The marketing team hasn’t asked Matt to film anything this season. Probably don’t need to, since Robert and his love of…chocolateice cream has the fans in a fucking chokehold.
A thousand comments? It was only posted an hour ago. What is there to even say?! Chocolate is such a basic fucking flavor.
Matt exits out of his socials and pulls up his texts. If he’s going to wallow, it’s better to do so with company. Even better when the company is just as globally unpopular as he is.
He sends a simple “Dinner?” text to Laurent and waits impatiently for a response.
Ordered room service.
Drinks after?
Just come on up
I always get too much
Help me out or Josh will kick my ass
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Matt changes out of his team kit into some sweats and grabs his hat and sunglasses. He rarely runs into Formation 1 fans in the team hotel, but he’d rather be cautious, just in case.
Laurent has a grand total of one plate of food when he climbsback onto his bed. In the warm light of the room, he looks almost like a regular human and less like the skinny, pale, dark-haired ghoul Matt’s come to love.
“Oh yeah,” Matt scoffs. “That’ssomuch food.”
“Yours is on its way.”
“You’re a conniving son of a bitch. You know that, right?” Still, Matt smiles, grateful to havesomeonewho cares about him. “I can pay for my own food.”
“Eh, it’s a treat. Or maybe I’m trying to fatten you up, to keep you off my back. Thanks for not passing me, by the way. You deserve caviar for that.”
“I don’t like caviar.” Matt shuffles out of his shoes and joins Laurent on his bed.
“You’ve got bad tastes.”
The television is frozen, paused on a game, and Matt grabs the controller to play while Laurent eats. “You should thank Andes for the strategy. They nuked my race for Robert.”
“Ooh, I saw that on social.” Laurent scrolls his phone with his left hand while he picks at his salmon with his right. “Here. Don’t read the comments.”
It’s a post by the official Formation 1 account. A video from his car shows how close he was to Laurent while the audio plays the argument in the cockpit.
Despite the warning, Matt feels pretty justified by the conversation, so he makes the mistake of reading the comments anyways.
What an idiot.
Andes should have dropped that childish brat years ago
American entitlement, once again
