DON'T BLAME ME- MV AND CL (part2)

chapter seven- Max's POV

"I've heard some rumours." Daniel looks at me.

We're now having dinner with almost all of the grid, and I'm sitting next to Dani. Fuck.

"What?" I coff, hoping I heard it wrong. "What rumours?"

"You know what rumours are." He now changes his gaze to Charles, who is in front of me and his talking to Pierre. Daniel smiles.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Daniel." I try to convince him, but he's not convinced at all. "Fine, yes."

"Why didn't you tell me?" He's now somewhat sad.

"If Christian or Helmut find out I'm screwed. They can't." I seriously say, looking at Charles, who looks at me. Because the table is large, we're far apart from each other, but I can still touch his feet with my own.

"Oh yeah, that."

"How are you dealing with the McLaren situation." I change the subject. Daniel was recently thrown out of McLaren for next year, getting replaced by Oscar Piastri.

It sucked for him. He got really bad for what Heidi, his current girlfriend, told me.

I think Oscar deserves that seat, though. He's a very talented driver. Oscar's really mature.

"It's getting better. You'll see." He says, smiling. I don't know what that means, but it's definitely good news.

"I want everyone's attention!" We hear Lando say, drunkenly. "Thanks for coming tonight."

"Lando, you never make speeches." Charles laughs, and I can't help but laugh with him.

"Let me do my first one then." He says, grabbing his glass. "I'd like to make a toast to express how thankful I am for having you as, not only colleges, but friends."

"Lan, stop talking." Carlos laughs. "We like you a lot too." And everyone laughs.

I looked at Charles only to notice that he was looking at me. After it, he made a sign to my phone, so I opened it and saw a message from him.

Let's go to the bathroom
I don't want to go alone
-lord P.♡

I look at him again and nod.

As we're inside the bathroom, Charles hugs me. I hug him back, obviously.

"Daniel found out." I tell Charles while we're still hugging. He doesn't stop.

"They will eventually find out. It's fine." I know he's not fine with it, though. "Rumours are going to get spread. It happens. And it will happen eventually."

"What about Mattia and Christian?" I now pull out from the hug.

"Oh, I'm scared as hell for that to happen." He laughs. "But we can't control it, can we?" He smiles. I smile.

"Oh, Charlie..." I say, and he laughs.

"We need to get a secret move so that we can meet up without making such a cause of it." I look at him confused. "I'm reading this book. The two main characters have this thing where they touch they ear whenever they need to talk to each other. Maybe we could do it?"

"You're such a romantic." I tell, messing with his hair.