Situations [Ronnie Radke x Max Green]

Familiarity

CW for bullying (specifically homophobia and self harm)

Max woke up as Robert pulled into the driveway of Monte's house, he walked in and flopped headfirst on to the bed. 

"I'm beat." He sighed. 

"We know." Robert deadpanned. 

"You had gay sex..." Monte teased Ronnie as they walked down the stairs.

"Shut up." Ronnie shoved him. 

Max, Ronnie, Robert, Monte and Craig hung out for a while, it's debatable that Craig was even hanging out, he was napping. Robert and Ronnie played dozens of rounds of Halo 2, Robert was kicking Ronnie's ass. Max and Monte messed around on a couple of Monte's guitars. 

"You said you play bass, right?" Monte asked Max. 

"Yeah, more than guitar honestly." Max replied. 

Monte walked over to his closet and moved some stuff around, a few moments later he pulled out what Max assumed was a bass, it had a cloth case on it. Monte unzipped it and handed it over to Max. 

Much to Ronnie's dismay, Robert paused Halo. 

"Play us something." Monte said. 

Max nervously started plucking out "Our Lady of Sorrows" by My Chemical Romance, a song that's not super easy to play on bass. 

The others were kind of in awe that he was just playing it off the top of his head, no tab or anything. 

He finished and carefully set the base down the bed. 

"That was just the one that was kinda' stuck in my head." Max shrugged. 

"Damn." Robert nodded. 

Ronnie gave everyone a quick glance, they obviously all understood what he meant. 

"Do you wanna' join the band?" Ronnie was clearly impressed, "We've been looking for a bass player but none of them were right." 

"Fuck yeah, dude." Max was excited, he always wanted to be in a band. 

The rest of the day was spent teaching Max the bass parts to their songs, he was an impressively quick learner. 

...

Max went home shortly after he finished learning songs at Monte's. He pretty much went right to bed. 

...

He woke up to the blaring sound of his alarm and got ready for school. 

Max dressed himself in skinny jeans, a studded belt, those dumb Misfits Vans everyone seemed to have between the years 2004 and 2007, and an Iron Maiden shirt, he put on some eyeliner and walked downstairs. 

He felt better than normal today, oftentimes that kind of feeling was followed by something bad happening, usually it was something like finding his boyfriend over another guy, or burning his toast, or being beat up or made fun of at school. But not today, not this time. 

Today was going to be better, he would try harder, he would be kinder (even though he was never mean), he was going to make today good. 

As his toast popped out of the toaster he heard Robert's car honk.

He opened the door, 

"Coming!!" He grabbed the toast and quickly buttered it. He jumped in the car. 

"Hey guys!" He quickly buckled his seat belt as Robert started driving. 

"Someone's in a good mood." Robert looked at Max through the rear view mirror and smiled.