Pretending | Max Verstappen

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Zoe

I had been crying over an hour in my hotel room. Christian had texted me that Max was on his way to the hospital but I didn't care. He decided to go racing today so it was fault and he didn't cared about anything else, about me.

I really wasn't in the mood for a nights out and even had thought of texting Lando when Charles had sent me a message, asking if he should pick me up. Maybe an evening with him and also Lando and Carlos would take my mind off things, so I agreed.

The Monegasque knocked a bit earlier than said but I welcomed him him.

"I need to make my hair but you can take a seat over there." I quickly said, gesturing to the bed while I disappeared into the bathroom.

I wasn't really in the mood for dressing up fancy so I had just a nice shirt on instead of the team kit. Also I wasn't really wearing make-up, only cleaned my face up after crying. After brushing my hair I put my glasses back on and stepped out to Charles.

"You look beautiful." he said as he came over.

"Thanks." was all I could answer as he took my hand and spun me around to look at me from all sides.

"Let's go, Lando and Carlos are probably waiting."

Indeed they were sitting in the lobby, very close next to each other and a smile appeared on my face. Luckily the Spaniard got into a conversation with Charles while we were leaving the hotel so Lando stepped closer to me.

"You okay?" he asked and looked really worried at me.

"He's alive that all that matters and everything else was his own fault. He just didn't care about me or anything, otherwise he would have never started that race."

My smile faded and a lightly sad expression was seen on my face but I shrug my shoulders and tried to avoid the thoughts of him. It was hard for me to accept that he didn't care about me but tonight I was here with my friends and I didn't want this time to be destroyed by thoughts of him.

Lando wanted to say something about my answer but the Monegasque stepped next to us and put an arm around my waist.

"Is everything fine Zoe?"

"Yeah sure, let's go." was all I said before following him into the cab.

Half an hour later we were sitting in a corner of a bar with our drinks in front of us.

"So I guess we have to thank you guys." Carlos said all out of a sudden.

"Yeah a big thank you guys because otherwise I would be still standing at the drivers parade watching him and wishing I was closer to him." Lando added and we all had to laugh.

A smile appeared on my face as I saw how happy these two were. They really loved each other and it was great to be part of their story and watch this unconditional love. Before my thoughts could trail over to a certain Dutch I quickly answered.

"We just saw two people and brought them together."

"True, but if Zoe hadn't said anything to me than I would have never guessed that Lando had also feelings." Charles said and put his hand on my knee.

"Hey I also wasn't sure about Carlos feelings but I had to try, I couldn't watch Lando being so sad."

"I wasn't sad!"

"You were, you remember when you also told me how much you miss not seeing Carlos and how much you would like to know if he also is gay or has feelings for you."

"Oh shut up." Lando said and buried his face in Carlos arm as his cheeks turned bright red.

"It's cute, you're cute." the Spaniard therefore said and gave his boyfriend a kiss on the template.