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It's been more than two days

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It's been more than two days. 

Lando, Max and Alex were peacefully sleeping in plane seats, resting their bodies and minds for Vegas Grand Prix. 

Daniel, even though he was dead tired, couldn't get any rest. 

His heart was absolutely broken for Mabel, while brain kept replaying the story she told him, mixed with the addition of the text he got the morning he went back to work. 

And now he didn't know what to believe. Or what to think. Mabel was the love of his life, he was thousand percent sure about that. But hiding such secret ... it was too much, and even though he believed her, or really wanted to, something in him broke that night and doubts filled his brain. 


3 days ago

"When I got together from the surgeries, my parents weren't coming back for me, I started to rebel. James and Fiona had really hard time with me. Me and my first boyfriend Kai ended up together because friends around us pushed us to it. Later I found out he always wanted me and as time went by, I grew to really like him. Not love him, cause I was already in love with someone else," Mabel started her confession as soon as she walked out of bathroom. Daniel was hurt by the sight of her. She was finally starting to feel more confident, but all he could see at that moment was broken person. She sat on the edge of bed, hiding her legs under big shirt. 

"Anyways, there was this boy, Damian. I was in love with him since I could remember,  he was really cool, even did karting, everybody wanted to be his friend ... You can imagine. I wanted to prove I was worth it, even though James and Fiona were the nicest to me, I was treating them like shit. I wanted an adventure and when Damian showed interest in me, I nearly collapsed from happines. 

But he was deeply in drugs at that time. I never used with him, I never did drugs ... although I never stopped him from doing that. I was scared, but at the same time I wanted to belong. He was like my whole world and everything revolved around him. I was so blinded by love ... And I drank a lot. And I mean a lot. That's why I'm so against it now. 

My 'old' friends begged me to stay away from him, but I thought I was better than them. Everyone wanted to be friends with me with Damian by my side. I didn't see at the time how destructive the whole relationship was. I lost everyone dear to me and gained bunch of fake friends. But he was ... I don't know how to explain it to you," Mabel looked at Daniel, her eyes were tired. Full of emotions. 

"Damian was good manipulator and I fell for that. He cheated on me couple times, both publicly and privately, but I chose to forgive him. Because the aura around his persona was just ... compelling. And with him, I was someone. 

One day, as we were hanging around and drinking, we met Kai. My old friend group fell apart and I invited him over. He didn't like those people I called friends, but he still liked me. Loved me. And feelings were mutual, I liked him and felt sorry that he was pushed aside. Since then he went out with us, not always, but time to time. They were making fun of him, sometimes I stood up for Kai, sometimes I did not. 

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