"come on, let's go get drunk." ryan said, as soon as he opened josh's door. josh jumped, looking up and laughing. he didn't know ryan was coming over.

"who's that?" ryan heard coming from josh's phone.

"it's ryan." josh giggled. "it's max." he said to ryan.

"hey max, wanna come get drunk with us?" ryan asked through the phone.

"woah woah woah i didn't even agree yet." josh said.

"i don't care if you agree, i'm asking max." ryan said.

"sure. josh?" max laughed.

"yeah i'm down. where?" he said.

"bryce is having a party. all of us are gonna go." ryan said.

"tyler too?" josh asked.

"yep. now let's get you dressed. max we'll come pick you up." ryan said.

"alright. bye. bye josh." he said.

"bye max." josh said back, hanging up the phone after.

"what were y'all chatting about hmm?" ryan asked.

"nothing." he said, ryan looking at him. "he didn't have a very good day so i was comforting him."

"poor baby." ryan frowned, walked over to joshs closet and going through the clothes.

"you couldn't have warned me about this party any sooner?" josh laughed, ryan smiling and taking clothes out and examining them.

"i couldve. but don't you love surprises." he said. he pulled out a black long sleeve shirt. "light colored jeans." ryan said, throwing the shirt at him.

"is brendon and them already there?" josh asked, taking off his shirt and sliding that one on.

"yeah. bren drove dal and them and i came to get you and max." ryan said. josh slid off his shorts next, and then put on his lighter colored jeans. he put on his deodorant and spritz of cologne before fixing his hair.

"ready." josh said.

"sweet. don't forget your lifeline." ryan said, pointing to joshs juul on the charger.

"shut the fuck up." josh laughed, grabbing it and taking a hit. he slid it in his pocket along with his phone and wallet before following ryan out of his room.

"where are you going?" jordan asked from his room where he was playing with legos.

"just gonna hang out with my friends. i'll be home tomorrow okay?" josh said. jordan nodded and ran to him, josh picking him up and giving him a big hug.

"love you." he said.

"love you too." jordan said back, josh smiling and going downstairs.

"gonna go to eat and then to ryan's. love you." josh said to laura and bill.

"so you don't ask anymore, just do." laura joked.

"i guess so." he laughed. he knew his mom didn't care if it was hanging with ryan.

"be safe. love you." she said. he nodded, saying bye to his dad before leaving the house.

"how many times have you lied to your parents about going to a party?" ryan asked, starting up his vehicle and backing out of his driveway. he made his way to maxs house, getting directions from josh.

"i'm sure at least one hundred times." josh said. he texted max that they were on their way.

"so, how are you? you doing good working on yourself?" ryan asked, looking over at him then back to the road.

"yeah, yeah i'm good. it's working out yeah." he nodded.

"you haven't secretly hooked up with either of the boys, right?" ryan said, smiling. he joked, but josh knew he was being serious too.

"no, no i haven't i'm good." he answered honestly.

"good for you yeah. do you know how you feel yet?" ryan asked. "as far as like, how you feel about either of them?"

"i don't really know yet. right now i'm kind of like, sensitive about both of them, but like when we're all together it's like i never dated either one of them. if i'm alone with either one i start feeling things." he said.

"hmm. i guess be careful if you're alone with them. you know both of those boys are head over heels for you. right now everyone's friends and it should stay that way until things calm down i guess." ryan said.

"yeah. yeah i get it." josh smiled. "it's that one." he pointed to maxs house.

"it's nice." ryan said, parking on the street in front of it. josh texted max.

a few minutes later they saw him walking out, dressed in some black jeans, and a blue short sleeve button up shirt.

"hey max." ryan smiled when max opened the back door and got it.

"hey ry, josh." he said.

"max you know the rule about party's. if you wear a button up shirt you have to unbutton it." josh said.

"aw man i forgot that rule. remind me and i will." he said.

"alright. i mean you don't have to, but it's recommended." josh said.

"i think i can manage to do that." he said, josh giggling and blowing his smoke out of his mouth.

"you're filling my car up with cancer you bitch." ryan said. "i'm getting second hand smoke i think i'm addicted."

josh giggled, taking another hit and blowing the smoke at ryan. ryan screamed, waving it away from his face.

