69. Designs

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Warning: talk about trauma and abusive relationship
(second update of today so make sure you are reading in the correct order) :)

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"Naomi! Wait!" Max ran to her.

She stopped and looked at him, Thomas made few steps back to give them privacy.

"Are you mad at me?" he asked her.

"I- no, I don't have a reason to be right? I just...what that man said...I didn't know that you had here different women all the time? But whatever, it is not my business anyway."

"It's not like that, I had different women here, he spoke truth, but times changed, I changed Naomi."

"It is fine Max, it really is, I think I overreacted" Naomi said, she couldn't believe to herself, she didn't understand why she suddenly felt so jealous, it was stupid.

"I could have told you earlier" Max said.

"No, I'm sorry, it is not my business and it is in the past anyway, I never asked you about it so-"

"Let's talk about it, I want you to know more, can we go to my driver's room?" Max asked.

"Yeah, sure"

"Thomas! I'm going with Max so you have a free time" Naomi yelled.

"You can go home, your shift is over, I will drive her back!" Max yelled at him.

Thomas looked at Naomi to get her approval, she nodded. Thomas left.

Naomi followed Max to his driver's room. They walked in and Max sat on the bed, Naomi sat next to him.

"I had a little phase" Max said. "I got into the F1 early and my ego was high, really high, I was immature and that led to the fact, that I wasn't a good guy for a relationship, I was constantly bringing new women into the paddock and I was enjoying all the fame what I was getting. I have never really been close to any of that women, I never opened up to them, I was young and stupid" he said, a silence appeared between them, Max was waiting for Naomi's reaction.

"Ok, thank you for telling me" Naomi said.

"Are you not upset? I'm not exactly a good guy."

"I'm not upset, it's in the past, I'm happy that you told me, I can only imagine how mentally challenging it has to be, to be in the F1, I don't blame you" she said.

Max smiled. "What about your past? If I may ask?"

She looked at him. "I had only one boyfriend, I was with him for two years"  Naomi took a deep breath in and continued "he was abusive almost since the beginning and I didn't have the strenght to leave him."

Naomi felt tears on her cheeks, but continued. "He was not only physically, but also mentally abusive, the last day when I saw him was a day, when he got mad and pushed me off the stairs. It happened in front of our apartment and an old lady saw it, she called me an ambulance. Since that day I have never seen him again, he moved out."

Max pulled her into a hug.

"I never told my parents, they can never find out. I was able to hide it from them and it needs to stay that way" she said quietly.

"They never noticed?" Max asked.

"No, I wasn't allowed to visit them often and when I was, he was always with me, I could hide it well" she said.

"He should be in a jail" Max said while frowning.

"I know, but I didn't want to take it to the court, I simply never wanted to see him again, I was happy that he was gone from my life."

Max took a tissue and wipped of her tears. They sat in a hug for long minutes.

Naomi calmed down.

"Let's do or talk about something else please" she said.

Max was thinking for a few seconds and then he gave her a soft smile "I have an idea."

He started searching for something in his backpack, then he pulled out an ipad.

Max gave her the ipad.

"Why are you giving me your ipad?" she asked him with a confusion.

Max started clicking on some things, then he opened some app. When it loaded he made few more clicks and a layout of a helmet appeared. Naomi realised it is some kind of a drawing app.

"How would you design your helmet if you could?" Max asked her.

"I don't really know" she said.

He took her hand and placed a stylus pencil in it. "Try it, it is fun" Max grinned.

The app was quite easy to understand, she started to design a helmet. Naomi loved all the creative things, so this was definitely something for her.

Max watched her with admiration.
Naomi didn't know how long it took her to design it, but she was happy with her work. She gave the ipad back to Max. He scanned her work with his eyes.

It was a pink helmet, with little flowers and stars, on a side was a little silly unicorn doodle.

"Unicorn?" Max asked.

"Yeah, if I were in the F1, I would definitely wear it, just to make all the mysoginistic men upset" she grinned.

Max smiled, he pressed a save button. "Do you want to see my designs?"

She nodded. Max opened a file and started showing her and explaining her some of the designs.

Naomi listened to him the whole time, she admired his passion when he spoke about each design and race, she could have listen to him for hours and she would still enjoy it.

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Here is one more chapter, hopefully this one will not leave you mad :D ♡ thank you for voting

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