Two days had passed and the first drivers meeting was happening, Natalia was gonna meet the Alpine team, meet her teammates and the rest of the grid, she was nervous of course, not because she was a bad driver or anything like that, she was nervous that they will figure out who she was, that they will see underneath the makeup and wig, and the worst thing, she feared that something illegal could happen.

But, she pushed those thoughts aside and decided to panic over the clothes she was taking instead. She had to make a suitcase and bag for "Sam" and her own suitcase she would take towards Laura's place, Natalia took the decision to leave her place this two months and move in with Laura, just in case her mother decided to barge in and visit her daughter only to find that she's playing dress up and Sam in off in Los Angeles in some retreat with no communication.

"I guess we can say that you're ready." Grecia walked into the bedroom where both brunettes stood. "I brought these cause y'know, you might need them." The small tampon box was set above the clothing.

"Shit, I had forgotten about that detail." Natalia's eyes widened and she looked inside her bag on where to hide them.

"Do you think they will see that?" Grecia asked sitting on the edge of the bed.

"I don't know and I don't even want to even think about it, but I need to hide them somewhere." Her eyes located the sneakers she was taking, hiding the tampon box inside it. "Let's hope they don't go sneaking around my shoes."

After a few hours of packing, talking and eating Natalia and her friends were ready to leave the apartment and head to Laura's place, tonight was the drivers meeting, and Natalia was all ready thanks to Paul taking the day off and help the brunette change radically into her younger brother Sam.

The wig was on, the short hair resemblance hiding Natalia's hair perfectly, the oversized but very stylish Dior masculine clothing that would make Natalia's curves disappear and resemble a very rectangle figure, like one of a man. Paul was the one who took charge and drove the brunette towards the resort where the drivers meeting and introduction would be held, Natalia was thrilled and nervous, but oh boy, she was thrilled, her hand were sweaty from the excitement, her heart was fast against her chest, and even though she tried to calm it down, it was stupid.

Out the building there was photographers (paparazzi perhaps)  workers from different teams, drivers she could easily recognize from TV, fans, and family members perhaps, there were so many people here, and all Natalia could do is breath to calm down her fast racing heart.

"Okay, here we are, gosh, you got this Nat." Paul said caressing gently the shoulder of the passenger.

"What if someone figures it out?" She answered back.

"They won't, now, out you go, you got this." Paul got out the car, his attention quickly set on the brunette, she looked nervous. "This is just another normal day for you Sam." He said trying his best to encourage her to continue.

Natalia got out of the car, adjusting her jacket over her shoulders, a team engineer from Aston Martin walked past her, greeting them to the event for a moment before moving on, Natalia looked at the man perhaps a little bit too long since the man had to do a double take on her.

"Oh god, he knew, he knew." Natalia got inside the car again, Paul doing the same, bickering between them started. "We gotta go, he recognized that I am a woman, get me back home, this was a stupid idea, why did you agree to do this also?"

"He was being nice, he doesn't know, please Natalia, I spent over two hours doing this, I'm being a good friend and I took my day off for this, you're being so dramatic and acting like such a girl, now go out there and have fun."

With that last word Paul pushed Natalia back out the vehicle, the brunette just shouted out with an Okay and grabbed her bag.

"Stop being like this and show me how to be a man, show me the walk." Natalia turned her heel and strutted away and back, her walk with longer strides but with a firm posture. "Good, let me hear the voice."

"Wassup." Natalia lowered her voice and winked towards Paul, who looked pleased with it. "I'm Samuel." She added with a smirk.

"Oh you did so good, come here." Paul pulled his friend into a hug, both chuckling, Natalia was the one who reacted first and pushed him away. "Remeber, inside every girl there's a boy," a pause and confused look from Paul. "That's came out wrong but you know what I meant."

"People are staring please chill out." Cleaning her throat she grabbed her stuff and waved. "Thanks for the drive." With the lower voice she was out, the brunette made her way to the building, the nerves were high.

The building was filled with various teams, photographers, engineers and drivers, it suddenly felt a little bit too real for Natalia, she could sense it on her heartbeat, the sweaty palms that continued to pull her suitcases behind her, she couldn't go back anymore, she knew Alpine was waiting for her. Well, for Samuel. But you get the point

Someone had opened the door for her and Natalia only nodded up at him, a masculine gesture, right? Pushing her thoughts aside she walked through the hallway, finding space between machines, boxes, people and cameras, everything was so chaotic. There was a moment Natalia could've swore the hallway had gotten smaller, perhaps the crowd was getting bigger but whatever was the reason her breathing was becoming shallower, heavier, it was becoming a desperation for her.

