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bahahahahaha why does it say love triangle on the masterlist bahahahahahaha zya bahahaha PLS ZYA
WAIT EVERYONE CALM DOWN i copied that part over from kw.com and ive been struggling with my masterlist bc i think i maxed out on links so i just havenât been able to change it - HEA IS NOT A LOVE TRIANGLE
Summary â If having a fairytale love story guaranteed a happy ending, then, uh, why are you and Rafe getting a divorce?
Content â angst, hurt/comfort, brother's best friend, childhood friends to high school sweethearts to lovers to... divorce?
Navigation â Part 03 | Part 04 | Part 05
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Summary â If having a fairytale love story guaranteed a happy ending, then, uh, why are you and Rafe getting a divorce?
Content â angst, hurt/comfort, brother's best friend, childhood friends to high school sweethearts to lovers to... divorce?
Navigation â Part 02 | Part 03 | Part 04
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how have you been my love? itâs so good to have you back! đ„°
-âïž
good! i just hung out w a friend, we yapped for hours and got drinks and ate some street food and now she left to go back home and im just chillin on tumblr. how are you, beautiful!
hello! earnestly, i think this video from al jazeera described it well - but overall, as a country, especially interactions between argentina fans and black people and players have been very racist. i know a group of people doesnât represent a country, but itâs overwhelming and very publicly too. it left a bad taste in my mouth.
as a team, they also play unsportsmanlike and corruptly in the world cup - just yesterday, enzo fernandez delivered a hit in the back of englandâs elliot andersonâs head and no foul. and then messi wrestled with jude bellingham on the field and still no foul. and thatâs just ONE game. donât get me started on cape verde or egypt. fifa has been extremely bias and blatant with their favoritism toward argentina which sours my enjoyment of them as a whole.
lastly, as a representative and icon of argentina, messi is a zionist. supporting and working with israel even though what theyâre doing is a blatant genocide of palestinians. why would i want to support that?
Okay, it took me a while to answer this because I wanted to do it as eloquently and factually as I could.
This will be long, I'm sorry, but I hope people take the time to read through (and take the time to go through the compilation of information) instead of believing the misinformation being spread online.
Look, I'm not denying that Argentina has racist people and history (because we do, like literally every single country does), but the amount of misinformation being spread is, at this point, not only harmful but even dehumanizing.
As for the video:
1- The woman talks about Latin America in general, specifically mentioning Argentina and Paraguay, yet people act like Argentina is the only country in the wrong in the entire world.
2- The chant was absolute shit, yes, but that doesn't mean the entire country thinks that way. It was criticized by a lot of Argentines who also found it offensive. Acting like this is the only insulting chant that has ever existed is insane when there have been plenty of chants all over the world that have been racist or homophobic for decades.
3- From what I can hear and see, the Argentinian woman doesn't call Speed the n-word; that's a mistranslation. She says "pelotudo", which here is a word interchangeable with estupido/stupid, and is one of the lamest insults ever. She means it as an insult, yes, but here we call our friends that (we literally use these as "dude", same as "boludo"), and it has nothing to do with race. I think she might have said "conchudo" at one point too, which is also not a racist insult.
Also, she does say "go home" (usually meant as a jab to the other team supporters, even between Argentines, when the match is over and the winning team fans stay to celebrate), but she doesn't say "go back to your country".
4- While there is history about the country going through a "blanqueamiento", we learn about how wrong this was in school from a young age and, at least in the two different schools I went to, learn to appreciate our aboriginal roots (I personally loved to celebrate Pachamama and still do). We're also very proud of our own culture (you can see pictures of traditions we follow from elementary school here), and most of us don't actually consider ourselves "European whites".
In fact, most of us are not considered black or white or aboriginal, but "mestizos" (literally "mixed"), but not just because of the blanqueamiento (which happened in a lot of Latin American countries, not just Argentina, btw).
