"I think I should be asking the questions, don't you think?" Charlotte's mischievous smile was evident on her face as I turned to look at her. I don't know what's going on but I have to check social media. I ran to my place to grab my stuff and go to the hotel. When I got there, I threw out my things, took my mobile phone out of my bag, threw myself on the bed and started surfing all over the internet.
"Young driver's new conquest"
"New season and new love for the 22-year-old British driver."
"The third girl between Lando Norris and Luisinha Oliveira."
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"We tell you all about the new woman in Lando Norris's life: Leana Williams".
Pictures of me and Lando holding hands outside the club in Bahrain on the way to his car and also pictures in his car were all over the internet. I don't remember seeing any paparazzi but from the quality of the pictures it must be the people who were around who took the photos. The comments on the posts about me were totally cruel, people had no mercy. They were talking about my body, my life and my job at McLaren.
"She's so ugly". "Girl you should eat, you're too skinny". "I can't believe Lando traded Luisa for this." "She's a lousy engineer and she's ugly too." "A skeleton is funnier than Leana Williams."
Here come the tears. Why were people talking so bad about me? I didn't do anything. This can't be true and all because of the pictures with him. Fuck you Lando Norris. My heart was destroyed but my mind wanted to keep watching the news. I had thousands of messages on Instagram, thousands of new followers, also on Twitter. They were all threatening messages, criticisms of my work and myself. They asked me who I was, where I came from, what Lando saw in me and many other things that even I didn't know the answers to. Among so many hate messages, I also had messages from brands that wanted to work with me, important magazines in the USA and UK wanted to interview me. This was not real, my mind said every time I read each of the messages. I turned off my mobile, I had to talk to Lando, this had to stop. Nothing of what those articles claimed was true, I am not in a relationship with him and even less I got into his relationship with Luisa. This is absurd and I don't need this in my life. I left my room in search of Lando, I didn't know his room number so I had to go to the front desk to ask. I took the elevator to the ground floor. When I got there, there was no manager at the reception. Shit. I looked around trying to find a hotel employee but there was no one there. In the distance I saw Max and Charles' girlfriends sitting at a small table in the restaurant inside the hotel. I ran up to them to ask if Max or Charles knew Lando's room number.
"Hi, I'm Leana" I greeted when I was already close to them. They both looked at me smiling.
"Hey, how are you?" The blue eyed woman replied as she played with the little girl "I'm Kelly and this is Penelope, my daughter" the little girl gave me a sweet smile. Which I responded with a squeeze on her cheeks.
