THREE - Daniel Ricciardo

Chapter 42 - 33 (Part 2)

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AMY

It was so lovely to see Daniel with his family. It was evident to anyone around us that he had missed his parents greatly, especially his niece and nephew who he didn't get to see as often as he would've liked. He hated missing out on their childhoods, every time he visited they appeared more grown up then the time before.

Daniel wanted to keep his birthday dinner intimate and private with only family present, leaving Michael and Scotty to fend for themselves. This would soon change on race day though, as a massive dinner was planned for his birthday by McLaren. I'd take that as Zak trying to extend his olive branch, so Daniel would soon forgive him and accept the team decisions. This dinner would involve Daniel's family, my family, friends and any others in between. I had informed Daniel that he needed to go, as much as he didn't want too, as his folks didn't know about the arrangements with McLaren so he needed to keep a level mindset for their sakes.

After the main course, we decided we would share a dessert, that way Michael couldn't moan about what Daniel was consuming the day before qualifying. As soon as it arrived, we blocked out the world around us and continued to feed each other the ice cream sundae which was sat in front of us. I looked over at the table as Daniel laughed at the fact he had ice cream all over his face, to see Grace's stare on us. With her head resting on her hand, she smiled intently as she watched us joke around.

"You've got some on your face too." Daniel grinned like a child and placed his spoon onto my lips, smothering my bottom lip with vanilla ice cream. I pouted which made his chuckle. Daniel placed his hand underneath my chin to fix our eyes together, where he slowly leaned in and placed a soft kiss onto my lips, his attempts to remove the ice cream stain on my mouth was working as it had now just transferred over to his.

"Ew!" Isaac exclaimed as he noticed our lips glued together. We pulled apart as Daniel's hand looped into Isaac's curly locks, ruffling it up so it started to look messy. Michelle smacked his hand out of her son's hair and proceeded to smooth it down again. "Mommy, why was uncle Daniel kissing aunty Amy?" Michelle turned around to us and lifted her eyebrow.

"Care to explain that one to him?" Michelle laughed as she pulled her son into her lap.

"You'll understand when you're older, mate." Daniel chuckled as he pulled his arm up to place it around my shoulders, giving me access to rest into him.

"Nice save." Michelle said sarcastically and rolled her eyes, knowing that the answer Daniel provided was not going to be sufficient enough to quieten down her children.

"Uncle Daniel, can I sleep in your bed tonight?" Isaac asked with his mom's phone tightly in his clutches.

Daniel cleared his throat at his nephew's question, not wanting to let him down but also not wanting to signal to the whole table that we wouldn't be accepting any guests in our bedroom tonight. It was Daniel's birthday after all. Michelle looked over at us and smirked, expecting Daniel to answer the question as quickly as possible.

"Errm," Daniel stuttered as he looked over at his nephew who now appeared saddened by his uncle not jumping at the chance to have a sleepover, "maybe tomorrow, bud. I've got a really busy day tomorrow, I need my beauty sleep."

"I promise that I'll sleep." Isaac pouted, tears threatening to spill down his cheeks. Daniel seemed flushed with trying to respond and Michelle's face started to turn to panic at the fact that her son may throw a tantrum at any given moment.

"Why don't you have a sleepover with nanny and grandad tonight? You can stay with uncle Daniel and aunty Amy tomorrow." Grace saved us as we didn't know how to fix the problem at hand. Grace's words settled Isaac as he now grew excited to have a sleepover with his grandparents.