twenty one pilots imagines (part two)

prove me wrong (tyler)

pairing: tyler joseph x reader
word count: 1417
tw: angst, mentions of drowning, language

i shouldn't have convinced myself it was all in my head.

for weeks i told myself i was overthinking. why would tyler not want to be my best friend anymore? we had been pretty much conjoined at the hip since sixth grade. he wouldn't throw that away after 5 years...would he?

i knew deep down what the truth was. but i didn't want to loose him. i just couldn't... because i loved him.

i put it off for weeks before i finally talked to him about it. and that was the stupidest decision of my life.

"what's your problem?" i demanded, showing up at tyler's locker, after the last period of the day. he raised an eyebrow.

"i don't know what you're talking about, y/n." he replied, his voice half aggressive.

"you know exactly what i'm talking about, tyler. these past few weeks you've been so damn distant. why?" i asked him. he rolled his eyes and groaned.

"have you ever considered that i'm done with you now?"

my face softened and i immediately wanted to start crying.

"i-"

"no, you were a good friend throughout middle school. but we're almost seniors now. people change and i know we certainly have."

"ty-"

"just stop trying to reach out. we aren't friends anymore so..deal- deal with it." tyler began to stutter a bit at his last statement. not wanting him to see me cry i just shook my head.

"okay, whatever. fuck off, i guess." i spit, way too upset for my own good. i turned around and speed walked out of the school building. when i was finally outside, i let my tears fall.

maybe i was just too in love with him to see that we changed.

but it definitely didn't hurt any less.

a few weeks later

tyler's pov

"so where's y/n?" josh asked me, taking a sip of whatever was in his red cup. i sighed.

"josh i already told you, we're not friends anymore. i wouldn't know where the hell she is, nor do i even care." i half-lied to him. it was true that we weren't friends anymore. but i absolutely still cared about her.

i cared about her too much, even. that's why i had to let her go.

"you and i both know damn well that's not true. yes, you guys aren't friends, but i'm not blind tyler. you're in love with her and you have been since sixth grade."

"love isn't for me, josh. there's no way she loves me back. and it's not healthy to be in a friendship where one of us is in love but not the other. i had to let her go."

"how are you so sure she doesn't feel the same way?"

i rolled my eyes and took a sip of my redbull.

"can we stop talking about y/n? please?" i asked. josh nodded.

"yeah, yeah, i'm sorry dude. maybe things'll work out in the end though." he replied.

"doubtful."

"YO YOU GUYS BETTER SEE THIS SHIT!" brendon urie called to josh and i. we set down our drinks and rushed towards him, wanting to see what was going on.

we walked out to his pool and saw y/n and her two friends at the edge. they were messing around but y/n was extremely close.

and everyone knew she couldn't swim.