Deals with Daisy // LN4

89 ~ Premiere

Lando's POV

"Is she okay?" Lucy asks as we sit at the bar near the pool in my hotel suite and we both look at the redhead who is apparently stress-free and laughing and playing around with Max in the water. The sun was beating down and we were all 'relaxing' ahead of the movie premiere in a few hours from now, which was not a place I particularly wanted to go but one that we were all unable to get out of. Daisy seemed excited, something to do to distract herself from the unemployment situation but that left the rest of us trying to fill in the blanks until she had answers or decided to share them. So, Lucy and I were both too preoccupied with Daisy's apparent mental breakdown to actually relax and enjoy her happiness and we'd taken over her personality and begun to start working.

"Weirdly... I'm inclined to say yes..." I tell her with a sigh, squinting through my sunglasses as I watch Daisy attempt to drown Max and fail before getting pulled underwater herself with a scream of laughter that makes me smile before I turn back to the blonde. "She seems okay. Good even, she is happy, so I can't push her on this. I can't be anything other than supportive so if you want to question her - you're alone," I tell Lucy with a false sense of apology as she looks flatly back at my unwillingness to help her resolve this.

"You're useless..." she moans and I chuckle, nodding in agreement because I knew that was probably true.

"I'm in love and I just - maybe this is what's best? Is it stressful for us? Incredibly, yes but maybe it's what is best for her and I just want her to be okay. I need to support her in whatever she wants to do next. Do I think she will change her mind and want to go back to work? Yes, of course I do, she loves being an agent," I tell Lucy, turning away from the yells in the pool although I'm unable to maintain Lucy's attention until I continue to talk. "But she needs time to get back to that. She's burnt out after a big year of work and she wants to relax and be off the hook. It seems the only way she knows how to do that is to retire. So we let her retire."

"But I just don't know if I'll be able to undo this and even more than that - she's leaving at such a bad time!" Lucy stresses, her worry for her friend now at peace as she instead begins to worry for herself. "I don't want her to quit - is there anything that you can think I could suggest that would mean that she doesn't?"

"I'm not sure that I could say anything in particular... she just said that she didn't know why she was doing it anymore. She didn't like just being loaned out to do these deals that didn't get her excited and she didn't need the money so she wanted to stop," I explain, slurping obnoxiously on my drink as Lucy's shoulders drop and she gathers up her notebooks from our meeting. "Also is there ever a good time for her to stop working? Because I think that's part of the issue - she should have taken a break a while back. Plus she wants to focus on her rehab and general sobriety. I don't think even she thinks it's permanent - she kept talking about how much she likes being an agent even through it all she's just... burnt out and finally has a reason to stop." I tell her with a smile, hearing the two on our left getting out of the pool and find myself watching Daisy as she pulls herself out of the pool, her swimsuit sticking to every curve to help drive me a little insane as I see all over again how lucky I am that a girl like her likes a guy like me.

"You can stop sounding so smug about that hun, you've just cost me an agent," Lucy growls as she stands up with all her things packed and I laugh, holding out a hand for her to shake but she bats it away in faux annoyance.

"Yes but I've made you millions and so I think we'll call it even," I call out as she walks out, raising her middle finger to me before waving at Daisy and Max who have gotten distracted by our exchange. I'm even more confident in the little information that I've just given Lucy when Daisy stands up and walks over to where I'm still sitting and scrolling through my laptop. I move my hand to pull the screen down as she puts an arm around my shoulders and kisses my cheek. I turn my head to make it a proper kiss, hearing grumblings from Max but not caring as I spin my stool around so that she is standing between my legs, perfectly at eye level. Or should I say kissing level.