Fields of Gold; Daniel Ricciardo

Best friends.

"Lets get out of here!" Daniel shouts as Michael, Blake and Lewis come in the room.
"Yeah yeah, I'm just checking if I have everything." I say, but it's like talking to a child who wants to go to a playground.
Daniel signed his discharge papers and since then he's been annoying as fuck.
"You're such a man child sometimes. It's a good thing I love you so much, but right now you're a pain in my ass."

I grumble when I check my bag for the last time, our passports and wallets are in there, we have our phones and chargers and I already brought our bags with clothes to the car.
I picked up Daniels pain meds at the pharmacy in the hospital, so he should be good for a while. Not that he's really eager to take them, but half way through the night he was in quite some pain so the nurse brought him some tablets.
He took them, moping, but it did ease the pain so he could sleep again

"Ok I'm ready, we can go."
"Finally! Took you long enough."
I look at him, as soon as he sees the look in my eyes he realizes that wasn't the best thing to say.
"Ok I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I just really want to get out of here."
"Jeez really? I didn't realize. I mean it's not like you haven't told me that a thousand times in the last hour alone." I take some deep breaths to calm down again.
"I'm sorry baby, I know I'm driving you crazy already. I love you though." He blows me a kiss, making me shake my head. "Come on, we can go."

Michael brought the wheelchair, but Daniel refuses to get in it. He feels he could walk to the restaurant yesterday, he should be able to make it to the car today.
I just shrug as we make our way down. It's quite painful for him to get in the car, but he manages. Michael gets behind the wheel, because he knows the way.
I text Max to let him know we are on our way to the airport, so he can contact the pilot. I have no idea how it all works, but apparently he has taken care of everything and we are set to take off in 1,5 hours.

Michael hands over the car keys to the rental company, before heading to the plane. I'm glad we don't have to walk far, because I couldn't take the wheelchair with me.
When we get to the plane, the door is open and the pilot is already waiting for us.
We help Daniel get up the stairs, which goes a lot better than I expected.
Walking in to the plane we hear a loud 'SURPRISE!'

"What the hell?" I'm a bit shocked, but in the plane are Max and Kelly, Charles and Charlotte and Lando.
"Holy mac and cheese balls! You guys, what's this?" Daniel asks a bit shaken.
"Well we decided to hitch a ride to LA, spend some time there and we wanted to see how you were doing." Lando says and I feel tears well up in my eyes.
"This is crazy, so you all arrived during the night?"
Kelly gets up and gives me a tight hug, after that Charlotte follows. It's so nice to see the girls after everything. 

"Yeah we crashed at a hotel here at the airport. So now we are coming with you to LA, but we booked a hotel don't worry we won't get in your way." Kelly states.
"I've missed you girls so much. You are coming over though right? I would love to spend time with all of you." I ask them, but then I see Daniel who is leaning on one of the seats.
"Babe sit down, you've been on your feet long enough and it was quite a walk from the car here. So please take a break and sit."

He carefully takes a seat, the chairs are very comfortable, so that's really nice.
"Mate we are so glad to see you alive and kicking. Or well maybe not kicking just yet, but you don't look too bad." Charles says putting his hand on Daniels shoulder.
"You should see me without my shirt on, it looks like a really bad painting. But guys, you can all stay at my home, Lando and Lewis might need to share a room as well as Blake and Michael. But then we can all stay there together." He says and they all look a bit doubtful.

"Really? Daniel we don't want to get in your way. You need time and plenty of rest." Charles looks at him, but Daniel has his mind made up.
"Look I would love it if you guys stay with us. I think Skylar would really like to have some girl time as she has been around mostly men for the last 2 weeks."
My heart melts, he's right, I would love to have some time with the girls, we don't have to go anywhere, because I don't like the idea of leaving Daniel, but at least me, Kelly and Charlotte can hang out. I've been around enough testosterone to last me a lifetime.
As much as I love all the guys, I need my girls just as much.