Distraction

Chapter 9

OLIVIA.
An annoying alarm wakes my up. 'How late is it?' I ask still half asleep. Turning around once more. 'You can go back to sleep, it's for me.' Good.

Shocked I wake up from the doorbell ringing. I look at my phone 10 o'clock. Quickly I get out of bed. I must've been really tired, that I fell a sleep again. I had a busy day yesterday. 'Hey,' I open the door for Riley. I probably look ridiculous, but she has seen me like this before. She looks just as crazy in the morning. I'm talking about the bed hair. 'Hey. Aren't you dressed yet?' She looks confused at me as she checks me out. 'What do you mean?' I ask confused. What is talking about? 'Didn't Daniel told you?' I shake my head. 'I fell asleep.' She smiles. I close the door when she steps inside of the apartment. 'We're going to see F1 together, I'm picking you up.' I look at my pjs and then back at her stunning outfit, it's so Riley. Red loose pants with a pattern, a short black on top of that, sowing some skin, white sneakers and a nice shoulder bag. 'Let me get dressed then.' I disappear in the bedroom. 'So did you two.. Like..' She checks herself out in the mirror, moving her curly hair around. Riley is African American, like my grandfather. 'No no.' Shaking my head, while surging through my luggage trying to find an outfit. 'Can I take a quick shower?' I ask her. 'Yeah, we can drink something at the energy station.' I walk over to her and give her a kiss on her cheek. 'Thank you. You're a sweetheart!' 'I know!'

'Add this one.' Riley hands me a hair band, colored yellow, blue, black and white. 'Just to add some color.' She looks at my outfit. I love getting fashion tips from her, I'm so in love with her style. It's something people, from the part where I come from don't wear. I'm wearing something pretty simple now, a black spaghetti-strap top, on top of that a black and white striped blouse, light blue denim shorts and my black Converse. And some jewelry. All are standard, a simple orbital ring piercing, a small diamond helix, both on my left ear. And normal small lobe rings. One ring on my ring finger and one on my pinky, both on different hands. And some hair ties on my wrist, not really a jewelry. 'We really should go now.' I nod. I did it pretty fast.

Danii

Good luck!

Thank you!
You should come to the garage

Can we?

Yes of course
I was kinda hoping for a good luck kiss☺️

Well alright
But aren't we a distraction there?

No!
Maybe a little but that's fine

Okay well I'll ask Riley

Okay

'You wanna go?' I already told her what Daniel texted. 'Yeah sure.' We had a nice lunch at the energy station of RedBull. The food was good. 'Let's go! We need to have a short walk.' We both gather our stuff. I took my camera with me, I need to post some pictures on my Instagram about this weekend. I did just posted something from last night, first a picture from the view with the lights and a picture from our drinks we had. Maybe you can see a bit from Daniel. I captured it with: "I want more of these fun nights 🖤💡".

Arriving in the garage, people are buzzy walking around, talking or with the car. I don't think it's that smart to be here. The drivers parade finished not too long ago. But Daniel is nowhere to be seen. 'What are you doing here?' Tom appears in front of us in his  RedBull outfit. 'We're here to wish you luck.' Riley gives Tom a kiss. 'She's here for you know.' We decided to say his name not too loud because then people will figure things out what isn't even happening yet. And there are cameras here. 'Someone is in love.' Tom pokes me in my side. 'Don't!' I make a weird move. When he tries to do it again I quickly grab him by his wrists. He tries to get out of my grip. 'Thomas.' I know when I let go he's going to continue. I'm putting my weight in, trying to be stronger than my brother. Eventually I end up on the ground, Tom hanging on top of me still trying to tickle me. There are allot of valuable stuff here, we really shouldn't do this. I start to lick him. 'Ew.' I smile. 'Be careful around my baby.' I finally let go of Tom. Daniel is standing there, talking about his car. I get my ass up from the probably pretty gross ground. 'You're such a child,' I say in Dutch. Tom raises his eyebrows. 'I am?' Answering in Dutch. I nod crossing my arms. 'You started licking.' 'You started to be annoying.' He shakes his head. 'Are they always like this?' Daniel asks Riley between our bicker. 'And it's always in Dutch.' Riley nods while answering. 'It's so you can't understand.' Tom wraps his arm around her pulling her closer. 'Come,' Daniel says to me. I follow him. 'I didn't woke up on time.' He turns around, still walking but way slower. 'I did texted you.' He smiles. 'Yeah well that didn't woke me up.' We're both smiling. 'I'm sorry. You're here now that's what matters. I nod. He turns back around. It wasn't that big of a problem anyway. 'Have you seen my parents yet?' I shake my head. I met them yesterday real quick. 'No,' I answer because he isn't facing me. I have know idea where I am. I don't think I can even find the way back, it's like a maze here. Daniel opens a door. A door opening next to makes me jump. It's Max. 'Hey,' he says. 'Hi,' I answer. 'Max this is Olivia,' Daniel introduces me. 'You're Tom his sister right?' He asks in Dutch. I nod, 'yes.' Does he knows about us? I don't think so actually. Maybe he does, maybe Daniel told him when he was at the racing days at home. Tom is one of Daniel mechanic, so I wasn't really expecting Max to know me or Tom. That sound bad, but I don't know. There are working allot of people here. 'Don't do that! You aren't allowed to talk Dutch to each other.' I smile looking confused. 'Why not?' Max asks. 'Maybe you're going to gossip about me, I'm not allowing that.' I shake my head. He's so weird. Max shakes his head too. 'It was nice meeting you,' I say still in Dutch, ignoring what Daniel just said. 'Like wise.' 'Ok. Bye,' Daniel says while pulling me into the small room. Before Max and I can say goodbye to each other the door is already closed. 'I was serious about what I said.' I nod, 'okay. I don't really care.' He slowly walks closer to me. What makes me walk backwards slowly until I bump into something. What hurts my lower back a little. He smirks, placing his hands on my body. 'I saw you were good on this track.' His brown eyes are shining. He shrugs, 'you can say that yeah.' I hold on to his RedBull shirt. 'So are you going to win?' 'I will if you give me a kiss.' His hands move to my bum. 'Come here then.' I smile before kissing him.

Nervous I watch the big screen when the lights turn off. There can happen so many bad things in the first corner. But they all get through the corner safe and sound. It's funny that you can't really see the cars from here and need to watch the screen but their sounds are so close. Before left I kinda teased him to win, if he does he'll get something. But not really. I look to my right, to Daniel his parents. You can see they are proud of their son. I'm glad Riley is with me, she makes me feel a little more comfortable. Other wise I would've been more shyer than I already am.