Take This Life / Daniel Ricciardo

Chapter 8

Johnny's POV

The rest of the week spending at Daniel's was quite interesting. We actually got quite close to each other and we really became good friends; hell, I even started to trust him a bit. Well, I still hadn't told him the whole story with Christian, even though it maybe started to bug me a bit less, but I didn't really see a point in telling him it - he would just treat me like someone special and still I didn't want anyone get that close to me. Hell, we even slept in the same bed and cuddled. I didn't know why I cuddled to him, but my guess was that I was just lost and powerless after the mental breakdown in the morning; and of course it was quite nice feeling, I was actually feeling safe.

Anyways, it was Thursday and me and few others engineers were doing the track walk with Daniel on Monza. We were walking currently through Vialone and Ascari and discussing the approach for it. The men were laughing and joking a lot about whatever as I was trying to speak up and get faster with the whole track walk cause it were just the moments before the rain would drop and none of us had any umbrella.

"Hey, Daniel! When you exit Ascari, you should probably try to aim in this place and later speed up" I almost yelled trying to make him notice me as I was standing at the kerb that I was talking about. I sighed heavily when he didn't respond or even turned my way and I tried again.

"Alrighty, I will try, seems easy" he finally heard me and looked where I was standing. I nodded and continued to walk further down the straight to Parabolica, looking at my notes.

I was walking beside boys trying to read all the data and concentrate on it when I started to feel rain drops on my skin. I sighed and looked at still goofing men.

"You kids hurry up better, it's starting to rain and probably no one of us wants to be sick, especially Daniel" I told them starting to speed up.

"But it's almost nothing, come on, we're men" Michael said smiling and laughing. I rolled my eyes and chuckled a bit. Such kids. When he said that, the rain immiedately started to pour and after few seconds we were completely wet.

"Well done, you all, I'm not responsible if anyone of you get sick" I said trying to sound annoying while starting to run with the rest to the pitlane. Of course I couldn't stay annoyed at them and I was hiding my smile while escaping this rain. Hopefully I was wearing Red Bull T-shirt and black jeans, so no one could see my underwear. The only plus.

After few minutes of running that killed almost all of us excluding Daniel, we finally got to the pitlane totally drenched. We stood at the end of the garage trying to somehow dry ourselves a bit and started to joke how ridiculously we looked completely soaked. I shivered slightly at the feeling of cold cause I was totally wet and started to rub my arms with my hands. Joe, who was standing next to me while being in conversation with Michael and Daniel, looked at me and asked.

"Are you cold, Johnny?" I shook my head not trying to make any problem and knowing also the feeling would pass shortly. He sighed and looked around with his eyes if there were any towels near. Daniel spotted us and looked at me and immiedetely got up and went to somewhere. I sighed I stood there still.

When we were still standing there, I heard girls voice screaming almost in my ear. I got scared a little and saw Gemma and Britta standing there smiling at us all and trying not to laugh. "What the bloody heck were you all doing? And where's Daniel?" Gemma said chuckling.

"We were on the track walk and well, the rain caught us cause some people decided it would be better to joke all around all the time" I said while accenting "some people" and looking towards the men. "And Daniel went somewhere"

Gemma nodded and we began to chat a bit about what we did in the few spare days. I was listening to how they spent the time with their boyfriends and families and how nice it was to have few days off. Fortunately, when they asked me about that, Daniel came back with a towel in his hand. Oh geeeeez.