ghosts // joshler

ghosts

*TRIGGER WARNING*

includes death, s/h or suicidal thoughts/attempts; nothing extremely graphic

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tyler joseph wakes up. stretches. a normal routine for him.

"hey josh, time for the day buddy!" he shouts at the sleeping figure under the covers on the bed near him.

no response.

tyler walks over towards the lump of sheets.

"i said...good-" he starts, pulling off the sheets to reveal a completely still, sleeping josh. tyler puts a hand on his arm. it's ice cold.

"...morning?"

~~~

"i swear he's okay! no! don't take him!" a screaming tyler pleads as two men in white haul his best friend onto a stretcher. "i only wanted to make sure he's conscious!"

one of the men spoke. "that's what we're doing, kid. making sure he's alright. we'll be back."

"b-but when?" tyler asks them, wiping his eyes with the back of his hand.

"not sure. this case came out of the blue. we don't know what happened to him, okay?"

the door closed. tyler immediately ran over to the window, staring out as the ambulance took his friend away into the distance.

~~~

five days. it had been five days without josh. five days filled with nothing but crying and occasionally getting up to get a drink or go to the bathroom. tyler couldn't sleep. it was like all of the light in his life was gone.

he never knew exactly how important josh was to him.

now he knew.

the phone rang. tyler had never ran faster to a call in his life.

"hello?"

"yes, hi. is this tyler, er-"

"tyler joseph. that's me."

"okay good. we were calling to just inform you that-"

"is he okay? please say he's okay, oh my god." tyler begged of the person.

lots of thoughts went through tyler's head.

josh was conscious, or not.

josh was healthy, or not.

josh was alive...or not.

"we would like you to, um, come in and see him. he is, im fact, awake, but we're not sure for how much longer." the person informed him.

tyler nearly screamed. he was happy, of course, that josh was awake and he could go see his best friend.

but the fact that they're "not sure for how much longer"...what did that mean?

~~~

tyler opened the door of the hospital. he looked around him. everything was so...white.

the walls, the floors, the ceilings. the coats that the numerous doctors and nurses wore. he shook his head, just to get his head out of the whiteness.

he walked up to the counter. "hi," he began timidly.

"i'm here to see joshua dun."

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