It Ain't The Speakers |-/ JOSHLER

10: everyøne, gather arøund før a shøw

📓 TYLER'S PØV 📓

SpookyJim 👻: omg what???

Frnk 🎸: no kidding, ray and i both saw it jus now :((((

Frnk 🎸: we gotta do somethnig guise

Fro Fro: Get his sass back

I don't even know how I should respond in the chat group. At least I know that Gee is now fine with Ray... But he obviously isn't fine with himself.

It's a strange, horrible feeling, seeing someone go through the same things you had years ago.

...but why did he cut?

Not that I've ever cut myself, I was never one for physical pain and torture. I thought a quick and clean break from life would be easier, and I've only considered jumping off some tall building or something similar. At least I'll be able to know how it feels to fly before I die, and it could even be enjoyable. That's my perspective, but everyone's views are different.

I'm over that phase though... I think... I hope. But it's painful watching a friend do that. It's not worth it, and they don't understand...

"Hey Ty! I found your..." Zack walked into our dimly lit room with a small stack of books, but always knew something was wrong when I sit on my bed, leaning against the wall. "...What happened?"

I took a moment and recollected my thoughts. "A friend has been having some serious problems, like, the life-or-death kind, but me and my other friends haven't been paying much attention...we aren't very good friends."

"Hmm. Sounds like Trapdoor," my brother commented, which reminded me.

"Now that you mention it, yeah."

"And now that we're on that topic, look what I found!"

Zack picked up one of the books from the stack he brought in. The familiar brown cover had a picture of a plane's shadow, and it's title was printed across the front.

All My Sons, by Arthur Miller.

It was three years ago when I first read it as part of an assignment for English class. Unlike all the other literature books we had to read (seeing Julius Caesar in the same stack Zack brought made me cringe), I liked this one as it was about moral dilemma, something we often face in our lives.

The main character in the book, Joe Keller, had to choose between providing for his family or keeping his integrity, a tough decision. Though he knew that the aircraft parts he was supposed to supply to the air force were faulty, he sent them out anyway, and caused the death of twenty one pilots.

In the last year of elementary school, I had formed a band with two friends, Chris and Nick, and we named it Twenty One Pilots.

"Trapdoor was from Titty too," Zack said, bouncing on his bed opposite mine. It wasn't his favorite, but he liked it as much as he liked to call my self-titled album "Titty", which always made me smile at his adorableness like I did now.

Getting up, I walked into the living room and my younger brother followed excitedly. We happened to be the only ones at home as Dad and Mum took Jay and Madison out after dinner, while Grandpa was accompanying Grandma in the hospital. Sigh. I sat down at my piano and started the chord progression.

He wakes up early today
Throws on a mask that will
alter his face
Nobody knows his real name
But now he just uses one
he saw on a grave