moondust - sweet pea

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It all began, because of one stupid mistake.

"Come on TJ, you can't be lonely forever," TJ's best friend, Eden said and all he did was roll his eyes.

"No, Eddie, I'm not gonna go night-jogging in the woods, why would you encourage me anyway when there's a serial killer on the loose?" He snapped back and his friend sighed heavily.

"TJ, you are a beautiful, pansexual man, that happens to be the son of the mayor, who wouldn't want you?" Eden argued.

"Let's see...anyone. The girls that want me are too preppy for me and almost all the guys are straight and those who are gay aren't my type," he explained.

"You really are one, McCoy. How are you and your sister even related?" "I don't know either," the boy said slyly. "Now, can we please go back to this biology homework? I don't get anything from it and we have a test in a week," TJ said groaning.

"Yeah, yeah, okay, grab your notebook," his friend ordered and he grabbed his bag beside him.

A fun fact about TJ is that he loves the hip hop culture, and not that from now, but back where it all began, New York where it began with records, b-boys and MC rapping. So, to relieve stress or just when he's bored, he writes poetry which turned into rhymes and then in raps. He found out with his friend that he can memorize raps better than just words, so he studies with songwriting.

Once he opens his - almost full notebook full of raps and poems - , he smiles at himself. "Okay, you know what will fit with bones and skulls?" He said, still looking at his notebook and his friend chuckles. "We have to at least make three raps, let's begin with-"

Eden's sentence was interrupted by someone banging on the door downstairs.

"OPEN THE DAMN DOOR, NORTHSIDER!"

The teens look at each other in fear. "It's okay I got this," TJ says.

'No I don't.'

He thinks and opens the curtains to see Serpents standing at the door. "Grab your phone, it may be necessary, but don't call anyone yet," he orders his friend and she does as he says.

"ANDREWS, IF YOU DON'T OPEN THE DAMN DOOR IN FIVE SECONDS, I'M GONNA DO IT MYSELF!"

"Wait, Andrews? Not again," Eden exclaimed and stomps downstairs with his friend following.

"No, Eddie, I'll open it, you - being done with this bullshit - is not really gonna help anyone," he said to his friend.

"Okay, I'll be right behind you if anything happens," she says. The curly haired opens the door only to be met by one of the most handsome boy he has seen in real life.

"Can I help you at this lovely night?" TJ says sarcastically and the raven haired boy chuckles. "So Andrews has some Northside friends over," the boy's voice says smirking and TJ shrugs. "Maybe, but not here."

"What?" The Serpent in front of him says with slight anger in his voice.

"Sorry, but you got the wrong house," TJ says crossing. The Serpent's eyes narrow at him and he turns to a gang member. "Fangs," he calls out the Serpent's name and even though it wasn't TJ's name, he felt a chill down his spine.

"330 Crossway Street, that's Andrews' house," the boy says. "Mhm, 330 North Crossway Street, this would be South," TJ explains looking at his nails.

"You've got to be kidding me," the Serpent says chuckling. "Wish I was, Eiffel tower, it has been confusing delivery man, mail man and - now on the list - gang members and my friend's pretty sick of it. If I wouldn't know better she would scream at you guys," TJ said glancing at his friend behind the door glaring daggers at him.

"Well, we're sorry," the tall Serpent said. "It's fine..." TJ says trailing it off a bit waiting for a name. "Sweet Pea," the boy says in front of him says.

"Like the flower, I love that. Sorry, I'm a dork," the curly haired boy says scratching the back of his neck embarrassed. "Well it's okay if you give me a name back," the tall boy says smirking. "TJ," he says.

"Well, we should probably go, again, sorry," Sweet Pea says walking backwards as the other Serpents are already out of sight. "Well, you didn't break any doors down, so we're happy," TJ says and steps back to close the door.

'What the heck just happend?'

He thinks as he closed the door, to be met by Eden's face full of shock. "Did you just do that?" Eddie asked and TJ nodded not looking into her eyes. "Oh my god," she exclaimed jumping and the boy looks at her confused. "What?"

"You just flirted with someone and not just someone, a fucking Southside Serpent," she now screams while dancing in victory.

"That wasn't flirting, Eden. I mean, it was something. It's just- I don't know," he says in full confusion.

"It means that my son is finally growing up," his friend says pinching his cheek. "I'm not your son." "We're not having this argument again," his friend says seriously making him chuckle.

And that was the encounter of Sweet Pea, the Southside Serpent and TJ McCoy, the mayor's son, but that sure as hell won't be there last

NOTE

First chapter. Hope you like it :) Also need to say that this whole chapter is inspired by an Sweet Pea imagine by SweetPeasNumber1, so check her out.