Private Life is a happy life

42- Him and I

LUCY POV

I had the worst nights sleep, last night kept replaying in my head, I heard everything George said, I know we're not involved anymore, but I really felt like this was something we went through together, like he's the only one who understands, the only one sharing my pain. So when I woke up and he wasn't there, I panicked. I thought he'd left me like Lando did, I was in so much pain.

I tried calling him, it didn't go through, I started crying, Lando and Max woke up. "Hey, Lu, what's wrong?" Lando asked, putting an arm around me. "It's George. He's gone, my calls aren't going through." Lando held me. The door opened, I looked and it was George he had some bags in his hand. "George!" I went over to him and hugged him, "I thought you left me." He hugged me back, stroking my hair, "Why would you think that? I just went to the shop for you." He sounded better, "But my calls didn't go through, I thought you blocked me like Lando." I was now looking at him. "Never. Now go sit."

I walked to the bed, "I got you some snacks, because I know you won't eat, I got you some flowers and I got you an electric water bottle, to help ease your pain and I've sent flowers to your house." I hugged him, "That's so thoughtful, thank you." He nodded his head to Lando, "Thank Lando, he told me what to get." I looked at Lando, I didn't think he'd be so thoughtful, I walked over and hugged him. "Please forgive me." He whispered into my ear. "Okay." He looked at me, "Really?" His eyes were red, he'd been crying all night.

I hugged him, "I love you." He whispered, "I love you too, just please never do something as stupid as fight, ever again." He went pale, "Never ever."

I gave Max a hug too, "Thank you so much for last night, you actually made the drive bearable." He smiled. "I just knew you needed me, I didn't care how, I just wanted to be there for you." I'm the luckiest girl alive.

"What's the plan then?" I asked, sitting on the bed, George came to help with the hot water bottle. "Well, your travel is limited the doctors said, so we were thinking of either, taking you to China now, or leaving you in Monaco." I pulled a face. "It's your decision princess, you're your own person, we just don't want you to push it too much." I looked at Lando, "Didn't you just have a fight, because someone was treating me like porcelain?" He went red. "Lu, what you've just been through, is no small thing, you need time to recover." Max always tells it how it is.

I looked at George, I pulled a face I know he can't say no to, "Fine, we'll continue with our plans, but you tell us the second you don't feel good, you could suffer a lot of complications. Also, stop using that face on me." I giggled, "Thank you, Georgie."

Max picked my bag up, "I've packed it for you." "Thank you, Maxie." I gave him a hug. "Right, let's go." I didn't know where we were going and I didn't care, I was just happy for the distraction.

In the elevator, Lando whispered in my ear, he asked if we could go back to how we were, I reminded him of everything he said, he apologised and again said he didn't mean it. "But we were never together, remember?" I was just teasing now. "Well that's different this time, I want to be official." We stepped out and made our way to the car, we got in the back, Max drove, he's the only one I trusted.

"Fine, but this is your last chance Lando." He smiled, "That's fine, I'll never need another." He held his hand out and I took it, all the way to the airport.

We boarded Max's plane, I still had no idea where we were going. We all settled on the plane, "Right, we've got 15 hours to kill." Max said. "15?!" "Yeah, we're going to the Maldives for a week." He said it so nonchalant, like it was no big deal. "I'm going straight to sleep." Lando said. "You just woke up." I responded. "I'm tired." I rolled my eyes, he can have the window seat so I can still move about.

The plane took off, I walked to get a drink, bumping into George. "Shit sorry Lu, I'm not with it." Bless him, "Hey, it's alright, how you doing?" He looked shocked, "Never mind me, how are you?" I tilted my head, "George, I know you're the only one going through what I am, it's something we experienced together, so please and don't take now to start lying to me...how are you?" He sighed.

"I'm doing shit, I can't concentrate on anything, I know it was only a few hours, but I feel like I've had a piece of me ripped out. I had all these plans, whether they were mine or Lando's, I was going to love them so much...and now we've lost them. I hated seeing you like that, I felt so helpless, there was nothing I could do." A tear fell from his eye. I wiped it without even thinking. "It's okay to feel that way George, but none of it is your fault. I heard everything you said last night and I thank you for being so vulnerable with me." I went to remove my hand, he held it to his face.

"I'm so in love with you, Lucy." Before I could think, he kissed me, I kissed him back, memories of our night together flooding back into my head, but then I remembered Lando and how we were going to give it another go. I pulled back, "Shit, I don't know what came over me Lu." His hands were in his hair, "Hey, calm down, it's fine, I kissed you back, it's my fault too, the emotions just got the best of us."

He smirked, "I don't regret it though." I hit him in his arm with a bag of crisps, just as Max entered the room, to see the crisps flying out of the packet and onto the floor. We all burst out laughing. "I was only coming for a drink, I'm not eating them." He said. "Spoil sport." "I'll help George clean them up, you go get comfy." He gave me a big hug and a kiss on the head.