The Wylie Diaries : Where The Flowers Bloom

Chapter One : You + Me

I was never really a kind of guy to get nervous but today was different. Tyler and I had been talking for quite some time now and we finally set a time and place to meet. Ever since I started talking to him I knew that there was something there to develop, whether friendship or relationship I didn't know. Instead of my usual routine of finding something casual to put on, i found myself putting more thought into what I was wearing. I couldn't understand how a person could be affecting me so much and yet we had never met. I just felt a connection the minute we started talking.

As I approached our meeting point i felt my palms begin to sweat. Curious, I thought, why was I nervous? I was just meeting somebody I had been talking to for a while; it's not as if I was meeting a total stranger. As I walked into the Mall Of America my heart began to pound. Thud, Thud, Thud, it was almost as if my heart wanted to jump out of my chest. It felt like it was searching for something. I walked slowly to the meeting point, he was already waiting there. I threw my arms around him in a welcoming embrace, I giggled out of nerves and said hello.

"Hi, Wylie. Nice to finally meet you" Tyler said in deep yet soft voice.

"Nice to meet you too, man. What you want to get up to?" I responded.

"Why don't we grab something to eat, I'm hungry anyway" Tyler said

"Lets do it!" I said rather excitedly, i knew that eating would help me calm these nerves that seemed to penetrate each fibre of my body. I couldn't help but stare into his eyes as he sat across the table from me eating his hamburger. His eyes seemed so welcoming. A crystal clear blue, like the ocean on a hot summer's day. They appeared welcoming, so warm and comforting that i found myself lost in their gaze. He would catch me glimpsing often and would smile but never mention it. There was something so natural about him; I just felt that our energy flowed so easily together.

Tyler had told me that he had to rush off before we met, so i wasn't expecting this to be a long meeting. I wish that it was longer; however. I found myself wanting to stay in his company for longer. We hugged goodbye, said we would meet up again soon and parted ways.

The days moved to weeks and the weeks moved to months and before i knew it, several months had passed since i last saw him. I almost forgot that he even existed, he was pre-occupied with his own life and i slowly began to live mine.

Ding! My phone made a sound as if to tell me to check it instantly. I glanced over and saw that the message was from Tyler Ringhand. He wanted to hang out again. I wasn't sure what to respond, it had been so long and i wondered if we had grown apart. Could the events that he had been through have changed him? I wasn't sure. I decided to meet him and see exactly what he was like.

The meeting passed and so did another, and another, and another. Before I knew it months had passed and we were like best friends. We made you-tube videos, we got tattoos together and we laughed and joked. We seemed so comfortable around each other and i never wanted that to change.

But it did.