The Intern || A Lando Norris Fanfiction

45. Jona

I'm so incredibly thankful for McLaren letting me do only the Twitter coverage of the sessions this weekend. Giving me the ability to spent as much time as I'd like with Emily.

"Alright so it's a sprint race weekend. Which means we have a race and qualifying today." I explain Emily as we're walking into the paddock. "So we're gonna check in with the team first, I need to get the phone we're posting on socials with, and I want to check in with Lando."

Emily and I spent the night in my hotel room, while Lando spent it in his. And it's not like I can say I've had a whole lot of sleep. We went to a Max Verstappen fan party Emily found out about, and it was fun partying with other Dutch people. It always is a sense of familiarity for me.

"You know there are pics of us from last night on socials right?" Emily asks as we're walking into the McLaren garage.

"I'm very much aware of that." I say a smile on my face thinking about last night. My ankle didn't really enjoy it, but once there's enough alcohol in the body you don't really notice it. But it is the reason I'm using one of my crutches for today. Just for the extra support.

"What's wrong?" Lando asks coming to us, as soon as he sees us entering the garage.

"Partied a bit too much last night." I tell him. "Nothing major, just stood and danced on it a bit too much."

"Well, as long as you had fun, it's okay. I've got to get ready though." He says kissing me lightly and walking to the engineer that's holding his helmet.

"So let's go find Charlotte and Carmen, they should be around here somewhere." I tell Emily grabbing the stuff I need and making my way out of the garage.

Charlotte's not that hard to find, enjoying the sun in front of the Ferrari hospitality together with Isa. "Good morning." I say as we're walking up to them. "Isa, Char, this is my best friend Emily." I introduce Em to them.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Charlotte." Charlotte says, pulling her feet off of the chair so Emily can take a seat there.

"I'm Isa, nice to meet you." Isa says. "Do you girls like anything to drink?"

"Water's great." I say putting my sunglasses on. The sun hurting my eyes a bit, maybe I've had too much to drink last night.

"Had fun last night I reckon?" Charlotte asks as Isa is getting some water for me and Emily.

"It's been a while since I've had a night like that." I tell Charlotte.

"I'm coming with you next time. Definitely during the Dutch Grand Prix but we should go party a lot more." Charlotte says.

"Oh you're welcome any time." I tell her, before Charlotte starts a conversation with Emily, Isa joining them.

My attention however is caught by the fact that the speaker is announcing FP1 will start in ten minutes. "I've got to go, need to be watching the race to tweet about that." I tell the girls. "I've got Grand Stand places, I can get you all in?" I suggest, not wanting to break up their conversation.

"Sounds fun, something different than the garage for once." Isa says, as we're all making our way to the grand stand to watch the first free practise.

***

Turns out Emily connects with Charlotte, Isa, Carmen and Kelly as well as I do. It's been a fun day with an early qualifying this Friday. Lando's qualifying definitely did not go as he hoped, getting stranded on a 15th place.

"So you're going out again tonight?" Lando asks as we're having dinner with Emily, Charles, Daniel, Charlotte, Carlos and Isa.

"Heck yes, there's another fan party at the camping ground tonight." Emily says excitedly.

"So you hear, we're going to party with crazy Max fans." I chuckle.

"If there's any stroopwafels can you get them for me then." Daniel chimes in.

"You know you can just ask me anytime? I'm flying back and forth almost every week." I tell him making the table laugh.

"I'm joining." Charlotte says, making the whole table go silent, especially Charles.

"You didn't tell me that." Charles says, looking at his girlfriend, disbelief written across his face.

"What, I'm just a 22 year-old who wants to go have a party with some of her friends." She says, receiving a chuckle from Charles.

"That's fine, just didn't know." He says, diving into his food. "Just stick together okay? We don't want weird gossip sites going crazy on what you do when you're drunk. That goes for you too Jona." Charles says sternly, like he's my big brother.

"Yeah sure." Charlotte says, petting Charles' leg.

***

"Girl you look amazing." I tell Charlotte as she's entering my hotel room in a dark blue jeans with a white lace top.

"So do you." She exclaims, I'm wearing denim shorts with a flanel shirt and a black top underneath it.

"Let me do your hair." Emily says to me, holding her curling iron up in the air. We finish getting ready together, before taking a taxi to the camping ground.

We enter the camp ground, showing my all access F1 pass. It's great to have all access to every place in every grand prix, especially this one.

We go to the bar, getting some drinks first before going onto the dance floor and dancing our hearts out.

"I've gotta go use the restroom." Charlotte says to me and Emily.

"Okay, we're coming with you." I tell her, but she whiffs me off. Telling me she's very capable of going on her own.

After twenty minutes Charlotte still hasn't returned, and I'm starting to worry. "Let's go find her." Emily says, dragging me along to the restrooms.

"Leave me alone." I hear someone yell, I recognise that voice immediately. Sharing a look with Emily, we take action. Walking behind the toilet blocks. I can see Charlotte being backed into a corner by a huge man.

"Leave her alone." I yell, catching the man by surprise, giving Charlotte the time to get away from the corner she's been backed into. Making a stand next to me and Emily. "Don't bother us again." I say, as we're walking away, leaving the man stunned. I'm so happy he didn't come after us.

"What'd he want from you?" Emily asks Charlotte as we're walking away from the camp ground, as I'm calling a taxi to bring us back to our hotels.

"What'd you think, fucking pervert." She says, still shaking from what just happened. "Next time, I'm listening to Charles. We're not separating again."

"Totally agree." I chime, and Emily agrees as well. Knowing very well the next time the three of us will be together is probably in Belgium.

We end up in the hotel bar of the hotel we're staying in. The Ferrari hotel within walking distance. Turns out you can play drinking games when you're in a hotel bar.