Take This Life / Daniel Ricciardo

Chapter 10

"Shhh... not now Gemma, I'll tell you when you can go" I heard somewhere in the background as I was still sleeping. I groaned at the sound or rather someone's whispering and changed my position to try to sleep again.

Unfortunately the sleep didn't come to me after few minutes of laying down motionless, so I decided it would be a good idea to open my eyes. I groaned once again at the pain that was caused by crying the last night. My eyes and head were totally killing me. Wait, the last night, oh well.

When I finally opened my eyes, the first I saw was the room that didn't even look near as mine. I panicked for a moment where I was but then I remember I was in Daniel's room. The next thing I saw was, as I was saying earlier, Dan. He was still shirtless and having his pijama pants on and I must say he looked quite hot like that. He was sitting on the chair near the bed looking at me cause he probably heard me waking up and groaning. He looked like he had just ended his call, so if my mind correctly joined the dots, he must have been talking with Gemma before I woke up.

When I spotted he was looking at me when I was eyeing him slightly thinking he wouldn't see that, I turned into a tomato and hid my face into the pillow. Actually the pillow smelt like him, so I wasn't complaining at all.

"G'day Johnny" Daniel said quite softly and calmly, giving me a soft smile. "You slept for a while, I must admit" my head immediately shot up on that and looked at the nearest clock. It was 9AM, whoops.

I immediately got up from the bed and started slightly panicking. I tried to find my clothes or anything, but then I remembered I got there in my pijamas, so I would have to go to my room in them too. I groaned at the thought of it and just sighed and once again sat on the bed. Daniel meanwhile just laughed at me and sat next to me.

"Chill, both of us don't have to fly out today or do anything." He said while taking my hand. I tensed while he did that and try to take my hand away from him. Well, he surely didn't look too pleased with that - he looked even surprised or disappointed.

But before he had any chance to say anything or back off, I turned my head to look into his eyes and started talking.

"Daniel, we need to talk." I said calmly but feeling a bit anxious. He nodded his head and looked as he wanted me to continue. So I did that. I took a deep breath and asked him another question.

"Can you tell me why? Why do you even care about me? Why do you even want to help? Why... why did you kiss me?" I continued while moving my eyes to my knees covered in pyjamas.

I was so confused by the night. It felt good, obviously, but at the same time really strange. We were kissing, I was kissing him and he was kissing me. We were supposed to be friends and not whatever else. And there was job too. Somewhere deep in my gut I knew I felt something a bit more to him since he was such a nice guy and was treating me nicely, but still.

"You're my friend, so I care about you. You work on my car and my races, so it's important for you to be good then." He started quit unsure what to say, probably not to make it sound bad. "Also I can't see someone as nice as you feeling like this, looking like this and going through it all"

I nodded my head. I sighed and asked once again that question, still not having everything explained. What he said maybe made sense but only to the point before we kissed.

"Because I-" he started but of course someone must have barged into the room. The luck, yikes. I nearly got a heart attack and didn't know where to go and what to do, so I decided to stay where I was staying on the bed, praying they wouldn't think badly about what they would just see.

That person was his trainer - Mike. He was wearing gym clothes, so I could only guess it was the time when he would take Daniel for the training session. Of course it would mean I wouldn't get my response and would have to wait for it, yikes.