What now? (A Tyrus fanfic)

8/14/2020

8/14/2020

Tj P.O.V

Tj anxiously drummed his fingers on the steering wheel. He thought back to a few days ago, "here's the thing Teeeeeeej it doesn't matter how in love you think you are as a teenager, no love lasts." Sam had called Tj in the middle of the night, drunk off his ass. Sam was one of Tj's friends from camp. "You think, you think, you think your boyfriend loves you but no! No! He loves someone else! Then you relize your parents were right! All teenage romance is stupid! It ends! If you don't vibe together, if you grow apart, then you can't survive together." 

"So, you're saying I should break up with Cy? It was only a fight... one fight." Tj had whispered into the phone. "Love is pointless! What do you think you'll marry him? Do you think he'd want someone like you Tj? What's the point... what's the point... what the..." Tj suspects at that point Sam had fallen asleep. Those words had stuck with him though. What was the point? What was the point? 

"Tj, babe are you okay?" Cyrus asked. Tj was going to miss this... He pulled in front of Cyrus's drive way and parked. "I uh," Tj couldn't look at him. He felt a tear come to his eye. "Cy, I think we need to break up." 

"What?" Cyrus asked, "why would you think that? What did I do?" Tj could hear the shock and pain in Cyrus's voice. "You didn't do anything... it's just... Okay, so you're in a bunch of Honors classes and I'm in some Junior classes. We don't vibe together anymore. People who don't vibe together don't survive together."

"Tj, that's so... so stupid! People who don't want to make it don't make it. If you give up on something it's never going to work." Cyrus fought back. Tj couldn't ever look at him. "We drifted apart Cy. I'm sorry we should move on. We're done." Tj heard Cyrus take a deep breath. "Tj," Cyrus began. "I said we're done!" Tj yelled. "Tj. Do you actually want to do this? Do you think this will make you happy?" Tj could here the forced calm in Cyrus's voice. "Yeah, yeah I think it will." 

"Fine. Just look at me and tell me that then. If you really mean it, look into my eyes and tell that you think this is for the best." Tj turned his head toward Cyrus. He looked him in his eyes. Those beautiful eyes. He opened his mouth but the words didn't come. "You can't do it can you? Because you know it's stupid." 

"We're done." And at that Cyrus got out of the car and slammed the door shut. Tj watched him storm up to his house. He put the car in drive and shot forward. 

He found a place to park at a Walmart. He sat there staring forward. He already regretted it. That regret would go away soon, but it would have to. Part of him knew it wouldn't. The more he thought to himself the more it became clear he'd made a dumb decision. Typical Tj, anything good he had to ruin it. Tears started to come. He slammed his fists into the dash board. "Damn it!" He yelled. He drove out of the parking lot.

He parked his car terribly in the driveway at his house and ran upstairs. "Tj?" His mom called after him. "Not now Christina!" He slammed his door and crashed on to his bed. His mind ran until sleep came. 

It was Cole who checked on him first. "Hey buddy." Tj said getting up. "What happened to your hands?" Cole asked. Tj looked down. His hands were cut and bruised; nothing terrible but nothing pretty. "Eh, they'll be alright." He said. "Will you be? What happened?" Cole sat down next to Tj. "Oh Cyrus and I broke up."

"Wow that's dumb." 

"Yeah Cole, I know." Tj sighed. "But you see people grow apart and things end. It was just confronting the inevitable." Tj explained. "How would you know?" Tj looked at his brother. "Cole the amount of high school relationships that last outside of high school is extremely small."

"So? How do you know  that you and Cyrus aren't that extremely small amount? You don't. You don't know unless you fight. You won't be apart of that small amount if you give up now." Tj gave his little brother a look of surprise. "Cole since when are you so smart?" 

"Since you got your head out of your ass and started to pay attention." Tj grunted. "Cole!" His little brother just stood up and left the room. 

After Cole left Tj washed his hands in the bathroom and put some band aids on the small cuts. Maybe in time his hands would heal. Maybe in time his heart would too.