Forever yours

family

*Kevin*

I was a little tense, given the fact that Luisa wasn't sure how her family would react to me. It was difficult because we were both total family people and I would never make her stay away from her family or anything. I would have to find a way to get along with them. I wanted Luisa to be happy. I would have to figure something out, but I would worry about that later.

For now I was going to introduce her to my father. He had come for the race with my half-brother. And I had to admit that I was a little nervous.

After all these years of just being the two of us, I was nervous to make it official. And introducing her to my dad was pretty damn official.

It probably wouldn't keep it in the paddock either, because there were so many people running around that it was sure to be noticed.

Oh man.

Not that I wasn't ready for it, I loved this woman like crazy, but I knew what the media was like and I knew it wasn't going to be easy for us.

"You're nervous." she stated with a laugh, running her thumb through my palm as we held hands.

"I am. Yeah.", I admitted.

She grinned even wider "This is really new.".

I pulled her hand a little closer to me "I just care about you.", I kissed her on the temple.

"I care about you too, you idiot." she giggled and bumped her shoulder against mine.

I let out a gasping laugh "But I'm nervous too." she admitted.

"Don't be. My dad's cool. Knowing him, you won't be able to get rid of him and you won't have anything to talk about other than motorsports for the rest of the weekend. He'll think it's great that you have a clue. So, no worries.".

We turned toward the Haas hospitality area. Dad was already coming toward us, waving. The tension fell away from me. Everything would be fine. At least that's what I believed in the 10 seconds until Mick came out of the hospitality and his gaze immediately went in our direction.

Then I guess we had that behind us as well. I was just glad that Luisa didn't notice her brother at that moment. He looked at me for a moment, then looked at his sister and disappeared back inside.

"Well if it isn't Luisa.", Dad laughed and immediately came towards her with open arms "So that was flirting after all when he swept you off the track that time.", I rolled my eyes but let go of her hand so he could hug her.

"He got the really subtle flirting from me.", he laughed and let go of her.

He looked at her and smiled "Nice to meet you.".

"Nice to meet you too.", Luisa smiled before I was giving my dad a quick hug in greeting, then I hugged Noah.

"Noah, this is Luisa, my girlfriend."

"I know. Can we go look at the cars now?".

Sometimes this boy really drove me up the wall.

"At least as charming as big brother." laughed Luisa "But come on, I'll show you where the cool cars are. If we're not too flashy, I'm sure we can stop by the Red Bull Garage for a bit."

"You're serious?", with that she had so won my brother over.

"Sure. Max is my cousin. No one's kicking us out of there.", Noah nodded and then looked to me.

"She's cool.", he naturally took her hand and pulled her along.

"Ej!", I laughed, but Luisa just waved and disappeared with my little brother.