Argentina stated the "Freedom of Wombs" (Libertad de vientres) in 1813, which stated that the children born from slaves brought by our Spaniard colonizers would be born free (while Spain and other colonies only stated this law in 1869), and achieved complete slavery abolition by 1853, guaranteeing freedom to slaves in our country as well as any enslaved person entering it. And since segregation wasn't a thing here, most of us are therefore mixed either with European or African due to immigration (Argentina had a smaller amount of enslaved people brought over by Spain, some of which died due to sickness or as soldiers) or with Aboriginal roots, or all three.
For example, Argentine football player Cristian "Cuti" Romero has a skin tone slightly lighter than Jude Bellingham's, and Maradona, one of our most famous players, has white, Aboriginal, and African roots.
I, for example, have the darkest skin tone in my friend group, but the lightest in my family. Since we have mixed so much throughout history, most of us don't actually know our roots, which is why most of us are simply Argentine.
Saying we're all racist also doesn't make sense when we have beloved national heroes Juan Bautista Cabral (of Zambo origin and a highly respected soldier in our history who fought with San MartĂn and saved his life) and Maria Remedios Del Valle (a renowned soldier literally known as "Mother of the Homeland", she's on our $10.000 bills along with Manuel Belgrano).
Everyone is currently acting like every single Argentine person is violently racist, and that's an insane generalization when we are, and have always been, an extremely diverse country, especially when there are actual PoC who actually are from Argentina (or have spent time here, something many of the people that talk about us haven't actually done) that are trying to tell people the opposite, as shown below:
user @maitemalen on growing up in Argentina
user @vital_mendess2 on living in Argentina
user @ilhagrande.paravos on growing up Argentine and being mixed
user @bellainargentina on being Jamaican and living in Argentina
user @bellainargentina talking about the anti-Argentina propaganda
user @ch0co687 listing Afro-Argentine football players
user ch0co687 about important Afro-Argentine figures and law
user @jsystjn on "who's more racist?"
user @zurilym on why she supports Argentina
user @maniludiaries on growing up Argentine and moving to the US
user @maniludiaries on what happened to Argentina's black population
user @momoizioofficial on who he should support
user @jordaine.wisdom on traveling to Argentina
user @lejanspinola on working in Argentina vs Brazil
user @sofiasmoments1 on Argentina's diversity
user @tupanaconbarba on how Argentines treat immigrants
user @josphina_lfc on who to support
user @yafrereyes about Argentine solidarity
user @aribalanga on the way Argentines treat people
user @lennonknowsball on getting told he wouldn't be welcome in Argentina
And here are some interactions that have been happening in the US as well, both with black people and with people who support the teams Argentina has played against:
Argentines making the cops dance and celebrate with them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Argentines celebrating with the mayor of Atlanta
Argentina and Cabo Verde fans celebrating together after the match
Argentines celebrating with an England fan
Argentine fans hugging an England fan before celebrating
Argentines with Switzerland fans, chanting "the Swiss is Argentine", which is done as a way to celebrate together: 1, 2
We sometimes jokingly call these baptisms because, as we usually say, "El Argentino nace donde quiere", meaning "An Argentine is born where they want to"; we always say this because we welcome anyone who loves our culture to be part of it.
It's literally part of our National Constitution. The Argentine Constitution grants foreigners the same civil rights as citizens. According to Article 20, foreigners can freely work, own and sell property, navigate rivers, practice their religion, marry, and make wills. Furthermore, Article 25 obligates the federal government to encourage European immigration and explicitly prohibits placing restrictions or taxes on foreigners arriving to work in agriculture, industry, or the sciences. They can also access free Healthcare and Public University education (it's extremely normal for people from other countries to come study at the National University of CĂłrdoba), same as any Argentine.
Also, here you have some of the players' sportsmanship:
Messi taking photos with the Cabo Verde players during an interview after the match
This video, which includes the Argentine DT, Scaloni, hugging and congratulating the Cabo Verde DT, Argentine fans clapping for Cabo Verde, Dibu Martinez helping a player up and congratulating Vozinha for the game, and Messi stopping an interview to take pictures with the Cabo Verde players (again).
