The flower shop boy |JOSHLER|

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"I have to go back to work now, but I'll see you later?" Josh says looking at tyler. "Definitely!" Tyler responds. "Awesome!" Josh grins and gets up. "We should make a habit out of eating lunch together, it's more fun when you have company." Josh suggests. "I'm totally up for that josh!" Tyler grins too. Josh smiles widely before leaving to go back to his shop.

Tyler can't stop smiling, he hasn't felt this happy in ages. Tyler gets up and puts the plastic from the microwave meal into the trash and then goes and opens the store once again.

Tyler can't help but think about Josh the whole day. He can't stop smiling either. It's like he's on top of the world and nothing can bring him down.

Eventually it's time to close shop for the day, so tyler goes and brings in all the decorations from outside. He sweeps the floor and turns on the night lighting at the store, so that if people walk by in the middle of the night they can still see something.

• Josh's POV •

Josh is cleaning his shop and grabbing his chalkboard from outside, inside. He makes sure everything is okay before getting out of the shop and locking the door.

He can hear someone struggling and so he looks across the street and there he sees tyler, trying to lock the door.

Josh walks over to tyler. "Hey there, do you need help?" Josh asks tyler and tyler jolts slightly. "Gosh you scared me!" Tyler says. "sorry i didn't mean to startle you." Josh chuckles a bit. "It's fine, and no i don't need help, the lock has been acting up recently, i forgot about it. I'll have to call the locksmith tomorrow to come take a look at it." Tyler smiles a bit. "Alright" Josh smiles. "Oh yeah I can't remember if I mentioned this but if you at any point need help with your succulents then don't hesitate on contacting me!" Tyler says grinning. Josh nods. "Don't worry i won't!" He chuckles.

Tyler nods as well and smiles. "Well have a great rest of the evening, I'll see you tomorrow, I can't wait to go watch that movie!" Tyler exclaims excitedly totally forgetting that it's a horror film. "You too! I can't wait either!" Josh grins and waves at tyler as they go separate ways.

'Hes so adorable, i wonder if he has a girlfriend, or if he's crushing on someone. Ugh josh you need to stop thinking like this. He's straight and you only just met him. He will only be your friend and thats it. And you will be fine with it because you want him to be happy.' Josh thinks to himself as he walks home.

Josh puts his succulents on his windowsill. "You are such cute plants" josh speaks to them, smiling to himself. "I have to go take a shower." He mumbles to himself quietly and goes to the bathroom, he locks the bathroom door even though he lives alone, but it makes him feel more at ease in case someone were to break in.

He gets undressed and puts his clothes in the hamper. "I should really do the laundry..." He mutters as he gets into the shower. Josh takes a quick refreshing shower and dries himself off before getting dressed. He looks at the hamper and kneels down, as he starts sorting the clothes by color. Josh mostly has black clothes, so it's not hard to decide which ones to wash first.

Once he puts them in the washing machine. He puts all the other clothes back into the hamper. "I really should buy more colorful clothes.." josh says while looking at the hamper, noticing how empty it became after putting the black clothes into the washing machine.

• Tyler's POV •

Tyler gets home and starts cooking some dinner. Tyler isn't the best cook in the world so his meals mostly consist of noodles and sauce, but at least he eats.

He finishes cooking and eating and goes to water his plants. After that he goes and takes a shower, a nice warm shower. He shuts his eyes and starts massaging shampoo into his hair, imagining someone else doing that. But not just anybody. Josh, tyler is imagining josh massaging the shampoo into his hair. He opens his eyes in shock.

"Nono this can't be happening!" He panics and finishes his shower. Tyler dries off and rushes to the bedroom, putting some comfy clothes on. "Okay.. calm down.. maybe it was just because he's been around you a lot today... Yeah that must be it.." tyler mumbles and gets into bed.

Once again tyler shuts his eyes and starts imagining someone cuddling him and once again it's not just anybody, it's josh. Tyler is imagining josh cuddling him. He opens his eyes and starts hitting his head with his hands. "Stop thinking about him!" He says pissed off.

Tyler can't sleep, he goes to drink some tea to calm himself down and to make his mind calm down as well. He takes a few deep breaths before getting back into bed and drifting off to sleep.

Next morning...

Tyler wakes up feeling well rested and refreshed. "Today ill be going to the movies with josh." He chirps happily to his plants. Tyler's smile quickly fades as he remembers that the movie is a scary one.

• Josh's POV •

Josh is out on his morning run. He's running at the park close to his apartment, the park is pretty big so running around the park takes about 45 minutes up to an hour.

Once josh is done he showers quickly, grabs a sports bar and leaves for work. He approaches his shop and sees tyler outside once again struggling to open the door. He walks over to tyler. "You should really call the locksmith." Josh says. Tyler jumps. "Gee you need to stop doing that!" Tyler says. "Sorry, i didn't mean to scare you." Josh says chuckling a bit nervously. "It's fine, don't worry. Do you mind looking up the number of the locksmith?" Tyler asks. "Of course not!" Josh says and pulls up the number.

Tyler calls the locksmith and sits on the pavement outside if his shop. "You can come sit with me at my shop, i have a comfy counter you can sit on." Josh chuckles a bit once again. "You don't mind?" Tyler asks. "Of course not!" Josh says and holds his hand out for tyler to grab. Tyler smiles and nods and grabs Josh's hand. Josh pulls tyler up and they go over to Josh's shop to wait for the locksmith to arrive.