Intimidation ♡ joshler

twenty three

Tyler throws the dirty paper towel in the trash as soon as he gets home, then starts to look for his older brother; he should have this weekend off, but he's not really sure about his brother's schedule yet—it seems to change a lot, honestly.

He finds Zack in his room, relaxed on his bed with his laptop in his lap, and Tyler can hear Sims sounds coming from the device.  Zack's eyes flick over to Tyler, offering a smile to his younger brother, "Hey, T-Bro. I didn't expect you to be back so soon."

"Yeah, he has plans for today and needed to get ready for them," Tyler lies without hesitation, and Zack believes him.

"Alright, now off you go, I'm doing something important," Zack  waves him off with a smile, and Tyler's not sure what's going on in the Sims to be marked as important, but Zack is, like, fucking addicted to that game, so he's not really surprised either.

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Hours later, Tyler's playing Scrabble by himself on his phone, until his phone alerts him of his low battery.  Too bad for Tyler, whose charger is still at fucking Josh's house, but there's still hope for him—Zack too has an iPhone, and if Tyler's lucky, he won't question him upon being asked to lend his charger.

So Tyler wanders out into the hallway, knocks on his brother's door, waits for a response.

"It's open," Zack calls out, so Tyler pushes the door open and steps inside.   Zack's still playing Sims, if the stupid Simlish speak spewing from the laptop still resting on Zack's lap is anything to go by.

"Can I borrow your phone charger?" Tyler asks.

"What happened to yours?"

And Tyler was afraid of this—but trouble can still be easily evaded, because he just formed another lie, yay Tyler.

"I accidentally took Josh's charger but he doesn't have an iPhone," Tyler lies, praying that Zack would just leave it at that and give him the charger.

"See, this is why you're supposed to put your stuff back in your bag as soon as you're done using it," Zack lectures, but opens the top drawer of his nightstand, retrieving a phone charger from it and tossing it to the younger boy, who reaches out in a failed attempt to catch it.  "Boo, Tyler."

Tyler laughs sheepishly at Zack's playful teasing as he grabs it from the floor.

"Thank you," Tyler says, quickly retreating back into his room before Zack can start asking questions again; Tyler doesn't wanna risk sticking around for that and getting in trouble.