𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐬

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⋆·˚ ༘ *opening of hell's gates⋆·˚ ༘ *

     MONZA HAD ROLLED AROUND AND SHE WAS GOING to finally meet her sponsors or rather sponsor. The team had kept it a secret for a while now as per request of the sponsor.

The pressure was on.

It wasn't her best qualifying performance seeing as she got cut in Q2 at p13 but she was super proud of her boyfriend and ho and qualified p5 after a rough few races.

"What are the odds you win?" She asked him when it was just the two of them, her head laid upon his chest and his fingers in her hair.

"What are the odds...well I have to be super lucky that's for sure."

"Well, you qualified brilliantly and you seem confident in the car."

"That doesn't ensure me podium. Bottas is super fast and let's not add in Lewis and Max, it's going to be hard."

"You've won races before, I've watched you win races before, you're going to be fine."

"You've watched me? I thought you never ever rooted for me growing up." He teased recalling an old conversation between the two and his family a few days before leaving Australia.

"Oh, shut up."

"So, you were a fan right? I bet if I call your mum she'd love to tell me all about it."

"Stop," She whined lightly shoving him but his grip around her did falter. He just placed a kiss on her head and smiled holding, her even tighter.

After a beat of silence, he spoke up again.

"Any luck on who the sponsor is?"

"No luck, the team said he said he would meet me after tomorrow's race and made them sign an NDA to not tell me who it was."

"Why does he want you specifically though? It sounds a bit odd. I'm not jealous or trying to read into it or being sexist but a guy appearing out of nowhere wants to sponsor you but he won't reveal who he is?"

"No, I get where you're coming from but the team said if I signed the contract they'd get so much money it's crazy. I just hope it's not some kind of sex contract."

"I'd kill your team principal if he ever agreed to that and I'm sure Kimi would do so before me."

"Yeah, my dad would rip his head off."

"You've always called Kimi 'dad', why do you do that?"

"He's been more of a dad than mine has been if I'm being honest. I don't even know where mine is."

"You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."

"Oh no it's fine, my mum and my biological father met when she went to Canada for her leap year and they supposedly hit it off but he was an awful man and left when I was four. I can't remember much about him but I knew he was really bad."

"I'm so sorry you had that kind of childhood, I wish I was there."

"Oh it's fine, I had Lance and he did a lot for me growing up. That's why I'll always be grateful for him."

"You know I need an award."

"And why's that?" She propped herself on her shoulders looking at him

"Well this is the longest I've gone without swearing because of you which reminds me, Netflix is going to be on our tail tomorrow because of all the media stuff with us being a couple and all."

"And how'd you know that?"

"McLaren gave me a heads up, didn't Alpine do the same?" He asked confused