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the left 😩😩

she's got body ody ody

this so awks

i photoshopped her

she's got negative curves

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tell me i have body ody

ody rn 🔪

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Queenie is sunbathing on the top deck of the boat when suddenly a dark shadow covers her body. Confused, she peaks through one eye before opening both eyes and grinning once she sees what is causing the shadow.

"Lando Norris." She says with a nod of her head, her grin widening when he rolls his eyes and returns her smile.

"Are you ever going to just use my first name?" He asks.

Queenie pretends to think for a moment, placing her hand under her chin but then she shakes her head, earning a chuckle from the boy standing in front of her.

"Do you need anything?" She asks, pulling herself up so that she's sitting rather than laying against the back of the sun bed.

Lando nods slowly, reaching a hand up to run through his hair. His other hand stays tucked in the pockets of his swimming trunks as he clears his throat, seemingly working himself up to say what he wants to say.

After a moment of silence, Queenie grows restless. "Are you OK, Lando?"

"Me? I'm fine," The boy says, laughing nervously. "I just—uh... it's your last full day here."

Queenie frowns. "I know."

"I was wondering if—" Cough. "If—I don't know if you'd—well—"

"Are you having a stroke right now?"

"I don't know," Lando's eyes widen. "Do your palms tend to get sweaty when you have a stroke?"

"I can't say I've ever experienced one before."

"Feel my palms."

"I'd rather not."

"They're so sweaty."

"Lando," Queenie laughs. "What's up with you?"

"I'm nervous," Lando admits. "You make me nervous."

Queenie's heart clenches. "I make you nervous?"

"Do you need me to say it a third time?" Lando asks monotonously.

"Three is a magic number." Queenie sings with a grin and Lando recognises the song as the theme for a National Lottery advert.

"Will you go on a date with me?" Lando asks quickly as if asking it any slower would lower his chances of Queenie agreeing to go with him. "Tonight." He adds after a second.

"Oh," Is all Queenie is able to say at first and it panics Lando enough to make him hold his breath. "I—yeah, of course, I'll go on a date with you."

Lando exhales loudly. "Fuck me, I'm never doing that again," He says, faking a shiver in disgust before flopping onto the sun bed beside Queenie. "You can ask me from now on."

"You're already expecting more dates to come?" Queenie asks, raising an eyebrow as she stares at the racing driver in amusement. "Someone's a bit full of themselves."

"I'm Lando Norris, Queens." Lando winks, squirming out of his seat with a laugh when Queenie reaches over to swat his arm.

"What time should I be ready tonight? And where are we going?" The twenty-one-year-old questions, holding her hands out for Lando to grab so that he can pull her off of the sun bed and onto her feet.

He keeps hold of one her hands, twirling her so that he can wrap an arm over her shoulder but still have her hand clasped in his. Only one word crosses Queenie's mind: smooth.

"I was thinking we could just have a look at the restaurants on the sea front or near there," Lando says. "Would seven be a good time?"

"Sounds like a plan, Superman."

And it is. A plan, that is.

Some hours later, after a squabble with the other girls on the boat about what she should wear, Queenie meets Lando on the marina's deck after scurrying off the boat in a hurry.

"Hi." She grins breathlessly. She's not sure whether she's breathless because she's just finished running around like a headless chicken or whether it's because Lando is standing in front of her looking so, so beautiful.

His hair is in its typical curly, fluffy nature and he's dressed in a white Ralph Lauren shirt with black jeans. The sun is just setting over the water and the rays give his tanned skin a golden glow.

"Hey." Lando's voice sounds just as strained and his chest heaves a little as he catches the breath he'd forgotten to take.

It's a weird thing—forgetting to breathe. Breathing is second nature to people, you don't have to think about doing it, you just do it... and yet, here's Lando having to recalibrate his brain into inhaling and exhaling just from one look at Queenie.

"Shall we?" Queenie asks timidly, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear as she watches Lando seemingly blink himself out of his trance.

Lando nods, stepping closer to Queenie so that their shoulders brush as they walk. "So, I did some research about the restaurants on the sea front for us to go to in the last couple of hours and was thinking we could go to this Gyro place just down the boardwalk?"

"Sounds lovely." Queenie grins.

The pair walk in a comfortable silence for most of the walk towards restaurant before Lando clears his throat and glances to the stunning girl beside him.

"I just want to let you know now," He says. "I've never really been on dates befo—why are you looking at me like that?"

Queenie chuckles to herself. "You're not seriously about to lie to me ten minutes into our first date, are you?"

"I'm not lying," Lando defends but then he rolls his eyes. "OK, so maybe I'm lying. I have been on quite a few dates, but none that mattered. That's what I was trying to get at."

"No, I get it," Queenie nods, a teasing smile on her lips. "You're trying to talk down your dating skills so that I'm easily impressed tonight."

"Are you profiling me right now?" Lando accuses, squinting his eyes playfully. "You're using your education to profile me, that's not fair."

"Law students aren't taught to profile people."

"But, you are."

"I just know you, Lando," Queenie laughs. "I don't have to profile one of my friends to understand them."

Lando pouts. "There's things you don't know."

"Oh, yeah?"

"Yeah."

"Like what?" Queenie challenges.

"My golfing outfit—the one you took the piss out of," Lando begins, a smug smile on his lips. "That actually—"

"Belongs to Max," Queenie interrupts. "I know."

"OK, well what about the fact that when I eat skittles—"

"You colour code them and then eat them by their colour groups."

Lando's lips flatten into a straight line. "My lucky number?"

"Four."

"Favourite colour?"

Queenie clicks her tongue at this one. "I'd like to say orange by default but my next guess would be Vale's yellow."

"I'll let you have that one," Lando hums. "What's my favourite thing to do?"

"Genuinely?" Queenie asks, replying once she sees Lando nod. "Play golf."

"Marry me?"

Queenie lets out a loud laugh as the couple stop in front of the Gyro restaurant they're planning to have their date at. "Maybe after the first date."

Lando's smile turns cheeky. "Kiss me?"

Queenie rolls her eyes at the boy's confidence, the smile never leaving her lips as she reaches to place on hand on the back of Lando's neck while the other cups his cheek. Her lips meet his in a soft, gentle kiss and Lando takes a moment to fully realise what is happening before he finally kisses her back.

She can feel that his lips are slightly chapped against her own but she enjoys it nevertheless, laughing slightly when Lando wraps his arms around her waist and tugs her impossibly closer.

Queenie's stomach feels like it's host to a butterfly garden and she can't wipe the grin from her face as she continues to kiss the boy she's grown so fond of so quickly.

After a moment, Queenie pulls away, leaving the boy with a few extra pecks as she does.

"That's all you're getting for now." She whispers before ducking into the restaurant and greeting the waitress at the door with a polite smile.

Lando only stares after her in awe.

He's got it bad.

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idk if anyone wanted to know what

the fuck the song queenie sang sounds

like but it's this one if ur curious :)

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LANDO AND QUEENIE WENT

ON A DATE NO-ONE TALK TO

ME EVER AGAIN I BEG

also, rlly quick, i just worked out that 3

updates a week would mean this book

wouldn't finish til may and i kind want it

done by the next season so think i'm gonna

do more than 3 updates a week

wherever i can—hence today's upload