-Across America- Diego Brando x reader

~16~

I'm sorry for posting this chapter a bit late. Anyways, have fun.🦅

We all crossed the line...
The results were in. I was certain that we finished first...
"In first place is Hot Pants, second is Diego Brando and in third is Y/N Y/L. Fourth and fifth are Gyro and Johnny.."
"Hot Pants-? Sounds familiar..." I tried remembering.. "She... How did I.. lose-?" Dio held his head in disappointment... He was gritting his teeth. "Diego! We didn't lose! You scored second-" "Not enough!" He yelled. "If I want to win to Sandman I will have to try my best and give it all... Now let's continue going forward and not waste any time!" He cut me off. "Alright let's-" "Y/N! There you are!" I turned around and saw Johnny waving at me. I got happy to see him again. "Johnny! Hey! How have you been?" I waved back at him. "I'm fine.. But what about you? And why are you with Diego? Me and Gyro have been worrying for you ever since he kidnapped you..." He got closer. "What? Kidnapped me? What do you mean?" I questioned. "..Just leave that.. I came to you to talk about the thing I told you back at that village. I haven't stopped thinking about it. So-" "Johnny... I've been thinking about it too, but I don't think now is the time for that. We can talk about this when we have some free time. I'm really sorry. I promised to travel with Diego in this stage. Next time when we meet again, maybe we will-" "My bad for disturbing you both... I'm sorry but now I'll have to take away Y/N once again." He smirked. "Dio..!" Johnny hissed at him. "Hm-? Johnny Joestar.. How does it feel knowing that Y/N chose me over you?" He got closer to him. They were on it again.. "Hey-!" I couldn't tolerate the way Diego loved to annoy him.. more like pissing him off. I didn't like where this was going. "You.. What the hell do you want from her? We all know you are using her for your own goals! Y/N don't you realize that?!" He turned back to me. "Johnny I-" "How can you say that I'm using her? How can I even think of doing that? She is just too precious... I can't give her away like that." He caressed my cheek. I didn't know why he hated Johnny that much. "Don't touch her, you bastard!" He shouted and pointed his fingernails at him. "Wait-!" "Or are you perhaps doing this out of jealousy?" I tried stopping them both, but Diego continued. I had to do something. "Dio, let's just go!" I grabbed him by the hand that he was holding out. I tried avoiding any confrontations. "Goodbye, Johnny.." I dragged Diego with me and bade my farewell...
We were headed towards a small village that was on our way. We planned spending the night there.

"Diego.. Was that really necessary?" I was annoyed by him doing all of this. "Wasn't it?" He turned to me. "Fuck you mean? No, it wasn't, why did you have to make him mad? And I never agreed to be involved in your business with him! I'm not okay with you talking like that about me, I mean, I am, but not with such intent." I was really disappointed. "I don't like him at all and we had to go. That's why." He explained. "You could have just said that we have to go. And using me to annoy him is dumb.." I sighed. "I'm sorry, I guess."  Dio chuckled. "I know you don't mean it, but I'll forgive you since you are hella stubborn." I gave up on arguing.

Diego's pov:

We were almost at the village. I planned on calculating the next location of the corpse there. I knew that Johnny and Gyro were going to be after it too, so that's why I wanted Y/N on my side. She already trusted me a lot. And I could rely on her, that's why I decided keeping her with me. It was going to be a big trouble if she joined them... Her ability was more than powerful. My reputation also went up by the media knowing that we were traveling together. Everyone really liked her. The records said that she was the most popular racer, and no wonder why. I was surprised by her skills myself too, on top of that she is only 18. That's why I got interested in her in the first place.

We arrived at the village. It was really dark and I was tired. "Hmm.. I'm hungry! Let's go eat somewhere." She was very energized. "Okay, let's ask someone to tell us where they make food."