Oneshots || Tyrus

Lesbians?

{in Amber's room}

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"Ambs? Is everything okay?"

Amber glanced up at her younger brother, fiddling nervously with her bracelet.

"Psh, of course! Why wouldn't it be? Everything it toootally fine! What makes you think otherwise?"

TJ chuckled dryly, reaching across her bed and tossing a pillow towards the girl's face.

"Because I know you stupid! I've spent every day for the past fourteen years of my life in your shadow. Did you really think I wouldn't notice your tells?"

"My tells?" Amber scoffed, scratching at her nail polish to keep from fidgeting.

"Yes your TtElLlsS!" TJ mocked, rolling his eyes and poking out his tongue. "Whenever you like someone, you always have these little signs that your crushing. Blushing at your phone when it buzzes, giggling whenever you read what it says, picking at your- hey!" TJ swatted at Amber's hand to stop, "picking at your nail polish when you get asked about it!"

Amber dropped her hands back in her lap, reverting to twisting one of her rings around her pointer finger instead.

"Okay, so mayyybe I like someone, but I'm not sure yet okay?"

"I knew it!" TJ exclaimed, pumping his fists in the air and bouncing slightly on her mattress. "Who is it?! Is it Robbie Marks? Jacob Fielder? That kid Billy from your math class? Or..." TJ paused, his eyes widening as he gasped, "Jonah Beck?!"

Fear flashed across Amber's face as she quickly looked down, wincing.

"Teej, there's uh, there's something I've been meaning to tell you."

TJ's eyes softened as he relaxed on the bed.

"Listen Ambs, it's okay if you're dating Jonah again, you can tell me. I know he was awful to you last time with the whole avoidance thing but if he really makes you happy then-"

"This has nothing to do with Jonah!" Amber snapped, "Okay, maybe a little bit to do with Jonah, but not the point little bro!"

TJ flinched, nodding his head solemnly in a silent apology, tilting his nose up signaling his sister to continue.

"Well, you see, at first, after Jonah and I broke up, I was upset, like, really upset. But I wasn't mad at him exactly, it was more, self targeted rage? I kept asking myself why I could never seem to make things work, why my relationships with guys never felt right, never lasted longer than a couple weeks."

"Hey! Take it from me, teenage boys suck, I'm sure you'll find the one some day!"

"Heh, yeah, not exactly." Amber tugged at her knotted bracelet and took a deep breath continuing, "So anyway, i started texting Andi about it, about how my relationships never worked and how I never really felt comfortable in them. We would talk for hours about my problems and my confusing rage, and eventually after a couple weeks it just became us talking, about anything and everything 24/7. Andi's the one I've been texting Teej, the one causing my tells."

TJ scrunched up his face in confusion, squinting his eyes.

"I don't get it."

"TJ, it took a while for me to figure out, but I've finally come to terms with it. I'm a lesbian Tee."

"Oh"

"Yeah"

Amber looked up expectantly at her younger brother, and was surprised to see him shrinking into himself, tugging nervously at the fringe of the pillow he balanced in his lap.

"Ambs?"

"Yeah Jeej?"

TJ looked up, his eyes glossy with fear.

"I... I think I'm a lesbian too."

He shuddered as he whispered those words, looking up at her sister's shocked expression.

"TJ I, I don't know how to say this nicely but, that's... simply impossible."

TJ winced violently, tugging the pillow up to his chest to hug tightly.

"Why not? I'm just like you Ambs! Whenever I'm with girls, I never feel anything, and, and I think I might really like this guy and if that makes me a lesbian then I'm totally okay with that but apparently you're not and-"

"Theodore James!" Amber cried loudly, startling him out of his spiral.

"Only girls can be lesbians silly!" Amber exclaimed, resolving into a fit of giggles. "You can't be a lesbian because you're gay sweetie."

"Oh"

TJ slumped down against the headboard of his sister's bed, letting out and exasperated sigh of relief.

"So the problem isn't that I'm homophobic Teej, you're just dumb!"

TJ launched the pillow he had been clutching at her chest, hitting her hard.

"Hey! Rude! I just came out to you and this is how you treat me?"

"Little bro, you know I mean well, but, c'mon. That was too funny not to laugh at. You know I love you more than anything and that I support your dumb ass."

TJ sighed, betraying his angry facade by breaking out into a wide toothy grin.

"Soooooo, who's the lucky guy?" Amber teased, tossing the pillow back to her brother.

"Well, you see the thing is..."

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•A/N•
I love one (1) dumbass blonde boy. I had this idea and thought it could be cute so here it is! Not quite tyrus but hey at least it's implied. And I can't even count how many nicknames I made up for TJ in this lol. (And yes Jeej was intentional bc,,, siblings idk)