FOUR

"G'day."

Makena Kamara-Anderson smiled brightly as she entered the garage belonging to the Formula One team of Mclaren.

Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris immediately turned their entire bodies around to face the dark skinned woman as she walked towards them.

"Hey! Why aren't you wearing my merch?"

Lando Norris released a small whine as he noticed how the woman who had quickly become friends to both his team mate and himself, was wearing merchandise from head to toe, which was belonging to his team mate.

"Because you didn't give me some merch to wear." Makena winked playfully at the Norris boy as she heard both of the Mclaren drivers laugh.

"Daniel gave you his merch?"

"Of course I did! We can't have Mak here being short of merchandise from her favorite person in the whole wide world, can we?" Daniel teased his team mate, pulling the young girl down gently to sit down with him.

Daniel Ricciardo wrapped his arms around the waist of the girl, pulling her sideways down so that she was sitting across the length of the sofa that they were sitting on.

Makena placed her legs and boots on top of the legs of the Norris boy, whilst her torso was laying across that of the Ricciardo man.

"Yeah, I'm his favorite!"

Makena and Daniel winked at each other before the sound of laughter filled their ears as the duo released loud laughs, which was soon joined by the laughter of Lando as he joined in.

"But I'm his team mate!" Lando had to pretend to be offended, but he knew that he couldn't hold it for longer.

Her beaming smile was causing him to break his composure.

"And? Have you met me? I'm just absolutely fabulous!" Makena laughed loudly as she teased the two of them, before she froze at the sound of two voices.

"Well, fabulous is late."

Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo furrowed their eyebrows together in confusion as they were both very aware that she was not late.

She was an hour early, again.

Zak and Andreas walked towards the trio with scowls on their faces and their arms crossed in front of their chests.

"I'm not late." Makena spoke firmly, since she had a pretty good idea why they were repeatedly calling her late.

"This is your fifth late mark since we have hired you. We should have fired you by now." Zak eyed the woman coldly, though he found surprise filling him as she stared back at him.

"Five late marks despite not being late once? That seems a little fishy to me." Makena gave both men a tight lipped smile, seeing their faces twist in to a look that signalled that they were now uncomfortable.

"We have no body here to vouch for you being on time, kid. That does not help your case."

"We vouch!"

Lando raised his hand immediately, who was quickly followed by that of Daniel, as the pair immediately decided to back her up.

"Sebastian can vouch for me, even though he is not from Mclaren, and Lewis too." Makena spoke as she stared at the two of them, all whilst holding the hands of the two Mclaren drivers.

She squeezed their hands gently as a sign of gratitude for them sticking up for her, and felt the pair of them squeezing her hand back in reassurance.

"How can they?" Andreas watched the woman's face for any sign of fear or lying but could not find anything since her face was void of emotion.

"Sebastian meets me every day at the gates, and Lewis always comes and greets me and gives me a bottle of water because I always end up forgetting mine." Makena admitted confidently, wanting to see how the CEO and Team Principal would get out of this one without admitting why they had been targeting her.

"We will have to fact check that."

Makena leant back against Daniel and smiled brightly at them. "Go ahead, I'll be waiting, you know, in my hour of extra time since I had arrived early."

As soon as the two of them walked away from Makena and the two Formula One drivers, both men turned to check on her and make sure that she was okay and not upset.

"We know that you're not late. You're never late." Lando Norris spoke as his team mate pulled the girl in to his chest for a brief hug.

"They don't have a choice but to believe Lewis and Seb, besides, they're our friends." Daniel reassured her confidently, watching as she took a sip from a water bottle that he knew belonged to Lewis Hamilton.

"I could have added more drivers that would vouch for me, but you know, I thought I'd go for the two outspoken ones. And the most successful ones." Makena released a small chuckle, knowing that both Sebastian and Lewis would back her up instantly.

Sebastian was always meeting her at the gates of every track, and literally walking her to the Mclaren garage every single time, as he always arrived early.

He didn't want the young girl to get lost.

Lewis had noticed that by her second day at work, that she was always forgetting her water bottle, so without even saying anything to her, he had made sure to have an extra water bottle with him so that he could give it to her.

He had become quite fond of the girl, since he had met her after she had tripped and fallen over his dog Roscoe.

"Anyway, what's the plan for our next video? Since you're our social media goddess." Lando smiled brightly at the girl who was responsible for filming all of their social media content, as well as their fun interviews.

"Well, my dad watches all of the videos that we upload, and he said that we should be doing some competitions, and putting you up against each other."

"So, we have to guess things about each other?"

Makena shook her head from side to side. "Think more, cooking."

She noticed how the brown eyes of the Norris boy widened at the words that had left her lips, and smiled, as she was able to hear the loud laughter of the Ricciardo man beside her.

"I can't cook!"

"That's the whole point, Lando!"

Daniel watched the two of them pulling faces at each other and smiled fondly at the two of them, seeing their eyes sparkle at each other as they teased and mocked each other.

They had quickly become two of his best friend's and he loved the both of them very much.

And he knew that soon enough, they would love each other too.

If they didn't, he would call it a day.

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A/N

Daniel isn't blind my people.

They're wasn't much happening here, but it's about their dynamic and how protective they are about her already.

Apologies if it's boring!

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I'm proud of you all, my loves

Love you all

-RUBY