Messi consoling Neymar at the Copa America 2021
Dibu Martinez going to hug and console the Ecuadorian goalkeeper after noticing he's crying
Argentine players congratulating Colombia after the 2024 CONMEBOL final
(and Argentine fans consoling a Colombian fan)
Angel Di Maria congratulating the Colombian players one by one after the 2024 CONMEBOL final
Argentine players talking about looking out for each other
Lisandro Martinez and Angel Di Maria congratulating the French players after the last World Cup's final
Lisandro Martinez congratulating Cabo Verde before celebrating
Here's a few videos of England fans' sportsmanship too:
England fan telling a reporter "my dad killed your dad" (mocking the soldiers of the Malvinas war)
Now deleted video about how this guy wants to call ICE
England fan hitting Argentina fans
News reporter mocking poverty and unemployment in Argentina
Now, I'm sorry, I don't want to be disrespectful, but saying that the World Cup is biased and favors Argentina is, at this point, an excuse that people are using to further diminish Argentina. I'm not gonna focus on this a lot because I honestly don't think it's the important conversation to have.
The game between Argentina and England was always going to be this rough; we all knew it was more than a game. And yes, Enzo Fernandez should have been fouled (he wasn't because the referee had already stopped the match due to another foul), absolutely, but don't act like England was playing fair either.
Here you can see:
Bellingham kneeing Messi (which should have been a foul because there was no intention/attempt to touch the ball behind it), Fernandez being forcefully held down to stop him from playing, which should have been a foul, Simeone getting pushed by Pickford for no reason, Tagliafico getting tackled (which should have been a foul), Bellingham smacking Barco's head after the match, and a bunch of plays that should have been fouls.
Here's another video of Jude Bellingham smacking the head of Barco (who didn't even play and wasn't paying attention to him) at the end of the match.
Also, here's Rice covering his mouth to speak to Messi and McAllister, which, according to FIFA's actual rules, is an immediate red card, so he's lucky that the referee ignored him and the Argentina players decided not to complain (he also did this with Fernandez).
At the end of the day, England got only one yellow card while Argentina got three, and eleven fouls compared to Argentina's fifteen.
There are also people falling for an AI-altered photo of Messi stepping on Spence's foot (you can tell it's AI clearly because his shirt number appears as 23 instead of 25). Here you can see what actually happened from various angles.
By the way, people online complained about Argentina's goal not being invalidated after this (even though it wasn't actually a foul), yet when Lisandro Martinez actually got this foul during the Egypt match (his foot was stepped on) and Egypt's second goal, which was part of that play, got invalidated, people claimed it was a decision made to favor Argentina. But when Norway got their second goal invalidated for this exact same reason in their match against England (foul happened earlier, goal was made, and then the entire play got invalidated by that early foul and the goal got considered invalid), no one complained about how the match was "rigged" in favor of England then.
There was also this moment during the game against Switzerland in which argentine player Nico Gonzalez got both of his ankles stepped on, which should have been a yellow card, yet the referee didn't even count it as a foul, despite Gonzalez staying on the floor for like a minute while the game continued because he couldn't get up from the pain, and having trouble walking through the rest of the game (and still doing his best to run and support his team).
This stems from pictures of Messi in Israel in 2013, which he actually visited as part of the UNICEF Peace Tour, in which the Barcelona team went to both countries to promote peace between them 1, 2, 3
Messi has been advocating for peace between Israel and Palestine and the protection of its children for more than a decade, and even if he hadn't, that's not enough to hate an entire country (also, I don't see any of you hating on Cristiano Ronaldo, who actively and continuously supports Israel and Trump, and has rape allegations).
Especially when Argentina has recognized and supported Palestine as a free state since 2010 (which our current president is trying to take back, and the Argentine people are fighting against). Argentines (most of us at least) have always supported Palestine:
Here's an Argentine man trying to celebrate with the Israel flag and getting kicked away too
And Argentines with a giant free Palestine banner
And a bunch of articles about our support of Palestine through the years:
Also, insane to say we're a nazi country. Peron offered refuge to both nazi and Jewish people, yes, but some of you need to stop with the double standard because so many countries did (the US literally had Operation Paperclip), and a lot of the German immigration to Argentina was unrelated to the war and happened previously (since 1870). We also have the largest Jewish community in LATAM.
