Love and Rivalry {Female F1 driver}

Staycation

On Wednesday, Charles had gone back home to Monaco along with Arthur. Isack was in France with his family, and I was alone in London. Or so I thought. 

I had just received a text from Charles, saying they were boarding the plane, while I was walking around town. I told him to get there safely and to text me when they landed. While texting, I had my head down in my phone, so I didn't see a thing until I walked straight into someone. 

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry-!" I looked up, "You need to learn to watch where you're going, Yn. Some day you won't be lucky enough that it's just me, you know." Lando said and winked at me. I couldn't help but smile at the familiar face, "I'm sorry Lan, I'll be more careful." He just chuckled and pulled me to the side as people were trying to walk past us. "No worries, I'm always happy to see you." He smiled. 

"Aren't you going back to Monaco for the break?" I asked curiously. "Nope, I'm staying here. My parents live in Bristol, so I'm staying at theirs." He explained. "Ahh, I see," I replied and he smiled with a small nod. "Have you got any interesting plans yet?" he asked and I let out a small sigh while shaking my head no. "Well, how about we go karting one of the days?" I laughed a little and shook my head. "Again? Lan, we're off for only a little over a week and you still want to go karting?"

He laughed too and scratched the back of his neck. "Alright, how about mini golf then?" I looked him in the eyes and I could tell he was hoping for a yes, so of course I couldn't resist. "Sure, let's do that." I chuckled and his smile grew wider. "Tomorrow then! I'll come pick you up at your apartment!" He took out his phone and handed it to me. "Here, give me your number and I'll text you a time to be ready and you text me the address, okay?" I took his phone and put in my phone number with the name 'Yn Carter'.

When I gave it back to him he giggled a bit and shook his head, "What?" I asked and he looked at me with a teasing look. "Yn Carter? I'll change it to something else, that's too formal." I acted offended at his teasing and he looked at me with a 'serious' look, saying "You better not put me under Lando Norris!" I couldn't take him seriously though, as he had a smile on his face the whole time, so I decided to tease him back. "Why not? That's your name, is it not?" 

Now he looked at me offended. "Don't you dare, Yn!" he put up his finger pointing at me. "What should I put you under then?" I asked, crossing my arms. He acted as if he was thinking about it for a minute, then looked at me with a happy face and said, "You should put me under 'Lan' and then with a heart at the end!" He said, drawing a heart in the air to illustrate.

I laughed and shook my head at his silliness. "Dream on, Lando Norris." I made sure to say his full name extra clearly just to tease him further, but he couldn't hold back a big smile from spreading on his lips. He always had the brightest of smiles, I couldn't help but be happy whenever he was. It was a gift of his I suppose, always spreading the best energy and lighting up any room he walked in. Truly admirable, he was.

"Tomorrow, Carter. Be ready to lose!" He winked at me, beginning to take a step to walk past me. "I never lose, Norris, just you wait and see!" I spoke back and he just shook his head before walking away, leaving me standing with a smile on my face. This break seemed to going to be just fine after all.

The next day, Lando said he was picking me up at around 11 am, so I had plenty of time to take a shower and get ready for the day. I put on a casual but cute outfit, one that I felt comfortable in and decided to go through Twitter before going out. Just as I saw an article about Charles and I leaving my apartment the other day, I got a message from him.

"Did you see it?" was all it said. I opened the article and it was just like the others, so I didn't care much at this point. "Just did, it's not that bad?" I replied, only to get an incoming call from him.