January - tug-of-war
He needed a vacation. Not just a weekend away to some place he'd never been before. Tyler needed to get away from everything and just let loose for a while. He chose Manhattan because it feels like a second home to him. He's not really sure where his first home is anymore, but this one keps him grounded a little more when all he really wants to do is forget everything and feel nothing at all.
New York was the perfect choice. Tyler had been wanting to go back there for ages and he'd also wanted to take Lily with him and show her around the city that was supposed to belong to him. This was his father's city once upon a time and Tyler wanted that legacy and he wanted to share it with one of the few people who truly mattered to him anymore.
It's Lily and the faint reminder of his family back in Los Angeles that keeps him from going under. There's a pull so strong and it would be so easy just to let go completely. Sometimes he thinks bringing Lily was the wrong choice because it's keeping him from actually going there, but in the morning when he wakes up next to her, Tyler knows there wasn't any other choice he could have possibly made that wasn't the wrong choice.
They live like proper Osborns should while in the city. Fine dining, the best shopping the city can offer, shows and plays, and of course the best night life he's ever seen. More than one night he takes her to the clubs and they dance the night away. Sometimes he thinks he's forgotten about what they eventually have to go back to after the stay in New York is over. He lets himself get lost in the excitement of the city, in the music, and in Lily and sometimes it's just all a bad dream. Not real. Reality hits him hard, though, and it's then that he struggles the most.
Lily is his lifeboat to keep his head above the waves when all he wants to do sometimes is let himself drown in them.
New York was the perfect choice. Tyler had been wanting to go back there for ages and he'd also wanted to take Lily with him and show her around the city that was supposed to belong to him. This was his father's city once upon a time and Tyler wanted that legacy and he wanted to share it with one of the few people who truly mattered to him anymore.
It's Lily and the faint reminder of his family back in Los Angeles that keeps him from going under. There's a pull so strong and it would be so easy just to let go completely. Sometimes he thinks bringing Lily was the wrong choice because it's keeping him from actually going there, but in the morning when he wakes up next to her, Tyler knows there wasn't any other choice he could have possibly made that wasn't the wrong choice.
They live like proper Osborns should while in the city. Fine dining, the best shopping the city can offer, shows and plays, and of course the best night life he's ever seen. More than one night he takes her to the clubs and they dance the night away. Sometimes he thinks he's forgotten about what they eventually have to go back to after the stay in New York is over. He lets himself get lost in the excitement of the city, in the music, and in Lily and sometimes it's just all a bad dream. Not real. Reality hits him hard, though, and it's then that he struggles the most.
Lily is his lifeboat to keep his head above the waves when all he wants to do sometimes is let himself drown in them.