I open my eyes to a bright room. im in a hospital bed. a iv in my hand a im connected to the monitors. I sigh.
it caught everyone's attention in the room.
Kate looks up at me from the chair she was sitting in beside my bed. "y/n" "Kate" "im so glad your okay oh my that was so scary" her eyes were puffy
in the corner of the room stood Micheal and Melissa. they look at me with relief on their face.
they came over and hugged me carefully "aww you cant scare us like that" Micheal says "what even happened" "um we can talk about it later" Kate says
"where's-" I say as lando walks in the room with a bag of food in his hand
he looks at me "I think were going to take our food and go down to the cafe and eat" Melissa says as lando hands her the bag "yea im going to go to" Kate says getting up and following her them out of the room. she turns around at me as she reaches the door "good luck" she mouths
lando stood at the foot of the bed he had his hands in his pocket of his sweatpants he had on a red t-shirt and a backwards hat on. we didnt speak its like we didnt even know eachother "im sorry" he says softly "are you okay?" I ask "yea I'm okay and im glad you are to" he says as he sits down in the chair that Kate once sat in. he messes with his hat and looks down at his hands "im sorry I ruined the race for you" "you didn't ruin it. it wasn't your fault" "how bad was it?" "im not sure by the time I got out your car was stuck" "thank you" "for?" "helping me. my breaks gave out and Its my fault and you could've got hurt-" he looks up at me. "look at me when I tell you its okay. its just a race and a car im just glad that we are both okay y/n." he reaches for my hand and squeezes it.
"why didnt you tell me?" "tell you what?" "that you were the faceless driver" he ask " "I just want people to like me for me without knowing what I do" "I understand that im sorry" "its not your fault I grew up going to f1 races with my dad he raised me on his own with Kates dad thats why Kate and I are so close. 3 years ago my dad passed away in a crash i didnt want anyone to know who I was because my dad and my last name so I hide my face. you know me as y/n. and anything to do with F1 knows me as l/n." he looks at me sad "im sorry" he says. "its okay now you know and so does everyone else probably" "were you going to eventually reveal yourself?" he ask "I mean maybe one day just wasn't in the plan quite yet" I laugh a little which hurt.
"im sorry" "for what lando why do you keep saying that" "for coming to see you the other night and leaving before you woke up and not talking to you and saying what I said to you yesterday when we crashed" he says looking down at his hands and starts messing with them "its okay" "its not though y/n im scared so I run and I shield myself from getting hurt because you y/n make me feel different than anyone ever has and it scares me" he says I smile to myself "well lando norris im scared too but a friend of mine told me I cant be scared forever" I say and look down.
I look over at lando who was already looking at me "do I look that bad?" I ask "no you still look beautiful even with your busted lip" he says as his lips curve into a smile and bringing his hand up to my face and rubbing his thumb across my lip making me wince a little. causing his to jerk his hand away not even wanting the thought of hurting me.
there was a knock on the door. I look and see the doctor
She smiles at me "good to see your awake my name is dr Lennox. I came to talk to you about your injuries and the next steps" I nod at her "you are very lucky y/n. You don't have many serious injuries. You'll have a lot of bruising as days come if not already very sore well so take it easy on yourself don't over do yourself. You have a somewhat deep cut on your abdomen with stitches and we have you bandaged up on another place on your leg. You bumped your head but no damage from what we can tell. We would like to keep you over night just to be safe but you should be released in the morning if all is well" she smiles "thank you" I say "we have you on a medicine for the pain. You won't be able to race until you're fully healed so give it a couple of weeks 2-3" she says and I sigh. Lando looks at me and grabs my hand squeezing it. "I'll be back a little later to check on you" she says and walks out.
