Stand By You (Troyler AU)

Drop It

The door of the cast room closed with a muffled thump and Troye starred at the door trying to figure out what exactly he was supposed to do. This boy, Tyler, he seemed so fragile- so bruised. Troye felt his heart thudding in his chest, he knew how it felt to feel fragile and easily bruised. Troye was weak himself, recovering from his old ways, he was 2 months clean but he was fragile and today at lunch he almost gave up. But Tyler stopped him from doing something he would surly have regretted. He looked down in his poem notebook at the words written on the page 'your touch my comfort and my lullaby' he felt warmth on his skin as he thought about Tyler holding him tightly.

Troye walked down the hall trying to look as calm as possible as he scanned the halls for any sign of Tyler. Troye knew where Tyler would be and hurried off to the far away bathroom. He walked through the door and immediately heard the sounds of coughing and sniffles. "Um Tyler" He walked in front of the middle stall "Go away Troye"

Troye placed his hand on the stall door "Tyler let me in" Troye waited hoping that Tyler would open the door. "I said to go Troye. Just go." Troye didn't want to leave Tyler but he also didn't want to push him. Troye waited a few more minutes in the quiet and he continued to hear Tyler's crying "P-please just go" Troye heard Tyler whisper.

Troye felt utterly torn he didn't want to leave, he wanted to comfort Tyler like Tyler comforted him. "I'll just wait" he whispered in response. Troye sat on the counter next to the sinks waiting and trying to decide what to do next. He didn't know what he was doing, he barely knew Tyler and here he was waiting outside a bathroom stall for him to come out. All he knew about Tyler was just that, his name, and that he wore black Vans. That didn't really bother him though as he waited for Tyler to reappear from the stall.

Tyler stood up in the stall and used the bottom of his shirt to wipe his eyes. He knew that he probably looked like a mess and the last thing he wanted to do was to go to the rest of his classes or see Troye, who was clearly still outside the stall. He took at deep breath and closed his eyes 'you can do this, keep it together' he thought to himself as he opened the stall. He was greeted immediately by Troye's concerned eyes 'keep it together, you can do this you can do it' he walked over to the sink and washed his hands not daring to meet his own reflection in front of him. "Tyler are you um..alright" Tyler hummed and nodded his head 'you can do this, you can, you can' . "why won't you look at me" Troye said. Tyler closed his eyes and stood in front of the sink before he turned to look at Troye. 'you can do this, you can keep it together, you..you..you can't do this'

Tyler felt is eyes watering as Troye looked at him and he found himself searching for something to say to break the silence. "Are you okay" Tyler blinked a few times willing the tears to disappear "I will be fine, lets talk about something else" Tyler said

Troye rolled his eyes and plopped down off the counter to stand next to Tyler "You're not going to make this easy are you" Troye rested his hand on Tyler's shoulder.

Tyler turned to face Troye as he brushed Troye's hand away "You don't know what your getting yourself into. Just drop it" Tyler glared at Troye and he watched as Troye smiled slightly and walked towards the bathroom door "Well I'm not going anywhere so get used to it Ty" Tyler furrowed his eyebrows at Troye "Get used to what" Troye reached forwards and grabbed his hand "Me NOT dropping it" Troye stated as he pulled Tyler back towards the Drama room

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Tyler grumbled as Troye tugged him down the hall. He was pissed, he wanted to know why this stupid, annoy, beautiful boy would not leave him alone. He paused his thoughts 'beautiful' he thought 'he is awfully beautiful too beautiful for me, his perfection would be wasted on me' Tyler slumped and tore his wrist from Troye's grasp and watched as the boy turned around shocked "I said to go away Troye" Troye turned to face Tyler "And I said that I'm not dropping the subject"

Tyler felt the anger start to boil "Why the fuck do you even care! I just met you 45 minutes ago and you were a crying mess! What the world makes you believe that you are entitled to my business"

Troye's small smile fell and he lowed his gaze "I-I just thought that b-because you helped me I should help you too. I don't really know how this whole friend thing works but I thought maybe you needed a friend" Troye could feel the tears in his eyes and the familiar feeling of numbness mixed with hatred bubbling in his body

"Listen Troye I don't know whats up in your life but I'm pretty fucked up. I can't even deal with it so I'm not going to put my struggles on someone else. If you want to be friends thats fine, in fact I think that would be nice. But for now, whats mine is mine" Troye looked up at Tyler and he didn't really know what to say but he knew one thing, he meant what he said- there was no way he was dropping it.

"Fine. Its a deal" Troye said and Tyler chuckled "Friendships aren't a deal Troye but hey sounds like a good deal to me"

Troye had the desire to know all about Tyler. To know about his life and family, but most of all to learn about the parts of him that Tyler kept hidden. He wanted to know his shoe size and how Tyler's fingers felt interlocked with his own. He wanted to know what number hair die he used and how he got his hair so perfect. Troye could feel his heart beating rapidly. He was shocked and scared of these thoughts in his head. He didn't understand were the desire came from, all of these feelings were so new to him. He hadn't had a friend since sixth grade with two kids in his class Kayla and Blessing. Troye couldn't recall how he felt when he was around them but he did remember caring about them, and he felt that same vague nostalgia when he thought about Tyler. 

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A/N: 

Okay for real this is the last update until next weekend 

Troye's going to be on Ellen and I can't cope 

WTF is his life, he was literally a smol bean making videos about green screen paint and now he is going to be on Ellen...just like Tyler. Also Tyler tweeted Troye...progress people progress!! 

Okay bye finally 

Good Luck with your life 

Katie :)