"max supports my addiction don't you." josh said. "he's even hit it before like a badass."

"max i cannot believe you for hitting joshs juul!" yah said.

"sorry ry he peer pressured me to." max laughed.

"joshua i cannot believe you." ryan shook his head.

"excuse me i think it went more like, 'oh that smells good' 'oh yeah you can hit it if you want' boom end of story." josh said.

"that's it you're all going to hell." ryan shrugged, them laughing.

"here have a hit." josh said, holding it out to ryan.

"bitch no i've hit brendon's before." ryan said.

"mines better than brendon's because it's mine." josh said.

"oh yeah okay whatever." ryan mocked him, max laughing. they pulled into a parking lot thing, where all the cars parked. you had to walk to the party. it was at this guys house.

"there's brens truck. he said they're out back." ryan said, texting him that they're here. they walked up to the house, ringing the doorbell. bryce answered.

"hey ry. brendon's out back." he smiled. ryan said hey back before they walked out through the sliding doors.

"boo." ryan said, hugging brendon from behind. he jumped and turned, the biggest smile coming across his face as he saw ryan.

"hey! hey josh, max what's up?" he said, bro shaking them before wrapping his arm around ryan. brendon was wearing some bright purple neon pants, and a neon green t-shirt that had the same color purple writing on it tucked into them. it had the thrasher logo in purple. he was wearing his silver chain, his rolex watch and some rings. he was wearing his high top checkered vans, but one of them was purple and the other was green. he had a blunt over his ear.

"did you buy those shoes like that?" josh asked.

"no, i custom made the purple ones, and then i bought this shirt so i ordered the green shoes and i couldn't decide which pair matched better so i decided to wear both." he said.

"that's so sexy of you." ryan said, running his hand up and down his front as he loved on him.

"you're so sexy." brendon said back, the boys getting caught up in each other.

"hey josh. max." tyler said, smiling at them, and blushing when he looked josh up and down.

"hey ty. you're not wearing a button up at a party? are you crazy?" josh said, giggling.

"i know i know i'm slacking. max did it for me though. bro you gotta unbutton it man." Tyler said, max laughing. tyler was just wearing basketball shorts and a grey nike sweatshirt and a grey snapback hat on backwards.

"oh yeah my bad." he said, starting to unbutton his shirt. josh blushed and turned away. tyler noticed.

"let's go get a drink." tyler said. everyone nodding. dallon and emma followed them. brendon and ryan were making out on the couch because apparently they had a lot of sexual tension built up in their short meeting time. it's okay though, they'd be able to find them again. i mean brendon was wearing neon green and neon purple.

"you want a drink or a beer?" tyler asked them, grabbing a beer for himself.

"i think i'm just gonna drink beer." josh said, grabbing one of the aluminum bottles.

"yeah me too." max agreed.

"i'm gonna make us all drinks later and they're gonna be bomb as fuck." tyler said, taking a big drink of his.

"i think everything's gonna taste good when we're shit faced." josh giggled. max smiled.

"yeah yeah." tyler rolled his eyes, looking down at the ground. he looked josh up and down.

"bro max remember that one time we got into my moms liquor cabinet in 9th grade?" tyler laughed. the group went and sat down on the chairs next to the alcohol.

"holy shit yeah. wow that was the first time i ever really got drunk." max laughed.

"your mom has a liquor cabinet?" josh asked, laughing.

"yeah. me and max got into it when no one was home. we both got so drunk off of like a cup i threw up on my couch and max passed out in the bathroom." tyler said through laughing.

"did your parents not come home and see you?" josh asked.

"oh no, they did." tyler nodded.

"yeah they did big time." max laughed.

"mom beat my ass. luckily i cleaned up my throw up before she got home, but i was still passed out drunk with a cup in my hand." tyler said.

"and your mom never found out?" josh asked max.

"no. i convinced her not to tell her." max laughed. he got up real quick and grabbed another beer, also handing each of them one.

"you wanna know a secret too?" tyler asked josh, looking at max and smirking.

"no!" max gasped, tyler laughing.

"cmon we have to tell him." tyler said.

