Take This Life / Daniel Ricciardo

Chapter 4

It was 7:55 PM as I was standing in the hotel lobby waiting for the others to come. I was actually quite nervous and stressed cause I still hadn't seen anybody familiar or even from the team. Did I hear correctly? Was I in the right place? I was fiddling with my bracelet having those thoughts in my mind.

Hopefully after the eternity that was actually 2 minutes I finally heard the sound of women high heels and giggling. I sighed in relief as I turned my head up to the sound as I spotted two women. Hopefully it was Gemma and a blonde girl that I'd never seen, but after a few moments of thinking I remembered it was actually Britta Roeske, Sebastian's PR.

Gemma was dressed in dark red cocoon dress and had her hair streightened. She was also having smokey eyes for her makeup. Britta was wearing a black lacy tank top and a black tight leather skirt. On top of that she was wearing a dark cardigan. Both girls were wearing high heels.

I smiled slightly at them as they started to walk towards me. I decided to act nicely and go to them. They both said hi to me as I was near them. I waved at them and immedietely was pulled towards someone's chest. As it turned out, it was Gemma's chest.

I sighed mentally at the amount of contact and pulled politely out of the hug to greet Britta since it was the first time when I met her. I reached my hand for her to shake, but unfortunately for me she hugged me too. I put on a fake smile not to act like an ass and hugged her back.

„Hi, I'm Johnny, but you probably know me already" I smiled a little and looked towards Gemma who giggled a little.

„Well, whole team and probably a big part paddock too. Nice to meet you finally and gratulations on the win. You did a really good job today" Britta said smiling slightly.

When I wanted to continue the conversation, Gemma started to usher us to the exit doors of the hotel. I was quite confused why we didn't wait for the others but I decided not to say anything and just go with them.

„We hope you're good with drinking cause you're gonna drink a lot today with boys and us" Gemma said looking towards me with a little smirk. I nodded.

I actually didn't mind drinking in any amount unless it got ridiculous. Also I didn't remember the last time I'd properly drunk and was totally shit faced, so I was looking forward to that too. There wasn't any better thing to forget about problems than drinking. Yeah, it probably sounded like I was close to alcoholism, but I always knew the line where I should slow down.

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When Gemma said I would drink a lot that night, oh well, she was absolutely right. Maybe the dinner started quite slowly as for the terms of drinking cause we only had few glasses of wine to our food that was actually delicious, but when we finished eating and moved to the bar that was actually in the same building, the real drinking began.

I was currently sat on the sofa with Gemma, Britta and Kelly sipping on our, well... -th tequilla. We all were quite tipsy, so we started laughing at basically anything. Currently we were telling each others some stories.

I must say I really enjoyed the company of the girls. I felt like I had mates there, so that was pretty good and I was feeling glad cause never in my life I had any friends or mates to just talk to. I felt like wanted there.

„You know Kimi Raikkonen, right? He's a great mate of Seb and is in Ferrari now. He and Seb had a bet one time where Kimi would give Seb his Ferrari Enzo if Seb won the badminton game with him" Britta paused for a second to sip on her drink and have hiccup. „Well, he lost it!"