It's not true

#4

"It's so quiet." Charles sighs while looks at Max. "Yes... I had a hard time when I saw him. I felt so much that I can't put into words." "I understand... I haven't seen him today." "I saw him in the media pen. I didn't know what to do or what to feel. I touched him. I put my hand on his side because I felt like I needed that, I needed to touch him when I saw him. It... I don't know how to explain that feeling. So much urge to touch him." Max sighs and Charles takes his hand.

"We love him Max, that won't change." "He looked so tired, so sad." "Yes?" "Yeah." "Arthur was with him today." "Reay?" "Yes, he said that Lando is having a hard to to cope with it all. He didn't say that himself, but Arthur saw it. No one contacted him this week and everyone walks past him in the pedock." "Really? But George and almost everyone sent us a message." "Yes, us, but not Lando. Lando went to McLaren and stayed there until he had to come here. Arthur is very worried and that makes me feel bad." "Arthur said he's worried?" "Yes. He said Lando watches social media. He told Lando to stop, but he doesn't think he's going to." "Is it that bad online? Lorenzo already said something like that back in you mom's house." "Yes, yes, it is bad. There is a lot of love towards us, but not towards him. People threaten him and call him a whore and so on." Charles mumbles and Max looks at his hands.

This gives him a stomach ache.

"He is now alone in a hotel room." "Yeah... I wish this never happened." "I hoped that too, this situation is fucked up." Max whispers. "Should we go to him?" Charles asks as he hugs his legs to his chest. "We have to focus on this weekend Charles. I don't think we can do that if we talk to him. If we get into more fights we will be even more upset." "But right know I can't concentrate either." Charles sighs and Max bites his lip and he puts his arms around Charles and presses him against himself.

"I know, I'm so sorry." "You can't do anything about it. It's also true what you say. It's not convenient to talk to him now." Charles sighs as he takes Max's hand again. "But I really want to hold him for a moment." he whispers after it. "Me too. I'm so confused about this situation, but hearing all the hate he gets and him reading it makes me wish I could hug him."

"Arthur's expression was so worried, so scared..." "Is Arthur going to see him more this weekend?" "I hope so." "I'm so in doubt, Charles. Is this the right choice? Are we making the right choice now? I want to go to him, but something is holding me back." "I have the same feeling. But if we see him tomorrow and we see that he is not doing well, we have to go to him." "Yeah." whispers Max.

And then it was quiet between them again.

"I still can't believe he kissed Oscar." Charles whispers. "I... I just want to know what the truth is. They both say no, but the pictures are on the internet. Everything we saw building up the last few months... We see it now in their picture." "I really want to go to Lando, but when I think about the photo and the way he immediately denied it, I don't want to talk to him yet. I still think so much about different things and I don't know how we can talk this out properly without an argument. Because he will deny it, but we see the pictures."

"We shouldn't talk to him until after the weekend. We need this time, just like what you said. It doesn't feel good for him and we want to be with him, but we have to put ourselves first now, Charles." "It feels so wrong." "But this is not our fault, we have to remember that." "It feels that way." "I understand that, that's how I feel. But we are not the one who kissed someone else."

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The next morning, Lando walks into the paddock early. Right in front of him he sees Logan walking and he sprints.

"Logan." He gently grabs Logan's arm. "Hey." Logan says, slightly shocked. "Hey, sorry. I uhm... Oscar said you had questions for me and I want you to know that I'm open to answering your questions. And I don't care if Oscar is there or not. I want to talk to you so that you can feel better again and get rid of all your insecurities." Lando says in a softer tone since there are photographers.