Lando Norris~Stream

~ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝟙𝟝~

The airport was filled with large groups of people all bundled together with their luggage discussing who they are going to be travelling with to the hotel. Slowly the large group got smaller and smaller until it was just me the three girls, Lando, Carlos Jon and a man who was holding a camera in his left hand.  All the boys approached our small group and even though Lando was wearing a mask I could tell he was smiling approaching me.

"Hey boys," Charlotte said as the boys stopped in front of us. "Hello, I'm Carlos nice to meet you. I'm guessing your Kelsey" a man with a thick Spanish accent said as he put his hand out for me to shake. "Yep, that's me, and you must be Carlos" I mumbled as I was unsure if I was right and didn't want to embarrass myself. "The one and only" he replied with a laugh. "We should get going" Helen interrupted as she started walking towards the exit. We all followed until we got outside and we had to decide who was travelling together to the Hotel.

It ended up being me, Lando, Carlos and Jon in one of the minivans and the girls and Henrik in the other. Me and Lando sat on one side and Carlos and Jon sat on the other side. Carlos was sitting facing me and Jon was sat facing Lando.

I sat in silence for a couple of minutes looking out the window at the beautiful landscapes of Portugal. The boys were talking among themselves about the race weekend and what their plans were for when we arrived at the hotel. "So, Kelsey tell us a bit about yourself," Carlos said, I dragged my eyes away from the beautiful views of Portugal to look at the boys. "What do you want to know?" I asked. "Well I need to know everything so I can make sure you are right for Lando here," Carlos said leaning forward to ruffle Lando's hair. "Carlos shut up" Lando growled slapping his hand away. I looked over at Jon making eye contact with him before we both laughed at the two boys. You could tell they had built up a really good relationship working together for nearly 2 years.

"Kelsey, please ignore him" Lando mumbled. "No, it's alright. I get it. The whole team is close and are like family so you are all just making sure I am here for all the right reasons" I explained. "Exactly, Kelsey understands!" Carlos exclaimed. "Also from what I've heard you don't invite many people to races unless it's family." I added, "or any one of the female gender. So it must be a huge shock to everyone in the team, they can't believe it" I joked. " I like her already" Carlos laughed. "Yeah, good luck this season mate. It was already bad enough with him. Now we've got this one" Jon said pointing at both me and Carlos. We all laughed but Lando just looked down to the floor.

I looked over at Lando and placed my hand on his leg and leaning my head on his shoulder. "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you" I whispered so only Lando could hear. He placed his hand on top of mine that was resting on his leg to show that he understood without actually saying anything. We continued to talk for the rest of the journey to the Hotel getting to know each other better.

After a while, the van came to a stop. I looked out the window and saw a large modern building which I could only assume was the hotel, "here we are" the driver announced as he got out of the van. He started to lift the cases out the back of the van as me and the boys made our way out to help the driver with our things. A few minutes later we were joined by the girls and Henrik. "Are you guys coming?" Henrik asked looking at our group. "Where?" Jon replied, "To the track obviously," Charlotte said sarcastically. "Someone will sort out your bags and put them in your rooms" Charlotte explained "now come on," she said grabbing a hold of my arm and dragging me to the bus that would take us and the rest of the team to track.

The drive to the track only took 10 minutes so there was not a lot of conversation going on as people were just admiring the views of the track and the landscapes of Portugal. We all got off the bus and yet again we all split up into little groups to make our way into the paddock. "Practice starts in an hour so you had about 20 minutes to do whatever," I overheard Charlotte saying to Carlos. "Come on," Lando said grabbing my hand and leading me towards the entrance of the paddock. "Take this" Lando said handing me his paddock pass. I took it out of his hand "how are you going to get in?" I questioned. "Don't worry about me just come in a few minutes after me" he instructed. I nodded and watched as he walked towards the gates of the paddock. He spoke to the security and walked through the turnstiles.