Rumour has it | m.verstappen

38. Is this the end of a beginning?

After spending nearly an hour in a line for Thai food, max made his was back up the apartment complex

The handles of the white plastic bag of the delicious smelling food was wrapped tightly around his knuckles as he drew closer to wooden oak door with '45' on it, a pit in his stomach beginning to grow...

Weird.

Twisting on the golden handle that he knew would still be unlocked from when he had left earlier, the Dutchman entered the eerily quiet apartment.

Closing the door behind himself, max made his way towards the living room before he stopped...

There sat Lonnie with her knees tucked up to her chest and cheeks clearly damp with the tv turned down low.

The sight itself made max begin to feel slightly sick but his body was mostly overcome with confusion .

What the hell had happened in the past 52 minutes?

"Lonnie?" He spoke up cautiously but he was only greeted in return with silence in return

Walking over max sat down the Thai bag of takeout on the antique coffee table before crouching down carefully infront of her with furrowed eyebrows.

With a swallow of the thick lump growing in her throat again the brunette slowly spoke up with a hoarse voice "did you pay my dad to leave back in Silverstone?"

Silence.

A nauseous feeling began to over take his whole body like a tsunami as he stared at the girl infront of him.

"Yes or no?" Hot tears began to bubble in her eyes yet again as she finally turned to look at him with glossy honey coloured eyes quietly

"Yes or no max?" She snapped slightly as a tight feeling began to embed itself in his chest and ache

"Yes" he admitted quietly as he licked his bottom lip

Starring at her teammate infront of her as the tears slowly began to come lose and trailed down her cheeks, lita rubbed her temple slowly "why?"

"Why would you do that?" She continued as her voice began to crack

"I thought it was for the best" max forced out as he set his rough slightly shaking hands on her knees only for her pull away almost instantly causing him to feel like he couldn't breath

What had he done?

"For the best?" The brunette spoke up in disbelief as tears dabbled down her cheeks "you sat there for the whole weekend and said nothing. You watch me get all excited because my dad finally wanted to hang out with me"

"Lonn-" max tried to speak up as he watched her begin to break down

"I let you comfort me" she tried to wipe the tears that wouldn't stop falling with the sleeves of her oonsie "I let you tell me it was okay, I let you hold me and take care of me...I feel like such a fool"

"I thought I was doing what was best" he tried again as he ran a hand through his hair in frustration "I wanted to pro-"

"Don't say you wanted to protect me" lita shook her head slowly as she stood up from the sofa and walked to the window as she hiccuped slightly

"How much did you even pay him?" She sniffled weakly as she began to rub her eye

"It doesn't matter" max spoke quietly as he stood up aswell from where he once crouched in front of the sofa

"Of course it matter" lita snapped as she looked at him with red puffy cheeks "of course It matters because I wanted to know how much it was worth  to skive off being with his own daughter"

Looking away as his knuckles slowly tightened as they hung at his sides, he sighed "30 thousand..."

Litas head snapped towards him as her bottom lip slowly began to tremble again as she stayed silent

"I'm sorry" max mumbled quietly as he took in a sharp breath while his chest tightened "I'm so sorry Lonnie..."

"Did you also know your dad was the one that made Christian put us together in the hotel room?" lita hummed dryly as she placed a hand on her stomach

"No of course not" max bite down on his lip as tears began to fill his own eyes

"Oh really?" Lita laugh dryly as a small sob rippled through her chest "cause I've heard all about how it was your guys plan to over mime me"

Looking at her as his own tears blurred his eyes at the sight before him truly broke whatever cold heart he had left in chest to break

"That's not true" max shook his head "Lonnie I-"

"Really cause it would have been the perfect plan" she wrapped her arms around herself protectively "a drivers greatest competition is their own teammate right?"

"Lolita please" he spoke up firmly as a tight feeling in his throat began to bubble

"Was any of this even real?" She sobbed softly "the sweet words, the dates, the kisses or even the sex or was it all part of your plan"

"Of course it wasn't" max spoke sharply as he stalked closer to her "I care for you Lonnie so fucking much it scares me"

"How can I believe any of this?" Litas cheeks grew pinker as they looked like a swim pool "it's all been some sort of lie, whatever this is has all been a lie it's built on more lies than Pinocchio can handle"

"How I feel for you has never been a lie Lonnie" he cupped her cheeks but she pulled away yet again causing him to flinch slightly

"Get out" she chocked out as she turned away

"What?" He looked at her confused

"Get out max" she stayed turned away as she cried to herself quietly

"I care about you so much, believe me-" but he was cut off

"Get out"

"I lov-" but she wouldn't listen and he couldn't just stand there not when he wasn't wanted which happened to often to count

If you care for someone you have to let them go right?

But as the Dutch redbull driver gave up on trying to get Lonnie to listen to him, he stalked out of her apartment as his mind raced a hundred miles an hour leaving the apartment quiet

That night Max's chest never stopped aching and litas tears never came to an end

What was he going to do?

Au note// okay chickens don't get mad at me this chapter was gonna come sooner or later 😞 can't wait to wreck my sleep again for the Japanese gran prix but worth it right? Who knows maybe redbull will have enough miss hap with the way checo was talking during fp3, hope you guys enjoyed xx