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i'm a slut for mlb and the new trailer got me cracking, let's go!
"for god's sake, cyrus." buffy sighed heavily. "go talk to him."
the simple thought made cyrus jump a little on own his place. he stopped looking for his science book as he turned to his best friend frowning.
"i don't need that extra level of embarrassment, buffy." he said. cyrus went back looking for his book until he found it.
buffy rolled her eyes and pulled the door of his locker to show the photo he got on it. cyrus had taken it on one of the basketball practices he went once. tj was in the photo. not with buffy, not in a group photo, it was only tj scoring. it was a good photo, though. cyrus shut the door immediately, looking around in case someone saw the photo on his locker.
"are you out of your mind?" he mumbled nervously. "someone could've seen it."
"good! at least someone finally would say tj what you feel 'cause you are too coward to do it."
"i'm waiting for the right time."
"right time?" buffy questioned. "you add a new photo of the guy everyday on your bedroom walls for each day you don't talk to him."
"i got nervous when i talked with tj. i need time."
"time?" buffy pressed her fingers against her temples, incredulous. "cyrus, you've talked with him before! thousand times!"
"that was before i realized i have a crush on him." cyrus responded, taking importance from the matter.
"what are you guys talking about?" cyrus and buffy both jumped as a reflect when they heard jonah's voice coming along into the conversation.
they turned to him and saw he was holding hands with andi which made lots of sense. cyrus had already come out with jonah or his parents, the four of them. it wasn't really a big deal, no one made a drama out of it or anything like that. it went great, actually, but cyrus couldn't help but feeling a bit embarrassed of talking about his gay stuff with jonah. it was normal, though. he is/was his first best guy friend and also was his first crush and if he didn't really know how to act around him then, it was twice harder after his coming out.
however, jonah seemed so chilled about it.
how could he?, cyrus asked to himself. was he the only one uncomfortable with the situation?
"well..." buffy said emphasizing the e and lengthening the vowel. she looked at her friend for permission and he sighed nodding. it wasn't a big deal, anyway, and jonah was his best friend, he should be capable of telling jonah that kind of stuff. "cyrus likes tj but he won't talk to him. it's ridiculous."
cyrus crossed his arms, looking away in a sassy expression as he rolled his eyes, holding to his dignity. andi couldn't help laughing at that, she thought he looked cuter than cheeky and she knew that buffy and jonah thought the same.
"i've embarrassed myself multiple times, i'm not in the mood today."
"yes!" buffy answered before cyrus could speak out his lame excuses. "and he also has a picture of him on his locker."
"and more of them on his bedroom."
"it's complicated." cyrus complained exasperated.
jonah frowned, smiling a little. maybe he didn't understand cyrus' frustration because he's never had that kind of problem. he was very confident when he had to be, the opposite of cyrus.
"no, it's not." cyrus didn't even tried to hide a surprise gesture as he heard jonah giving his opinion. "you just have to go and say hi."
cyrus turned to jonah following his conversation, the girls didn't try to join them or anything, they just smiled and saw how it went. andi and buffy knew cyrus and jonah were avoiding each other unconsciously since cyrus' coming out and they hadn't talked much. so, the girls were glad they were talking, joining wasn't an option that time.
"really? how?" cyrus questioned.
"like this." jonah turned showing cyrus his back and turned again at cyrus smiling nicely. "hi."
cyrus pressed his lips just staring at his friend, he seemed to be thinking, before he shoke his head frenetically in denial.
"yeah, i can't do that. no with tj."
"no with the boy who thinks you can do anything?" buffy raised her eyebrow.
"com-pli-ca-ted."
"you're being complicated, cy." jonah giggled.
andi just leaned against the locker with a sigh escaping out of her. it was the "this is gonna take time" kind of sigh, she let them argued about how complicated cyrus was being and looked around to distract herself, there was when she saw tj walking in their direction from the end of the hallway. she glared at buffy and pointed tj with her head, it was amazing how they could plan things by simply looking at each other's eyes. buffy nodded after reading andi's plan on her eyes and took the opportunity to glare/say jonah the plan as well while cyrus was too busy defending himself about why he was being complicated to give a shit about paying attention to them. jonah got it almost immediately.
"you know, i think cyrus has the marinette complex." andi opined standing straight (ew) again. "you know, marinette gets super nervous and clumsier than she already is when adrien is around, she can't even say a single word to the boy without drooling on him."
"isn't that a cartoon?" her boyfriend and her best friend asked in sync.
"you can't blame a girl for being bored." the girl shrugged and then, looked at cyrus. "anyway, marinette always has her best friends, alya more than anyone, to help her with adrien. the good thing here is you don't got one alya, you got three."
"what do you mean?" cyrus frowned.
"please, don't hate us." andi said grimacing as buffy and jonah stepped back before andi pushed cyrus in the exactly moment tj was passing by.
as they expected, cyrus ran into tj, in the clumsiest possible way, and tj had to catch him so he wouldn't fall. it was like a cliché, tj had cyrus trapped with his arms, cyrus had this really scared and surprised look on his face, he couldn't even move to apologize or killed his friends, it didn't matter, though, tj was smiling. there was no doubt that the scene looked really gay, he was really close, inches from cyrus' face and he was holding cyrus really tight, for god's sake, it couldn't be more gay, yet tj didn't seem to want to pull away anytime sooner, he just was there, smiling at cyrus without feeling any kind of shame. jonah, buffy and andi high-fived quietly as they watched cyrus and tj standing straight (ew) , on their own feet, again. tj talked first, rubbing the back of his neck, looking a bit nervous.
"hi, muffin." tj smiled widely and cyrus could swear he felt his knees going weak.
"h-hi." inside out, cyrus was beating himself up because of all that babbling.
"i was wondering, do you have any plans tonight?" it was suprising how direct and kinda impulsive tj was, cyrus knew he was asking because his emotions took away the control of the wheel. cyrus couldn't care less.
he had to answer the question, cyrus had to show tj that his priorities were in order, that meant no humming or mumbling, just a little lack of confidence to not look dorkier that he knew he looked. after all, tj was one of his priorities along with his friends.
"i'm completely free." he responded quite fast. "what you got in mind?"
the crew smiled and kept watching the akwward but cute conversation the two boys were having. they made it.
