You're jolted awake in the middle of the night by an overwhelming feeling of nausea. Sitting up you take a few deep breaths trying not to wake Pierre who is still sound asleep beside you. You check the time on your phone, 2:43am, and another wave of nausea comes over you.
"Not today," you whisper to yourself heading to the fridge. Luckily, John had stopped to pick up cinnamon rolls before picking you up from the track yesterday and you had thrown the extras in the fridge for this morning. You don't even bother re-heating them before biting into one. You finish eating one of the rolls and take a bottle of sparkling water out of the fridge to wash it down. A few minutes later your stomach starts to settle. You look at Pierre sound asleep in bed, I really don't want to wake him. He's got a big day tomorrow, and I'm awake now. You head over to your bag and grab your laptop, might as well get some work done.
You're working away on your laptop when you hear Pierre stir, "Maddie?" he says softly sitting up. You smile and close your laptop. "Hey, sorry I didn't want to wake you, started feeling nauseous again." You say setting your laptop down on the coffee table standing up and crawling back into bed.
"Did you have a cinnamon roll?"
"A couple, and some water. Seemed to help." You say laying down cuddling up to Pierre.
"Why didn't you wake me?" Pierre says rubbing your back.
"You've got a race in less than 12 hours; you need a goodnight sleep. Besides, I can nap in your drivers room."
"I don't care. Please, wake me up next time. I want to help as much as I can." Pierre says kissing the top of your head.
"I will next time, I promise." You mumble feeling your eyes close.
Pierre's alarm goes off several hours later and you groan. Pierre just chuckles, shutting the alarm off and kissing your cheek.
"Do you want to go back to bed? You can come to the track later if you need more sleep." Pierre says brushing some hair from your face.
"No, I'll come with you. Should get used to not sleeping anymore." You say laughing.
"Or you can get as much sleep as you can now, save up for later." Pierre says and you laugh.
"Not sure that's how it works babe. But I will probably take a nap before the race." You say getting up and heading to the bathroom. You start the shower and poke your head around the corner, "you coming?" Pierre smiles and gets up following you into the shower.
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"Can we stop and get some breakfast on the way?" you ask from the bathroom putting the finishing touches on your makeup.
"Of course, cinnamon rolls?" Pierre asks.
"Actually, I'm feeling more yogurt parfait."
"Are you sure?" Pierre asks grabbing his coat.
"No but that's what the baby is telling me right now and I'm not about to argue with the little nugget." You say grabbing your purse and following him out the door.
You smile walking down the paddock eating your yogurt parfait. Pierre walking a few feet behind you taking pictures with fans.
"Kelly! Hey!" You say waving as you see her outside the Red Bull garage.
"Maddie! Hey! How are you feeling today?" she asks giving you a quick hug.
"Surprisingly good actually." You say taking another bite of your yogurt parfait.
"No cinnamon rolls this morning?"
"I had some at like 3am this morning, and surprisingly craved something different this morning." You say holding up the parfait.
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Racing Home
Fanfiction"Hey everyone, this is my best friend Maddie. Maddie this is everyone." You wave and smile looking at the group of people gathered around talking. "Maddie is going to be moving to Monaco, so please be nice to her, no one scare her off. Gasly I'm loo...
