Something Gained

Chapter Eighty-One

The weeks had flown by and before I knew it, I was back in England. I had already been here for two days, Andreas, Zak and I had done meeting after meeting, interviews, content stuff. I had sorted out all of the media teams and I was set for the year, so my job was half done already. All I had to do is manage things during race weeks, be present for the big events and supervise the teams in my control and any last minute things. Everything was great, we had even officially hired out two PR people for Daniel and Lando, although I hadn't told them that yet. I walked into the very very quiet house of mine and Daniels, after parking my car in the garage, my beautiful car. I cooked some dinner and hummed along to music when it cut out.

"My girl" Daniel greeted me on the FaceTime call
"Evening"
"What are you doing? I hope the house is tidy" he joked
"Cooking dinner, and okay you're the messy one sweet pea" I said as I propped the phone up on the counter and stored my dinner
"Sweet pea, hahahaha" I heard in the background and gave Daniel a weird look
"Lando and Max are here" he said as he turned the phone round to face the other two boys in the room
"Hey guys"
"Hey Alex" Max greeted with a wave
"Any news on the people?" Lando asked
"Your press officers?" I questioned
"Yep" Lando replied
"The Alex 2.0's" Max laughed
"I like that, but actually yes but I'm not telling you. You can wait until you're here" I said, and directed it at Daniel and Lando
"You're so annoying" Lando whined
"Love you to" I giggled back to him
"We're flying via Air Max tomorrow morning" Daniel said
"Sounds good, I'm off tomorrow"
"Alright for some aint it" Lando moaned
"You're off tomorrow as well you idiot"
"Oh yeah" I facepalmed as he spoke
"Honestly, no wonder you need so many people to look after you" I rolled my eyes
"Oh ssh"
"Right can I speak in private with my girlfriend now" Daniel said, turning the phone back to just him but looking at Max and Lando
"Oooohhhhhh" they both cooed. Daniel got up and walked elsewhere
"You okay?"
"Yeah I just miss you" he sighed, he was in his bedroom, the view of the bed gave it away when he laid down
"You'll see me tomorrow"
"I know, I can't wait"
"What have you been doing today?" I asked him
"Went for a run, had dinner with max and Lando and now we're just having a chilled game of fifa"
"Chilled game, can't believe that for a second" I laughed at him
"I use the term loosely"
"Mhm I bet" I said as I walked away from the phone to the opposite side of the kitchen and reached up to her something out of the cupboard
"Far out, what are you wearing?" He groaned
"A hoodie?" I said as I closed the cupboard and came back to the phone
"And nothing else?"
"Well underwear obviously"
"Stop" he whined and threw his head back
"What?"
"I already miss you, I do not need a show. You're going to kill me"
"Maybe that's my master plan" I teased, realising my hoodie wouldn't have covered me sufficiently when I reached up. It was one of Daniels, DR3 as always.
"It's working. I can't wait to see you"
"I know, I miss you as well" I said to him before blowing a kiss, it made him smile.

I ate dinner and watched some tv, the last couple of days had been lonely in a way as I hadn't been on my own for so long, but also quite nice to have a peace and quiet and have work keeping me distracted. Just get up and go to work and come home, I settled myself into bed, shifting some cushions out the way. I had far too many cushions than were necessary but it was a requirement. I settled into bed and pulled one of the said cushions to my chest hugging it, I missed Daniel.

"Morning sleepyhead" I heard someone mumble. The Australian accent was all to familiar. I smiled and my eyes snapped open to Daniel laying next to me, facing me. I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him, I could smell his normal aftershave, it was my favourite. "Someone missed me"
"More than you know" I mumbled to him, his arms tightened around me.
"I've got a fun day planned. That's if you ever decide to get out of bed, it's half 11" Daniel said
"Half 11!" I was gobsmacked. "I went to bed at 10pm" I giggled
"Sleepy ain't you"
"Sleeping means I don't have to miss you" I joked
"Aren't you sweet" Daniel said, I sat up and placed my lips over his, I wasn't going to wait any longer.
"We have plenty to do, but we can stay here and christen every room in the house, we haven't done that yet" he mumbled against my lips, gripping my hips with his hands
"Daniel Ricciardo" I gasped, but giggled at him
"Come on, we've also got dinner with Michael, Jon and Lando later"
"Lovely" I smiled. Tomorrow was going to be crazy so I was going to enjoy every minute of doing what we wanted today. I got up quickly and got showered and dressed for the day, it was sunny but it was cold, English weather. I was glad he was here though, having him back next to me was the best thing.

We drove for a little while, I had managed to convince Daniel to let me take my car and let me drive, he could just direct, we didn't drive for long before we got to a leisure park. Turns out Daniel wanted to go bowling, it was quite exciting, although he laughed because I had to have the rails up but I don't know what he expected, I wasn't as athletic and committed as he was with great coordination, we then went and played some mini golf before returning back to our house. It was the little random small things I liked sometimes. Fancy dinners, hot air balloon rides and special things were great, but so was acting like two kids, which was Daniels speciality for sure. Soon after the group was reunited once more as we all arrived at a nearby restaurant.

"ALEX!" I turned and saw Lando come running up to me from his car, both him and Jon drove together while Daniel drove me, and Michael who we picked up on the way. He pulled me into a hug and I patted his back while laughing
"Lando, you saw me a few days ago" I laughed at him
"Yes but I missed you"
"You're such a child" Jon laughed at him, before giving me a hug as well when Lando let go.
"Everybody just loves you don't they" Michael chuckled as we walked into the restaurant
"Well duh" I smiled "they're just keeping me happy because they know I can be mean to them by giving them horrible things to do" I laughed.
I took my seat after we were shown to our table, Daniel pulling out my chair for me before sitting himself next to me.