away we go • formula 1

Land der Berge

That night we went to our separate rooms and I finally felt at ease with the situation. I laid down on my bed ready to go to sleep when I heard my phone vibrate. I picked it up in case it was something important.

Hey-yo sooo about Austria... You know I'm also going and I was thinking that maybe we could take a detour and visit your brother? ~ Lando 🥛

I had to chuckle and shake my head at his text. I knew to reason he wanted to visit my brother. It's actually really cute. He always does it so I cannot find a shabby excuse to not visit my family. Lando still to this day believes that they are proud of what I do and just can't show it. I however think that they still assume that whatever I'm doing is a waste of time and I should finish school. What they don't know since they obviously don't care is that I actually finished school online and graduated last year. With online schooling I could just take so many classes that I finished early. But it's not like they cared about that enough to ask me. Anyways Lando always got me to go visit them. How can I say no to him?

Yes we can do that. After the GP!~ me

Can I finally tell them that you actually graduated?~ Lando🥛

No! Its not like they care anyways. Call me tomorrow so we can handle the details. Good night:*~ me

Ok love you 😘 Stop using those weird smileys~ Lando 🥛

With that I went to sleep.

In the early hours of the morning I was rudely awoken by Stoffel screaming through the flat.
"I HAVE TOLD YOU A THOUSAND TIMES!!!", I heard and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. It was Stoffel most likely in the living room screaming like a maniac. I wanted to know what was going on so I stepped out of my room. My face instantly scrunched up at the sight displayed. Stoffel was sitting on the sofa head in his hands breathing heavily. Stood up was no one other than Esteban looking outraged.
"Guys...?", I asked cautiously. "WHAT?!", Stoffel exclaimed and whipped his head in the direction I was standing. "Lin... I'm sorry.", he looked as guilty as can be. "What is going on?", I asked not moving an inch the tension in the room could be cut with a knife. "Esteban was just about to leave.", Stoffel gritted through his teeth. "Was not!", Esteban retorted. "Why are you guys fighting anyways?".
"Baby I saw him with Anna and I flipped.", Esteban came over to me thinking I was gonna break down at this revelation. "I know Esteban. He asked if he could.", I said truthfully. "What?!Why?", to be fair this situation was confusing as hell. "We have broken up.", I said. "See I told you I wasn't cheating! I would never!", Stoffel piped up. "Oh I didn't know! Stoffel sorry. Baby I'm sorry for waking you.", he gave me a kiss on my hair and left our flat looking guilty.
"What a great way to wake up!", said and plopped down on the sofa. Stoffel and I looked at each other and started giggling. "So how was it?", I asked. "We don't need to talk about it. I know it's weird.", he said. "Nonsense this is what we did before and the sooner we try the easier it's gonna be.", I smiled at him.
"So Tell me!", I demanded and chuckled.

It seemed like Stoffel's date went good and I am happy about that. Even though I don't necessarily like Anna. I spent the rest of the day going over the data from the last races and talking to Kalle about my training. I had to leave for Austria tomorrow same goes for Max and Daniel. We are all expected in Graz for a show run and some public stuff. Normally they just invite the Red Bull's but seeing as I am Austrian they invited me as well. Anäis told me to pack some fancy stuff as well as casual wear since I had loads of media stuff to do. The Austrian Grand Prix was always a dream of mine. I mean it is my home Grand Prix and I loved the track ever since I was a kid. In last years F2 race's I took first and second place which put me in an optimistic mood. I knew my way around the track and I felt really confident in my abilities. Say all that I started to feel incredible nervous. It was my home race and people were expecting a lot. Sky and ORF, the Austrian news outlet, both have interviews waiting for me. Ziggo has asked for an exclusive too. Anäis was already worried because of all the events lined up for me. I tried to play it cool whenever she asked but I was the opposite. At the start of the season I was annoyed that media outlets wouldn't talk to me rather just talk about me. I guess I didn't see that that was a blessing in disguise. I didn't have to worry about my looks or what I was gonna say and that took a lot of pressure off of me.