We're a welcoming and loving community, we are a country made out of immigration and diversity and shared cultures. Pretending we're all 100% white and hate anything different is denying and erasing the existence of our PoC people and our roots.
There are bad people, yes, but acting like we're this conglomerate of harmful zionists is dehumanizing us and spreading hateful propaganda, we are struggling against a man who got voted under the promise of mantaining the little amout of eonomical stability we had left only to turn and try to sell our country to the US, we're actively, daily fighting for our autonomy as a country and against this man letting us be colonized again, and propagating these awful rethorics about us without knowing the truth just makes you a part of this attempt to destroy us.
And again, we're not a perfect country, awful things have happened and keep happening here, but if you're going to pay attention to all the bad, you have to pay attention to all the good too, you can't claim your opinion is fair otherwise.
You said that you know a group of people doesn't represent a country, so maybe you should look at both sides? Judging millions of people over the actions of some of them (without even knowing if said judgment is based on real information or not) is like me claiming every single person in the US is a MAGA supporter just because I've seen videos of people defending Trump.
My entire country being insulted and dehumanized over generalizations and lies leaves a bad taste in my mouth, too. Supporting colonizer countries because you don't care to actually learn the truth about us does not make you better.
@spiderluvbot i read and reread this response and i acknowledge and respect how you delivered yourself in good faith. with that being said, while i understand where youâre coming from, youâre using me as a placeholder to deliver your grievances against the reactions and response of other people.
with that being said, iâll say it simpleâme saying i donât âlikeâ a country and listing three things does not mean i hate the country in its entirety nor do i classify the people as generalizations. just like you see that not all americans are MAGA, i know that not all argentinians are racist, zionist and nazis. it was implied. i was calling out the racism exhibited by the very public argentinians who were captured on camera being very loud and bigoted.
i see your story, i see your history, and i respect it. i come from a colonized country too. but being colonized does not shield the criticisms that my (our) countries and people exhibit to the public. i am not insulting youâthat means being demeaning and disrespectful for the sake of suchânor am i dehumanizing youâthis is stripping away your humanity so it can justify cruel acts against youâi fundamentally believe everyone deserve human rights, you deserve the right to defend your indigenous lands, and such. i am criticizing the racism i see blatantly, publicly, and openly on social media.
with that, i also acknowledge that a lot of my observations comes from social media and a handful of interactions in real life.
thank you for sharing your thoughts. it was very informative, but overall, i want to reiterate youâre not speaking to me. youâre airing your grievances about what other people have said about argentina, and coming onto my page, asking for my opinion, but responding to what other people have said was unfair. i know who i am. i know what i believe in. youâve seen what i stood up for in the past, on this page, and very publicly.
i will not be responding more to this thread. however, if you want to continue this conversation, feel free to dm me.
Oh how I missed red Ferrari chase. Iâm so glad youâve continued it
HELLLOOO yes yes thank you so much, honestly, you gotta thanks @inthelibrarybtw who been on my ass about finishing that series (sheâs it #1 ride or die) and @7-deadly-cats who thought about it the other night and i think weâre telepathically linked đââïžâ
pairing â husband!rafe cameron x wife!reader
summary â rafe is jealous, insufferable, and very convinced that being broken up is just another phase before marriage.
warnings â post-breakup tension, jealousy, possessive rafe, alcohol, party setting, swearing, toxic-ish flirting.
notes from me â as requested here!!! i decided to turn this into a husband!rafe fic cause... yum đ”âđ« for context, this is set during college during their three month long break up!
word count â 0.6k
navigation â masterlist |
The party is too hot, too loud. Thereâs beer drying sticky beneath her shoes, somebody shouting over the music about a missing phone, and Rafe Cameron leaning against the kitchen counter like the breakup has improved his posture.
It hasnât improved anything else.
