Not Today (A Josh Dun fanfiction)

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[Josh's POV]

I woke up on the couch, with a slight weight on my chest.

I never remembered falling asleep here, I thought to myself as I opened my eyes. I looked down on my chest, where I saw a sleeping Max.  Shes even cute when she sleeps . . . I shook the thought out of my head. Then I remembered, about halfway through the second movie last night Max put her head on my shoulder and soon fell asleep, and I must've fallen asleep not much longer. I looked down again. We had laid down on our backs, and her head was on my chest and my arm was around her shoulders. Tyler and Jenna were at the other end of the couch, also asleep. I softly played with Max's wavy blonde hair, until I felt her stir a little bit and look up at me.

"Oh, hi there Josh." She said groggily. I chuckled slightly.

"Good morning. I hope I didn't wake you up." She laid her head back down on my chest.

"No, you didn't. You're a really cute sleeper, by the way. I woke up in the middle of the night for a minute and you were already asleep." She said.

"No I'm not. I sleep with my mouth open. Its not attractive at all." I smiled down at her.

"Yeah huh. I look at you sleeping and I'm just like, 'thats where I wanna be right now.'" She said. I laughed a little bit, causing Tyler to wake up at the end of the couch.

"Be quiet! I know you're in love or whatever but some people are trying to sleep." He said sleepily, and readjusted his arms around Jenna.

"Oh, uh sorry about this." I said, starting to get up. She sat up and shook her head.

"No, its okay. I mean, unless you wanna get up. But you're really comfy." She said. I laughed and laid back down, and opened my arms for her, which she snuggled back into.

We talked for awhile about pointless stuff, not worrying about school. Finally, Jenna woke up.

"Oh, uh hey guys." She said, sitting up and yawning. Tyler had felt Jenna get out of his embrace and sat up.

"Shit, we have school today." Was the first thing he said. Tyler was a good guy, he was raised in a great family, always had very good grades and was the star of the basketball team, but it wasn't like he was one of those jocks that dated the all the hot cheerleaders and wore varsity jackets. His family though, even though they were super kind, always wanted him to become a pro basketball player, but Tyler was more interested in music. He went through a sort of dark place, he didnt really know what to do with himself and he felt no one accepted him for who he was, and then he met Jenna. Jenna is his world, her, and his music are basically the things that helped him get better.

Me, on the other hand, wasn't raised in a family like Tyler's. My parents were nice, and were always cool about what I wanted to do and stuff, but they were never around. They were always out somewhere or on business trips or something, leaving me home alone and my younger siblings in day care. I wasn't allowed to listen to music as a child, so when I was about 12 I would go to the record shop and ask the most tattooed guy there for music recommendations. Then, I would go across the street to the music shop and play their drums until they kicked me out. Then, I dyed my hair blue and got my nose and ears pierced. Not all at once, I did it over time, but it wasn't like I was trying to be like punk or something, it was just that I'm too nice of a person, that if I didn't have the hardcore look about me people would probably walk all over me. Then, I went through a point where I felt like no one liked me, and that I was alone. Then, I met Tyler and we made a band together. And although I still have some weird, random dark thoughts here and there, our music has helped me get through most of it.