Stand By You (Troyler AU)

Close to You

         

—week later—

*so so so unedited yikes*

The bath bomb made a plop sound as it dunked into the warm bath water and Tyler watched the orange and red colors seep out of the epicenter and leave in colored strands into the once-clear bath water. It was quite mesmerizing to watch as the colored ball got small and small. He made a short snapchat video of the chemical reaction happening and added it to his story. He had gained a lot of follows across all his social media since the school year ended. And the people who followed him on snapchat liked the random things he posted every once and a while.

He was enjoying his relaxing quiet day. His parents were at work and his siblings were at camp for the day, or at daycare. Jackie was a avid believer in keeping her kids active over the summer months. Even Troye was out and about today, at work of course, he took Tyler's car and drove himself. He was insistent upon the fact that he wanted to take himself today.

Tyler sighed as he settled in the water. The lights were dimmed and he had his laptop perched on the toilet so that he could watch RuPaul's Drag Race comfortably from his position. He was disappointed in himself for waiting so long to choose to settle into a nice bath, surly Jackie would return soon with the loud kids and Troye would be coming back any minute...actually Troye was already late. Tyler didn't mind though, he was probably chatting with Connor as usual.

The bathroom smelt of citrus and fire from the one burning candle he placed on the sink. He hadn't been this relaxed in a while. He and Troye had finally gotten over last week and they were moving on in therapy and in life in general. Yes Troye overreacted but he was just caught of guard and he apologized. 

"Tyler?" a familiar voice called out not long after he had gotten comfortable. "In here" Tyler called, knowing that it was Troye, home from his day at the diner. What Tyler was not expecting however was for Troye to walk into the bathroom and lean himself in the doorway.

"Hi Babe" Troye said with a smile "How was your day?" he asked with his arms folded across his chest. Tyler blushed, extremely self aware of the fact that he was not wearing any clothes and sitting in the bath while Troye was a few feet away.

"Quiet, how was yours?" Tyler said trying to subtly sink deeper into the water

"Long as hell, Connor is driving me crazy this week. How long have you been in there?" Troye asked

"Not long but I'm gonna get out now, we can go to the mall or something" Tyler said

Troye giggled "or I could join you, looks relaxing over there"

"Oh..um...are you sure?" Tyler said nervously

Troye stood up straight "only if you want, I can sit across or behind you...whatever makes you comfortable...unless you don't want to at all" Troye said

"No, no you can..." Tyler said looking at the swirling colors in the water. "I'm a little nervous" Tyler said

"Tyler...I was just wondering, I can go down stairs and cook us dinner and you can come down when you're done. I don't want you to feel like I'm pressuring you"

"No Troye you...you can, I want you to" Tyler said bending his legs slightly so there was room across from him for Troye to sit, Tyler thankful that he had a large soaking tub so both of them could fit in basically any position (A/n: wink wink). Troye nodded and walked into the bathroom more, closing the door behind him and pulling his jumper off his body. The bruises that he was worried about had faded and could only be seen if someone looked for them.