13 Reasons Why Preferences

TYLER DOWN

for: yamansidechick

Yearbook

Saturday.
6:00 PM.
Your first ever high school dance.
"Spring Fling."

You were nervous, of course you were. Nervous that no one would ask you to it, nervous that something bad would happen. Nervous about the dress, the shoes, the hair, makeup, everything. You knew you would probably go alone. The guy you had a crush on, Tyler Down... Yeah, he was a grade above you and you didn't think he noticed you liked him neither did you think he'd ask you to a dance. You talked to him a few times, you knew each other's names and you even took yearbook with him. You had to admit, you had no actual interest in that class and you only took it to see Tyler. Even if you guys didn't talk and interact as much as you'd like. You liked to watch him, he was interesting the way he did things. Sometimes it was hard though, he got bullied a lot. You wish you could've done something about it but didn't- out of fear. You got bullied a lot too. That was one thing you and Tyler actually had in common, it sucked that it was a bad thing.

You sighed and dropped your plastic fork onto your lunch tray, it was nearing the end of lunch and you hadn't had a very good morning. Everything was askew and you were late for class which ended you up with a detention. Yearbook class was after lunch, at least you had something to look forward to. you smiled to yourself and pushed your food around your tray as you thought about Tyler. He was so sweet and gentle. Or so he seemed.

After lunch and a quick stop at your locker you were headed to your class. It was all the way at the end of the hall, you fast walked there to avoid Bryce and Chloe and their goons. Most of them being Tyler's bullies too, they bullied a lot of people but the one who went at Tyler the most was Monty. Almost as if he was obsessed with him. It was kind of weird actually. ( 😉 I lowkey think monty had a crush on Tyler and he was so mean to him because he WAsNT GaY) Once you arrived at the door you checked for a light, you knew Tyler came here during his lunch break, to eat alone. You wanted to join him sometimes but you didn't want him to think you were weird. The light wasn't on which meant you could go in, you opened the door and slipped inside walking straight past Tyler to the table where you usually worked at. You could feel him looking at you as you set your stuff down, he probably wasn't. As you turned to look sure enough he was, his eyes glued to you as if he was analyzing you. Your whole face heated and you were sure it was blood red, your body went stiff unsure of what he was doing, thinking. It was like you couldn't move, paralyzed by his stare. It was a bit nerve wracking. After what felt like forever but was actually a couple seconds, he turned around and started sorting his papers again.

"you're early." he said blandly. You had noticed over the past few days his whole demeanor had changed, he was usually smiling and excited to work on photos from what you gathered. Recently he had started hanging out with Cyrus and he seemed.. disturbed.

Your brows raised, surprised he had even noticed. You were only 5 minutes early. "oh- I um-  Y-yeah" you stuttered, a nervous laugh followed. You were alone with him, you got a rush of nerves and excitement as he spoke. You never really talked to him that much, just a few times. "just trying to avoid Bryce.." you shrugged. You watched him go rigid and he looked over his shoulder at you, "I understand." he said simply. You nodded as eveything went quiet. Only the shuffling of his papers and the sound of you opening your bag and getting stuff out could be heard throughout the room. You sat down and started working on yearbook layout, Tyler was doing the same thing and you should've been working together but you were too nervous so you kept to yourself. A few minutes passed by and he started to click against the table, your ears perked and glanced over at him, he was using his finger to tap. You didn't mind it. You went back to working and noticed the paper shuffling had stopped, you didn't think much of it. You were drawing and designing some of the pages, they were looking nice until you made a mistake and needed an eraser, you didn't have one it had run out of your pencil. You sighed and closed your eyes, waiting a couple seconds. Maybe Tyler had one you could borrow.