Untangle Me.

“All set?”

Danielle didn’t say anything but just moved her hand up as Garrett let out a laugh at the sleepy girl. They all knew Danielle wasn’t a morning person, hell she hated waking up when she didn’t have to.

“Come on sleepy girl”, Garrett said taking a seat next to Danielle.

“I’m tired”, she wined with a laugh. “I don’t want to go.”

Garrett couldn’t help but to laugh at how adorable she sounded. He wrapped his arms around her holding her close to him. He looked over at the clock seeing that it was 4:15 o’clock in the morning; they were supposed to be out on the road by 4.

“All the guys are in the car waiting for us.”

“I don’t care.”

Garrett couldn’t help but to smile as he felt the girl cuddle more into him. He wished he could stay where he was. He didn’t want to leave but instead stay here on this couch with Danielle. He wanted her in his arms. He looked down at the beautiful girl as she cuddled more into him. The smile on Garrett’s face grew with ever second time passed. EH was enjoying this moment, this moment that was shortly lived.

“Yo, what’s taking you guys so long?”

John stopped in his tracks once he saw the two on the couch. That disgust feeling in the pit of his stomach was on the rise. His arms around her; her head on his chest, John felt sick but he didn’t let it show.

“Gary man, wake her up.”

“You know how she hates that.”

John couldn’t help but to roll his eyes, Garrett was always a little bitch when it came to things. Garrett was afraid of making Danielle angry. He knew Danielle very well and he knew that whoever had the balls to wake up Danielle Bailey was in a rude awaking of a very pissed off Danielle Bailey. John made his way to the two placing his hand on Danielle soft shoulder that was exposed from under her shirt.

“Danny”, he said lightly shaking her. “Come on Danny, wake up.”

“Leave me alone asshole.”

“Danny, we have to get on the road.”

“Go fuck yourself.”

Garrett looked over at John with a smirk. He knew he was going to piss the girl off and that was just going to add to the list of things Danielle hated about John.

“Danny if you don’t wake up then I’m just going to pick your ass up and carry out you.”

“Gary tell the mean jerk to leave me alone”, she said cuddling into a very smug Garrett.

“You don’t leave me any choice.”

John suddenly bent down and pulled the sleepy girl out of Garrett’s arms. He threw her over her shoulder, trying to hold the flopping around girl in his arms. She moved around kicking and hitting on his back. All John could do was laugh at how ridiculous this was.

“Garrett”, he said turning around with the girl in his hands. “Make yourself useful and get her fucking bags.”

John turned his back on his friend before walking out the door with the failing girl. He was holding tight on the girl in hopes that she didn’t fall from his grasp and crack her head on the cement. John couldn’t help but to laugh at the words that were falling from Danielle’s mouth, for such a soft spoken nice girl if messed with she had a mouth of a foul trucker.

“God dammit John”, she yelled as they got to the rundown van. “Put me the fuck down before I fucking kick your balls so hard that you won’t ever be able to have kids.”

John could feel all the guys’ stares as they held in their laughs in fear that Danielle’s anger for John would go towards them. John simply smirked at her threat before tossing her and dropping her on the floor.

“You promise?”

“You’re a real asshole, you know that right?”

“I know”, he said with an annoyed look on his face as he walked into the bus. “You’ve been
yelling it for the whole walk here.”

Danielle was burning with anger; she wanted to smack that smug look off of John’s face. She wanted to kick him over and over again in the balls until he couldn’t feel it anymore. Danielle had a bit of anger issues. She was always the type to hold it in but when it came to John she let it be known.

“What the fuck took you guys so long?” Tim asked as Garrett got closer, struggling with Danielle’s three bags.

“Dipshit was letting Ms. Princess here sleep it up”, John said with an annoyed look on his face.

“Fuck you John.”

“Already have.”

Garrett cringed at the comeback and everyone stayed quiet with an awkward tension. Garrett stared over at Danielle who had big eyes and big mouth. Garrett couldn’t help but to smile, John was building a deeper grave and Garrett was going to be on top with Danielle in his arms.

“Get in you guys”, Max said with an annoyed tone of voice. “We don’t have time for this.”

“Tell that to John”, Danielle said as she sat up front pushing Pat to the back. “He’s the asshole.”

“We all know that.”

