Blurred lines - Lando Norris

41.

I avoided Christian and Helmut during the entire raceweekend.

It was now Saturday evening, and I was alone in my room. I needed some advice on what to do.

I couldn't tell Max, even though I was kinda sure that he knew about it. I couldn't risk it.

I couldn't trust Ava anymore, so instead of FaceTiming her, like I would normally do. I FaceTimed Ryle.

I wasn't sure if he was gonna pick up though. It was Saturday evening, so pretty sure he was gonna be busy.

But to my surprise, he picked up and he was laying on his couch. Definitely a bit surprising.

"Hi little sister, how are you?" He asked with a smile and seeing his face, did something to me.

I started crying. I just couldn't hold it in anymore.

"What's wrong?" He frowned. "Did something happen? You did good during quali right?"

"Did you watch?" I asked in between sobs.

"Of course we watched" Vanna's face popped on the screen. "We watch everything"

I didn't like Vanna in the past, thought she didn't really like me either. But she was actually really nice when you got to know her.

And she was good to Ryle, she clearly calmed him down. He used to spend his Saturday evenings in the club, getting drunk or stealing jewelry or whatever.

But now, he was cuddling and watching a movie with Vanna. Definitely liked that side of him.

"How's Lando?" Ryle asked. He probably suspected that something happened between us.

"He's good, I think" I shrugged.

"Okay Alix, what happened?"

I explained them everything, how Christian and Helmut threatened me, how sweet and cute Lando was.

Literally everything.

"What an absolute assholes" Vanna rolled her eyes. "I never liked them"

"You didn't even met them" Ryle raised his eyebrow.

"And now I for sure don't want to meet them"

"Anyways.." Ryle looked back at me. "What did Lando say about this?"

"I didn't tell him" I shrugged.

They both frowned. "Okay? So are you with him because Christian told you or because you like him?"

"I do like him" I admitted, but I certainly started this because Christian asked me. Maybe it was the push I needed to go to Lando's room, to tell him I wanted him.

"Just lie to Christian" Ryle shrugged. "Just give him fake updates"

"And go talk to Toto, Lewis is leaving next season, so Mercedes will have an empty seat" Vanna added which made Ryle look at her all impressed.

"That's my girl" he said, pressing his lips against hers.

"Okay okay, I'll hang up because I don't wanna see this" I rolled my eyes.

"What are you? Twelve?" Ryle said, causing Vanna to nudge him in the ribs. "Be nice"

They were annoyingly cute.

Anyways, we talked for a little while before I hung up. It was actually a good idea to call Ryle.

He was right. I could just lie to Christian, he was never gonna know anyways.
Red Bull was definitely not the team for me, even though I loved being Max's teammate.

I texted Toto that I wanted to talk to him in private and to my surprise, he texted back almost immediately.

And then I laid down in bed again. I wasn't sure if I was gonna tell Lando yet. He would think I was only with him because Christian told me.

Which wasn't the truth, it never was.

I was gonna prove that.