when famous actress, maya taylor, finds herself with more free time than she would like, she goes to more of her best friends, charles leclerc, races. coincidentally, she starts seeing more and more of a certain regular pole winner
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charles leclerc and maya taylor were inseparable from the day they met. his mother had made them a photo book full of them as toddlers with cake smudged across their faces and little maya adoring charles karting days.
she would attend every race and always endure the spewed french when he would lose to the mean mean dutch boy. she would always glare at said boy everytime he won, and gloat when charles would win. the boy never responded with any words or faces to show his own feelings.
as teenagers the rivalry effected all of them even more. maya still came to all of charles races, still mean mugged his enemy, only ever dropping the facade when the boy would flinch away from the harsh glance, only to flinch away from his own fathers glance again. but alas, he was making her best friend hurt, and that wasn't alright with her.
as charles was winning throughout formula 3, maya had begun her own journey, starring in the hunger games as katniss's younger sister and the amazing spider man as gwen stacy at only 16.
enjoying their growing careers and nothing could go wrong. maya is watching the 2014 suzuka race when she sees her beloved number 17 crash. she knows the moment she watches it. immediately, she's on a plane to charles, trying to keep him and lorenzo from hysterics before she can get there.
half a year later, she's attending the funeral of the man who acted as charles and mayas older brother for years. she clutches charles arms and doesn't leave monaco again for 5 months.
then 2016 hits, she's back in new york, filming a campaign with famous model gigi hadid for chanel when she gets a call. her father was in a car accident. her father, the man who supported her every move, who she loves endlessly. or loved, she guesses.
she's then back in monaco, charles refusing to leave her side. at his funeral, she gives a speech and makes eye contact with a certain dutch boy. for the first time ever, she doesn't glare. and for the first time ever, his gaze softens.
they get a year of freedom, more like a year of grief but fulfilled with moving forward, honoring her father, honoring jules. and then 2017 comes. it's less of a shock as she receives the news that who she called her second father, herve leclerc, has passed from his battle with cancer.
she comes back to monaco and cries with the leclerc family. she spends the next day cuddled with charles on the couch, choosing to watch old tapes of his father. then he proves what she already knows, how strong he is.
he wins the formula 2 baku race. she cried more than she would admit when he held up his trophy. later that night, when charles murmurs that his dutch rival had sent his regards and additionally added to send them to maya as well, she chooses to ignore the statement and go back to looking at the stars.
they have experienced more loss than anyone would imagine. maya loses one of her best friends to suicide in 2018. in 2019, charles loses anthoine. each year, the friends comfort each other with all they have. and each year, a certain dutch boy tries to show that he really does care.
