SIXTY FIVE

"I wish we could stay like this forever."

Charles Leclerc whispered in content as he lay on his back on the deck of the yacht belonging to his love, his girlfriend Larissa, who was curled up in to his side and using one of her hands to draw small and gentle circles on to his bare chest.

He occasionally turned his head to press loving kisses to the top of her head where her dark hair was sprawled everywhere, or to her forehead and temples, not wanting to move too much and make her move away from him and out of his arms.

Her left leg was resting over his waist so the arm that wasn't wrapped around her waist instead was clutching her bare thigh, his thumb gently brushing against her skin which would often make goosebumps cover her tanned skin whilst they bathed in the beaming sunlight that was shining down on them.

"I mean, we could but we would have to leave Estie, Zahra and Pierre alone with Anthoine and I think that he would hunt us down and kill us. "

Larissa Kimi Cohen giggled quietly as she clung to her boyfriend, knowing that they were supposed to be meeting their best friends for lunch in less than an hour even though neither of them wanted to move from their current positions.

Anthoine loved his friends but he knew that without Larissa and Charles that he would lose his mind within a matter of seconds, since they were able to control them and keep them calm.

He swore that Zahra was a bad influence on the boys but he had to admit that he loved the Bailey woman as if she was his big sister, so he always let it slide.

"Anthoine would end up becoming like the FBI or something just to track us down for leaving him alone with the idiots." Charles laughed loudly which caused his love to laugh along with him, with the pair knowing just how true the statement was.

"Do we have enough time for a swim?"

The Cohen girl lifted her head to stare up at the chiseled face of her love, seeing him nod his head once, making her press her lips gently against his jaw which encited a small groan from the Monégasque before she scrambled up to her feet to run and jump in to the crystal blue water that surrounded them and her yacht.

The Leclerc boy followed suit almost instantly, the pair splashing in to the water in unison, the coolness of the water being heaven to their skin in comparison to the sweltering heat of the golden sun shining down on them from above.

Whilst the pair were still underneath the surface of the water, the Leclerc boy wrapped his arms around the waist of the love of his life, pulling her closer to him until they both broke the surface of the luminous water, both gulping down the oxygen that was immediately given to them.

The giggling duo couldn't help but splash each other with the crystal clear water, with each of them trying to swim away from the other to avoid being drenched once again, behaving like young children but they didn't mind.

They were together and that was all that mattered.

Nothing else mattered in the world, right now. Because they were together.

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"Well this is a surprise, cabezón."

Tatiana Calderon smiled as she pulled open the front of her apartment to see her friend, Larissa Cohen, standing there patiently.

"Let me in, loca."

Larissa began to laugh as she noticed the eye roll that she was receiving from the Colombian woman, who moved out of the way of the door so that she could walk in to the apartment.

"What are you here for, Cohen?" Tatiana smiled, wrapping her arm loosely around the shoulders of her friend who she knew always had her back, until they both took a seat on her sofa.

"I heard that you're going to be losing your seat because there's not enough sponsorship in support of you." Larissa started off, sounding a little more blunt than what she would have liked, but she knew that she needed to just blurt it our.

"Yes. It is okay. I might try indycar and see if they will have me in there, which is a shame because I love formula two but if I can't stay, then I have options." Tatiana smiled sadly.

"But you know what else I heard?"

Tatiana shook her head from side to side.

"I heard that CRR is wanting to sponsor you."

"Who the fuck is CRR?" The Calderon woman began to laugh as she thought that her best friend had lost her mind, since she had never heard of such a company with a name like that.

"Cohen's Racing Revolution."

The mouth of the Colombian girl dropped open in shock from the look upon the Brazilian girls face, wondering if she was in fact hallucinating and that none of this was real and only a dream.

"You didn't!"

"Oh, I did." The Cohen girl smirked as she watched the realisation hit her friends face, making her skin drain of color as if she was going to faint at any minute. "I believe that they are also looking in to buying a team in Formula Two in the next couple of years."

