flower crowns and other neat stuff - joshler

part 8

tyler was in that nice inbetween state, dangling in the balance between actual consciousness and sleep, the limbo that exists when you could be awake, but you'd rather just lay there letting thoughts bounce around in no particular order, when his mind wandered over to josh and how he now had the other boy's number in his phone.

once he thought about that, he couldn't go back to sleep. or whatever it was that he was doing. something urged him to send a text even though it was late as hell.

he lay in bed for a minute, staring at his wall until he gave in and reached under his pillow for his phone. he turned it on, blinking as the sudden bright light hit his eyes. he found josh's contact in his phone and opened a new text. he stared at the blank message for a second, trying to decide on what to write.

sent 2:23 am: are you awake?

tyler didn't expect a reply, but he didn't want josh to be confused when he actually did wake up to find a text from a number that he didn't know, so he sent another one.

sent 2:23 am: this is tyler btw

almost immediately after the second text, though, he got a reply. the buzzing startled him into dropping his phone, and he rolled his eyes at himself before scooping it up and reading josh's text.

received 2:24 am: why are u awake oml

received 2:24 am: anyway hi tyler

he smiled reading the texts. tyler hoped he hadn't woken josh up, though. sometimes he forgot that not everybody turned their phones off at night like he did. he thought for a second and typed a reply.

sent 2:25 am: you're awake too

sent 2:25 am: sorry if i woke you up tho

he set his phone down and stared out his bedroom window. the way his bed was positioned right under it made it so that if he lied on his back he could see the stars. the sky was very clear that night, and tyler could see millions of stars spread out across the dark space.

the moment felt special, like tyler was alone in his own solitary universe apart from josh. he tended to get a bit more... poetic than usual after midnight. or off topic. it depended on who was describing it.

he smiled up at the dark sky when he felt his phone buzz again.

received 2:27 am: u didn't wake me up its fine

sent 2:27 am: good i didn't think you'd reply it's so late

received 2:28 am: sometimes i just can't sleep

received 2:28 am: i was bored tho so thnks for texting me :)

tyler blushed down at his phone. he knew that josh didn't mean anything by it, though. he was probably just happy for some company. it wasn't the fact that tyler was the one who texted him that had made him happy. even though josh had kind of said that it was. god, tyler was so lame.

sent 2:29 am: no problem :)

tyler wanted to ask him something, but would that be too far? he wasn't sure whether josh was straight or not, and even if he wasn't he didn't want to freak him out by being too forward.

he bit his lip nervously for a minute before deciding to say 'fuck it' and typed up the message.

sent 2:31 am: do you want to hang out after school tomorrow? maybe you could show me around the woods or smthn

he immediately got a reply.

received 2:32 am: yis lets do it meet me outside of school when classes finish