Mon Champion

Chapter 6

Oscar's POV:

When I got into the TV room, Lando had already been looking for a movie on Netflix. I thought this was peculiar, since he'd come to apologize, not have a family movie night.

"What is this, movie night?" Lando jumped at the sound of my voice. He looked at me with a raised eyebrow, still subconsciously flipping through movies.

"Background noise, mate. Ever heard of it?" I shrugged this off. I at least thought I should get a say in what movie we watched. Or played? I didn't even know.

Lando flipped through movies and shows for at least 5 minutes before saying "Fuck it.", and choosing Drive to Survive. I sat and watched, wondering how long it was going to take him. He threw the remote at me, signaling that it was my job to choose an episode.

Since he'd refused to take my input on what to pick, I decided to get him back. I knew just the way to do this, as I scrolled to the season dedicated to 2019.

Out of the corner of me eye, I could see Lando silently questioning what I was doing. When I selected the 6th episode, and skipped to the race in Belgium, Lando's curiosity turned to embarrassment when he saw this. He flipped me off with both of his middle fingers. I pretended that my feelings were hurt.

"I think my heart is bwoken." When he heard this, Lando stood to his feet and ran to my side of the couch, pouncing on me like a Lion.

"Your bones are going to be bwoken if you don't apologize." Lando had me in a headlock, with both of my arms behind my back. His strength surprised me.

"Never." I turned my head, or at least tried to, and smiled at him. This ended in an even worse situation for me, my face being jammed into Lando's armpit. It was not pleasant.

"Last warning." Lando laughed. I made the mistake of laughing with him, which meant I had to breathe in, which was not fun. I could hear the attitude in his voice.

"I said never." I felt Lando shrug.

"If you insist." I didn't know what he was planning on doing. To be honest, I was a bit scared. I didn't have much time to think, though, before Lando began to inflict his punishment.

He started tickling me.

He did this with one hand, still using the other to hold my hands behind my back. He wrapped his legs around my body, even further limiting my movement.

I tried desperately to free myself, but my attempts were extremely unsuccessful. We were both uncontrollably laughing now, and this wasn't going to stop as long as Lando didn't, which I didn't see happening any time soon. I made incoherent noises to try to get Lando to stop, but this only made him try harder.

"You know what to say, mate. Just say it." I didn't want to apologize for making fun of him, but I didn't know how much longer I could handle this. I decided to give in.

"Je suis désolé!!" This didn't make Lando stop, and I wondered why not. Then I realized he actually didn't know what I said.

"I'm sorry mate! I'm sorry." This finally got Lando to stop, and I was thankful for that. The last 2-3 minutes were not a pleasant experience.

Lando unwrapped himself from around me, stood up, and sat back down beside me.

"Speaking of sorry, there's kind of a reason I'm here. You know, not to attack you." Lando's expression had changed dramatically, and this didn't go unnoticed by myself. I was still recovering from his onslaught, so I nodded to signal that he could keep talking.

"It wasn't right of me to humiliate you like that, it doesn't matter whether or not laughing is my coping mechanism. It's still wrong to downright laugh in your face like that. Again, I'm sorry." I felt really bad for him. I could tell he felt really bad. He opened his mouth to say something else, but no words came out.

"Its alright, Lando. If it were that big of a deal, I would not have let you in. Yes, my feelings were hurt, but I was already upset. You didn't do anything wrong, I just overreacted." My eyes began to water. I didn't know why I was going to cry. Today was just a lot.

"No, don't cry. Oscar it's my fault." Lando placed his arm around me and pulled me towards him. This caused my tears to start flowing. I didn't try to stop them. I cried on his shoulder, and this felt oddly comfortable.

We sat this way for what felt like forever. Neither of us said anything, it was just me crying and Lando trying to calm me. In all of this happening, I'd completely tuned out the TV. That was until, the moment came.

"It's broken! It's bwoken!" My sobs turned to laughs. Lando's face was red with embarrassment. He saw me laughing and raised an eyebrow.

"Don't make me do it again." When he said this, I leaped off the couch. I wasn't going to let him do that to me again.

"Please don't." Lando laughed when I said this. He then stood up and walked out of the room.

My eyes grew their own mind again, but I was able to stop them this time. At least I thought I was.

His ass still looked great.

I followed Lando into my kitchen, and saw him rummaging around in my fridge. He pulled out a beer and held it towards me.

"Aren't you like, 19?" Lando raised an eyebrow at me. I was just surprised because I thought he was going to drink it. After all, he did have a race tomorrow.

"Yes. Don't act like you didn't drink when you were underage." Lando tried to lie and say he didn't, but when I questioned him, he caved in.

Eventually, Lando pulled 2 water bottles out of the fridge and walked over to give me one. When he walked past me, however, I smelled something that was not pleasant to smell.

Me lying on his shoulder must have had him hot, because he smelled of B.O.

"Mate, can I ask you a question?" Lando raised an eyebrow at me. He then nodded his head, and I asked my question.

"When was the last time you took a shower?" I laughed when I said this, and Lando looked at me, evidently offended.

"After qualifying. Why?" He still looked extremely offended. I was still laughing at his expression,

"I do not believe you. You stink." I could tell he was still offended, and my comments only added to this. He tried to subtly smell himself, but it was extremely obvious.

"Fine. I'll take one." He then walked past me into MY bedroom, and into MY bathroom.

"Lando, what are you doing?" I walked after him, but I was too slow, as I heard my bathroom door close.

I stood in shock for a second. I thought he may have been joking, but I could tell he wasn't when I heard the water turn on.

I was even more confused when I thought of what Lando was going to wear afterwards. I hoped he wasn't going to put on his same clothes, because they smelled terrible.

I decided to leave him one of my Gucci hoodies, and a pair of shorts. I didn't know if they would fit him, but it was his fault if they didn't. I decided that I should leave him clean Calvins. Again, I was sure they wouldn't fit, but again, it was his fault.

I then returned to the TV, now picking a movie of my own. I decided on a random movie in French, because I didn't know what else to choose.

The movie was extremely boring.

So boring, in fact, that I drifted to sleep halfway through.