PURITY

- twenty twø -

.:: chapter twenty two - tenderness ::.

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Joshua was in his bed, his back against the comfortable furniture, red blown eyes fixated on the roof as smoke left his mouth in rings. Next to him laying a small boy with wide brown doe-eyes, and the cutest freckled cheeks that started at the bridge of his nose and came down to the apples of his cheekbones. His doe eyes watching as Josh blew the rings out.

"You know, you're not that bad Joseph." Josh said out of the blue, flicking the end of the joint to let the ashes fall.

"You really think so." Tyler said meekly, moving to lay his head on Josh's chest, peering up at the older boy. The purity of his voice standing out against the vulgarity of Joshua's actions.

Josh took a drag from the drug, blowing it out and turning his face to look in those brown eyes he came to love.

"Before you, I hated life. I hated my parents, my school, my teachers... then you came around with your wide doe eyes, and freckled cheeks... Bambi, you made my living hell, heaven." Josh sincerely told the boy laying half on his chest.

A soft smile etched upon Tyler's face, his warm golden skin heating up as a heavenly blush stood out beneath the darkened sunspots. Leaning up, the brunet leaned up to place a gentle kiss to Joshua's jaw, leaving a smiling pink haired boy to fill up with joy.

With entertained hands Tyler began to drift off into a peaceful sleep, Josh running a finger over the pair of pink plump lips, the joint now put out in an ashtray so he could admire the sleeping beauty next to him. Leaning down, the older boy placed a loving kiss to Tyler's pouty lips. His thumbs running over the freckles he loved so much.

For once Joshua wasn't angry and mad, he was in pure bliss. The small boy on his chest bringing him so much joy just by his presence.

"I love you." Tyler whispered, a soft smile playing at his lips as Joshua's hand rested against his jaw.

"I love you more." Josh said with a similar smile on his face.

The brunet giggled and shook his head. "That's not possible." He said, and that's all it took for Josh to press his lips back to the brunet's. Loving the way the innocent boy smiled into the kiss, but still kept going.

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"Now that we have our house back, I figured we should do some remodeling since your mother completely destroyed the house while we were gone." Charlie spoke as he looked around at the house that had been spray painted, and stained.

Tyler nodded vigorously, and leaned into Joshua's chest, both of them taking a look at the house.

"And she said I was a bad person. All I did was spray paint one dick on the sidewalk, the fuck man." Josh mumbled making Tyler giggle. He understood what that word meant now.

Hanging out with Gerard and Ryan was either the best or worse thing to ever happen to Tyler.

"My sister works at a Homes Depot, I think I can get you a discount for paint." Travis said from where he stood underneath Tyler's fathers arm.

"That would be great, but if you can't do that, don't worry about it." Charlie responded, kissing Travis' cheek when he blushed.

Tyler watched with a happy smile on his face. He had never seen his father smile like that while with his mom, so seeing him happy instantly made him happy. Josh kissed Tyler's temple and led them out to the backyard. The pool was turning green from not being cared for, and that made Tyler frown a bit. Joshua must've saw because he was quick to jump in.

"I'll clean it for you, then maybe you and I can go skinny dipping." Josh winked. Tilting his head in confusion Tyler looked up at him with his lower lip between his teeth.

"What's skinny dipping?" He asked innocently.

"It's where we take all of our clothes off, and jump in a pool to swim, naked." Josh teasingly smiled, wiggling his eyebrows and making Tyler blush a vibrant red.

"Maybe if you're lucky." The brunet spoke softly, surprising Joshua to no end. He laughed at his small innocent boyfriend and leaned down to kiss his neck.

A gasp left Tyler's mouth as he spotted his favorite blue bird perched up in his regular spot. "Leo!" Tyler shouted, walking happily over to the bird and picking him up gracefully.

Leo let out a chirp in contentment and fluffed out his wings. The brunet giggled and walked back over to Joshua, showing him the little blue bird who was looking around the garden that was slowly beginning to die.

"Leo this is Joshie, my boyfriend. Joshie this is Leo, my birdie. Isn't he cute?" Tyler introduced, placing the bird directly onto his finger and lifting him up to show off to Joshua.

The small bird puffed out his chest, cocking his head to the side as he took in the older boy with pink hair.

"He's cute." Josh said, as if he wasn't terrified of the small bird that looked like he was about to claw out Josh's eyes.

Leo chirped and Tyler sat him on his shoulder, before walking to his garden, taking in the flowers that were slowly wilting away. He had worked so hard on growing all the flowers, fruits, and vegetables and now it was all ruined. Sure their may have been a chance to revive them, but the fact that they were pretty much dead made Tyler so sad.

Why did his mom try and take everything away from him? First his boyfriend, then his garden, and even his bird.

"Hey, Bambi, don't be sad. Think of it like this, now you can restart your garden, and I'll be here to help you. Instead of it just being your garden, it can be our garden. Something we accomplished together." Josh smiled, running his fingers through Tyler's fluffy brown hair with a smile.

"You know what, I'd really like that Joshie." He said back, pressing his lips gently to Joshua's, pulling back to bashfully smile.

No matter how many times Tyler had kissed Josh, it's still made him nervous till this day.

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Unedited.
shorter chapter 'cause i'm saving stuff to write for christmas eve as a christmas present. being that this book isn't exactly taking place in december, there will be no christmas until later on maybe...

also not sure if josh already met leo but if he did, just shhhhh pretend they didn't.

i have a few ideas for this book, plot twist wise, so we will be getting into that soon ;)

|-/ shay xx