It's Complicated (Troyler)

Silent Treatment

*Troye's POV*

I face-planted into the pillow and tried to contain my silent sobs. It was crazy how oblivious to my feelings Tyler could be. I mean, obviously he knew how I felt toward him, but he had no idea how crazy little things drove me. Like how easily he could refer to me as just a friend or how he didn't even bother to question my lie about allergies. Either he's a royal idiot or he just doesn't care. I sigh, disappointed in myself for hoping for the first before the second. I'd rather have an idiot than no one at all.

"Fuck." I whispered, wiping the tears away with the back of my hand. Also what kind of stupid idiot answers there phone while they're intimate? Especially if they know the person calling is hopelessly in love with them! I ball my fists up and pull the blankets so high they cover my tear-stained face. At least when I'm asleep I don't have to worry about how Tyler stupid Oakley feels toward me.

A few more awkward days around the house and I already found myself stepping out of the airport in San Francisco. Steele and I still weren't exactly on good terms but we were speaking now. Despite my heart-breaking experience the other night I still stood strong by my opinion that Tyler was a good guy. I mean, he definitely was, he just made a lot of mistakes.

"Daydreaming about that loser again, huh?" Steele laughed, kicking an empty can off the sidewalk and into an alley. I shrug instead of replying but Steele knows me well enough to know what that means.

"Listen, I still don't like the little bugger. As far as I'm concerned he's nothing more than a heartless pest, but for your sake I have decided to at least pretend to be civil. No name-calling and hair-pulling. But you have to open up to me more and stop treating me like an enemy, deal?" I shrug, staring at the sidewalk. Normally by now I'd be bursting at the seems with energy and nervousness but today it wasn't the same. I was still excited to see Tyler, of course, but a gloominess hung over me that I didn't think anyone would be able to fix.

"Hey!" I heard a familiar voice scream behind me and turned just in time to be nearly knocked off my feet by Tyler's bear hug.

"I missed you so much. Did you grow even taller? Not cool." He cackled, looking up at me with starry eyes. I was totally wrong. My gloominess was completely fixable. In fact, I think it was already gone.

"I missed you too." I mumbled awkwardly. Tyler made an annoyed face and wrapped an arm around my waist.

"Don't get all nervous around me all over again you twink. You've been fine over video chat and it's no different." I looked over my shoulder and gave Connor a sympathetic smile considering I wasn't going to be able to give him a proper greeting with Tyler dragging me along.

"I'm not nervous." I laugh, trying to peel Tyler away from me. It's not that I didn't like the physical contact, but the death stare I was getting from Steele made it more awkward than enjoyable.

"Really?" Tyler asked, pausing to put a hand on my chest, "Because your heart's beating 300 miles per hour." I smirked at his over-exaggerating.

"I'm sorry not everyone can be as flawless and confident as you are." Tyler gave a big cheeky smile and pretended to flip his hair over his shoulder.

"Well, what can I say. I'm fabulous!" He cheered, striking a pose in the middle of the crowded street. I grabbed his arm and pulled him back to me with a scowl.

"Stop it, you're embarrassing me." I laugh, shoving my hands in my pockets. I'd meant to look annoyed with him but I found a smile tugging at the corners of my mouth that made that pretty difficult.

"Oh shut-up, you love it." He cackles, leaning into me. I felt like I could feel Steele's eyes burning into my back, but at this point I'd given up on keeping Tyler under control. If there's one thing I'd learned about Tyler it was that he wasn't one to be told what to do. 

"Tyler, are we gonna do that thing or?" Connor mumbled, skipping to catch up to us. Tyler raised an eyebrow at him and then a smile spread across his face.

"Oh yeah, Connor's been complaining about being hungry since we got on the plane, you guys don't mind getting something to eat right?" He only looked at me for permission, ignoring Steele completely. I'd never seen Tyler deal with someone who didn't like him before, seeing as most people normally did. It was very similar to how he treated me when we were fighting, the silent treatment.

"Nah, we haven't eaten anything yet either, right Steele?" Steele made a grunt noise and rushed to catch up with the rest of us. I noticed the way Tyler instinctively moved closer to me like he was nervous and smiled. 

"Great because I was going to go regardless, but good to know you guys are gonna join. It's this really cool little place that does trivia every night. You'll love it!" He gushed, skipping ahead to look into the display window of a shop. I still couldn't get over how childish he was compared to me, despite the fact he was way older. It could be annoying at times but overall it was relieving to be around someone with such a cheerful demeanor. 

"You're staring." Tyler cooed, slapping his ass in a teasing manner. I made a big deal of rolling my eyes dramatically in response. He then returned to examining the contents of the display window he was next to. I snuck a peek in Steele's direction to see his reaction to Tyler's flirty nature and was disappointed to see the major scowl that had taken over his face. Not that I didn't love my brother but I could see how he was going to put a major damper on everyone's moods during this trip.

A/n: Sltorkroktbtrt. Oaky, comment and vote. I love you. Yadada, these are so boring to write. Idek why I'm writing this, if you want to comment or vote this stupid note is going to determine it, but here I am, writing one anyway