choke ↣ joshler ✓

23. Fight

It was Friday. Josh was very glad it was Friday. That mean tomorrow he could do whatever the hell he wanted without missing anything that would stop him from graduating whether that meant sleeping or hanging out with his friends or adding another victim to his count or spending time with his boyfriend.

His boyfriend. Josh smiled. He really did like Tyler. The younger was fitting in nicely with his friends group and maybe Josh could tell him soon. Maybe.

Speaking of boyfriends, Josh looked over to see Tyler walking next to him, seemingly deep in thought. The two were walking to lunch together because Josh had showed up to Tyler's English right after the bell rang.

"What're ya thinkin' about?" Josh asked his boyfriend softly.

"Stuff," Tyler shrugged. "My head's fucking pounding and I just want to smoke," he groaned. Josh smiled. He was sounding more and more like him every day. That was a good thing.

"Well we can either skip lunch 'nd go smoke behind the school or I can hold your hand until the feelin' passes."

Tyler didn't respond at first, seemingly in thought, so Josh took the liberty of grabbing his hand and holding it gently. He wasn't usually gentle with most things but Tyler was precious and he couldn't break him. Not even if he thought about doing so before.

Tyler let out a giggle and he blushed, turning his head to hide it. Josh just smiled and swung their conjoined hands together.

Not only was it a Friday, it was also Halloween. Josh used to love Halloween but now it was like any other day. He did "evil" things every day of the year so it didn't phase him anymore. He couldn't even make plans to do anything tonight because Ashley was going to a party and Brendon was going to Dallon's as usual.

The two were almost to the lunchroom when Josh felt himself get shoved from behind. He just sighed and let go of Tyler's hand before turning around and raising his almost healed eyebrow. "Yes, Frank?"

The black haired didn't respond as he pushed Josh roughly against the wall. "So ya two are dating?" He smirked.

"Yeah, we are. Jealous?" Josh smirked back. "I mean if ya wanted to be rough with me all ya had to do was ask..." Josh sighed dramatically.

That was a bad choice because Frank pulled him off the wall by the front of his shirt and punched him so hard in the face he flew backwards into the floor.

Students had gathered around by now and as soon as Josh hit the floor people were letting out gasps. Luckily, his head hadn't the floor but he felt like the wind as gotten knocked out of him.

"Josh!" Tyler went to run over to the mentioned but he watched as Frank grabbed him and pinned him against the wall.

"You goin' go save your precious boyfriend, faggot?" He asked, cackling while doing so. "You're a good for nothin', worthless, disgustin'—"

Frank didn't finish his sentence because that was the straw that broke the camel's back, making him snap. He got up off the ground and yanked Frank off of Tyler, punching him in the jaw. Frank didn't have time to react before Josh was shoving him into the ground so hard a loud crack was heard.

He didn't even register what Tyler was doing because he was so enraged he just got on top of Frank and began landing punch after punch to his face.

The only thing he could comprehend was the chant that had started behind him as everyone yelled "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

Josh felt euphoric as he saw blood spurt out of Frank's nose. He didn't even care that it got on him. This was not only payback for a plethora of bloody beatdowns since freshman year, this was for touching his boyfriend.

"Holy shit!" He heard a voice yell. "Josh! You're goin' kill him!"

He felt hands grab him but he just kept going, now landing punches to his stomach because his face was already fucked. "Brendon! Help me!"

Another pair of hands grabbed him and he was pulled off the now unmoving man. He thrashed against the people holding him back. "Let go!" He yelled.

"Josh! Stop!"

"No! I—"

"Josh...?"

He instantly stopped moving when he heard Tyler's voice. He looked over and saw Tyler looked utterly terrified. More scared than when Josh was the one that was hurt. "Tyler..." he breathed out.

He looked over and saw Ashley and Brendon were holding him back, looking just as horrified. And these were the people that saw the worse side of him.

"Jesus Christ," a voice groaned. Josh realized it was his principal and he winced. "Who started this?" He yelled.

No one replied but all eyes fell on not only Josh and Frank but Tyler too. "He didn'—" Josh began but was cut off with more yelling.

"Dun! Joseph! My office! Now! Someone get the nurse the kid's bleedin' out on the floor!"

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"I can' believe I got suspended," Josh grumbled as he sat on Tyler's bed. The brunette was sitting across from him, holding an ice pack to his jaw where Frank had gotten him.

"You're lucky you didn't get expelled!" Tyler replied, his eyes moving from the ice pack to Josh's face. "He looked pretty rough, J."

"Good! He fuckin' put his hands on ya!"

Josh didn't expect Tyler to giggle but he did. "Thank you for sticking up for me," he bit his lip slightly, hiding a smile.

Josh smiled as well despite how bad it hurt his jaw. "That's my job," he grabbed the front of Tyler's shirt and pulled him in for a kiss, the ice pack falling into the bed in the process.

When they broke the kiss, Tyler was grinning so hard Josh thought his face was going to split. "Hey, my dad's working most of the night and the morning since Halloween is always crazy so if you wanna spend the night you can," he suggested.

"Sure," Josh nodded.

Tyler pecked his lips one last time before picking the ice pack back up and holding it to Josh's face once again. They sat in silence before Tyler spoke up. "You know you look really fucking hot with a nose ring, right?"

"Thanks," Josh laughed. "'M goin' switch it to a hoop when I can. Ashley pierced it 'nd it hasn' gotten infected yet so she did a good job I guess," he paused. "Ya would look hot with a nose ring too."

"I would?" Tyler asked, his eyes widening.

"Yeah. Really damn hot."

Tyler blushed. "I don't know..."

"If ya wanna get one I can call Ashley 'nd see what's she's doin'."

The younger didn't respond at first. When he did though, Josh grinned. "Okay."

Josh grabbed his phone from beside him on the bed and clicked on Ashley's contact, putting it on speaker phone as the call began. It stopped ringing a second later. "What?"

"What are ya doin'?"

"Gettin' ready for this party. Why?"

"Can ya pierce Tyler's nose real quick before ya go?"

A sigh was heard. "I guess. Text me his address. I'll get my shit."

"Cool. Bye," he hung up and Tyler looked shocked.

"Wait she's doing it now?"

"Yeah."

"Oh..." Tyler paused before smiling. "Okay."

Josh kissed him once again. "It's goin' be so damn hard for me not ta fuck ya after she pierces it."

Tyler blushed probably the hardest he has in his whole life and Josh grinned widely. This was going to be good.