hidden desires |lando norris|

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all zara had done over the next two days was nursing her hangover from that terrible thursday night, sitting around in her pyjamas and writing in her notebook. she was currently working on a new album and had only written 5 songs out of the 13 that were expected from her by blake and gina. but she had to put that aside for the day as it was finally sunday and zara was expected to show up in the mclaren garage for the race, so here she was stood in front of her open wardrobe wondering what she should wear.

settling on a black tube top with some baggy blue jeans zara brushed her hair through, put on a pair of black healed ankle boots and picked up a small bag making sure she had everything she would need and got into her black porsche 918. as she started driving towards the track zara was thinking about how the day was going to go, she would be meeting some of the people who worked in the garage and most likely landos teammate , zara just hoped that there would be someone who was nice enough to stick with her for the day and races that were ahead of her.
on the other hand if today went badly then she would have many months of dread ahead of her.

lando was already in the paddock as he had been needed much earlier than zara would be ready for, leaving zara to have to guess where to park and hope she had everything to get in alright.
but what made this simple task harder than it needed to be was the amount of fans waiting in the parking area. now obviously they were here to see their favourite driver or maybe a couple of the wags but that didn't stop some of them from recognising zara and approaching her car.

after a good few minutes longer than it should have taken her, zara was finally parked and out of the way of any fans. she picked up her bag and took her keys out of the car, taking a deep breath she opened the door and prepared herself mentally for the day ahead of her.

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it was surprisingly easier to get into the paddock than zara had thought, now the girl was wondering towards where she assumed the garages were, which was where lando had said he would be. the only problem in this was she had no clue if she was going the right way or not, she sort of expected someone to be waiting for her or someone telling her where to go. just as the singer started second guessing her sense of direction there was a voice behind her,

"hi, you must be zara! lando told me you'd be stopping by the garage."

when zara turned around to face the voice, she was met with a pale man, quite a few inches taller than her and with messy brunette hair.
she also noticed the quite obvious mclaren merch he was wearing, this must be his teammate given that the rest of the team were most likely already preparing for the race.

"oh yeah, i'm not exactly sure where i should be going"the girl replied with a sheepish smile on her face

"well i'm guessing your heading to the garage?"
the man said, receiving a nod in confirmation of his previous statement
"let me walk you, since i'm going there anyway"
he smiled at the woman in front of him noticing how she picked the skin around her fingernails most likely out of nervousness.

"that'd be really nice of you, thanks"
zara said looking up at the man and moving to walk with him in the opposite direction she had previously been walking in.
the girl was internally thanking the gods that he had found her other wise she would have been walking aimlessly around the paddock for much longer than she would like to admit.

"it's no problem, oh i'm oscar by the way, landos teammate"
oscar offered another warm smile toward the girl beside him noticing how she was visibly less nervous than before.