"ohmygod. i completely forgot about it." max smiled.

"what what?" josh asked.

"me and max made out that night. a lot." tyler chuckled.

"uh yeah a lot. for like an hour." max chuckled.

"uh, no way. y'all are both way too much of tops to do that. that's like really gay." josh said.

"it was very gay indeed yes. and i think that was the night i confirmed i was very queer so i let ty just do whatever." max chuckled.

"and that's how he found out he was a top. turns out he did not like little 13-14 year old tyler choking him." tyler laughed.

"i did not in fact." max said. "but yeah that was a fun night." he said.

"hmm. love that for y'all honestly." josh shrugged, taking the last drink of his beer. "i need to get drunk faster. how about some shots?" josh said, standing up and smiling.

"you read my mind." tyler said. they all stood up and headed over to the alcohol, grabbing the plastic shot glasses. tyler filled three of them up with some fireball.

"ready?" tyler asked. "cheers." he said, all three of them downing the liquid with ease.

"round two." josh said. tyler refilled them, then there was a round three, four, five, six and then one more.

"well fuck." tyler said, throwing the now empty bottle down.

"spicy." josh giggled, the boys laughing. they each grabbed another beer.

"let's go find bren and get high." tyler said. they followed him, stumbling over other drunk people.

the music was loud, the teenagers were dancing and having a good time. it was fun. everyone was having fun.

tyler stopped, bursting out laughing along with josh and max when they found brendon.

"brendon! what are you doing?! ryan?!" josh laughed.

"ryan's showing them how to give a proper blowjob what's up with it?" brendon said. his pants were around his ankles, and his dick was pulled out of his boxers and in ryan's mouth currently. there was a group of guys and girls surrounding them.

"ry are you even drunk yet?" josh laughed.

"the bitch drank all my fucking drink. i had my sonic filled to the brim with fuckin rum punch extra rum. it was my second cup though." brendon shrugged. ryan giggled, tongue swirling around brendon's dick.

"this seems like a very nice class you're giving." max chuckled. brendon smiled.

"what the hell do y'all want?" he asked tyler.

"weed." tyler answered.

"what makes you think i have weed?" brendon joked, the group around him laughing.

"bitch give us some weed." josh said, laughing.

"you gotta suck my dick for it." brendon said.

"josh suck his dick." max said, josh gasping.

"why me?!" he said. ryan pulled off of brendon and started laughing. he was already high.

"cause you're just so good at it you gotta." max said.

"agreed." tyler said.

"come on josh i'll give you a lesson. class we have a special guest his name is josh and he will be putting my technique to use." ryan said, the small crowd clapping and laughing.

josh rolled his eyes and laughed, walking over to ryan and getting on his knees in the grass.

"this is record breaking, josh has never sucked my dick before." brendon said, removing his hand from ryan's hair and tangling it in josh's.

"alright, grab the base of it with your right hand and hold it, you can use your left to ya know kind of massage his nuts but brendon doesn't really like it that much he prefers mouth action on the balls." ryan said.

"i do." brendon nodded his head. josh giggled and grabbed his dick.

"i've sucked a dick before ryan." josh said.

"brendon's picky." ryan frowned.

"yeah i don't think you're gonna be able to do it as good as ryan." brendon shrugged.

"it's just cause you're in love with him that's why it makes it so good." josh said.

"maybe." brendon smiled. tyler thought. max didn't.

josh opened his mouth and guided brendon in his mouth. he used his tongue to swirl around the tip, before closing his lips and sucking as he slid him further in.

"fuck." tyler said. it's been so long since he's seen josh like that. his lower area surely enjoyed the sight.

max also felt the same way. he looked down at himself and blushed, looking up quickly.

ryan smiled and clapped, seeing brendon bite his own lip. that was a good sign.

"josh you're doing so good wow!" ryan said, brendon letting out a breathy chuckle.

"good choice of a best friend ry. and how come i've never fucked him before?" brendon said. josh giggled and pulled off.

"we'll arrange it someday. in the meantime. it's my turn before brendon cums in your mouth. give them the weed babe." ryan said. josh wiped his mouth and laughed, wrapping his arm around ryan when he scooted closer.

brendon leaned down and grabbed a baggy out of his pants pocket, that had a bunch of joints in it. he gave them three joints, one for each. he was selling it, but he doesn't sell to his friends.

