One Song || A Lando Norris Fanfiction

THIRTY-FIVE

Song of the chapter: The Climb by Miley Cyrus

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"I guess the word is out." I say, sitting down at Lando's kitchen table back in Monaco, placing two cups of coffee on the table. The cast had been removed earlier this morning, and I was already trying to find the limit in what I could do with the broken wrist. Carrying two coffee cups was definitely the limit right now.

"I guess it is." He says, still looking at his Instagram. Somehow a picture of the two of us kissing in London last week ended up online. Even if I felt like we were the only two at that spot at the moment, we clearly weren't. The picture got posted online yesterday, and went viral almost immediately.

"So what do you want to do about it?" I ask, not even sure what I'd like to happen going forward.

"I have no idea. Maybe just sit this out, and confirm whenever the storm lays down?" He suggest and I simply agree.

"I'm not sure if things will calm down though. Not with me coming to Bahrain with you next week." I state, and Lando seems to overthink what he'd just proposed.

"Well, then there's always the idea to just come forward with it." He suggests. We aren't even worried about our families, I had met his while we were in the UK. And my mom met him over FaceTime. It's not as real, but at least she knows what is happening.

"We could also just not comment? And just wait until it pops up in an interview?" I suggest, and we both settle on that. I was not planning on leaving Lando's apartment for most of this week. He was planning on spending a lot of time on the sim and I just wanted to be close by. Still not able to fully do everything on my own. There's just too many things that are very hurtful for me right now. 

Our relationship had soon become the worst kept secret between the drivers, with me being added into this massive double date group chat. Holding all the couples of the grid. I have to admit I was a bit overwhelmed when I got added, but right now they all seem like a great group of people. 

"I do have to do a massive stint on the sim, got any plans?" Lando asks as he's finishing his coffee and getting up to go to his sim.

"Charlotte's coming over if that's alright?" I ask, realising I hadn't even asked him. And this is still his house. Maybe I should've asked if it was alright before inviting her over. 

"Yeah that's fine, as long as you don't interrupt me too much." He says giving me a quick peck on the lips before leaving the room. It doesn't take long after that before Charlotte knocks on the door.

"You need my advise?" She asks as we sit down on the huge couch.

"I do," I say pulling my iPad out. "I know how you're great with photography and everything, and I just need a kind of unbiased opinion on these." I pull up the possible images for the tour posters. Even if it's still early, the first tickets are about to go on sale within the coming weeks.

"These are beautiful." Charlotte says scrolling through the assortment of pictures. "I would go with the action shots, rather than the studio photos. They pull you in a bit better." She explains, pointing at her top three.

"Thanks, then I can send those to Ava. Because Lando's help was useless." I say with a small laugh. "He just kept saying all were beautiful."

"Boys" Charlotte chuckles, making me laugh as well. "So how are you handling your relationship being somewhat public now?"

I sigh. "It's not the first time. I can handle it, it's just a shame that we didn't get the chance to make it public ourselves. Now it's just like; look what I saw. I hate that people think it's okay to put pictures of people they don't know online. They don't even realise what the impact can be. But I guess that's what I chose for when I became famous." I rant, knowing very well that Charlotte wasn't alway happy with being in the spotlight either.