The flower shop boy |JOSHLER|

17

Tyler sits down next to josh. "why are you so nice to me..?" Tyler asks. "well as you said, you never know what someone's been through, and you're also the nicest person I've ever met. That's why." Josh says and smiles. Tyler nods. "Can I hug you..?" Tyler asks. "of course you can! You never have to ask me if you can hug me, just hug me whenever you need or want a hug, okay?" Josh says looking at tyler. "okay, thank you josh.." tyler says and hugs him. Josh hugs him back.

Josh puts on a movie and they start watching it. Tyler ends up leaning against josh and falling asleep. Of course josh doesn't mind it. He feels sad, because he knows that tyler must have been going through some stuff.

The movie ends and josh turns the tv off. He looks at tyler, tyler looks so peaceful and cute. Josh blushes lightly at the thought of being Tyler's boyfriend. He want to tell tyler how he feels about him so bad, but its not a priority, besides they just met a few weeks ago.

Josh gets up from the couch carefully and picks tyler up, he brings tyler to Tyler's bedroom and lays him on the bed. Josh pulls the covers over tyler and puts mister puffle next to him.

He then goes to the kitchen to make them some dinner. Josh looks around to see what food tyler has. There's not much, but he can work with it. Josh starts cooking and thinking about tyler, of course.

• Tyler's POV •

Tyler wakes up in his bed a few hours later, he frowns. It must have been a dream, tyler went to work, so did josh and then tyler got back home and fell asleep. That's what must have happened.

Tyler looks at his bedroom door which is slowly opening. His heart beats faster, as the door keeps opening. He's relieved once he sees Josh's face. "oh, hey sleepyhead." Josh smiles. "Hi.. how did you get here..?" Tyler asks confused. "what do you mean? We went to build-a-bear and went to eat lunch and i tattooed you and then we got here and watched a movie but you fell asleep so I took you to bed." Josh explains. "So it wasn't a dream..?" Tyler asks. "it felt very real to me." Josh chuckles and smiles, sitting on the edge of the bed. "oh.." tyler blushes lightly and smiles a bit. "I made some dinner." Josh says. Tyler nods and sits up.

Josh gets up and so does tyler, they go to the kitchen and sit down at the table. "How did you make this? I barely had any food!" Tyler asks shocked. "it wasn't that hard, i just used what i had to work with." Josh smiles and chuckles. "i can't even make pasta without messing it up somehow." Tyler says ashamed but at the same time annoyed. "do you need me to cook for you everyday?" Josh asks as a joke and laughs. "stop making fun of my cooking skills!" Tyler says blushing and hiding his face. "I'm sowwyyyyy." Josh whines. "hmpf, you better be." Tyler says playfully mad. They both burst out laughing and start eating.

Once they're done eating, josh gets up and starts washing the dishes. "Let me do the dishes, you've done so much already!" Tyler says. "it's okay tyler, today is your day off." Josh says and keeps washing the dishes. Tyler feels flustered. 'Stupid josh has to be so perfect..' Tyler thinks to himself, making himself even more flustered. "But you have done everything, I'll feel bad." Tyler says. "Don't worry about it, okay? I've got this, besides i enjoy being helpful." Josh says and smiles. Tyler nods a bit and looks at josh while he washes the dishes.

• Josh's POV •

"How would you feel if someone you have only known for a few weeks told you that they liked you?" Josh asks breaking the silence. "w-what do you mean..?" Tyler asks, stuttering a bit. "well, my friend met a girl and she told him that he liked him, but he didn't know what to say, he isn't sure if he likes her back." Josh lies. "oh.. well.. if they have good chemistry.. then maybe take them out on a few dates and see how it goes..?" Tyler says. "So if you were in his situation, would you do that?" Josh asks. "why are you asking me this?" Tyler asks. "I dunno, answer the question, I'm curious." Josh lies once again. "well if the chemistry is there.. then yeah..?" Tyler says a bit unsure. Josh nods.

"Now tell me why you are asking me these questions." Tyler demands. Josh sighs a bit. "I'm not sure I want to tell you that yet." Josh says, sitting down at the table, after finishing the dishes. "oh, why not?" Tyler asks. "well I'm scared of how you'll react." Josh says. "Huh..?" Tyler asks confused.

Josh takes a deep breath. "I like you, okay, that's why I'm asking you these questions, because I want to know how you'd react, i don't want to ruin the friendship which i probably already did. There is no girl, there is no friend, i just simply made it up. I don't even know if you feel like we have chemistry. I shouldn't have even told you this.." josh mumbles. "o-oh.. u-uhm.." tyler is caught off guard. "I'll see myself out." Josh says, getting up. "w-wait!" Tyler grabs Josh's hand. "i-i.." tyler looks around and grabs a paper, writing something down on it. Then pointing to it.

Josh reads it. 'I like you too..' josh looks at tyler shocked, tyler is blushing. Josh's shocked expression turns into a smile and light blush. "really?" Josh asks. Tyler nods slightly. Josh can't help but hug the smaller boy, feeling relieved.