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It began when Nico started winning, Lewis couldn't handle the fact his best friend was chasing after the title he was fighting hard for. He knew he was supposed to be happy for him, but he just couldn't be happy…, Especially when they were fighting against each other in the championship. It was said your biggest enemy was going to be the man wearing the same uniform and racing the same car as you.
Lewis wanted to win even if it meant bringing Nico down, just for another championship under his belt… Even after this with other championships, he still wanted more.
But Nico didn't understand why Lewis couldn't try to be happy for him at all. They were still best friends, right? Since childhood, they were attached at the hip.
"They were friends, best friends, anything but lovers" . Nico knew everything about Lewis. He knew his favorite color was purple, how his favorite track was Silverstone in the UK, and how his favorite kind of foods were classic Italian dishes and flavorful Indian curries.
Nico was so close to Lewis that he even knew his heart rate, so he knew when he was ok. He knew when Lewis was angry or annoyed just from minute facial expressions or certain things he did that he wouldn’t normally do. Maybe Nico cared too much about what Lewis thought of him, but he still wanted to win this year, despite the ties between him and Lewis slowly loosening its knot.
It started to change their relationship or more rather change Lewis's perspective more than it changed Nicos. Monaco of 2014 tension between them boiled over prompting Lewis to publicly declare that they were no longer friends, but merely colleagues.