Mourning The Losses (Erik Jones Fanfic)

NASCAR Racing Chapter 2

"Zoey hurry up, John Hunter has a race this weekend and we need to be at the track." Joe said. "Ok I'm almost done." I said before finishing my hair and walking downstairs with everything I needed. "Let's get going." John Hunter said as we walked to the trucks with my bags. "You will be staying with your cousin." Joe told his son. "In my RV?" JH asked. "Yes John Hunter." Joe said. "That will be fun." I said. "It will be interesting." He replied. "Let's go." I said climbing into John Hunter's truck. "So when are you moving out?" John Hunter asked me. "You want to be the oldest child in the house?" I asked him. "It would be different not having you in the house." He replied. "You were four when I moved in with your family." I replied. "Yeah, you were five." He replied smiling sadly thinking about everything that's happened to me. We got to the airport and got in the plane taking us to Atlanta, JH didn't do very good in Daytona so hopefully it's better this weekend.

We got everything unpacked from the trucks and loaded onto the Nemco team plane. Joe started Nemco for John Hunter's racing career. I fell asleep the whole flight and John Hunter woke me up right before we landed. "Atlanta Zoey." He said happy. "Atlanta, you better get that win this weekend." I replied. "Yeah I will." He replied. We got off the plane and got all of our suitcases and went to the track where our RVs are. "I have pratice the next two days and qualifying the second day and then the race." JH said walking to the couch where I was watching TV. "Ok, and you're telling me this because?" I asked. "I want you to come watch." He said. "Ok, better than being bored waiting for the race." I replied. "Alright then that's settled." He said. We watched TV until Joe texted John Hunter and we went to go have dinner at Joe's RV like we always do. We got back to the RV and I fell asleep after getting ready to go to bed.

"Zoey wake up, it's time to get ready for my pratice." I heard in my room. It took about fifteen minutes for me to just wake up fully before I started to get ready for the day. "Zoey are you almost ready?" JH asked on the other side of the bathroom door. "Yeah hold on." I replied finishing up my hair and then opening the door and I grabbed my phone from the counter. "Let's go then." He said as we headed towards the door and I left towards the track as John Hunter locked the door then caught up to me. "I think the Xfinity pratice is after my pratice." He said as we were getting to the track. "Can we watch them?" I asked. "You can, I have media things after pratice." He replied. "Ok, I'll watch them then." I said as we got to the garage. Gene talked to John Hunter about the truck and I went to pit road.

Practice went by fast and it was almost done so I went back to the garage but not before falling on my butt because I ran into someone. "Oh, I am so so so so sorry." The voice said as I was getting up. "It's ok, really." I said as the guy helped me up, I discovered it was a guy by the fact that there's no girls around here wearing fire suits right now. "Oh, Zoey I didn't reconize you." The voice said and finally I looked up and it was Erik Jones, the 2015 NASCAR camping world truck series championship winner. "I was just going to find a driver to go to their pit box so I can watch the pratice." I said after a while of us just staring at each other. "Oh, well you can hang out at mine, can I get your number too?" He replied. I handed him my phone and he most likely put his number in it. "Let's go to your pit box." I replied before we went on our way to find out where his car was. He looked good in his fire suit  although most drivers do.  

After pratice John Hunter found me and I told Erik I was leaving and we hugged before JH and I went to Joe's RV. "Zoey, can I talk to you for a minute?" Joe asked pointing towards the bedroom when we walked inside. "Of course you can." I replied before we walked into the room. "I noticed you with Erik Jones and I know you are twenty years old, but I don't want you dating any of the drivers." He said. "Wait what?" I asked. "I don't want you to date the drivers, a race car driver can be a dangerous job look at your dad and Dale Sr." He said. "Joe that is not fair." I yelled stopping my foot. "Yes it is." He yelled. Tears filled my eyes and I ran out of the RV after grabbing my shoes and texted Erik when I hid behind a RV he texted back and I ran to his RV which at this time I was crying.

I knocked on the door of his RV and he let me in I sat on the couch and he sat beside me pulling me into a hug. "I got in a fight with Joe and he told me I can't date the racers." I said. "Just remind your uncle about what happened with your dad and grandma and how she wanted him to quit after the accident with your dad and how he wouldn't." Erik replied. "Yeah, and I can remind him of my aunt too." I replied before kissing his cheek and putting my shoes on and running back to Joe's RV. "Why won't you let me date a racer, Andrea still married you knowing very well what she was getting herself into, grandma lost a son and I lost a dad to racing but just remember what you told her 'Mom, John and I always talked about if one of us got hurt, the other one has to keep on going' did you forget that?" I asked reminding him of an interview grandma did a while ago.

"Collywobbles." I said when we got back to John Hunter's RV, Joe still doesn't want me to go out with a racer because of my dad and I don't really want to go out with any of the drivers so he really doesn't have to worry but at the same time I'm twenty years old so who knows what could happen. "What?" JH asked. "Collywobbles the butterflies in your stomach feeling." I told him. "It actually has a name, why am I not surprised about the fact that you know that." He said before asking "why are you telling me this?" I smiled and said "collywobbles is what I get when I see Erik, it always has been that way." He looked at me and said "that's what your fight with my dad was about." I simply said "kind of, he doesn't want me to date any of the drivers." I replied. "Did you remind him of my mom, and how he still wanted to race after your dad?" He asked. "Yeah I did, when I got back to the RV." I replied.

"Give him time, you may not be his daughter but he has been there for you since you were five and he most likely thinks of you as his daughter along with my younger sisters." JH said. "Yeah, that is true he took me in at a young age and most likely doesn't want me hurt again after my dad and mom passed." I replied. "Most likely." He replied before we watched some TV until he had to go to pratice again. I stayed behind this time watching some random movie I put on. I was texting Erik after he was done with whatever he was doing and we decided to hang out at his RV.

"Hey Erik." I said walking up to his RV as he was waiting for me outside. "Hey Zoey." He replied smiling. We walked into the RV and watched TV until we decided to play some video games of course Erik picked NASCAR '15 so we started to play it. I was beating Erik because I race John Hunter all the time and i'm amazing at racing games. "How did you do that?" Erik questioned astonished at how good I was and after starting P27 and him P3 I still beat him. "John Hunter likes to play against me so I've been getting better that way." I replied smiling. "I can see that." He replied looking at me and he started to lean in as I started to lean in as well.