The Hendrick Guys

Part 3

(Y/N) POV

You wake up to your alarm beeping, usually you're super tired but today you felt great.
You got showered and dressed then go to get breakfast and walk to work. You take in everything on your walk to work and bump into Kyle Larson who is stood at the entrance with his son.

"Oh hey, I heard you went out with Oliver last night huh. How was that?" You shrug and smile and get a smirk in response from Kyle. Next thing you know, a ball comes flying at you and a little kid screaming "heads!" You step back and control the ball doing a kick up and catching it.
"Been a while since i played football," you say looking at the ball in your hand. The kid runs to you and looks at you in awe,
"that was awesome! But this is a soccer ball you know?" You laugh and have to explain where you come from and that you call it a football. "That's cool... my name is Owen, my daddy is the best NASCAR driver here!" You look at Kyle expecting him to be gloating but he was talking to his wife on the phone at this point.
"Nice to meet you Owen, my name is (Y/N). Hey listen, i need to go to work now so I'll see you around, maybe we can play soccer again some time!" you said to him before carrying on walking to the door.
"(Y/N)! Can you kick the ball for me high up," Owen passes you the ball and you flick it up and catch it and then kick it up in the air as high as you can and turn to walk in the building, opening the door everyone can hear Owen shouting amazed how high it went, you laugh to yourself walking down the corridor to your office.
You walk into your office and sit down and start working straight away.

It gets to lunch time and you go sit outside on the first bench you see, William and Alex join you. You talk for a while and William asks how things went with Oliver, you explained everything and nothing much got mentioned after that.
William headed back to his team for pit practice and Alex stayed with you picking at his lunch and staring into space.
"Hey Alex, are you ok?" He looks up at you and nods, his face showing no emotion whatsoever.
"Are you sure? You don't look like you are," you start getting concerned and stop eating.
"I'm fine honestly. If i told you what was wrong you wouldn't like me!" He sounded a bit mad when he said this and went back to picking at his food.
"What do you mean? We've barely spoken, why, how could i possibly get mad at you?" You turn to him asking confused pulling a face, Alex stood up and put his food in the bin then came back to the bench you are sat on.
"I cant tell you. I'm sorry, I want to tell you, but i just cant," you look puzzled as to what it might be and then Chase comes out and sits with you both.
"What's going on? You guys look like a couple that just broke up," he laughs until he realises only he finds it funny.
"Chase. A word please!" Alex raises his voice a little and walks away from the bench and talks to him. All you hear is Chase say to Alex "she'll be fine, don't worry. You barely know her, why you so protective?" You get up and walk to your office without saying anything to them. You sit down and don't move the rest of the afternoon.

You suddenly get startled by a knock at the door and shout for them to come in, you look up to see Alex stood there in front of you in jeans and a hoodie, the casual looking Alex you've always liked, you cant help but smile to yourself at his presence.
"Hi, umm sorry to bother you but i uhh wanted to see if you were coming to Mr Hendrick's BBQ tonight?" Alex says and gives you a shy smile. You paused for a couple seconds to have a drink of your water and thought about it.
"honestly, I've only just found out about it now and its like my first day here, so probably not no," you watch the smile disappear from his face and then in enters Oliver,
"hey (Y/N), your coming to the BBQ tonight with me, I'll meet you there at 7!" He said quickly, winking at Alex and hitting his arm on the way out of your office. You pull a face and think "what the fuck just happened" to yourself.
"Ok, so it seems i am going tonight," Alex nodded at you "cool, see you later i guess," and turned to walk out the room closing the door behind him, you look at the door puzzled.
"Mr Bowman I'm not getting your signals mate, what is it with you?" You say to yourself shaking your head confused after he leaves.

The rest of your afternoon seemed to drag out a bit but you were still happy to be doing what you dreamed of doing. You headed home at 4pm to go get changed before going to the BBQ knowing you'll be cold as per usual. You have a shower and get dressed and walk down to the BBQ at HMS.