DNF - A Formula 1 Story (Lando Norris)

Chapter 28

"Somewhere in the haze, got a sense I'd been betrayed." - Taylor Swift

Bianca

Loud banging wakes me up from my peaceful sleep and I groan in annoyance as I climb out of bed, wrapping the sheet tightly around my naked body since I never bothered to put clothes back on last night. I'm hoping that whoever is banging on the door right now doesn't care about my haggard appearance. I'm sure I look thoroughly worked over. In my confusion of being freshly woken up, I don't realize that Lando is no where to be found. That is, until I open the door to see Morgan looking worried.

"What's wrong?" I ask in a confused panic as I watch as she barges into the villa looking around for something or someone and then turning back to me with furrowed eyebrows.

"Where's Lando?" She demands as I shut the door.

"I have no idea. I literally just woke up from you pounding on the door." I explain and she frowns.

"What's wrong?" I ask again, now truly worried about what's got her so worked up. Did something happen to Lando? My dad?

"Shit." She mumbles just as there's another knock on the door and I turn around to open it, to see Lydia standing there looking similar to Morgan.

"She doesn't know." Morgan says when she sees Lydia, who sighs deeply before coming into the villa and shuts the door behind her.

"Okay, someone needs to tell me what the fuck is going on." I growl in annoyance. Morgan sighs deeply before taking her phone out of her back pocket and pulls something up on the screen to show me. When I look at the screen my stomach falls and my blood runs cold. Tears fill my eyes as I process what I'm seeing and reading.

Just days after Lando Norris and Bianca Rhodes made their relationship public, Norris has been spotted just this morning having coffee and looking very affectionate with Sophie Laurent in Portofino. Is there already trouble in paradise?

My knees give out and I fall to the ground as I look at the photos of Lando and Sophie. They are hugging and there's one that even looks like they are kissing. The hand holding Morgan's phone drops it onto the tile floor as I begin to sob into my hands. How the fuck could this be happening again?

How am I so stupid to let this happen again? It feels like I can't breathe, like I'm dying and my vision is tunneled as I try to work through what the fuck is actually happening. We've been so happy; so blissfully fucking happy but maybe it was just all in my head. Maybe I wanted things to work out so badly between us that I ignored signs that he was actually unhappy. Maybe my past trauma is too much and he can't handle my issues and this is his way of showing me he wants out of the relationship.

"Bianca, babe. You need to breathe or you're going to pass out." I hear Lydia tell me into my ear. That's when I realize that she has her arms wrapped around me tightly, holding me as I fall apart. A part of my wants to pass out to at least temporarily forget this pain, but I know I can't without scaring people so I shakily draw in a breathe and then another and another until my breathing is more even and the grip that Lydia has on me lessens.

"I need to leave." I whisper in defeat after a few moments. Resignation flows through my body as I say the words out loud. If Lando is going to keep lying to me about what Sophie means to him, I need to leave. I'm not going to be this girl. The one who lets a boy hurt her repeatedly and continues to take him back after he whispers a few romantic words to me when I'm upset and angry. 

"Bianca..." Lydia says questioningly as I quickly stand up and wrap the sheet tightly around my body once again and start walking to the bedroom Lando and I have shared while we have been here.