Secrets

Talon's Tales

I sat in the garage on the Friday afternoon. The sun was going down and the temperature at the circuit was thankfully dropping a little. I watched as the sleek black and gold car in front of me rumbled to life. I never got fed up of that sound.

Kimi strolled in passed me, over to his helmet and stuff sitting on the counter beside me. "you ready?" he asked me, giving me a smirk, "always" I grinned back at him, as I watched his pull his balaclava over his head. I'd agreed to spend the evening in Kimi's side of the garage, somewhere I'd never expected to be. It was funny really how my perception of him had changed this week. He pulled on his helmet, ready to climb into the car, so before the gloves were on I gave him a playful first bump. He rolled his eyes at me but laughed.

I wasn't exactly sure how things would have gone down with me being here, I mean, for all Lotus knew I could be hotfooting it down to Force India after Free Practice to divulge all Lotus' tricks. Nobody seemed to care though, I doubt anyone would have tried to stop Kimi either, like he'd listen! I giggled to myself. Then I cursed myself, why did I have to think of Force India?

My mood took a particularly swift nose dive. I'd tried my best not to think about nico all day. And I'd pretty much succeeded, until now. I'd not seen or heard anything from him since last night. I guess he was trying to give me some space. Which I was glad of, but I wasn't exactly using it wisely, I just shoved it to the back of my head and ignored it. Very mature, right? Anyway, maybe now was a good a time as any to try and sort through my feelings...

I mean yeah sure I still liked him, I had never stopped fancying him, you can't just turn those feelings off can you? Don't get me wrong, I still wasn't totally sure on the truth of the matter though, was I really just gonna take his word for it? True I hadn't seen Amy around the paddock since the incident last night. But that could be coincidence. And no one else saw them kiss, so how am I to know it was all her? I mean, Nico's just a man after all, aren't they all usually weak when it comes to a beautiful woman? But then I thought about how sincere he seemed when apologising to me, the way I could tell he yearned to touch me, I could see it. Hell, he'd even gone to Kimi! I smiled at that. Then I thought of Nico's smile. I hadn't seen that since she appeared beside him.
The way he looked whenever I saw him with her. He wasn't happy. Not how he looked when he was with me. The lovely happy smiley Nico. The playful, mischievous Nico. I sighed. This was just too messed up. I wanted to go back to not thinking about it.

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FP1 and 2 seemed to come and go within a blink of an eye, and soon I was joined in the garage by minttu. I raised a brow at her. "Kimi asked me to meet him here" she blushed, causing me to grin widely. She smiled timidly at my reaction but our exchange was soon interrupted by a cough. I looked to my left, seeing Kimi standing there. "well, I guess I'll leave you to it then" I smirked at them both. "have a good night guys" I added, turning on my heel and practically skipping out of the garage. I liked it when a plan came together...

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I wandered out into the paddock, wondering where I should go next. I wasn't in any particular hurry to get back to the hotel and things seemed to be still bustling here. The night was young! So I decided to carry on my leisurely pace and see what fate brought me. That, I was to find out was some guy in a Force India shirt.

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"you're Victoria right?" he asked me, quite nervously. "yeah..." I replied, waiting for him to continue. "um, I'm Talon-"
"aren't you the headphone guy from Italy?" I interrupted, briefly recognising his face from back at monza. The dude who handed me or left my headset there for me on the Stool, "yeah I am" he nodded, giving me a toothy grin. "um, I've been trying to find you all week, like, since everything happened with Hulk..." he said, uncomfortably scratching the back of his neck, looking away from my eyes. I rolled them thinking of how many people had known about all this. But then I had to wonder why he'd been searching for me. "I have to tell you what went down that night."
"you were there?!" I frowned, making him nod yet again, "yeah I was, not with them though, I was with a few friends at the bar, but I saw everything that happened" he explained. I nodded, "okay, let's go get a drink" I suggested, nodding to the force India suite.

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I nervously tapped the can of lemonade I had sitting in front of me as Talon began to relive that night he saw Nico and Amy. "so they were at the bar, Nico bought her a drink and they sat there talking. I only noticed because I didn't recognise the girl and the last thing I heard from him was that you were in London." he said, "the girl, um, Amy, she was really touchy feely with him" I swallowed hard trying not to picture it in my head. "it was pretty embarrassing, she kept trying to touch him and he just kept knocking her back. I said to my mate she looked pretty desperate, we thought she was a groupie or somethin" he remembered. "and then she went in for the kill and tried to kiss him" he said, I looked up from my can to his face, he was deadly serious up until this point when a smirk started to appear. "sorry" he said, trying to stop grinning, "but as soon as she launched herself at him, Nico leapt backwards, almost falling off his stool" he giggled, "he couldn't get away from her fast enough" he grinned. "I swear it was all her, he had no intention of doing anything with her" he said. I finally let out a breath I didn't realise I was holding and smiled a little. Talon looked at me curiously. "thank you for telling me this" I said. "it's cool, I knew the crap that had happened to you guys and when I heard you'd split up I had to find you and tell you the truth. It wasn't Nico's fault." he said, making me nod. "I saw him last night and he told me what happened. I didn't exactly believe him" I admitted, "but now you've told me, it feels like such a relief" I sighed, grabbing my drink and guzzling some down. "thanks Talon" I smiled at him, receiving a wink in return. So, things were looking a little more appealing once again...