The Pilots

** A/N: I'm going to skip the self-titled era only because Josh wasn't in it at the time. But we'll begin with the Regional at Best era and transition through time quickly in this chapter**

Tyler's POV

"Twenty One Pilots" 

Josh pointed at an excerpt in his history book about World War II. It was taken from a book titled All My Sons by Arthur Miller. 

The play was basically about a man who must decide what is best for his family after knowingly sending out faulty airplane parts for the good of his business and causing the death of twenty-one pilots during World War II. 

"I think this would be a pretty sick name for our band, don't you think?" he asked me.

"I mean yes even if the backstory behind it is rather sad." I said. "Heh, just like our lives used to be I suppose." 

Josh put his arm around me. "Hey cheer up. It's a great band name. That sadness of our past is what's going to inspire you to write music. You can do it. I believe in you."

He pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil. 

"Come on, concentrate and try thinking of something."  He slid his rolling chair over to me and I sat down at his desk thinking.

I thought about a lot of events in the past that made me sad.

I thought about school and the things I went through. I thought about my fears for the future. I thought about Josh and I in the forest.

How we were both in the trees just silent without speaking a single word.

I know, where you stand,

Silent in the trees.

And that's where I am, 

Silent in the trees

Josh watched as I wrote down words that just popped into my mind. 

I could tell he was smiling.

I had just wrote the first song of our band. 

Trees.

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I then went on to write other songs like Forest which was written after Josh's and I adventures down in the forest. Lovely after the times I would tell Josh that I'd make him believe he was lovely even if the kids made fun of his hair. Holding on to you after the very sad incident of when he let go of me and disappeared for ten years. But even so, we still held on with our hearts.

We played in small venues at first attracting small crowds here and there. The people did like though. They'd cheer us on and they would ask for our autographs. Columbus was a very generous city. 

One day after we played at another venue, we were walking off stage when a man stopped both of us. He said he was a representative from a company called Fueled by Ramen. He saw how good we were and wanted to help get our music out there to the world.

Josh and I were excited and totally agreed to this.

So it was settled.

Now being labeled with Fueled by Ramen, we came up with another album titled Vessel. In this album we included some songs already on Regional at Best but I came up with new ones as well. 

Truce was added to this album after I had written it a short bit after Josh left. This song was special to me in that even though Josh was gone, I still wanted him to stay alive.

For me.

Car Radio was another song in this album. What started off as someone actually stealing my car radio turned into a song just like that. I laughed at the story behind it but honestly Josh thought it was a sick song that got stuck in his head.

With the release of this album, we got even more fans and started touring more and more states. We made some new friends along the way who helped us get our music out there playing. 

Vessel brought our popularity up higher and more and more people were finding out more about Twenty One Pilots, us!

Of course in between shows, Josh and I would sneak kisses here and there away from the public eye. I mean, everyone knew we were dating but it seemed more like we were best friends. We didn't really display our romance out there to the world. But we did hold hands and almost kiss and stuff. We were dating, everyone knew, but we didn't like to show it. We'd rather focus on our music first and then us.

After about a year of Vessel's release, I started to ponder about something great for our next album.

I stood in one of the dressing rooms backstage looking in the mirror. Josh was laying on a couch nearby on his phone, laughing at what I presumed to be memes. 

I turned back to Josh and asked him to keep it down a bit as I tried to focus. I turned back to the mirror and saw a very familiar sight.

Blurryface.

He stood there and waved at me with his black hands. His eyes were growing red as he smiled evilly. 

Beside him, was Spooky Jim.

Blurryface spoke up. Tyler, Tyler! Oh hello there. Jim and I have been watching you two for the past couple of years and we are a tad bit disappointed.

Jim nodded. How is it that you've written songs about all your other sad moments in life except us? When will you write songs about us Tyler? We would LOVE to hear them.

Yes Tyler. Jim and I would die to hear your songs about us. Why don't you write your next album about us huh?  Blurryface said.

That actually wasn't a bad idea.

