Fields of Gold; Daniel Ricciardo

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Yesterday Daniel had to do some work at the MTC again and I joined him so I could meet up with the team that is helping me arrange everything for Friday.
Today it's press conference day at the track, but I left early this morning for something else. Depending on how much time it will cost I will either go to the track or back to the hotel.
I expect to go to the track when I'm done, because it's only 8 in the morning when I open the door of the tattoo shop.

"Skylar freaking Hayes! My first celebrity client." My tattoo artist comes up to greet me.
"Sorry Simon, but you still don't have a celebrity client. Or maybe you do, but it's not me." I hang my coat and we move to the back of the shop where he has set up his equipment.
"So let's finish this piece of art today ok?" He puts on his gloves and I hop onto the tattoo table.
"I need you to add something as well when you're done with it."
He's just about to dip his machine in the ink, "really? What?"

"Just a quote. It's only 3 words." It's a surprise for Daniel so I really wanted to do this today.
"Ok fine, but first lets get this done." He starts and at first I feel the burning sensation of the needles making their way through my skin. But after a short while I get used to it and I relax while Simon works on my leg.
A couple of hours later and after 2 shorts breaks he wipes the skin and puts some special Vaseline like crème on the leg.
"Oh my gosh I love it so much. You definitely outdone yourself on this one." I stand in front of the mirror checking it out and I couldn't be happier.

"I'm pretty pleased with it as well, if you ever get inspired for another one, ring me up." He carefully wraps some foil on the tattoo for now, but I have to take that off later today.
"Will do." I let my skirt drop around my legs again and we say goodbye.
I have enough time to get to the track before Daniel has to talk to the media so I take a quick stop at a gas station for a sandwich.
When I walk in I see a lot of people there with F1 merch on and I realize they are all probably on their way to Silverstone as well for the weekend.

"Holy shit are you Skylar?" I hear somebody ask me when I'm ordering my sandwich.
"Ehm yeah I am." I think I should have put on sunglasses or something. But I'm still not used to people recognizing me.
"Wow can we maybe take a picture with you?" They ask real polite so I take some pictures with them and they are super friendly.
"Will you all be on the circuit this weekend?" I ask one of the guys of the group.
"Yeah we're heading to the hotel and spend the weekend on the circuit."
We chat for a while, until my sandwich is ready and I say goodbye to the F1 fans. They were wearing McLaren merch so it was nice to spend a moment with them.

"Say hi to Daniel from us!" They shout when I walk out and I promise them I will.
An hour later I park at the VIP parking and make my way to the paddock. It's so crazy that I am slowly getting used to walking around here. I get greeted by members of different teams and everybody is just really nice. I never thought I would feel so at home in the paddock.
Even though I wish I knew all of their names, but there are so many people working here I need a lot more time for that.

"Hi Skylar!" Somebody calls my name and when I look around to see who it was Will Buxton comes up to me.
"Hi Will, how are you?" I like Will, he's a nice guy and he treated me with a lot of respect when we talked about what happened with Shane.
"I'm good and you? What's that stuff on your leg?" He looks at my leg and I grin.
"I got my tattoo finished this morning, so now I'm on my way to Daniel to show him the result."

"Oh nice, so we heard from someone in the team that there's something happening tomorrow. Is that true?" I quickly pull him aside so we're not in the center of the paddock.
"Sssshhh. Daniel can't know that. Yeah there is, but keep your mouth shut ok. I don't want him to find out." I look into his eyes and he can tell I mean it.
"No sure no problem, I won't say a thing. What time tomorrow?"
"Around 10 when they are in the fanzone doing interviews." I tell him, while I look around if Daniel is not nearby.
"Does Lando know?" Will asks me and I look at him to see if he is serious.
"As if Lando could keep something like that a secret. No he doesn't know."
I see Will looking over my shoulder and when I turn my head to see what he's looking at, we see Daniel approaching us.
"See you tomorrow Will." I make my way to Daniel.