Cherry XVII
Masterlist
A/N: One more and it’s over. 🥹
“I thought you said, your girlfriend will come to the last race.” GP asked Max as they’re in the middle of a small break on qualy day.
“She will.” GP tilts his head, confused by the image that is on the screen.
“Well, you should invite her to our garage.”
Max follows GP eyes to the screen, where the Alderwood siblings are laughing in MERCEDES GARAGE.
“What that fuck?” Max mumbles standing, walking closer to the screen.
“DON’T STAND CLOSE TO THE SCREEN MAX!” GP complains, at least he wants to have a driver to finish the day.
Max jaws tighten looking for his phone, of course there is a message of her, with a photo.
>I passed by to say hi.
The photo is obviously taken by one of her brothers, she’s wearing a Mercedes hoodie as she’s standing next to Kimi.
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Y/N eyes keep scanning all the paddock; she plays hard and a card she rarely does, jealousy,
“You’re freaking me out Y/N, please talk to me without spinning around.” Lennox complains as Holt and Kilen giggles.
“Oh shit!” Y/N mumbles with a big smile.
As Lennox calls him on, coming outside of RB motorhome Max is walking talking with the crew; one quick look at his left was enough for seeing the Alderwood siblings; Y/N smiling, grabbing Lennox arm before running to the opposite side.
“Could you excuse me for a minute…” Max apologizes before running behind her.
Of course the Alderwoods will do everything to help her sister; they close the small breach for where Max could get through and reach Y/N.
“Hey Max! Great race for today.” Kilen said practically waltzing with Max.
“Yeah, P1 one, I heard people expect you to win the sprint.” Holt mentions circle Max.
Lennox closing it. “Well, after all, it was worth it that we arrived on time.”
Max laughs, when he finally lost her from his sight, behind Racing Bulls Motorhome,
“FUCK!” He shook his head. “I see what you are doing, Alderwood.” He points to each one of the brothers. “But I will win this too.”
Max was able to walk away when Holt moved aside and raised his shoulders. “I don’t have a clue of what you are talking about.”
“WAIT AND SEE!” Max shouted while walking with the team one more time.
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One of many things you can do wrong with Max creeping up on is to put your guard down.
That’s exactly what Y/N did.
“I'm starving!” Lennox complained, dragging his feet in the parking lot.
The rest of their siblings know what’s coming, so they side with each other, making a small circle in one second.
“ROCK, PAPE, SCISSORS, SHOOT!
Holt and Kilen have scissors, Y/N rock and Lennox rock.
“Move away boys, let the adults solve this.” Lennox self-pride floated ready to play one more time with his sister.
Y/N rolls her eyes. “Rock, paper…”
A firm pull to her right arm, taken by surprise to everyone around that small circle. 3 seconds, they need 3 seconds to process a dutch man grabbing his sister's waist and the side of her face, making sure to steal more than a simple peck.
The few reporters and people around the place don't waste time and take multiple photos and videos from the scene.
Y/N laughs between the kiss, as Max does it too.
A fake cough called them back to the earth.
“You eat our sister's face in front of our eyes!” Lennox complains. “At least get a room!”
Holt laughs, just walking away with Kilen scrunching his nose following him.
“Get lost Lennox.” Y/N said when finally Max let her breath for a couple of seconds.
Lennox scoff, with a smile. “The dinner is on you Y/N.”
Max rolls his eyes, but kisses her again.
“This was the easiest hide and seek game I ever played.”
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“Crosing the line! With a new lap record Max Verstappen took the sprint of Qatar Grand Prix.”
Y/N rolls her eyes behind the sunglasses, but her smile is impossible to contain, after all it wasn’t that hard to convince her to watch the sprint race from RB garage.
Max only needs words, cuddles and his, in her words, frustrating good ability of kissing her like the world could end in that moment.
Reason why, she’s in the RB garage with Max cap over head, remembering his words of last night.
“I bet I could put a new record on the board.”
After the protocol things, Max sneaks from the press conference, and runs where GP is getting Y/N dizzy with all the technical explanation. He can see it for the way she keeps her hands at the side of her face and round eyes.
Max chuckles and runs to her, pulling carefully by her waist, taking no second in putting his lips over hers. Y/N hands quietly grabbing his arms.
“What I told you?” Max whispered, hugging her tight.
Y/N chuckles, hiding against his chest. “Not that impressive for a multiple world wide champion.”
Max scoff, seeing the cap with the number 1 on the top of it.
“Good news that the cap you’re wearing said something different.” She laughs hard, pinching his ribs.
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“Never in a hundred years could I imagine this.” Holt rubs his eyes, before turning his phone to his family in front of him. “YOU ARE IN A SPORT SOCIAL ACCOUNT!”
“Yeah, having two left legs could get you that far.” Lennox plays winning a smash of a cupcake in his left cheek.
Y/N is red, a pure red in her face. Max made sure people knew who was with him all this weekend. If the picture of them in the parking lot kissing wasn’t enough, he arrived with her to the race, kept her in the garage, and in a moment she was distracted one of the photographers took a photo of Y/N looking at Max with, practically heart eyes and a blush in her cheek while she was observing him sitting along with the engineers monitoring the race.
That’s one of the many reasons she hates visual love affections, but damn it, he looked so gorgeous with that air of engineer man.
Kilen sees the phono of Holt. “Hey! They took your best side.”
Y/N put her forehead against the table of the restaurant making their brothers laugh as Lennox avoided her hair getting stained with the reminisce of breakfast.
It’s Monday morning and all are preparing to leave for their respective jobs and cities. Max already left at night, fabric work couldn't week.
At the airport, the Alderwood siblings said goodbye one by one, until only Holt and Y/N were waiting for their flight.
