#'he's my arch nemesis and i hate him very much' max says as charles comfortably snoozes in his lap

[nyoomfruits]

charles and max going from absolutely hating each other to tentatively calling each other friends to eventually becoming lovers is GREAT but also i personally think it’s hilarious if all of that still happens but they just. don’t acknowledge anything’s changed. like, max and charles are out for dinner with the other drivers and max is fishing the mushrooms out of his dish and handing them to charles and charles is like “oh thank you!!!!” because he loves mushrooms and lando is like “huh so you’re getting along now?” and max is like “what? no i hate charles he’s my arch nemesis” and charles is nodding along next to him while also happily chewing on his mushrooms

or charles crashes in a race and max is FREAKING OUT asking if he’s okay and everyone is like “he’s fine don’t worry!!!!” and then when the race is over he rushes to see charles and when charles is like “i’m fine!!!” max is like “good. i don’t care. i hate you” 

OR they’re at like some after party thing with all the drivers and max orders some INSANELY complicated cocktail and daniel is like ”???? since when are you into cocktails??” and max is like “i’m not. this is charles’s abomination”. and then charles appears behind max at that exact second and makes a happy little noise at the cocktail as max hands it to him and then dissapears back into the crowd and daniel is like “???? EXPLAIN” and max just shrugs like “he’s the worst and my least favorite person ever”