it’s nice to have a friend | ms47
— something give you the nerve to touch my hand
pairing: mick schumacher x bestfriend!reader
summary: you help mick navigate his role of test driver and trying to get a seat for the next season while you try to hide your feelings for him, because you’re just best friends, right?
warnings: fluff, both mick and reader being a little oblivious at first, mention of haas and guenther steiner!!!, little bit of angst (just a tiny bit bc 2022 season is mentioned), english is not my first lenguage
length: 2.0k (ish)
a/n: this is my first au/smau here in tumblr, hope you like it. btw english is not my first language so i’m sorry if there is any grammar mistake or something, enjoy!! <33
September 21st, 2018. Red Bull Ring, Spielberg.
How could I already lose a glove? I just arrived at the Red Bull Ring and I already lost a glove, I’m going to freeze to death. It would be amazing If I stop being such a mess, no one is going to seriously hire me if they see that I can't even be responsible for some gloves. Trying to forget that I start rubbing my hands so I can warm them up, Spielberg this year was colder than normal, which means that the temperature was almost below 0.
To forget about the cold I start to take photos of the Prema garage, deciding which one I’m going to post on Instagram and which ones are going to be deleted. This is my first season with them, being an intern while I try to study for my degree in Marketing and Public Relationships.
When I think that I took enough photos and posted them in stories, I run out of things to do, so I decide to take a walk around the track to stretch my legs and try to warm up. As I am leaving the garage while rubbing my hands, I bump into something harder and taller than me. My first instinct is to watch the face of the person I just crashed into which turns out to be my biggest mistake, because I get lost in his blue shy eyes making me not listen to any word that he just said.
“Excuse me, what did you just say? I wasn’t listening, sorry.” He lets out a giggle that makes my legs weak.
“I said that I’m sorry, I wasn’t looking where I was going.”
“Oh, yeah, no problem.”
“I’m Mick, by the way.” He smiles bigger as he extends his hand to me so I can shake it, his fingers are long and his hand is way bigger than mine. “What’s your name?”
“Ehm, my name is y/n, I guess it is a pleasure to meet you”. I take his hand in mine and start to shake it.
“God, y/n your hands are freezing.”
“Yeah… I just lost one of my gloves and I didn’t want to seem pathetic wearing just one.” He lets go of my hand, reaching to his pocket and taking out his gloves, putting them in my hands.
“There, you can have mines, It’s time to change them for my racing gloves anyways.”
“Oh my god, thank you so much Mick!” As I’m putting on the gloves the way Mick is looking at me doesn’t go unnoticed, but I decide to keep mine in my hands so I can avoid those blue eyes as long as I can.
“But I want something in exchange.” I look up at him with my eyebrows raised, waiting for him to finish the sentence. “Wanna hang out? Like not right now but you know… Someday.” I smile as big as I can and he doesn’t take long to imitate it, holding my hands so he can tie the gloves. “I’ll take that as a yes, so there you have my phone number.” He leaves a tiny scrap of paper in my hands, walking away fast as people scream his name.
Did I just become friends with THE Mick Schumacher?
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August 13th, 2023. Ibiza, Mallorca.
Being in Formula 1 can be a dream turned into a curse, even more so if people expect you to be the next Michael Schumacher when you're just a rookie trying to understand the shittiest car of the grid. People have been unfair with Mick, fuck, even his ex team principal has been a shitty person to him, abusing him mentally.
But now we're here, it's summer break of the 2023 season and Mick has been looking for a seat for the next year. I'm trying to be his biggest supporter, that's what best friends are for I guess, trying to make him see the positive things. AlphaTauri hasn't spoken about renewing his two drivers, whose contract ends this year, as well as Zhou's and Logan's contract. Okay, Haas hasn't spoken either, but I'd rather kill him than let him go back to that hell.
"Do you think I'll be on the grid next year?" Mick's voice takes me out of my thoughts. "Because sometimes I don't see it, you know how it is, one year out of Formula 1 isn't ideal, even more if you were a disaster rookie like me." I take a breath before I talk, I don’t want to get my frustration out with him, I don’t know how many ways to kill Guenther I have already thought of.
"Mick Schumacher, if I listen to one more bad thing about you coming out of your mouth, be sure you won't get a seat next year because I'll kill you with my own hands."
Mick looks at me with his eyes wide open, it's not like me to be that aggressive, but desperate situations lead to desperate measures.
"Listen to me Mickie." My hand goes to his jaw to make him look at me. "You weren't a disaster, the car and the team were the disaster, plus the team principal was a fucking asshole who can’t keep his mouth shut." My thumb is on his cheek, caressing it. "You were a spectacular rookie, shit Mick, you won Formula 3 and Formula 2, categories where the car doesn't matter, the driver makes the difference." I see how his lips are trying to contain a smile. "You're one of the best drivers, it's not fair that they're comparing you to your father when the situation is totally different."
