𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒ ᰔᩚ 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒉 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓 𝒙 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓

✮⋆˙𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚˙⋆✮

MORNING: 8:37AM

----- JAXSON POV -----

I woke up with Josh's arms around me and my arms latching onto him like a little kid. My face turned bright red. I slipped out of his arms and changed my outfit. My outfit was simple. A black tube top with camo cargo pants. I attached my knife and gun holders and walked to a Cinnabon for breakfast. Angelica and Ms Crumble were already there. Ms. Crumble was playing with her doll heads while Angelica scarfed down a cinnamon roll.

"Morning Angelica, Morning.. Ms Crumble."

I gave them a friendly smile before grabbing a cinnamon roll and started eating. I figured I could go out with Josh or Wes today and kill some ghoulies. Once I had finished eating, I went to see who was awake. Both Josh and Wesley were already up, so they both tagged along. We ventured out into old abandoned places we knew would be crawling with ghoulish, not actual people. We couldn't afford a run-in with another tribe. I took out a blade that had the letters J.D. carved into it. My foster dad gave it to me before the apocolypse. Josh and Wes had their swords, and we went nuts. By midday, we had killed at least 10 ghoulies each. Wes was pretty tired, and I had a huge bite on my forearm that needed cleaning.

"Hey, Josh, we're going back to the mall. Come on!"

"Josh? Josh, come on, that's not funny. Get up!"

He laid there, limp.

"Josh, oh my god!"

----- TIME SKIP: 7:42PM -----

Wesley and I brought Josh to a quiet room where he figured out why he was unconscious. An arrow, buldging from his lower abdomen. The one person who came to mind, Turbo Pokaski. Josh had left to find something to sharpen his knife with, and we never realized he didn't come back. Turbo must've done it then. Wesley removed the arrow from Josh's abdomen, and I cleaned his wounds. I stayed in the room with Josh so he wouldn't be alone when he woke up, but Wes went to go hang with Eli. It got boring in there pretty quick, so I laid down next to Josh and went to sleep.

----- JOSH POV -----

I woke up to a sharp pain in my abdomen. I didn't have a shirt on, just a blanket and a bandage on what looked to be a hole in my chest. Before I even moved, I felt a pair of arms wrapping around me. Jaxson. I decided to savor this moment and just lay there. No one knows, but I've loved her since 4th grade. She can't know, she won't know, I can't ruin our friendship.
It was around 11 p.m., so I turned over and woke up Jaxson.

"Hmmm?"

I heard her groaning as I nudged her a little on the shoulder.

"Hey, wanna go get dinner with me?"

"Mhmm....."

I couldn't help but laugh. She seemed so tired, it was honestly adorable.

----- JAXSON POV -----

Josh woke me up to get something to eat. Half asleep, I obliged. I tiredly helped him walk to a vending machine right outside his room. I broke the glass of it with my elbow and handed him a bag of chips.

"Enjoy, I'm going to sleep again."

"Thank you, Jaxson!"

He gave me a silly little wave, and I reciprocated, sending a tiresome wave back to him. As I walked back into the room him and I had previously slept in, I grabbed a random blanket and huddled up on the bedside closest to the wall. I didn't really go to sleep, I just laid there with my eyes closed. I liked it more than sleeping, for some reason. After about 10 minutes of laying there, I felt someone lay down, followed by a painful moan. It was probably Josh going back to bed. I was shocked when I felt his arms wrap around me and his neck nuzzle into mine. I didn't care. It was comfortable, and it reminded me of when we were kids. I had nightmares during our sleepovers, and he'd do this to help me sleep. Without even realizing it, I was turning around to face him, burying my face in his chest.

"Goodnight, Jaxson. ᴵ ˡᵒᵛᵉ ʸᵒᵘ "

The words barely escaped his mouth, but I could feel my face getting hot.

"...I, I love you too, Josh."

His grip on me tightened, and the two of us fell asleep in each other's embrace.