Trust Me (Tyrus)

1 - Who is Tj?

{ CYRUS'S POV }

I've never noticed how many facial expressions Andi makes when talking. So far, I've counted 7 in the past three minutes. She's going on about how she saw Jonah Beck hanging out with another girl named Via. If I'm being honest, we have gone through this situation at least 20 times before. Andi would see Jonah talking to a girl, and suddenly she thinks he likes that girl. I'm not going to lie, I did the same thing back in middle school. My heart would break a little each time Jonah walked past me to talk to someone else, but now we are Sophomores and I am over Jonah Beck.

"Cyrus?" A voice asked, interrupting my thoughts. Andi was studying my face, searching for answers in my expression. "Are you listening?"

Of course I wasn't. We have had this conversation so many times before, I already knew what she was going to say.

"Y-yeah, sorry" I mumbled. Liar. I hate lying to my friends, but lately I've been doing it a lot. I know I shouldn't, but so much has been going on in my life that I just can't keep up with my friends at this point.

Andi obviously wasn't buying my quiet excuse.

"You know you can tell me if something is bothering you" she insisted. "-or if I'm talking too much, or if I-"

"Andiman! I've been looking for you everywhere" Jonah shouted, as he stepped through the doors of The Spoon. Suddenly, the smell of tater tots was concealed by the overwhelming scent of Jonah's cologne. "Hey Cyrus."

I couldn't bring myself to meet his eyes with mine.

Every interaction with Jonah has been awkward ever since I told him I had feelings for him back in middle school. He didn't have as bad of a reaction to it as I thought he would, but there was still this unspoken tension that made it hard to breathe every time we were in a room together. To this day, I don't even know what he truly thought about it, but he had been so busy keeping up with Andi, that he didn't bother making time for me anymore. In result, I stopped liking him, just like that. I began to wonder what the point was of liking someone who would never feel half of what I felt for them. I realized I didn't want to waste my time chasing after forbidden fruit, and would rather wait for the right person.

"-how are you?" He asked, obviously still in the awkward state that I left him in after confessing my feelings.

"I'm good" I replied, finally looking up from my prolonged stare at the food in front of me. "Really good. How are you?"

"Doing great" He said, revealing a smile I haven't seen in a while.

Suddenly, the room seemed to be filled with silence.

"Jonah can I talk to you?" Andi said, interrupting the silence. Jonah nodded in response, looking back at Andi. "Cyrus, we're gonna go."

No words could come to mind, so I smiled an unsure grin and nodded.

The bell above the door jingled as the two walked outside. Then it chimed again, followed by rapid footsteps stomping all the way to my booth.

"Hey, you won't believe what just happened" Buffy said, out of breath, as she scooted into the booth across from me. "Where's Andi?"

"She's outside talking to Jonah" I responded. "-as usual"

"Ahh.. okay" She said. "-anyways, you won't believe what happened"

"What happened?" I asked, impatiently.

"So I was helping out at the tutor center, you know to tutor kids" she began.

"Mhm" I nodded.

"Well, my math teacher walked into the tutor center and was searching for me. He told me that he had a student that desperately needs my help with math" she said. "-and of course, I accepted, right?"

"Yeah.."

"So, then he goes on to tell me that the student he wants me to tutor is Tj Kippen" she exaggerates.

I haven't heard that name since middle school, but that was only because of the talk around school about him being the best basketball player in our school. Other than that, I knew nothing about him. The mystery of who Tj Kippen truly is, other than just a basketball player, intrigued me and I needed to know more.

"Who is Tj?"

The bell above the door chimed.

"That's Tj."

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{ The YT vid I inserted up top, is a really good song, especially at 1:44 }
Oof, another fanfiction. Alright, so I haven't seen very many fanfictions about Tj and Cyrus from the show Andi Mack, and I wanted to be one of the firsts. I understand that not everyone ships Tj and Cyrus, but I personally do. Even if the show never goes as far as to portray a relationship between the two of them, a GIRL CAN DREAM CAN'T SHE. Anyways. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter, it's really short but it's a little teaser for what's to come later on. I know it's a little slow right now, but I kind of just wanted to set it all up first.