Birds of a Feather book 2
Childhood best friends who fought hard to be where they are today. Now married with a young son, the pressure of family life and racing in f1 finally starts to cause cracks.
The fight is on. Fighting for the world champion...
The last 3 and a half years have been the best yet most difficult years of my life. Raising Noah has been an absolute pleasure. He is kind, funny, inquisitive and he can talk for hours without pausing for air. He definitely takes after his Dad. He's a certified yapper. Max working away for most of the year has been really difficult to handle. I knew this would happen anyway but knowing it and living it are two completely different things. I have been pretty much on my own for the majority of the time for the last 3 years. Don't get me wrong Max has been an amazing Dad, his bond with Noah is completely unmatched. However, our relationship has started to feel the pressure over the years. I love Max more than anything in this world but it's starting to feel like I don't really know him anymore. When he's home we spend the majority of our time going on days out with Noah or spending time with our families but we never spend time alone. Whenever I suggest anything Max comes up with an excuse for us not too.
Max has been away since Wednesday but he's back this afternoon. Noah is currently rolling around on the floor trying to get Jimmy to play fetch. "Noah, cats don't play fetch baby, we've spoken about this haven't we?" He giggles as he throws the ball across the room. "Fetch Jimmy, what if I talk cat?" I laugh as I ruffle his hair "Well you can try but it might not work, give it a go." He is definitely Max's son. "Meow, meow, meow. No mama he's not listening." I smile as I pick him up and spin him around. "What would you like to do today buddy? Daddy will be back later, shall we go for ice cream before he gets back?" Noah nods his head "Yay yes please, can we wait for Daddy? I can make you ice cream with my shop." Noah disappears into his bedroom and returns with his toy ice cream. "There you go mama, that's nilla, you can have it for free." I take the ice cream from his hand and smile "Thanks baby but you won't make any money giving away your ice creams for free." He giggles as he continues to pass me every single ice cream he has, all free of charge. We sit and play until Noah ends up falling asleep on the sofa.
Izzy Verstappen
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Noah is still fast asleep as Max comes walking through the door, throwing his bags on the floor and coming to pull me into a hug. "You have no idea how glad I am to be home, I've missed you both so much." He kisses me as he looks to Noah on the sofa "Aw how long has he been asleep for?" I smile as I sit beside Noah "He should wake up soon he's been asleep for an hour, he wouldn't go for ice cream without you. Oh and I have to warn you he's discovered a new song, I'll get him to sing it to you when he's awake." Max laughs as he rolls his eyes "Jesus Christ do I even want to know what it is?" I laugh as Noah sits up rubbing his eyes "Hi Daddy you're back." Max smiles as he goes straight to Noah picking him up and sitting him on his knee. "I am liefde, you're a sleepyhead today aren't you?" Noah nods his head as he lies his head into Max's chest. "Remember when he was a tiny baby and he'd literally fit into the palm of our hand and now look at him, he's so grown up I think it's time for another baby." Yeah absolutely not, it's been so hard pretty much raising Noah alone and I don't want to do that again any time soon. I smile and shake my head "Yeah maybe not yet, I want to go back to work soon anyway." Max glares at me as he sits Noah onto the sofa. "Into the kitchen." I follow him into the kitchen as I stand in the doorway so I've still got eyes on Noah. "What the fuck do you mean you're going back to work? You can't, you've got to look after our son Izzy, this isn't something that is up for discussion. Not right now." I shake my head "No Max you're hardly here, this isn't fair. I enjoyed my job, a job which I worked hard to achieve. Noah needs to go to nursery to socialise with other children anyway. This isn't a big issue." Max clenches his jaw as he runs his hands through his hair. "Do you not fucking think I know that I haven't been here Iz? I can't help it, we have the life we have because of the money I earn. It is what it is." His attitude is pissing me off, he told me he was leaving f1 after Noah was born. That was until Jos got into his head and now he has no plan of leaving anytime soon. "I'm going back to work and Noah is going to nursery and that's the end of it." Max shakes his head "He's my son too and I won't agree to him going to nursery, he needs to be raised by his parents not by some stranger." Is he being serious right now? "I have and I am raising our son Max what the hell do you think I've been doing for the last three years?" Just as Max goes to say something Noah appears in the doorway "Can we get ice cream now please?" I smile as I bend down and kissing her top of his head "Of course we can baby do you want to get your shoes?" He smiles as he nods his head as he goes back into the living room. I go to walk out of the kitchen as Max grabs a hold of my arm pulling me back towards him. "I'm sorry liefde I don't want to argue with you, we will talk about this later I promise." I nod my head as I go and help Noah put his shoes on
We ordered ice cream and sat down at the table. "Hey Noah tell Daddy the new song you like." Noah giggles as he starts to sing " Tu-tu-du-du Max Verstappen, thats your name Daddy!" Max laughs as he covers his hands with his face "Oh my god mate, that's not a song you want to sing, beautiful singing though." He ruffles Noah's hair as Noah carries on giggling. We finish our ice cream and get back home, putting Noah in the bath and putting him into bed. I plonk myself on the sofa as Max's phone goes off beside me I pick it up just as Max appears snatching the phone out of my hand. "Sorry I didn't realise I'd left that here, I'm getting in the shower I won't be long, don't forget we're meeting with my Mum tomorrow my Dad wants to see Noah too." He kisses my head as he disappears out the door. There was a time Max would let me read the messages on his phone, he really didn't care because he had nothing to hide. But instead he whipped that phone out of my hand quicker than lightening. We agreed Jos could see Noah but only when one of us was present and he wasn't to be left alone with him under any circumstances. I don't trust what Jos would say to him. Tomorrow I'm going to have to contend with sitting in a room with Jos, whilst trying to figure out who is texting my husband. All whilst putting on a smile like everything is fine, when deep down inside my marriage is slowly falling apart.
