Something Gained

Chapter Sixty-Two

The Mexican Grand Prix passed us quickly, it wasn't a great weekend for the boys, but we were moving onto Brazil quite quickly and we had a couple of bits to do straight away. Firstly we visited Ayrton Senna's grave as a whole team. Ayrton is a legend for McLaren, and won world championships with them, so it was common as a team to visit his grave when we came to Brazil, we did it the year before as well, to pay our respects.
We also had Lando's birthday this weekend, we had gone out to celebrate properly earlier in the week as we would be focused and busy working on his actual birthday, we also had the Remembrance Day service as well on the 11th November.

On Saturday I woke up bright and early, quickly got dressed with Daniel. We had already managed to get a keycard for his room, I blagged it somehow I couldn't tell you how. We let ourselves into his room after meeting Jon outside, and sneaked in. We stood either side of his bed while he was still sound asleep. We then both let off massive confetti canons over him which startled him away. I was crying with laughter at his face
"I hate you. I hate you all" Lando yelled
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" We yelled at him. We had already put his presents on his table and we all ran out giggling like three annoying kids.
"We're going to die for that" I said to Daniel and Jon as stood in the hallway
"It was all worth it" Jon said laughing "you're the queen of pranks" he saluted me and walked into his room and I followed Daniel into our room. I had brought Lando some new Golfing bits, as he was obsessed with playing golf everywhere we went. Daniel and I sat down to eat breakfast from the room service I had ordered, qualifying today. Hopefully it's a better result than last week.

We got to the track and I was tasked with keeping Lando behind while the whole team assembled in the garage. He was about to walk out with Daniel.
"Lands can I borrow you for a second?" I shouted from my office, he nodded and Daniel went on without him, just as planned
"You've got some Netflix bits to do Monday night when we get to Qatar, is that good for you?" I asked him
"Yeah, as long as I'm not completely shattered"
"I can move it to Tuesday?" I asked
"Nah leave it for Monday that's fine"
"Okay thank you" I said, typing on my laptop confirming the schedule
"You coming down to the garage?" He asked
"Yep, let's go" I said, I closed my laptop and grabbed my phones. We walked out of the trailer together, and into the garage where the team where playing 22 by Taylor Swift for Lando. It made him laugh, I took his arm and pulled him to the front of the garage where everyone was waiting and sang happy birthday to him, we had got him a cake that was decorated to look like a golf course and a number 22 candle on top. 22. Little baby!

"Speech!" Some of the team yelled
"I'm not good at speeches, but erm thank you for this lovely cake and for all of you"
"Aw they're singing for you" Daniel said pointing at the crowd in the stands
"They're so nice. But yeah thank you everyone, now get back to work" Lando said smiling. Everyone eventually departed and the boys got ready for sprint qualifying. I sat down with Hannah in the garage.
"My favourite person in the whole world, how are you?" I said
"Tired, feel sick, but otherwise fine. Liam constantly checks on me. It's so sweet" she said
"I'm glad he's being so nice, what's your plans, I've been hearing things" I said
"You know better than I do to not listen to rumours" she said
"I know but Im going to be sad when you leave"
"I'm just gonna take it easy and not return for the next season and then see what happens after that. But I won't be travelling anymore. I'll work at the MTC I reckon as I live nearby anyway, but it's not for a while"
"It's like the end of an era" I said. She put her arms around me
"I know! But whenever you're back in England you know where I'll be. And we'll still talk all the time" she said
"We will!"
"You'll just have to run things here on your own, I'll be in the background helping from afar. But you're amazing at what you do, and this is the next chapter in my life" she said
"I love how calm you are"
"I'm just filled with happiness and I'm riding that wave. Ooh they're about to start" Hannah said pointing to the screen. We both turned our attention to the cars on the track.

P5 and p11. Daniel wasn't too excited but he was still his smiley self in front of the cameras, they did their media and then their team briefings and we were free to go. We were doing a small dinner tonight for Lando. I got ready, I was excited for dinner, I had barely eaten all day and my stomach was rumbling at me. It was Lando, Dan, Michael, Jon, Liam, Hannah and I for dinner tonight. Dan was with Michael in his room and I was waiting for Hannah to appear so we could chill out before dinner.

"Oh heyyy" I said as I opened the door and saw Hannah standing there.
"I am starving!" Hannah yelled walking in the room, I closed the door behind her
"You are eating for two" I said laughing, "how many weeks along are you?"
"Nearly 10. So still so early, after Qatar, when we go back to England I've got a scan as I'll be nearly 12 weeks and then that's where I'll confirm things with Zak and we'll probably let team know, but I'm nearly a third of the way through already"
"I think the whole thing is crazy. Like there's literally life growing in you right now" I said to her, she laughed and sat down and sipped her water that I had given her
"I know, it doesn't feel real sometimes"
"You like nice though" I said gesturing to her outfit. She had gone for an oversized dress which she wore with a belt around her waist and some converse
"Thank you, I'm doing everything I can to just be comfortable at the moment" she said. There was another knock on my door and I went and opened it to find all the boys out there.
"Come on stop chit chatting let's go" Lando said. Hannah was right behind me as we walked out the door and down the hallway to the lift.