We'll be waiting to see what you come up with Tyler.  Blurryface turned to kiss Jim and then with a snap, they disappeared and I was left with my own reflection again.

"Josh..." 

"Yeah Ty?" 

"Blurryface is the centerpiece of the next album." 

I wrote Blurryface within a year or so. There were many songs depicting Blurryface himself. All the insecurities and fears I went through because of him. But despite all those songs, I'd have to say the main song that was dear to me was Tear in my heart.

I wrote that song for Josh. Josh is the tear in my heart. He always was.

He always will be.

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Blurryface turned out to be the biggest album we ever released. Millions of copies were sold world wide and we were playing even bigger tours. This era was very popular among the teenagers and a huge fan base was officially formed. They were called The Clique and they were our biggest fans of course.

For this era, we resorted to have ourselves being depicted as Blurryface and Spooky Jim himself. I wore a similar outfit like Blurry and Josh wore a similar outfit to Spooky Jim's; however, he'd resort to going shirtless with white shorts and a red snap back. I'm gonna be honest here: sometimes he'd distract me as I sang.

Josh would get inside this huge red hamster ball and run through the crowds of people. He'd love it. I would sing and he'd run around. It was amazing.

This album helped us get nominated for a lot of awards and recognition. We were selling out more and more shows. Then we got the word that we had sold out probably our largest show ever: Madison Square Garden.

The place was huge and the fact that we had sold out this entire thing was just outstanding.

To think that two boys from Columbus, Ohio would start out very small and get to this was just a silly idea. But Josh was right from the beginning.

Josh was right beside me this entire time. We've come so far from our troubled times. To think that the blue-haired boy I met in elementary school would not only be my savior, my best friend, my boy friend but my closest band mate going around the country and world performing songs to large crowds of people who actually loved us for who we were. 

Josh believed in me. I can see why he did now.

After our show ended in Madison Square Garden, all of the fans had left and it was just Josh and I in there. 

It was quiet with only an echo being heard of our footsteps.

I turned to Josh. 

"Hey Josh?"

"Yeah Tyler?" he turned around.

"Can you go stand in the audience for a second? I wanna do something." 

"Uh sure." He jumped off the stage and walked into the audience, about a couple of feet from me. 

"So, I'm the only one here Ty. What are you going to do?" 

I smiled. "Let me play to you the very first song I sang to you. I want to play it to you. Just you. This is for believing in me Josh. I dedicate this version to the best drummer, band mate, best friend and boyfriend in the entire world: Joshua William Dun."

I went to my ukulel and then looked to Josh who nodded. 

I started to sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUsTMQwXsLc

**Imagine Tyler singing this to Josh in an empty arena with Josh being the only audience member there to hear it.**

I sang Can't help falling in love with you to him right there with no one else around.

He watched me sing and he started to cry. After I finished singing, he clapped for me. He came to the stage and I helped pull him up.

When he got up there with me, he put his hands on my waist and I put my arms around him.

"I couldn't help but fall in love with you too Tyler. Thank you for everything you've ever given me and for more to come."

"No Josh. Thank you. Thank you for believing in me."

With no one else in there and a single stage light shining on us, we looked at each other and leaned in.

We made out passionately on stage without anyone else having to see it.

Josh pulled away first and he stared into my eyes.

"Oh my sweet Tyjo. I can't wait to make you mine forever."

I giggled. I wasn't quite sure what he meant by that but he was hugging me tightly and I hugged back.

As I hugged him, I looked into the audience and I could've sworn I saw two other people in the distance. They appeared to be us. They looked at us smiling and clapping quietly.

I blinked only to see they were gone.

Perhaps it was Blurryface and Spooky Jim somewhat proud of us.

Or perhaps it was a glimpse of a bright future with Josh.

Both made me smile.

We have come so far together. I wonder what new chapter would be written into our life story.

But I had a funny feeling that Josh knew exactly what that chapter would be.

Hey everyone! Yeah yeah I sped up this chapter and idk it seems unorganized whatever. The next chapter will be important!! I'll update again very soon. Please leave a vote and some comments! I'd appreciate that (-: