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He could still hear the roar of the crowd outside, it echoed in his ears and it was a wonderful sound.
Oscar had started the season with a slip but, once he regained his balance, he started running like a flash. Two victories one after the other, the top of the championship. It still didn't seem real to him.
"It's not a dream," his girlfriend whispered in his ear, hugging him from behind while he was sitting.
"Come on, repeat it with me: it's really happening," she laughed again.
Oscar laughed shaking his head "I'm still not so sure," he joked.
"Well it is, it seems that on the track you are not the disaster you are at home!" Hattie, the eldest of his sisters, declared.
"Nicea s always Hat..." he replied sticking his tongue out at her.
"Kids!" Oscar's mother's voice echoed behind them "You are too good at putting up with all of us," she laughed at her son's girlfriend shaking her head.
"Oh, I'm used to you by now, Nicole, you know, I feel like part of the clan," y/n laughed amused "When I can, I even participate in the arguments!".
"I don't want to have to start scolding you too!" echoed the woman amused "I prefer when you help me put an end to these guys' arguments."
"I still think that we should swap her with Oscar, leave him at McLaren and keep her as a sister, we all gain," Edie commented without taking her eyes off her phone.
"I don't feel appreciated," Oscar exclaimed loudly.
"I appreciate you a lot," his girlfriend whispered in his ear amused without being heard by the rest of the family.
Oscar laughed, when he brought his parents and siblings along it was always a mess, when it was just y/n it was much quieter, but he had to admit that celebrating a victory with the whole clan, as y/n called it, wasn't so bad.
"Come on, we have a table reserved for dinner soon," she said giving him a kiss on the cheek "And I have to help your sisters choose what to wear first..." she laughed.
"All three? You know I'm jealous of my family lately, you spend much more time with them than with me and it doesn't make me happy," he joked turning his face to look at her.
"You should have seen the shopping I did with your mother this morning..." she laughed amused "Come on, from tomorrow it's just you and me again and we'll go out to celebrate without parents, little sisters..."
"... We can’t go out at all, we can celebrate at home," he smiled amused.
"Let's see how you behave tonight... If you argue with your sisters or not," she joked.
"Or what will you do, put me in time-out?" he teased getting up "I'm going to change," he continued giving her a kiss.
Y/n felt at home in that family, the fact that she had never known her mother and that her father had long been such an inconsistent presence in her life had pushed her to love even more the family atmosphere she breathed with those people.
With Oscar she felt at home, wherever she was, in any hotel, anywhere in the world.
It didn't bother her that his family was very present, that sometimes she had to consider sharing her boyfriend even when she might not have wanted to.
There were moments for them, they always managed to escape the confusion, close themselves at home, lying on the couch talking, watching dozens of episodes of TV series ignoring the phones that kept buzzing with messages.
She liked being the older sister that Hattie, Edie, and Mae pretended to desperately want instead of Oscar, when in reality, they adored no one as much as they adored their brother.
They had built the largest Barbie city in Mae's room, even Oscar once, when they were having lunch at his parents’ house, started playing with it (trying to build a city circuit to make Ken race).
Oscar loved that y/n didn't feel the weight of a family to which he, perhaps, was too attached.
Not that he didn't know how to set limits, but it was difficult to keep his sisters at home when their brother was traveling the world racing in a Formula 1.
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After dinner, Oscar's parents and sisters had returned to the hotel, mainly to give the winner a break from the girls' chatter and to give him and y/n some time to celebrate the victory of a perfect Grand Prix together.
"In Miami, it will be just you and me," he commented passing an arm over her shoulders and stealing a kiss.
"I don't mind the idea at all, nothing against your family but... Sometimes I like having you just for myself," she smiled.
"When it's too much y/n, tell me..."
"...it's not too much, not now, okay? I love your family and I hope you've noticed how much your family loves me," she joked amused "It's okay like this, you're always traveling the world, I have to share you with so many people, the team, the journalists, the family... Then there's this little piece that remains for me and that I love to death," she smiled as he stopped to give her a kiss.
"I love you," the boy said with that simplicity he always had.
"Me too," y/n replied "And your sister stuck a glitter heart on your back," she laughed before kissing him again "I might have cut it out myself, a sign of my love, right?" she whispered.
"You're worse than them..." he muttered hugging her.
He was happy, really happy.