Danielle just nodded her head as everyone in the car agreed. She knew they all didn’t mean it. John had his moments but all in all John was a good guy. People could argue that he was the nicest guy they have ever met. Danielle just couldn’t understand why he was being such a douche to her when before he was nothing but nice. Sex changes everything, especially John and Danielle’s relationship.

“Is there always this many teen girls?”

“Yes”, Max said looking over at the shocked girl. “Usually their screaming for your boyfriends names”, he said as Danielle’s head cocked over in his direction.

“Boyfriends?” she asked with a confused look on her face. “Do you need to go back to
school, Moose?”

Instead of answering the girl he just gave her a knowing smile before hitting her shoulder. Danielle turned her attention to the boys on stage. Pat sitting behind his drum set looking oddly at peace, something Danielle wasn’t used to seeing. Patrick Kirch has always been an awkward kid. Whenever you’re around him he looks like he was somewhere else. His hands constantly fidgeting and his leg bouncing up and down, a severe case of ADHD if I ever saw it but at this moment Pat looked like he belonged.

All of them did, they all looked like they belonged. Jared Monaco has always been the funny kid, the funny ginger as John would put it. But up there on the stage he was much more than just jokes, people saw the raw talent and he was noticed more than the jokes he would crack.

Kennedy Brock, with that wide smile as he sang the lyrics he knew oh so well. Not in the microphone but more or less just screaming them in the faces of the ocean of fans. Kennedy, since the day Danielle met him had always been a happy guy. Always smiling and always happy, he had his crabby moments but all in all he was a happy guy. Not as happy as he looked on that stage.

That’s when her eyes turned to Garrett, her heart started to beat faster. Garrett Nickelsen had always been passionate about music. He always had that something in him that told him that music was what he was going to do for the rest of his life. When Trey showed him how to play bass, Garrett ran away with it. While most of the people’s attention was on the lead singer, the smart ones were on Garrett. The way he moved on that stage and that smile on his face. The way his hair moved so gracefully and how sexy he looked when he jumped around. All Danielle wanted to do was run on stage and take on his close; too bad she would get arrested if she did and Garrett would never talk to her again. Garrett was a beautiful site but she couldn’t help but to stare a little bit longer at the boy up front.

She watched as he closed his eyes and sang his heart out to the kids out in front of him. He was demanding everyone’s attention and Danielle gave it to him. John O’Callaghan had changed since the first time he was on stage, something about him screamed confidence. The way he moved his body and the way he smiled at the sounds of the yells. Much like Garrett she had this urge to go up there and rip off his clothes but unlike Garrett, John would be all for it. And that scared Danielle.

“How did you like the show?”

Danielle looked over at a very sweaty boy with those beautiful blue eyes. She couldn’t help herself; she pressed her lips against his in a sweet kiss.

“You liked it that much?”

“Yes.”

“Well good”, he said grabbing her lower back pulling her body closer in. “Because I really like your kisses.”

His lips were pressed against hers again. His bottom lip slightly lifting her top, causing the want in both of them to deepen it.

“Just like?”

Danielle asked pressing her lower half into his as her lips were pressed against his again, but this time deepening it with a soft lick of her tongue.

“Let me rephrase that”, he said holding back everything in him not to grab her ass in those little shorts she had on. “Love them.”

Once again he pressed her lips into hers in a much needed kiss. Every second the kiss infused into something more passionate. Their lips meshing together as their tongues dances intertwined. Neither Garrett nor Danielle could hush the soft groans that were leaving their mouths.

“Could you two stop”, John said feeling sick at the two. “Garrett you got first in the shower so go.”

“Did you want company?”

John felt sick, he couldn’t help but to look away with a look of disgust. He hated the both of them, especially the way they were parading around in spite of John’s feelings. He watched as Garrett looked down at Danielle before that look of fear crossed his face. John couldn’t help but to laugh at the awkward boy and the obvious horny girl.

“Nah, we have to be quick.”

What a fucking idiot.

John watched the look on Danielle’s face, the look of disappointment and rejection. Garrett kissed her forehead and walked away, giving John a dirty look before he disappeared. John’s green eyes wondered over to the redhead with a knowing smirk, John wouldn’t have cared. He could have brought her into the shower and have his way with the girl. The thoughts alone were turning John on, but instead of being the usual asshole and making it a point to Danielle he just walked away from the girl. Leaving her even more confused, that was the point of it all.

