I'm best friends with my doubt

The First Meeting

Tyler sat leaning back against the tree, staring down at the notebook in his hands. He had been sitting there for hours trying to finish the song he had started but he had been having trouble.

"I don't know why I feed on emotion. There's a stomach inside my brain. I don't wanna be heard... I wanna be listened to?" He muttered to himself before writing it down in his notebook. "That sounds okay, I think." He then sighed and let his head fall backwards to hit the tree.

Then a sudden crash echoed through the small forest. Tyler looked up to see a boy with fiery red hair emerge from the trees. He was panting and out of breath. Tyler vaguely recognised him, he had seen him around school but he had never taken the time to talk to him since they ran with different groups. It seemed like the red haired boy hadn't noticed Tyler, sitting against a tree, sunken to the ground.

"Uh, hi." Tyler said to both his and the other boys surprise.

The other boy's eyes widened in surprise and that was when Tyler noticed the colour of his eyes, they were brown like his own but they seemed to be warm and so friendly. Tyler couldn't look away, he had always thought brown eyes to be boring but these eyes were beautiful. The only reason he realised he had been staring at the deep mocha eyes was because the other boy cleared his throat.

'I really need to find out his name,'  Tyler thought to himself as he finally dragged his gaze away.

    "Hey... have I, uh, seen you at school before..?" the boy asked Tyler. Tyler nodded slowly, pulling himself off the ground. "I'm Josh." Josh stuck his hand out for Tyler to shake. Tyler was taken aback by this, as nobody shakes hands anymore. Nonetheless, he shook Josh's hand.

"Hey Josh, I'm Tyler." He introduced himself before running out of things to say. Thankfully Josh spoke before it got too awkward.

"So what are you doing out here?" The redhead asked pushing his hands into the pockets of the jacket he was wearing.

"Oh, errm, I came out here because it's quiet." He answered, not mentioning his writing. "What about you?"

"Oh, I just wanted to go for a run." Josh grinned and Tyler raised his eyebrow, he wasn't exactly dressed for running but he decided to leave it alone since he hadn't exactly told the whole truth himself.

"That's, errm, cool I guess." Tyler looked down at his feet wondering what he should say before it got awkward.

Tyler went to go sit down where he was earlier and he was surprised to see that Josh had followed him and sat down right next to him

He picked up the notebook that he had dropped earlier when he first saw Josh and close it so that his writing was hidden from view. They were sitting there for about five minutes and even though they hadn't spoke since they sat down it wasn't awkward between the two of them. It felt like they had know each other for years instead of it being just minutes.

Tyler had never felt this comfortable with someone before, where they could just sit together in silence without trying to force conversation. Even with his family he felt like he was forced to speak to them.

The two of them still hadn't talked and the sun was beginning to go down, so they both stood up and even though they hadn't they hadn't discussed it, Josh walked Tyler back to his house.

No matter how hard he tried to think of something to say nothing came to mind. Every time he thought of something to say he met the beautiful eyes staring back at him and his mind would go blank.  Josh obviously had no idea what to say either as he stood in front of Tyler, shifting from foot to foot nervously.

"Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow?" Josh asked and that caused Tyler's heart to jolt, he had forgotten that he would see Josh at school.

"Yeah, see you tomorrow Josh." Tyler smiled at Josh and the smile he got in return was glorious.