#joshua scenarios
“It reminded me of you.” + “Close your eyes and hold out your hands.”
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
With the summer arriving with all the sunshine and gentle wind, you and Joshua had decided to go on a picnic by the river. The day was as beautiful as the ones before, and knowing that a few days later it would rain, you figured you’d chosen the perfect day for the outing.
The two of you smiled at each other while setting down the picnic mat, and once it was ready, you both sat down and took your shoes off before unpacking some of the food and drinks you had brought.
“This is even nicer than I had thought,” you hummed as you scooted to sit closer to Joshua, leaning your head on his shoulder while looking at the river, taking in the way it was reflecting the sunshine.
Joshua wrapped his arm around you, and you felt him place a gentle peck on the top of your head. “Finally a chance to take a breather, huh?”
You chuckled and nodded, letting out a quiet sigh. “And in the best company, too.”
“Exactly,” he noted and smiled, holding you close while closing his eyes, slowly feeling the stress of the everyday life leaving his body little by little.
While you both had busy, stressful days both behind and ahead, it was comforting to know that for that day and evening, none of it mattered, and all you could focus on was each other and the weather, and after the sunset, the beautiful lights around you.
All in all it was simply the perfect break from everything else.
After you and Joshua had eaten some of the food you had brought, you grinned and reached for your bag. Joshua quirked his eyebrow, and you looked at him with a playful sparkle in your eyes. “Close your eyes and hold out your hands.”
“What is this?” Joshua asked, laughing, but complied regardless, although he did try to peek by opening one of his eyes just enough to see something.
You got what you were looking for from your bag and held it inside your hands before turning to Joshua, squinting a little and snorting when you clearly saw Joshua fully close his eyes again. “No peeking.”
“Okay, okay,” he chuckled, and you turned to him properly again.
With a small smile playing on your lips, you placed a key ring on Joshua’s held-out hands, and watched him slowly open his eyes, his eyebrows rising. “It might be a bit silly, but it really reminded me of you, so I had to get it. Besides, you keep saying you want a new key ring.”
Joshua laughed and put the ring on his forefinger, eyeing the many small dangling Eevee evolutions in amusement, a wide smile on his face. “You’re still insistent on that I look like Eevee?”
Immediately digging a photo of Eevee from your phone, you nodded, your lips in a small pout. “Just look! Just like you!”
He laughed heartily and nodded, unable to deny the resemblance, and leaned in to give you a light kiss on the lips before reaching for your hand with his free hand, looking into your eyes with his filled with warmth. “I love it, thank you.”
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Admin Scooter
Member: Joshua
Genre: Angst
WordCount: 712
Warning: death mention
Joshua was certain that you couldn’t break his heart anymore that you already had.
Granted, he was pretty sure that things wouldn’t have worked out anyway, since the both of you were fighting more than you ever had and just simply couldn’t see eye to eye. He felt awful about the way you seemed to slowly fall apart. About the way your eyes lost their light. He never wanted it to end like this.
He couldn’t bring himself to remove you completely from his life. He still lived in the apartment you once shared. The pictures of the both of you were still littered on the wall. Things you left behind had stayed in their place, long forgotten. Your favorite mug still sat in its place in the cupboard. He still kept those cheesy notes you would leave around the apartment. The goldfish that you had taken home one day still swam around in its tank, which reminded Josh that he needed to clean it more often.
Joshua hadn’t loved anyone more than he loved you. More than he still loves you. He knew you were probably happier, were in less pain now that you had gone, but he was selfish. He wanted you here with him.
He remembered that the two of you would go down to the river and watch the sunset every once in a while. He remembered your favorite drink from the local coffee shop. He remembered your favorite flowers, and how you would always keep them on display much longer than you should have, with the petals browning and the stem weakening.
But Josh knew that he wouldn’t get the chance to go to the river with you again. He knew he couldn’t buy your favorite drink for you again. He knew that if he brought your favorite flowers home, there would be no one to surprise them with. Death is permanent, after all.
The sickness came unexpectedly. Who could predict cancer? It tore you apart. You and Josh fought often. Money was a common topic. Sometimes it was about you dying, something Josh would never want to talk about.
Joshua couldn’t think about losing you. He tried to make you happy, tried to pretend that everything was alright. He knew more than anyone, though, that time was running out.
So when the day finally came, and you left the world one smile less, Josh couldn’t let everything about you die. He kept all of your things. He took care of your goldfish. He stayed in your shared apartment. And occasionally, he would go visit you.
