lemon boy

change of direction

synopsis: a continuation of my one shot 'broken hearts' where cyrus and tj split after high school, only to reconnect years later.

quote: ❛ fate had a weird way of circling back over paths that were meant to cross ❜

TJ WALKED DOWN the street, arriving at the small clothing shop he's been in all to many times. he walked inside, making the small bell ring. amber kippen stood by an isle, folding clothes and putting them on the stands, her head snapped towards him. "tj! what're you doing here so early, we're not even open yet."

"where's andi?" it's been almost three whole days since he's seen cyrus, and he has yet to andi, or anyone for that matter. they exchanged numbers, and went their separate ways, promising to meet up again.

"she should be here any minute." she started, "but make yourself useful and hang up the hats on the top rack." tj sighed and walked over to rack and started hanging them up.

the bell rung, signaling that someone else had walked in. tj turned and saw none other than andi mack walk through the door, carrying a purse on her arm.

"tj? what're you doing here so early?" tj hung the last hat up and walked to the front of store where andi was setting up the cash register, and putting stuff out on the counter. "you remember cyrus goodman, right?"

andi froze, standing up straight and looking at tj. "y-yeah. how could i forget?" tj leaned over the corner, resting his hands on his chin. "well a few days ago i ran into him. turns out his office got moved here, and he wants to see you."

she smiled, "you seen him? how's he doing? is he still in touch with buffy? wait, he said he wanted to see me? oh my god, how are you? are you okay, was it weird seeing him after so long?" andi rambled, amber came up from behind her, putting a hand on her shoulder, "cyrus goodman? haven't heard that name in awhile."

"he's doing great, and of course he wanted to see you." andi's smile got bigger, if it was even possible. "well when's the next time he's available, he's oughta be real busy."

tj pulled out his phone and looked for the contact that he thought would never be in his phone again. it rang a few times before it picked up, "hello?" immediately tj noticed how up and awake he sounded, it was only 9 a.m.

"c-cyrus, hey!" andi clapped her hands together and tucked them under her chin, forcing herself not to jump up and down.

"oh, tj? i didn't expect you to call so early." he smiled, hearing cyrus laugh over the phone made him think back to the times where they'd be on the phone till ungodly hours of the night, and how tj would make him laugh over stupid things, and cyrus would make him smile just by talking.

"sorry, i didn't know if you'd be awake or not and i just wanted to see if you were busy today, andi's here-" tj got cut off by andi screaming into the phone, "hi cyrus!" she practically jumping out of her socks, it was the cutest thing ever, well according to amber.

cyrus laughed once more, "tell her i said hello, and no i don't really have anything to do today." tj smiled and covered the speaker, looking over at andi.

"he said hello, and that he's not busy today."

"invite him over to the store, and we can go get lunch or something later." his sister suggested.

he slowly put the phone back up to his ear, "well is there any chance you'd wanna meet up today? me, you, andi, and amber just-" he cut himself off from saying just like old times, because this wouldn't be old times without buffy. "-they're opening up in a few minutes and we're usually here most of the day."

tj silently waited for a response, "yeah, you can text me the address." tj looked over at andi and nodded, causing her to literally jump up and down.

"yeah, we'll see you in a little bit?"

"yeah."

authors notes !
so i decided to make a part two to this, and possibly a part three because of how this one ended
but i'm out of ideas for one shots at the moment and every time i start one i end up deleting it
so my conclusion was: continue the ones yo already started, so i might be making part twos to other ones