"life is precious, man. appreciate it."
"sometimes there's just nothing to appreciate, you know?"
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it's only been a week since high school ended and tyler joseph has already been kicked out of his own house.
depressed, angry, and now homeless, tyler isn't sure what to do. he's known for a while he doesn't like life. he self harms, cries himself to sleep, and is more suicidal than before thanks to this new situation.
it's as if he's fallen down a hole and isn't capable of climbing out of it.
that is, until a very pale boy with blue hair enters the scene.
tyler can't understand why, of all people, this 'josh' is determined to save him. but at this point, is he really sure about anything?
tyler, very slowly, begins to find joy. it's in music, it's in basketball, but most of the time it's confined in the time he spends with josh.
but as tyler begins to get better, josh seems to be getting worse.
only tyler is too oblivious to notice.
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[ COMPLETED ]
(Co-Written with @tentacleurie)
(Seriously she wrote half of this)
(Go follow her)
"Josh moved closer and cleared some of the dirt off the cut on Tyler's leg while explaining, "whenever I get hurt, my mommy kisses it better, then takes me to a doctor." He frowned. "We don't have a doctor. But I'm sure just the kiss will do," he smiled again. "Ready?"
Tyler nodded, his eyes wide. Josh then proceeded to bend over his friend's leg and place his tiny pink lips around the cut on Tyler's leg. After a moment, he sat back up and looked at him hopefully.
"Did it work?"
Tyler giggled and nodded his head, making Josh smile. "Good," he said."
Trigger warning: homophobia, abuse, self harm, suicide attempts, bullying