Child • Jøshler

chapter thirty six

Trigger warning: just be warned, alright? it's an emotional chapter xx

It's been four months.

It was currently the beginning of March, spring was already knocking on everyone's doors. Winter jackets were already left behind in closets. Life was starting again, flowers blooming.

I'm not gonna describe spring to you now, you know how all of that goes.

All in all, everybody was happy to know sumemr was nearing.

Everybody. Except seven teen boys.

All these months, they've been so careful that they could hear a freaking pin drop and get paranoid. Tyler even joined the kickboxing team.

Pete was grounded until New Years came. Since he wouldn't tell his parents what happened to him, they decided the best would be to keep him under lock. His phone was taken away as well, the windows were sealed. Both him and Patrick cried loads through that time. There were some times where Patrick was close to tearing the Wentz residence apart, but the other boys managed to hold him back.

Now, Peterick were inseparable.

Tyler was incredibly unsuccessful in trying to make Josh like him. He wanted to ask Josh out, but he just really didn't know how to do that.

Dallon's been unsuccessful as well. Brendon was too shaken by all the Ryan-related events. Dallon could only use as comfort, but Brendon kept himself pretty damn caged.

Andy was the most positive among all of them. But at the same time he wasn't.

He was really scared of them, but he was overly excited about the My Chemical Romance concert. It was soon, but not too soon. Either way, Andy was already worried about what he was going to wear. He doesn't really have much choice when it comes to color, because his closet is filled with black clothes (okay, he has one white button-up).

Everybody was very tense.

It was March 22nd when they decided to have a sleepover at Brendon's.

They're perfectly safe when they're all together, right?

Right?

Right?

Well...

They spent the entire day in the woods, because power went out in the entire city and all of their phones were out of battery. The only thing they could do was walking around outside. It wasn't too fun, because they were paranoid of every sound and shadow.

But once they were all in their PJs and cozy in Brendon's room, the lights turned on. They all cheered; Dallon and Tyler started to blow out the candles. Pete and Patrick lied cozy on Brendon's bed. Brendon figured he'd put the couple through enough terrible things and they deserve to sleep on the bed.

Brendon's eyes would still get misty when he'd look at Pete (because it was impossible to unsee the scars) or when he'd see how scared Patrick looks back at him.

The rest of the boys lied on the pillow-filled floor.

Dallon may or may not have made sure he lies the closest to Brendon.

Tyler may or may not have made sure he lies the closest to Josh.

Andy may or may not have made sure he lies the closest to Brendon's little fridge in the cupboard.

Pete and Patrick just lied there, staring at each other and sharing a kiss now and then; while all the boys on the floor were focused on their phones.

All of a sudden, Andy jumped and screamed, throwing his phone. Everybody was alerted. Andy was shaking, his eyes were threatening to let waterfalls out any moment.

"What happened?" Josh asked, going to stand up to try and calm Andy down.

"No! No! No!" Andy screamed repeatedly, pulling his hair "No! It's not real! No!"

"Hey, hey, hey" Dallon stood up and approached the upset boy too "What's not real? Calm down"

Andy started to mutter out unintelligible things because he'd only let out beginnings of words. Taking a deep breath between sobs, he managed to open his mouth in a way that he was able to actually explain something "Check freaking Tumblr! Check their website! Josh, their website!"

"Whose website?!" Josh grabbed a hold of Andy's biceps, shaking him only a little bit in attempt of calming him down.

"They're gone" Andy whispered out through tears, before his eyes widened at something behind Josh and he screamed.

Everybody turned in the direction that Andy looked at. That was the moment Josh realized what Andy did. He made everybody look the other way just so he could run away. As expected, when Josh turned back around, Andy wasn't there.

"Oh my God" Pete let out, holding his phone in his trembling hand "Guys... My Chem broke up"

Silence fell over the room until Dallon started to laugh "Yeah, right. Ha, ha! It's probably somebody hacking their website, c'mon you know they'd never do something like that! ...would they?"

"Dude, it's legit" Brendon said quietly, slowly putting his phone down.

"I'm gonna be sick" Pete said, rushing out of the bed and soon out of the room. Patrick tried calling for him, but the door was shut already.

Tyler was slowly shaking his head. This was impossible. Why the hell would the break up? What the hell?! Why?! How?! What?! Who?! - Before he knew or realized it, Tyler was crying. Hating to have people watch him as he cried, he exited the room and jumped out the hallway window, going for a run to cry himself out.

"I'm gonna, uhm" Brendon sniffled, wiping a few tears off his cheek, trying to make it look like he's not crying "I'll go fly a little, I- I'm bored"

But he started to sob loudly before even exiting the room. He saw the hallway window was open thus he jumped out of it and transformed mid-air, flying off into the clouds.

Dallon was the last to actually get hit by it. It took one angry Patrick to realize.

When Patrick rolled things down in his head, he started boiling with anger. And, of course, angry Patty isn't the normal Patty. He stomped out of the room, still thinking straight enough to leave he house before he destroys anything.

Left alone, Dallon scanned the many My Chemical Romance posters on the walls with his eyes, before sitting down on the floor and crying into his hands.

...

"They've all separated, boss"