✓ | outta this world.

treinta y tres.

josh saw tyler from across the room. he excused himself from his grandparents and ran outside to tyler. jenna and debby saw from the dance floor and abandoned their dance to accompany their friend.

tyler was at the crosswalk, he had stopped crying by the time josh walked up to him. but the guilt of being fucked by jordan stayed inside of him. he shouldn't have let jordan near him, no matter how attractive he was.

"are you okay, tyty?" josh asked, getting ahead of him.
tyler only shook his head in response.
"do you want to go home?" josh asked taking tyler's hands into his own.
tyler nodded and hugged the shorter man while holding in a sob. he didn't want him to worry.

"hey, are you guys okay?" jenna asked.
"ty, are you alright?" debby said at the same time.

josh shook his head as he kept his arms around tyler. a few tears managed to escape his eyes, but nothing more.

"are you guys going home?" debby wondered out loud.

josh nodded sadly and looked down at tyler.
"hey, bub, go to the car, i'll meet up with you in a bit," he said, handing tyler the keys. tyler walked slowly away as jenna asked what happened.

"he didn't say. and i don't want to bug him about it if he doesn't want to talk about it," josh said, sighing and running his hands through his hair.

"well, whatever it is, it must be important. because tyler hardly ever shows his emotions when he's sad," debby said.

josh shrugged, not knowing what else to do. he said his good byes to the couple and walked off to join tyler. his mind kept saying it was somehow his fault, when he knew better than that...
right?

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