Private life | Lando Norris

54 - The Reason

Trying to keep your cool when you're fucking angry is hard. 

"Ginny, just tell me, stop beating around the bush." I ground out. We're sitting on our couch, Ginny cross legged and lax against the fabric. Me? I'm sitting straight up, my posture immaculate. I'm fully in attention and waiting for her response.

"Okay." She sighs, like I'm paining her. I wait. 

"David is his name. Lando's dad." She pauses, looking at me with narrow eyes. "You really want to know this?" 

I nod furiously. "Yeah, I told you that Mia came in and told me shit that," I paused. "I don't know what is fucking true." My brain is a mess. 

I have no idea what's going on with Lando and I can't feel my fingers because I'm holding them so tightly. 

"Yeah, Mia's not completely lying. She just missing out some key details." Ginny frowned. 

Her blond hair shakes around her as she reaches for her coffee. Her grey shirt is way too big for her and the fluffy socks complete the look. 

"Tell me Ginny." I grumble. 

"Okay, it's gonna take a while though." I nod and motion for her to keep going. I need to know this. "If you've gone and got big old feelings you should retract them now. You can't like Lando. He's broken. Mia was right about one thing, he'll ruin your life and then blame it on you." 

I roll my eyes. "You wanted us to get together, Ginny." I seethe and watch as she moves back an inch. "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining. What happened." 

"Fine." Ginny sits up to face me, head on. Her eyes look red and tired. Her lips are dried, cracked as she licks them. "Lando grew up in the best conditions to thrive possible. You know, the rich dad and all that but.. his dad had these's insane ideas for Lando. Like he was gonna be the next David if you know what I mean." I nod, my brain trying to take it in.

"But David found out quite early on that Lando can't read very well, let alone spell. Lando hates numbers and anything to do with learning." Ginny mused. 

"I know that." I did know that. Lando would sometimes squint at his phone. I know he has good vision because you have to, to be an F1 driver. 

"So, David went crazy, yelling at him and shit. That was the first time David hit Lando. Would not be that last, that's for sure." 

I breathed in heavily. "What- what about his mom, what about her?" 

"Oh, she left straight after Lando was born. David, well, David liked to hit her. Hard. And so she left and left poor Lando with an abuser." 

"Fuck." 

"Fuck is right." Ginny sighed out. "But Lando was good at something. David once took Lando to a karting ring and Lando loved it. I guess David saw the potential and signed Lando up for karting. After that he pulled Lando out of school. He didn't see the need to educate Lando when he was gonna make him the best F1 driver ever." 

"Lando got everything he needed to succeed. A great kart, winning everything possible and scoping up all the trophies." She took a sip of her coffee. "But on a rare occasion, Lando crashed out. About his first time doing that and he was scared. Scared on the threats that his father would make true by him losing. So Lando got a drive home from Max F. The only friend he had at the time. He got that drive home because his father had left right after he crashed. Just abandoned him at the track."

I was shaking now. Slight tremors running up and down my arms.

"So when Lando got home, David hit him. In the stomach so no-one would suspect a thing. Then he drove him to a gas station and made him walk an hour and a half back to his house. Lando was 10." Ginny wouldn't meet my eye. "Made him carry his helmet too." 

"After that, beating's for Lando would become a regular thing. David was loved by everyone and so when Lando told Max, he thought Lando was joking. Max kicks himself to this day about that conversation. Lando telling him that his dad kicked him when he didn't perform. Max was just a kid as well and Lando knows that now." 

I could't feel my heart. It was hurting, cold, hardly moving. 

"So Lando didn't tell anyone anything anymore. Just stayed quiet. A particularly bad time was when Lando came below the points in his first F3 race. David hit him so hard that he got a concussion, for which David blamed Lando because he made him do it." Ginny sucks in a shaky breath. "Lando was hospitalised and for that, David said he fell down the stairs. Everyone believed him and so Lando stayed in that house and endured the beatings from his father because he had no choice." 

"David left Lando alone after he got into F2. Though his work with him was done. So Lando moved in with Max and told him everything. Max knows everything." 

"The cigarette scars on his lower back are barely visible but you can feel them. David smoked and drank a lot as well so Lando grew up around alcohol and that smell. I guess it's true about what they say. Lando went and found a person that hurt him for a partner. Mia loved to throw things at him but that was it. Not as bad as his father. But during dating Mia, Lando fell down the same hole that his father did and resorted to drinking." She rubbed a palm over her temple. "And now is now."

"Wh-Why, would a person do that to a kid." I asked, my voice breaking at the end. "A kid?" 

"Lando was 7 when he was first hit. He can't bare to show weakness because his father hit him if he did. Lando's not a cryer. Noticed that? He likes to get angry, throw things, hit people because he inherited that from his father." 

"I need to talk to him, I need, I need-" 

Ginny scoffed. "No way he'll speak about that. Max tired once after he told him and Lando yelled at him. It's a miracle they're still friends. They have a weird bond." 

"Stop talking." I grumble out, while trying to figure out, WHAT THE HELL I'M SUPPOSED TO DO IN THIS WEIRD ASS SITUATION. 

"Okay." Ginny chuckled, standing up to leave. I can't believe she's chuckling in this situation but each to their own I guess.

"Let me think a minute." I managed out for a second. To no-one. Ginny had disappeared through the kitchen doorway and left me, elbows on knees and head in hands trying to get rid of this awful headache. 

Deciding I pulled out my phone.

Jen 

Hi.

Lando 🧡 🏎️ 😡

hi baby 

what's up? 

Jen

We need to talk

Lando 🧡 🏎️ 😡

oh

um, is it the lets make things official 

or, lets break up because I hate you talk

Jen

Both I guess

Lando 🧡 🏎️ 😡

okay

I'm free today if you wanna come over 

training but free to talk 

Jen 

All be over in a second x 

Lando 🧡 🏎️ 😡

okay xxx 

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Sorry

Love you alllllll XXX

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