Stand By You (Troyler AU)

The Project

*super unedited*

-Time Skip Tuesday- (first day back to school)

Tyler sat swinging his legs from the counter of the bathroom humming the new song, Heaven, that he and Troye wrote as we waited for Troye in their usual spot. He noticed is reflection in the mirror his face looked a bit more colorful and the dark under his eyes was a bit diminished compared to the past weeks. Tyler's gaze moved to the small sliver wing that sat on top of his army green jumper. His mind clouded with thoughts of Troye. Everywhere he went he thought of Troye, and to be honest usually Troye was with him. Over the 2 weeks of winter break and the month that he had been talking to his new friend Tyler had be slowing getting better.

Thats not to say that his struggles were gone, Tyler almost never slept through the night. Usually -if Troye wasn't sleeping at his house- Tyler would call Troye or Troye would call Tyler and they would talk about everything and nothing until they drifted to sleep on the phone. It was nice, to have someone again. After you live though a toxic relationship it's hard to form new healthy ones and for Tyler, Troye was a breath of fresh air. A new beginning. Beth was gone, Korey was gone, but Troye was there. Tyler ran is fingers over the bumps on the charm smiling as he thought more and more about the boy who gave it to him. Troye and Tyler made a really great team, making up for the faults in one another. Not everyone noticed how well the two boys clicked.

"Tyler you won't believe it I went to the store to restock my kitchen" Tyler smiled as Troye burst through the door and started telling a story right away "and I walked down the isle and there on the shelf was...NOTHING" Troye pressed himself into wall dramatically and Tyler giggled

"There was nothing?" Tyler said in a questioning tone, confused by whatever Troye was saying. "Yea they were out of Nutella, how the fuck can you be out of Nutella" Troye said and Tyler laughed hopping down off the counter.

"Oh god" Tyler said dramatically rolling his eyes at Troye "whatever will you do without it, I think you might melt away, whiter into nothing. Poof, Troye Sivan Mellet gone forever" Tyler went on jokingly

"Oh fuck off" Troye said smiling at his best friend "anytime Troyeboy" Tyler said with a wink and Troye looked at him with wide eyes in horror at his statement. They made sexual jokes at each other occasionally but this was the first time Tyler was so open about it in school.

The boys walked down the hallway conversing lightly as they made their way to the drama room before class was supposed to start so that Tyler could load the final video onto youtube. Tyler tried to concentrate on his points about Gaga in Space but really all he could think about was how every so often Troye's hand would brush up against his own.

"So Hannah didn't mind finding someone to sing the song for us" Troye said breaking Tyler from his thoughts.

"No Hannah asked Zoe for me and then she asked her friends Conor Maynard and Melanie Martinez to sign and record it. I got the clips yesterday and its all edited and uploaded all we have to do is take the video off private" Tyler said pulling the door open for Troye to walk through as they took their usual seats.

Troye began to shake his leg nervously, this was the first time that another person was going to hear one of his poems. That night he and Tyler wrote it Troye quickly discovered that writing songs was just like writing a poem, it was just set to a melody. Suddenly Troye was self conscious about his work. What if the class didn't like it? what if making it known that he was gay publicly would make his life even worse? What if this song outed Tyler and Tyler regretted it? What if the class laughed at it? Troye could feel his breathing getting rapid as the thoughts bombarded his mind