Street vs Track - Lando Norris

24

Nat

Our carriage slowly started to descend lower to the ground.

"Shall we go and have some lunch?" Daniel asks me.

"Yeah, I guess then I want to go skating in the ice rink," I reply.

"Deal."

I then turn around and face the group. Charles and Charlotte both give me a concerned look, but I smile at them to reassure them even though a part of me didn't mean it. I walk up to P and grab her hand walking towards the closest cafe we could see.

"Hi, how can I help you?" This lady asks as we enter a small café. Her eyes go directly towards the guys and her eyes are wider than the ocean.

"Yeah, we would like to grab a table somewhere," I reply.

"Mhm follow me please." She replies. She then grabs a handful of menus and leads us towards the back of the café.
We arrive at two tables. They obviously couldn't accommodate the whole group.

"You couldn't find us a bigger table?" I ask her crossing my arms together. I then feel a nudge of the elbow on my side. Daniel. Then he side-eyes me and I can just tell by his eyes he is telling me to shut up. The lady then puts down a lot of menus on the tables and then leaves us.

"Right, who is going with who?" Carlos asks.

"Well, I don't want to be trapped somewhere where I have no space to breathe," I reply.

"Where are you going to go?" Max asks putting P into a kid seat on one of the tables.

"You don't need to worry about me I am not going to run off, I am just going to the rink earlier."

"Yeah okay sure I don't mind that but I want you to be with someone, I can't trust that you'll stay put."

I groan at Max but he then looks at me seriously. I groan again then turn to everyone. Pierre, Charles, Charlotte, Carlos and Isa are already sitting at one of the tables. I turn to the other table. George, Carmen, Kelly, Max and P are all sitting down at the other table.

"Great," I whisper to myself. I knew no one wanted to deal with me right now, I have so many opinions and I never can just keep my mouth shut.

"Don't worry about it, Lando and I will keep her company at the rink," Daniel says from a distance. I try and put on a fake smile so then he can let me go.

"Thank you, Daniel. Nat, please come back when something goes wrong, if not we'll see you later." Max says. I nod to him. I then give him a big hug to tell him that I'll be fine in my sibling's mood,

I then let go and then I just walk out of the café without saying another word. Not about anything or anyone. I cross the road and I look back at the café. I then see Daniel and Lando about to walk out together but then I see the same lady come back to the two of them and stop them. I squint. I then go back across the road and start walking to them.

"What are you boys up to?" I ask them putting my hands on both of their shoulders.

"Um, nothing just talking to Luisinha here," Lando says.

"Wait aren't you that Portuguese model?" I ask shoving them out of my way. She nods. "What are you doing here in Melbourne and waitressing tables?"

"Well I was coming here for the Melbourne Grand Prix but I am raising money for a charity by working in this local café." She responds. God, she was so pretty with her middle-length brown hair, gorgeously tanned body, and brown eyes, god I was I could be like her.

"Omg, huge fan you'll have to come in the paddock with us for the grand prix. We are currently going to the ice rink if you want to join?" I ask her.

"Yeah of course I'll have to finish up here but I would love to join you guys." She says. I hug her tightly and I then grab the guy's shirts and lead them to the ice rink.

As we are walking back to the ice rink I can't help but notice Lando. His cheeks were redder than a tomato and his pupils fully dilated.

"Ohh you like her," I say to him punching his shoulder a little bit, grabbing his attention.

"I do not."

"Fake it all you want I see when someone like someone it is kind of my speciality," I respond to him. He then just side-eyes me, and I giggle a little bit. We finally arrive at the ice skating rink and we go to the front desk.

"Hey, three people for ice skating," I say to the lady. She nods and I get my wallet out paying for the three of us to skate. We then go to the side and open the double doors revealing a massive skating rink, with people skating just in a circle and some people practising some moves and tricks.

We go to this other desk and with it, there are loads of different skates available. There were hockey skates, figure skating skates and just then the regular kind. We walk up to the guy working at the desk.

"Hey, three skates please, two males one female," I tell him. He smiles.

"Sizes?"

"Um me I am a 7," I say to him.

"10," Daniel says.

"11," Lando replies. The man then turns around and grabs skates for the three of us. I smile in return before we head over to this little couch seat. I take my boots off and then put the skates on and do the laces. Once I got them tied up enough that it feels good, I then stand grabbing the edge of the actual rink.

"See you, boys, out there," I say to them, then head onto the ice. As a kid and being Dutch there were times when the local lake would freeze over and Max, Victoria (younger sister) and I would all go out to the lake and we would skate on top of it, so I was comfortable with the ice and I had learned a thing or to about figure skating since I had a friend back in the Netherlands and she was a figure skater.

I go out the middle of the ice and I skate around the middle for a bit I go into a long turn then spun me faster and faster each time I would lower my arms. Once I stop myself and I look over to the entrance where I entered I see Daniel and Lando clipping onto the edge for dear life. But Lando's eyes were focused somewhere else. I look to the entrance of the rink and I see Luisinha at the doors laughing at the two of them. Weird she rocked up here earlier than expected. I waved to her but she just gives me a look. Great.

Hope you liked the chapter, more of the ice skating coming.

Sorry for the long-awaited update.