“Are you nervous?” Holt asks while observing the come and go from people and suitcases.
Y/N moves her head side to side. “Very.”
Holt chuckles, resting his head on her shoulder. The following two weeks she, Mia and Ron will be preparing all for the inauguration of the church. For what Holt was able to see, it’s like traveling in time as when they were little kids, like the time hasn’t passed in that place.
“Do you have any advice?” Y/N asks while playing with the zip of her bag.
“Have fun.” Holt sees the screen changing on this flight, it’s time to board. “It’s the hardest part but believe me Y/N, you and your team have done a fantastic job.”
He stands followed by his little sister's eyes.
“Probably you don’t need to hear it but we are so proud of you.” Holt smiles, pushing softly her feet with his. “And we love you so much.”
Y/N feels a knot in her throat as Holt smiles softly at her before walking away still he stops in the middle.
“MORE THAN THE DUTCH GUY!” Y/N laughs feeling the eyes of everyone in the airport on her.
Definitely things have changed, she’s in love.
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The end of the first week came with minds and bodies smashed in the village. Daily big trucks arrived with furniture, massive crystals, equipment, etc as special trucks arrived with what could easily contain pure gold; in this case carried the paintings that were sent from the city.
Friday night, all crave for 6 hours of sleep.
“I feel like a zombie.” Mia said sitting in the tent where Mr. Turner prepared for them hot chocolate and cookies.
Christmas is coming and you can see it in the distance, the Christmas lights start to appear in the town, as distant stars in the dark.
“Thanks Mr. Turner.” Harriet said when the woman put in front the big cup of chocolate. “I need this, sleep and a cozy blanket, in that order.”
Y/N keeps with her eyes stuck in the dark church.
“A peanut for your thoughts.” Ron giggles, moving his hand in front of Y/N’s eyes.
“I want you to go home, rest and prepare for the next week.” The three of them cough.
Mia softly hit Ron’s head. “You have to ask!”
“WHY? Come on Y/N, we know, yeah, weekend but…” Harriet complains as she’s interrupted for Y/N sliding the invitations, 3 invitations.
“Your families deserved being properly invited.” Y/N stretched her shoulders. “Once you have confirmed how many people will come, Kilen will be waiting to tell you who and when will be picked up. I don’t want you to worry about anything more than coming back and working here for the final week.”
Y/N smiled, when she saw the surprised eyes of them. “Oh please, don’t make me feel bad, I know this arrived late.”
“This is,.. We don’t need this Y/N, you have always… I mean you always make sure our families go, why this level of formality?" Harriet touches the invitation, all scream Alderwood.
Tons of gold in a white sheet, and a few sparks of black, not to mention the sign of the family and hers.
Y/N shrugs her shoulders. “This was totally different, I mean I got to learn so much and you stuck with me all the time. It’s my way of saying, thanks.”
Mia pouts as tears roll down and hugs Y/N tightly.
“Bear the hug, you cause this.” Mia sentences as the other takes the opportunity and runs to high Y/N who keeps her eyes closed.
“Ok, enough, 5 seconds is enough!”
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Y/N spend the weekend cleaning the house, removing the white sheets from the rooms that are closed, opening the windows for the dusty air to get away and swiping from the first to the last room.
An earlier morning a knock on the open door makes her smile. Cameron is waiting patiently with a paper bag, inside food and her chocolates.
“Come on Cameron, you know you can enter.” Y/N giggles when she goes down as he smiles entering the house.
Since he was a kid, he heard about the stories around the Alderwood house. After they left it became a witch's place of the village, where you can see lights on at night. If you ask the proper people you get through the detailed version about how impressive it is inside to the most romantic version that ensures the Alderwood will come and bring back to life the house with little kids running around.
Cameron stops in the dining room, observing the painting. Y/N realized when Cameron stopped and kept observing with a tilt head.
Y/N smirks. “Do you like it?”
“Sorry, I… I mean, it’s a little bit scary but it has something.” Cameron shakes his head feeling the paper bag in his hands. “Sorry. I…”
“My mother painted that.” Y/N sees the paint. A forest in the night, branches coming out of the trees, the fog covering the ground and full moon bright. “And if you look closer, there are 4 stars in the sky.”
Cameron walks closer as he leaves the bag on the table. “She said we are her light in the dark. Way too cheesy but I know what she meant.”
Cameron laughs, follows Y/N to the kitchen. He smiles, when the bossy girl arrives that morning with a tough face and detailed orders he never thought he would see the new girl, a girl who has color in her face and bright eyes.
“Here.” Y/N pays her stuff. “And here.” Adding a bag.
“This is for my dad?” Cameron grabs the bag without even looking inside.
“No, this is for you.” Y/N search for her chocolates and open one. “From Max.”
Cameron smiles big. “What?”
“Open it!” Y/N laughs as Cameron rushes himself to open the bag.
Inside Max prepares a kit for him. Two hoodies of his personal brand, a cap from RB, a new bag and three tickets. When Cameron realized it’s for the Grand Prix from next year he definitely was over the moon.
“I…Why… I mean.” Y/N feels her heart tighten seeing so many emotions on Cameron.
“Max told me you advised him not to give up on me.”
Cameron blush, he just said if Max loves her, he better keep fighting, and if no one supports him, Max only needs to go to the small store in the village and he will find his bigger supporter.
Y/N toss Cameron hair, probably he hasn't heard but her phone starts to sound, and when he finally does, he rushes himself to thank her and let her keep working.
“Oh, Y/N.” Cameron stops grabbing his bag tight. “Max is right, your bright eyes could be the 8 wonders of the world.”
Y/N closes her eyes as she laughs, hearing the chuckles of Cameron leaving the house, in the screen of her phone the photo of Max who is calling her.