Break Down These Walls (Jack Barakat)

Chapter 4

The first thing I noticed when the door opened was a beaming white smile. I've never seen nicer teeth in my life.

This kids smile was so contagious I couldn't help but smile back.

"Hey come on in." He said stepping out of the way and closing the door behind me as I stepped in the house after Jack, still holding his hand.

"I'm Rian!" He greeted sticking out his hand for me to shake.

"Danielle." I smiled breaking my hand away from Jacks and shaking Rians.

Jack quickly took my hand again and I couldn't help but smile up at him to see he was smiling right back.

We walked into the living room and there was another one of the boys on the couch and the other in a recliner, both watching TV.

"Well hello to you too guys." Jack said sarcastically as he sat on the couch and pulled me down next to him letting to of my hand an draping his arm around my shoulder.

"Oh hey Jacko!" The boy on the couch laughed turning to face us.

"And you must be Danielle?" He asked, eyes flicking to me.

"That'd be me" I smiled

"Nice to meet you I'm Alex." He smiled back

"That's Zack, lost in TVland in the chair over there" Alex said before launching a pillow at Zacks face.

Which I might've guessed was a big choice seeing how Zack had pretty big muscles. Definitely bigger than Alexs.

"Hey!" He laughed before whipping the pillow back at Alex making the smaller boy frown as the pillow knocked the beanie off his head and messed up his hair.

"We have company ya jerk!" Alex yelled sarcastically as he fixed his hair and replaced his hat.

"Hey, I'm Zack." He smiled, sending me a small wave.

"I'm Danielle." I waved back, smiling.

We've been at Rians for about 2 hours now and I got along great with everyone. It was a little hard for me to know what to say at first but whenever I got nervous Jack would squeeze my hand a little tighter as if to let me know that he was there and everything was ok.

Not that it wouldn't be ok for some reason. I knew they were all nice guys, but for some reason I just get really nervous when it comes to talking. About myself especially.

But after the first hour here and Jack helping me through the typically awkward first meeting conversations, I felt like the boys already accepted me.

Right now they're playing some of their songs for me and they sound great.

I can't help but stare at Jack. His guitar strap slung around his shoulders as his fingers move almost naturally to the song. It seemed like they were born for this.

Like each of these boys were born a puzzle piece to one day, come together and form this band. There was no doubt in my mind they could make it big.

I hadn't even noticed the song ended until Alex spoke.

"Alright maybe we should stop there before Danielle sets Jack on fire with the intensity of her stare on him." He laughed and so did the other three boys

"Hey I'm not starring, just watching the show!" I laughed fighting the blush that was trying to show on my cheeks and somehow winning.

"Yeah ok well I'm sure you'd love a show from Jack" he grinned devilishly as Rian about collapsed to the floor laughing.