Picture Perfect | Daniel Ricciardo

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On a Friday late afternoon Daniel came with the brilliant idea to take his girlfriend out to dinner. But not only she was invited, his trainer Sam, where he already has been training with for the past week, was also invited for this dinner. Sam and Dani hadn't met each other yet, but both of them heard a lot of stories about each other. Dani heard how much "torture" Sam was using on Daniel and had seen also the aftermath of it as he had no energy left in the evening. For the past week, Dan and Daniel had mostly spent their time at night watching a movie or just going to the beach and in both option Dani found her boyfriend falling asleep not even thirty minutes later. But them spending less time together also meant that Daniel was distracted when he was training with Sam. With every text message he got from Dani he had to check it and was always grinning and typing back, making the circle never end. Dani didn't really understand why she was having dinner not only with his boyfriend but also with his trainer. Couldn't they just meet in a bar or just at the beach? Was a fancy dinner really needed? She wasn't even sure if she needed to dress to impress or just keep it simple. What for god damn dinner was this?! After debating with herself in the mirror she decided to dress to impress. Daniel had texted her the restaurant they were going to like he used to always do so that Dani could look at the menu beforehand which she just prefered and she saw that it was a very high-class restaurant. Dani thought Daniel was stupid for already spending this much on some dinner. Sure he was going back to Formula One which paid crazy numbers. But he wasn't going to get paid millions already.

Daniel had whistle very hard when he picked his girlfriend up from her front door. She rolled her eyes with a laugh as she closed the door behind her. Daniel helped her get into the passenger's seat and got in the driver's seat himself right after.
'You look beautiful tonight.' he said to her as he couldn't help but keep his eyes on her dress.
'Well considering the restaurant you have chosen for tonight I kind of had no option.' Dani said as she was messing around with the radio like she usually does while Daniel drives. 'Besides, if your trainer is cute it's better to make a great first impression, right?' Dani teased as she looked closely to Daniel's reaction before telling him it was just a joke.
'It's not going to work anyway. You're all mine.' Daniel smiled and taking her hand in his without having to look. He raised it up to his lips and kissed her hand softly, making the corners of Dani's mouth curl up. 'And there's no way to escape.'

At their table, Dani and Daniel were the first once to arrive. Sam had been running a tiny bit late, which Dani and Daniel actually didn't mind as they had a little bit more time for each other.
'Another reason why you should stay with me. You don't want a man that's late.' Daniel had grinned as he watched how his girlfriend took a sip of her white wine. Dani couldn't help but snort at that comment and put her glass down fastly.
'You have to take that comment back. You're almost always late.' Dani laughed.
'A minute or two doesn't count as being late.' Daniel commented back, making Dani raise her eyebrows up as she just had to disagree with that. But before she could say anything about it Sam had finally arrived at their table. Both Daniel and Dani stood up as Daniel greeted his trainer first before introducing his girlfriend to him.
'Sam, this is my girlfriend Dani. She doesn't like guys who're late.' Daniel grinned, making Dani roll her eyes.
'Well if I knew your girlfriend was this beautiful I would've dropped everything to be here ten minutes early.' Sam smiled and walked over to Dani to introduce himself probably. He gave her a short kiss on the cheek as part of him greeting her and asked her how she was doing.
'So you must be the one that keeps on interrupting my training sessions with all your text messages to Daniel.' Sam said as he sat down on the head of the short table. Dani started to grin as she gave a short look to Daniel who seems to have the same facial expression on his face as her.
'And you must be the one that only brings my boyfriend back to me when he's nothing but just a tired spaghetti string.' Daniel gave his girlfriend a weird look, although his trainer just started to laugh.
'Well then, I guess we're even.' Sam said. The rest of the dinner Sam and Dani seem to team up to tease Daniel. At the end of the day, Dani had actually enjoyed her dinner and approved of Sam of taking care of Daniel when she would be back in Adelaide.

'I like Sam.' Dani said to Daniel on their way back home.
'No, you don't say?' Daniel said sarcastically. 'Help me remind myself to never leave you two alone. Can't have you two on one team against me.' Dani had made sure to look if that smile on his face was genuine, which it thankfully was. She couldn't have Daniel be jealous, because he was right about what he said before their dinner. She was all his and there really was no escaping from it. 

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A/N: It's way too hot here in The Netherlands and I'm melting away slowly. Also, I probably should warn you that this story is slowly making its way to the end. There are still a few chapters coming, but just so you know.