During the off-season Lando enjoyed streaming his races on twitch which allowed him to not only earn some extra money, but it also allowed him to interact with his fans. The only downside was that once Lando started streaming, it was extremely difficult to get him to stop and thus the role fell to you as his best friend to ensure he remembered to continue basic human necessities and in general to live outside of the stream.
You were sat in Lando's kitchen completing university work as you had an assignment that was due within the next few days, but it seemed impossible to concentrate as all you could hear was Lando voice. His voice seemed to carry for miles as it resonated throughout the house even though he was upstairs in his gaming room and you were downstairs in the kitchen. You knew it was inevitable – you'd never be able to get back into the flow of work and so you loaded up his twitch stream on your phone in a last hope to quieten him down. As his stream loaded, you entered the chat.
Y/N: Any chance here Lando, trying to work downstairs
You knew there was only a small chance of him actually seeing the message simply due to the large audience he had but it wasn't long until he read it out and responded to you, "Y/N! Come upstairs!" he shouted, you could hear him upstairs and then a few seconds later on the stream due to the lag. You let out an exasperated sigh and tidied up your temporary workstation that you had created on his kitchen table and made your way upstairs. You could hear him talk to his stream and so, as he was distracted you took this as your chance to scare him. You gently turned the handle down, took a breath, and then jumped into the room, "Boo!" you yelled with the biggest smile as you saw Lando nearly have a heart attack. He was sat in his simulator chair, hand on chest with his eyes closed as he took deep breaths to calm down.
"What is wrong with you?" he turned in his chair to look at you. From the positioning of his camera you knew that you weren't visible to his audience so you could almost imagine how chaotic his chat was, trying to figure out what had happened. You slid down his wall, still wheezing with laughter as you tried to calm down. "That was brilliant." You said between laughter, "Oh, I so wished I had recorded that"
"I don't! Do you know how much slack I'm going to get for his?" Lando said with a smile so you knew he wasn't actually annoyed. "Come here." You stood up and stood behind his chair, still out of view from his twitch stream. With a exasperated sigh, Lando grabbed your wrist and pulled you to sit beside his chair so that he could introduce you to his viewers. "Guys, this is Y/N! She just scared the shit out of me."
"Your reaction was so funny! You should've seen your face, it was perfect!"
"My face was perfect? Thanks Y/N!" You gave him an annoyed look, he knew what you had actually meant but he lived to annoy you. "Do you think your stream caught any of that?" You asked him and in turn he asked his chat if they saw it. Within seconds replies began to flood in informing you that they only saw Lando's reaction and not you actually scaring him. "Dammit. Someone edit the stream so that I can watch his reaction over and over again."
"No, don't. That's all I'm going to see on Instagram and Twitter for days. I honestly hate you"
"You love me." You give Lando a wide smile as you know he can't stay mad at you for longer than 5 minutes, (3 minutes when you smile like that). Lando turned back to his stream, telling you that he had to restart his Spa lap since you had so rudely interrupted it and so you sat down to watch him. Despite being his best friend for years, you have never been on his simulator. As you read his chat you could see that people were asking if you could try the simulator, "Chat wants me to have a go. Let me have a go!"
"What No! You're going to ruin my lap times!" Lando argued as he continued to finish his lap. You continued to stare at him knowing that he'd give in eventually. "Right, ok. You can have a go! Just ... just stop looking at me like that." You smiled successfully. He got up from his seat and moved out of the way so that you could get into it, thankfully due to your similar height you didn't need to adjust the seat. AS you sat comfortably in the chair, Lando stretched across you to set up the car and race setting.
"I want to be the fast car!"
"McLaren is fast!"
"But Mercedes always win!" He gave you a side-eye before switching the car from his orange McLaren to the silver arrow that was number 44, (he gave you another side-eye when you requested Lewis' car 'because it always wins'). He finished setting you up for the race and giving you a quick introduction to the steering wheel. "Look, I've played Mario Kart, how hard can it be?" Lando made a choking noise, "Did you just compare Mario Kart to F1? Honestly get out." He said giving you a shove as you laughed and kept your ground. "Ok, just give me the basics." He nodded and began to give you a basic run down as to how to operate the steering wheel.
"See what I have to deal with Chat? It's no wonder I had to do a 2007 Britney." This time it was your turn to shove him. as the race started it was hard for you to concentrate as you had Lando either telling you what to do or doing commentary on the race. "And here we have Y/L/N in the Mercedes, is she going to overtake now that she's in a DRS zone?" He said in a voice similar to that of Martin Brundle before to turning to you and whispering, "You need to enable DRS." And he pointed to the button on the steering wheel. You pressed down on the button and tried to overtake the Ferrari in front of you, but they defended well and thus you were stuck in the same position. As the race came to an end you had been reduced to 15th place.
"I think that's the worse a Mercedes has ever done." Lando nodded and as the chat rolled in you can see that they agreed.
"Shut up." You mumbled as you leaned back into the chair.
"Awk come 'ere." Lando stood up from his seat beside you on the floor and pulled you out of the chair giving you a tight hug. "Simulator is hard, why do you think actually F1 drivers use it to practice?" He wrapped his arms around your neck, out of view from his viewers because you didn't even want to imagine what conclusions they'd come to.
"I suppose. Bit different from Mario Kart." You mumbled into his shoulder.
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Anyone else watch the F1 Virtual GP? Bit sad that Lando's game basically shit itself but good race nonetheless. Proud of Charles for winning!
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