Problematic || Lando Norris

18

Madelyn Francis-Clark

Japan 🇯🇵

I sat on the balcony looking across the sea of skyscrapers taking in their beauty. How have I got in this situation, I just wanna go home. I fall back in my seat as I think about the love of my life Daniel my precious cat who's staying with Cass until I return and she's sending me daily pictures of him and brings him on the occasional face time.

I my head turns as I hear the door open pulling me away from my thoughts to see the McLaren driver walking out. He looks over towards me but as our eyes meet I look away and focus back on the view. He doesn't sit down just rests his elbows on the railing and lent forward letting out a heavy sigh. I hold my breath not wanting to make a sound as he appeared to be deep in thought and I didn't want to disrupt that.

After another minuet or two of watching his shoulder rise and fall with his breathing I slowly stand from my seat and walk over to the door to give him the space he probably came for. As I reach for the shiny white handle i'm stopped half way through due to the sound of his voice, hearing it for the first time in this setting.

"Max, is asleep." He mumbled, with a bit of attitude to his voice.

"Oh, okay." I turn back around to see Lando still staring at the city, unsure of whether to go in either way.

After a couple seconds of thinking I sit back down in my grey cushioned seat taking what he said as a warning to not go in there, hoping I chose the right thing and was not going to cause another argument. Neither of us spoke leaving a painful the silence which sucked out all the oxygen from the balcony. A slight ring appeared in my ears and grew increasingly louder as there was no other sounds to drown this out, in hopes to distract myself from the noise I cracked my knuckles on both hands releasing a satisfying pop sound.

Yet not everyone agreed as I looked up to see Lando sending me a death glare for disturbing his peace so I quickly apologise and shove my hands under my body stopping be from repeating myself. Another couple minutes passed before I could not take the silence anymore and gambled my life away as I started to speak.

"Are you okay?" I asked, genuinely concerned.

Lando didn't turn to face me but I watched as his shoulders went tense as he held a breath. "I'm fine."

"I'm sorry." I say, standing up from my chair and walking over to the balcony next to him, still leaving a decent gap between us.

This made him look down at me with a puzzled expression plastered across his face. So with a sigh I filled him in, "About the letter, I should have gave it to you. I had no right to make that decision."

He looks back in front for a little while leaving me to believe he just ignored me but he proved me wrong as he let at a sigh of his own and spoke. "It's alright." He muttered his face a whirlwind of emotion. "I understand why you would do it."

"Should have listened to me." I sang trying to lighten the gloomy mood which engulfed us both. 

"Really?" He responded, a grin on his face as he matched my uplifted energy.  

"I don't know, maybe?" I say lightly tapping his nose but with no pressure as to cause him no further harm.

"There's nothing there." He playfully rolled his eyes.

"I didn't know plasters are in?" He chuckles at my comment as silence falls upon us again.

My eyes travel back to the buildings in front which are now the second most interesting thing out here in contrast to ten minuets earlier. It falls silent again yet I can't hear the dreadful ringing I can only hear the rhythm of my heart which sounded as though it was trying to speak to me in a language so foreign that I couldn't comprehend. Later a cold breeze passes travelling across my bare skin leaving traces of gooses bumps on the surface in its path making me shudder.