"Are you sure about this?" Tyler asked nervously wiping his sweaty palms off on his favorite red skinny jeans.
"Yeah," Josh replied his voice a little shaky but otherwise more confident than that of his best friend.
Tyler bit his lip looking sadly over at his best friend. The two boys had been sat on the bed next to one another in an unusual for them silence. It had been a whirlwind of a week since the two boys who'd been friends since elementary school admitted to one another their mutual affection that was just a bit more than that of platonic friendship. It had been a long and confusing road for the two fifteen year old boys. Both sharing in the fear that the other would run away screaming if they confessed their true feelings.
But the truth came to light at it tends to, at the most inopportune of times. Tyler and Josh had been in Tyler's basement jamming out together, Josh banging away on the drums and Tyler's fingers gliding across the piano as he sang his lyrical verses. Josh was playing the drums but he was also enamored by the sight of his best friend singing his heart out, the lyrics as usual incredibly personal and deep. His soul was exposed in the moment and it was so apparent to Josh in that moment that he couldn't hide the affection he felt for the boy before him for much longer.
This realization was still a week from their current, rather awkward position. The very next day Josh had decided to walk the two streets over to his best friends house for an impromptu visit. This wasn't anything unusual as they often dropped by the other's house unannounced. This day he walked into the house like he owned it, waved a cheery hello to Mrs. Joseph who smiled and told him Tyler was in his room.
Josh took the stairs two at a time in a rush for nothing other than to see his best friend. But on this day he stopped outside his best friend's door at the sound of crying. He stopped in his tracks immediately confused and worried as to why his best friend in the world could be crying. He knocked gently on the door, he opened the door slightly just in time to see Tyler try and wipe his face clean. "Ty?" Josh said as he pushed the door open and walked into the room. Josh sat down on the bed next to Tyler who sat looking away from his friend, his eyes down cast and focused on the wall.
"Ty, what's wrong?"
Tyler just shook his head unable to express his thoughts to Josh, the very person they were centered on.
"Ty, come on. You know you can always tell me anything."
"I can't tell you this," Tyler breathed out quietly, wiping away another stray tear that fell down his cheek. The weight of gravity pulling it down seemingly much like the weight on his shoulders.
"Ty nothings so bad that you can't tell me. We've been best friends since we were five whatever you say now won't change a thing. You're kind of stuck with me as a best friend."
"You wouldn't say that if you knew."
"Don't you trust me and what I have to say after all these years?"
"I...of course I do. It's just-" Tyler stopped. He finally looked up at his best friend and gathered every ounce of courage from within himself and blurted out the words.
"I think I'm in love with you."
Josh sat there in stunned silence. Tyler sat there expecting to be slapped at any moment. To be yelled at, hit, accosted in some way or another. But Josh smiled after a short moment and looked at his tearful best friend for a moment before pulling him into his arms for a hug.
"Ty...I feel the same way."
The two boys spent the afternoon pouring their hearts out but not touching in anyway besides the hug. Both of them were nervous today because they had agreed that they should kiss at least one time to see how it felt. To see if their feelings were valid.
Tyler was sure he'd never been so nervous yet excited for anything in his life. Josh was staring at Tyler's lips aware that in just a few seconds time his lips would be on Tyler's.
"Well…" Tyler said nervously to Josh. "Should we just do it?" Tyler said quietly feeling as though his heart were going to beat out of his chest. He bit his lip as he looked to Jos for a reply in a way that Josh found incredibly sexy. So he didn't waste another second and leaned in a touched his lips to Tyler's. The first kiss was gentle and lasted only a few second before they broke apart and stared wide-eyed at the other. Neither of them even said a word before they were back together. All the gentleness and trepidation of the first kiss was forgotten as the passion between them grew.
All nervousness vanished as Josh pushed Tyler down on the bed and clambered on top of him, their lips never parting as he did so. Tyler's hands traveled up and down Josh's back teasing at the hem of his shirt, wanting desperately to pull it off but not wanting Josh's lips to ever leave his body. Josh got the memo and reached to pull of his shirt, their lips only breaking apart long enough for him to pull the shirt over his head and then toss it away like trash. Tyler's fingertips seemed to dance across his smooth flesh and it felt as natural to him as playing a piano. Josh shivered at his touch seeming to melt under his touch, his teenage body reacting in ways that were new to him.
And just when the two boys were about to take it to a whole other level they heard the door slam downstairs. They begrudgingly broke apart and a glance at the clock alerted them to the fact that the sound was Tyler's mom coming home from work. Josh placed one last peck on Tyler's cheek before he moved off the slightly smaller boy and picked his shirt up off the ground and placed it back on. Tyler sat up on the bed and looked over at Josh and couldn't help but let out a giggle. Josh smiled and looked down at his lap, biting his lip for a moment before looking back at his best friend. Tyler reached a hand up and smooth"That was fun," he remarked nonchalantly as he did so.
"Yeah...I'd say so."
"We should do that again sometime."
"Yeah. What are you doing tomorrow?"
"Nothing now, except kiss you."
"Sounds like a plan."