Mon Amour

Chapter 10

Max jumped at the sound of a knocking at his driver's room door. He had been lost in thought thinking about his poor qualifying position. By poor position he was referring to his second place.

"Ik zweer bij God," He hissed, making his way to the door, knowing exactly who would be on the other side. "No, Pierre, I don't know where-"

He was shocked to find it was not Pierre that had come to bother him. "Charles? Lando?"

"You've gotta help us out man." Lando pleaded.

"I can already tell you've been dealing with it too." Charles added.

"If this will make Pierre stop bothering me about where his little lover boy is every second of every day, I'm in." Max said.

"So you see it too?" Lando exclaimed. "They're so blind! I don't know how they don't see that they so clearly have mutual feelings for each other!"

"So Lando and I figured that the best thing to do is set them up with each other." Charles explained.

"How do you plan to do that?" Max questioned. "Also why does this have to involve me?"

"We'll get back to you on that first question, but you can help because you're Yuki's teammate. You're around him more than anyone on this grid." Lando explained. "Besides maybe Pierre...but he can't really help with this, he'd never admit his feelings for Yuki to any of us."

"Ok, I guess I can do that, but you guys still have no plan." Max replied.

"Lock them in a room together." Lando suggested.

"Tell them that the other admitted to liking them." Charles put in.

"No, those are both horrible ideas." Max objected. "Why don't you guys just be patient. Something's going to happen sooner or later. You'll just end up annoying them."

Lando rolled his eyes. "Fine. We won't do anything."

Max pushed the two out of his room so he could resume his existential crisis of qualifying lower than first. He shut the door behind them and they turned towards each other.

"We'll just have to do something ourselves then." Charles concluded as they walked away.

~

The Italian GP ended with a win for Max and a Podium for Pierre. Yuki had ended up retiring his car and the two didn't get a podium together.

But to celebrate his podium, and since they didn't have anything coming up in the next week, Pierre invited everyone to his place for a small, calm dinner party.

Calm was a very large understatement when Max and Fernando got to the alcohol. Their drunk shenanigans encouraged the other drivers to participate in the alcohol drinking as well and soon enough the party had gotten pretty wild.

Lando was in charge of the music and was blasting it so loudly the song was unrecognizable. Charles walked over to him and whispered something in his ear. Lando scanned the room until his eyes fell on the man he was looking for.

"Found him." He said to Charles. "I've got this."

~

Yuki felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around to face Lando, who had a mischievous grin on his face.

"Pierre needs you." Lando said. "He's in the kitchen."

Yuki suspected something was going on, but he went along with it to make Land happy. The music was also giving him a headache.

He walked to the kitchen after Lando said he'd just stay in the living room. But Yuki could sense him following.

When he got to the kitchen, Pierre was in fact there, and he smiled at Yuki.