Finally, Mick shows me a sheepish smile, he closes his eyes and lets his cheek fall into my hand, sighing at the contact.
"I don't know what I would do without you, y/n.""
"Probably die, so let's be thankful I'm here, you were smart enough to hire me as your social media manager."
"That was probably the best decision I made in my twenties along with becoming your best friend." I try to hide my wince as I listen to him, being his best friend has not been enough for a long time, but I take what I have.
"I can’t say the same, I accepted to be your friend just because you lent me a glove after I lost mine”
“And then I asked you if you wanted to hang out, you said yes, I gave you my number in a scrap of paper and became best friends.”
“You’re forgetting the time you invited me to the ranch and ended up sleeping in tents because you wanted to show me the beautiful things of the countryside and I was attacked by mosquitoes, that’s when I knew we would be best friends.”
“Because I caused you to get thousands of mosquito bites?”
“No, because the next day you put cream on each and every one of the bites.”
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October 10th, 2023. Gordonville, Texas.
As soon as the race in Qatar was over, Mick and I took the first flight to Texas, we still had two weeks until COTA, two weeks we'll be spending in his family ranch in Gordonville. The US GP is always one of my favourites because it allows me to spend time with Mick's family as well, I always look forward to spending time with Corinna and Gina.
Since Mick and I met in 2018 in his second season in the Formula 3 European Championship when I was working as a social media intern in Prema, his family has welcomed me as another daughter. Even if I was with Mick, they would call me to make sure I was okay and he was treating me right.
"So tell us, y/n how's Mick treating you?" The four of us were around a table, having dinner together.
"You know the answer, Corinna, he's even trying to spoil me even if I don't want to."
"Sorry for wanting you to have the best of the best so you can do your job."
Mick and I continue arguing throughout dinner while Corinna and Gina just ignore us having a conversation by themselves. When all of us finished our food, Corinna sent us to the garden so we could chill out for a bit outside. Mick and I ended up on the roof of his house, watching the sunset.
He's been trying to buy me the newest iPhone for a long time with the excuse of "making my job easier and faster", he did the same two years ago, but this time I'm not allowing it.
"And I said my iPhone does the same job as the newest one without the need to waste money just because.”
“What if we play something?” I broke the silence after five minutes, I can’t stand it.
“What do you want to play?” Mick sits up, with his arms around his legs.
“What about twenty questions?” I smile at him, the last rays of sun lighting up his face, allowing me to get lost in his ocean blue eyes, the same ones that I would like to see by my side every day when I get up.
If I’m being honest I don’t know how long I’ve had a crush on Mick. I mean, I found him attractive the first time I saw him on my first day at Prema, but I don’t think It was love at first sight, I didn’t know him that well. I think I fell in love with him as he put cream in all my mosquito bites, trying to be respectful and asking me if I was okay with that almost every minute.
“Come on, Y/N/N, we know everything about each other. This game is silly.”
“How about you answer questions about me and I answer questions about you, mh?”
We throw questions at each other, getting every single one right, he even guesses right where my birthmark is which makes his cheeks go red as he answers, just for your information, it’s under one of my breasts. I get right his favourite track as he also gets right who is my favourite driver on the grid. When we finish the twenty questions we keep talking about anything and everything, our eyes telling the truths our mouths can’t say. We go back to reminisce about his time at Haas, talking about how stressed he was and how stressed I was just because he was too.
“You know I almost tried to burn the Haas garage down?” He looks at me with his big eyes, looking surprised. “Well, maybe I did try but Seb stopped me saying it wasn’t worth it.”
I don’t know what gives him the nerve, but he touches my hand with one of his as the other goes to my cheek, stroking it. I lean my face further into his hand, closing my eyes and sighing. When I feel his hand travelling to the back of my neck I let my eyes open, he has gotten closer to me, our noses touching.
“Mick, what are you doing?” I whisper my words so low that I’m impressed he has managed to hear me.
“Something I wish I had done years ago.” As he finishes talking, he presses his lips against mine, giving me no time to ask what he was talking about. I let myself be carried away by the kiss, Mick takes advantage of my sigh to introduce his tongue, caressing mine.
“Mick! Come do-” Gina stops talking as she sees what we are doing, we get apart as soon as we listen to her voice. “Okay… I’m not gonna say anything just… come down fast, you have James Vowles on the phone."
We look at each other with eyes wide open, smiling big, a call from the Williams principal can only mean one thing: Toto has pulled his strings and got Mick a seat. He gives me one more kiss before he climbs down the roof. It looks like I don’t have an unemployed best friend anymore, but an employed boyfriend-ish.
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