Lights! Camera - ; Tyrus

Act 2

Cyrus

Here's how it happened.

"Want a ride?" Is what TJ Kippen said to me the second his stolen golf cart appeared. Despite the chill in the air, my heart glowed with warmth at the sight of his smile. His smile, at me.

"Well someone learnt nothing from his time in the system." I teased to him and he shrugged.

"What can I say? I live on the edge." His smile was so genuine. And I knew that he was talking to me. Not Andi, not Buffy. But Cyrus for a change.

"Well I live in the middle." I replied quickly, knowing where this was going. I had to bight down on my gums to refrain from smiling to wide back at him. Pouring my heart out.

And then he said, quite possibly, the best thing TJ Kippen has ever said to me in my life. "Cool. I'll drive you there."

Do you like me the way I like you?

We knew what would happen if we got caught. We didn't care. I, for once, didn't care. And it was because my questioned hadn't been answered. It hadn't been rejected. 

So, like any smart, helplessly in love gay would, I got in the golf cart. And TJ Kippen started driving.

It was like nothing I had ever felt before.

Even though it was a quick trip around the front of the school, it felt like two seconds, and forever at once.

TJ's hair magically stayed in place as we rounded every corner. His and my smile getting larger. Our hearts beating faster every time we could falter. We never did.

And my hands were in such a tight fist so that I didn't hold his hand. So that my stupid, reckless teenage brain didn't reach out and touch him. So that my question didn't get shut down.

Does he like me the way I like him?

Eventually it had to end though. Eventually my heart would calm down and know that TJ Kippen was straight, eventually the ride would stop.

Except it didn't.

TJ slowed the golf cart down when we reached the field. You could see his breath escaping his smiling lips through the cold. "I think Buffy's growing on me." He said suddenly.

"You grow on everyone, some people just take a little more time." I said. And some people fall for you instantly.

"Well I want her to like me." TJ nodded, like it was some kind of mission. I'm lying if I said to you that my heart didn't dip a little, because TJ liked Buffy, like every other straight guy at our school.

"Why do you care about that so much?" I asked, suddenly a lot colder on the inside.

TJ shrugged, and I thought that was the answer. I mean it was pretty clear he didn't want to tell me about his crush. I didn't want to hear about his crush. But I could see it; the way his ears turned pink, the way he looked a little less confident. His eyes scanning the empty field.

"Because." And he shrugged again. He was so self conscious back then about his crushes. "So I can do this."

And he reached out for my cheek and kissed me.

TJ Kippen could have kissed me in any way. He could have never at all. There is probably another universe where we just hold hands.

But I got the lucky Universe because he kissed me

And pulled away as soon as he did, because he was self conscious back then. And looked down at the ground. Maybe hoping he could disappear. But he also got the lucky Universe,

Because I reached in and kissed him back.

Our first kiss. My first kiss. I wouldn't have chose it any other way.

And many more would follow. And a lot of missing his lips as well.

We could never be like that again. 

A/N your girl pushed through and did it Sunflowers! A small little alternate universe intro chapter. And now I'm scared about what comes next.