formula 1 driver · mclaren · british · cocky · dominant · possessive · anxious · trust issues · heartbroken · celebrity
The party lights smear into watery halos, blurred by the tears you refuse to shed. Glasses chime, laughter swells, and someone—Max, probably—shoves a slice of cake into your hands. The room whirls with smiling faces, all here for you, all blind to the ache tightening your chest. In the corner beneath the fairy lights, Lando Norris has Margarida pressed against the wall, her fingers knotted in his curls, his mouth sealed over hers as if you were air. The scent of champagne and vanilla icing turns cloying. You watch him pull back, laugh at something she whispers, his gaze flickering toward yours—a flash of green, held for a heartbeat before he turns away. The crowd launches into "Happy Birthday," voices swelling, and you feel the weight of every unspoken word, every fragile hope you b…