A loud engine noise was heard from afar and that caught Natalia's attention, she focused on that and took a deep breath in and out.

"I got this, I'm a dude." She began the pep talk. "I'm a hunky dude, no," she whispered "I'm a badass hunky dude." With a mental back palm to congratulate herself she felt hype, she got this, she could convince everyone that she belonged here, that she was Samuel, but first she needed to find the conference room between all this chaos.

Continuing with the pushes and screams Natalia hurried to locate a room, big letter or anything that could indicate her where the whole driver meeting would occur. Pacing through the people her eyes located the big room, she hurried inside closing the door shut in front of her, she felt a strange sensation down her spine, as if she wasn't alone in this room right now, slowly she turned around and there they were, Formula One drivers she recognized anywhere and some she adored as she grew up.

They were staring at her, well, him, this moment Natalia wasn't herself, she was Samuel, and she needed to be him.

"Hey." The tone was too raspy, clearing her throat she tried again. "What's up? You must be my driver rivals." Stupid, the moment it came out her mouth it was stupid, the guys just looked at her not knowing whether to laugh or ask questions.

The room was huge, there were chairs and tables everywhere, there were no engineers anywhere just the drivers, she recognized the blondish guy with his very piercing blue eyes as no other Max Verstappen, someone who could be tough to fight with. Her hero and idol, Fernando Alonso was just beside him, he didn't look that intimidating, the total opposite, friendly, Natalia knew she would need to keep her eyes peeled with him, to not be too trusty.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" There was a voice she could hear but not a face she could see around her, just behind her Sergio Perez appeared, the owner of the question.

"I'm Na-" Pause and clear throat. "Samuel Castro, reserve driver for-"

"Alpine, you're here to drive our cars and in case Ocon bails or something." A strong French accent caught her attention. "Pierre Gasly, teammate." With his hand stretched out he greeted Nat. "Welcome to Alpine."

"Thanks." With a smile she looked around, her things were still with her, the tension was uncomfortable. "Anyways, do you know where I can put all my stuff, bros? Brothers?" Hesitant to her words she avoided all type of eye contact, she could hear some people chuckle and herself dying of embarrassment suddenly.

"Yeah, just the left door on the end, there's some locker and stuff, come, I'll show you which lockers are free." Sergio walked past her towards the room, a few more drivers tagged along perhaps to make sure their lockers weren't taken or something. "There's one on the middle that's free." He added patting the open locker.

"Thanks." Natalia said and shoved her bags inside the locker not caring about anything, a few things were out from a small open pocket that she didn't notice.

"Why, why do you have tampons in your bag?" Sergio's voice and question had Natalia's heart beating rapidly.

The rest of the drivers huddled around noticing the small purple box on the floor, a few tampons were out and Natalia, well, she was panicking.

"I-" What was she suppose to say. "I got terrible nose bleeds?" That was believable right?

"So you stick a tampon in your-" Pierre was talking this time. "nose? Is that even comfortable?"

"Is not that comfortable but I mean it works, you guys really never done it before? I mean Nigel Mansell did it like a few times, it's like easy" Natalia picked up the box and pulled one out of the box, the guys took a step back in horror. "All you have to do is take break the plastic, take this off and put it on your nose, and it absorbs it right up." Natalia slowly sticked it on her nose, she was making herself ridiculous, the guys just laughed loudly at what she had done.

"Man you got the weird ones on your team Gasly, good luck with those." Max said jokingly and left the room followed by Alonso, Sergio and lastly Pierre. Natalia took it off and just sighed a mental slap to her head for doing something so stupid, great first day and first interaction.

"Do you guys know what will happen right now?" Questioning the guys after leaving the locker she noticed how more drivers began to walk in.

"It's protocol, introductions of teams and drivers, you won't be introduced though, the reserve drivers are just behind the scenes but you must be here to meet the team principal and engineers, that's all." Sergio explained taking a seat near Max,. "Alpine is over there, good luck out there."

"Gracias." Natalia said and walked past them heading towards the group with the black and pink colors and the big A letter on their attire. "Oh, you must be the reserve driver, I'm Malcom, Esteban's brother and sort of manager." A guy introduced himself to Natalia, his uptight posture and words already bothered her.

"You are not my manager Malcom, you are just here because you need the money." Esteban appeared hitting his brother in the back of his head. "Welcome to the team Sam."

"Thanks, I gotta ask, when do the whole driving start?" Natalia asked curious and eager to start.

"Next week, you'll need to train first and do the whole seat tryouts and stuff, I hope you did winter training, cause that's nothing compared to what's coming this season." The words Esteban said put Natalia on high alert, winter training? She did not do anything like that, she had seen her brother at the gym and the things he did, but boy, she did not think this through.