#im sorry if theres typos i wrote this on my phone in the ask window bc in the worst

[iishmael]

Can you tell us more about Lewis and OT3? Only if you have time of course but your ask really made my day!

“Okay, I think I have everything.” Alex was looking at the list of items he’d written down in his phone in deep concentration, trying to remember if he’d forgotten anything important. “Lads, hello, could you listen for a moment? Do we need anything else?”

Reluctantly, George and Lando stopped playing with the fruit that was on display in the organic supermarket they’d ventured into, already having sorted several oranges and bananas into smiley faces. “I’m pretty sure we’re good. You literally put every single product from the vegan aisle into the shopping cart.”

“Yeah,” Lando agreed and jumped on the cart, balancing his momentum and holding on so he started to slowly cruise away from Alex, George and the fruit without toppling over. “Let’s go pay! Lewis is going to love this!”

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“I just want to do this right,” Alex said, worry making him crease his brows. “He’s always so nice to us and if we end up setting his house on fire by accident-“

“Oh my god, Alex, please let that die! It was one time-,” George groaned, but Alex ignored him. He was busy packing their groceries into the boot of the G-class they’d stolen out of Lewis’ garage.

“It’s just a BBQ, not rocket science!” Lando was playing with the car keys, content with watching George and Alex do all the work. He slowly inched towards the doors on the right hand side of the car. If he was fast enough and sat down in the driver’s seat they’d had to let him drive again.

“I know but-“

George put his hand on the small of Alex’ back and started rubbing small circles to calm him down. “Stop worrying, it’ll be fine. Even if we burn the tofu and even if we somehow don’t even manage to make a nice salad out of all of this - it’s the thought that counts, and Lewis is going to be so happy we organised a BBQ for him. Come on. Nico texted, they’re already at the airport. Let’s hurry up.”

With a sigh, Alex let George push him into the Mercedes and off they went, rushing to get the food ready for when Lewis and Nico would show up. There wasn’t really any special occasion, but Lewis had taken them karting last weekend and with the summer slowly coming to an end and the second half of the season right around the corner they wanted to do something in return. After long discussions that involved the suggestion of renting a trampoline, buying Lewis a tiger cub and only dressing up in TommyxLewis for the rest of the year, they’d settle for a nice, normal BBQ.

Sometimes they were still anxious that Lewis thought they were annoying. All three of them freely admitted that they could be quite the handful, especially when together, but Lewis was nothing but patient with them. Well, unless they were about to do something stupid, but even then he liked to stick to a ‘I’m not your dad I can’t tell you what to do but please don’t do that’ approach. They’d picked the BBQ because it had the least chance of producing the face Lewis made when he had to pull off that line.

After half an hour of squabbling over the grill and the correct way to dress the salad, they’d prepared quite the feast. From quinoa to guacamole and baked beet crisps to the grilled tofu slices, they’d really given it their everything.

“Oh my god I hear a car coming,” George said and jumped up. He’d managed to stop Lando from eating the beet crisps rather successfully but as soon as he got up Lando shoved a couple into his mouth. He was nervous, too, okay?

“Lando!” Alex pulled Lando over to where George and him were waiting, all three of them a little anxious to please Lewis. They held their breath, looking around the corner of the house in Ibiza where they’d been staying for the past week. Lewis and Nico had gone on a little holiday of their own, just some days of private time, and it was very generous to trust the boys with their summer house in the mean time.

“Surprise!”

Lewis almost jumped a foot into the air when the boys startled him, but when he noticed the three of them smiling excitedly he started to laugh. “You almost gave me a heart attack! Oh, but - are we having a BBQ? This looks so good!”

He quickly walked across the backyard that was overlooking the sea down below, Nico trailing after him with a soft smile on his face.

“It’s so good to see you all,” Lewis said and hugged them, squeezing Lando extra tight when he noticed that he was dangling the keys to the Mercedes off of his finger.

“We prepared a BBQ!” Alex announced, beaming at Lewis.

George nodded and as Lando hurried back to the grill to check that it still wasn’t going to catch fire, he explained: “It’s all vegan of course and we prepared everything ourselves. As a little thank you for always being there for us.”

“Oh,” Lewis said, and looked from the vast amounts of delicious food to George and back. He blinked, suddenly feeling like there was something in his eye. “You made that all for me?”

“Yeah!”

“You better like it because there’s no way all of this fits into your fridge!” Lando shouted over from the grill and poked around the coals a bit. “I actually think we can eat. Alex, can you fetch the - oh no, we forgot to buy wine!”

Lewis laughed at Alex’ horrified expression and threw his arm around his shoulder. “Don’t worry. Nico hoards wine bottles in the cellar. I’m surprised you’ve not found them during the week - Nico, darling? Will you fetch us something nice?”

“Sure.” With an easy grin Nico walked over to the table and grabbed a handful of baked beet crisps before he disappeared into the house.

“Thanks, lads.” Lewis waved Lando over and pulled the three of them into a group hug. “I really love this.”

George, Alex and Lando smiled proudly when they heard that, and proceeded to make Lewis and Nico try everything they’d thought up, drinking wine and laughing until they were all full and content under the settling night sky. It felt like a wonderful night to spend with their found family.~