The Racing Line | M.V.

11. Shooting a shot

FP1 and FP2 were good for Olivia and Kimi. Olivia always tried to give as much feed back as possible due to Kimi's brief words. Still, once their meeting was over the rest of the grid was still discussing changes and strategies with their teams. While Kimi and Olivia got to go back to their hotel early.

Excited about the upcoming race weekend and feeling full of energy that still needed to be realeased, Olivia put on a black top, black shorts, she blasted some music on her headphones and went out for a run.

Her muscles ached with the first practice sessions of the season, but that didn't mean she felt exhausted. She was bursting with energy and if she didn't give it an outlet she would probably end up pacing around her suite for hours.

She jogged for an hour until she felt truly exhausted as she came back to the hotel. Where Checo and Max were arriving in separate cars.

"You were running?" asked Checo impressed "We just got out of our meeting how did you have time to go for a run?"

"Kimi" she shrugged with a smile.

"Hey" said Max with a tight lipped smile as he reached them. She hadn't seen him almost at all that day, which was slightly weird for them. He didn't stop to talk to them either, he went straight to elevator.

"Anyway do you want to grab dinner?" said Checo.

"Sure, I'll just shower" said Liv taking glances back towards Max who was waiting for the elevator now "I'll see you in like an hour and a half?"

"Perfect" said Checo grabbing his backpack from the car.

"I'll see you" she said turning around and running to Max as he stepped on the elevator. She rushed in before the doors closed.

"Didn't you see me running? You could've held the doors open" she said breathing rapidly.

"I didn't see you, sorry" he said with his brow slightly furrowed.

"Are you okay?" she said "You've seemed odd all day long" she said as she tried to calm down her racing heart beat. The weather was incredibly hot, her tanned skin was shinny from the sweat of her run and her cheeks were flushed.

"I'm fine" said Max turning to the elevator door, away from her "I'm just really tired today, but I'll see you tomorrow okay?"

"You know when I said those things about the girl from last night... I mean maybe she's not bad at all, maybe you should text her, I just got a little over protective I guess" she shrugged, thinking maybe that's what caused him to act like this "But she was really pretty, you should ask her out".

Max glanced at her before rubbing his face with his hands and he sighed as the doors opened "Fine Liv" he said "I'll see you tomorrow".

"You're acting weird!" Liv called out as the doors closed in front of her.

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Afterwards Olivia showered, got changed and waited downstairs at the lobby for Checo when she saw Lewis come into the hotel "What are you doing here?" she asked him from the couch.

"Oh hey" he said with a smile.

"You're not even staying here" she said suspiciously.

"Oh so now you're keeping tabs of where I'm staying?" he said as his smile turned teasing and pleased.

"Not at all, but you dropped me off here last night so I know you are not staying here" she said looking at him waiting for an explanation.