Joshler Oneshots

Loverboy

Word Count: 448
Style: Angst
Trigger Warning(s): references to suicide

Where Josh is a heartbreaker and Tyler is his next victim.

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Tyler never really got his head around the fact that Josh asked him out. It was like, Josh fell into a certain category of people. Those people just happened to be extremely attractive and talented.

Then there was Tyler. Tyler, who wouldn't speak to anyone for over a year after the death of his brother. Tyler, who tried to much and clung on to hard to relationships just to watch them crash and burn. Tyler, who would wake up in the night shaking and screaming because he was there again. He could have sworn he was there. Tyler didn't want to see him again. Not after everything.

And then Josh came along. Originally, it was just because Josh thought Tyler was cute, and he had a lot of time on his hands. He wouldn't get attached. He never did.

In Tyler's mind, this was a lot different. Someone was there again. Someone actually cared about him. Someone wanted to be with him.

He knew about Josh's past. He tried, he tried so hard to convince himself that this wouldn't last long so please, please, don't get high expectations. But the longer the relationship dragged on, the longer Tyler found himself expecting it to last. He knew it was cliche, but maybe he could change Josh's ways.

He couldn't.

Before long, Josh had gotten bored of his current play toy. He wanted something new. He'd let this go on too long. It was harder to leave this time. Most times, he knew it wouldn't hurt the other, or at least not for too long. But after spending hours talking Tyler down from the things that troubled him, after spending hours searching for him and finding him sat on the edge of a bridge, 100% okay with the fact he could fall and be completely erased from existence, perhaps happy about that, and having to coax him down, it was a bit harder.

It had been hardest for him when it was to do with Tyler's parents. He'd gotten a call at two am from a crying woman, saying that Tyler had locked himself in the basement again, and he was screaming. He wouldn't let them in. But he let Josh in.

Yes, he did let Josh in. He let Josh crumble down the walls that had kept him safe, sane, for so long now. He let him in. Just to watch him walk away from the ruins he left behind.

"Lover boy,
You play those hearts like toys,
Don't you feel bad, don't you feel bad,
Feel bad for them?"

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Songfic for lover boy by you me at six.

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