lemon boy

the sad part

synopsis: au in which marty sees tj with cyrus and all he can think about is how much he's changed

quote: ❛ you don't even realize how
much you hurt me, that's the sad part ❜

          MARTY WALKED THROUGH the halls of jefferson middle school, as he did everyday. but today he had to take a different route since his schedule got all messed up a few days ago. he had to get taken out of his math class and moved up to a high school course, which also had the rest of his classes switched to different periods.

so this hallway was fairly new to him, he's walked down it before but not to the point where he knew where everything was. the lockers seemed bigger and a brighter shade of blue, the doors seemed newer and the students were definitely a lot taller.

he seen a few familiar faces here and there but most of them were kids in higher grades.

halfway to his class and he seen cyrus goodman, probably one of the only other middle schoolers taking high school classes. he was standing by a locker facing a guy whom marty hasn't really seen around school recently. and now that he sees him here, he knows why. he's been walking cyrus to class.

"you're fine, underdog. the test is gonna go great, you're gonna do great." tj said to the smaller brunette, running his hand down his arm. cyrus softly smiled and leaned in, whisper something that marty couldn't hear.

he rolled his eyes as if he might be annoyed but that was the opposite of what he was. he was happy for tj, he was happy that he found someone who pushed him to be a better person.

the person he had always wanted him to be, but maybe he wasn't enough. why wasn't he enough? why couldn't he do what cyrus did?

because right now, tj kippen was everything marty had wanted him to be, just happy and in love.

but perhaps they weren't there for each other in the right time, maybe tj just needed more time.

but he hates it. he hates that tj hurt him. he hates that tj hurt him so much. but he hates most of all that he doesn't even realize how bad.