What Happened Then (TØP/Tyler Joseph)

chapter thirteen- "your trouble thoughts, are like snow on the rooftops"

|-/Riley Dun\-|

There he was.

Standing and looking across the river, just like how I was months ago. I guess I'm in his position now. I hesitated as I walked towards him. I was scared of what would happen. So this is what it means to face something alone.

I made it to where he stood, where he looked over at me. We sat together in silence, with only the soft sounds of nature to accompany us. At first, I thought I was gonna have to speak first.

"Every since that day, whenever I drive by here I think of you." he tells me.

"Is that a good thing?" I ask him.

"Whats that supposed to mean?" he says, looking down at me.

"I kind of ran when you made a move." I say, looking down. Whenever I made eye contact with him, I always got nervous. I didn't want to get lost in his brown eyes right now. "And ignored you."

"I don't blame you." he tells me. "I may have pushed things."

"I was surprised Tyler. You didn't push things." I tell him. "I needed to think... And I did. I didn't know what I wanted, and now I do." I kept my gaze down, as we sat in silence for another minute. Until he spoke again.

"Riley?"

I look up at him, as he cups my face and kisses me.

And for a split second, it seemed like reality disappeared. It was just me and him, together. I wasn't just that girl who knew nothing anymore. I was that girl who finally felt like she had a purpose besides sitting around her parents house trying to figure herself out. And Tyler was that boy who helped her feel like she had a bigger purpose here.

Thats the night I figured out that everything could be okay even for a moment. Like what happened to me didn't really happen. And no one really cared that it did. They've always treated me like that, and I'm glad. Because it only went up from here, and thats exactly what I needed.