Sitting In Traffic | Formula 1

Chapter 118- Distasteful Cherries

"He did so well in FP1" Riley told Susan with a bright smile on her face, zipping up the back of her mini clubbing dress while looking in the bathroom mirror of Susan and Ollie's hotel room.

Riley kept gushing over Max's performance after FP1, he finished in P1 after a long lasting timeline of red bulls car not performing well. It was still unclear how he would do overall that weekend, but as of right now the outlook wasn't bad. She had seen him for a few minutes after both FP1 and 2 in his drivers room before he was dragged off to media and meetings. Riley found Susan after that, thinking they could head off the tracks since Oliver was busy too.

"Can you get mine too?" Susan walked into the bathroom, holding the back of her dress together.  Riley nodded and started to zip Susan's dress up, continuing her conversation about Max.

"I'm just hoping he sees a turn around" Riley mumbled, "He is such a good driver, it's just the car that's ass right now"

"I'm sure he'll do great this weekend Rye" Susan sighed, if she was honest she'd tell Riley she was tired of talking about Max. "I'm just ready for this season to be over"

"Why?" She laughed, clipping Susan's dress behind the zipper.

"Because Ollie has a real seat" Susan said excitedly, "I should be around for more races"

"Yeah?" Riley asked, looking at herself in the mirror, glancing towards Susan and seeing a large smile printed onto her face. "So you guys are getting more serious then?"

"I'd like to think so" Susan nodded, "We talked about moving in together"

"Don't you think it's too soon?" Riley asked her, normally she wouldn't care, but given that Susan and Oliver had both just turned 19 it didn't feel smart in her mind. "You guys just started dating"

"You and Max started dating 5 months ago and are talking about getting married already" Susan made a point to Riley while she was fixing her hair.

"Me and Max are older" She said, "He's almost 27, and we dated for a bit last year too... the circumstances are just different"

"Not really"

"Your mom would not like you moving out for the first time to a different country" She told Susan, "And I just don't think it's smart"

"You and Jonah were going to move in together" Susan said, Riley hated that in one way or another Susan found a way to bring up Jonah. Especially when it was things like this about their relationship.

"We weren't going to until our Junior year of college" She said, "So we would've dated for over 3 years before we made the move"

"Still" Susan added, "You were 17 when you planned that, that's younger than me and Ollie"

"And our plans would've changed..." Riley said, "I'm just saying, there's probably a lot to Ollie that you don't know yet... and what about school?"

"I can go online" Susan with a shrug, "Or drop, I don't know"

"You're not dropping out of school for a guy" Riley dropped what she was doing and looked at her, "You'll regret that"

"You dropped Juilliard for Jonah"

"And I regret it." She emphasized, "I had my entire life planned out before him, and now I'm on a completely different wavelength... you don't want that"

"So you regret being with Jonah?" Susan asked her confusedly.

"No." Riley said, she could never regret being with Jonah, that was impossible. "I regret everything after Jonah."