Second Chances // Chase Elliott

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CHASE ELLIOTT

Yesterday was a dream. Caroline surprising me, our date, our kiss, everything. I'm so glad that she's here. Whenever I'm not with her, I feel like a piece of me is missing but when she's here, with me, I feel whole; like everything is the way that it should be.

I slowly opened my eyes and was greeted by Caroline's ocean blue eyes and her breathtaking smile.

"Were you watching me sleep?" I asked, smirking.

"Maybe," she shrugged, blushing because she had been caught. "You're pretty cute when you sleep."

I leaned over to kiss her but before I could she put her hand in front of my face.

"Brush your teeth and then you can have all the kisses that you want," she smirked. I jumped out of the bed as fast as I could and ran to the bathroom to brush my teeth.

Once I finished, I ran back to the room and jumped back in the bed and placed kisses all over Caroline's face.

"Chase!" Caroline laughed as I continued to kiss her face.

"You said once I brushed my teeth that I could have all the kisses that I want," I said sheepishly.

"You're a dork," she smiled as she shook her head.

"But I'm your dork."

"Yeah, you are," Caroline smiled up at me as she leaned up and placed her lips on mine. I moved my hand to the back of her neck and laid her back down on the bed, our kiss never breaking. I slowly moved my hand down to her hip as she deepened the kiss.

Before the kiss went any further, Caroline pulled away and laid her forehead on mine, both of us breathless.

"You, mister, need to start getting ready," she chuckled.

"Do I have to?" I whined, pushing myself off of Caroline and rolling onto my side of the bed. "I just want to stay here with you all day."

"Well, I want to stay here with you all day too, but you've got a race tonight and, if I remember correctly, there's a million dollars waiting for the winner."

"We'll finish this later?" I asked.

"Yes," she laughed, "we can finish this later."

"Pinky promise?" I said, holding my right pinky up knowing that she can never say no to a pinky promise. Caroline smiled at me wrapping her right pinky around mine.

"Promise."

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"How's Carol?" Ryan asked as we walked into drivers' meeting.

"She's good. Really good actually. I think I'm gonna ask her to officially be my girlfriend tonight," I smiled.

I've been wanting to ask Caroline for a while now, but it's just never felt like the right time and I want to make sure that she's ready.

"Oh really?" Ryan smirked.

"Yeah. I think it's about damn time, don't you?"

"Hell yes. I've been waiting for you to ask her since you first told me about her. I can tell how happy you are with her."

"I don't know what it is about her, but I can see myself settling down with her. I look at her, and somehow, I can see 50 years from now on the front porch of some old house in the middle of nowhere and it's me and her, together."