CHAPTER 17 || Alpine love? Check!

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Charles is sitting tiredly next to Max in the kitchen, eating breakfast. To be precise, he is eating Max's favourite cereal, namely Unicorn Fuit Loops. Max doesn't mind, even though Charles is the only one who gets to eat Max's unicorns.

So the two of them shovel the stuff in. They simply ignore the fact that it is definitely not part of the nutrition plan. And Oscar just hopes that it will slow Max down on the track.

He sips his smoothie and sticks to his diet. He has also made one for Logan. The latter comes traipsing into the kitchen and drops down next to the McLaren driver.

"You look like shit." Says Oscar between two sips. "Thanks mate." Mumbles Logan back. "No for real, did you fall out of your bed this morning?" Asks the younger one and Logan looks at him with a raised eyebrow. "I just didn't slept well Osc." He sighs. "Just come to me next time." Oscar suggests and the American smiles gratefully.

Max and Charles set off for the in-house gym. There they first warm up until Max starts doing push-ups and Charles sits down on the Dutchman's back in a cross-legged position and reads through sheets of paper in his college notebook.

After a while they switch and Max looks at analyses of his last race. Then they do sit ups and every time they stand up their foreheads have to touch. Little by little they go through their training programme. They have changed it so that they do everything in partner work.

Pierre enters and watches the two drivers in confusion until Esteban also enters the room. The two Frenchmen look angrily at each other. Charles is so pissed off by his friends that Max retreats. And that has to mean something.

The two Alpine drivers quickly start discussing and Max watches them as if they were in a tennis match.

"Pierre, what the hell! What didn't you understand about that? Stop bothering me and fuck off. I don't fancy you." Esteban hisses.

"I don't want to be with you myself! Who do you think you are? Get lost!" Shouts Pierre and when Esteban knocks over a bottle Pierre yells "What are you capable of?!"

"Doesn't matter how much, it's still more than you are!" Esteban also yells. They stare at eachother madly and Charles has enough.

"Come on Max, we'll lock them both in the closet there until they've talked things out!" He whispers softly and the older man grins briefly before he and Charles make their way to the two.

The two of them make short work of the two pests in front of them and simply push them into the cupboard before locking the doors. "Neither of them has claustrophobia, right?" Max asks suspiciously and Charles shakes his head before calling out "We'll be back in half an hour!" And pulls Max out of the room.

It is dark in the cupboard itself, which is why Esteban cannot see the red glow on Pierre's cheeks. This is because the taller one still has his arm around Pierre's waist so that he doesn't fall over.

Pierre still just growls "I don't have anything to say." Esteban shrugs his shoulders and says "Well I have to say something and you can't even flee or not listen this time." Pierre sighs, he thinks that he'll hear a lot of insults.

"Maybe the first thing I should say is that I don't hate you." Murmurs the dark-haired one meekly. The shorter one just snorts. "I was jealous back then. But then somehow you started hating me and then I put up some kind of protective wall." Esteban says softly.

"Oh, so it's my fault now?" Pierre wants to know. Esteban shakes his head. "I just want to say that it's not all my fault." He tries to explain.

"I was jealous of Charles, not you. I didn't like him back in the day. But we talked things out." Says Esteban after a short silence. "But why?" Asks Pierre confused. "I wanted you to be mine. Thought that you and Charles were together." Whispers Esteban contritely.

Pierre gives him a "Are you for real?" look. Then he murmurs, "Sometimes I really hate Charles." And the taller one looks at him questioningly.

Pierre just pulls him down by the neck to kiss the other. But before they can start to enjoy the kiss, Charles shouts from outside "I hope you still have all your clothes on!" And opens the doors.

Just in time the two break away and on their way out Pierre bumps into Charles and grumbles, "Never again!" Charles grins as he looks after the two and cheers "Mission complete!" Before giving Max a high-five.

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