NASCAR AU

Chapter 1: Before the 500

Matt and Chase were at the bar, waiting for some of their teammates/drivers. The place was mostly packed with other people so they had to book a stall before the others had the chance to do so. "So... I heard you're going to a new team?" Matt asked curiously. "H-How did you know that?!?!" Chase said suprisingly while standing out of his spot and looked down at Matt. "It was obvious. You hated the team that you were in, That and you want to get closer with Ryan ain't ya" Matt responded with a smirk, causing Chase's face to go red due to the embarrassment he said "W-What?!?!, You have no idea what you're talking about" he defend himself but it was no use. "Hehe like i said Chase, i know everything" Matt said while quickly took a mouthful of beer.

Before Chase even responded, Ryan, William And Jimmie along with Clint came inside the bar and talked about how insane Jimmie's 7 championships are "Hey Chase, Hey Matt" Ryan said with a huge smile on his face since the both of them are his closest friends. Matt simply waved at him while Chase walked out of the bar. "Wow what's wrong with that clown" Clint said out of curiosity while taking a huge amount of beer in his system. "I don't know" Matt responded with an obvious grin but they ignored it "I wish I had a crew chief like yours..." William said with a sad expression but Jimmie wrapped his arm around William's shoulder "it's ok. You will find one eventually" he said while patting his back and walking over to Matt "How's my favourite Ford driver" Jimmie  said with a huge hug "I'm fine dude" Matt responded to him while hugging back. While that was happening Ryan begins to wonder on why he wouldn've left so he began to walk out of the bar, trying to find Chase.

*Chase Elliott's Point Of View*
I walked to an alleyway, leaning against a wall, sliding down on it and slowly begins to cry "How does he know that" I thought to himself before i heard a footstep. I quickly looked up and revealed to be my used to be teammates Alex Bowman and my replacement Kasey Kahne. They looked at me with Alex having a worried expression and Kasey having a fed up expression "Are you ok?" Alex said while squatting down to look at me. "Yeah man are you ok" Kasey mocked before leaving the alleyway. "Yeah i'm kinda ok?" I responded to him but soon backfired "You're crying and that's not what you called ok" he said, knowing that something is wrong.

*Ryan Blaney's Point Of View*
I saw someone walking out of a alleyway, i began to walk towards it and revealed to be his replacement Kasey Kahne "Hey have you seen Chase?" I asked worried "Yeah he with my annoying teammate" he responded while pointing his thumb backwards so i began to walk towards the dark alleyway and low and behold Alex was there with my old teammate and began to run towards them "Chase you ok?" He said while kneeing down just to see him "I just need some time alone ok" he said while looking down at the ground. Me and Alex had no choice but to leave him alone, so we headed, letting Chase know that we're going back and begins to walk away "Do you think it's the right idea leaving him like that?" Alex said worried "I believe him simple as that" I responded with that in a positive tone.

*Back At The Bar*
Matt and Jimmie were talking about how stupid our package were and we couldn't help but to look at the door, seeing Kasey after him were Alex and Ryan. Honestly Matt regret what he had said to Chase since that was personal and basically have nothing to do with it. As soon as they sat in front of Matt and Jimmie, he immediately begins to worried since Chase hasn't came back and begins to drink more out of desperation. "Woah there, you should stop it" Jimmie said but Matt continued to drink so he grabbed the bottle and put it to the side and told him "What's wrong Matt?" He said with a kinda terrifying tone. "I felt bad about him" Matt responded and looked down in shame. Ryan stood up from his chair when he heard Chase's name "Wait what?" Ryan simply asked confused but before he could hear what he said, Chase walked in the bar with a better expression. Matt couldn't help but to get up and hugged Chase which made him to blush a little "I'm sorry" Matt said in a scared yet straight up expression "it's ok it's all in the past" he hugged back "hahahaha that's so gay fuckers" Clint drunkenly said while throwing a bottle at the two which responded with Matt, Chase and Ryan flipping him off "He's probably not gonna remember this" Matt said "Yeah c'mon" he grabbed and dragged back to the guys. "Ok guys lets make a toast" Jimmie happily said while standing up on the table with his drink. Everyone looked at him mostly the drivers "I got a few things to say, CHEERS FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR MOTHERFUCKERS!!!" Jimmie yelled while begins to drink, so did everyone and cheered at him loudly like It's Dale Jr winning the Great American Race again and it's a understatement. After that everyone had a blast and slowly as the time past one by one were leaving the bar until it was Matt, Chase and Ryan with Jimmie on Matt's lap due to how much he drinked "well that was fun but I'll take this guy to his hauler, see ya you two" Matt said while lifting Jimmie up and walked out of the bar "that was a great time" Chase said while looking straight at Ryan's face with a smile "it really is...I hope we can do that again. I'm gonna go, wanna join me" Ryan responded and Chase obviously accept it and begins to walk out of the bar together.