bucket list || l. norris

thirty three

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Austria came and went.

Lando had a fairly successful weekend and he was pleased with the result he produced, finishing in sixth after starting P5. Like always, I felt so proud of him. He felt a little deflated, finishing lower than he started, but I saw it as an achievement, and I was still in awe of all the things he did so easily. I couldn't never find the courage to climb into a Formula One car and do what he did.

Meanwhile, we kept our new relationship hidden while we were in the paddock. With an agreement to keep things subtle until we told people, it was easy to act like nothing was going on between us. All we needed to do was act in the same way we had been for years. It wasn't difficult, and it turned out that we were such good actors, so nobody figured out anything was different between us. They probably caught on with the tension between us in France more easily than the usual happiness and joy we shared in Austria.

Since we made it official, I'd felt an unusual warmth in my heart, one that I'd not experienced until Lando and I became a real thing. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever known, waking up beside him and feeling him kiss my lips tiredly as he caressed my face and gushed about how lucky he felt to have me. Although it was the best decision I'd ever made, I still found it difficult to believe that Lando and I were actually together. Like, we'd been best friends for as long as I could remember and now we were in a relationship - a proper, boyfriend and girlfriend relationship - and it sounded like the weirdest thing to say. But, it was the right thing to say, and it made me happy. He makes me happy.

We agreed not to tell our parents straight away. Enjoying the early days of our relationship without anyone pushing their nose in was total bliss. The only person who knew was Micah, since he felt it was appropriate to force it out of me. Realistically, however, without Micah, Lando and I wouldn't even be a thing, so he deserved to be the first to know. He promised to keep quiet, and it actually seemed to lift his spirits, so I was pleased to be the person to make him smile a little wider.

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Ahead of the race weekend in Silverstone, Lando and I offered to have our families over for dinner. Mum jumped at the idea and she couldn't wait to get everyone back together again, but I didn't really understand her excitement too much because Lando's family were staying with her, dad and Micah before we left for Silverstone and spent the weekend in a hotel. Lando and I offered to make dinner on the Wednesday evening, before we all left Surrey on the Thursday morning. Lando offered to drive us up there early because otherwise we would have to push the dinner forward, which wasn't as easy since my parents both had work.

I just couldn't contain my excitement because we agreed to keep our relationship quiet until the dinner. Unease filled me initially when I thought about telling them. I didn't want anyone to start prying, but Lando reassured me that our relationship remained our business and they knew how to give us privacy. For so long, both my mum and Cisca wanted us together. Maybe we felt internal pressure to make things romantic because they always wanted that for us, but we let it happen naturally and on our own accord. That made me happy, and I knew how happy it would make them to know we were a thing. Although mum knew about what happened between us in Paris, she seemed to forget about it, considering she never brought it up in conversation. She had no reason to, honestly, but I was distraught on her doorstep that morning, and I only hid it away because Micah's heartbreak was more important to me than my confusion.