His hair has grown longer since she last let herself touch it, falling across his forehead in a loose middle part he keeps pushing back with the heel of his hand. Heâs wearing a faded blue polo with the collar gone soft and two buttons undone, which feels deliberate in the personal, irritating way everything Rafe does near her feels deliberate now.
Heâs been watching her talk to a boy from her economics tutorial for eleven minutes. She knows because sheâs counted. Not consciously. That would be pathetic.
âYour friend seems nice,â Rafe says when she finally comes into the kitchen for another drink, his voice pitched casually beneath the music.
She reaches past him for the vodka. âHe is.â
âBit boring.â
âYou spoke to him?â
âDidnât need to.â
She twists the cap off harder than necessary. âRight. Forgot you can identify personality defects through walls.â
Rafeâs mouth pulls sideways. âIâve got a gift.â
âYou should get it appraised.â
He watches her pour, eyes dropping briefly to her hand and then to the thin strip of skin showing where her top has ridden above her jeans. Itâs not a polite look. Rafe has never looked at her politely in his life, not even when they were fifteen and he used to pretend he needed help with chemistry despite having no intention of passing chemistry.
Her stomach tightens anyway, traitorous and immediate.
âThought you hated vodka,â he says.
âIâve developed.â
âIn three months?â
âPeople grow.â
âYeah?â Rafe tips his head, gaze moving slowly over her face. âYou seem about the same.â
She smiles without warmth. âYou seem worse.â
His laugh is quiet, almost pleased. Thatâs the problem with being cruel to Rafe: he takes it as flirting if she looks pretty while doing it.
Behind them, someone opens the fridge and stares inside for several seconds before walking away with nothing. The bass rattles through the cupboards. Rafe shifts closer, enough that she catches the clean, familiar smell of his cologne beneath beer and summer heat.
âYou gonna go home with him?â he asks.
She takes a sip and lets the vodka burn before answering. âMaybe.â
His jaw moves once. Itâs tiny. Satisfying. âDonât,â he says.
Her eyebrows lift. âSorry?â
âHe looks like he says âgoshâ during sex.â
The laugh escapes her before she can stop it, sharp enough that she nearly spills her drink. Rafe grins, victory bright across his face, and she hates the warmth that opens beneath her ribs at the sight of it â young and stupid and familiar enough to feel like walking into a room she still has a key for.
âYouâre such an asshole,â she says.
âYeah.â
âAnd weâre broken up.â
âTemporarily,â he shrugs.
She stares at him. âThatâs not how breaking up works.â
âIt is for us.â
âThere is no us.â
Rafeâs eyes flick over her mouth. âKeep sayinâ it.â
The room seems to pull tighter around them, all heat and noise and the unbearable inch of air he refuses to cross. Her fingers tighten around the plastic cup. His gaze notices that too.
She steps back first because one of them has to possess survival instinct. âEnjoy the party, Cameron.â
âBaby.â
She keeps walking, weaving around a couple making out badly beside the stairs.
Behind her, Rafe calls, perfectly calm, âYouâre gonna be my wife. Donât get it twisted.â
Several people turn. She doesnât. She only lifts one hand over her shoulder and gives him the finger as she disappears into the crowd, smiling so hard her cheeks hurt.
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bitch⊠this is the most delicious fanfic of rafe iâve read in a hot second. the beginning where heâs watching her, the way their banter is so BUZZY, especially because they keep throwing things back and forth. rafe with his little snide comments âhe looks like he says gosh during sexâ and him shouting that sheâs gonna be his future wife? ALONGSIDE WITH REFUSING TO ACCEPT THE BREAKUP??? yeah this is the type of jealousy i LOVE TO SEE âșïžđ plz i need more of this i think i am⊠addicted to your writing đ«”đââïž
content warning: strangers to friends to lovers, slow burn, forced proximity, one bed, sexual tension, explicit sexual content 18+ MDNI
a/n: okay I was too excited not to share this but here's a little preview of a series Iâve been working on!! coming soon!!
