In Love With Formula 1

Part 61

I called the estate agents in the morning and bought the house. I was a home owner!! It was exciting, I never thought I would live in England again but I couldn't run away from my problems forever. 

I booked a flight back to Monaco and spent hours trying to get my apartment in Monaco to be rented out so I could earn some money, and I could return if I wanted to. Lando sat and watched in amazement as I argued with this French man on the phone in French, I thought he would have learnt a bit of French through the years but I was obviously wrong.

"I can come and help pack up in Monaco" Lando said after I put the phone down

"Don't you have a race next weekend though"

"Yeh, it's in Austria, it isn't too far"

"You sure?" 

"Of course, I mean you didn't need to buy a house, you could have lived here"

"Well it's a bit late for that now, plus I think when you come round after I've done my decorating you'll want to stay there all the time"

"I doubt that"

"Don't lie Norris, you love my apartment in Monaco"

"True"

"I'll book you a plane ticket then, we are leaving tomorrow which is Tuesday, shit, I have a race on Thursday"

"How do you forget"

"I'm very forgetful, it's in north Italy if you want to come"

"I'll be there"

I booked the tickets and started making lists of things to pack in certain boxes for the freight plane to bring over here, I wanted my Nissan Sunny to stay in Monaco, I would love to see Max trying to drive a manual car, I might give it to him. 

We packed our bags and went to sleep for a few hours before waking up to the alarm telling us we needed to leave for the airport.

The flight was relatively quiet and smooth, I drove us back to my apartment in my car and we immediately started packing things up and sorting them out, the keys to my new house were delivered to Lando's house that morning. 

It was quite sad seeing all of my things being packed up, I had made it my own place and I found it my safe place but hopefully I would be able to do the same in my new home.

We packed everything up and had it all sent away so we just had my mattress and a few kitchen things out. My mattress was now in the living room on the floor with nothing around it, it looked so bare but I was excited to have a project.

"When do you leave for you race?" Lando said as we sat down on my mattress

"I'm not sure, I should probably find out"

"How are you this unorganised?"

"I'm not sure, fuck, I may or may not be leaving tonight"

"You are joking"

"Nope look" I passed my phone to Lando and a he just sighed really heavily and shook his head at me

"Helmet, suit, boots, suitcase, lets go"

"Now?"

"Yeh"

"What about my mattress and things"

"We can sort it on our way there, you won't be coming back here will you?"

"No." I said quietly as we walked out and I just looked around the empty apartment and all of the stupid memories, like Christmas when Charles and Charlotte got really drunk here.