hidden desires |lando norris|

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after zara's dismissal she swiftly made her way back to her seat further down the jet. she took a deep breath and got comfortable once more, but instead of following her earlier plans of falling asleep, she pulled out a little deep forest green notebook and a pen.

lando stood frozen to his place for a few seconds, taken aback by how quickly zara avoided him.
he thought after what he had seen when he was scrolling through twitter when they first got into the jet, that she would be a bit more open to comfort. but obviously if she wanted to brush him off then he would just go back to how he was before.

as lando made his way back to their seats on his jet,  he frowned to himself. with what he had seen earlier, he would've thought that she was more distraught, and given zara's obviously disturbed sleeping state, it affected her to some extent. so why was she just brushing off his consideration? whatever, it wasn't his problem anymore. if she wanted to basically ignore him then he would just  go back to being an asshole.

when he went to go and sit back in his seat, he saw her scribbling in a little notebook. from his passing glance, lando couldn't decipher anything on the pages. she had written messily and it looked rushed, there were sentences and phrases that looked like they were just written into words purely for memory. there was no order or neatness and he was supprised she could even understand what was written on the page.

lando decided not to ask questions and just sat back down in his seat, minding his own business. he would leave her to do her own thing and he would do his. there was no need to pester her if she would just brush him off.

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by the time landos jet had landed, the two of them had spent another two hours sat in silence opposite eachother. as they made their way off the jet, they thanked the staff, heading towards the car that lando would be renting whilst they were in budapest. the two of them placed their luggage in the back of landos car. they were supposed to check into the hotel at 2:00pm, allowing for them to have some time before going to the hotel.

lando approached the sleek black mclaren p1 gtr and opened the drivers door, getting in and waiting for zara to do the same. the girl followed his actions, getting into the passenger seat and putting on her seatbelt. the driver turned on the engine and turned to the singer besides him "we've got a few hours to do whatever before we go to the hotel," lando informed the girl.

"do you want to look around a bit?" zara asked him, turning in her seat slightly so more of her torso was facing him. normally she would've lifted her knee up onto the chair, but the singer was too scared to get anything on the pristine and obviously extremely expensive car.

"i've already looked around, i come here every year" the man said, causing zara to suck in a breath through her teeth. he'd gone back to being incessantly bitchy. "but there's a nice public garden that we can go to" he mumbles, turning away from her and holding the steering wheel, pulling away from where he was parked.

the two of them were encased in silence once more as they started the journey to the public garden. zara had turned herself so she could look out the window as she leaned back into the chair. the roads were decently quiet where they were. she was expecting them to be full and grid locked with the racing weekend on.

they had been driving for about 20 odd minutes before lando pulled into a small parking lot. it was surrounded by trees and little bushes with a pebbled trail at the end of it. the two of them got out after lando had parked, both of them walking over to the pebbled path on the opposite side of the car park.