One Look 》Lando Norris

9 - plus one

It's tuesday morning and I'm extremely nervous. Lando will pick me up at my place, but I don't want things to be akward or anything like that. The flight to Bahrein is gonna take a while. I was finishing up the last things before I am ready to go and making sure I didn't forget anything, I can be quite clumsy sometimes.

Lando 🧡

Be there in ten! See you soon :)

Great, I'm almost done, see u in a few.

Here we go, the doorbell rang and I walked towards the entrance and saw a very tired looking man. I can't blame him since it's 6.50am. I guess we're both not really morning people. I gave him a quick hug before he decided to speak up. "Goodmorning, ready?!" He said with a small grin on his face. I opened the door a little further and let him come in. He was patiently waiting for me to be finished so we could go. Lando was quick to pick up my bags and put them into his car. I am more than capable of carrying my own stuff, but he insisted on carrying it for me. That really shows how sweet this guy actually is. He looked extremely tired and yet he was dragging my luggage to the vehicle. 

The ride to the airport was short and not much had been said on the way here. I was a little nervous to meet everybody he was working with. Lando has told me a few things about Carlos, Zak and Andreas but that didn't really help. "Heyy calm down, they will like you." I hope they will, what if they don't. Are they going to act different around me? How would I know, I don't even know what they are normally like. "If you say so. I'm just feeling a little trapped if you know what I mean. So many new people I have to get to know and give a decent first impression to. But also not really having a way to simply ignore them."

We walked towards the entrance of the airport and Lando pointed at the group of people wearing white and orange t-shirts. "They are over there and Nina just be yourself and you'll be just fine. There is no reason not to like you." Did he really mean that, omg, that's so sweet. Or did he just say that to keep me calm. "Landooooo!" We heard a guy say. "Carloooosssss!" Lando said and it clicked, this is the Carlos Sainz aka his teammate. "And who's this nice young lady you brought with you?"
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Nina, nice to meet you!" He shook my hand and gave Lando a weird look I couldn't really understand. "Ahh so you are Nina, Lando has told me so much about you!" Oh god no. Had he been talking about me. What did he say, was it good, was it bad, was it idk... I could see Lando's cheeks turn a little pink. Did he just blush at Carlos his comment. After a little akward silence I decided to speak up. "Only the good things I hope." Is said with a small giggle escaping my mouth, ofcourse hoping Lando didn't say anything bad or weird about me. "There is nothing bad to say about you Nina!" I looked down at my feet, trying to hide my tomato red cheeks from the two boys in front of me.

Lando Norris did not just say that to me. Oh my god, this is soo freakin sweet, it gives my butterflies in my stomach. Carlos gave Lando a 'I see what you are trying to do here' look and it made me giggle. "Why are you laughing?" They both asked me at the same time. It is way too early in the morning and I've already managed to make a fool out of myself. Best start to a day ever. "Nothing really, let's go before we miss the flight." Carlos left Lando and me alone again and walked towards a few other mclaren employees.

"See that was not that bad, Carlos already likes you, I'm sure about that." We checked in and gave them our suitcases, walked around for a bit and decided to sit down. Me and Lando were sat on a small two-person couch and  in front of us were Carlos, Carlos his manager who happend to have the name Carlos as well, and the two trainers Jon and Rupert. Lando was right they were nice people, but I still felt a little left out when they talked about things that happend on race weekends. I didn't have anything to add to the conversation so I'll just go a grab a coffee or something, stretch my legs a for a few minutes. "I'm going to find Starbucks, do I need to bring you guys something too?" I made a small list on my phone with everything they wanted to have and just when I was about to leave Lando decided to join me.

"You don't have to join me just because I'll be alone otherwise." I had this feeling that he would just come with me because he felt sorry for me, that he would rather be with his friends at the lounge area. "Why would you think that I wouldn't want to spend some time with you alone?" This is really confusing but we just kept on walking for a bit until I finally found starbucks. We orded eveything and had to wait until it was done. When I looked to my right where Lando was standing I saw him staring at me. He quickly looked away and he started to blush again. Why does he look so cute when he blushes. "Did I already tell you you look beautiful today?" I don't know where he suddenly got the confidence from, but god what has he done to me. My face turned completely red and I wanted to look away, but I didn't. Both of us surprised by eachothers sudden confidence boosts. "No you didn't." "Well you look beautiful Nina." Who is this guy and where did the shy Lando go?! I might like this other side of him. "Thanks, you don't look too bad yourself!" We kept looking at eachother for a few seconds until the barista gave us the drinks. A was going to grab my wallet and pay but Lando was quicker. "Lan, you don't have to pay, I can pay for it you know." I didn't even notice the nickname I gave him. Lan, it sounds good, I'll use that more often. "No I pay, I invited you to come with me this weekend and I earn more then you do. So please let me pay for all of this." I let out a sigh and told him he could pay for this one time.

We went onto the plane and Lando luckily had the seat next to me. I had the seat next to the window and Lando sat on my right. The flight is going to be quite long and boring so I had to mentally prepare myself for a second. "How can you possibly enjoy reading a book with that many pages." I let out a small giggle at Lando's comment. It was normal for me, there have been multiple times where I found myself completely lost in a book. So drawn to the story that you want to keep reading. "It's relaxing, you should try it sometime." He rolled his eyes and shook his head. After I had stopped reading the book and listen to some music I fell asleep. "Wake up, wake up. Nina. We are here, wake up." I slowly opend my eyes and I was laying against Lando, my head on his shoulder. "Omg sorry, I fell asleep on you, I'm sorry, next time just wake me up okay?" "Nina relax, I was asleep as well, I also just woke up." Oh thank god, I started stressing. Wouldn't it be rude to fall asleep on someone's shoulder if they where still awake the entire time. We got out of the plane and I was warmer than I thought it would be.

We arrived at out hotel and wanted to check in but there was one slight problem. "I'm sorry miss but we are overbooked. And because you are not officially part of a team we have to cross out your name on the guest list." "You can sleep in my room, we will fix something okay, no need to stress about it." Lando knew exactly what I was thinking. Does he already know me that well.