Papaya hearts (Lando x Bianca fanfiction)

PART 17

As he brushed his fingers against my forehead, my cheeks filled with a bright shade of pink.

"When does your race start?" I asked him (Lando)

"At 18:00 I have still time. Will you be here?"

"Yeah"

Then some reporters took me for a post-race interview which took about 10 minutes.
After the interview I went back to my driver room to change into my casual clothes.

When I grabbed my phone out of the table in the driving room I saw a lot of texts from my friends and family congratulating me to my unbelievable result.

An hour later Lando's race was starting, I stayed in the pits ro watch him perform.

He was starting at P7 on the grid, the commentator yelled "Lights out and away we go"

He had a really good launch of the track not letting drivers behind overtake him.

First laps he was gaining momentum and race pace when in lap 32 he was 0.670s behind Alonso in next few corners he managed to even shorter the interval between them and chicane at turn 1-3 he managed to go tight on the curbs and overtook him.

Then out of  nowhere, Hamilton was attacking for his position only 0.987s behind Lando. He had to defend a good amount of the remaining laps but at the end he got away with still 1.900s gap on P6.
He crosses the finish line and as he's getting out of the car, I can see he's smiling with unbelievably satisfied expression in his eyes.

The mechanics go towards him, share their feelings.

Meanwhile Oscar returns on P11 unfortunately just outside of points.
(McLaren was not that good before start of this season so finishing in points was really great)

After he hugs Osc and goes through all his mechanics and engineers.

He is watching all around the pit stop entry, where I'm waiting for him with smile on my face.

I walk towards him almost running.
I gave him warm hug.

"That was amazing race Lando, you overtook Alonso."

"Gosh, I'm so happy right now. I didn't think I would stay in points having Hamilton and others right behind me."

"You did great"

"I think that needs a celebration." He says

"Of course"

Its almost 20:00 (8 PM)

We find quite empty club nearby where we and our team settles down.

We are vibing to the rhythm of remixes and dancing.
Me and Lando are in the quiter corner of the bar and just chilling bcuz we are tired from the races.

Then someone comes to us and says:
"Excuse me, do you want a dance by any chance?"
The man says to me.

Before I even try to say something Lando jumps to the conversation and replies:
" She dances with me" with a tough and confident voice.

I look back at him and slightly chuckle.

Is he really jealous of something like this bcuz of me?.

"Oh, I thought she wasn't busy."

Lando rolls his eyes and gestures to him to leave us alone.
My cheeks totally filled with pink and I tried to hide it with drink in my hand.

[AN] ~ hi guys author here, hope you enjoyed this chapter🫶🤍