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5. This cant be happening pt2

"Come in..."  Christian's sweet but stern tone hit litas ears as she stepped in and closed the glass door behind her.

The two men sat silently as she took a seat reluctantly beside max, she immediately picked up on his tensed jaw and heavy breathing.

He looked fuming. Not that max wasn't always fuming but this time it was visibly present, usually he would just stare at you blankly with a tense look in his eyes that would send shivers down her spine easily. Talk about having a resting bitch face.

even after she took a seat both the men stayed silent, it was easy to pick up from the tense atmosphere that nothing good could come of this. It all made her stomach twist.

With a deep breath, Christian dragged his hands down his face as he leaned back into the office chair lazily, "every week" he started off quietly

"Every goddamn week" he slammed his fist down angrily on the desk causing lita to jump slightly surprised, Max's eyes snapping over to her instantly at this. Christian's patience had been wearing thin since the first inchident.

"I have tried to give you both the benefit of the doubt. Tried to be understanding two years ago when you first signed on lita, I didn't expect you or max to instantly click." He shrugged carelessly "small fights between two competitive teammates are normal but this. This has been going on for far to long do you understand? It's ridiculous!"

Neither lita or max dared to speak up.

"Making snide comments about one another in conferences or interviews, yelling at each other over the radio. Fighting in the garage in-front of fucking
Journalists" Christian took a deep breath as his face begun to turn slightly red. "Do you know how much damage both of your childish behaviour is doing to us?" Lita swallowed thickly as she looked down at her hands.

"I cant have you both going on like this any longer, I don't care what you both do behind the scenes. Fight and argue for all i care in private but if either of you think that this behaviour is acceptable you have another thing coming" his narrowed eyes went from one of his drivers to the other.

lita bit her tongue. She knew her and max clashing heads every single race, even outside it was most likely causing trouble but she didn't realise just how it had an affect.

"Now, I've had a few meetings over the last month with both your pr managers along with some sponsors and we've come up with some ideas to try get you both to see eye to eye or well  at-least stop trying to take each others eyes out" max sat quietly, his arms crossed as his eyes drift over to a quiet lita fiddling with the rings on her fingers before he rolled his eyes and looked away .

Scrunching her nose she looked up to Christian "and what are these ideas?" Lita eyes drifted between the both, she knew that max had most likely found out before she had arrived It would explain why he was so pissed.

Christian started to explain different steps that was gonna be taking to try help max and litas relationship improve. Ideas ranged from doing simple team building task like guiding each other on the simulator blind folded to filming new content for the teams YouTube together.

That all didn't seem to bad to lita, max was probably just over reacting. She wouldn't of purposely went out of her way to do any of that with max  but she would try her best to be civil. Civil being ignoring him the whole time.

"Well if that's all may I go now?" She looked at Christian expectantly, all she wanted to do was go back to the hotel, take a nice shower and curl up to watch a movie

"That's not all" Christian cleared his throat, lita starred at him curiously, wasn't everything discussed?

But you know what they say. Curiosity kills a cat and as soon as the next words left Christian's mouth lita felt heart drop as she became slightly paler. Now finally understanding the fuss that max had made before she had came in.

" you both will be sharing a hotel room for the rest of the season..."