“You alright man?”

I looked up to see Jared staring down at me with concerned eyes. That was the constant question that was being asked since the whole Garrett and Danielle thing happened, weird thing is that they think that I actually care. But the worst thing about it all is that I’m obviously doing a bad job hiding it.

“Yeah man.”

He just nodded his head as John sat there in just my boxers and a towel. John looked over to see Garrett walking out of the small shower space.

“You’re up, JohnO.”

“Fuck off Gary.”

Everyone stayed quiet and stared at the both of us. Garrett’s annoyed expression turned into anger as he stared John down.

“What?”

John stood up from where he was, his tall body towering over Garrett’s smaller one. Garrett’s blues eyes looking straight down at John’s very angry green ones.

“I said, fuck off Gary”, he said with a smirk. “Did you not hear me?”

“I heard you I just didn’t understand it.”

“What is there to understand?”

Garrett just stayed quiet; he knew if they were going to get in a confrontation that would just make him look bad to Danielle. Garrett knew this game John was playing and he wasn’t giving in.

“Showers all yours.”

John simply nodded his head looking over at Garrett’s smiling face, the smirk spreading across his face as he pushed past the blue eyed boy. John hated this feeling, the feeling of need. He wanted Danielle for himself and just his. He didn’t want to share and he especially didn’t want to give up this girl to Garrett. Garrett was a good guy but he wasn’t what Danielle needed. Danielle needed a guy with more confidence. She needed a guy to keep her in line and not just let her walk all over him.

“Are you guys all ready?”

“Yes”, Pat said crawling in behind Kennedy. “I’m ready to sleep in a bed.”

“Too bad were going straight to the next venue in San Fran”, Max said getting behind the wheel. “We’re behind schedule so we have to drive there over night.”

“Fuck me”, Danielle said as she placed her head on Garrett’s shoulder.

“Man up Danny”, John said getting in the back corner. “We already have one pussy in the van, we don’t need another one”, he said looking in Garrett’s direction with a sly smile.

“Trust me he doesn’t have a pussy”, Danielle said looking straight into those green eyes. “He’s got a way bigger dick than you.”

And then she saw it, a look of hurt. In the years that Danielle has known John, she has never seen him hurt. John hid his feelings from everyone or at least the extent of it. John was never emotional person but Danielle just brought it out of him and she felt like the biggest asshole.

“Enough about my dick”, Garrett said with a laugh trying to lighten up the mood around everyone. “Get in Danny.”

Danielle looked over at the empty seat next to John. Immediately her arms went across her chest with a look of displeased.

“I’m not sitting next to that asshole.”

Much like a tennis match everyone looked over at John for a response, his one liner was always a hit. But when he stayed quiet looking out of the window everyone was surprised. Looking at each other giving each other odd looks, Garrett just shook his head before sitting down next to John. Danielle taking a seat next to him, causing the tension to thicken ever more as the three of them sat in the back of the car on the long drive.

It only took two hours for Garrett to pass out, his head resting quietly on a wide awake Danielle. Ever since she was little Danielle was never able to fall asleep in a car. When other parents would take their crying baby on a ride in their car, Danielle was never one to be calm. Her eyes every now and then looking over at a very quiet John, a very odd John. She wasn’t use to the silence from the boy and it kind of scared her but she ignored it looking around for some entertainment.

Five hours into the drive Danielle was dying, she wanted to sleep. She wanted to talk. The only person awake besides the two in the back was the driver who had headphones over his ear. She looked over at John and finally her brown eyes caught his green ones. She looked in the opposite direction quickly; she didn’t want to give him a reason to get cocky. She looked over in his direction to see him on his phone, like always.

Probably talking to his many girls, manwhore.

Suddenly she felt a tap on her thigh and a shine of light. She looked down at the screen to see the word Eaten going down on the scrabble like board. She looked over at John and watched as he stared off out the window with a small smile on his face. She couldn’t help but to grin as she pressed her fingers to the letters on the bottom of the screen and drag them up to form a word. Then she passed it on.

John stared down at the letters and couldn’t help but to laugh. Felted, was across the screen with 22 points. There was nowhere he wanted to be but playing Word with Friends with Danielle. They were playing another game and much like the other one she was going down.