Your love felt like standing in a doorway that never fully opened, but never fully closed either. You pulled me close enough to feel your heartbeat, close enough to believe I mattered, but never close enough to truly claim me. I gave you all of me while you held yourself back, always ready to leave, always prepared with an exit. Do you know what that does to someone? To feel treasured in private but never chosen out loud? To be held like something precious but treated like something temporary? It slowly unravels you. It makes you question your worth in the loud moment because you only existed in the quiet ones. I kept waiting for the day you'd look at me with certainty instead of hesitation. I told myself you just needed time, that love like this was complicated, that if I stayed patient enough you would finally decide I was enough. I stretched myself thin trying to fit into a space you refused to define. And the cruelest part? It never shattered in one clean break. There was no dramatic ending, no final goodbye to grieve. Just this endless in-between. No real beginning to cherish, no closure to hold onto. Just ghost versions of us, the way we laughed, the way it almost felt real, the future we danced around but never stepped into. It hurts deeper than a real heartbreak because at least heartbreak has an ending. This was just a slow ache. A story without a title. A love that only lived in almosts and maybes.

When pretending becomes the most honest thing you've ever done. Eloise Mayer never liked Lando Norris. In fact, she barely tolerated him. Arrogant, reckless, and annoyingly magnetic, he's everything she can't stand-on and off the Formula 1 grid. But after one drunken mistake turns into a media scandal, they're forced into a fake relationship to save their reputations... and their careers. Now, she's stuck pretending to love the one person she'd happily crash into at 200 mph. What begins as staged hand-holding and fake smiles slowly unravels into stolen glances, buried feelings, and heartbreak neither of them are ready to admit. As the season stretches on, so does the lie-and somewhere between the podiums, press conferences, and long nights spent not sleeping, Eloise starts to wonder if the only thing she's faking is how much she hates him. But in a world built on image and speed, love is the one thing they can't control. #9 - breakup #9 - landonorris

Adelina Ruggiero thought she had her life figured out-Monaco's nightlife at her fingertips, a job she's good at, and the party scene to numb the past she's never truly escaped. Raised without a real family, carrying the scars of loss and loneliness, she's built walls around her heart. Then there's Lando Norris-charismatic, impulsive, and utterly magnetic. They start as nothing more than casual partners in the dizzying world of late-night parties, where bodies are tangled but emotions are kept safely at bay. Until the night that changes everything. Adelina finds herself pregnant, thrown headfirst into a world she's never prepared for. With no roadmap, no guarantee of love, and a past that still haunts her, she must learn what it means to become a mother-and what it means to let someone in.

This is the duet book to "Bound together" Please make sure to read that book BEFORE reading this one. Mature themes. Undergoing edits.

If I had to I would choose you.

🏁______________________________________🏎️ when two childhood best friends separate due to him leaving to pursue his dreams, they are reunited when they bump into each other within the Formula 1 paddock. "I still can't believe you work with them!" "Lando?" "What Stel?" "Just shut up and drive." story started- [12/04/2023] story completed-

LANDO NORRIS X MALE OC ⤷ lando norris and theodore wilson were childhood best friends, dreaming of making it to formula 1 together-lando as a driver, theo as his engineer. but when lando left without a word, theo promised to forget him. can lando win back the one person he should have never left? ‧₊ ᵎᵎ 🍒 ⋅ ˚✮

" - Do friends act like this? - I'm afraid we stopped acting like friends a while ago." Where the way two childhood friends communicate is by sleeping together and pretending it doesn't change anything between them. #1 in f1 #1 in norris #1 in landonorris Translated version of "Ride or Die | Lando Norris" which you can find on my profile. I'm the one and only author of both stories. (My first language is not english! On most of the story I'm using translator) Enjoy:)

Five years after a messy break up, Lando is heading home for the holidays and finds the courage to text his ex and apologize for everything that happened between them. With Christmas lights going up and a long flight home ahead of him, he sends the message he's rehearsed for months, only for it to end up in the inbox of Wren Quinn, a sweet, quietly resilient girl who recently changed her number to keep her obsessive ex from contacting her again. When Wren receives a message from a stranger staying he's "coming home for the holidays and wants to talk", she knows it's a mistake. But instead of ignoring it, she replies. What begins as a simple "wrong number" moment turns into late-night conversations, unexpected honesty, and a spark neither of them saw coming. By the time they agree to meet in person, the magic of Christmas is already working on them. One accidental text becomes the start of something real, two people finding each other exactly when they needed it the most. As snow falls and the holidays unfold, Lando and Wren discover that sometimes love doesn't just find a way... it finds the wrong number first.

˚₊‧꒰ა . --- ˗ˏˋ ✮ ˎˊ˗ --- ˖ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇... Arabella Madden accidentally stumbles into Formula 1, finds herself entangled with a boy who drives, smiles too much, and somehow makes her feel like home. 𝐎𝐑, 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇... Lando Norris swears he's just friends with the girl who turns his world upside down, until the line between friendship and something more, that he can't exactly pinpoint what it is, blurs. ˚₊‧꒰ა . --- ˗ˏˋ ✮ ˎˊ˗ --- ˖ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ "This motherfucker replied and now I want to bite a fucking wall" "No joke" "The fuck are you talking about?" ˚₊‧꒰ა . --- ˗ˏˋ ✮ ˎˊ˗ --- ˖ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ friends to lovers Lando Norris x OC started: april 23 2025 finished: february 22 2026 ˚₊‧꒰ა . --- ˗ˏˋ ✮ ˎˊ˗ --- ˖ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ Highest ranking: 1st - f1 (07/09-2025) 1st - lando-norris (02/12-2025) 1st - jennaortega (25/08-2025, 03/01-2026) 4th - ln4 1st - oscarpiastri (14/09-2025) 1st - fakedating (14/09-2025) 1st - f1fanfic (21/11-2025) 1st - faceclaim (17/02-2026) 1st - landonorris (05/03-2026) 1st - charlesleclerc (05/03-2026) 1st - maxverstappen (05/03-2026) 4th - driving ˚₊‧꒰ა . --- ˗ˏˋ ✮ ˎˊ˗ --- ˖ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