BOOK 2 OF THE 'THE PIECES WE LEAVE BEHIND' DUOLOGY ---- Months after walking away from everything he knew, Oscar Piastri returns to university carrying the pieces of the person he used to be. He isn't angry. He isn't bitter. He's just... quieter. Like a part of him never made it home. Lando Norris thought losing Oscar would be the worst thing he'd ever experience. He was wrong. The hardest part is knowing that Oscar didn't leave because he stopped caring. He left because something between them broke. Now, with every distance-filled glance and every silent moment between them, Lando is forced to confront the things he spent months trying to ignore. The person standing in front of him is still Oscar. But he isn't the same boy who walked away. And if Lando wants any chance of rebuilding what was lost, he has to learn that some things cannot be fixed with apologies alone. Some wounds take time. Some trust has to be earned. Because sometimes the person who breaks something doesn't get to be the one who saves it. They just have to become someone worthy of helping rebuild it.

❝𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.❞ - 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩: 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. 𝘰𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥. 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩.

"Loved. Protected. Never Truly Free." !Top Kimi Antonelli x !Bottom Ollie Bearman Ollie burns too bright, always pushing until he frays. Everyone else cheers his fire - only Kimi steps in to hold him still. He brings him warm drinks, tugs his collar straight, tells him when to rest and when to breathe. It feels like the safest thing Ollie has ever known. But the gentle hands that catch him are also the ones that will never let him go. Starts: 21/07/2026 Ends:

Guess who's back!! IT'S ME!! Welcome to the 2026 Groupchat and house!!!!!!! Warning: Don't take this too serious, DriverXDriver ships and swearing and DRAMA This book will mostly contain F1 F2 and retired F1 drivers!!

Oscar is sixteen, and his world is a wreckage of things left unsaid. After a lifetime of his mother's cold rejection and his father's empty promises, the final blow comes in a London afternoon filled with secrets he was never meant to hear. The betrayal is too loud, so Oscar chooses the only weapon he has left: absolute silence. Then came Brighton. And then came Charles. While Max struggles to learn how to finally be a father, Charles steps in, not just as a partner for Max, but as the architect of Oscar's recovery. Between drafting tables and shared blueprints, Charles and Oscar find a language that doesn't require words. Charles doesn't just design buildings; he designs a safe space where Oscar can finally breathe. But it's Lando who makes him want to scream again, with joy. Lando is seventeen, unfiltered, and refuses to let Oscar fade into the background. Whether he's taking Oscar to the calm beach or pushing him to his limits on Charles's karting track, Lando is the spark Oscar didn't know he was missing. On the asphalt, with the engine roaring and Lando by his side, the silence doesn't feel like a cage anymore. It feels like a head start. In a house built on second chances, Oscar is about to learn that family isn't something you're born into; it's something you build, one blueprint and one lap at a time. Two fathers. Two passions. A love that reconstructs everything.