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“The crowd was brutal.”
Lewis smiles without his eyes. “Didn’t hear a thing.”
Nico says nothing. But he knows better. He’s known better since they were kids and Lewis took every karting loss like it was a death. Since the days Lewis would lie next to him in the dark and whisper, I have to win, I have to, it’s the only way they’ll let me in.
Since Nico realized that losing cost Lewis far more than it ever cost him.
“I didn’t come to fight,” Nico says.
Lewis finally laughs, sharp and low. “Sure you did. That’s the only reason you ever speak to me.”
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OR: Nico wins, but it’s like breaking the tape at the finish line and realizing you left something important behind at the start.
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Lewis doesn’t smile. He just looks at him. Really looks at him.
“Seriously. What’s going on with you?”
Nico grips his glass tighter. His knuckles go white against the curve of it, but he doesn’t drink.
He could tell him. About the way his hands shake sometimes. He could tell him that some nights, he stares at the ceiling of his hotel room and wonders if he’s made a mistake by staying. If he’s stuck in something he doesn’t know how to walk away from.
But he won’t.OR: A story about knowing someone so well you start losing pieces of yourself in them. About the weight of a championship, a career, a life spent measuring yourself against one person. About wondering who you are without it all. About what it means to stop fighting—and what it means to choose.
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""I didn’t leave because of you," Nico says finally, because Lewis deserves to hear it, even if it won’t change anything.
Lewis stays quiet for a long time.
Then, softly, he whispers, “Didn’t you?”
A silence falls between them—thick, unbreakable.
Lewis holds his gaze, waiting. Nico looks back at him, sees the question in his eyes. The one he won’t answer.
Then, slowly, Nico looks away. It feels like defeat."OR: They have spent years avoiding each other, avoiding this. But in Monaco, some things are impossible to outrun.
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Lewis goes for a midnight walk in Monaco and runs into a certain someone.