All of Me (Sebastian Vettel)

20. Barcelona

The rain in Spain stayed mainly on... the circuit, Alyssa thought to herself on the Friday as she sat in Aston Martin hospitality between FP1 and FP2. 

It had been raining for the majority of the time she'd been there. 

She'd arrived late the previous afternoon. Antti had  collected her from the airport as Seb had been in a meeting with the team bosses. She'd seen him briefly a few hours after she'd arrived when he'd knocked on her hotel room door to make sure she had everything she needed,  but it had been a quick visit.  She hadn't seen much of him at all all week as he'd flown to Spain a few days before she had.

She'd seen him briefly again that morning as she'd travelled to the circuit with him and Antti, but he'd quickly disappeared when they arrived in the Aston Martin motorhome. Antti had introduced her to a young blonde woman called Shannon who worked in PR, before he too had disappeared. 

Alyssa instantly took a liking to the younger girl, and they'd  watched FP1 together from the dining area. 

It soon became apparent to Alyssa that Shannon had a big crush on Joel.  She decided she was going to try and find out what Joel thought of Shannon.  It was time he had a girlfriend.  He'd admitted to her that he'd been single for over three years. 

Minutes after FP1 had finished the door opened and Alyssa nearly choked on her mouthful of tea as Seb entered, his race suit tied around his waist, his tight white fireproof top leaving nothing to her imagination.  Antti had stopped outside and was fighting to put a large umbrella down.  Seb sat down opposite her. 

"Hey, you ok?" he asked her.

"All good thanks.  I've been well looked after by Shannon. She's great!"

"I'm glad you get along.  I'm sorry you were abandoned.  I should have warned you you'd be on your own a lot,  I just didn't want to put you off coming.  How would you like to watch FP2 from my garage?"

Alyssa looked down at her hands on the table,  trying not to look directly at him.  His fireproof was too clingy and too damn sexy. 

"Sure, that would be great, but won't it raise questions over who I am?  With the media I mean. You don't want them jumping to the wrong conclusion."

"It will give them something to talk about."

"I thought you didn't like them talking about you."

"I don't, but it's kind of funny when they want answers and can't get them."

"In that case I'd love to watch from your garage."

"Great," Seb said, smiling at her. Antii sat down next to Seb, smiling at Alyssa. Then he gave a groan. He was looking at a tall blonde woman in a very short green dress who was walking their way.

"Hi Sebastian," the blonde said. "Great result. P2 is amazing."

"Thanks Tanya. It's only practice though. We don't know how much fuel the others were carrying."

Alyssa froze. So this was Tanya, Seb's friend with benefits. Alyssa disliked her on sight. She didn't know whether it was because of the blatant sucking up to Seb that was going on, or because she knew Seb was fucking the blonde.

"Tanya, this is Alyssa. You know Joel on my crew? She's his sister, she's spending the weekend here with us."

Tanya looked at Alyssa, smiled a fake smile and turned her attention back to Seb.

"Are you going to Sam's party on Sunday?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

"Good, we need to catch up." She touched Seb's arm lightly, then walked away.