“Louis, what do you have to say about how last week ended?” the reporter asks.
There’s a moment of silence. Harry is looking at the reporter, but eventually gives in and looks down the table at Louis.
He’s looking straight ahead, as if Harry isn’t even in the room.
“If you can’t take the heat, then get out of the kitchen.”
Harry leans forwards, placing his arms on the table and leaning onto them to get as close to his microphone as he can while looking at Louis.
“And what’s that supposed to mean?”
Louis turns to him, his icy blue eyes meeting Harry’s. “Driving is your fuckin’ job, act like it.”
In its near eighty years of existence, Formula 1 has never had an out gay driver. In 2017, Harry Styles signs a contract with Scuderia AlphaTauri alongside his childhood friend and competitor, Louis Tomlinson. The next decade of their careers is some of the most tumultuous press–on and off the track–Formula 1 has ever seen.
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aka the one where Louis and Harry are childhood friends to enemies to lovers over the course of 15 ish years.
favourite 2024 albums → THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY by Taylor Swift
"An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it."