My Brother's Teammate | Lando Norris

Fever Dreams

Damn fever dreams.

Reaching for her phone, she winced when the full brightness hit her. Alexis dimmed the brightness all the way down, checking her notifications; there were some from Facebook, Instagram and text messages from Lily amongst others. Lando had also been blowing up her phone. Judging by his messages, she'd been asleep for quite a while. Roughly about ten hours, to be exact. It was 2am in London, and after looking up the time difference in Saudi Arabia, she realised it would be 4am there.

Lando had tried to call her four times sporadically over the last ten hours, obviously each of those going unanswered. Then, there were the text messages.

Lan
Lily just told me
you're sick and
you're not coming
to Saudi
Lan
are you okay?
Lan
not gonna lie bit
worried that you're
not replying
Lan
are you alive?
Lan
hopefully you're just
asleep. text me when
you get these

Al
I'm alive

Lan
THANK FUCK
Lan
you honestly had
me so worked up

Al
What are you doing
awake? It's 4am there

Lan
I was waiting for you
to message me back

Al
Don't you have media
day in a few hours?

Lan
yeah, I don't give
a shit about that
Lan
I needed to know
you were okay
Lan
how are you
feeling?

Al
I feel really shit

Lan
Al I'm so sorry, that
sucks
Lan
wish I could be there
to look after you

Al
You have a race to focus
on, Norris
Al
You should get some sleep

Lan
alright fine
Lan
I'll text you later x

Al
Thank you, by the
way

Lan
for what?

Al
For caring

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Alexis took some more medication and fell back asleep after texting with Lando, waking up again at 8am. She was definitely feeling a lot more restful, albeit still very unwell.

Deciding to move from the bedroom to the lounge room, she wrapped her doona around her and trudged through the flat, before plonking down on the couch. Alexis switched the TV on, flicking it over to Netflix and turning on Brooklyn 99, needing something lighthearted and easy to watch.

She unlocked her phone, replying back to texts from Lily and Oscar, as well as her Mum, spotting another from Lando.

Lan
media day is so
shit

Al
Being sick is so
shit

Lan
yeah I guess I
shouldn't be
complaining

Al
You better not
be replying to
me during
interviews

Lan
what if I am?

Al
Your PR team is
gonna crack the
shits

Lan
oh well
Lan
just missed a
question because
I wasn't paying
attention whoops

Alexis chuckled, before putting her phone down and watching the show in front of her. After enduring a couple of episodes, she figured she should at least attempt eat something.