The Power of Touch//Tyrus AU

Chapter 6: The Park

Cyrus put the book back where it went. He sighed and sat on his bed. What was he gonna do?

Cyrus decided just to do his homework. The rest of the night he relaxed and tried to distract himself from worrying about Tj. The next morning he woke up to a text from Buffy.

Buffy🏀: hey cy! wanna go to the spoon for breakfast? Andi and Jonah are coming too! :)
Cyrus💚: Sure! Be there soon.

Cyrus quickly got up and got ready. He combed his hair and made his way out the door. He walked into the spoon welcomed by the jingle of the door. He saw his friends sitting in a booth and sat down.

"Hey Cy!" They all greeted him. He smiled. Then Buffy and Jonah continued their argument about the best kind of breakfast food. Cyrus just listened to their argument with amusement.

"Fine! How about we agree to disagree?" Jonah suggested kinda laughing. Buffy slowly nodded and looked at Cyrus.

"So how did hanging out with Tj go?" Buffy asked in a mocking tone. Cyrus sighed.

"It was ok, I doubt we'll be talking for a while." Cyrus mumbled the last part and started to tap his leg. He hadn't thought about it all morning, but now it's all he could think about. What was Tj thinking? He didn't know, which made it even worse.

"Do I need to beat him up?" Buffy day up straighter and turned her whole body toward Cyrus. Cyrus shook his head. Then the bell on the door jingled and Cyrus turned his head.

It was no other than Tj Kippen. Of course! Why wouldn't it be? Cyrus quickly looked away and sighed. Buffy noticed the sadness on Cyrus' face and looked at Tj. She sighed.

"Let me out of the booth." Buffy had the tone of anger in her voice. Cyrus looked at her quickly shaking his head.

"Buffy it's fine. He didn't do anything, calm down." Cyrus said quickly. Buffy scowled and looked away from Tj. Cyrus was filled with relief. Their food arrived and while everyone was busy eating Cyrus looked over at Tj.

Tj was with his friends. He was laughing and having a good time. Cyrus kinda smiled. Then Tj's eyes wandered to Cyrus. Tj's smile faded. Cyrus quickly looked away and he took a deep breathe.

"What do you think, Cy?" Jonah asked. Cyrus had no clue what they were talking about. He let out a little "Huh?"

"What should we do today?" Jonah asked letting out a chuckle. Cyrus picked up the fork and shrugged. He played around with the eggs on his plate.

"Ok well maybe we could go to the park?" Andi suggested. Cyrus looked at her and nodded. Everyone else agreed to go. When they were all done eating Cyrus still had a full plate.

They all stood up. As they walked they passed by Tj's table. Tj didn't look at Cyrus. Cyrus walked fast by the table. Then they all went to the park.

They walked on a trail and just talked and then they went on the playground and fooled around. There were no little kids on it so they took advantage of it.

"Remember the good old days on these things," Buffy patted the play ground, "Gosh this seemed so much bigger then." She sat on the end of the slide and laid back staring at the sky.

"Probably because we were smaller." Cyrus laughed as he sat on the stairs next to Jonah.

"That would make sense." Andi laughed as she hung from the monkey bars. She jumped down and wiped her hands.

Then they all walked over to the basketball courts. Buffy wanted to play Jonah in a game of one v. one. Cyrus sat on a bench and went on his phone eventually blocking the whole world out.

A basketball rolled up to his feet and he flashed back to reality. He picked the ball up to return it to who he assumed would be Buffy or Jonah, but it wasn't. It was Tj standing in front of him.
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hiii. i didn't know what to title the chapter...oops. enjoy 🤪