Rumour has it | m.verstappen

12. Are you sleep drunk?

After yesterdays encounter at the Austria circuit for a team exercise, a pit had been nawing at the bottom of litas stomach.

First it began to arise after she saw jos verstappens cold stare towards her for no apparent reason.

It continued to rise when she got back to an empty hotel room around 5pm but she brushed it off since she knew that max was probably doing something off with daniel...

However it kept growing and growing like an angry spot as the alarm clock on the bedside table in the hotel room struck 1am and he still wasn't back.

Lita knew it wasn't any of her business but she found it weird since the race was tomorrow morning and from the few weeks of having to share a room with max, she'd figured out his night before the race routine which consisted of doing push ups, taking a 20 minute shower before being in bed before the clock hit half 11,

Biting at her nails (which he mother use to tut at) lita finally decided to scroll on her phone for a bit to see if anything changed. She always has been a worrier even if she didn't care about max

The bright light off her phone caused her honey eyes to squint after being in the dark room for so long, she wished she could texted autumn but she knew the auburn haired girl would be sleeping right now since she had always been an morning person rather than night.

Biting the corner of her lip lita clicked onto instagram, different pictures of celebrities ranging from Taylor Swift to Ryan renolds to even some friends like autumn and Tori came up on her feed

Clicking onto the stories she came across Daniel's. Standing in the photo was him giggling with a shot in his right hand, lando with a screwed up face from obviously taking a shot beforehand and then there was max.

He was standing to the left of lando wearing a dark grey polo and those all to familiar dark blue jeans that he seemed to love. His blue eyes were glistening with amusement as he watched the two clearly oblivious to the photo being taken causing her heart to flutter slightly. Weird.

The pit in litas stomach began to ease when she came to realise he was just simply out with the boys and wasn't M.I.A

finally setting the phone down on the nightstand, lita curled up happily in the soft white hotel bedsheets in her pjs. Her mind was buzzing with thoughts about tomorrows race, completely forgetting about the pit in her stomach as she drifted to sleep

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The bright rays from the happy sun was begin to slip through the grey curtains of the hotel room. An alarm clock beeping quietly

litas hair was messy and slightly tangled, her cheek smudged up against the pillow as she lazily reached over to trying bat the alarm clock off without opening her eyes.

Licking her dry lips, lita finally sat up with a frustrated but sleepy sigh as she stretched slightly before rubbing her eyes

Dragging her eyes around the room as she tried to wake herself up, her honey eyes landed on a sleeping max, laying in a star like position on his hotel bed.

Relief began to fill lita as she saw him, she hadn't heard him come back in last night and half expected him to crash in either one of the other twos room or possibly be in some random girls bed...this thought caused a weird feeling to begin to grow in her again like the night she'd seen him with a faint lipstick mark under the colour of his shirt back in Spain

Max slept soundly. his brown hair was tosselled, his lips formed a small pout, his trainers beside the door and his dark grey polo was thrown half way across the room leaving him shirtless with only his jeans on and the waistband of his white Calvin klein boxers peeking out clearly having been to lazily to fully change out of his clothes.

Getting out of bed quietly, lita carefully walked across the room and into the bathroom before closing the door over with only a small click being heard, she didn't want to wake up max

Taking a 20 minute shower, lita changed into a redbull polo shirt and a pair of white jean shorts. She'd never been a fan of shorts but it was too hot

Brushing her wet hair, the click of the door opening caused litas eyes to snap over to it where max stood tall making it almost look miniature.

He had obviously only woken up in the past few minutes since his eyes were still slightly closed over and he was rubbing them as he walked over to the bathroom sink and splashed cold water onto his face

"Good-morning to you too" lita smiled amused as she watched him soak his face with cold water "have a good night then it seems?"

"I don't wanna talk about it" he hoarsely spoke up with a hint of tiredness, a groan stuck in his throat.

"Thought so" she snickered as she moved past him and grabbed the hair dryer, her wet hair dampening the back of her navy polo

"This is why you don't mix drinking and a night before the race together" she grinned cockily earning herself a dirty look in return this only helped feed her amusement.

"Not my fault you have no one to go out with the night before a race" max mirrored her grin with a sleepy one of his own causing a dramatic gasp to fill the bathroom

"I'll have you know I have plenty of people to go clubbing with a night before a race" she grumbled as she plugged in the hair dryer "oh yeah? Like who?"

"We'll there's autumn" max only laughed "ah yes, the great autumn Norris who is usually sleeping by 10"

"She can stay up for clubbing" lita huffed "there's also Tori"

"Mhm, sure Lonnie" max stared down at her amused now being more awake than before

"How about you keep trying to think of names while I go get ready for the paddock?" Lita didn't get a chance to respond as max leaned down and placed a quick but gentle kiss on the crown of her head while walking out of the bathroom causing litas eyes to widen slightly as she turned and watched walk away and open his suitcase to get his own redbull polo as if nothing had just happened

What had just happened...