Crush (Joshler)

22. Fight

Start the song its 'Misquote' by Super Whatevr.
Trigger warnings for blood

"Debs, everything is fine. No, i'm waiting inside the school, its freezing outside. Ok— yeah okay."

Tyler was never one to eavesdrop but he had been doing it lately. Especially when Josh was around. He had seen both him and Debby fighting alot lately but it wasn't his place to say anything. He just watched as Josh started walking towards the school doors.

"What the fuck are you looking at, Joseph?" Josh glared angrily.

"Eat shit, Dun." Tyler shot back.

It had been a month since Josh and Tyler had broken up. It wasn't even a real breakup in Tyler's opinion but it didn't matter. Since then, Tyler had grown some thick skin and a backbone. He had to learn fast from Elijah and Sam because Josh was getting worse.

"I see he's back to being an asshole." Geoff said behind Tyler.

"Yeah, but its just him. Can't really do much. Wheres Brendon and Dallon?" He asked.

"Probably sucking face at the nearest corner, you want me to walk you to class?" Geoff asked.

Tyler rolled his eyes and let out a smile, "Don't we have the same class together?"

Geoffs face turned red, "Well... yeah but—" Tyler linked his arm into Geoffs and smiled at him. "Lead the way!" Geoff smiled and walked with Tyler linked in his arm

Josh walked back into school with Debby already angry that Josh didn't pick her up from her house. He didn't have to pick her up, she had her own car. Josh had his bike. He knew she would complain.

"Debs, I don't see what the big deal is? You would've complained that it was too cold to ride my bike." Josh explained.

Debby rolled her eyes and walked away from him. He stood there dumbfounded as to what he did wrong. He sighed and tried to walk to class but was caught off guard when he saw Tyler's arm linked into Geoffs. He felt his blood boil at the sight of Tyler's smile. God he fucking hated Tyler. Well he didn't actually hate him, he just hated that Tyler was moving on. He rolled his eyes and walked over to his locker, only to see it covered in wads of gum.

"What the fuck!" He yelled.

Before he could say anything else, he saw Ashley's blue headed self skateboard past him laughing. He knew she did this out of spite. She stopped in front of him and popped a bubble from the gum she was chewing, smiling at the scene of his now ruined locker.

"Seems like you're in a sticky situation, Dun." She smiled.

"Go fuck yourself Ashley." Josh said.

Ashley just laughed and rode away on her skateboard, into her first class of the day. Josh sighed and tried to open his locker but the gum was covering the lock he had on it.

"Need some help?"

Josh turned around to see Brendon and Dallon walking towards him, hand in hand with a shit eating grins on their face.

"Uh, yeah?" Josh said.

"Interesting!" Dallon said.

They both walked by him, laughing at the scene. Josh's eye twitched at the torment he was getting from each person he use to be friends with. He got the things he needed and walked into class. He sat by himself now because he had lost almost every friend he had, even Jack. He told Josh that what he did was super fucked up. Maybe Josh did fuck up. Why was he dating Debby? All she did was argue about unimportant shit. Maybe he needed to apologize.

Lunch finally came and once again, Tyler needed some alone time. He walked to his locker and got out his lunch. He sunk to the bottom and sat there, lunch in hand and began eating. At this point, he felt bad for Josh a bit. He had lost his friends, people that meant something to him.

"Thinkin' awfully hard?" Geoff said.

"Always thinking, here to sit and join the overthinking party?" Tyler replied.

Geoff nodded and plopped right next to him, smiling and grabbing his lunch to eat. They sat in a comfortable silence before one of them spoke.

"So, why did you wander all the way over here?" Tyler asked.

"Well, all the couples were being y'know gross. Decided to come join the single club." Geoff replied.

"You do know Awsten is single, right?"

"Yeah but, Awsten is Awsten. Besides, I have proposition for you."

"Which is?"

"Me and you, pizza and movies at your place?" Geoff said.

Tyler smiled, "That sounds like an excellent idea!"

They both went back to eating, letting a comfortable silence set between them as the hallways stayed quiet. Tyler liked that Geoff listened to him. He trusted him more than anyone else. As they kept talking, commotion was going on down the hallway. Both Tyler and Geoff looked over to see what was going on but a crowd of people were in there way

"Probably a fight broke out." Tyler said.

"Yeah,maybe." Geoff replied.

Now usually they wouldn't worry too much about it but when Jenna came running to them, thats when they started to worry.

"Brendon and Ashley are fighting Josh and Debby!" She yelled.

Immediately Geoff and Tyler got up and began running to the scene. When they got there, Josh was taking and throwing punches to Brendon. Both Brendon and Josh has bruises forming on their faces already. Ashley and Debby had been separated by Elijah (who was loving every moment of this) and Sam.

"Just give it up, Dun. You and I both know we wont back down." Brendon said.

"I know, we use to be friends!" Josh said before landing a hit on Brendon's face.

Brendon fell to the floor, making this a perfect opportunity for Josh to get on top of him and start hitting him. Each punch he landed was always harder than the last. Brendon began to bleed from his nose and mouth, smirking at Josh as he hit him. Tyler had enough of it and stepped in. He didn't know where this sudden burst of strength came from but he pushed Josh off of Brendon.

"That's enough!" He yelled.

Josh just stared at Tyler angrily. Tyler just gave him a stern look and stood his ground. They were close enough to where Tyler could whisper in his face.

"That's enough, Josh. You've done enough." Tyler whispered.

Josh didn't say a word, he just sighed and walked away from the scene. Awsten and Geoff picked up Brendon as Dallon carried his things and kept making sure that Brendon was talking and awake. Everyone in the hallway spread out and went to their classes. Ashley and Debby were taken to the principles office while Brendon was taken to the nurses office.

Tyler was finally by himself and finally decompressed on what just happened. He began walking to his locker to grab his and Geoffs things. When he turned around, Josh stood behind him with his eyes on the ground.

"Thanks for making me stop." He said quietly.

Tyler looked up at Josh's face and reached his hand onto his cheek. He gently touched this bruised part and watched Josh sink into his hand.

"Put some ice on your face, Joshua." Tyler said before removing his hand and walking away.