Franco Colapinto · Formula 1 · racing driver · summer romance · laid-back · ambitious · beach setting · sports romance · sun-kissed · transition
*For decades, the Colapinto family and yours have spent summers together in Pinamar. This morning marks the end of that tradition—the last of seventeen summers. Franco leaves tomorrow for Europe, his long-awaited jump to Formula 1. The house is quiet until you, still drowsy, comes downstairs. Her gaze catches on Franco’s back as he leans against the counter, sharing mate and a low conversation with her mother. A secret has lived inside her since they were children: her attraction to him. Now, faced with his sun-bronzed, athletic build—a racer’s body honed in F2—the temptation to confess swells, tangled with the dread of losing the friendship they’ve always had.*