Not Today - Twenty One Pilots

✳twenty one✳

Josh POV

I open my eyes slowly, completely relaxed, a drugged feeling. All I can focus on is my heart beat and my steady breathing. I lay my head down and close my eyes again. The floor feels hard and cold. It has a rough texture just like cement. I lay there for a while but then it hits me.
I quickly open my eyes with a gasp

It's dark in here and I blink to try to focus.

Where am I?

What am I doing here?

What happened?

I hear low man voices in the back ground.

My heart beats faster and faster and fear takes over. I crawl back to a corner and wrap my arms over my knees and try to control my breath.

What happened?...

The question echoes through my thoughts
I'm searching for the answer but I can't find it. It feels like my head is stuffed with clouds.

I get up while fighting back the tears and look around me. My eyes are used to the poor lighting in here by now and it looks like I am in permanent twilight.
I lean against a wall, it feels the same as the floor. There are no windows, the only way out is the path in front of me. So I take a deep breath and start making my way out of this nightmare.

I turn left and right and it feels like I'm in a labyrinth. Everything looks the same as the room where I woke up. I keep on walking until I turn at a corner. The lighting is great here and I can finally see clearly, but the setting is a little unusual.

I am in front of a door and the wall is made of mirrors, so I take a look at myself. Overall I look pretty normal but my clothes are different...

I'm wearing overalls...
Like I'm in prison...

Why am I in prison?
What did I do that I don't remember?

I open the door and walk tough the hallway. There are cells with prisoners at Each side of me. I walk through to the end until I see a cell that is empty except for the drums that are inside.

I don't know why but I decided that it would be a good idea to randomly start drumming in this creepy prison where I don't know where I am or why I am here, so I sit down and start hitting those drums like there is no tomorrow. I didn't play a song that I know, but just the beat inside my head. The beat that keeps haunting me since I'm here.

Then I suddenly stop.

I see two guards that are holding a person

A person that I know and missed with all my heart...

Tyler..

I run up to the door. Adrenalin shooting through my veins.

He looks at me with a face full of emotions and pain. I want to open the door but It's locked.

They walk away and the doors open again, so I ran outside but I couldn't find them.

I decide to follow the path they followed and I arrive in a big room. It's just as dark and gloomy as the halls I used to roam, except for the little stage in the middle. It was glowing. I take place behind the drums and start drumming the beat from my head.

Prisoners fill the place and tyler comes on stage and starts singing.

♪ All my friends are heathens take it slow...♪

I didn't know the lyrics to this song, I have never heard it but for some magical reason I am playing it.

While I'm playing I start having flash backs of what happened at the fair. I remembered every thing but I don't understand it.

The song comes to an end and the prisoners return to there cells

I sigh and lay down the drumsticks

"Tyler..." I whisper

He looks at me

"Tyler... What happened?..." I ask him

"Joshua... Why do you ask if you already know?"

"I know but I don't understand!" I say desperate

"Josh... We all go through rough times, but death is not an option. You could have done anything , but you choose to die..." His voice cracks and he turns around to hide his face

"I am so sorry" I choke on the words, struggling to get them out

"I'm not mad at you... " he walks my way and sits down besides me.

"Don't cry sweetheart" he whispers while he wipes my tears away

I didn't even realize I was crying...

"...it's just.... " he continues

"... I wouldn't have done the same thing, I would have rationalized it, think about it. I wouldn't let you alone in a world like this...
I need you just as much as you need me..." He gets up and turns around some feet away

"Tyler, I'm sorry..." I cry

"Ooh, you don't have to... " he turns around and starts walking towards me again

"I'll be over your death in a week, make a new fren, life goes on you know..."

"S-soo you'll just forget me?.." I whisper I'm afraid of the words , afraid of what he's going to say

"Our friend ship was disposable, wasn't it?

Ohh, don't say it wasn't, that's so pathetic "
"He'll probably be a better drummer tho" he says right in my face with an evil grin.

"Tyler stop!"

"Stop what? Telling you the truth"

"Stop, s-stopp it-t" I stutter, it feels like my heart gets torn into pieces and I'm shaking all over
"I know this is not you... We can work this out..." I continue

He chuckles... "Ohh josh, you're so funny" he says while he walks away to open a door
Rose walks in...

"ROSIE!" I yell. I need her, I need her so much right now. I just want her to hold me, tell me everything is okay...

"Hey tyler..." She says and starts making out with him

She didn't even look at me!

Tyler breaks the kiss and turns around
"Go home josh"

"NO, DON'T YOU DARE TO GET AWAY FROM ME!" I yell desperate, I don't know what to feel anymore, I don't know what is real

My sight gets blurry.
I start making my way to them. I jumped off the stage and tripped but I didn't feel the pain. I look up but I don't see them anymore
I look around my heart beats faster and faster

"Tyler? Rosie?" I start panicking, tears streaming down my face

"Wake up josh..." I hear them say but I can't see them

I sit down and completely collapse. I close my eyes and everything went black.

Josh... Wake up

Stay with me, with us

Stay alive

Stay alive, for me...

Hi guys, this might not be what you expected...
Yeah... I'm sorry to say but... Josh is dead...

Or is he...

Jk I'm gonna stop joking around now :3
I'm so sorry I tore your little hearts apart with last chapter's kliffhanger.... so you can decide what wilL Happen next. Just tell me all aBout It In the comments and don't forget to vote

I hope you enjoyed and stay alive...