rosy cheeks // joshler + tysh // ddlb

🌸 two 🌸

"tyler... what time do you have to be there again?" chris asks as he puts some more sausage in his mouth.

"eight thirty is the earliest, but honestly anytime between that and nine." tyler tells his father for the sixth time that morning.

"okay, just tell me when you want to go."

"okay."

the clock ticked until it was 8:30, or when tyler wanted to leave. the father and son get in the car and leave.

~

"love you, tyler."

"love you too, dad." tyler says getting out of the car.

it was tyler's first day at work he had just been hired yesterday... clearly they wanted him to start immediately. he walks through the small kitchen in a food shack. he gets out through their side door and walks over to the photo parlor, his place of work.

shyly, tyler opens the side door mainly used by the employees. four people are standing by or behind the counter, quickly staring at him before showing welcoming smiles.

"hi! you're tyler, right?" a girl asks, her name tag reading devyn.

"um... yeah."

"everyone, let's make sure not to scare him away!" another girl with dark, shoulder length hair says, holding her arms out at her sides.

tyler laughs, starting to relax a little bit.

"i'm sure you can read our name tags, but!" the dark haired girl laughs, "i'm elizabeth. let's go around!"

"i'm elizabeth too, but i go by liz."

"destiny." she says, standing back up from getting something behind the counter.

"devyn."

the brunet smiles, approaching the counter where everyone else was.

"josh! you're trainee is here!" destiny shouts toward the back of the small building.

tyler's eyes go wide, wondering if the josh she was talking about was the josh he was thinking of. tyler waits for a few seconds before seeing, yep, the josh he was thinking of.

"oh, hey, tyler! you're the new trainee?"

"i... i guess so." tyler chuckles, rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

"follow me. you haven't clocked in yet, right?"

"no."

josh nods and motions tyler to follow him behind the counter and down the twisted staircase. he walks into a room filled with mostly junk.

"here is where you clock in. you'll want to press this button for in, duh, and this for out. write your name at the top and sign at the bottom."

tyler does as josh says, still shocked that he would be working with the boy he had only met about a week ago. after tyler clocks in, josh takes his hand and leads him back upstairs.

"let's go do pavilion."

"what?"

they walk out the side door where tyler came in, the girls had all dispersed to do their own morning duties.

"pavilion is just the picnic tables next to the photo parlor."

tyler nods, despite being a little confused. "oh. okay."

they walk back into where tyler walked in. josh gets a red bucket and two rags. he squirts some soap from the wall into the bucket, then putting it in the sink and letting hot water spill into it.