Notebook as Narrative Device
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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.
Series
- Part 2 of Drowning House Theory