"Does Anthoine know that you're trying to steal me?" Tatiana released a deep breath of oxygen in am attempt to calm herself down, her chest aching since she had been so worried about losing her chance to make it to formula one, whilst her best friend had been secretly setting up a company without telling anybody.

"He's helping me with the promotion of the company. That way female drivers all over the world know that somebody, somewhere has their backs."

"Can you afford it?"

"With the money that I inherited from my father, plus the money that I have gotten since my mother and my grandfather are both in prison, and my wages and deal with Mercedes... easily." Larissa nodded her head up and down with confidence.

"What even was the deal with Mercedes? Ten year deals are unheard of, yet they dropped it with you as if it was nothing." The formula two driver found herself questioning, because whilst the deal may have been dropped a while ago, she still hadn't gotten her head around it.

"Ten years of driving for Mercedes formula one team, and which ever teams that they own that need a driver outside of formula one, plus training of new drivers, whilst also promoting with Susie to get more women in to the sport." Larissa explained as she spoke, watching on as her friend repeatedly gasped.

"So you could drive in Formula E? Indycar? Wherever Mercedes has a team?" Larissa nodded her head. "Who helped you put that deal together?"

"That would be Toto, Susie, Lewis and Zahra."

"Lar! That's absolutely insane! And with your company supporting women outside of Mercedes' reach, that's so good, what the hell!"

Tatiana Calderón surged forwards to wrap her atms around her friends frame, hugging her as tightly as she could in gratitude for her single handedly saving her entire career.

"What can I say? I'm a Cohen."

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"If you win this race, you're one win behind my record, you know?"

Sebastian Vettel smiled at his niece as he stood in front of her garage, dressed in his iconic Ferrari red fireproofs.

"I know. I plan on destroying the record, by the way."

Larissa Kimi Cohen giggled quietly as she stared up at her uncle Sebby, wiggling her dark eyebrows up and down since she could see that the German man was trying so hard not to laugh at how she was behaving.

He couldn't hold back the laughter however, when the Cohen girl began to twerk, trying to make him laugh which ended up succeeding, making the Vettel man erupt in to loud laughter that made her smile grow at how amazing it sounded.

He knew that if the others were nearby to them right now that they would be struggling to breathe from laughing too, since all it did was remind them of familiar times.

Like Luiz Cohen wiggling his ass just before he set a record lap time in qualifying back in 2007.

She probably didn't even know the reason why he was laughing so hard, but it didn't matter because he knew that even when she had no idea what she was doing, that she was always like her father.

Like father, like daughter.

They were one person, even though there was two bodies, two names, two reputations, they were still only one person. They were the same.

Luiz was reborn in to his daughter completely.

They laughed the same, they glared the same, they spoke the same, they raced the same, they drank the same, they acted the same.

They were the same.

"That's a lap record for this track, kid!"

Sebastian and Kimi both shouted as they ran full speed towards the Cohen girl who was climbing out of her car having just beaten the previous record time for a lap at the British grand prix.

A record, previously held by her father.

The two drivers planned to barrell in to her to lift her up in to the air but found that she had ran away to avoid them, which culminated in a chase of the Brazilian throughout the entire paddock.

They knew that the race tomorrow was going to be amazing especially since she was now in the history books for the British grand prix, and she was getting increasingly closer to breaking Sebastian's record of nine straight grand prix wins in a row.

She was currently on seven.

Her father had only managed eight and held the record before Seb, though that was for different reasons as to why he couldn't get even more wins underneath his belt.

But Larissa, she could easily beat the record of the Vettel man and he knew it, but he was okay with it.

He was always happy to give up a record to a Cohen. Especially his Larissa.

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"Bottas has damage, he can't hold on for much longer"

"You try being behind Kimi! It's not as easy as it looks!"

Larissa Cohen screamed in to her radio as she raced as hard as she could, stuck behind her uncle Kimi who was defending for his life against her and her Mercedes.

Despite starting in pole position, she was currently in sixteenth position since she had pitted for fresh tyres, only for her to get shunted and recieve damage after pitting which meant that she would need to pit again to repair the damage.

