Full Throttle

yachts

Lena's POV:

Yesterday was one of the craziest days of my life. I met my favourite f1 driver, I moved to a foreign country, and I am now living in a giant ass house. Not much happened yesterday night. We got to daniel's just before 6pm and the rest of the night I unpacked my stuff and explored my new home, and when daniel offered me dinner I said that I wasn't hungry. It was mostly true. But I could see a light dim in his eyes when I turned down his offer. It is now morning and I barely got any sleep last night, thinking about my dad and feeling guilty about how I wasn't there for him.

I walk into the kitchen and Daniel notices me right away. "Hey kid, sleep well?" I didn't feel like talking very much so I just mumbled a "fine" back to him. "I've got some eggs cooking in the pan, you want some?" I don't feel like eating right now but I think I should because I don't need to be rude to Daniel. "Yeah sure, that would be great." As I accept his offer he swiftly gets two pieces of toast out of the toaster, places them on a plate and scoops some scrambled eggs on top of them. He slides it in front of me across the marble counter and I stare at it trying not to count the calories. "Eat up, we've got a big day today." "A big day?" I ask him while cutting into my first bite of breakfast. "Yep I've got to go meet Charles and Max to discuss grown up things on my yacht, and you're coming with me because I can't leave you here, because I think that would be a little illegal leaving a minor home alone." I laugh at how stupid his last comment is. It feels good to laugh. "I don't think it's illegal to leave a 15 year old home alone." "Well either way you're coming with me. Don't you want to meet Charles and Max?" It completely slipped over my head that I would be meeting the Charles Leclerc and the Max Verstappen. "Oh my god, I actually get to meet them?" "Yeah you'll get to meet the whole grid!" he replies to me with a hint of excitement laced in his voice.

30 minutes later I am tying my shoelaces and Daniel is doing the same. "Which car do you want to take?" he asks me, "the fastest one" I reply. He chuckles and snatches the keys to his Porsche 918 Spyder out of the key bowl near the big oak front door. Once we are both seated in the car he turns on the engine and I let its beautiful sound engulf my mind and body. Daniel laughs at me when he sees my reaction to him starting up the car and he asks me if I like cars. "Like? Dude I love them" I reply back to him. "You ever want to race them?" He follows up his previous question with. "Yeah I do karting" I state. "Really?" he says back to me before stating, "well I know the guy who runs the European championship, I can pull a few strings and get you in for next season, only if you want to of course." "Wow I would love too, the European championship is like the best karting set up ever!" I state. I can see how exited he is that I like cars and want to do karting and it makes me so happy, and for the first time in a long time I feel like everything might just work out.

Daniel pulls into a parking spot and there is paparazzi swarming the place. "Charles or Max must be here already." He says with a sigh. "Just keep close to me and keep walking straight forward, don't speak to anyone." He explains to me and I step out of the car and start making my way towards his yacht when a person yells "what are you doing with daniel you slut!" It takes me by surprise and I instinctively grab Daniels hand, while holding back tears. "Back off mate" Daniel yells back to the guy who made the rude comment about me before checking if I was okay. A few minutes later the paparazzi dies down as we near his yacht. "I'm really sorry that happened to you," Daniel says breaking the silence, "they don't know how to respect our privacy." "It's ok, I don't really want to talk about it though." I state back and he replies with a nod.

"Here we are." Daniel says as I look up and the most fanciest, biggest yacht I have ever seen. "Holy shit" I say and I hear a monegasque accent yell "Hey watch your language!" Daniel is holding back laughter as Charles tells me off and I apologize to him. A few minutes after I first meet charles I hear the gate open at the back of the boat and Daniel yells "Max mate! It's so good to see you." Before embracing him in a big hug. Max returns the hug before turning to me and saying "you must be Lena, it's nice to meet you" I am a little star struck and I think they all notice because they start laughing hysterically at me when Max is expecting a reply and he receives a face of pure shock and awe. "Having a bit of a fangirl moment are we Lena?" Charles asks me between laughs. "Oh shut up," I reply to Charles, "sorry, you are one of my favourite drivers and I can't believe you are standing like 2 meters from me." They all reply with bellowing laughs and soon after Daniel tells me to go sit on the bow of the boat because they have 'adult stuff' to discuss. I give him a look of disapproval before making my way to the front of the boat.