cover me // joshler

eight

Once Tyler made it to the library he walked inside. Josh was already in there and he bought two hot chocolates. Tyler saw him and smiled shyly. Josh smiled back and handed him the drink. 

"Hope you like hot chocolate, I just thought it'd be better than nothing. But I could always buy you a water if you don't want it," he said. 

Tyler smiled at the gesture. "N-no J-josh i-it's g-great, thank you," he said and took a sip of it with his trembling hands. He set it down and went to sit at one of the tables they had in there. 

Josh sat down next to him and pulled out a math book they used and the homework they had for the night. "So we should start with the homework, and any problems or questions you have you can ask me all right?" he said. 

Tyler nodded but still shaking, as if he wanted to say something, but couldn't. He looked down at the paper and honestly, he really didn't understand any of it. 

The only reason he actually had a C in that class was because the homework the teacher gave was only for completion points, so Tyler always got all the points, but the tests are what brought his grades down. 

Josh looked over at him, and he noticed his distress. He was really good at reading people, and he could tell there was something wrong. But he really wasn't sure what. 

"Do you need help with the first problem?" he asked him in a soft voice, he wasn't quite sure what was wrong, but he had an idea. 

Josh struggled with Anxiety and ADHD. Both of those really messed with him and his grades, but he felt so alone, like nobody understood him. 

He felt like he could never get any help, so he was determined to help anyone who needed it, and when he saw Tyler, he knew he needed it. 

"U-uh y-yeah.." Tyler said nervously, his hands trembling as Josh leaned over his shoulder to see the problem. 

"Oh," Josh smiled. "Yeah, that's kind of hard. But it's okay, I'll help," he said. 

"So to find the slope of the line, you have to do change in Y over the change in X," he said. "So if you just make a table and plug in the information,  then you can graph it," he said demonstrating on his own paper.

Tyler's eyes lit up, as if he finally understood. 

"Try the next problem," Josh said, he was hopeful he would help him, that's the one thing he wanted to do. 

Tyler did the problem exactly how Josh said, he made a table of change in Y over the change in X, and then he graphed it. 

Josh checked over it, his lips curled into a smile when he realized that Tyler got it right. He looked up at him with a smile and he nodded. "Yeah, see! There you go, it's not that hard." 

Tyler broke out into a huge smile when he actually got it right. "O-oh my g-god," he said giggling and Josh decided that noise was the most beautiful thing he ever heard. 

"Alright alright, next problem," Josh said. "Do you understand this?" he asked. It was finding the volume and surface area of prisms. 

Tyler shrugged and shook his head. 

"That's okay, I'll help you through them." 

And that's exactly what he did. 

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(Sorry I had to skip that because, well who really wants to hear about math. Also I know this really isn't junior year math but I am a freshmen in integrated math leave me alone alright.)