phone back to me.
All of a sudden I feel somebody touching my arm and tuning me around. Which turned out to be Max.
Has the guy got no patience?.
"We're going, see you tomorrow mate" Max said to Lando before dragging me back to the car.
"Was that really necessary?" I asked, obviously annoyed by Max just ruining the nice conversation I had with Lando.
"You should be doing your job and following me around instead of flirting with the first guy you set your eyes on"