Vessel |-/ A Tyler Joseph FanFiction

Chapter 7: Semi-Automatic

*May's POV*

Waking up with Tyler next to me was like a dream. Seeing his face while he was asleep was like witnessing world peace. Front row. The steady rise and fall of his body as he was breathing was a sort of magical dance. I lifted myself off him and started to poke at his face. "Wake up. Wake up. Wake up." I teased pulling at his hair. "I'm up. Are you okay?" he asked. "Why wouldn't I be?" "Well you were staring an awful lot." I hid my blush behind my messy curly hair. "Hey, it's okay I had quite the time looking at you snore last night I get it." he joked. "I most certainly do not snore!" I protested. "Yeah yeah whatever. Let me take you out for breakfast. What time is it?" My attention immediately shifted from Tyler, to the time, to my phone, to Alex. "Um I'd check but where's my phone?" I scrambled about all of the blankets we had on us. "Oh, right, it was dying when you fell asleep so I left it charging for you. Should be on top of the dryer. You want me to get that for you?" I subtly pouted and nodded yes. Tyler got up and got my phone for me. As he was walking back he was scrolling through the notifications on my lockscreen. "Well that's... strange..." Tyler squinted his eyes and scrolled almost endlessly through my notifications. "What is it?" "Okay see you have 6 missed calls from Alex from around two in the morning and your twitter notifications are blowing up." I worried about both. Alex was not the type to call back a second time and my twitter always had a very limited following. "That is strange.." I agreed. "A lot of these twitter notifications are from fans of yours... and Alex never calls more than twice." Tyler looked at me concerned. "What do the tweets say?" I unlocked my phone and scrolled through my mentions. Hundreds of people were tweeting me a picture of me and Tyler. "It's this picture of you and me. From when I went to your show. When we were hugging outside.." I started to panic. What if Alex sees this? "You mean from the night when we... oh I don't think that's good... What about Alex? What did he want?" I scrolled through any notifications from Alex. 

Hey I really need to talk to you please meet me at mine ASAP

"He really needs to talk to me in person apparently." I replied. "Oh.. I understand. Just call me later if you need something okay?" Tyler spoke to me as I put on my coat. "Um yeah I'll call you. Definitely maybe. We'll see. Later." I was rushing to the door but came back to give him a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you for understanding. You're the best." Just like that I was off. 

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I arrived at Alex's apartment in less than 15 minutes. I knocked relentlessly but there was no answer so I used my spare key and walked in. He was sitting on the couch staring blankly at his phone and crying.  "Baby, hey, babe what's wrong?" He looked up at me coldly. "Where were you last night?" he asked. "At a friend's house. You called a ton what happened?" "A friend, huh?  You wanna know what happened? I sat on the couch next to my mother's deathbed until 5 a.m. I called you 6 times but no answer. My mother died last night. Where were you? Were you with Tyler?" he looked a lot more angry than sad. "Baby, I'm so sorry! I left my phone charging and I wasn't able to see or hear it I'm so sorry" I broke down in tears. "So you were, huh? And what he conveniently put your phone to charge far away from you while you were asleep? While my mom was dying?" I began to panic. "I really doubt it was like th-" "No. Stop. You know what's worse? My mother died and on top of it this? This picture all over the internet. The one I love, the one that was supposed to be there for me? Wasn't there. She was with this guy doing I don't know what." "Baby, it wasn't-" "Wasn't like what? Wasn't like you went to the show and had some sort of reconciliation with Tyler? God, May, you said nothing happened and I trusted you. Ever since he came into your life you're never here with me you're there with him!" Alex began to yell at me like never before. "Alex, honey, please that's not true. Tyler is just a friend and if you want I can turn this whole situation around I swear it's just so hard having to pick betwe-" "May, why don't you stop before you make this worse on the both of us? I loved you. I love you. You left me for him. Looks like you already picked. Just leave." Alex walked me out as he said these words to me then shut the door. He was right. I'd already picked. Without even knowing.