Quiet Is Viølent (Twenty One Pilots Fanfiction)

And it's that we're all Battling Fear

I walk around the unsettling atmosphere of men in suits and women draped in black dresses. All heads are bent down. No facial expressions are displayed, not even slightly. An occasional murmur is let out every now and then, but apart from that it's silent. They all sit down in foldable chairs in front of the coffin perched beside several graves. 'She's in there' I begin thinking, but then I realise she's not. Her body is, but her mind is dead- it ceases to exist. The Aria I knew can never come back, and no one could ever replace her beautiful mind. The coffin is covered in bouquets of fluorescent flowers of all sorts, along with cards and teddy bears. It seems more like they'd gotten gifts for a wedding or a newborn baby, which is wrong. This, after all is a funeral, not a celebration.

I look at Xander, who soon enough looks back at me.
"Where shall we sit? We need to decide before Josh comes to make sure we actually get to sit together." I whisper, trying not to draw any attention to myself.
"Front or back?" He asks, not even answering my question, just giving me one instead. I examine the empty chairs and decide to sit the second row in from the front which only had one person on the entire row.
"There." I say pointing my finger at the three empty chairs.
"Ok, you sit beside the girl, then me, and then Josh at the end." I nod my head in agreement. I turn back to face Xander, this time actually seeing his face. He's taken his nose ring out, and is wearing about half as much eyeliner as he would, but he still looks like Pete Wentz.
"Shall we sit down or wait for Josh?" He asks, checking his phone to see if he's got any messages.
"I think we should sit down; people might get suspicious." I reply.

We slowly pace over to the chairs trying our best not to draw too much attention to ourselves. I sit beside the girl and she keeps her head low clutching a scrunched up tissue in her hand. I wonder how she knows Aria, perhaps she's in her distant family or a friend from high school. I stop myself from asking her incase I come across nosey.
"It's going to start soon, where's Josh?" I whisper into Xander's ear, worried whether or not Josh will make it on time.
"He should be here in 5 minutes, he's just on his way." He whispers back placing his phone back into his pocket. I sigh heavily as the man stands on a small platform and begins to speak.
"Aria Smith was loved deeply and greatly..." He starts. I roll my eyes knowing it's going to be some corny and cliché speech about a girl he never knew. I could tell he'd said those words more than enough times for it to lose meaning. Which makes me wonder if he actually feels sad, or he just gets paid to look like he's sad.

I see Aria's dad in the front row balling his eyes out. I know that I'm going to cry, and I'm already teary, but I'm afraid I'll become hysterical and be unable to stop myself. Then suddenly the more and more I look around to see everyone is crying. Everyone but me. I can feel the tears coming, they're burning my eyes but they just won't escape my tear duct.

A few minutes later Josh arrives, and at this point I've began crying. Josh frowns at me. He's distressed with the fact he's late, because he hates being late , but circumstances have caused him too.
'Sorry I'm late' he mouthes to me and Xander.
'It's fine.' I mouth back. He sighs. I watch as his expression turns from relatively neutral to extremely sad. His cat puking must of distracted him from thinking about Aria, but once he's here, the sadness spreads like wildfire. I start get a little hysterical when the man mentions her struggle through high school, I knew how much she hated talking about it. The blonde girl next to lifts her head and offers me a tissue. Her voice is soft, kind and strangely familiar.
"Thank you." I sniff, wiping both eyes with her tissue. I try to catch a glimpse of her face to see if I recognise it, but she hides it away before I get a chance.

After the man had finished his opening speech he invites Aria's dad to the come and say a few words. He walks up slowly trembling and hysterical. He holds a single piece of paper in both hands, struggling to keep it still from the shaking. He'd lost two people who meant the world to him within a week, of course standing up there would be hard.
"There isn't much to be said about Aria." He pauses."Accept that she was my daughter, and now she's dead." His voice becomes clearer as he gains more confidence.
"Only Friday I'd seen her for the first time in years, and that was only because her mother had died. Now here I am, not even a week later, I'm at her funeral. I wish I knew her more. I wish we were closer. I wish a lot of things. But there's nothing I wish more than to see her smile, just one last time- but I can't and neither can you." He walks off abruptly, leaving everyone speechless.

After the funeral most of the people go home, but we decide to stay to talk to Aria's dad.
"Hi." I say, shaking his hand.
"Hello Tyler." He replies, his voice strained and tired. Briefly over at Josh and Xander a few feet behind me.
"You were waiting in the hospital when she died?" He asks- I nod.
"And you were the last one to see her alive before she got taken into surgery?" I nod again.
"I held her hand all the way to the hospital." I cry.
"Was she happy Tyler?" He asks crying back.
"She was, she said we made her happy." I say clearing my throat.
"Good." He says." The thought of her dying without ever being truly happy has haunted me for days." He says, using his sleeve to wipe the tears from is eyes.
"Thank you for making my daughter happy." He smiles, hugging me. Then, I watch him walk off into his car and drive away.

There's only a small collection of people here now, no more than 10. They all stand in a circle talking amongst themselves accept for a blonde girl who's walking in my direction. As she gains closer I realise she's that girl that sat next to me, but I feel as if I'd seen her face somewhere else before.

Then once her face becomes closer I realise who she is, she's the nurse from the hospital the night Aria died. I look at Josh and Xander who recognise her to, they step forward so they're stood beside me.
"I'm sorry!" She cries, burying her face into my chest.
"I'm so so sorry." She cries again. I'm startled at first, but then I hug her back. She releases herself from me and pulls herself together a little bit. I smile at her as she glances up at me.
"You probably don't remember me, but I'm the nurse from the hospital where she died........My name's Jenna Black."

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I actually have nothing to say...except thanks for reading!