Caught on camera! part. 2
Lando Norris x fem. Mclaren social media manager
Sypnosis: Having a crush on a guy who you work with is hard. The hardest part - seeing him love anyone and everyone but you.
Angst, friends/coworkers to lovers, HAPPY ENDING!, social media au
Tw: Possible grammar errors, mentions of Lando's other girlfriends, y/n usage at times
authors note: I'm so happy that so many of you liked part one and were excited for part 2! It means the world to me, and hopefully I delivered;) I'm expecting at least 3 more parts from this series if you'd like for it to continue!
The second I saw it I turned around, holding my friend by her hand. We quickly left the club unnoticed.
I barely managed to hold in my tears, but Eve helped me by distracting me, talking about anything, but what happened. Before going into our apartment, we went to a small, 24-hour shop and got ourselves two buckets of ice cream - all the food in our apartment was organic, but in some cases, you gotta get something sweet, right?
I have to admit, the moment we got into our apartment, I started bawling.
I really thought that inviting us to dance was a start to something between us two. But never meet your idols as they say.
After some tears, a warm shower, and a small dinner meal, Eve and I got into our fluffy pajamas and started watching a low-budget Romance movie, our ice cream buckets on our laps.
Would call it a dream evening if not what happened 3 hours ago.
"Why would you do that?" I asked, moving away from her.
"What, I thought we both were into each other Lando!" Alix replied.
"Not like that, I invited you as a friend!"
"Then why were you leaning into me like that, ugh." she rolled her eyes, moving away from me and picking her phone from the table.
I took a deep breath, looking around.
Was I really suggestive? But I wasn't even thinking of it, we were just dancing next to each other and.. that happened. Well, whatever, it's just a kiss Lando, not like you've never done it before.
I decided to clear my head and just get away for a few minutes. The best place for that sounded like the bar. I sat on the chair, ordering a strong drink.
"Hello sir, I guided two girls to your table, they were on the list, is everything alright about that?"
"Two girls?" -I asked. Nobody else came to our table yet. At the moment, it was just me and Alix.
"Yeah, I don't remember their full names, but Eve and... oh and Y/n"
I paused mid sip. When did they come? How did I not see them?
I turned back to our table. There was only Alix.
Did something bad happen? But if the guy guided them to our table or at least near it, they couldn't have gotten in danger or anything, right?
Oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no. Did they see us kissing? Oh my God. Well, better than my first thoughts were, but that's still so bad. Oh no.
"Oh yeah, I'm alright. They left, but it's okay, thanks. " I forced a smile.
But why do I really feel so guilty for the kiss? I can't explain it, but it feels so wrong.
Is it guilt? It felt wrong. I felt like I was betraying something. Well, rather someone. And that someone? That someone saw me betraying her.
Lando Norris update! Recent photos from Clubs Lando were attending, and possible relationship with Alix Earle.
Random User5 Lando never beating f boy allegations
Random User6 Lando run normally, please
Random user7 two girls in just one f1 gossip girl update is crazy
Random user8 Ooof these photos ain't doing him justice
*Back to first person pov
Since the "club weekend" happened on Sunday, I had five days before I had to face Lando again. I'm very glad that's the case. That way, I could do yoga, prepare my uni project, and even bake (which I rarely had time for lately)!
The next race was happening in another country - the famous Monaco.
As much as I didn't want to get back to work, I was really excited.
First time is always the best, plus such a beautiful place, how can people just live in such paradise?
And you know I had lots of stuff to bring. Even though I felt uncomfortable since Lando probably understood what we saw- why else would we have peft?- my emotions going there were still pretty good.
The great thing about the whole situation is that in the whole world, only me and my roommate Eve know about my feelings for him. That way, I could just say I had a headache or something, and he wouldn't care more - probably won't even ask that. He has like two girls already, doesn't he?
So anyways, I just care too much. It's a sigh. I need a detox from the whole MALE population. He's just ruining my mood, isn't he?
That's why when we had a flight on Thursday, at 13:00 I decided to go into the airport in my most comfortable pants and t-shirt (I often put too much effort into my appearance, can you blame a girl?). My skin was also pretty rough (I blame the bucket of ice cream), so I didn't wear any makeup either.
I was sitting on one of those benches after going through all of the security checks, posted a couple of instagram stories, and was about to start a new sudoku when I heard a familiar:
Oh my god, this is the type of comedy you could make a movie out of.
I slowly looked up, seeing not just Lando (thankfully) but his family as well. Well, I'd use this opportunity of going to Monaco too if I were them.
He was dressed in a black t-shirt, pants, and shoes, and had a grey hoodie on top.
"Hey," I forced a smile, thinking how could I run away like right now. "Nice to see all of you again."
I stood up and hugged his mom, sisters, dad, nieces, and brother. Yup, I did skip the man Lando Norris itself, I call that growth.
Then he sat next to me, I repeat he sat next to me! I took a deep breath preparing for the next 40 minutes till my flight. I BETTER not get any delays because this is hell already. His family sat in the chairs around us as well, his nieces near me, since we became friends during Miami weekend.
"I thought you guys would be traveling with private jets or something"
"Well, first class this time," his sister Flo replied, smiling back at me. God, their family is so sweet. Why isn't he more.. one girl at a time at least.
"So eco-friendly of you." I now forced a chuckle, taking bite of my apple. His family gigled aswell.
"You want to get coffee?" He asked, looking straight at me. I barely managed to keep the bite of an apple inside my mouth.
"Me? I don't think a ten pound coffee is in my budget right now"
"Come on, you know that I'll buy it for you," he said, standing up and extending his arm for me.
Well, how could I say no to free stuff. If I'm going to detox and grow, at least I could do it by using his credit card. And that is kind of sweet for him to do that. No, y/n, remember how he made you bawl your eyes out a week ago.
I took his arm to stand up, but let go as soon as I did that. I awkwardly smiled at his family. Some of them were already busy with other stuff (thankfully), but some still chuckled at us.
We walked to a nearby Cafรฉ and damn, that airport coffee did cost 20ยฃ for both of us.
We sat down by a table for two. This side of the airport was really busy, people coming in and out of shops, buying gifts for people they fully forgot about during their holiday stay. Others, like us, sat eating food twice its normal price, maybe getting lured by menu photos, maybe trying to prepare for a hard conversation.
"Oh yeah, first of all, I didn't feel good that day, so that's why I didn't come . Second, if you're asking about those social media posts, then yeah, it's pretty hard to keep everything in place, but don't worry, we'll make quiet down in a week or so-"
"I know you were there. And I don't care about those posts and reels and tiktoks and whatever else there is. I care about you. I want you to know that wasn't what I... intended. What I've been wanting to tell you is that I'm falling in love with you, Y/n."
