small mouth

crimson

a/n - here's a longer chapter to make up for the two shorter ones before this one.

tyler opens his eyes and sits up. he doesn't remember a thing. he smells iron and widens his eyes, then rushes to the bathroom. he sees blood dripping down his neck that started in his nose. but it's weird, it isn't dry. did it just start? he washes his neck and up, then grabs a paper towel and pinches his nose to prevent blood from slipping out. tyler looks out his window, and he sees josh in josh's house, standing and looking down at his phone. tyler knocks on his own window and opens it as josh looks over. josh opens his window afterwards and smiles. "hi, tyler." he says. "hi! uh, josh, do you know how i got home?" tyler asks and rubs his neck. "uh, you just walked, tyler. don't you remember?" he asks, looking at his friend weirdly. "oh, yeah," tyler says. he widens his eyes. he did not say that.. it was him forcing it out of tyler.

"um, i'll talk to you later, okay?" tyler says. without a response from josh, he shuts his window. all the sudden, his vision goes red. he widens his eyes again and blinks. it returns to normal. "tyler." this isn't him talking. it is him. "what?"

"i am blurryface. you are probably very confused. i am your other side. i can choose to take over and use your body anytime i want, well, if i have enough strength. understand?"

and tyler is very confused. who is blurryface? tyler's other side? and how is blurryface controlling what tyler says? how is any of this possible and how does it make sense? tyler gulps and just replies with a small "yes". "sure, you do. i just barely explained anything. you're just a weak, dumb little senior. if you graduate, god knows what's going to happen when you get kicked out." blurryface laughs. "i will graduate! i have straight b's.." tyler frowns.

he finds himself conversing and arguing with blurryface for hours, until he has to sleep. "sweet nightmares, tyler joseph." blurryface smirks and suddenly, tyler is free of being controlled. he lies down and sighs, cuddling with his pillow. he tries to fall asleep but he doesn't. his door creaks open and he looks over, seeing christian. "how dare you speak to me that way?" christian asks in a cold tone. blurryface wasn't here to save tyler's butt this time.

"i.." tyler starts. "because it's true. because i am almost an adult and you have no right to command me and order me to do things. i'm not your slave, christian." you would expect this to be blurryface... but it's tyler. tyler just said that to his uncle. there was a long silence. before tyler can look up and see his uncle's reaction to what he just said.. smack!

"ah!" tyler collapses on the ground and cups his own cheek to where his uncle just had hit with his palm. christian leaves with a huff and slams tyler's door shut. tyler groans as tears start to flood in his eyes. he can't stay here. he lets out a shaky breath and looks up at the window. he slowly stands, opening up the window. he crawls out onto the roof. he shuts the window and the cold breeze immediately blows past him. but he likes it, the calm, soft coldness. the slow and low whistle of the wind rings softly in his sensitive ears. tyler shudders and breathes in the fresh air.

he starts climbing down the house. he's half-way down, when suddenly, he slips. he gasps as he falls and crashes hardly on the grass. he stands up, leaning against the outside house wall as his legs shake. he tries to calm down. "hey, tyler, are you alright?!" he hears a low male voice and looks up at josh's window. sure enough, it's the red haired boy neighbor. "um, i'm okay!" tyler shouts in response. "where are you going? do you wanna come in and sleep over?" josh asks worryingly. tyler nods and he goes over to josh's house wall. he starts climbing up. he almost slips but he manages to get up and take josh's hand.

josh pulls him in the house and they both collapse on josh's carpet. tyler sighs at the warmth of josh's room. "hey, why were you leaving your house? especially out of the window? what happened, ty?" josh stands up and holds his hand out to his brunette haired friend. "um, i couldn't sleep in my bed. needed someone with me.. uh, anxiety an' stuff, y'know?" tyler mumbles softly, taking josh's hand, "before you asked me to come in, i was planning to come in with you anyways.." he finishes and stands up with his friend.

"oh.. i'm sorry. but what about your uncle? couldn't he- tyler, what happened to your cheek? it's all red!" josh asks with a worried look.

"um.. we had a small fight. i know he didn't mean to hit me," tyler lies. "oh... okay. well, you can sleep over. we don't have school tomorrow, so you wanna hang more?" josh asks with a weak smile. tyler's even more relieved, tomorrow is no school! "sure, josh. thank you." he thanks the red haired. "alright. you wanna take off your clothes? oh geez- sorry, i meant like, only to your underwear. it's more comfortable for you to sleep like that.. i don't really have any other pajama pants." josh chuckles nervously as tyler's face explodes with red. "um.. if i do it, will you do it, too?" tyler asks quietly, playing with his fingers. josh parts his lips like he is going to say something, but nothing comes out. his lips form into another weak smile as he nods.

"um, okay." tyler agrees and he takes off his sweater and shirt. he unzips his jeans and looks at josh. josh was staring at his fingers zipping down the zipper until tyler stopped. josh looks up at tyler's mocha eyes and his own brown eyes widen. "uh- i-i'm sorry." he sputters out nervously. tyler's cheeks only turn redder and he takes off his tight black skinny jeans, revealing his baby blue boxers with small ducklings spreading out on them. josh takes off his pajama pants, and his boxers are white with hearts all over them. both laugh at each other's underwear. josh then leads tyler to his bed, which has a long thick black and red striped blanket on it. it has a lot of black, white, and red pillows and it's certainly bigger than tyler's bed. tyler gasps when he sees a large golden retriever enter josh's room.

the dog pounces on tyler as soon as the retriever's eyes land on the brunette. the dog licks his face as tyler gasps for air through his small mouth.