Under The Covers {joshler}

junior year - part four

a/n: so there's smut in this chapter, and it's more descriptive than previous chapters so i'm gonna put a "🙈" symbol to preface it so you can skip it if you would prefer. :) also thank you so much for 22k+ reads that's actually insane i can't believe you like this fic that much!!

-x-

The last few weeks of summer break were spent with Tyler hanging out at Josh's house, at one point setting up a system where Tyler drove from his job at the church to where Josh worked at guitar centre, picking him up and going to taco bell. The pair then proceeded to climb to the roof of the Walmart and looked out at downtown Columbus while the sun set.

"I don't think I could ever get tired of this view." Josh sighed as Tyler put his head on his shoulder. He hummed in agreement as he shifted closer to get comfortable.

"Do you ever think we could go on a real date?" Josh said cautiously after a long content silence. Tyler looked up then, moving his head off Josh.

"You mean, Taco Bell and sunsets aren't romantic enough for you?" Tyler gasped in fake shock. Josh rolled his eyes shoving Tyler playfully.

"You know what I mean. Something cute and different and special." Josh blushed looking down at his lap, suddenly fiddling with their leftover wrappers deciding he would clean up the mess but Tyler stopped him by placing his hand on his arm.

"We may not be able to go on many proper dates in Columbus in case people we know see us." Tyler warned, his eyes sad, and Josh just nodded sadly looking down again.

Suddenly Tyler was pulling his face back up and pressing their lips together sweetly. There were those three words again, the ones he kept having to swallow back before they spilled out and made a mess everywhere.

"We'll figure something out." Tyler promised as they pulled away and Josh's face lit up in a smile before he kissed Tyler again under the orange glow of the sky.

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"Ty, where are you taking me?" Josh laughed fingers tracing over the fabric tied around Josh's head covering his eyes (one of Tyler's dad's old ties that he wouldn't miss for the day).

"You said you wanted a date, and well this place is kinda out of the way so no hiding, just us." Tyler smiled as he guided Josh forward, once they were inside the building he removed the blindfold from over Josh's eyes.

There wasn't much there for a minute, but the noise told Josh there were animals somewhere in the building. Just a front desk and lots of animal adoption posters and suddenly Josh's heart stopped.

Jenna smiled up at Josh and he had to do a double take to make sure it was her.

"Jenna you work here?"

"Yep! Now come on your surprise is back here." She squealed excitedly before grabbing his wrist and practically dragging him down the hallway to a room, Tyler following behind.

"Ta Dah!" Jenna smiled with dramatic jazz hands as she gestured to the room. The room was a big square with two sides acting like a small walk around, the rest was walled off to Josh's waist, the walls made of Perspex so that if knelt you could still see inside the pen. Running around inside the pen was fifteen kittens (maybe more it was hard to count as the little balls of fluff ran around) playing with toys left out and bounding over the padded floor some knocking each other in their excitement to get to the glass to see the visitors.

Josh looked at Tyler in disbelief then to Jenna waiting for an explanation.

"C-can i pet them?" Josh said finally crawling down to look at the tiny creatures through the glass, pressing his fingers up to the Perspex where their tiny paws were pressed against it. He laughed at their tiny meows.