Mr. Brightside | Munchingbrotato/ Tyler Christie

Chapter Seventeen

|Hope's POV|

I hear a camera flash next to me while I'm partially blinded by its light even though my eyes were closed. I prop myself up on one elbow and put a hand up in front of my face.

"Hope." someone whispers next to me. I feel the weight of my bed shift down.

"Mm." I mumble, not bothering to move.

"Hope." I hear again while someone's complete weight is on top of me, crushing every bone in my body.

"Tyler, get off of me. You're so fucking heaving." I say while looking at my phone. "It's six-o-clock. Why are you up? And more importantly; Why are you waking me up?"

"It's our first day of school." he says. With that, I'm sitting up straight on the bed and Tyler is on the ground looking up at me.

"Damn, you're strong. But we've gotta get ready. Homeroom begins at 7:00, and we're not even ready yet.

"Then why the hell did you wake me up so late?"

"I don't know how long you girls take to get ready!" he yells making me laugh.

"I've gotta get into the bathroom and
fix myself up. I probably look like shit right now." I rub my eyes, ridding of the sleepiness.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. I need to take a shower, though." Tyler intercepts me.

"So? I need to do my hair and wash my face."

"How do you expect me to get ready?" I shrug and he sighs. "Okay, this may be weird, but we need to be ready in time. While I'm in the shower, you can do whatever you need to do in there. I'll let you know when I'm about to get out."

I burst into laughter. He was so nervous, and it was absolutely hilarious. "To be totally honest, I don't care. Just don't let me see anything."

"You wish you could see all this." he says and my mouth drops. "Oh yeah. And you'll need to follow me at all times today so I can show you around. We have all the same classes and electives, remember?"

"Yeah yeah. Just hurry and get in the shower so I can get ready."

"Wow, you're in a rush to see me-"

"Shut up and move Tyler." He chuckles while grabbing his clothes and walking into the bathroom.

I knock on the door. "Can I come in now?"

"Yup!" he says over the loudness of the shower.

I open the door and walk over to the mirror where my supplies is. My strawberry blonde hair was a crappy mess, so I combed through it and put it into a fishtail braid with a thick white headband.

After that, I take a wet washcloth with soap and clean my disgusting face. When I take the cloth away and open my eyes, I look in the mirror.

Out the the corner of my eye, I see Tyler's head peeking out of the shower curtain. "What the-" I turn around to see Tyler with his hair styled into a mohawk with shampoo. I hold my stomach laughing so hard. "Freak!" I say.

"It's a new style I'm thinking about trying." he smirks.

"It suits you." I say and go back to fixing myself up.

I would normally never ever do this, but I looked so bad, that I considered putting a little bit of makeup on. I never wear it, but I always keep it with me for special occasions.

I line my waterline with a white eyeliner and put a thin layer of mascara on my top and bottom lashes. Follow by a peach blush, I put on my EOS chap stick and say, "Tyler, I'm walking out of the bathroom now. You better knock before coming out in case I'm getting changed!" I yelled before walking out.

"No promises!" he responds. I roll my eyes at him even though he couldn't see it.

I end up wearing tight black leggings with white converse and a white short sleeved v-neck shirt. I hear a faint knock on the bathroom door.

"Good boy." I say. "You can come out." He walks out of the bathroom wearing kaki shorts, nike elites with converse, and a white t-shirt. Twinning much?

"Wow, Hope. Isn't that a bit risky for your first day?" he smirks at my outfit.

"What are you worried about?" I ask grinning at his stupidness.

"I don't want any other guys looking at you. Let's go." he says before I can say anything else.

"Well there they are." Jerome greets us as we exit our dorm. He was waiting for us along with Jason, Adam, Ty, and Mitch. "What was taking you guys so long?"

"Hope kept trying to look at me naked, but I told her no." Tyler said with a straight face. So I slapped him.

"That is not true, ew! We didn't have lots of time to get ready, so while Tyler was in the shower, I got ready in the bathroom at the same time."

"Lucky you Tyler." Mitch says, and Jerome wiggles his eyebrows.

"You guys are all weirdos. Except for Adam." I smile.

"Thanks Hope. I think." Adam laughs.

"Oh, by the way. If you see Vincent, can you tell that I said hi?"

"Um, yeah, sure." Adam chuckles, knowing the situation between us two. God, I hate Vincent so much.

"And, Jason. I guess your pretty cool too." He laughs and I walk over to him.

"Good to know." Jason says while putting his arm around me. I could feel everyone's eyes on us, but I ignored it. Then, Jason leans down and whispers to me. "Don't stress. Today will be fine as long as you stick with us." I look up at him and smile, thankful for the comfort, feeling the weight partially lift from my shoulders.

"How 'bout' we all take a photo together?" Ty suddenly suggests. We all exchange a few nods in agreement.

"Let's ask that girl over there to take it for us." Ty says approaching her. He taps her on the shoulder and she jumps, turning around. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you, but would you mind taking a picture of all of us?"

"No, not at all!"she smiles as Ty hands her his phone.

We all get into position. I had Jason and Tyler on each side of me. As the camera flashed, I realized that they both kisses each of my cheeks for the photo. I must've been blushing like crazy. And I couldn't tell which kiss I liked more. Not that it mattered anyway.

"Morgan?" I suddenly hear Tyler say. The girl looks in Tyler's direction.

"Tyler?" she asks. "Hey, I didn't think I'd see you again." she says surprised.

They embrace each other, and my face feels warms. I feel myself hug deeper into Jason's side.

"Guys, this is Morgan. I think I told you guys about her. When you all were out and about LA, she kept me company." Tyler explains.

So that's who he was talking about. I didn't think that it was going to be some pretty girl.

"Welp, we're gonna be late so we should get going. See ya." Adam says quickly while pulling us all along with him.

"Why are you in such a rush, Adam?" questions Tyler.

"Who wants to be late on there first day?" Adam shrugs and we continue walking down the halls.