Child • Jøshler

chapter seven

Tyler walked along side Brendon every day since they met. He'd sit with Brendon's frens during lunch. They were kinda his frens too, now.

"No, Mrs Kacey, I didn't study, that's usually how people get bad grades!"

Brendon was currently in the middle of an argument with a woman Tyler didn't know. Tyler just continued walking the road home; Brendon lived just a little down the street from Tyler. Tyler didn't want to eavesdrop, so he did his best to ignore the sound of the woman's voice.

"Ugh, bye" Brendon finally hung up "Sorry, Tyler. That was my Mom, she can be a pain in the ass sometimes"

Tyler nodded, brows furrowing when he recalled Brendon calling the woman 'Mrs Kacey' instead of 'Mom'. Tyler decided not to question it though.

When only three houses away from the Joseph residence, Brendon pocketed his phone and spoke up "Wanna come over to my place? We can play video games and call the guys over if you want"

Tyler shrugged "Sure"

"Neat" Brendon grinned and they passed by Tyler's house without even glancing at it.

Five minutes later, Tyler first lied eyes on Brendon's house. It stood at the very end of the street. It was a normal house; maybe there were too many flowers and too many pastel yellows, but other than that it was normal-looking. Brendon took out his phone again, unlocked it and opened the front camera. He quickly fixed his red hair and grinned at Tyler, pocketing his phone again. He swung his hand in a way to gesture Tyler to walk and Tyler did so.

Right in front of the door, Brendom stopped and hummed "Is there any was you could, like, restrain yourself from making eye contact with my Mom? And maybe hide your teeth as much as you can?"

Tyler cringed. Hiding himself from people was never ever a priority of his.

"No offense dude, my Mom's weird about stuff like those" Brendon bit his bottom lip, innocently.

Tyler nodded, making Brendon smile widely and open the door.

Tyler stepped inside, following Brendon into the extremely claustrophobic hallway. Not to mention, it was very obnoxiously decorated. Kitten prints everywhere and mixes of pastel pink and pastel yellow colors everywhere. Moving along the hallway and peaking into rooms, Tyler got to find the other rooms looked like that too.

"Brendon!" a woman entered the hallway from one of the many rooms. She smiled at the boys rather creepily. She looked older than 50, her grey hair made her look even older. She wore a floral pattern dress and held a white cat in her arms. She was much shorter than both Brendon and Tyler. Tyler hid behind Brendon, obeying to the favor Brendon asked for at the front door.

"Hello, Mrs Kacey" Brendon smiled, hugging the short woman "You've brought a friend!"

"Yes, this is Tyler" Brendon introduced "He's shy"

Tyler kept his gaze on the floor, his lips rising into a smirk. Brendon knew what he was doing. Brendon would be an amazing hunter, Tyler thought.

"Oh, dear" Mrs Kacey said sighed.

"Can we go up to my room, please?" Brendon pleaded, already making a step toward the slightly darker staircase.