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Things aren't getting better. Thursday morning was met with a nasty aura that followed into a migraine. Most of the food he tried to eat wasn't kept down. His head throbbed and pushed against his eyes. Everything was too loud and he couldn't catch a break.
Most of the day was spent in the moments he was awake, mainly using the bathroom or checking to see if he could take more medication.
Waking up sometime around 3, His phone rang somewhere in the mess of his bedsheets. His head throbbed and threatened to spill out of his head, the phone ringing felt like knives being jabbed into his skull, twisting, turning, poking, and prodding at him. Clamily, he grasped the phone and answered without a second thought.
“Hmmello?” His mouth was slow at responding,
“Tyler, hey” Josh started, “I know I wasn't supposed to come over until tomorrow but we need to talk, and your teachers want me to give you your homework now so you don't get behind.” Josh’s voice was soft, but it stabbed Tyler's head.
Words tried to form but everything took so much effort, he almost managed to start before Josh interrupted.
“Listen, I get if you don't want to talk, but I want to, and if you could just listen to me.” He sighed, “I have to give you your homework anyway. I'll be over in 5.”
He didn't remember falling asleep, but when he woke up again he was met with the same splitting migraine, but now with Josh sitting on the floor with his back against his nightstand, glancing up at him from his phone every so often.
“Hey” He spoke softly, his eyes crinkled as he smiled. “You doing okay?”
His vision was still blurry, he rubbed his eyes as he spoke.
“Mmmm..” He groaned softly, collapsing back onto his bed. “Migraine.”
Josh stood up and sat on his bed, taking Tyler’s hand in his, and rubbing his thumb gentilly.
“Sorry.” He paused, “I can go if you want.”
“How long have you been here?” He slurred a bit.
“About an hour, you’re cute when you’re sleeping.”
His face flushed a slight pink “Oh.”
“I can leave Ty, I just wanted to make sure you were okay.”
“No. Stay.”
“You sure?”
“Please.”
“Your mom left a little bit ago after I came over, she needed to go get groceries and trusted me to watch you, even though you haven't been up to much.”
“Mm.” He wiggles himself over in the bed, pulling Josh’s arm to come and lay down with him.
Giving in, he wiggles under the covers next to Tyler, half sitting, half laying down against the headboard. His hand naturally falls to his head and scratches it.
“I wanna talk about it, Ty. Let me know if you need me to stop, but I just need to get it off my chest.”
“Mmm.”
“We need to establish boundaries or something, it's not fair to either of us if something we say or do makes each other mad and we have no idea. I enjoy being here for you Tyler, but I can't be a good boyfriend if something like this pushes you away and makes you snap at me.”
“I didn't snap.”
“You're right, you didn't, but you pushed me away and it hurt Tyler, and that's why this needs to happen.”
“M’sorry.” He sighed into the pillows
“What needs to happen to make you feel comfortable with me? What can we do here? What can we not do? Can we do things in public? I feel a bit blindsighted about what you want, and I only want us to be happy. You to be happy, okay?” He leans over to kiss Tyler's head.
“I-I want to do a lot of things but I'm so scared Josh” Tyler clings to his side, talking into his hoodie. “I think, nothing, like, I don't know, only like small kisses when anyone is home, n-no pet names while anyone is home either.”
“So because no one is home now, what can we do?”
“Um..” Tyler starts before digging his redding face into Josh.
“Ty.” Josh grabs his chin softly, angling his face to look at him. “We don't have to do anything right now, or. Ever if that's what you want.”
“N-no! I want to I just..”
“Never done anything before?” Josh finishes, sending a blush up Tyler's face that lines his cheeks. “It's okay baby, I'll take care of you.” He flashes him a soft smirk before leaning down and pressing a chase kiss to his lips.
“A-and maybe don't leave any marks where my parents can see.” Tyler's face somehow grew redder than it already was.
“Oh, so you want me to leave marks then?”
“No!... Yes?... I don't know.”
“Never had those either?”
“I've never had a partner before.”
“Oh!” Josh’s eyes grew wide before settling back. “I don't know, I know you always tell me everything but like, I just assumed you had had at least a girlfriend or something before, what about Jenna? I thought you two had something going on?”
“No J, you are my first.”
“I'll treat you good then,” He smiles, pressing another quick kiss to Tyler's lips. “So about hickies..”
“Josh!” Tyler squeaked, pressing his face back into Josh.
“I'm kidding Tyler I'm kidding!” He chuckled, pulling him in closer.
“Iwanna.” He muffled into his hoodie.
“What?”
“I want t-to try it”
“Oh,” Now it was Josh’s turn to have his face flush red. “N-now or?”
“S-sure.”
“Oh” The pair was flushed now, body temperatures elevating slowly.
“I-I don't know what I'm doing.”
“Y-yeah d-don't worry, I'll do most of it. Here. Sit up.” He pulls Tyler up from under his arms to sit against the headboard, swinging his legs so he is straddling Tyler.
Tyler looks like a deer in the headlights. “Hi,” he breathes out shakily.
“Hi,” Josh returns, pressing a soft kiss to the other boy's lips. “So, I-I can do this with your shirt on but it would be easier if you took it off. I'll take mine off too.” Hands running softly down his arms, down to grasp the hem of his shirt. Sending shivers through Tyler.
“Okay.” He breathed out the breath that was caught in his throat.
