Tes was a singer that after unfortunate events decided to exit the public eye. She met Daniel while she was healing from past traumas and scars. Daniel was determined to figure her out. Secrets, funny moments, new friendships and romance join those...
Daniel and Tes were having fun. She was grabbing her stomach from how hard she was laughing at Daniel's goofiness. He was part dancing, terribly, and part playing bowling. It was Tes idea of showing him that she could beat him in something, thing that currently isn't happening.
-Okay, I know what I want when I win.- She looked at him with her brow raised.
-If you win.- It was her turn to play, so she was looking at the different balls thinking about a strategy.
-Okay. I know what I want if I win.- She nodded satisfied. -I want you to tell me the reason behind "Rose" because I still couldn't figure it out.
Tes stopped and slowly turned around looking at him. Her eyes half-closed and he was smiling with his head tilted to the side, as if it were a child asking for something. -Okay, I will tell you that if you win and only if you win.
Daniel moved his arms in a winning manner making Tes laugh. -What about you?
-Let me think while I score these points.- Tes said with the heavy ball in her left hand and a smile on her face.
With the attentive look of Daniel over her shoulder, both of them see how the ball left his course and didn't hit any bowling pins. Tes clenched her jaw and Daniel smiled satisfied. -It seems that you don't have to think much about what you want when you win, because at this point you aren't going to do it.- He said in her ear. His mouth was so close to her neck that gave her goosebumps.
Forty-five minutes later they were sitting in front of the other eating a cheeseburger with fries and water, to balance the food according to Daniel. -This doesn't go with your high performance athlete lifestyle, Mr Ricciardo.
Daniel laughed. -No, it doesn't. But don't tell that to Michael and we still can be friends.- Tes laugh too.
-Your secret's safe with me, pinky promise.- Just like the second time they met, they kissed their pinky fingers and interviewed them.
-Now, Miss White Rose, it's your time to pay. I won, now I want my prize.- He moves his eyebrows up and down.
-Fine.- She cleaned her hands and took a deep breath. -It's not like I'm revealing a national secret, but okay. The first part you got it, Tes as a short version of Tesla, White for the hair and Rose- He put his hands up in a waiting signal and she shut up. Daniel tapped his fingers on the table like a drum roll and she rolled her eyes. -Because the first time Hope and I met she told me I looked just as beautiful as a rose in the spring but that I have just as many thorns as it. That when you approach me with full confidence I "stab you" with the thorns.
-That's poetic, I think.- Daniel's voice was unsure.
-Kinds of, yeah. At the time I was like that, really bitter and mean, hating everything and everyone. I don't really know how they standed me but with time and help I turned into this.- She gestures to herself with her hands. -I don't see much change, but I don't know. So, now that the mystery is solved and that you don't deprive yourself of your beauty sleep - Daniel laughs. -Can we continue eating?
-Yes, we can.- She smiles happily. -But some other day we have to make something to lose all these calories, otherwise Michael is going to kill me.
Tes groans in defeat. -Yeah, sure whatever. Now shut up and eat.- She put some chips in her mouth and did a little happy dance in her seat.
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Daniel handed the little box with the bow on top of it to Tes, who was looking at him unsere. -What's this?
-A present.- He said matter of factly.
-No shit Sherlock.- He laugh. -I mean for what?- She didn't look at the present in her hands because she was lost in his eyes.
-Because I think that it might help you with something.- Tes narrowed her eyes.
-More vague you don't want to be, don't you?- Daniel Laughs. In the little time Tes knew him, 80% of the time he was smiling or laughing.
-Open it and you will see what I mean.- Tes took her time unwrapping the box.
Daniel looked at every move she made. The first thing she took off was the bow and tape it to his jacket and Daniel smiled when her hands touched his chest, even though it was on top of the clothes. The way her fingers took the scochtap trying not to harm the paper like if the paper was more important than the present. How she had her tongue between her lips because she was concentrating. Tes tilted her head to the side and frowned her brows when she saw the present.
-Its a journal. I have the habit of writing everything down when I'm traveling, before or after a race, my worries, doubts and expectations, everything. I have plenty of those, all of them have my initials on them and this one- Daniel extends his hand and taps the corner of the journal making Tes look there. -Have yours- Tes smiled fondly. -I thought that you could write all the things that don't let you sleep. All the worries and everything because maybe you could write something out of it. But promise me something.
-What?- They were so close that the only thing that separated them was the journal.
-That you will keep texting me those random questions, even if it's three in the morning or if I'm on the other side of the world.- Those little details that he was having made all the difference. Made her smile and jump like a little girl, made her feel loved and cherished.
-I promise. Thank you so much Dan, I don't have words to describe what this means to me.- He shakes his head.
-When you figure it out, write them here and I will be happy.- They didn't know it yet, but there in that spot where the sun was coming down and kissing their skins, where they were lost in each other's smiles and if the word exploded in that minute they wouldn't notice, there was the start of something beautiful. But not everything was a fairytale and unicorns.
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