Monza - {Lando Norris}

Chapter 11

"Quit my job?! What would I do for money?" We begin to slowly walk again as Lando ruffles his hand through his curly messy hair "Sofia are you serious? Look at you. I know for a fact once people see you here, you will get 100 offers for modelling companies, I'm actually shocked you haven't been offered one yet. Not to be weird but your instagram pictures already look like you're a model. You could do that and then plus be an influencer, you're stunning and you would do great in that type of industry. Please think about it, if you quit we could go somewhere together next week as I don't have a race, it would be fun and give us the chance to get to know each other better" I wish the ground would honestly swallow me up, I don't even know what to think or say back to him, his eyes stare at me in desperation for an answer and my whole body is in agreement with everything he says but something is stopping me and I know what it is, I would feel awful leaving Giuseppe in such a short notice and it would leave him with basically nothing, he has offered me the promotion and has treated me so fair the past while but that's not what I want to do for the rest of my life. Lando's stare lingers on at me and I can feel him trying to pry an answer out of me. In my mind I'm weighing out the pros and the cons of the situation. After what feels like a lifetime of mentally fighting myself I make up my mind "Fine, I'll do it, but if I don't get anywhere with all the shit you said about modelling companies you will be paying for everything and anything I want. You understand?" Lando picks me up and tightly squeezes me "This will be so fun! I'm so happy you agreed" He sets me down again and then gives me a quick hug "We should hurry this walk up, I have a couple things to do before practice, and then afterwards we need to talk about where our first adventure together is going to be" He basically giggles like a child who just ate a millions sweets, he's so hyper. We quickly finish off the walk and arrive back at the garage where multiple people are gathered around, Lando walks up to one of the men and slaps him on the back "Daniel, whats up" The man turns around and once he sees that it's Lando a smile fills up his face "Ayoo Lando" The loud,thick australian accent fills my ears "Sofia, come here to you meet Daniel" He gestures me over and I make my way past the people standing "Hi, I'm Sofia" Daniel scans me with his eyes "Yeah I know! I saw the Ted interview. Awkward or what?" He laughs loudly "It's nice to meet you Sofia, so are you getting close with my Lando? Do I have to get all territorial over him?" I let out a small laugh "No, I'll let you have your time with him for now. I actually need to go do something" They chat amongst themselves whilst I look around.

Once they're done talking I excuse myself and Lando walks me through the garage to a private room "So are you going to ring your boss now?" I look down at my phone "Yeah, I think so. I don't think this is going to end well" I cheerlessly laugh "Do you want me to stay while you ring or?" Lando is trying to be nice and everything but I need my space to do this "No, it's grand. Go back up there and I'll come back up when I'm finished. Thanks for offering though" Lando's dimples glistened underneath the light "Ok, see you in a while" He walks out of the room and once the door is shut, I press call on Giuseppe's name. After a couple rings it finally answers "Hello Sofia, is everything alright?" His voice stern like always "Ciao Giuseppe, I need to speak to you about something..." Silence, nothing coming from his end so I bit my tongue and get on with it "So I've been offered a really good job with an amazing company" I don't know why I'm lying, it does feel easier to lie about it but it makes me feel horrendous "I've decided to take it but it requires me to travel to different countries so therefore I'm handing my notice in and sadly leaving Hotel de la Ville" I wait a couple seconds and still silence. There is a couple mutters from the other side of the phone but nothing that I can make out, after a couple more seconds finally I hear his voice "Sofia.. your family has always been close to me and as much as it pains me to see you leave, I physically can't bring myself to talk you out of this, I fear your father would murder me for even attempting it. If you think this new job will bring you happiness and suffice to you more than I'm more than happy for you even though it pains me to lose you, you have been nothing but astonishing for this company and it's been a pleasure to have you work for us, the next person to get your job will have big boots to fill. So your notice, how long will you be doing?" I burrow my eyebrows together as I remember Lando saying we should do something this upcoming week "I know it's incredibly short notice but I need to leave by Wednesday, so my last shift will be Monday" A sigh comes from his end "Understandable, it's a good thing we have a new girl coming in, I suppose one of the floor staff could take over the position for a while until we have her trained up and then we need to get someone else now" I'm shocked at how well he is taking this "Is that all Sofia?" I nibble at my bottom lip "Yes Giuseppe, that's everything. So sorry about how short the notice is" A quick mutter is heard from him "It's fine Sofia,I want you to be happy and I pray that this new job works out for you. Wishing you all the best. Addio Sofia" The phone beeps to indicate that he hung up and as I close my phone I let out a deep sigh of relief.