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It’s sleepover day for Max. Max had no plans than to just exist and be baby Verstappen. But Charles is there too and he’s bored out of his life. “Maxie.” He starts. “We gotta play something. Charlie boored!” Charles lays down dramatically and Max giggles. “Cha- Cha funnnyyy.” He utters out, laying himself over Charles. “You attackted me, nooo!” Charles puts his tongue out and Max’s smile fades. “Cha?” He touches Charles’s face and he opens his eyes. “Charlie okay Maxie, don’t worry.” Max smiles again and playfully attacks him, Jenson hears them roughhousing and goes to Charles’ room, he opens the door. “Charles, Charles, be careful with him.” He says, they stop immediately.
“But Charlie not hurting Maxie.” Charles says, Jenson sighs. “If you say so, but still be careful okay?” Charles nods and Jenson leaves. They continue when they stop hearing his footsteps. After a while, Charles is bored, he sits up. “We play something else now, Maxie.” Max gets off him and sits down, watching Charles go to the toy box. He looks at the floor and looks over the edge, the race car bed has fake wheels to hold it up a little and is pretty secure. Max remembers escaping his crib, he put Nijntje in his mouth, then grabbed the edge of the crib and pulled himself over it, falling. His butt hurt for the rest of the day. He can do the same to the race car bed, he gets over the edge and falls down with a thud. “Oh no!” Charles hurries over to him.
It wasn’t even that big of a fall, but Max still bursts into loud tears. Charles has no idea what to do, he runs to the toy box and grabs a car. “Look, Maxie!” Max looks at Charles and sobs, Charles holds the car up and drops it on his head, he makes a pained expression and Max stops the crying a little, snuffling. Charles grabs another and drops both of them on his head. “Ow!” Max giggles a little. Charles drops them on his head again and Max laughs. “Seee? Everything okay!” Charles laughs too. Charles moves him to the bed again and Max decides to not get out, Charles looks around in his drawers and takes out his tablet.
Max tilts his head when Charles comes back. He sits down and turns it on. “Charlie get 30 minutes on this, Maxie, we play...” he looks at the apps and Max makes a confused sound. “This!” He taps on the Hello Kitty Lunchbox one and Max hugs Charles’ arm. “In this game, you gotta get what she wants.” Max looks at Charles and then closes his eyes. Charles doesn’t realize until 2 minutes later that Max has fallen asleep. He puts his tablet away and lays down, deciding to sleep too. Later, Jenson walks in on them not being in Charles’ room. “Charles? Max?” He looks around and looks in the walk-in closet. “Where are you two?” He asks worriedly, he hears talking from the play room. He looks in there and makes a relieved sigh.
“You’re the uh, host of the tea party.” Charles tells Max, Max looks over at Jenson. “Oh- hi daddy.” Charles gives a smile. “How did you get Maxie in here?” He asks, picking Max up. “Drag.” Charles responds honestly. He dislikes lying. “You dragged Maxie here?” Charles nods and Max giggles in affirming. “I appreciate you being honest Charlie, but don’t drag Maxie next time.” He leaves with Max, and comes back 2 minutes later, putting him down, he looks around confusedly. “What did you do to him, daddy?” Charles asks. “I just changed him, don’t worry.” Jenson leaves the playroom. “Now we can have a tea party!” Charles grins.