Pretending | Max Verstappen

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Zoe

I winced as someone knocked against the glass behind me. I didn't really know how long I was sitting here, looking at his white face. Single tears had been falling out of m eyes for the last minutes and I quickly brushed them away before I stood up.

The moment I stepped out of his room, Jos and the nurse from before came around the corner. His dark look got even darker as he saw me, Carlos and Lando, but especially me. For a moment he looked at Carlos, because he realized that he had played him, before he turnend towards me.

"What are you doing here?"

I already knew Jos and his mean tone and normally I would have just ignored it or said something back, but I was to vulnerable at the moment so I started shivering.

"She's looking after Max because he risked his life for her. You used her, did you really wanted Max to die?" Lando shouted as quiet as he could and stepped in front of me.

"He's alive so don't make such a drama about it. Without her he would have had won today."

Carlos laughed at that command because we all knew what a bullshit that was. Then there was a moment of silence and Lando quickly turned to me and hugged me, followed by Carlos. Meanwhile Jos looked at the nurse.

"Why was she in there, she isn't family?"

"She said that she's his wife, I believed them." the woman said while looking between us, "And it looks like she really cares about him so I don't see the problem."

"Yeah well it is a fucking problem and I will make you jobless if you don't bring them out now!" Jos shouted at the small woman, who took immediately two steps back in panic.

"You can't do that." I stammered at him while quickly looking over to Max's room.

"Of course I can. You have no prove, the world thinks it was a problem with the car and every evidence you might think you have can be faked so don't even try."

"We won't go!" Lando said and turned to Jos again, "You can't make us."

The older Verstappen didn't say anything at first, he just laughed.

"Why are you even protecting her, you don't know her and so does Max. She's not the one you think she is."

That got my attention and my tears got stuck somewhere in my, what did he mean? It was a question that was in my head for the last hours, what did Jos Verstappen had against me in his hands?

"Of course I know her and Max does too, he loves her but you won't see it." Lando said again and Carlos even took his hand to support him.

Jos noticed that movement and his smile grew even bigger.

"How do you want to know how it is, loving a woman, when you are obviously a fagot."

Landos jaw dropped as he hadn't expected that but now Carlos was there and stepped between Jos and his boyfriend.

"Don't you dare calling him that, you understand me?"

"How cute, one fagot defends the other and in the middle of all of this we have the biggest whore on this planet."

Carlos and Lando quickly looked at me and my jaw dropped but no for the reason they thought.

"Take that back." the Spaniard said but Jos just started laughing while going to Max's room.

"I just say Lila Lovable." he said and entered the room.

The two boys in front of me shook their heads in question and wanted to follow him, but I held them back.