rosy cheeks // joshler + tysh // ddlb

🌸 four 🌸

"momma! i brought my new friend over! his name is tyler and we'll be in my room of you need either one of us." josh shouts as he and tyler bust through the door with tons of energy radiating off of them.

"i'm in the kitchen, sweetheart!" laura shouts back to her son.

josh jogs over to the open kitchen with his bags of fast food in his hands. setting the two bags on the kitchen table, josh pulls out a familiar cardboard burger box and sets it down along with some fries. he pushes the two cardboard holders towards his mom who smiles warmly. 

"for me, sweetheart?"

"of course!" josh smiles. "i got some for you, me, and tyler. but we're gonna be in my room watching tv or playing games. i love you!" josh hurries out of the kitchen to meet up with tyler again.

"oh, love you too!" laura calls, only being able to get a glimpse of tyler before he disappeared with josh to josh's room. 

josh runs up the stairs with tyler following behind him. josh opens the door to his room and lets tyler walk in first. his room was pretty spacey, but cozy at the same time. josh had everything in his room that tyler wanted. gaming consoles, a big bean bag, a small walk-in closet, and more than one window. 

"here's... uh... here's my room." josh sputters, seeing alex on his bed. he immediately runs over to his bed and sits on alex so tyler wouldn't jusge him for having a stuffed animal. thankfully he kept his little things in a box in his closet.

"it's a very nice room, josh, i like it a lot." tyler says as he takes another look around the room before walking over to josh to get his own food.

josh hands over the bag that contained the other teen's order. picking up the television remote, the pink and curly haired boy turns it on. he put's on cartoon network before realizing what he did.

"oh, i'm sorry, do you want to watch anything in particular? i blanked out for a second that you were here." josh chuckles, nervous at the look tyler was giving him. the look was a mixture of concern and worry.

"no, whatever you want is fine by me. but, um... do you want to talk about earlier...? because i may not have known you for very long, but i'm here for you..." tyler drifts off as he digs out his food, dropping the paper bag on josh's floor without shifting his gaze from josh's eyes. 

josh's eyes widen. he didn't particularly want to talk about what had happened just about an hour ago. honestly, he had almost completely forgotten about the action he had done earlier. 

"uh... do you want me to?"

"josh, i... kind of, yes. i just wanna make sure you're okay. but please don't tell me you're fine. i clearly know you're not fine."

"um..." as josh eats some fries he searches for words to explain how he was feeling. "i just feel really depressed a lot of the time i guess... and i do have anxiety... yeah. but don't worry about me. it's all good."

"don't worry about you?" tyler asks, not believing what he just heard. "i mean, i've been where you are. i know the feeling of being at rock bottom and it feels like nothing is going to improve. i promise it will." the brunet leans over and pats josh's shoulder who smiles at the reassurance.

"thank you." josh mumbles through a mouthful of fries, avoid eye contact with the brunet.

"yeah. anytime. but i will worry about you. that scared everything out of me, man. i... just damn, man." tyler sighs, trying not to think of the times when he was in josh's position.

josh nods as he puts his focus back on the television. he digs out his cheeseburger and dives in. tyler is hesitant to eat his food on josh's bed that was very nicely made.

"hey, josh, are you sure it's okay that i'm eating on your bed? i don't want to get crumbs in your bed."

waving away the air, josh nods, "it's completely fine, bro, just eat." he says through his food, not caring about manners at the moment.

"bro?" tyler repeats, holding back a cackle.

"yes. wait, wait, wait, wait..." josh rushes. he puts down his food and thinks. he puts his first two fingers of each hand on each of his temples, rubbing them ever-so slightly. "umm... j, begins with j... joseph! your last name, right? it's joseph?"

"yeah...? you knew that..."

"broseph. wassup, broseph?" josh laughs. "i'm trademarking that. the term 'broseph'. it's mine now."

tyler puts his head in his hands and laughs, he almost falls off of josh's bed. the two end up laughing their heads off together. the term "broseph" making them gasp for air. The Amazing World Of Gumball plays in the background as the two try to calm each other down.

"i'm gonna have to end up doing CPR on you if you don't stop laughing, ty." josh says through small gasps of air. his pink hair messy, covering his eyes as he clutches his stomach from laughing too hard.

"f-fine. better... better than dying."

josh freezes, not longer laughing. however, tyler continues to laugh. josh was bisexual, and tyler saying that without knowing josh's sexuality shook up the pink haired teen. minutes pass by and the two continue eating without laughing, josh's eyes still wide from the comment tyler had made.

"i'm gonna head to the bathroom. i'll be right back." josh says, getting off of his bed, leaving tyler alone in his room.

tyler smiles and watches josh leave, then he stands up and inspects around the teen's room. immediately the brunet sees the stuffed animal right where josh had been sitting. he thinks almost nothing of it, continuing to wander around josh's room. soon enough he checks out josh's closet. he hadn't opened anything yet, he was just looking around. tyler steps into the small walk-in-ish closet. he spots a cardboard box on a shelf along with many other things.

"i wish this could be my closet." tyler mumbles to himself.

tyler gets a sudden urge to stretch. he raises his hand, but it bumps against the cardboard box and knocks something out of it. the objects falls to the ground, the clattering on the floor sounding like plastic. the brunet teen finishes stretching and then looks down to see a pink sippy cup. a sippy cup a toddler would use.

"what?"

tyler picks it up and inspects it. his eyes go wide as assumptions are being made in his brain. he quickly puts the sippy cup back in the box and walks back to the bed to finish eating. not even a minute later josh pops back in the room.

"hey." josh says.

"hey." tyler responds, ignoring what he had just seen.