The driver, The Girlfriend and Me

The wrong words

I woke up with mine and Nicos arms entwined. His alarm had gone off several times, but he was yet to wake up. I'd hoped that he had woken up earlier as he had to drive in both free practices today and do a few bits for the media. I wasn't looking forward to waking him up. Not after him finding out about the baby.

"Nico"

He didn't stir.

"Nico" he rolled over on his side with his back to me. He still didn't wake up.

"Nico!"

Either he was ignoring me or is a really heavy sleeper. So I decided that push had come to shove...literally. I tried tapping him on the arm at first. Then lightly shaking him. He still didn't stir. I shook him a lot harder. I was desperate to wake him up so we weren't late. I shoved him reasonably hard and, with him being six and a half foot, I didn't think I would move him. His bed was quite far from the end of the room, so he fell out. That woke him up.

"What the...?" He said, his voice full of sleep.

I was sat on the bed in tears of laughter.

"What the hell just happened? Why am I on the floor?"

I wiped a stray tear from my face. I was laughing so much I was crying!

"You wouldn't wake up! I've been trying to get you up for FP1 for ten minutes! I shoved you thinking it would wake you and you fell off the bed!"

A cheeky smile returned to his face, the left corner of his lip turning up to form a cheeky yet sexy smile.

"If you weren't pregnant I would have dragged you down here by now"

"Hey, hey cheeky! Now come on! You need to get ready and go to the car!"

He got up and picked me up too. Before I could say anything, we were in the bathroom. He had already undressed himself after telling me not to undress just yet. He turned around stark naked and took my tank top off, then my shorts and underwear. Once I was naked to he bent down, held my hips and lightly kissed my stomach, right where the baby was. He then removed his lips and got me into the shower with him, once I had tied my hair up.

***

"What are we going to do about Laura?" I asked Nico as we walked through the paddock.

"I have a plan but preferably I wouldn't like to tell her"

"I wouldn't like to tell her either but sadly, we have no choice"

"I know, I know. So I was thinking that instead of doing it face to face, we do it over FaceTime?"

"But when?"

"Tonight? Get it out the way?"

"I don't want to be there. Me and Laura get on well enough. I don't want to ruin the foundations of a friendship"

"It's my fault, not yours"

"But I went along with it"

"Ah! Nico! There you are! Get changed and get in the car!" His race engineer said.

"Is that flow vis paint I smell?" I said, smiling as I sat down.

"Of course it is!"

"It may sound weird, because I know the majority of you mechanics hate the smell, but I really love it!"

"Really? It makes my eyes water and my nose hurt! But obviously I can't get away from it!"

"Not until you're on the pitwall anyway! Which is where you, Alex, should be right now" Nico said, walking back into the garage whilst zipping up his racesuit. Straight away he came over to me, put his hand on my stomach and smiled.