Only In The Forest (A Continuation of the Forest Fic)

I Know Where You Stand

This chapter is very triggering, If you are worried about being triggered PLEASE don't read this part, I don't want any of you hurting yourselves. You've been warned.

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Tyler is jogging, not wanting his heart to explode. All the haunting memories rush back into his body as he turns the corner to the small clearing in which the tree house once stood. They hit him like a wall. Tyler moves slowly towards the ashes. There is a big piece of wood blocking his view from the rest.

As he gets closer, he starts to see red liquid streaming like tiny rivers through the ash. Tyler drops his phone and clenches his hands into a fist. He moves past the wood and sees something horrifying. Something he thought he'd never have to see. Tyler's eyes widen and he breaths in the fast air into his lungs. He covers his mouth with his sleeve. He feels tears rush to his eyes as he nears Josh's motionless body covered in blood. He is leaning up against the wood Tyler just pasted. He is now sobbing. He puts his arms out and lowers himself to the ground. He ends up straddling Josh's body. Tyler grabs Josh's arms. One cut that runs the length of Josh's left arm is still gushing blood. Tyler's hands, and now parts of his pants are covered in Josh's fresh blood. Tyler lets go of Josh's arms and picks his hands up right in front of his face. He examines his own hands that now have a sheet of simmering red blood covering them from Josh's arms. Then Tyler stops his sobbing for a second to process what is in front of him as he lets his hands fall to his side, helpless. Tyler closes his eyes. No sound, just dead silence. And he begins to sob again. He looks to the side trying to avoid Josh's fluttering eyes. He sees a blade next to Josh's phone lying in a pool of blood. Tiny rivers dogging it. Tyler looks back at Josh's chest. It's still moving up and down, extremely slow and off rhythm. Josh's white T-shirt is now drenched in blood.

Josh is still alive, he has a chance. Josh had to have done this as soon as he stopped texting him, he is still breathing.

"Hey, you found. Me," Josh says as loud as his lungs will let him, which was just barely a whisper. Josh smiles slightly. Tyler chokes up, shocked by Josh's voice. Tyler looks at Josh's lips waiting for them to open again. Josh takes too long for his liking.
    " JOSH... JOSH!" Tyler sobs. He grabs Josh's arms and tries to stop the constant flow of the gushing red liquid.

" You are going to be okay, you are going to be okay Josh. I will get you out of this like you did me. I found you, you are safe." Tyler pulls off his shirt remembering how Josh told him he saved him from the fire. Tyler tries to wrap the shirt around Josh's cut. His hands are trembling.

" No NO NO NONONONONO!" Tyler says louder and louder each time the word leaves his lips. Tyler's hands are shaking even more as he tries to squeeze the cut closed only resulting in pushing more blood out, soaking the shirt even more. Making the black fabric gleam with blood. Tyler is unraveling the shirt around JOsh's limp arm then and re-wrapping it unsatisfied with it. He looks back up to Josh's pale face, his head hanging back. Josh's puffy eyes flutter and roll to the back of his head.

    Tyler starts to panic, Tyler wants to save Josh, but he feels Josh's life start to slip away from his grasp.

" WHY CAN'T YOU LIVE, JOSH? IF YOU GO..." His hands start to shake as he screams this. Tyler shakes his head a few times, trying to shake away the tears.
    "Josh," He says a little quieter than before, feeling defeated. " why can't to stay alive for me? I'm nothing without you." Tyler grabs at his face. He runs his wet hands down his face making red finger marks run down his face and his neck. Tyler starts to hyperventilate. He grabs his neck, making his hole neck red. Blood starts to drip down his bare chest. Tyler's black skinny jeans are now soaked and sticking to his skin.

It's Time Tyler

Blurry makes a return. His cold breath tickles his skin as he whispers to him, feeding him ideas. The thoughts in his head are dancing together. Twirling and spinning making him tired and confused. The idea that reached Tyler's head is the best idea he has had. Tyler looks over at the blade lying beside him. Tyler's breath gets heavy. The rivers are now pools of blood, drowning the blade. Tyler lets go of Josh's partly wrapped arm and gets up and starts mumbling.

It's time to leave

"why are you leaving me, Josh, Where ever you went, I'm coming. I'll always find you." Tyler clenches his hands. He bends down and picks up the blade covered in Josh's ruby red blood. Tyler turns around and walks back to Josh's body, he sits right next to him. Tyler looks at his already bloody forearm and slowly moves the blade to his wrist. His hands shaking the knife rapidly. He starts to cut away.Tears stream down his face, not because of the pain, he's used to the pain, but looking over at his best friend's lifeless body covered in his own blood. The cuts start to form the word that he carved once before:

T-E-R-R-I-F-I-E-D

He starts to shake his head vigorously again because he hasn't felt like he thinks it would feel to die yet. Tyler acts quickly. He looks at the side of Josh's pale face and then stabs his thigh and leg multiple times. Feeling each stab, as the knife entered his flesh to the moment it was yanked out and jammed back in, reopening burns and old scars.

Then Tyler screams "How am I not dead yet? INEEDTODIEINEEDTODIE I NEED TO BE WITH JOSH," For no one to hear. He stops his hand. He looks down at his leg. There were 2 holes in his pants, filling with the red liquid.

Out of breath and tears still streaming down his face, He looks back over at Josh. Feeling each pump of the heart get weaker and weaker. Tyler throws the blade at a tree. The throw is weak, the blade doesn't even reach the tree. Tyler starts to feel the effects of blood loss. Tyler's eyesight starts to fog up and he is breathing very heavily, the tears have slowed down. Tyler looks around. There is a sea of blood around them. He can't tell which blood is his and which blood is Josh's. The two liquids have mixed together.

Tyler, with every inch of strength he has left, brings both arms up. He twists his torso so he can cup Josh's lifeless face.

"You're okay, Josh, We are fine, this is only a dream." Tyler has to gather up the rest of his strength and takes a big breath in and continues "We will be okay" Tyler takes another breath in. He wants to fall asleep, but the words spill out of his mouth.

    "I know where you stand" His eyes begin flutter,

    "Silent in the trees"

    "And that's where I am" Tyler starts to feel tired due to the lack of blood in his body. His eyes get heavy. He lowers his arms away from Josh's face leaving two big red handprints on either side.

"Silent in the trees" Tyler find Josh's hand, through the fog of his sight and fluttering of his eyes. Tyler shakes his head one more time, trying to focus his vision. Tyler wraps his fingers around Josh's lifeless hand. He leans his head against Josh's shoulder.

"Why won't you speak" He closes his eyes and desperately tries to say the next lyric

"Where I happen to be" He breathes in again his chest shaking

"Silent in the trees" Another shaky breath

"Standing cowardly" Tyler can hear the faint sound of the piano, his head is spinning.

"I can feel your breath"This is a part of the song he has never heard before, but the words keep flowing.

"I can feel my death" Tyler whimpers

"I want to know you" The piano is disappearing behind a too familiar ringing sound.

"I want to see"

"I want to say" Tyler closes his eyes feeling something pulling him out of his body

"hello" Tyler whispers

"Hello"

"Hello"

"hello," his voice is barely audible as Tyler slips away in to a deep, deep, sleep.