In The Dark - {joshler au}

7. Free Period / Invite

"So, what'd you and Josh get to after I left?"

Tyler shrugged, tapping his pencil against his notebook as he leaned back against the wall. "Not much, really," he answered, stretching a bit. "We watched some more vine videos and then fell asleep. He left before I woke up."

Brendon laughed good naturedly as he turned completely sideways to face his friend. "Not so fun being on the receiving end of that action, is it?"

The brunette let out a soft laugh through his nose. "Shut up, you troll," he said, throwing a piece of torn paper at him. The two were currently sitting in their free period of the day, occupying the corner behind the two desks in the back of the room while the other seven people in his free period were strewn across the floor in the front as they gossiped with the teacher. Everyone in the school had an assigned free period classroom, and everyone had different free periods based on what extracurriculars they were or weren't taking. The two boys had athletics first period and band fifth period, so that landed their free period right before lunch.

Just as they were about to continue speaking, there was a knock on the door and in came their Vice Principal with Josh in tow behind him. "Sorry to interrupt," he said to Miss Brown, "this is Joshua Dun, this is where he's supposed to take his free period."

"Not a problem, Mr. Marnier," she answered, happily waving as the man left Josh standing at the front of the room. "So, Josh, this is your free period room. I don't care if you're on your phone, just put it up if someone comes in, and please don't be loud and disrespectful. Do you know anyone here?"

"Uh," Josh started, trailing off as he looked around before spotting two hands shoot up behind the desks in the corner. He immediately smiled and pointed to the two boys, nodding at Miss Brown. "Yeah, I'm good."

She nodded, going back to talking to the girls in the floor as Josh walked over to Brendon and Tyler. "Hey guys," he said as he plopped down on the floor next to them.

"What's up, J," Brendon said with a fist bump as the boy sat down. "We were just talking about you."

Josh raised an eyebrow, looking over to Tyler who was rolling his eyes. "Oh yeah? What about me?" He leant in, poorly whispering to the brunette through a smirk, "Is it about what your mom said?"

Brendon's attention immediately shifted to Tyler as he gave him a wide grin. "He met your mom? Oh my god, what happened?"

Tyler rolled his eyes again as he blushed gently. "My mom caught him trying to sneak out of my room so he didn't wake me up."

"Awe, how sweet," Brendon said, fawning dramatically.

"That's not what I was talking about, and you know it," Josh said, pointing at Tyler with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Brendon let out a laugh. "Oh god, what happened?"

Josh smirked, not looking away from the blushing brown eyed boy. "His mom thought we were sleeping together."

Brendon immediately sputtered out a laugh before burying his face in his arms as Tyler covered his face. "I hate both of you," he mumbled behind his hands. "This is bullying."

"God, Ty," Brendon said, shaking his head, "I can't believe your mom is so used to you sleeping around that she just assumes anyone who comes out of your room has had sex with you."

Josh smiled at the younger boy, cocking his head to the side. "How many people have you slept with?"

Tyler blushed again, shrugging his shoulders as he looked down at his lap. "I don't really keep count," he said. "I know it's more than ten, though."