âRafe, Iâm really not in the moodââ
âJust listen to me,â Rafe interrupted, wrapping his hands around your wrist as he pulled you towards the hallway. As soon as you closed the door to your bedroom, Rafe was leaning his hands on your dresser, his eyes locking onto yours with an intensity that made your breath hitch. âCharlotte never changed the passwords to her email. I still have access to everything. They think theyâre being slick, but I just saw the confirmation emails. They are taking the exact same honeymoon itinerary that we planned. The one I paid for.â
You stared at him, confused. âWhat?â
âI overheard it from Topper at the country club, theyâre going to Italy and Greece,â Rafe said, a dark, vindictive smirk spreading across his lips. âIt was supposed to be my wedding gift to her since her type A ass couldnât stop perfecting her dream trip.â
âOkay, so what am I supposed to do about that?â You countered, shrugging your blazer off as you approached your closet. He tapped the folder, the noise almost as loud as your heart thumping as Rafe replied, âI want you to come with me. We're going, and weâre going to follow them and make âem pay for the shit they pulled on us.â
âYes,â Rafeâs expression was serious as ever, not a flicker of sarcasm in his voice. He leaned closer, his voice dropping into that persuasive, lethal cadence. âThink about it. We show up at the same places they go to and boot them out, then take every opportunity to ruin their entire trip. Câmon, they wasted all of these years of our lives just to fuck each other behind our backs, you donât want a little bit of payback?â
warnings! fem!reader, use of y/n, swearing, fluff, slight angst & lots of gossip
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The paddock was already buzzing when you arrived at Zandvoort, cameras flashing and fans pressing against the barriers to catch a glimpse of the drivers. His world wasn't too dissimilar from yours. You barely had time to adjust to the chaos before Rafe's hand closed around yours, tugging you away from the crowd and into the quiet of his driver's room. The door clicked shut, muffling the noise outside, and suddenly it was just the two of you.
He didn't waste a second. Dropping to one knee, he pulled a small velvet box from his pocket and flipped it open. Inside sat a ring, delicate and worn.
"This was my mother's," he said, his voice softer than you'd ever heard it. "I want you to have it, I want to do it right, even if it's not real. So, will you Y/N, marry me?"
Your breath caught. For a moment the weight of the lie pressed down on you, but the sincerity in his eyes made it feel almost real. You could imagine yourself, here, in his world. You bent down, kissed him gently on the cheek, and whispered, "I do. I'll wear it, and I promise to look after your mother's ring." He smiled with a knowing glint in his eyes as he slid the ring delicately onto your finger, and you realised he'd resized it just for you.
Helping him up, your hands lingered in his until his race engineer popped his head in to ask if he was ready. Rafe left with one last smirk. "This one's for you."
When you stepped back into the paddock, heading straight up to the balcony, away from the cameras, where your friends were waiting, the atmosphere shifted instantly. Alexandra, Kika, and Rebecca pulled you into hugs, their squeals of delight echoing into the Dutch air. They introduced you to Sarah, you sister-in-law, who was already smiling as she joined the circle, wrapping her arms around you with the same warmth as the others, a guilty feeling settling in your chest.
"Oh my god, look at that ring!" Alexandra gasped, grabbing your hand to hold it up to the sunlight.
Kika leaned in, eyes wide. "It's beautiful. Are you happy? That's the important thing."
You nodded, warmth flooding your chest at their sincerity. "I really am. We um met at an event, well literally bumped into each other, and something just clicked. Since then, we've just... juggled seeing each other around our crazy schedules, but we've tried to keep it private with the media and it's just gone from there."
Rebecca grinned, squeezing your hands. "And the proposal?"
You laughed softly, the memory from moments ago tugging at you. "We were at home one night, nothing extravagant, just us. He asked, and I said yes."
Sarah's eyes flickered to the ring you were fidgeting with, her smile softening. "His mother's ring."
You nodded, the emotion catching in your throat as Sarah pulled you into another hug, tighter this time. She didn't need to say anything, she just knew. You were it for him.
"Welcome to the family," she whispered.
Rafe Cameron, Cleo Anderson and Isack Hadjar face the press after finishing on the podium at the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix from Zandvoort.
