Child • Jøshler

chapter twenty

Tyler sat in his bedroom, spinning on his computer chair. He was waiting for his parents to come home so he could tell them about the concert. He was really excited, he couldn't believe Andy's mother would do something like that for so many boys.

Once he heard he front door unlocking, he ran his vampire speed to the door, surprising his parents. But they were pretty much used to Tyler's speed and strength so they relaxed quickly.

"Tyler, what did we say about scaring your mother and me?" Tyler's father asked, locking the door and helping Tyler's mother as he took off her coat.

"I'm sorry, Papa" Tyler said "I have some nice news"

"Ooh" Mrs Joseph giggled excitedly, she took her boots off and approached her son; she rested her palms on Tyler's shoulders "Is it a girl?"

Tyler chuckled, looking down at the floor "No, it is not a girl"

"A boy then?" Mr Joseph suggested, taking his shoes off and rising an eyebrow at Tyler.

"No, it's not a boy either" Tyler sighed, not believing what he was going to say next "My fren, Andy, told me and the boys about a present his mother gave all of us"

Mrs Joseph gasped in shock "A present? From Mrs Biersack?"

"Don't the Hurley's also have a son named Andy?" Tyler's father wondered out loud.

"They do" Tyler said "But I'm actually talking about Andy Biersack right now"

Mr Joseph nodded in understanding and waited for the reveal of what the present is, along with his wife. They seemed impatient to find out, probably a little bit uncomfortable too. They always felt bad when their family would receive any kind of gift if they hadn't given something too. But the Biersacks weren't really the poorest family, so if the present Mrs Biersack gave Tyler is expensive - the Josephs will freak.

Tyler took his ticket out of his pocket where he had carefully put it "I'm going on a My Chemical Romance concert!"

"A what now?" Mr Joseph cringed, but Mrs Joseph looked like she was trying her best to remember which band was Tyler talking about.

"Oh, c'mon" Tyler groaned barely audibly "It's the emo dudes holding a funeral in their video, y'know, where the dead chick starts to dance"

Mr Joseph snapped his fingers "Right! I remember!"

Tyler rolled his eyes and let out a small laugh. He actually disliked that kind of a description, but he knew it would be the only way to tell his father which band is he talking about. His mother than started to ramble about how much she like the "Na Na Na" video and Tyler honestly felt so uncomfortable talking about My Chemical Romance with his parents. But at least they weren't against the music.

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Dallon, Andy, Pete and Josh went home with Brendon. They were currently in Brendon's bedroom, playing on their phones; all except Dallon who found exploring Brendon's shelves much more interesting than his eye-burning phone screen. Pete lied on the floor, Andy sat beside him with Josh and Brendon lied on his bed.

"Halloween is in three days" Pete said all of a sudden, lowering his phone to his chest.

"Four, you jerk" Brendon corrected "No wonder you can't pass Maths"

Pete rolled his eyes, looking up at the ceiling. He worried about Patrick. He would've gone home with him, but Patrick requested to be alone. And Patrick's wish is Pete's demand, no matter how cliché that might sound.

"What are y'all gonna go as?" Dallon asked, moving a box on one of the shelves because it was breaking some symmetry only he seemed to see.

"I'll be a vampire" Pete laughed. Back when he was a vampire, he used to wear capes and some weird clothes, because he thought that's what vampires do. Some really looked like what kids use as Dracula costumes, so that eases up the making of a costume idea. He just needs to buy fake fangs and some black wig.

"That's so dumb" Andy commented, not moving his eyes off his phone screen. Pete rolled his eyes, sighing instead of commenting.

"I'm gonna go as myself" Brendon grinned ever so widely.

"Are you nuts?" Josh was the first to comment "Who the hell will think that's a costume? It looks too real. And you'll scare people"

Brendon sat up indian style, shrugging "Makeup these days is amazing, that'll be my excuse. And the whole point of Halloween is scaring people, so?"

Josh sighed. Not his problem anyway "I'll probably just be an alien"

Andy snorted "At least that's better than what you were last year"

All the boys agreed and Josh just laughed.

"I don't even know yet" Dallon announced almost sadly. He moved away from the shelves and sat down indian style next to Pete on the floor.

"What about you Andy?" Pete asked, actually this close to hitting Andy in the face for being on his phone. He knew Andy was probably bragging about the tickets to all his internet frens and posting about the tickets on every social media that exists.

Andy stared at his phone with a wide smile; he didn't even heard what the boys asked him.

"Andy!" all the boys called in unintentional sync.

Andy rose his head, looking at all of the boys "What?"

"What are you going as for Halloween?" Josh asked.

Andy stared at them all before snorting and saying "I'm not telling you"