Intimidation ♡ joshler

thirty nine

Tyler knocks on Jay's door, waiting for permission to come in before entering, closing the door behind him again.  Jay's sitting against the wall on his bed, an earbud out of his ear as he listens to music, and the younger boy smiles and pats the bed next to him.  

"Hey, what are you listening to?" Tyler asks, and Jay just shows him the MP3 player, "How do you pronounce that?"

"I don't know, I just call him X," Jay answers, smiling to his brother, "I don't think you'd like him, though."

Tyler tilts his head to the side a little, "Why not?"

"Trap—you just listen to bands, don't you?"

"Not necessarily, I can enjoy some of the stuff on the radio sometimes," Tyler answers, glancing around his surroundings.  It's nothing much, but there's a few drawings of action characters.  He doesn't recognize some of them, but there's a lot of Goku, and Naruto.  

"Do you wanna listen?" Jay offers, and Tyler nods, taking the earbud when it's handed to him, pushing it into his ear as Jay speaks again, "How's life?"

"It's alright, I guess," Tyler shrugs, smiling to his younger brother, "What about you, Jay?"

"Mom and Dad are kinda mad at me," Jay laughs, "We don't go to church anymore because of me!"

Tyler laughs a little as well, "Mads told me, what exactly have you been doing in church?"

"All sorts of things," Jay answers before bursting out in laughter, "Last time we went, we had communion and I announced that I was just there for the bread and juice, and that I would like to thank Jesus Christ for the meal—I think that pissed everyone off."

Tyler laughs at his dumb ass brother, shaking his head as he tries to calm himself down, "Oh my God, Jay, what made you think that was a good idea? That's blasphemy, Jay."

"I had to entertain myself somehow," is Jay's excuse, and it's definitely a bad one, but this is Jay, and Jay honestly isn't known to have a lot of common sense.

They both just sit there for a moment, listening to Jay's music—and honestly, it's pretty good, Tyler found himself getting into it.

"You might not wanna hear this, but Mom and Dad didn't really want you over; me and Maddy agreed to get less gifts so you could come over," Jay starts, smiling over at his brother again, "But that's okay, we're definitely okay with that."

The confession gives Tyler mixed emotions again, because it's so sweet of them to give up presents just to see him again, but it just not right—they shouldn't have to do that just to see their brother, especially if he hasn't even done anything wrong.  

Their parents are so fucking selfish.

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