"You brush past me in the hallway
And you don't think I can see ya, do ya?
I've been watchin' you for ages
And I spend my time tryin' not to feel it"
where dahlia russell slowly realises feelings for a boy whose had feelings for her forever
(lando n...
-CHAPTER FIFTY THREE- the tortured poets department - taylor swift
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"oh my god! this room is insane!" dahlia squealed on the phone with maria. the two girl plus aarava landed in las vegas secretly to surprise lando for his birthday.
"i'm so excited." ria admitted, laughing on the phone. "i know he didn't say anything to you but he was honestly really sad about the fact you couldn't go dahlia."
"yeah, i guessed that. it was so hard lying to him though." dahlia sighed. "i stalked us all on twitter and i don't think anyone saw us, so we should be fine."
"thank god. are you sure you're up for this? it'll probably make the rumours and everything worse."
"at this point i don't care. there's not much saving it now so i may aswell stop hiding. actually, most of the dms i've gotten the past couple of days have been more concern than death threats."
"you see, you shouldn't have to say that sentence ever." ria stated.
"probably not but oh well." dahlia shrugged. "i'll see you in an hour or so then at aaravas room?"
"yup." ria said before the girls said their goodbyes and hung up. dahlia sighed, looking around her large lonely room, suddenly wanting nothing more than to be with lando. the thought of them being public was still terrifying, but she hadn't had much say in the matter. she couldn't wait till see him tonight for the first time since the pictures of them kissing got out and at least then they can deal with everything together.
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aarava stepped into the huge fake cake, shaking his head as the two girls laughed at him. "this is actually mad." he said, sitting down in the prop.
"he's gonna love it though." the hilton workers smiled. "but we better hurry or the party will be over."
hilton had organised this whole thing for landos birthday. that night, more surprises came to the door, slowly building up to the point there was a whole party in his room. the quadrant trio were just the icing on the cake. dahlia had already called lando early that morning, pretending to still be in england, unable to make it to this week, using the time difference as an excuse to not be online for the day. max fewtrell distracted the racer all day as they planned this surprise.
dahlia and maria smiled, beginning to push the cake towards the door as hilton staff members open it. the two girls were wearing hoodies over their ends and looking down to try and shield who they were. they heard landos laugh as he saw the huge over-the-top decoration. they parked it just in front of the boy, knocking on it to signal to aarava it's time.
