Drowning House Theory
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If you are looking for a story where two handsome young men win every race, achieve emotional stability, and resolve all their inner demons with a well-timed hug, kindly exit through the gift shop.
If, you, however, are interested in Charles Leclerc — who forgot how to stay, and Pierre Gasly — who stayed anyway. It is about survival, and hunger, and the terrible ways love teaches you to live even when you’re not sure you want to. It is about pasta left uneaten, phones left behind in hotel rooms, and the strange, stubborn miracle of still being alive at the end of it all.
This is a story about healing very badly, racing very fast, and the undignified business of staying alive.
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- Part 1 of Drowning House Theory
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Let the record show: this is not a love story.
Or rather, it is — but not the kind with declarations and happy endings and one singular, beautiful narrative thread. It begins with a protein bar. A hospital. A boy who nearly disappeared and the man who refused to stop seeing him.
Charles is released from a Swiss psychiatric facility just in time to miss the season he should’ve ruled. Pierre finishes eleventh. Ferrari keeps making statements, Alpine pays for sushi, and Lando Norris doesn’t know when a joke becomes a promise.
Told out of order, because memory is faulty and trauma even more so, this story is about:
— the notebook Charles never meant anyone to read
— the email Pierre never wanted to write
— and the scars neither of them can stop touchingIn the end, they survive. But survival is not the same as being okay.
Featuring: post-attempt recovery, visible scars, press manipulation, mirror sex in Vegas, a wildly inappropriate amount of sushi, and one very worried narrator who knows that love doesn’t fix people — it just rearranges the furniture in their drowning house.
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- Part 2 of Drowning House Theory