“Ty. Tell me to stop at any time.” Josh says, running his hands under his shirt and caressing his stomach and hips, practically holding him.
Tyler nodded softly, keeping his eyes on Josh as he continued to run his hand up his shirt, stopping one of his hands at his nipple, rolling it in between his thumb and forefinger, causing a shuddered breath to release from the boy.
“Pretty boy,” Josh mumbled, tracing his pecs before pulling Tyler's shirt off the rest of the way, taking care to make sure his tube wasn't caught in the shirt. His shirt followed shortly after. “You okay?”
“Y-yeah I-”
“You can touch.” Tyler didn't respond, instead, he reached to run his fingers along Josh’s shoulders and biceps, squeezing them before running his hand over his abs, letting his fingertips explore the boy. Josh sighed leaning in to start a soft trail of kisses to Tyler’s jaw, nibbling on his ear for a moment. “So pretty Ty, so pretty.” He nibbled again, taking note to watch where Tyler's feeding tube was. Making his way down the side of his neck, nibbling slightly and listening to the hitches in breath from the boy above him. He made his way down to the junction of his neck, he nibbled and licked the skin there, sucking gently.
“Josh.” Tyler breathed a small plea, blood rushing down towards his abdomen. Josh hummed, kissing lower on his collarbone, finding a patch of flesh that would be hidden with a T-shirt. With his target in mind, he started softly with small nips and open-mouth kisses before sucking more passionately, pulling soft flesh between his teeth, and playing with the skin with his teeth and tongue. Tyler’s breath hitched at the action before letting a low, soft moan slip through his lips. Josh’s hands moved lower, griping softly on his hips as he shifted forward. Josh padded his tongue against the red, pink, and softly purpling skin on Tyler's neck, giving soft kisses to it to try and relieve some of the pain. He plants one soft kiss on the bruise for good measure before placing a kiss on the boy's lips.
“What did you think?”
Tyler was still panting slightly, “Wow, um, wow.”
“Good?”
“Yeah... Yeah. Wow.”
“Want more?”
“Um. I. maybe? I'm. I'm kinda hard, sorry.”
Josh flashed a small smile. “T’s okay, me too.”
“Can I kiss you?”
“Do you seriously need to ask?”
Tyler leaned in, closing the gap once again. Kisses that started soft and loving grew and grew more feverously. Soon enough Tyler was pinned to the mattress, letting Josh explore his mouth and kiss anywhere he wanted. The two were practically one, touching, grasping, and connecting skin to skin. Tyler could feel Josh’s clothed dick against his thigh, occasionally shifting and moving closer to his own. He was practically melting into the sheets, letting the warmth of the boy on top of him surround him. Josh shifted over, letting his clothed erection rub against Tyler's, causing the boy to mewl into the kiss and softly throw his hips up in desperation for friction. Noticing his attempt, Josh took more effort into shifting his hips gently onto the boy, causing soft moans to fill the room. The kiss was broken now, as the two boys' eyes chased back and forth from their erections to each other's face.
“Okay?” Josh paused to look at him.
“F-fuck Josh, please. Yes.” He whined at the lack of contact. Josh didn't say anything else, instead, he took to a rhythm of grinding their clothed cocks together, sending Tyler into a panting mess, white-knuckling the sheets as he sloppily threw his hips at Josh.
“Ty, baby, no one's home, I wanna hear you.” Josh nibbled into his ear. It didn't take long before Tyler's little whimpers and soft moans filled the room as the two got sloppier and sloppier in their rhythm. It wasn't long until both of them were reaching their orgasms, hips sloppy, mouths and hands roamed as soft ‘oh please’ and ‘yes’s’ echoed the room. After they rode eachother down from the high, Josh pressed a soft kiss to Tyler, sliding next to him in bed, disregarding the wetness in his boxers that slowly ran down his thighs, the same thing happening to Tyler.
The silence was a comfortable one, the slowing breaths of each other filled the gaps. Fingers were laced as the pair grew sleepy in their post-orgasmic bliss. It was warm and soft and everything a lover could want out of another partner. The moment seemed to last forever and the pair didn't mind, smiling softly at each other.
“Are you still mad at me?” Josh whispered.
“God no.” Tyler giggled.
And they smiled, nothing could ruin the moment, besides the garage door being shut softly and the shuffle of groceries being placed softly on the counter. “Shit.” Josh jumped, grabbing the nearest t-shirt and throwing it to Tyler before grabbing the other one and putting it on, sliding back onto the floor and hastily grabbing his phone. Soft footsteps made their way upstairs before knocking softly and peeking into the room.
“Oh good he's up. Hope he didn't cause you too much trouble Josh, thanks again for letting me run some errands. We were starting to run low on some things.” Kelly said softly, stepping into the room.
“Oh no he was fine he just woke up a few minutes ago. Nothing too bad.”
“Oh good I was worried he was going to sleep all day. You can leave whenever you want Josh, or feel free to stay for dinner.”
“I'll probably go home soon and study. Thank you though!”
“Any time Josh, and Tyler, when did you get that shirt?”
Shit, they were wearing each other's shirts.
“Oh um, it's old, I just haven't worn it in a while.”
“Oh okay! I just haven't seen it before that's all.”
“Y-yeah I've had it for a bit.”
“Okay, well, we are having chicken bowls tonight. I'll call you down when it's ready, and again thank you, Josh.” She smiled at him softly before closing the door.
“Shit.” They both breathed out.