tyrus oneshots

#5: Beautiful

A/N: Gasp! Sarah is updating her oneshot book?? (okay but fr i'm sorry, i've been highkey focusing on SS&DR lately)

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It was an average Friday afternoon in Shadyside; the sun was beginning to lower in the sky, stores were beginning to close for the day and kids were meeting up at their local parks to hang out late into the night, no longer stopped by school the following day.

The streets were bustling with anticipation of the weekend ahead as TJ skateboarded down the sidewalk, narrowly avoiding a few disgruntled passers-by. He had a helmet on of course, he wasn't that much of a rule breaker, and said helmet just happened to be a rainbow one that Cyrus had brought him. Who on earth wouldn't want to wear that anyway?

He continued to make his way towards cloud 10, where he knew Bex was likely beginning to close up for the night. TJ wasn't entirely how he had gotten so close to her, all he knew was that she had been there for him during the costume day ordeal and from there he had started dropping by cloud 10 a few afternoons a week to talk to her.

He came to a halt in front of the familiar glass doors, planting his feet firmly on the ground and picking up his skateboard, which also happened to be rainbow themed. Sue him.

"Hey Bex," he sing-songed, stepping inside casually and taking off his helmet.

"TJ!" came a voice from the back of the studio. Her head appeared around the corner then, and he couldn't help but smile.

"How's my second favourite skateboarder doing?" she asked him, walking over to the front counter.

"Ever since I started teaching Andi how to skateboard I'm not your favourite anymore," he complained, secretly not annoyed by it in the slightest. He enjoyed his afternoons spent with Andi, and he wouldn't trade them for the world.

"But she's my daughter, I have a legal obligation to make her my favourite," came Bex's equally whiny response, and TJ couldn't help but laugh.

He left his skateboard and helmet by the front entrance and wandered over to one of the swivel stools, sitting down and spinning around to face Bex.

"So what have you done this time?" she asked him knowingly, beginning to flit between various power sockets to turn them off.

TJ raised a hand to his chest in mock offence. "Hey - why are we assuming I've done something here?"

"Because you're TJ," Bex supplied as though it was obvious.

TJ let out an annoyed huff. "Now I don't wanna admit that I've done something."

"Oh come on," Bex laughed. "Tell me! I'm curious now."

TJ raised his hands in surrender. "Okay, okay. It may or may not have to do with Cyrus."

"Ohhh, Cyrus huh?" Bex teased, moving over to the mirror behind him and organising a few make up brushes. "Do tell."

TJ could feel himself blushing already, which was pretty unfair considering he hadn't even started talking yet.

"Okay so...god this is embarrassing."

Bex shook her head. "Oh no. What have you done?"

"It's not bad! It's just...ugh."

"Ugh. A very descriptive word," Bex said, nodding wisely.

TJ just laughed. "Okay, okay. Basically Cyrus was admiring one of the drawings I did, right? He was being all like 'this is beautiful', and you wanna know what I said?"