When they got home, they put all the suitcases and bags in the hall before walking to the living room.
"Would you like something to drink?" Lando asks and Max and Charles both nod. "Please." Charles smiles and Lando walks away.
"Shall we bring everything upstairs?" Max asks and Charles nods. They grab the suitcases and bags and walk upstairs. They remove the bags of laundry from all suitcases so that they can be washed immediately.
"I'm worried." Charles says as he puts all the black laundry in the washing machine. "Me too. I don't really know what we can do for him." "No, I don't know it either. Max you should have seen him outside this morning. He was so upset when I told him we loved him. He freaked out." "We need to give him the space he needs. We don't know what's going on in his head." "But he doesn't talk about it either. He just says the same sentence." "He's protecting himself Char. That moment must have been so traumatic for him and it's clearly difficult for him to talk about." "Yes, I know. I just hope he knows he can talk to us." "He knows that, but we have to think in his shoes. We are his boyfriends and someone else touched him in areas where you shouldn't just touch him. We have been arguing all week about a photo that is fake, about him cheating and then that happend. It all is too much and comes close together." "I can make myself so angry right now. Just thinking about it. If I ever see that boy... I don't know what I should do." "I understand that, but we have to be calm for Lando. We have to get him through it now." "Yeah, of course. We will do that."
"Shall I make my mamas soup? I know how much Lando likes it. With baguettes and all, is that okay?" "That sounds really good." Charles smiles and Max nods. "Then I will go to the store later."
Max and Charles walk back downstairs and enter the living room. Lando is standing by the cupboard with all the photos of them and their family. He is holding a photo frame of him with his grandmother. The photo was taken in 2019 when Lando drove his first Formula 1 race.
"You know what's funny?" Lando begins and Max and Charles walk closer to him.
"I used to have a conversation with grandma about sexual assault. I had discussed the subject at school and grandma came to pick me up. On the way home I talked about it and said that I would never allow it to happen that by myself, but that it would never happen to me either, because I'm not a girl. Grandma immediately said that it doesn't just happen to girls, but it happens most of the time with girls. I immediately said how I would always push him or her away and then start hitting them." Lando laughs softly and then shakes his head.
"How wrong I was."
"Lan." Charles says softly.
Lando puts the picture frame back.
"How disappointed she will be." He says and he walks to the window.
"She then warned me that I would never know how I would react. I kept insisting that it would never happen to me. I even let the younger me down."
"You didn't let anyone down." Max says and he walks over to Lando and takes Lando's hand.
"Your grandmother was right. You never know how you would react, but any reaction is okay. Because at that moment you act on the situation and yes, later you think back and think I wish I had done this differently, but that is not possible. We can all talk very confidently 'I would do this or that'. But at that moment you always react differently and that's good, that's okay. Because you can't do anything else than what your body says at that moment."
"I hope she didn't see it from up there." Lando whispers.
Max and Charles look at each other before Charles stands next to Max and puts his hand around Lando's and Max's hands.
