Josh POV

After biking to school I put my backpack in my locker. As I turn around I see Aden approaching.

"I beat another of your discussing breed yesterday." He said with a confident smirk.

"You're a psychopath." I say walking past him.

"Yeah! Run away!" He yells, to that I smirk back and give him the middle finger. As I am walking to my first class my breath hitches as I realize that it's science. I couldn't stop thinking about how hot Tyler was.

I walk into class and sit in my assigned seat. I take out one of my spare notebooks and start to doodle. It is literally 30 seconds before class starts when Tyler walks in. His head is down and he has his hood up. When he sits down he lays his forehead on the desk.

"Tyler?" I ask putting my hand on his shoulder. He turns his head towards me but he keeps it on the desk.

"Oh my god. Tyler,  who did this to you?" I know it wasn't Aden because he does not hit people in the face, so no one can see.

"M-my mom." He says very ashamed ( as if it was his fault.)

Though I am surprised I do not show it, so that he's more comfortable. The teacher walks in and suddenly I get an idea.

"Okaaaaaay class, today be will be learning- ugh. Yes Josh?" He says expectingly.

"Tyler's not feeling so good." The teacher shifted his gaze to Tyler who was now sitting up with his head down.

"Alright, you can walk him to the nurse,  but you have to come right back." I grab Tyler's wrist and pull him out of the class room.

"What the hell are you doing! I don't want to go to the nurse." He whispers  once we leave the class room.

"Just fallow me." I say as I start to smile.

Once we get to the nurses office Tyler try's to go in, but I keep a firm grip on his wrist. He looks at me with the most confused look. 

"I never said which nurse." I smirk and pull him out the door that my bike is locked in front of. I hop on and he gets on behind me.

"You're not holding on." I say and he wraps his arms around my waist. After about 3 minutes we are almost to my house and we hit a pothole. We flip over, nether of us are hurt, but we were covered in mud. We get back on and continue to bike 'till we get to my house.

This time, instead of getting my first aid kit I plan on getting a multitude of ice packs for Tyler's face. He is about to sit on my bed and get it all muddy.

"Don't you dare sit on my bed." I say firmly.

"Oh, yeah, sorry." He stands back up and laughs nervously. I grab a shirt and a pair of shorts for him to change into.

I hand the outfit to him. "You change while I get the ice packs." I say walking out of the room. As I walk down the stairs my thoughts start to wander.
God damn, Tyler is so hot. I hope he feels the same.

I walk up the the fridge, and open the top part, (the freezer) I grab a few ice packs. As I walk up the stairs I completely forget that Tyler is changing. I open the door and walk in.

"Hey Tyler, here are some ice-" He was just pulling on the shorts I gave him when I realize that Tyler is still changing, he looks like a deer caught in headlights. I quickly look him up and down because I may not get another chance to and then run out of the room, shutting the door behind me.

"I'm sorry Tyler, I forgot that you were changing." I say trough the door.

"It-it's okay." I can practically hear him start to blush.

"Tyler?" When I looked at Tyler while he was dressing, I saw something that made me very concerned.

"Ye-yeah?" I get he is embarrassed, but why does he keep stuttering?

"What was on your thighs?" I hear Tyler's breath hitch.

"I'm done changing." He says shyly, not answering my question. Pushing that aside, I open the door to see a very ashamed looking Tyler sitting on my bed.

"Tyler?" Tyler lowers his head in response.

"Ty, can I look?" I say kneeling in front of him so I can see his face.

"There's nothing to see." He says whispering.

"Tyler. Please." He looks me in the eyes and then at his lap. He starts to roll up his shorts, revealing many thin scars varying in length. I look at Tyler's thighs and up at Tyler, who is obviously holding back tears. I look at his thighs one last time before very carefully rolling his shorts back down. I stand up and sit next to Tyler on the bed. I gingerly wrap my arms around his shoulders and pull him into a hug. He nuzzles his head into the nook of my neck and that is when he starts to cry.

Eventually my mom hears Tyler crying. "Is everything okay in there?"

"Yeah, me and Tyler were just leaving." I say standing up and grabbing Tyler's hand.

"We are?" He says sniffling and drying his eyes.

"Yes. We are." I give him a sweet smile.

We get on my bike and I start off towards the school. "Why are we going back to school?" Tyler says, resting his head on my shoulder, which makes me feel fuzzy.

"Because, I know some people." I pause. "You need friends." I pause once again. "And some adventure." I let go of the handlebars and Tyler grips me even tighter.

"What the hell are you doing! YOU'ER GOING TO GET US KILLED!"

"What can I say? I live on the wild side!"

•••

When we get back to the school it's lunch hour. Tyler and I get of my bike and walk into the lunch room, we sit at my usual table and wait for my other friends.

"Just who are these 'friends' of yours?"

"You'll see." Just then my friends walk up and sit down. I look over to Tyler and see him shrink in his seat, at the sight of the tallest of the tree.

"Hey Josh," Andy says with a smile, before shifting his gaze to Tyler. "Who's this pringle?"

"I- I'm t-t-Tyler." Tyler says, his expression growing more and more tariffed.

"Hey Tyler! I'm Frank!" Frank says, shoving Andy aside and sitting down. Soon Gerard appears and sits next to Frank, Andy takes a seat directly across the table from Tyler and it looks like he dies inside.

"Awe, cheer up 'pringle'!" I say wrapping my arm around his shoulders.

"What the fuck happened to your fucking face?" Gerard says leaning over Frank and Andy so that he was right in Tyler's face.

My smile soon fades as I answer. "It was Aden again." I tell the small lie for Tyler sake.

"Don't worry 'Ty' he's gotten all of us expect Andy, he's scared of Andy." Frank says examining Andy, as if he's a rare item. Tyler let out a sigh of relief.

"Yeah! Don't worry!" I say rubbing my face on Tyler's.

Frank stands up and throws his hands in the air. "I ship it already."

"I'll call it. . . Tylosh? No. Joshler!" Andy says obviously oblivious to how loud he was getting.

"Calm your panti-" Then the bell rings and we all head off to our classes.