Being There For HIM

Lasertag

"Happy Birthday!" TJ and Cyrus say in unison.

"Hey guys! Glad you made it!" Andi says when Cyrus and TJ enter the lasertag building. "Thanks for coming. You can put the gifts on that table."

Cyrus and TJ walk over to a table and set their colorful bags down.

"Okay. So we're going to start the game in 5 minutes, so you kids need to quiet down and choose a team." Bowie yells over everyone while holding Bex's hand.

All of the kids run to a bucket and choose a piece of paper with their team color on it.

"I got blue!
I got red..
Yellow right here!!!
PINK!!!"

"I have yellow. What about you cyrus?" TJ asks.

"Same! Hey let's go suit up."

Kids are running around in the dark while "Star Wars" gun noises sound off all over.

Cyrus sees a group of red, he turns and starts to run but is pulled into a small place in between two large walls. "Hey!" Cyrus turns around to see another yellow team member. "TJ? Why are you back here?"

"There's two large groups of red and blue. I can't find pink right now, that's where Andi is. But Jonah is in blue. Anyway. If we hide and let the others see eachother, they'll get eachother out."

"Genious!" Cyrus says, looking into TJ's eyes. "Now we just sit here?"

"Nah. There's a ladder that leads to the top of this wall. We could scout out people who come close from up there."

"You're good at this." Cyrus calls up to TJ as he climbs the ladder. "Like the game."

"Yeah. I play video games a lot. And being captain makes you quick to think."

The boys sit at the top of the wall and watch people pass by. When they have a chance, they shoot them to make them out.

They have gotten out most of blue and some of red. All that is left is Andi, Jonah, and a couple other people on pink team.

"I think we can go down now. There aren't that many people." Cyrus says.

"Yeah. Why not?" TJ says. Crawling past Cyrus.

The boys turn around a dark corner and are met by two pink players. TJ grabs Cyrus and pushes him aside, but shoots both players.

"Only four players left. Two from yellow, one from blue and one from red." The loud intercom says above the players.

"Alright. Let's do this!" Cyrus says, running past TJ. Leaving him smiling and following behind.