As I was leaving Daniel's apartment and as I was approaching the foyer front door the sound of a familiar Dutch accent walked into the building. He was dressed in dark colour running gear with his mousy blonde hair slightly damp from sweat.
"Marilyn!?" Max said in a surprised manner. I swore under my breath in a huff.
"Heya Max" I replied kind of slurring the words as the red wine really wasn't helping right about now.
"What are you doing here so late?"
"Umm.. I" I was now stumbling over my words, hoping my alcohol affected brain could come up with a good enough reason.
"Visiting a friend" ah yes, you beautiful genius.
"They're down for the race" I continued in a more convincing tone and nodded my head to only convince myself really.
"A friend ... nice okay um" Hereplied sounding seemingly sure.
"Your heading to your hotel I guess"
"Oh yeah just walking back it's not too far" I said slightly heading my way out of the double doors.
"Walking alone at this hour"
To be honest I hadn't really looked at the time since I arrived here.
"I'm a big girl Max, I'll be okay"
Max had started to follow me out of the doors
"Let me walk with you at least"
"No no it'll be okay it's only a few blocks" I insisted.
"More the reason for me to come, I'll worry if you go yourself"
Shrugging thinking what the hell he is just wanting to be safe, I hadn't seen this side to Max in a long time a sort of protective manner. As we started to walk down to my hotel, he looked down at his watch, starting an exercise.
"Every step counts eh?" He commented with a soft chuckle slipping out. The kind of chuckle you hear when someones trying to make small talk. I laughed politely and his smile grew larger, that one attribute about Max I always loved. The boy loves it when people find his jokes funny, it gave him a sense of assurance.
There wasn't much of a conversation as we walked back, I didn't want to start anything or bring anything up that could lead to where I just was.
"It has really been nice to see you" he said, looking down towards the ground then back up at me.
I did not have the brain power right now to be having THIS conversation. So I just smiled back nodding my head.
"It has been nice, I mean we haven't really properly seen each other since Singapore last year" he continued.
"Well you've seen me around the track"
"Yeah well I pass you on the track that's about it" Max was referencing the last race in Bahrain as he did pass me as a back marker.
"Hey it's my first year, and it was the last lap geez" I softly punched him in the shoulder but Max quickly spoke back.
"You know you're better than that right, you do have potential" there was a more serious tone in this sentence from him.
"I know it will just take time. '' I looked back at him as we walked. My eyes darted to his lips and back to his soft blue eyes. I missed them in a way but knew that the decision I had made months ago was the right choice. It wasn't long until we would reach the front doors of the hotel, when my mouth blurted out a sentence I wished it didn't.
"So your back with Kelly"
"Yeah..." Max replied quietly, a smile was sort of forced but quickly left his lips when he had looked at me.
"That's great for you two" Were the only words I could say back, I knew they were back together but there were only rumors circling. From my response a small smile returned to his face and with that we had now reached the hotel lobby door. A silence came to our lips as Max looked at me, I could see that he didn't really know what to say but also wanted to say so much. I probably looked exactly the same.
"Well I'll see you around this weekend... yeah" I spoke breaking the silence and starting to step away into the lobby.
"Yeah, definitely Good night Lyn" He said, starting to return back to his apartment block. The use of the name Lyn wasn't usual and not even my close family called me Lyn. Max had called me Lyn, it had only ever been Max that called me Lyn.
"Good Night Max"
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Omg two parts in one week, I had this written up a while ago but needed the other parts in between for it all the make sense Xx
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