Lacy's POV
Laying in that hospital bed last night had me overwhelmed with emotion.
I kept thinking to myself, I can't stay in this sport.
But another part of me was saying no this is your childhood dream.
I felt so conflicted.
But if someone who's supposed to be looking out for me and my car as their literal job and they don't like me, how is the rest of the world supposed to?
It was about two in the morning and part of me was hoping that at any moment Lando would walk right through those doors to comfort me.
That he would be here by my side.
But to my dismay, he never came.
I don't blame him, I literally told them to go but part of me wanted him here.
Don't get me wrong I wanted Hayden here too of course but I just think him and I are still on a surface level and Lando knows me better than him.
Morning finally came and I was sucked back to my very real situation.
I think I needed some more time to digest the situation with my father before I acted on anything.
Besides, I needed to figure out my career by now.
I decide to give Lando a call to see if he can send me the video that he got of Tom ruining my fucking car.
My finger hesitates over the green talk button but I decide to click it anyways.
It was about 7:30am so I was hoping that it wasn't too early.
I see the handle of my hospital door room start to jingle and I think to myself, can the doctor go away and come back once I'm done talking to Lando?
But it wasn't a doctor... it was my curly haired teammate.
"You called is everything ok?" He says looking half asleep.
"Did you fucking teleport here?" I say in sarcasm.
"No I spent the night actually. I know you said for us to go home but it was like two in the morning and I decided that I just couldn't leave you here alone."
Part of me just wanted to sob crying in front of him but I kept myself together and flashed him a small smile.
"Well thank you that was very sweet of you."
"What do you need doll?" He asks with genuine intent.
"The video of Tom. Of him ruining my career."
"No worries I'll send it to you."
I lean to sit up in my bed and a sharp pain shoot through the side of my body.
I wince in pain and Lando goes to try and grab me as if it'll make me feel better.
"Are you ok?"
"Yea yea just my ribs been a little sore lately." I say as I slide up the side of my shirt to see how it's looking. "Nice mixture of colours there that's for sure." I add with a laugh.
He's just staring at my torso for a moment before he says, "since when do you have a belly piercing?"
That is definitely not the first thing I thought he would say.
"Since about four years ago."
"Last time I saw your rib it wasn't there." He says actually confused.
"That's because I had high waisted pants on Lan."
He rolls his eyes and smiles at me.
"What are we actually going to do though about this situation?" I say trying to find some sort of conclusion.
"Well we only have Miami left before the summer break so I'm sure we could figure out something for then."
"Shit I kind of forgot about summer break. Ok well I could plead my case then right?"
"Lacy I don't think you should be getting into another car anytime soon with him as your engineer."
"Lan they're going to hate me."
"Side note, what's this new nickname?"
"I don't know," I say with a shrug, "thought I'd try something new. But besides the point..."
"Right of course but Lacy who's going to hate you?"
"The world Lando. They judge me at any given moment. I mean have you read what they're writing about me?"
"Why do you read that shit. Just don't trust me. You've gotta throw your phone in the ocean or some shit."
"Ok." I say with complete satisfaction.
"Ok what?" He says confused.
"Ok I'll throw away my phone. Down in Miami it'll be gone. Besides I think it'll be best for me."
"What about your contacts?"
"I'll figure that out. But I need to be away from my stupid phone at this point, it's not doing me any favours at this point. But no really how are we going to make sure it's safe for me at the next race?"
"I'm not joking when I say this. Don't leave his sight. I will actually hire some kind of stalker that will follow him around and watch his every move and he'll straight up attack Tom is he does anything to ruin your car." Lando says in full seriousness.
I pause for a moment, "or... we just threaten him with the video that we have and say lawyer up asshole, it's about to be a fun summer break."
"Yes that's probably a better idea." Lando says with a snicker.
My doctor walks in and explains to Lando the state of my situation.
"She should be good to go. Keep an eye on her and she should be good to go just keep icing your rib cage and you should be alright to race in Miami. And take some Advil if you're in pain but don't abuse it. Lando I'll keep you here as her emergency contact if that's alright?"
Lando peers his eyes over at me in shock, "yea that's fine."
"Alright then you're free to go Ms. Katz."
"Thank you!" The doctor steps out of the room and I decide to explain to Lando what went on there, "I'm sorry I probably should've told you but yea I didn't know who else to put as my emergency contact and I kind of chose you." I stammer.
"Hey Lace. It's all good I'm honoured to be your emergency contact." He says in sarcasm.
"Cmon let's get you out of here." He says as he reaches to help me up.
Lando drives me back to my hotel and he decides to ship out later tonight as he wants to take advantage of the pool in our hotel.
Hayden and I decide to get on the jet and hop out of Montreal as fast as we can.
I needed some time to rest and recover before Miami.
I had been looking forward to that race forever.
It's literally my favourite spot, sun and racing is the perfect combo.
"You doing ok Lacy?" Hayden says as he strokes his hand through my hair as I lay on his lap.
"Yea I'm doing better. Very excited for Miami."
"Yea me too." He says with a smile.
"You too?" I say in excitement.
"Yea I thought I'd take a few days off work and come out."
"Are you serious? I'm so excited to spend some time in Miami with you this is going to be amazing." I say with a kiss.
"Should we go right now?" He asks and I nod in response.
Hayden creeps his way to the pilot before we leave and asks for him to change our destination.
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Lacy, Oh Lacy
Fanfiction"I care I care I care. Like the CURLS IN YOUR HAIR, my stomachs all in knots" Lacy had always felt like she was racing against the world ever since she was a child. Despite her past still haunting her, Lacy earned a seat as the first female F1 drive...
