• A Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw love story •
Daniella returns to San Diego after years of being gone. When she returns her mother, Penny Benjamin, gives her a job at the Hard Deck bar. Whilst working she is forced to reunite with an old friend, Phoe...
The walk led to the beach in silence. The golden sand crumbled under their feet and the sky shaded over them in marvelled colours. All words were lost but the rush of the waves made up for the lack of speech.
"Fuck." Rooster's words whispered out harshly, the quietness was destroying him. He wanted, needed, her to talk to him.
"So, How are you feeling after last night?" He suddenly began to converse, hinting at the amount of alcohol everyone had consumed the night before and the effect it may have had on her the next morning.
Daniella chuckled to herself at his consideration. "Yeah, I'm fine. What about you? did you not have training this morning?" She questioned and Rooster shook his head.
"Meant to but it got cancelled, we're all pretty sure 'bagman' is still wasted." Bradley looked down at Dani as he spoke.
"To be honest, chicken. I don't see why anyone is letting that sleaze fly a plane, drunk or stone-cold sober." Daniella stated, causing a chuckle to emerge from him.
"He's a dick, huh?"
"Just a tad." She grinned.
"Hold on, "Chicken"?" Rooster quoted the nickname Dani slipped into the conversation. His voice sounded tender and confused.
"Yeah, I tried "Rooster" earlier but it just didn't feel... Right." She hummed in explanation, Rooster hauling in his tracks.
"You know my actual name, Bradley, works perfectly fine." He suggested as Dani turned around to stop with him.
"'Bradley' stopped feeling 'right' straight after you stood me up to go drinking with your NAVY buddies. So Chicken seems suitable." Daniella muttered sarcastically tho a hint of sadness cracked through her throat. Guilt surged over Bradley tho he refused to let it reveal to the full extent.
"I'm sorry." He let out quietly.
"Yeah." Daniella sighed before the pair began to walk again and stillness dimmed over them.
"You know after that night, that argument, I never thought I'd see you again." He admits with a smile at Daniella's presence.
"You could have called after it." Dani proposed as they walked side by side.
"Would you have answered?" He questions rhetorically, her stubborn attitude answered the question for itself.
"I missed you." Rooster sighed.
"Of course you did," Daniella attempted to lighten up the mood, Rooster rolled his eyes hiding a smile.
"When we stopped talking, did you find a friend as good as me?" She suddenly halted to ask the unusual question, to which Bradley found himself answering quicker than expected.
"No." the only word Daniella needed to hear, a wide tooth grin emerged on her face causing Rooster to regret his words, he could practically see her ego boost as she beamed.
"Exactly," Daniella yelled as she began to run backwards, her eyes not leaving him and the smile still glued to her face.
Rooster picked up his pace attempting to chase after her as they jogged, Dani's speed increasing as he got closer to her.
Chuckles emerged from both of them and before long the two were running around the warm shore of San Diego.
Suddenly the pair were children again, racing through the beaches of their home town, sun beams dancing off their glowing skin and childlike laughs leaving their stomachs tight with bliss.
Their breaths became hefty as the sand kicked off of their heels the further down the coast they got.
Danielle's laughs became unbearable making her steps slower, giving Rooster the advantage as he grew closer to her. His hands pulled out and latched themselves around Danis's waist.
The friction from his fingers caused a shiver to travel through her body as he pulled her in tight towards him. Their backs pressed firmly against each other, thick breaths hitting off their skin as they stopped moving.
Daniella tilted her head backwards, her eyes meeting Bradleys whilst she clamped back a lear.
Rooster admired the girl looking up at him with a glow in her eyes, holding back dimples that circled her cheeks.
"I still hate you." She exhaled.
"A little bit less?" He played, letting his hands draw back hair that had dropped onto her face.
"Not even slightly" Dani assured as she gently pulled herself off of the boy, reeling on her heels to face him once again.
She began to stroll, Rooster trailing behind. He watched her as she rummaged through her pockets.
Danielle's fingers came into contact with the box she had been searching for. Rooster watched as te pack of cigarettes appeared in her hands.
"Since when do you smoke?" He questioned, observing as she selected one out of the packet and promoted it in between her teeth.
"Since when do you care?" Dani muffled out as she retrieved a lighter and lit the cigarette.
"What other habits have you picked up without me?" Bradley admired as she puffed smoke out from her lips and watched as it evaporated into the air.
"What is this, like an interrogation?" She smiled towards him and he chuckled out lightly.
"Depends, you got something to hide?" Bradley rose his eyebrows.
"Want it or not?" Dani held out the cigarette towards him and he hesitantly accepted, pulling the stick towards his lips.
Daniella watched him mesmerized as he drew from the same cigarette her own lips had been wrapped around moments before. He blew out the smoke and tilted his head backwards.
Rooster held tightly onto the cigarette for a moment, debating his next words.
He passed her back the cigarette as he began to speak. "Come by during training tomorrow, we can do something after it."
"That can't be allowed," She doubted with a giggle.
"No one gonna care, you're just observing, right?" He grinned. She stared at the boy in a challenging manner.
"I'll think about it." Dani contested and Rooster glared at her with a grin.
Perhaps she did hate him a little bit less.
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hello, my love🫶🫶
sorry for the late and short chapter!!! And I KNOW that that last bit would ABSOLUTELY not happen irl but who cares about reality when it means you get to spend more time with Mr Bradley Bradshaw, am I right <33
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