cutie • tyrus [complete]

twelve.

hey, marty, can we talk?

he wanted to ask him if he liked jonah. he really wanted jonah to be happy. he looked so...lonely all the time.

what's up?

but cyrus chickened.

when you cut your brother off the other day, what was he gonna say?

i think you get the idea.

well, yeah, but does anybody else know?

yeah. well, not in our friend group. i moved here after i came out, so i came off as a cis male, yk?

yeah

by the way, my brother didn't call me by my birth name if you were concerned. i call him brooklyn and he calls me mary anne. it used to be brooklyn and marty, but j guess j liked that name so i took it.

are you comfortable with telling me your birth name?

no, hell no. not yet. sorry if that upsets you, cy but i don't really wanna tell anybody that.

no worries, it's fine. i was just curious.

cyrus sighed, putting his phone down.

"cyrus, come here!" he heard his mom yell.

"coming!" he rushed down the stairs. it was dinner, and his mom had just finished cooking. well, cyrus thought she was cooking, until he saw the domino's box on the table.

his mom wasn't cooking, again.

she hadn't cooked since they moved there.

it was all takeout or order in.

he thanked her and took a slice or two of pizza to his room, then turned on netflix. his phone buzzed, again.

wow, aren't i popular?

tj: can i come over?

tj: please

cyrus felt hesitant. he rushed downstairs again.

"mom? can i have a friend over tonight?"

"sure." she smiled. "your stepfather is going to be home at 9, however so be quiet because he needs his rest."

cyrus nodded, and as soon as he turned away, he rolled his eyes.

he never liked to sass his mother, but he really, really hated his stepfather.

he was the reason they moved there.

his mom never cooked because todd didn't like her cooking.

cyrus couldn't do normal teen things like watch movies at night because todd needed sleep.

cyrus wasn't even out to his family because todd was homophobic.

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tj got there at about 7pm, (after cyrus sent his address, of course.)

the two ran up to cyrus' room and picked a movie on netflix, settling for to all the boys i've loved before.

they cuddled up on cyrus' bed.

tj decided that he wouldn't tell cyrus why he asked to come over.

"so why did you need to come over?"

people disagree with themselves, right?

"well, you see, my mom and dad are almost divorced. it's finalized in january. but, the reason they're divorcing is because my dad got married while they were...married."

cyrus nodded along.

"and my dad and his new wife came to pick up the divorce papers, and it became a huge mess so i got out of there. fast." tj sighed. "thank you."

cyrus smiled and kissed tj's cheek. "it's no problem, really."

tj now felt safe.

safe. safe was cyrus.

and cyrus was safe.