Cleo ANDERSON: Yeah, it wasn't easy. I gave it everything at the start to move forward. Little moment in Turn 2. But yeah, after that, we just had to do our own race. Unfortunately, we didn't have the pace of the McLarens. We got a bit lucky, of course, with one retiring, but in general, to be on the podium here is a great result. So to be in second, I think it's a really, really good achievement for us.
Q: Tell me about the moment, because it looked like quite a bit oversteer. In Turn 2, you tried also with Oscar on the outside in Turn 1, but then you went also outside of Lando in Turn 2, but you had a huge moment there.
CA: Yeah, I tried to send it into Turn 3, but unfortunately there was too much sand in Turn 2 from the middle of the track to the outside. I knew that we had the softer compound, so I tried to make it work on that first lap.
Q: Isack Hadjar, your first ever Formula 1 podium here in Zandvoort. You must be over the moon.
Isack HADJAR: Yeah, it feels a bit unreal. What was most surprising to me is keeping that fourth place for the whole race. Unfortunately for Lando, we took advantage of his [sic] puncture, but yeah, we did no mistake. The car was on rails the whole weekend, and I'm really happy about myself because I really maximised what I had. Made no mistakes and brought home the podium. So yeah, I'm so happy for my guys.
Q: Could you have ever dreamed this before when you were a young kid, to stand here, to have your first podium?
IH: Yeah. That was always the target since I was a kid. So, this is a first step, my first podium, and hopefully many more to come.
Rafe CAMERON: It's a hard act to follow Isack and Cleo standing up here, so I'll try my best. It feels good to have a piece of home support in the paddock, but she's not a charm. She makes me a better person, and a better driver. I controlled the race when I needed to and I'm satisfied with the outcome.
Q: Does that mean you'll driver safer now? Because today was still pretty reckless.
RC: I'll always drive my way. Reckless or not, It's who I am.
Q: I think it's a perfect start for the second part of the season, no?
RC: Starting out on top is a good way to go. If we can keep it running then thatâd be great. But there's a long way to go yet and weâll keep doing it one race at a time.
DREW'S NOTES... you finally meet sarah!!!!! sorry for the long wait but we're so back
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warnings! fem!reader, use of y/n, swearing, toxic family dynamics, fluff
Previously on Marriage Material...
"I'm engaged."
The room stills.
"To who?" your sister asks, too quickly.
"The wedding's in six months."
A beat.
Someone coughs.
And then-
A warm hand wraps around your waist. Low and intentional. You feel his Valentino suit against your skin. He's soft spoken, smug, and utterly unbothered, just as before. You still haven't dared to look up.
"Surprise."
And now...
Someone drops their glass, shattering the spell, but his hand stays firmly low on your waist, he doesn't flinch and neither do you.
Your mother opens her mouth and then closes it, somewhat resembling a gaping fish. He doesn't need an introduction, judging by the whispers, but your sister gives him one anyway, in her own... special way, "Rafe Cameron! You're engaged to Rafe bloody Cameron?!" Your mother doesn't even scold her for the ugly profanity, she's still far too shocked to say anything.
The man in question doesn't so much as glance at her, his eyes firmly locked on you, like no one else in the room matters. Almost as if to say, 'it's your choice where we go from here, I walk away when you do'.
You lean into his touch, looking back towards your family, raising an eyebrow in defiance as if to say 'yes, and what?'
...
The murmurs grow as each second passes, eyes flickering between Rafe's scandalously low hand on your waist and your family's reactions. Your father makes the first move, ushering you all into a private room, while Rafe notes the corners of your lips lifting up ever so slightly in amusement at the disappointed groans from your audience.
"You're full of shit!" Well your darling sister isn't wrong. "Please you don't even wear a ring. I know you, and if this was real, which it's not, you'd be lauding this over our heads like some sort of prize, how you've finally escaped." She was wrong about that one. "Plus you don't even spend time in the Red Bull garage! What, did Charles introduce the two of you? Or maybe Cleo? You both are as thick as thieves. God, why am I even entertaining this? It's absurd!" She glances wildly around the room, arms thrown in the air as she continues to spit out questions and theories, with the occasional insult tucked in, barely giving you a chance to respond.
