Is he asleep?" Josh asks.
"Looks like it," Jenna says, gently holding Tyler's hand-the one without the scars, Josh notes.
Suddenly Josh feels like he's interrupting something...something private.
"I think-" Josh says, "If you don't need me-"
Jenna sighs.
"But what if I do?"
"Why-why would you need me?" Josh asks.
"You're his best friend," she says, matter-of-factly. "If something happens..."
"-Then he'll have you," Josh says.
"He trusts you more," Jenna says.
Josh shakes his head. "He trusts you, too. It's not an either-or thing. He trusts you."
"I don't doubt that," Jenna says softly. "But...if you're just friends than why-"
"Why does it seem like we're more than that?" Josh asks.
"...Yeah," Jenna says. "That."
Josh sighs.
He should have known...
"Look," he says, as calmly as he can. "I do love Tyler. Just not the way you're thinking. I promise."
"I thought," he adds, "I thought he was going to die in that place. And I was scared. So...now that we made it out, I'm honestly even more scared that something else will happen."
"All right," Jenna says, "Okay."
"Wait, you mean you really thought-"
"Can you really blame me, though?" she asks.
"Well...no," Josh admits. "I guess not."
Soon both of them are quiet.
But Josh doesn't know if it's because there's nothing else to say...
Or if they're waiting for something to happen that will confirm their worst fears.
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Øverturning the lies (a twenty one pilots fanfiction)
FanfictionTyler is alone in the city of Dema. He can't remember who he was before then. All he knows now is trying to survive in this world. He sees others around him who are struggling too, and he wants to help them. But he can't. He can't even seem to help...
