A World Alone - D.R.

eleven

Authors note: I'm so sorry for the long absence! I've had a fairly busy Christmas period which just spilt into the new year, but I'm back! 

I forgot how much I love this story and how much I love Jade and Dan as characters. I hope you enjoy this update, and come hell or high water, I'll have another update for you next week. 

If you notice any continuity errors, please give me a shout so I can amend them. I've switched up the overall plan for this story just a tad, so the old timeline may be a little out of whack. I think I did catch all the small changes I made, but if something doesn't make sense, feel free to point it out!

Also please give this a vote or a comment if you're enjoying reading this as much as I am writing it!

Without further ado, I present to you: chapter eleven! 

The next few days passed slowly, Jade and Daniel not really hearing from each other. They had been texting, but not texting as often as they had before their awkward phone call, and truth be told, neither of them thought it would return back to how things had been.

Dan had been sending Jade pictures and videos over Snapchat of the race weekend, and it was cool for her to see the behind the scenes of the race, and Jade 100% regretted not taking the driver up on his offer. Especially after seeing him and Joe goof off after a particularly hard going training session. She did, however, get the last chapters of her thesis written, and almost ready to hand in. It all just needed to be proofread, and then she was finished with her stupid PhD. Usually, Jade didn't mind working on it, especially as it was a subject she was very very passionate about, but she also would much rather be spending time with Dan rather than the university library, with hand cramp from too much typing.

On Sunday evening, while Jade was in bed, her laptop playing reruns of 'Community', and her entire 80,000-word thesis printed and stapled sat in her lap. The paper was marred by the reams and reams of coloured highlighter that covered almost every black typed letter. The brunette was sat on her bed, frowning to herself as she picked up a black biro and crossed out a whole paragraph of text, writing a note beside it in all caps. The ambience of the stressful situation was broken by the chiming of her laptop and phone. Someone was trying to face time her, she answered without even thinking to look at who it was. She half expected it to be Amy. She had peppered her best friend with a whole host of texts, all of them on the subject of how stressed she had been that weekend. Hence why when her German greeting was met with dead silence. She looked up at her computer screen, confused about who she had let witness her in this state if it wasn't Amy.

"Shit," she dove for her little black laptop, trying to close the screen before the Aussie could see much more of her in the state she was in.

"Nice to see you too," Daniel's stupid driver reflexes were too bloody fast for her.

"Hi," Jade's reply was a bit on the short side. She sighed and rested her head in her hands for a few long seconds. As she tried to hide her face from the Australian, he chuckled loudly at her. "Please ignore my appearance," She half begged him.

"You look great!" Dan beamed. He honestly did think she looked great. Even with about 5 hours of sleep, total, over 3 days, she still managed to look a million dollars.

Jade rolled her eyes at him, as she looked back up at him. "I am such a mess right now, but I've half-finished this STUPID thing!" She said, half shouting out the last half of her sentence.

Dan laughed, "Congrats! You free next weekend then?" He asked, his tone jokey, but his sentiment deadly serious.

"If you think I'm not taking next weekend off from absolutely everything, then you'd be dead wrong!" Jade's excitement was so great, Dan could almost feel it in the air a whole 2 countries away.