10 Years Later Ago - Lando Norris

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All Lando needs to do is get around these last few corners and he will be on pole for the Belgium Grand Prix. He's had a tight race and Charles Leclearc has been giving him a serious run for his money. This has been one of the closest and most skilled forms of racing we've seen in a long time and these two are really showing their talent out there. 

Lando's got it, he's coming around to the final turn, he's just got to keep Charles behind him, he does, he keeps him behind as he takes the inside, this is Lando's race, Lando will be on pole position. Its McLaren and Ferrari front line, Mercedes and Ferrari making up the second row with the fellow McLaren behind making that the first time both McLarens have been in the top forms of the grid. 

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"That's P1 Lando, P1" Lando's engineer announces over the radio. 

I can hear his cheers in the team radio as I listen in closely, him unknowing that I was here. 

"Yes! Baby there we go, wooohoooo!" Lando cheers. 

Max nudges me knowingly and I get the nod of approval from the engineer. "I'm so proud of you baby!" I speak through the radio. 

There's a small moment of silence in all ends of the radio, only for a moment before Lando speaks up, "Bray?" he asks, slightly choked. 

"I watched the race" I tease. 

He chuckles and I can hear a slight sniff through the headphone, "You watched the race" he repeats. 

"Hurry up and come back here" I tease wiping a built up tear in the corner of my eye. 

"On my way baby" he chuckles through the radio

When he parks his McLaren up next to the P1 sector, the entire McLaren team is pushed up hard against the barrier, myself included a few rows back, but I can see the sight of his fluro yellow helmet through the crowds. 

The cheers that erupt from the crowds are overwhelming and I feel them throughout the entirety of my body. I feel like I'm in the mosh pit of a concert the way they are all gathering around Lando, celebrating his successors. 

Before my eyes, the crowds seperate and Lando is suddenly in my tunnel view. He tugs his helmet off and he pulls down the suit headpiece revealing his scruffy, sweat filled locks. Pulling the headphones from his ears and gazing solely in my direction, the crowds disappear completely from my mind and it's only him. I can see his chest contracting up and down with how hard he's breathing and the heartbeat echoing in my ear matches his rhythm. 

My feet pull me toward him and before long I'm standing with only the barrier separating us. He looks down on me and I gaze up at him. And I can feel, this is it. Neither one us speak, but I know what's being said. 

I reach my hand up and tangle it in his hair, his eyes fluttering closed as if my touch as just broken him into reality. I angle his head back down to face me, and force our foreheads together, his eyes still closed. "Look at me" I whisper. 

His eyes peel open slowly and I can see so much happiness and love behind them and suddenly all my questions and doubts of our future dissipate into the crowds. "What took you so long?" he mutters. 

"I'm sorry" I chuckle. 

He shakes his head against mine, smiling through his emotions. "Don't" he mumbles. 

"I'm here baby, for as long as you'll have me, but please don't let me go this time" I confess. 

Suddenly his arms are around me and he is hoisting me over the barrier, my legs hooking around him as soon as I'm clear of the metal. "You're not going anywhere, not now, not ever." 

Lando crashes his lips with mine, and they move together like they always have, familiar and exactly like they belong. We know each other inside and out, and we always will. We've wasted enough time of our lives without being together, however I think it was necessary to find ourselves and establish ourselves to be the best possible versions of ourselves. 

We can finally be together now having our own lives before combining them together. I have no doubts that Lando and I will be together forever, we've been dragged through the best and the worst parts of what life has to deal to a person, and we continue to be drawn back together like magnets. 

I love Lando Norris more than anyone, from the moment I met him, I knew he would be my person, and no matter how much I forced myself to hate him over the last decade, it was never possible.