The Winner Takes it All -MV

Part 3 - Friends.

WARNING: NIGHTMARES

Max's Pov:
When I got back to my hotel room, my head hurt so bad. I tried having a drink of water, it didn't work, I decided to just ignore it and head to bed. It was already late at night, around 10 pm.

As I'm scrolling through Instagram, liking all of the posts from today on Redbull's and Isabella's accounts. Ugh, I hate Isabella, the way her brunette hair falls so perfectly after she takes her balaclava off, the way her brown eyes shimmer in the sunlight, I hate her. I was drawn away from my thoughts by a knock on the door, it didn't sound soft, but it didn't sound aggressive either. I got up and looked through the little peep hole.

"Isabella?" I questioned as I quickly opened the door, tears stained her rosy red cheeks, I never knew how red she went when she cried, Max stop thinking about that. "What.. What's wrong?" I asked her again, my voice was soft, gentle, almost comforting.

"I- can I come in.. please?" She asked, her voice was weak, and broke when she spoke. I couldn't say no to her, my team mate, crying in front of my hotel door.

"Y-yes.. come in." I said moving out of the way so she could walk into my hotel room. She walked past me as I embraced her scent, she smelt like vanilla, and the scent of a cake. Almost like the transition from autumn to spring.

"I-I'm sorry.." She said. What was she sorry for? I could see her mascara running down her cheeks. Why was she crying?

"What for?" I asked her, "You have nothing to be sorry for." I said as I sat down infront of her, she was sat on the edge of the bed, so I took a seat on the couch infront of it. Her leg was shaking, bouncing quickly up and down, as well as her hands, they gently shook, you could hear the bracelets on her wrist clicking together, but you couldn't see them, they were covered by her oversized hoodie. I quickly put my hand on her knee.

"For knocking on your hotel room door, I have no right in being here, especially this late, and our relationship. You don't even like me, Max." She said as she looked up at me.

"I do like you, Isabella. I do." I said, gently taking my hand off her knee as it had now stopped shaking. "I was just.. I don't know. I'm sorry for being a dick to you, if I'm being honest.. I didn't want Christian to have a new favourite driver. You scare me, your driving, your speed, it's amazing." I said, I didn't even know what I was saying anymore, I just wanted her to calm down and stop crying. "Why are you crying?" I asked her, as she wiped a tear from her face, smearing the black lines that ran down her cheeks.

"I- it's silly, really." She said, "I had a nightmare..and you are the only person I know in this hotel. I couldn't calm down, I needed to talk to someone." She said quickly, I put my hand back on her knee, trying to slow her down, her breathing had quickened.

"Do you want to talk about what happened?" I asked her, my thumb slowly stroking her bare knee. "You don't have to." I reassured her, she needed to talk to someone, and here I was, comforting my enemy at 11 pm at night.

"Yes.." She said, as she looked down at my hand on her knee, I saw her slightly smile when she saw my hand on her skin. I nodded, letting her know I was going to listen to her. "We were at the first race of the season, everyone was so excited, happy. As we took of in the cars, you were first, obviously," I chuckled to myself, I kept my eyes on her, despite her looking down. "And I was in second, the first corner was.. scary, I almost got sent off the track as someone hit me from behind, but I got away with no damage and kept racing. Afew laps in, I was still behind you, when all of a sudden, my car spun into you, sending us both off the race, I flew into the barrier, my head hurt, but I was fine. I got out of the car quickly. I wanted to check on you, I needed to know if you were okay. You were in the barrier, but.. you weren't moving.. you never got out the car.." Tears flooded down her cheeks.

"Okay, look at me, it's okay, it was just a dream." I saw her look up at me, her eyes twinkled for a second when she heard those words of reassurance. "Fuck it, come here." I opened my arms for her, was I really about to hug my team mate, my enemy, my rival. She got up and gently wrapped her arms around my neck, pulling herself into my body. Her face fell into the crook of my neck. I felt her hot, salty tears on my shoulder.

After a while of sitting there in silence, embracing her in my arms, she gently let go. "Max?" She said, grabbing my attention as I admired her as she moved back to where she was sitting. This was wrong, I was admiring my own team mate, I can't let that happen. I am not falling inlove with her.

"Yes?" I replied, looking her in the eye.

"Would you maybe.. want to be.. friends?" She asked, my eyes lit up. She wanted to be friends, she wanted to fix our relationship.

"Yeah, sure! I'd be happy with that." I said, I tried not to sound excited, but.. I said it with such a tone that made me sound excited.

"Okay, I just don't want us behind enemies ruin our driving this season." She said, giggling to herself as she kept her eye contact with me. She had stopped crying, I liked that, I liked seeing her happy.

"Ouch! So you don't actually want to be friends with me!? Wow!" I said sarcastically, her laugh brightened up the room.

"You know that's not what I meant, Max! I do want to be friends with you, you idiot!" She said, her gentle laugh slowing as she stopped talking.

Time flew fast. It was already 12am.

"Shit! I need to go! You need sleep!" She said, quickly getting up.

"Okay, we'll.. I'll see you tomorrow for testing. Well, not tomorrow, today, I- you know what I mean." I had just embarrassed myself bad.

"Haha! Yeah I know what you mean. Bye, Max. And, thank you." She said before walking out of the hotel door.

My head ache was gone, and I fell asleep extremely easily.

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A/N: Do we like parts in Max's perspective? Also, do you think the pair are going to stay friends, or are they going to fall out? Let me know your predictions and I'm so sorry for the wait!