Rafe's positioned himself so he's half in front of you, as if to shield you from her. One of his arms is bent behind his back, with the other by his side, fist clenched in anger although his face doesn't give anything away. One of your hands rests on his shoulder, with the other gripping the arm behind his back, grounding you. He whispers something to you whilst keeping his eyes cautiously on your sister, a joke, something entirely inappropriate but it makes you hide your laugh in his shoulder, and god is his voice sexy.
Your father observes the scene, how Rafe grounds you, he could be good for you he muses. "How about we all go home, sleep on it, and discuss this in the morning? Say brunch at 11?" He leans closer to the buzzcut blonde whispering conspiratorially, "Rafe," he pauses testing his new son-in-law's name, "you'll find out soon enough that I'm not... exactly a morning person". No one cracks a smile, but Rafe plays his part shaking your father's hand with promises to meet tomorrow morning.
...
Your mother's still in shock as she disappears out of view with your sister, stepping into the sleek black chauffeured car. Now, how the fuck were you supposed to get home?
You aren't quite sure where Rafe's disappeared off to (probably gone home to save himself from your shit show), but as you slowly make your way down the marble steps, you hear a car stop in front of you. And it's not just any car, it's a Ferrari SF90 XX in a gorgeous matte black finish. "Nice car."
It's a quiet ride in a comfortable silence. You don't bother giving him a destination, and he doesn't bother to ask. You don't know where you're headed, but neither of you care.
"Darling..." Rafe holds his hand out to you, "shall we?"
You hadn't even realised the car had stopped, much less that he'd climbed out and opened your door. You placed your hand in his, letting the buzzcut blonde pull you gently to your feet.
The air's lost its salty quality, but there's still a hint of freshness that you breathe in. You're not in Monaco any more.
"Why'd you do that?"
He knows exactly what you were referring to, "why not?"
Rafe's mouth twitches, not quite a smile. "You looked like you were drowning. I thought I'd throw you a rope."
You tilt your head, trying to decipher him. "That wasn't a rope."
He shrugs unbothered, "it worked, didn't it?"
You study him, the way his eyes scan the horizon like he's already bored of the conversation. But there's something else there too, something quieter. It's not the intrigue twitching at the corner of his pretty mouth. It's something protective? Possessive even. Fuck.
You don't push the subject recognising a deeper explanation, instead choosing to sit on the hood of his Ferrari watching the sunrise... and then some.
...
It's either too late or far too early when you slide back into his car, the sleepless city blurring past on the way to his Monaco apartment. By the time you're both ready, it's just shy of 11, early was never the plan, and the restaurant is closer than expected. You arrive fashionably late, Rafe's arm slung casually around your shoulder. It feels almost natural, standing close to him in his clothes, his sunglasses shielding the exhaustion in your eyes, like they were always meant to.
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f1wags spotted đ yourusername and rafecameron1 driving back to monaco in the early hours of the morning. sources also say they were at brunch later today with her parents, amid rumours emerging from last night's gala that the pair are engaged and that their announcement caused quite a stir at the party. what do we think of this new pairing?
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user1 why is she everywhere /j
y/nsdietcnt wait... why does this make sm sense?! someone pls confirm this before i lose my mind
‷ user22 me losing my mind as we speak:
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user2 ariana what r u doing here????? isackhadjar
user3 this reeks of a pr stunt
‷ user22 you reek generally, sort it out babe x
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user4 not the rookies defending their grid dad & mum
DREW'S NOTES... mystery man revealed, thoughts? & do we like to see lots of insta comments of do u prefer it short n' sweet?
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wait why am i highkey locked in⊠especially when f1wags posted that post and all of the f1 drivers liking comments that defend reader. WHO IS SHE IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS? HOW DOES SHE KNOW EVERYONE?? WHAT IS RAFES ULTERIOR MOTIVE⊠đđ€š
