UNBROKEN [ MAX VERSTAPPEN ]

5. Drunk

[ Monaco, January 18, 2021 ]- Victoria

"I'll try calling him one more time." - Kelly says and picks up her cell phone and starts calling Max one more time - "He's not answering."

"He has his cell phone on, if he doesn't answer it's because he doesn't want to talk to any of us." - I tell and sit down on the couch next to Charles until you hear someone knock on the door, Victoria goes to open the door and it is Lando.

"I came as fast as I could." - he says as he gives Victoria a kiss - "He hasn't shown up yet?"

"No, he hasn't even reported in." - Kelly says and leans against the kitchen countertop.

"Vic why don't you try calling him?" - Victoria says and everyone looks at me.

"If he won't take your calls why would he take mine? Besides I would just take up the line, I think it's better if Kelly keeps looking for him."

"I feel like I'm dealing with a 16-year-old." - Christian speaks for the first time since I arrived, I can tell by his body language that something is up.

"Why don't we call the police?" - Lando suggests.

"No, no police, it will be bad for their image, we have to find ourselves first." - I say and think of the negative consequences that police involvement would ruin Max's career.

"And what do you suggest Victoria?" - Kelly looks at me again as she continues to try to call Max.

"Why don't we spread out and try to find him, go to the places he likes to go for example." - Lando says and everyone looks at him like he had the most brilliant idea in the world - "He's not answering our calls and staying standing here we will not find him anyway, we should take the cars and go looking for him, he's driving in what car?"

"The Porche isn't in the garage, that must be the one he's in." - Victoria speaks up.

"It's an orange car, if he's parked somewhere it shouldn't be hard to find him." - Lando says once again - "So what are we waiting for? Let's go."

"I don't have one, I crashed it, Red Bull hasn't given me a new one yet." - I say and remind myself

"You can always come with me" - Charles says as he gets up from the couch.

"If we split up it's easier, we can go to more places." - Perez finally speaks - "Take one of Max's." - he speaks and Kelly looks at him and clearly doesn't like the idea.

"Here" - Victoria says and throws me some keys - "Take the Aston Martin DB11" - she says and starts walking towards the outside and opens the door - "Come on, it's four in the morning, we have a long night ahead of us." - Perez leaves, being followed by Lando, followed by Kelly and Christian, then me and Charles and lastly Victoria - "You guys go in this elevator we go in this one" - she speaks and me, her and Charles get into the elevator, Charles presses the button that leads to the entrance and Victoria to the garage - "Sorry to interrupt your date, but I didn't know who else to call."

"Don't worry about it Victoria, the important thing now is that we find Max" - I tell her and with my hand, I give her a small hug, the elevator opens, Charles gives me a kiss on the cheek and gets out, the doors close again and the elevator goes down to the garage.

"After we meet Max will you tell me more about that meeting, or do you think I didn't notice that you guys arrived holding hands?" - she says and the elevator doors open giving access to a garage, despite having numerous cars, Max only has 3 of his cars and his sister's Audi A3 in the apartment garage, the rest are in a private garage - " Keep in touch Vic, and please try to call him, I'm sure he will answer you." - she says and gets into her Audi A3 and drives off.