"thanks babe." josh said, grabbing them from brendon. he kissed ryan's cheek before standing up. ryan grabbed brendon again.

"you're welcome. now who has a lighter?" josh asked, handing them each a joint. they both chuckled awkwardly. josh looked at them weird.

"uh, i-i don't." tyler shook his head. he couldn't really properly think until the throbbing in his pants was gone. same with max.

"that guy has one." josh said, pointing to a guy who was lighting his own joint. "be right back." he said, grabbing the joints back from the boys.

"you have a boner from that too right? like that was really hot right?" tyler said.

"uh y-yeah. yes. yes that was um very hot." max said.

"fuck." tyler cursed, trying to adjust his pants. max cleared his throat, josh walking back with three lit joints.

"let's sit." he smiled, handing them back out.

"why don't we go in the house? let's party, bitches!" they heard, ryan walking up to them.

"you done with your little class?" josh giggled.

"yep, swallowed every drop of it. come on!" ryan said, brendon walking up also, now with his pants fully back up and his blunt in his mouth.

"alright." josh said. max and tyler also followed. max walked up so he was by ryan. tyler and josh walked slower.

"hey." josh smiled. tyler smiled and looked at him.

"hey." he said.

"you having fun?" josh asked.

"i am i am. drunk as fuck and having fun." he nodded, blowing out smoke from his nose. josh giggled.

"same." he nodded. "hey, uhm. you know that you don't have to, you don't have to stay with us. you can go find you a girl or something." josh said. tyler looked over at him.

"i don't wanna find a girl." tyler shook his head.

"i mean just for some sex or something, i'm sure you miss it or whatever. i don't mind." he shrugged. tyler was hurt.

"i'm good. i'm good yeah." tyler said. "i'm not like that anymore. i want you to know that." tyler said.

"alright. i believe you." josh nodded.

"good. yeah." tyler nodded. they walked in the house, their conversation being cut off as brendon dragged them to the middle to start dancing.

josh smiled at tyler, tyler blushing and smiling back. the group started dancing on each other and having a good time.

"j-josh. josh my moms calling me." max yelled in joshs ear over the music.

"shit. shit let's go outside come on. be right back maxs mom is calling." josh told ryan quickly, before grabbing maxs hand and running outside. they ran far as the could from the house, then max answered the call.

"hey mom." max said, hiding how out of breath he was. josh couldn't hear his mom. but he immediately saw maxs mood change upon just hearing her voice.

"yes ma'am. i'm sorry. i will as soon as i get home tomorrow." he said. he fell silent again as she talked more. "no. i'm not. i'm with my friend emma. yeah. okay. love you too. bye." he said, hanging up the phone and frowning.

"you okay?" josh asked.

"yeah." max nodded. "i apparently didn't clean my room good enough." he slightly chuckled.

"you can't tell her you're with me, cause she saw the heart by my name?" josh said.

"yeah she knows we dated." he nodded. "and telling her i'm with a girl just to keep it safe." he smiled.

"i'm sorry you have to go through all of that." josh shook his head.

"don't be. i'm okay." max nodded. josh knew he wasn't. max knew he wasn't.

"cmere." josh said, hugging him. max wrapped his arms around him, burying his face in joshs hair.

"thank you." max said.

"for what?" josh pulled back, looking up in maxs eyes.

"for being there for me. for not letting me do this alone. thank you." he repeated. josh smiled.

"of course. it's the least i can do." he replied. max looked him in the eyes. he flicked them down to his lips. josh did the same thing.

josh closed his eyes. he leaned in, pecking maxs lips. he pulled back, opening them.

"i-i'm sorry i shouldn't have-"

max cut him off with his lips. josh kissed back. they kissed.

they kissed.

when josh pulled back, he smiled. max smiled.

"we shouldn't have done that." josh said.

"i know. i'm sorry." max said back.

"we should probably head back to the party." josh said.

"yeah. yeah we should." max nodded.

the smiles never left their faces.

A/N: sigh