alive / joseph | ✔️

| n i n e |

as tyler and i walked down the sidewalk, hand in hand, tyler got a call from josh.

"hello?" tyler spoke into the phone. i tried to make shapes out of the clouds as i listened to him. but he caught me off guard when he let go of my hand and stopped dead in his tracks.

"you just left the hospital?! what happened? please tell me you're okay!" tyler exclaimed, worry laced in his voice. my eyes grew wide as i gasped and threw my hand over my mouth.

he let out a sigh of relief and started walking again. at least that eased my worry.

"ok, well, just tell me the story when we get there. we'll be there in ten minutes. bye jish," tyler said before ending the call. he didn't say anything though, he just grabbed my hand. i started at him with a blank expression.

"what?" he laughed. i rolled my eyes and mentally face palmed myself.

"tell me what happened!!" i shouted, not in a necessarily angry way, though. he raised his eyebrows in realization and chuckled.

"well, brooke, his girlfriend, got drunk once again. but this time she fell and hit her head on her kitchen table. according to josh, she was bleeding pretty bad but she was laughing about it. so he took her to the hospital. he said he would tell us the rest at the coffee shop, which is where we're going right now," he smiled. i only nodded my head.

after ten or so minutes later, we arrived at the coffee shop and greeted josh at the same table that we sat at the first time we were all here together.

man, that day was amazing. i met the two greatest people in my life, and little did i know, they would become my best friends.

"hey guys," josh smiled at us as we sat down in the booth across from him. i raised an eyebrow at him, giving him a look.

"josh, you don't seem too upset that you just had to take your girlfriend to the hospital," i chuckled. he shook his head,m with a smile still on his face.

"wellll, about that..." he started, looking between me and tyler before continuing. "i broke up with brooke," he said, and grinned that cute little grin of his.

tyler laughed and gave josh a high five. i stared at josh, trying to comprehend why he was so happy.

"i need more information," i said lowly, narrowing my eyes. he chuckled and nodded.

"well, brooke and i got together about six months ago. it wasn't bad at first, actually it was great. but about a month into our relationship, i would get calls from her everyday saying that she was drunk at a club and that i needed to come pick her up. it got really annoying. so finally, after today when i had to leave you guys to go take her drunk ass to the hospital, i realized that i was done with with her shit," he said, seeming proud of himself. (DUN with her shit aha ok lol bye)

i chuckled lightly. "i understand why you broke up with her. she sounds like a real fucktard just by the sounds of her," i laughed. tyler cleared his throats and looked at me out of the corner of his eye before turning to me.

"i prefer the word dipcrap over fucktard," he said, shaking his head disapprovingly. i chuckled and grabbed his hand under the table.

tyler's phone rang once again, but this time, the call was from his mom.

"hi mother mom," he answered with a cheeky smile and wiggles his eyebrows at me.

"oh my god," i muttered under my breath and looked at josh. he giggled, and it was an adorable giggle.

"ok sure, i'll be there in thirty minutes," he said before ending the call. he looked over and me and smirked. "i need out," he said before motioning for me to move. i rolled my eyes and got up.

"my mom wants me to go help her and my dad inbox some things they got from a yard sale today, i'll see you later," he said before leaning in, causing the familiar bubbles of excitement to form in the pit of my stomach.

finally, after what felt like forever, our lips met and an explosion of butterflies erupted in my stomach for the third time today. he pulled away and smiled at me before leaving the shop.

i turned to josh to see a look of utter shock covering his face. "i-is there something i need to know? did i miss something? SPILL!" he yelled, causing the few other people in the shop to look our way.

"josh, stop, you're making a scene," i whispered with a chuckle. he shook his head rapidly with a huge grin on his face once again.

"but it all started earlier today when tyler took me to a beautiful forest..."

lol this story is going way too fast but it's ok because there's only like two or so chapters left. haha

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