You forever ClxMv Lestappen

The day after

Max had been right. The party had been brilliant. Unfortunately he couldn't stay too late as both Red Bull drivers along with the Ferrari drivers had to test new tyres with pirelli the next day.

Max woke around 9am and quickly got ready and left for the track. Pierre would drive first so he wasn't really in a rush.

After about an hour of staring at data from the car, Max was bored and headed back into the paddock to find something to do.

That's when he saw him.

*Charles pov*

I was bored. Seb had been doing laps for almost 2 hours at this point and I wasn't due to drive for another 2 more hours. I told Mattia I was going for a walk. I had been talking to an old friend at Alfa Romeo as they were still taking down their motorhome. I saw Max in the distance and thought to myself "of course Pierre is driving now". Honestly I would have preferred it the other way around so I could have talked to Pierre but hey it couldn't hurt to talk to to Max for a bit, after all we had always gotten along ok in karting as kids so why would it be any different now. "Heyyyy Max" I shouted

*Max pov*
Oh fuck he called me I thought. To tell the truth I had more than a small crush on him. That's what I had felt all those years ago. I knew that now. Anyway I decided it wouldn't hurt to at least be polite.

**
Max walked over and said hi to Charles. They talked for a bit about karting and obviously the now infamous inchident (they had both left out what Max had said afterwards). Charles had also pretended not to notice the Durchmans stares at him, he was a bit confused but also knew he was a good looking guy so he didn't think much of it.

Eventually Max had asked Charles if he wanted to go for a short walk to a place where there was a great view of the whole track. They still had a few hours to kill until it was their turn to drive so Charles had naturally said yes.

*Max pov*
Yep he saw it, he definitely saw me staring at his eyes. Fucking hell Max control yourself I thought to myself. Somehow I gathered the confidence to ask if he wanted to walk with me for a bit. I don't really know why I'm so nervous around him. Charles is as straight as you can be. Always out with girls in Monaco and all over his insta stories.

We sat down on the top of a hill about 500m past T3. Here there was a great view of the entire track and it was really peaceful. As F1 drivers we rarely got peaceful moments outside of the winter break. Even the summer break was really only spent preparing for the next race.

**

"Um Charles you know I really enjoyed this, we should try do if after every race, i-if you want to ofc" said Max.

Charles had genuinely really enjoyed catching up with his old rival so he said yes straightaway. After a while it was time for both of them to head back to the track.