♡Daniel's Pov♡
"Jack how do I look?" I ask for the hundredth time. I changed my outfit again finding that the plaid just didn't match with the jacket, and then the rips in the jeans didn't make me seem serious so now I'm in my Sunday best basically. Great, now I feel overdressed.
Today was the day that we had our interview with the adoption specialist. First impressions meant everything. Last night I had Jack and I give each other a pre-interview just to be totally prepared. Even with all this preparation and weeks of planning ahead for it I was still terrified.
"Daniel for the love of—"
"Jaaaack," I whine. "How do I look?" I fix my hair a little in the full body length mirror in our room and turn around to him.
"Babe you look amazing—"
"Yeah, yeah like I did the first time, and the second, and the fourth, and the one after the that, and so and so on." I say pulling off the stupid tie that was too tight and slumping down on the edge of the bed. I put my head in my hands and kept my face down. I was just so nervous.
"Daniel you're too tense right now, everything is going to be okay." Jack begins massaging my shoulders. "Whatever happened to 'we'd be perfect dads' huh?" He chuckles shaking my shoulders and bending down to look me in the eyes. I peek out from behind my hands.
"I'm done being dramatic now I guess." I say removing my hands from my face.
"Good," He gives me a quick chaste kiss to the lips. "Now lets go or we're going to be late." He pulls me up and straightens out my jacket. I quickly grab my keys and phone from the dresser and we head out.
After a fairly short drive we arrive at our designation. We enter the building hand in hand. It was really clean and quite inside making me even more nervous for some odd reason. The front desk was sort of a U shape with a bowl of candies and a stack of business cards sat on top and doors were on each side of it. In the center a blonde haired lady was typing at the same time as talking on the phone. To the furthest left was a waiting room area with chairs, a tv broadcasting the News channel, and complimentary magazines stacked in a neat pile on a coffee table beside a vase of fake sunflowers.
We approach the front desk where the receptionist was still on the phone. After standing patiently for a bit she rounded up her call and greeted us.
"Hello, how may I help you?" She asks politely.
"Uh we're here for our interview with Mrs.Rivera." I reply tapping my fingers against the wooden desk.
"Oh you two must be Mr. And Mr.Seavey-Avery, correct?" She says looking at something on her computer screen.
"That is correct." I smile rocking back and forth.
"Alright well it says here your appointment is at ten thirty, that's about five more minutes or so. Just have a seat in the waiting room and Mrs.Rivera will be right with you okay?" She pushes her reading glasses up from the tip of her nose, gesturing over to the seating area, as she turns to smile at us. We nod and make our way over to our seats still hand in hand. Jack takes a seat beside a fairly young brunette and I sit beside him.
"Hi, my name is Bella nice to meet you." The woman beside Jack says suddenly with a friendly smile. She extends her hand for him to shake which he eventually does.
"Nice to meet you too, I'm Jack." He replied politely.
"I didn't want to come off as rude so I wanted to introduce myself first," She laughs. "But may I ask you a question?"
"Uh, sure." Jack looks at me unsure of this lady.
"I just wanted to know, are you two a couple?" She asks pointing between the two of us.
"Yes actually we're married." Jack smiles happily grabbing my hand.
"Aww you guys are so cute," She coos.
"Thank you." We both say sort of awkwardly. Then a tall man approaches her looking at us.
"I see you've already made friends while I was gone." He jokes with a with a wave and we wave back.
"I assume he's your husband?" Jack asks smiling at the woman.
"Yep, for twenty years so far." She replies as her husband sits down beside her.
"Wow twenty years, Daniel did you hear that?" I look at them seeing as though I zoned out a bit. "They are our goals." He says making the couple laugh. "What made you guys decide to adopt?" Jack asks. I elbow his side a little but he ignores me.
"Well actually we've been trying to have a kid of our own for a while now," Her husband begins.
"Until I found out I have fertility issues." She finishes sadly.
"I'm so sorry,"
"So now we're trying to adopt." Her husband takes her hand and she leans her head on his shoulder as he kisses her forehead.
"Mr. And Mr.Seavey-Avery?" A voice calls our name making us draw our attention to the door that was now open. A women with long black hair stood there with a clipboard.
"That's us." I say looking at Jack as we both stand.
"Good luck guys!" Bella and her husband wave at us and we wave back to them before disappearing behind the now closed door. We introduce ourselves to the women as she tells us to follow her to Mrs.Rivera's office.
"My stomach is doing acrobatics right now." I whisper to Jack as we follow behind the women to a room. The click of her stilettos was becoming obnoxious.
"We got this." He reassures me.
"Mrs.Rivera," The lady says knocking on a door numbered 304 with Mrs.Rivera's name engraved into a plaque under it.
"Yes," A voice calls out from the other side.
"The Seavey-Avery's are here to see you."
"Send them in."
"Okay," Then the lady turns to us. "Now don't be nervous just treat this how you would treat a job interview. Be polite, professional, and honest got it?" We nod at the lady's words. "Good." Then she walks off and into another room. Just as I reach for the doorknob Jack grabs my wrist.
"Lets do our secret handshake for good luck."
"Jack we don't have time—"
"Just really quick, please?" He pouts jutting out his lower lip making puppy eyes.
"Ugh okay." We try to do the handshake as quick as possible but midway through the dabbing part the door knob jiggles making us straighten up immediately.
"I said send them in," Then the door swings open revealing Mrs.Rivera. We both smile goofily and introduce ourselves shaking her hand before taking a seat in front of her desk. "Alright so lets start with the most basic question." She says before sitting back down behind her desk. "Why do you want to adopt?"
"We've known each other a while and now that we're newlyweds, with our own house, and financial security we felt ready to take this next step in our journey as husbands." I answer giving Jack a loving look which he returns. Mrs.Rivera however remains unreadable behind her desk. She ever so slowly sips from her coffee mug before asking another question.
"How long have you been married?"
"Well he proposed on tour, we had the actual wedding in August, so about four months." Jack answers proudly.
"Happily married I presume?" She asks with a grin and we both nod. "And you say he proposed on tour?" Jack nods. "What are you guy's occupations?"
"We're two out of five singers in the band Why Don't We." I answer not sure where she was going with this.
"How will you make time for the child? I'm sure in a band you guys will be very busy." Now there's something I didn't think about. We have breaks in between touring, rehearsals, studio time, and occasional interviews.
"We aren't always performing and touring so the child will be able to grow up in a stable home. When we are on the road the child can stay with our parents and depending on where and how far we are going they could come along." Jack answers before me. That was better then any answer I could've gave.
"Hm okay, well I of course want to schedule a meeting." Me and Jack look at each other confused.
"A meeting?" Jack questions. Mrs.Rivera chuckles seemingly not realizing we were genuinely confused.
"It's just a house visit to make sure the child you plan adopting will be in a safe and orderly environment. Now what day is good for you two, say sometime next week?"
"Um, uh, uh," I began to crack. Jack quickly answers for me.
"Next week is perfect, say Tuesday at noon?"
"Tuesday at noon is perfect for me." She smiles. "Well it was nice meeting you two have a great day, and see you next week." We stand and shake her hand before exiting. To say I was nervous for this interview was an understatement now I'm definitely going to lose my mind before the meeting.
♡Author's Note♡
My fave gif of D-Dong lol 😹🖤
Word Count Not Including A/N: 1562
♡Thanks for reading ily♡