ONE

"I don't think that I'll ever get over Lewis going to Ferrari."

Harley Davidson spoke as he lay flat on his back, staring up at the clear blue sky, the golden rays of the sun shining down on to his olive skin.

"Ferrari haven't got themselves a racing lineup, they've got the model lineup."

Rianna Crawford chuckled softly to herself as she too lay flat on her back, her body resting beside that of Harley, with the two of them having sunglasses upon their faces, small grins on their lips.

"Lewis is a seven time world champion, he's in the racing lineup. They're both models and drivers, let's not disrespect the King."

Chanya Sengphet released a small huff as she was just behind them both, doing as many push ups as she possibly could, her arms aching yet she refused to give up.

"Who do you think are going next season? My bets are on Logan." Harley grinned, happy to confirm that he had his seat at Kick Sauber announced and already in the bag.

It wasn't a great seat, but it was a seat.

"Checo." Rianna answered shortly, a slight tinge of sadness as she worried over losing the Mexican driver at Red Bull.

She liked Perez and she wished for him to stay, but she knew first hand just how brutal Red Bull were as a team, since she had been dropped by them.

They were right to do so in the long run, but it was still brutal. She never blamed Perez for replacing her, because he did a great job though his performance had dropped recently.

"I'm going to hope George but that's not happening, I just want his seat." Chanya giggled, since she did not have a seat like her best friends did.

She was a reserve driver for both Mercedes and Williams, so she hoped that George Russell was to be dropped, but she knew that was never going to happen. He was too good.

She would be delusional if she thought as such.

"That's like saying Harley is going to drive for Mclaren." Rianna laughed loudly, her laughter only growing as she heard the man beside her make the sound of throwing up.

"And deal with Zak Brown? Ew, no! Never gonna happen! If that ever becomes my last choice for a seat... expect my retirement announcement within minutes." Harley gagged, his hands playfully grabbing at his throat as if he was dying, his face full with disgust.

"I never said that it would happen... I just want it to!" Chanya giggled, her cheeks flushing pink momentarily. "I like George, he knows that I know that he's too good to lose his seat. He also knows that I placed a bet with Liam as to when I was replacing him."

"And?"

"George bet a thousand pounds that I'd win a gymnastics gold medal at the Olympics before I took his seat."

The trio of best friends laughed together, knowing exactly what Chanya was like, always willing to make bets that were so far fetched that they seemed impossible. George knew it too.

They still couldn't believe that Chanya had managed to win a bet over Lewis going to Ferrari, but Chanya knew that it was only due to a game of 'spin the bottle' within her mind that made her choose the team of Ferrari, since she was originally going to choose Aston Martin.

It was normal for her to make small bets and play games like that within her mind to play by herself. She did it with most things.

Sometimes she would make a fake scenario up within her head and play along for hours, getting lost within that scenario. She couldn't help it, she had done it since she was a small child.

She didn't really care if nobody else did it or if it wasn't normal. It was normal to her and that was all that mattered.

Well, that and taking George's seat.

A small giggle sounded from beside her which broke her from her thoughts, her head snapping to see that of her best friend Harley stating down at his phone, giggling, a bright smile evident.

Harley's eyes shot up to meet the eyes of her within a second, rolling them in to the back of his head at the pair of them, knowing that they always liked to judge him when he did it.

"Max called me a dick."

"What did you do this time?" Rianna and Chanya spoke in unison, their voices blending together since it was a very common occurrence that they would be in this very scenario.

"I said that if Checo crashed out, then I'd ask his mum out for dinner. Max clearly didn't like that his mum said yes." Harley cackled loudly, his hand shooting to his chest in order to help his breathing, quickly becoming out of breath, his other hand reaching to his pocket in order to reach his inhaler.

How was it that a Formula One driver could have Asthma? He didn't know, but it sucked because he only ever needed his inhaler for when he was with his friends, since he would always laugh too hard and struggle to breath.

Poor Daniel had started to avoid him due to it, not wanting for him to get hurt or seriously ill.

"How much did you pay her to say yes?"

"Twenty thousands pounds and tickets to a sold out Broadway musical, which is an easy deal if you ask me." The Davidson boy laughed, his face full of smugness, his eyebrows wiggling up and down a couple of times.

"I didn't even think about bribing Toto for George's seat.. fuck!" Chanya released a small whine of annoyance, as Rianna rolled her eyes at the pair of them.

She was used to their behavior.

Whilst the two other racing drivers compared notes on how to bribe somebody, Rianna smiled softly down at her phone, one of her eyebrows raising every single time that she got a reply.

From the sound of his text messages, it sounded like Checo had some gossip for her, which she knew could only be good, because Checo never gave her bad gossip, or lies.

He only ever told Max and herself the best gossip, the rest of which, he would tell Charles and Carlos.

"Guys, I gotta go! Checo's got some gossip!" The Crawford girl shot up to her feet to run away from the pair, hearing their laughter and goodbye cheers as she sprinted away and to her car.

Harley and Chanya slowly turned their bodies back around to face one another, their smiles growing in to beaming grins.

"Want me to be the secret paparazzi for your date with Max's mom?" Chanya grinned, seeing her best friend nodding his head frantically up and down.

"Oh, you know I do!"

A/N

Introduction chapter to a book that I came up with after watching Franco's f1 interviews, having previously had a book plan for him from 3 years ago that I never used,

What do you think?

Anyway, I hope that you all enjoy this introduction chapter and I'll see you all soon for the next one,

I'm so proud of all of you, my loves

Love you all,

-RUBY 🇵🇸🇵🇫🇨🇩🇸🇩🇸🇸🇺🇦🇾🇪