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ྀིྀི⊹₊˚︵‿₊୨ᰔ୧₊‿︵ ྀིྀི˚₊ ⋆˚౨ৎ ⋆.˚₊˚ྀིྀ︵‿₊୨ᰔ୧₊‿︵˚₊⊹ ྀིྀི
07/05/2025
The day Franco lost all respect for Flavio Briatore.
To:
My (future) Jacky <3
Hey Jack, I know we havent
talked much but i’m so
sorry.
I wanted Flavio to give you
more time but he said he’d
fire both of us and use Paul
instead, and i couldn’t ruin
your career even further.
I understand how you feel, I
hate having this reputation
of replacing people.
Logan was and still is like
the older brother i never
had, i hope that we can
support each other like me
and Logan?
But i understand if you hate.
me and don’t want to see
me ever again xx
Oh. It’s so obvious. He’s down bad for Jack.
He’s got to vent. He grabs his jacket, pulls his trainers on and all but marches to the elevator, he frantically types out a message asking for a room number, the response comes in seconds.
As he gets out at the third floor he heads over to room 304, pausing at the crowd hovering outside the room next to it. Jack, Gabriel, Ollie, and Kimi stood, presumably, outside of Isack’s room. 306. Jack looks directly at him, glaring into his soul.
‘Has he seen my message? Does he hate me? I’ve messed it all up, havent I? He knows i’m in love with him, doesn’t he? Joder’ He thinks, staring back at Franco, considering how pathetic he looks no doubt, he’s not surprised Jack hates him.
They continue their staring until Isack opens the door, he hasn’t even stepped back into his room to let the others in before Franco all but falls forward banging on Liam’s door and collapsing into his arms when he opens it, unaware of the heartbroken look on poor Isack’s face…
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From:
Franco Colapinto - reserve
Hey Jack, I know we havent
talked much but i’m so
sorry.
I wanted Flavio to give you
more time but he said he’d
fire both of us and use Paul
instead, and i couldn’t ruin
your career even further.
I understand how you feel, I
hate having this reputation
of replacing people.
Logan was and still is like
the older brother i never
had, i hope that we can
support each other like
me and Logan?
But i understand if you hate
me and don’t want to see
me ever again xx”
“What does this mean?” He thrusts his phone into Gabi’s face, wishing he was the one consulting Liam and not Franco. “And why does he get to speak to Liam and not me? Liam’s MY best friend!”
“Jack…I think it means Franco’s a good guy who was pressured into taking an f1 seat that he would give anything to have and he doesn’t want you to hate him.” Kimi says, patting Jack’s shoulder comfortingly, his voice soft and understanding.
“And, Liam’s probably the only person on the grid who understands how he feels, he’s replaced daniel twice and Franco’s had to replace someone twice, its probably just to talk about that” Gabi chimes in, always the voice of reason.
“Yeah, I guess so, I suppose i should change his contact name right?” They all murmur in agreement so he pulls out his phone and removes the ‘- reserve’ from Franco’s contact name.
“Do you think Liam likes Franco?” Isack blurts out, finally breaking his silent sulk since the hallway incident. “I mean they’re clearly close and i remember him saying him and Franco went out clubbing after he got demoted…”
The boys look between then and Ollie, Kimi and Gabi let out a collective sigh, knowing their fun evening to make Jack feel better was just going to end up a Franco hate session.
“He hates meeeeee” Franco whines, his voice cracking, muffled from where his head has been firmly buried in Liam’s lap for the past half an hour.
“He doesn’t hate you, he’s probably just annoyed at Alpine and-“ Liam starts when Franco’s phone goes off.
1 New message from:
My (future) Jacky <3 (Just now)
“Great contact name” Liam teases opening the message.
From:
My (future) Jacky <3
Me? Be friends with a
disgusting seat thief like
you, with no respect for
media or other people.
Now you’re stealing my
best friend in a time when
I need him most?
Yeah right, Jog on.
You’re lucky I dont block you
,its only because of work i’m
not.
“What! The! Fu-“ Liam shouts before Franco slaps a hand out of his mouth. His eyes brimming with tears. “I’m sorry Franco” He says softly, pressing small kisses to a few of his tears like Franco once told him his mum used to do.
Once he finished comforting Franco and he fell asleep, Liam slipped out and banged on Isack’s door.
Unluckily for Jack, he was the one to open the door.
“What the actual hell is wrong with you Jack?! A dirty seat thief! You know that’s how people view me! Accusing Franco of stealing me from you and insulting me indirectly in the same message?! Who do you think you are?! Franco did nothing wrong and Flavio wouldn’t have even kept you as reserve if Franco hadn’t convinced him to!”
Liam explodes seeing Jack’s smile at Liam coming over, his face dropping as Liam continues, The others joining them at the door as Liam stops for breath.
He stops for five seconds, smiles apologetically at Isack then walks back to his own hotel room after none of them say anything.
The other four stand there in shock before Jack slams the door closed. Hard enough that it shakes the other room and causes Franco to wake up just as Liam arrives, proposing they get room service before Liam confesses what he just did, Franco pulling him into a hug.
“Thank you Liam, I love you, you’re a great friend”
“A great BEST friend Franco” Liam laughs sitting them down on the bed and grabbing a menu, the two giggling, curled up into each other, Franco grabbing the phone after a long (not for them) 50 minutes of ‘deciding’ aka messing around, to order their food.
ྀིྀི⊹₊˚︵‿₊୨ᰔ୧₊‿︵ ྀིྀི˚₊ ⋆˚౨ৎ ⋆.˚₊˚ྀིྀ︵‿₊୨ᰔ୧₊‿︵˚₊⊹ ྀིྀི