the highway boy // a jyler fanfiction

Nine

So I put this book on hold for a while (like, a whileeee) but I promise there will be an explanation at the end of the chapter! And btw thank you for 3k reads!! and 666 reads on chapter one👀 Here's chapter 9;

Tyler's P.O.V

Columbus, Columbus Ohio. A beautiful city really, especially during the later hours of the day. There was a highway, and this highway had a certain 'place', right off of it. It used to be a drive in movie theater, but there's hardly any of that left. It's more of just an open space right off the highway, well not a very busy highway but still a highway. I thought this would be the perfect place to take Jenna, we both had a meaningful connection to the highway and I wanted her to see the beautiful sight of Columbus at night, which you could from this spot. I had packed a picnic, even though it may get quite dark soon. I packed all of her favorite foods, in which I came up with a master plan to find out. I asked Josh, to ask Debby, to ask Jenna, what her favorite foods were, but play it off as if it were something Debby needed to know. Lots of asking but, it worked, and I have to admit, I was pretty proud of myself.  I pulled onto the spot, earning a confused, yet excited, look from Jenna.

"Tyler, this is beautiful...but what is it"

"It's a spot, I always come here. It used to be a drive in movie theater, but they closed that down. Probably because it was an odd place to have one. But you can see all of Columbus from here, it really is beautiful though isn't it?"

"It really is" Jenna said, looking around her in awe. I began to set a picnic blanket and the picnic basket I found deep in my moms basement.

"A picnic?"

"Yes, it's a little late for a picnic I know, but I wanted to bring you here"

Jenna just smiled and sat down in response.

"When do you think the starts will come out?" She asked as I grabbed some extra blankets from my car.

"Not for some time, considering the nights are longer in the summer, but we can always stay here until they do"

"We can? I'd love to see the stars from here, they've always been quite important to me. I think there mother earths pearls, the shining diamonds in a sea of black night"

"Yeah, there're beautiful aren't they?"

"The most beautiful things in the world"

No, the most beautiful thing in the world is Jenna, I thought to myself.

I gazed at her for a moment, her blonde hair in light beach waves blowing in the breeze, the sunlight hitting her eyes to make them somehow even brighter. And, oh that smile seemed to be the happiest thing in the world, a genuine smile. I noticed that I, too, wore a genuine smile that night. This was a rare occasion for me, as most of my smiles hurt my jaw. Hurt it because in order to hide all the hurt inside, you must smile so hard it hurts outside. But this, this grin I wore on my face, was genuine and happy. Because of her.

I set the blanket down and we began to talk about the stars, about our childhoods, jenna even told me that when she was young she would climb the big tree in her front yard just so she could see the sun disappear and the moon appear every evening. We even talked about what our lives were like on that day on the highway. Both of us were in bad places at the time, making the experience all the more impactful. Eventually, all the sandwiches were finished and even the desserts which I learned from Debby that Jenna loved. The time had flown by quickly with conversations and soon enough the stars were out. As Jenna looked upon the twinkling sky I began to fall harder and faster for the stargazing highway girl, and all I wanted to do was dance with her. So, I peeped up, and asked in a small voice if she'd like to.

We danced slowly on the small edge off the highway in Columbus and I hummed a certain Elvis song that described perfectly my heart at that exact moment. And, what I realized that night was that this, is what I wanted, I wanted to be dancing under a star lit sky with this girl, with this beautiful girl. This. This is all I wanted.

AN/
Anndddd she comes back with a short and crappy chapter:)))

Aaah, so, this book has been on hold for moths and I bet lots of my readers completely forgot about it and me and that's totally understandable. Basically this book was something I did in my free time as a way to get out any creative juices I had. Sadly, recently my free time has been getting eaten up by school, stress, and anxiety...yay. And basically the book became a chore for me, so much so until I decided I just need to put it on hold until I could actually write again. I had no idea when I was going to again but for some reason I just decided I would finish this chapter even though it's 12:30ish and I have to get up at 5:30 am tomorrow morning... but yeha basically that's my sorry excuse, but hey, I'm back and I'm not gonna make you all wait so long next time and hopefully the next chapter won't be so short and bad😬

ALSO!! before I go, I want to give a little shoutout to skeIetonfren who was a very supportive reader and overall kind person  and her comments helped get me to write again, and especially PiaPeachy who has been so so sweet and nice to me for a while and her comments definitely helped me to write again as well:) You guys should all check our all of their books, they're amazing
-Haven