He made sure that he got you a spot facing west so you could see the sunset. He would stop by the coffee shop, where they knew his and your orders by memory. They would ask him where you were, they hadn’t seen you in a while. Josh would just nod and leave. He stopped by the flower shop, picking out the most beautiful flowers he had ever seen in his life. And then he would go see you, at the top of the hill where you could see most of the city, including the river.
The vase of flowers next to you had wilted, nothing more than a brown and crunchy mess. True to character, you had kept them long past their expiration. The drink he had left for you last time was gone, probably taken by some animals. Josh didn’t mind. He replaced the flowers, and put the drinks in between the two of you.
Sometimes, Joshua felt like he knew why you kept those flowers. He, too, tried to hold on to something beautiful long after it had lived its time on this planet. But his flowers were a part of him, something he couldn’t let go of, even though they were gone. He had to learn how to, though, since he knew that you wouldn’t want him to keep them this long.
The sun had started to grow heavy in the sky, and Josh could hear your voice in the wind.
“Beautiful sunset, isn’t it?” He said into the empty air. He knew you had heard him.
And together, you watched the sunset dip behind the buildings of the city below you, and vanish under the horizon.
-Alex
Member:Joshua
Genre:Fluff
Word Count: 735
“What do you mean you’ve never been to the beach?” he asked you, his eyebrows crinkling in disbelief. His whole face scrunched like it was the most ridiculous thing he’d ever heard.
“I mean…yeah. I haven’t. Growing up my parents liked going to the city for vacations and we kind of lived far from the coast so…” you shrugged. It didn’t feel like such a big deal to you, but it was easy to see that something like this would come to a pretty big shock to your California-raised boyfriend.
And that was how Joshua made up a grand plan to take you to the beach for the first time. He loaded up his car with towels, folding chairs, snacks, and anything else he saw fit for your very first beach trip. As you drove the couple of hours to the coast, he tapped his fingers excitedly on the steering wheel. He babbled on about the beaches in Malibu that he visited in high school. It was rare to see him this excited over something. Especially something as trivial as a day trip. You enjoyed it, though, because seeing him happy like this was heart-fluttering. You couldn’t take your eyes off of him as he talked. When he smiled at you, you couldn’t help but return the grin with equal enthusiasm.
It was midday when you two arrived, and it was crowded on the beach. This didn’t dull Josh’s enthusiasm in the slightest, though, and he squeezed his way through the crowd quickly. He managed to find a nice, open spot that had a great view of the water. You tried your best to help him put up an umbrella, but he nicely asked you to just set out the towels instead (you didn’t disagree. He definitely knew what he was doing and you…didn’t).
Once everything was set up just the way he wanted it, he sat down in his chair like a king would sit upon a throne. He breathed in a deep breath through his nose, inhaling the salty air, and exhaling through his mouth in a powerful sigh.
“So how do you like it?” He asked, turning his head towards you expectantly. You didn’t really know how to tell him that you hated it. When you didn’t immediately proclaim your love for the experience, though, he knew something was up. You felt strangely guilty as you watched his face fall. “What is it? What’s wrong? Don’t you like it?” he asked, an anxious lilt to his words.
“It’s fine! I don’t dislike it,” Liar. “I just…it’s a lot to take in.” you said, putting on a smile and reaching out to touch your boyfriend on the arm. “There’s a lot of people, it’s hot, I think I already have sand in my mouth…” you blinked a few times, “and in my butt.”
“That’s all just part of the experience!” Joshua said, waving his arms to gesture around him. “It’s always kind of uncomfortable! That’s the point of a public beach!”
“I don’t follow?” you said, horribly confused.
“Listen. It’s not perfect. But look at the ocean for me. Just for a second.” He gently used two fingers to turn your face forward. “It goes on…forever. This body of water covers so much of the planet we live on. That ocean holds the biggest animals on the Earth, pirate shipwrecks, and remnants of civilizations that existed before you or me were even so much as a thought. It’s not just a pool to play in, it’s the source of all life. Right there in front of our eyes.” he said, his voice passionate.
“And a whole lotta fish pee.” you added, quietly.
“That too.” he laughed, turning to look back at you. “Still not impressed?”
You looked back over the ocean and thought about the things he had said. It was impressive, but none of that really sunk in. What did actually impact you, though, was the sun that danced off of the waves. It glittered magnificently, and it was almost too much to look at without having to squint and shield your eyes. It reminded you of a certain someone. You looked at him.
“I am. It’s lovely, Josh.” you smiled. His lips twitched up into a little grin of their own. He leaned forward and kissed you softly.
“Next time, we can just go to the park.”
- Marcy
