Distraction

Chapter 11

OLIVIA.
'Give me that ball!' Leo is playing basketball with his friends. One of them throws me the ball. 'You can't!' Sam yells. '5 bucks.' He doesn't know what he's saying, dump ass. 'Deal.' I'm standing a little around the corner, but I can make the shot easy. '10 buck,' Daniel says behind me. I slightly turn my head and smirk. 'Deal.' He showed up this morning, it was a big surprise. I'm not sending him back. Leo is saying something to the boys, he knows I can make this shot. I shoot the ball. And I score. '5 bucks bitch.' I walk up to Sam holding out my hand. 'My wallet is inside.' He touches his pockets. I roll my eyes. 'You owe me.' He nods. These boys. 'Come play with us, you're better than Leo.' I chuckle. I fake punch Leo in his stomach, but he still flinches. 'I know. And I'll come play. But I need to introduce someone first.' I wave at Daniel that he needs to come here. 'Happy birthday.' I give Leo a hug. 'Thanks.' 'Happy birthday mate.' They do a hand shake thing, hug something, it's not a hand shake. But that things that boys do. You know what I mean. The boys come up to me giving me a hug, congratulating me with Leo. 'By the way this is Daniel,' I introduce him. Even though they all know who he is. Because they all watch formula 1. 'Now lets go.' Two of those boys are going to jealous. They know they never had a shot. They are almost ten years younger than me, it doesn't mean it couldn't have happened. They are all adorable, but they're not my type. Daniel hands me 10 bucks. 'Thank you.' I smile. I already forgot. 'Harry!' I say happy when I see the dog getting out of the house. His tale moving around happy. 'Hey puppy.' I pet him, him giving me kisses. I've missed him. 'You told me he was a puppy.' Daniel looks confused. I giggle. 'He's 6 months, that's a puppy.' Harry is black Newfoundlander, he's big one. 'That is Hazel?' Poor old doggie, she's eleven years old and she's going soon. She's a greater Swiss mountain dog, pretty old for her breed. 'Let's go inside,' I say when pet both of the dogs. I go straight to the kitchen with Daniel following me. The whole family isn't coming til tomorrow, because then we're celebrating. But my grandparents are here and his friends are staying over. Tom and I used to do that too. We would all sleep in the shed. Good old memories. Through the kitchen we go outside again. 'Hello!' I say happy greeting my family. I give my mom and grandparents a kiss and skip Tom and Riley, because I saw them like two days ago. Tom looks at me confused as Daniel introduce himself. I shrug. I didn't know he was coming either. 'An Australian,' my grandpa says. I smile at his reaction. 'G'day mate,' he says to Daniel. I shaking my head, I love my gpa. He loves all of this. Riley being an American, Daniel Australian, and Leo is probably also ending up with an American too. 'G'day how ya doing?' 'Good, good.'

'I wanna show you the house.' I take Daniel his hand after a while talking with my family and drag him with me to show him the house. The living room and office attached to the kitchen. The bedrooms in de back of the farm. Stairs that lead to the attic. Basically to nothing. Harry is following us everywhere except for the bedrooms he isn't allowed there. When we go outside I throw Harry a ball. 'This is my dad his old motor.' I open the doors to the garage. He looks at the black motorcycle. 'Nice.' I nod. 'We need to sell it,' I say disappointed. We had so much fun, driving around, working on it with each other. 'Why?' 'It's getting too expensive. Leo used to drive on it sometime, but he's leaving.' Dan looks at me, 'really? Where?' I nod answering his first question. We leave the garage to the boys playing basketball. 'He's going to college in America. Apparently he's good in basketball.' I'm very proud of him. He's going to play in the NBA one day, I know it. 'Where is he going to play?' I don't think Daniel knows much about basketball. It isn't his sport. 'Kentucky.' I love the name, I found it hilarious. I don't know why, it just sounds funny. Am I the only one. 'That's cool. So are to boys a little f1 fan or are they all into basketball?' I shrug. 'A little bit of both I guess.' I'm not sure. I think they enjoy watching both. 'Are you joying for a game of horse?' I look at Daniel. I'm in. 'Yeah sure.' We walk closer to the boys. 'Are you going to win?' Daniel asks Leo. 'Ollie is going to win,' Lucas says. 'Maybe, maybe not,' Leo smirks. He knows I'm better at shooting. Three throw line shooting is something he needs to get better at. 'Ladies first right?' Daniel says. They throw me the ball. I bounce it a couple of time against the floor. 'The other one was just lucky.' I look at Dan and role my eyes looking at the basket. I'll show him what I got. And then I shoot. Score! 'Your turn. Make sure you don't get the h, it's just the first round,' I say competitive. This one is easy anyway. Just from the free throw line. Daniel laughs. 'Okay, okay.'

Daniel is talking to my mom in the kitchen. 'What is he doing here?' Tom asks. He definitely wasn't expecting Daniel to be here. But neither did I. So is shrug. 'He showed up this morning. I'm not sending him away.' 'Can we talk in private?' He asks me. I nod standing up. When we enter the kitchen my mom and Dan look at us. I smile and then go to my bedroom. 'Are you mad because you work for him and he's your friend?' I ask. Because I don't know how he feels about him, about us. 'No that's not it.' What? 'Then what is it Tom? Because you suck at expressing your feelings. You're confusing me,' I say raising my voice a little with some anger in it. He sits down on the bed. 'I'm happy for you, I really am. I hope you're settling down together.' I cross my arms. 'Then what is the problem? I really don't get it anymore Tom.' He looks down. 'I'm not mad. I just want you to be happy.' Now he's confusing me even more. 'You think Daniel can't do that?' I lean against my closet. He shakes his head. 'Can you let me talk?' I nod. I'll shut up. Someone knocks on the door before Tom can speak again. I turn around to look, the door isn't closed fully. 'Coffee is ready,' Daniel says. Not to sure if it's the right moment to tell. I smile at him. 'One second,' I say. He nods and closes the door. He couldn't understand us luckily, because we were talking Dutch. But he probably heard his name. 'I know he's going to make you happy, he's already is doing that. And I'm very thankful for that. Especially after Jordy. But I want you to make sure you're going to stay with him for a while, your entire life. Like I've said it's going to be hard, not seeing each other.' That's it? His worried about us not seeing each other that much. 'Do you have problems with Riley?' 'No why would you think that?' I shrug. 'It sounds like it.' I finally sit down next to him in the bed. 'Dan and I are going to be fine. I really like him. This weekend was perfect.' I smile thinking back. 'He was perfect.' I can't stop smiling. 'Okay I don't need to know the details.' He stands up. 'You don't?' I ask joking. 'I'm glad you're happy again.' I stand up too. 'Thank you Tom.' I hug him. 'But you can be a little less overprotective.' He smiles. 'I'm your big brother I need to be.' '5 minutes. You're 5 minutes older.' I push him out of my room. 'Still means I'm older.' I role my eyes. We walk back to our family. I sit down next to Dan. He leans in his mouth close to my ear. 'Everything okay?' I nod holding his hand. I look at the number on his finger. 'Is Elle coming?' I ask Tom. He shrugs. Did is said something wrong? 'She's backing off.' I nod in understanding. Poor guy. He was so in love with her. 'Let's sing!' My grandpa says. 'No!' Leo says embraced.

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The "fight/argument" sucks. It's really bad sorry. But I wanted them to have a fight about Dan. I had something in mind but I forgot because I couldn't write it yet so I forgot. Enjoy the race!