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tyler and joshie

It has been 3 whole years that Tyler has denied his feelings for Josh, and it took a stupid game of truth or dare for him to figure out how insanely real they were. Tyler wanted to believe that he was straight, but always had a hunch that even if he were, he could always be a little gay for Josh. Of course he'd never admit that to him or ANYONE else.

It always got a little boring on the bus. Usually, they went off and did their own thing. Josh got in his bunk on his laptop with his headphones watching God knows what. Doing God knows what. It's why Tyler never used the hand towel in the bathroom, because it always mysteriously disappeared when he was in there.The other guys would play on their phones, talk to girlfriends, nap, or eat. And Tyler would write, check social media, or play video games. But when all that got boring, they'd resort to childish games. Mark suggested a game of truth or dare, for old times' sake and everyone agreed because nostalgia.

After Jordan was dared to lick a chair seat, Michael was dared to snort crushed up captain crunch cereal, Mark was forced to admit if he used the hand towel like Tyler suspected (he did), and Josh was dared to press his bare chest to the window for traffic to see, it was Josh's turn to ask Tyler truth or dare. Tyler very stupidly chose dare, knowing he held too many secrets to pick truth. He figured Josh would probably go easy on him. Little did he know, dare would catch him anyway.

"I dare you to...kiss me." Josh finally said, grinning. Tyler gave him a look of surprise, jaw falling and everyone else laughed. Suddenly Tyler got paranoid, shifting uncomfortably. It shouldn't be a big deal, they were friends and it was just a dumb dare. It didn't mean anything.

"Ok, um...like, how? Where?" Tyler asked, shuffling closer to sit next to Josh. He felt a bit awkward with everyone watching.

"Just like, a regular peck you know? But on the mouth obviously, or it wouldn't be much of a dare now would it?" Josh joked. Tyler could seriously kill him right now.

"Dude, just do it. You're the one making this awkward!" Mark laughed, making Tyler feel a little called out. Tyler just wanted it to be special, his first kiss with Josh. He felt himself tearing up a little, but he tried not to show it.

"Ok, well here goes man, I'm gonna kiss you..." Tyler got ready, swallowing nervously. Josh held still and Tyler leaned in slowly, lips ghosting over Josh's. Josh closed his eyes and when it still didn't happen, he opened them.

"Um, what are you..." Josh started, confused.

"NO. I will NOT kiss you, not like this!!!" Tyler blurted. Then he got up and ran out of the room, stunning everyone. Josh looked at the other three, asking if they seen what the hell just happened.

"I don't know, maybe that was a bad dare?" Jordan wondered outloud.

"Yeah, he he was crying. I seen actual tears." Michael informed Josh.

"Oh shit. Shit shit shit...I'm going to go talk to him then." Josh said, and with that he got up and walked back to Tyler's bunk where he was laying inside. Josh could hear the sobs before pulling the curtain back and cringed. He felt so bad for putting Tyler through whatever he was going through.

"Dude...can you talk to me? Can I come in?" Josh asked quietly, knowing right now he had to be more sensitive. It obviously had to be serious.

"Mmhm. Yeah. Sure." Tyler mumbled, face pressed into his tear-stained pillow.

Josh carefully slid in next to him in the cramped space and pulled back the curtain for privacy. He put his hand on Tyler's shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze. His heart really hurt for his friend because it had to be something difficult.

"You can tell me, Tyler. Whatever it is. I won't judge you, was it that I dared you to kiss me?" Josh asked softly. Tyler stayed quiet and just nodded.