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"I'm so sorry Brendon, i thought you were drunk." I hugged my best friend.
"Well, I was a little drunk, but that doesn't matter."
We laughed.
"Do you want to go get some ice cream?" I asked.
"Yeah, okay, I'll go get my wallet."
"It's on me."
"I would usually say no, but who can see no to free ice cream?" He beamed.
It took ten minutes to walk there.
"What flavor, Brendon?"
"Hey, isn't that Melanie Martinez? And she's withTyler."
"Oh wow, I guess she is."
Just then, Ashley Frangipane walked out from behind the ice cream shop and kissed both Melanie and Tyler on the cheek.
They blushed so much that they looked like two tomatoes.
They walked away from the shop and towards the park, ice creams in hand, except for Tyler whom was quite frankly, ice cream-less.
I didn't know that Tyler was friends with them two.
I shrugged it off and bought us ice creams.
"Hey Josh,"
"Yeah?"
"Do you wanna go down to the lake and scare the hell out of Tyler?"
"That's mean."
"I know. But he's our friend, and it's only scaring him from behind."
"Okay, that'll be funny, I guess."
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"Ask him out, Tyler! Before I do it for you." Ashley said.
I didn't know Tyler was gay. I guess I'm learning a lot about him from spying on their friend-date.
Brendon was the first to come out from behind the tree in which we were hiding from them.
Melanie, however noticed and Brendon put up a finger to his lips.
Ashley looked up, and saw Brendon, than quickly looked the other way to not draw Tyler's attention.
I snuck up behind Brendon, and we slowly tip toed across the grass and toward their table.
Then, the almighty 'boo'.
Tyler didn't flinch. Instead he just turned around.
"I could hear you guys." He stated blankly.
"That was your fault, Josh." Brendon said.
"No way, you were in front of me."
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We ended up sitting down on a picnic table with them and we exchanged kik usernames.
I looked down and noticed Tyler had a rubber band on his wrist.
One arm was wrapped in a bandage as it was too hot for a jumper, and he was playing with it.
"What's with the rubber band?" I asked.
"Oh. I uh, I -I have to uh go to the bathroom."
He got up and ran to the public bathroom, Melanie following.
"Melanie, you're going into the guys bathroom!" Brendon called.
"I don't give a fuck!" She yelled back.
"What just happened?" I asked Ashley.
"Tyler's a really sweet guy, you know." She sighed.
Brendon and I nodded.
"All I did was ask him about his rubber band."
"He has a reason for that, you know."
"What?"
"The rubber band. Mel and I have one, too." She said, showing me her left wrist.
"Okay." Brendon said.
"You snap it, then clap your hands when you feel like self harming. It gives you a burning sensation for thirty seconds, and it doesn't leave a mark."
We nodded.
"Wait, Tyler self harms?" Brendon asked.
"Yeah." Ashley and I say simultaneously.
;from my perspective, it looked like blood.;
oh.
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After five minutes, Melanie and Tyler came back and all five of us talked like nothing happened.
I liked Melanie and Ashley.
Tyler's phone was buzzing.
"Tyler, your dads calling." Ashley told him, looking at his phone screen.
His eyes widened in what seemed like pain.
"Shit." He whispered.
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