Focus

Dad?

"Ok dad just sit here and we'll be back in no time, interviews aren't that long. You can read or something." Tyler is digging in his book bag for his big sunglasses, he usually makes jokes about them when he gets nervous or has nothing else to talk about.

"Tyler, I did not drive to New York to read. Son I want to see what you're doing with your exciting life!" Tyler could hear the tent opening and turned to see Josh holding a red bull.

"Hey man are you ready to go?" Josh stares at Tyler confused by his silence but decides to just wait outside instead. As Josh stepped out Tyler looked over to his dad and couldn't help but feel bad for him.

"Fine, you can come but please just let me do the talking. I need to get situated in what it is I plan on doing my whole life. Each interview is a new difficult task but I rather do it alone with Josh, without any help." Tyler looked down at his hands. This was new to everyone, especially his father. Nobody knew what Tyler really thought or wanted until he played his first demos after dinner one night. He's a stranger to everyone but Josh right now.

His father smiled and clapped his back while stepping out of the tent.

***

"So when did you and Josh meet?" asked the interviewer. They both were really young and made everything awkward. It didn't make for a great interview. Even worst when his dad sat beside him the whole time.

"Well-" Tyler started.

"I met Tyler when he was born" Tyler's dad interjected. Everyone forced a laugh especially Tyler, covering up his utter embarrassment.

"Well.." began the jittery teenage girl sitting closely next to Josh, "What's your favorite pick-up line?" She started blushing and giggling. After another embarrassing joke from Tyler's dad, Tyler answered to the best of his abilities and now it was Josh's turn and it got really awkward when the interviewer asked him to try it on her. Suddenly everyone turned their heads to the door which slammed open. A women with black shorts, crop top, big rimmed black hat and weird looking shoes bolted in with what looked to be a big heavy book bag. She didn't say a word to anyone and ran to where the camerawomen stood. Everyone ignored her but Tyler and Josh couldn't help but look at the girl taking a camera out of her bag followed by a tripod and a fan. She began to set the tripod under the camerawomen so she could place the camera with ease. She then started to play with the camera as she sat on the dirty floor of the cabin.

The interview went on awkwardly and Tyler and Josh tried to take it as serious as possible. After the last question they looked into the camera and said something nice to their fans as usual.

As they were getting up they saw the photographer walking towards them. However both Josh and Tyler looked away, their awkwardness getting the better of them. Before they knew it the girl with the camera stood next to them and uttered some sort of greeting.

"Hey" Tyler said smiling.

"Salutations" Josh said seriously. Tyler looked over to Josh and they both started laughing. Brooks feeling like she was intruding in some sort of secret joke started to introduce herself.

"Well anyways...my name's Brooks" She stuck out her hand politely at Tyler first then Josh.

"Do you guys mind if I take some pictures of you, I was late and was supposed to do this before but...yeah I was late." She looked at the wall above them and smiled bashfully. "I'll understand if you guys have things to do, it's cool, no big deal, really, I would-"

"It's fine you can take pictures of how ripped we are." Josh interrupted her and a relieved expression graced her features.

"Thanks so much! If i didn't have these pictures my boss would slaughter me." She started to walk towards the windows and Josh followed her. Tyler told his dad that they needed to take some pictures and that he should head back to the tent to rest. This time Tyler's dad obliged and said goodbye to everyone in the room

"Okay" said Tyler "what do you want us to do?"

"Maybe lend me a few hundred bucks" Tyler looked at her surprised and was starting to think of a way to politely say no but she started to laugh hysterically.

"I'm totally kidding! I need way more than that." She pushed the curtains to the side and told the two boys to stand opposite the windows so she could make use of the natural daylight.

"Okay I need you guys to sneeze"

The two boys looked at each other with confused looks and looked back at Brooks.

"Just pretend!" Brooks yelled out. Tyler and Josh both pretended as best as they could and looked back up at Brooks. Both boys still confused at why she wanted a picture of them sneezing. Brooks was holding the camera in the light looking at her recent picture.

"Are they any good?" Josh asked breaking the awkward silence. Brooks muttered something telling them to hold on for a second and then she started to jump up and down. The band was confused but couldn't help but laugh at her reaction.

"See photographers ultimate goal is to capture beauty right? So they stand there and tell people to say cheese and bring a fake smile to their face. That isn't capturing anything natural at all. So I started observing ways I can bring that beauty to humans faces when I take pictures of them. One thing I noticed is that people, especially guys, make this really naturally sensual face when they are just about to sneeze. Not the whole scrunching the nose thing but when they lean their head back and they have their mouth slightly open. Just look at these" Brooks holds out the camera to the puzzled boys and she is beaming. She looks like she just won the olympics. The boys look down and are surprised to see a really good picture of them.

"Wow" Tyler and Josh both simultaneously say.

"Mhhmmmm" Brooks hums as she still holds her big smile.

"C'mon we need to go outside!" She starts to jog out the cabin and the two boys follow after her.

The photoshoot was much longer than they thought and consisted of funny poses created by Brooks, some tree climbing and even some trespassing. The boys never met anyone like her.

A/N: The first part is based off of the interview linked above. Not trying to be mean to Tyler's dad or the interviewer! Just poking fun at the most awkward interview I've ever seen in my life haha