Formula 1 One Shots

Distance - Max Verstappen

You are sitting in your bedroom, your laptop turned on. You are expecting a call from your boyfriend, Max. He should have landed in Monaco about 2 hours ago. He told you he'd call when he was back home.

Max and you have been dating for a couple of months now. You are still in school, while he is travelling to the world to race in Formula 1

You are so proud of him, he's been doing great. You have gone to a race before, you were there when he won his first ever Grand Prix. That was the best moment of your life, seeing your boyfriend win.

It was amazing to see what it did to him. You had never seen him so happy, so emotional. The way he had smiled down at you when he was standing on the podium, it made your heart flutter.

A incoming call pulls you out of your own head, the memories being pressed away. You see Max's name flashing on your screen and you quickly accept his skypecall.

His smiling face appears on your screen, which immediately makes you smile as well.

"Hello liefje"Max says, using his Dutch nickname for you. You're not Dutch, but he loves saying things in Dutch to you, although you won't understand things.

"Hi babe!" You reply excitedly. Max chuckles at you. He looks great, smiling brightly. He came home from Silverstone, where he finished 2nd, his 3rd podium off the year.

"How are you, schat?" He asks you. You frown at that nickname, as he has never used it before, so you don't know what it means. Max had told you that liefje, means 'sweet' in English.

"What does that mean?" you asks, making him chuckle.

"It means babe" he says. You smile and nod, pleased that you have learnt yet another Dutch word.

"I've been alright. School is killig me, though. I was so into my books, I almost forgot to watch the race" you say, remembering how you managed to sit in front of the TV, 3 minutes before it started.

"I'm glad you remembered to watch! It was such a good race" Max says, smiling brightly. You love his smile, but that might be because of his gorgeous lips.

"I did too! You did amazing and I was so proud of you! That move you did on Rosberg, awesome!" you tell him, clearly very excited about it all. Max chuckles one again.

"Ah, thank you, baby! Ik hou van je" he says. You groan, another thing you did not understand.

"You have got to teach me Dutch! It frustrates me so much that I don't understand you!" you say, finally looking at Max's surroundings. You can see his balcony in the background and see the sun shining.

"I will! Do you want me to teach you some things now?" he asks you. You nod, sitting up right.

"Okay, I'll say something in Dutch, you repeat it and then I'll tell you what it means" Max says. You nod slowly, suddenly nervous about how you will sound.

"First one. Ik heb het beste vriendje ter wereld" Max says, slowly. You frown. Couldn't he have started with something easier?

You slowly repeat it, as Max grins.

"What did it mean?" you ask, feeling yourself blush at your pronounciation.

"It means 'I have the best boyfriend in the world'" Max says, making you giggle.

"Okay, next one. Ik wil bij je zijn" he says, slowly once again. I repeat it, feeling as if that one has gone better.

"It means 'I want to be with you'. And I do" Max says, smiling at you. You smile back at him.

"I want to be with you too, Max!" You say, remembering the last time you two were together, which was Barcelona, about 2 months ago.

"Right, want to learn something else?" Max asks and you nod.

"Alright. De afstand tussen ons is verschrikkelijk" Max says. It doesn't sound like a happy sentence, but you repeat it anyway. You look at Max, wondering what it meant.

"The distance between us is awfull" Max says, looking down. You don't reply, but you grab your phone. You go to google translate, wanting to say something to him in Dutch.

"Max, we zijn sterk, wij kunnen dit. Ik hou van jou" you try, making Max's head shoot up.

"I do not know if I said that right, did you understand what I said?" you ask him, hoping it was alright and you did not say something weird.

"You said 'we are strong, we can do this. I love you'. Ik hou ook van jou, liefje" Max says. And this time, you understood what he said.

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For the non Dutchies here ; ik hou ook van jou, liefje means I love you too, sweet.

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