Take This Life / Daniel Ricciardo

Chapter 11

I didn't know how long I had taken the nap for but it must have been a long time cause the knocking on the doors woke me up. I groaned loudly, getting up from the bed and then groaned even louder while I looked at my bag still not packed cause of course I had slept for too long. I went to the doors to open them and straightened my bones. I yawned lazily while opening them. Damn, I was still pretty tired and sleepy.

In the doors Daniel stood and he looked slightly nervous, I guess. He was wearing a checkered shirt and dark blue jeans. He looked quite handsome, I must admit, and it took a lot of from me not to eye him up.

"Hey, Daniel, come here" I mentioned him to go into my room. When he got there, I closed the doors and walked towards him.

He sat on my bed, looking around the room. He chuckled slightly when he saw spread papers on the table and my bag still not packed. I sat next to him on the bed and yawned once again, excusing myself.

"Sorry about the mess, had a bit too long nap." I said, chuckling slightly and looking around the room, feeling maybe a bit embarrassed cause of the mess.

"It's alright." He said. "Anyways, we need to talk." I nodded my head and turned myself to look at him as he would be speaking.

"So why? Why did you kiss me? It just doesn't match the rest of things you said."I started calmly, looking at him a bit nervous. He looked a bit nervous too and was traveling with eyes around the walls.

"Eh, okay, listen to me." He sighed and cautiously took my hand in his. I looked into his eyes as he did that too and was waiting to hear his answer.

Accidentally I licked my lips, still looking at him, cause I was quite nervous and that was my habit. Daniel whimpered slightly as I did that and I blushed. I didn't mean to to do that and have such a reaction from him, but I must admit, it was hot.

I smiled slightly, blushed. "Sorry, I didn't mean to, it's just what I do while being nervous." He chuckled and nodded.

"Anyways, I did kiss you cause I like you, Johnny. I seriously want to be there for you, help you, everything." He finally said that.

I looked into his eyes and didn't really know what to think about it. I was lost and didn't know what to do. I knew I liked him a bit more, but did I want to admit that? Did I want to let him help me? Did I want anything? I didn't really know anything, I was completely lost.

Feeling the pressure that I should probably answer him with something at some point, at least that was what his eyes said, I just simply broke down and fell on the bed. I didn't know anything, I was completely lost, confused.

"Johnny?" Daniel asked, looking concerned now. He immediately moved further up the bed to look at me. "Did I say something not alright?"

I shook my head, still crying. I saw him moving even closer to me and let him do whatever he wanted. I felt him taking my upper body and putting it carefully onto his lap. I sighed slightly and turned my head to his stomach not to make him look at me when i was such a mess. He, in a response, started to play with my hair and stroke it.

"I'm just... I'm just lost." I said softly in a perfect silence when I finally calmed down a bit. "I... I don't know really what to do or think, you know?" He nodded his head, still stroking my head.

"It's alright, Johnny." He whispered. I closed my eyes and relaxed, trying to cherish the moment. "Do you want to watch a movie or anything? To chill and stuff."

I nodded my head. "But I need to pack things first and shower and everything"

"Well, I need to do those things too." He chuckled. "So maybe, I go pack things up and take shower whilst you do the same and then I come back and we watch?" He asked shyly a bit.

I nodded my head and got up from his lap. I must say I enjoyed it a lot, but I didn't want to admit that yet, so I shrugged it off and was gathering all my stuff besides my laptop whilst Daniel was leaving my room.

When I finished, I went to bathroom to take a shower and change to pj's. I quickly stepped into the shower and started washing my body, face and hair, sighing lightly when I touched where Daniel was touching my head. Ugh, it was so nice and I wanted more, but probably I shouldn't have.

When I got out from the shower, I wrapped myself with a towel and put on pj's. I brushed my wet hair to make it look a bit presentable at least and left the room.

Before I could even sit on the bed or do anything else, I heard knocking on the doors and it was Daniel, so I went to answer the doors. As I opened the doors, Daniel greeted me with a pack of snacks in his hand, grinning widely. I chuckled and closed the doors when he went inside the room.

"We will watch on my laptop, so we will watch on the bed, alright?" I asked him while coming back to him. He in a meanwhile opened pretzels and laid down on the bed, waiting for me. He nodded his head as I finished and came to the bed and took my laptop on my lap.

I opened Netflix on my screen and turned my head into his direction. "Any ideas for the movie?"

"Maybe Forrest Gump? Wanted to rewatch it bunch of times." He thought for a moment. I nodded my head, ignoring the fact it was the movie that I always watched with my father when I was younger.

I leaned on the bed to lay next to Daniel and scoot a bit closer to him to the point our arms were touching. I put the laptop between our legs and started playing the movie. I sighed slightly when the movie started and started concentrating on it, ignoring my thoughts with pretzels and occasional Daniel's laughter.

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When the movie finished, as always I was an emotional wreck. But this time it made me realize a bunch of things too, mainly the whole situation with Daniel.

We were laying on the bed, not talking to each other. Both of us were at the edge of tears cause of the movie. Daniel was laying next to me, looking at the ceiling, breathing calmly. I made my decision and got up slightly and turned to Daniel.

He turned his head to look at me, confused slightly. "What are you doing, Jo?" he asked confused. I smiled slightly at the new name and proceed to do the right choice.

I looked deeply into his eyes and kneeled down to be right in front of his face. He had a slightly stressed look at his face and I could feel his ragged breath on mine. I licked my lips slightly while moving my eyes to his lips and then to his eyes. He probably understood what I was about to do and put his warm, soft palm on my cheek.

I closed my eyes and leaned even closer and finally touched his lips with mine. He immediately responded and started kissing me with more passion, moving his soft lips with mine. I sighed in pleasure of the kiss and pulled out slightly to breathe and look at him.

"Yes." I whispered to Daniel and kissed his cheek. He immediately knew what I was talking about and smiled brightly.

He put his hands onto my waist and made me lay down almost at him. I laid there, feeling the first time in a whole time quite relieved and lighter.

"Stay the night here, alright?" I whispered, feeling like I was about to fall asleep.

"Always." he said, while kissing my temple. I sighed deeply and fell asleep with Daniel's arms around me.

------author's note time------

yep, a shorter one and probably not the highest quality, apologies (but probably still better than the race in canada lol)