Take This Life / Daniel Ricciardo

Chapter 14

Slightly nsfw

It was the time of my release finally and later in the day I was supposed to fly to Singapore. I sighed in my hospital room whilst getting ready for leaving. Apparently no one wanted to let me leave alone, so I was waiting for Daniel to take me.

I've already packed all of my stuff and was just sitting on the sofa next to the bed as I heard Daniel entering. I smiled slightly when I saw him and immediately got up and started taking my backpack and a plastic bag. He on the other hand was looking quite worried and as he was in rush.

"Wow, wow, wow, hold on Johnnie, I'm taking all these things." He said when he looked at me. He immediately came to me and hugged me tightly, not even trying to give me a time to catch a breath or anything else. "I was so worried about you, you know? I'm so glad you're alright." He mumbles into my hair, not caring he said the same words the day before when he went there.

I smiled slightly inhaling his scent and relaxed into his comfy and warm arms. They felt good, actually even safe. I wanted to stay there forever. "I'm glad you're here too." I whispered softly, still feeling guilty and bad about everything that had happened.

As a response, he slided his palm right onto my lower back and put it right into the pocket in my jeans. I blushed heavily and jumped out of my skin and released from hug. "Daniel!" I yelled at him, swatting his arm. He on the other hand just laughed at me and took my bags from me and pointed on the doors.

"So, we're going? We have a plane to catch in bunch of hours." I nodded to him and continued to walk after him.

As we started walking towards the car on parking lot, I felt his hand taking mine and it got me thinking - what were we? Friends? Something more? He was genuinely caring about me, he kissed me, I kissed him too, we slept together and then this hand on my bum. I really didn't know but I hoped it would be known soon.

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Daniel's POV

The last few days were rough, let's say. Everything had come down downhill in the evening of Johnny's accident. It all started with going to a meet up with my Aussies. Yeah, I texted Johnny a lie. That was a mistake.

The meet up was alright, I had a lot of fun with Jack and Paul, we got all drunk, but there was also Jenna - my friend who I was in love before I met Johnny. I never said that to anyone or even admitted myself, so no one knew that. According to the mates, as we all were friends, she apparently had a crush on me. And when I spotted her, everything went down.

She came to me, looking actually jealous. She looked quite drunk, as she was slightly swaying and showing off her slim, sexy body. As I was quite drunk and my brain wasn't working, I was looking at her body, immediately wanting her, wanting to touch her.

She stood right in front of me and looked right into my eyes. "Who's this girl, hm? Johnny?" She asked me leaning onto me and whispering to my ear. "Didn't you have a thing for me, huh?" She licked her red full lips, while taking my hands in hers and moving them around her body. She started moaning slightly and me totally captivated in her, groaning, wanting even more her then.

She was wearing a black tank top, skinny high waisted jeans and high heels. The outfit totally showed her figure what was driving my drunk brain completely crazy.

I smashed my lips against hers and pulled her into me. "Where's the nearest bathroom or anything?" I asked her between wet and sloppy kisses. "Let me be your guide." She moaned.

Yeah, we fucked. When I finally hit my high, I immediately sobered up and it got to me what I'd done. Jenna on the other hand was still drunk and she looked like she was about to pass out from alcohol and the sex.

When I put on my clothes, I took my phone in hand and saw that - the messages and calls from Johnny. I started to feel so guilty that I left without talking to anybody.

I quickly left and stood outside, trying to call Christian, as Johnny wasn't responding. "Hey Dan, it's qui-" I immediately started talking. "Yeah, Christian. Johnny sent me some worrying messages and she's not answering the phone, can you check on her?"

I heard him sigh on the phone. "Oh shit..." he said. "Alright, I'm going, Dan. You on the other hand calm down and go to sleep. Please." He said in rush and ended the call.

I decided it was a time to get back to the hotel and try to calm down or do anything to kill the time and mind. My brain was replaying all over again the scenes with Jenna and it made me feel extremely guilty. I wanted to scream so badly. What if something had happened to Johnny? What if she needed me but I was too busy fucking a friend and cheating on her even though we weren't together officially, but I felt things for her?

Few more hours later when I was trying to sleep, I got back a call from Christian. I immediately picked it up and was hoping for good. But it didn't come. And what I'd heard, was truly terrifying and made me feel even worse.

"So yeah, Daniel..." Christian started. His voice was already then feeling crushed, concerned, devastated. "Doctors said she had such a strong panic attack and her brain freaked out so much, it had led her to have almost a heart attack." My breathing stopped for a second and I didn't know what to say or think.

"She also had her hands completely covered in blood, probably from punching them too hard against the walls. The whole apartment looked scary." He stopped for a second to take a deep breath. "They said she would have all the pills she needs, but she can't stay alone and go back to that place... on the other hand they said she could come back to work, so she won't miss Singapore." He finished.

I sighed heavily, shaking slightly. I completely fucked up, it was all my fault. I wanted to scream so badly.

"Hey Daniel, you're still here?" Christian said.

"Yeah, I'm just shocked and I don't understand anything." I whispered.

"Don't worry, me too. Maybe with time she will tell us all. Anyways, I have to go now, and you too. Call me when you'll want to visit her at the hospital, alright?" I nodded my head.

"Please, go to sleep Daniel and don't think about it." He said while ending the call.

After the call ended, I laid there in bed looking at the ceiling above me feeling completely bad. But I couldn't let Johnny see that I fucked up the big time, it'd totally destroy her. I really didn't know what to do or think, so I decided I'd talk with Sebastian about it - he always had answers. But for that time before I'd do that in Singapore, I decided to put on a smiley face for Johnny and let her help to recover and leave that evening behind.

————authors note————
Sorry for waiting almost a month for a quite short chapter, but that's all I could have done. Updates will stay as inconsistent as they're now for some time more, apologies