drown (joshler)

part fourteen

josh had a habit of documenting what certain days of his life were. for example, he had several "worst days of his life", like when his dad left, when his brother left, and when his mom died. he had one or two "best days of his life", like meeting ryan or meeting tyler. he liked pinpointing exactly when it started getting bad or good, and how many times it happened during the day.

none of his "worst days of his life", could even compare to january 24. today.

josh sat in the waiting room, waiting for tyler's exam to be done. he did like he always did, bouncing his knee nervously and pretending to read the magazines from 2004.

he eyed the door to room 3009, which was barely in sight from the waiting room. the door to room 3009 opened, and the doctor shuffled out and walked down the dimly lit hallway. he gripped his clipboard as he stood and looked at josh. josh stood up, and the doctor motioned for him to walk down the hallway.

pinpoint number one.

the doctor opened the door to reveal a crying tyler, sitting up and letting silent and scared tears fall down his hot and flushed face. josh looked back at the doctor with worry and rushed to tyler's side, whispering that everything was going to be okay. he turned around as he stood up and asked the doctor what the hell was going on.

pinpoint number two.

the doctor explained that during the x-ray exam they had come across something that had developed in tyler's lung.

tyler had lung cancer.

thankfully it wasn't terminal, but they had no way of telling how bad it was going to be.

pinpoint number three.

josh held tyler that night, both not sleeping but crying in the comfort of each other, worrying about what this meant for tyler's future and what was going to happen.

january 24 was the worst day of joshua dun's life, and it was the worst day of tyler joseph's too.