Then, a safety car came out which meant that she couldn't work her way back up, so now that she could, she was trying her best but she had nine laps to get back up to first place and it was not easy.

She had tried her father's double bluff move, she had tried her father's zig zag overtake move, she had tried the corner overtake, none of them were working.

So, she took her middle name seriously and decided to play her Godfather Kimi Raikonnen at his own game.

Kimi was smug as he believed that he was winning and keeping his niece back so that Leclerc could get a first win, since Bottas was barely hanging on to first place, but he found that he was wrong.

Larissa Kimi Cohen stormed past him as he swerved, having seen her speed up and head straight for the back of his car as if she was about to crash in to him, since he did not want to harm her, loving his niece and goddaughter too much.

As she stormed past him, he noticed the two middle fingers raised towards him, making the Finnish man laugh as he realised that she had played on his feelings and his love for her by pretending to try and crash so that he would swerve, allowing her the inside line to overtake.

Clever girl.

With one lap left of the whole race, Charles Leclerc was overjoyed as he finally managed to get in to the lead since Bottas could hang on for his team mate no more, his damage to his car too severe.

As the Monégasque gave the Bottas man a thumbs up whilst overtaking him, his eyes caught the same man flipping him off, making the young Leclerc frown in confusion.

Then, the other Mercedes flew past him, taking the lead back from Ferrari.

"Tell Bottas, he's a legend."

"Tell Cohen, she's a legend."

Both Mercedes team mates spoke at the same time to their respective radio engineers, each of them getting the exact same radio message which made them both laugh as they crossed the line, with a Ferrari inbetween them.

Cohen, first, Leclerc, second, Bottas, third.

Larissa felt bad that once again she had stolen a win from her boyfriend, but it also meant that the next race would be where she would be able to equal the record of her uncle Sebby.

As the three podium finishers chambered out of the car, Charles Leclerc walked towards the man who finished in third place, pointing his finger at him.

"You stole her overtake celebration."

Charles frowned, since the Bottas man had given him the middle finger after overtaking him, which he knew to be a Cohen thing.

"Curaçao, you would have defended from me if you had seen me coming. You were distracted by him, and I won."

Larissa smiled as she sidled up to her boyfriend, giving her team mate a fist bump with a proud smile on her face since their team work had managed to work perfectly.

"My radio engineer told me that you were in ninth, I didn't think that I needed to worry about you suddenly overtaking me." Charles spoke as he pressed a soft kiss to his loves temple.

"Well you can thank Mclaren for being shit then because Lando was shitting himself as I overtook him." The Brazilian smiled, knowing that how Lando had moved out of the way and given her loads of space, signalled that he had been absolutely terrified to go against her.

Carlos just hadn't expected her to overtake on the outside line with such speed.

Whereas Pierre and his Red Bull had a hundred percent just given her the place without a battle. She had spent too long with him to know that it could not have been anything other than deliberate that he had steered out of the way as soon as she came close to him.

She hoped it wouldn't cost him and that Red Bull wouldn't punish him.

"Lis!"

Zahra Bailey ran up to the three podium winners, coming to a halt in front of her best friend who raised one of her eyebrows in to the air.

"Athoine and Juan are in your garage."

"What?"

"Juan has tequila."

Larissa immediately squeezed her eyes shut as she laughed, her head resting against her shoulders as she leant her head back.

"Of course he does.

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A/N

First of all, thankyou for the birthday messages from the previous chapter! I feel so old being 22

Secondly, it is the anniversary that we lost Anthoine. 4 whole years and it never gets easier, especially when I have to write him as if he still alive because it hurts my heart knowing what could have been if Spa was a safer track. We all love you Anthoine and we all miss you! #AH19 🕊❤️

danielricsupermercy is amazing and who helped me create CRR, also known as Cohen's Racing Revolution which is a company that sponsors female drivers and maybe we will see more of them in the future. Mariam, I love you ❤️

Anyway, I hope that you all enjoy this 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,

#AH19 🕊

-RUBY