Saccharine //joshler [✔️]

twenty six 🍼

"come on, tyty!" ryan giggles, pulling on the boy's arm to try and get him to follow him up to the first house.

it's halloween, one of the holidays tyler has a love-hate relationship with. he loves getting candy, but he hates seeing scary stuff and knocking on strangers' doors! he shakes his head stubbornly, the mane of his lion costume ruffling. "no!"

"bren!" ryan whines, the hood of his bat costume falling over his eyes. "tyty won't come!"

brendon, who's dressed as a vampire, lifts the hood from ryan's eyes and carefully places it on his head. "ty, wan' me to go get joshie?"

tyler nods softly, hugging his pumpkin basket to his chest. the eldest of the three heads back to the road where dallon and josh sit waiting inside of dallon's truck. he taps on the window, patiently waiting for his daddy to roll it down.

"daddy, joshie, tyty's 'fraid to go to the houses," he says with a slight lisp, due to his fake set of vampire teeth.

"alright," josh says, pulling on his hoodie as he prepares himself to leave the warmth of the truck. "i'll walk around with you guys."

a cold gust of wind hits the man as he walks over to his little, goosebumps forming and teeth chattering. he hates the cold with a passion. tyler cheers and hugs him, careful not to smudge the paint on his face. he's nice and toasty; josh forced him to wear several layers beneath his costume.

"daddy!" he smiles. "go trick o' treating wif us?"

"yes, i'm coming with you. too shy to go without me, hm? that's okay," josh says, kissing his forehead. "want to hold daddy's hand?"

"i wan' hold hands too!" ryan tells brendon, snatching up the boy's hand and squeezing their fingers together.

the four walk up to the first house together, brendon being the one to knock on the door. an old lady opens it holding a huge bag of candy.

"trick or treat!" ryan and brendon say in unison, tyler mumbling it a few seconds after.

"wow, this is quite the trio," the woman smiles, sliding two pieces of candy into each boy's bucket.

"thank you!" they say happily, except tyler who again mumbles his response timidly.

they head down the sidewalk for the next house, tyler clinging to josh's side. "i do good job?"

"yes, ty, you did a super duper job! that's one house down and lots more to go. you're going to do great."

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trick or treating had ended a bit ago, and all five currently sit in dallon's living room. the three littles sit on the ground, their candy buckets emptied out beside them. josh and dallon watch casper as the littles trade candy.

"who wan' my licorice?" ryan asks, nose scrunched as he holds out the candy.

"me!" brendon shouts, grabbing it quickly and stuffing it in his bucket.

"i trade dis snickers for kit-kat," tyler makes an offer, wavering the snickers bar around. ryan agrees to the deal, swapping their candy. this goes on for some time, until all three have their most favorite candies in their buckets.