Author's Note: What's up guys! I decided to finally write a Thomas/CJ oneshot! If you guys like this enough, I'll make it into an actual story! :) Enjoy and please follow/favorite/review! :D IF YOU DIDN'T SEE IN THE SUMMARY: If I get 10 reviews and/or 10 follows/favs, I'll continue this!
It was a just a "regular" day in the park, with everyone working hard to make it the best place to be in the city of Twin Peaks. Skips was fixing the cart, again, as Mordecai and Rigby had done one too many donuts and spun out of control into a tree, Benson was busy in his office doing taxes, Pops was drawing while sitting on a bench, Muscle Man and High Five Ghost were in his trailer playing cards, Thomas was raking leaves and finally our favorite slackers were manning the snack bar, bored out of their minds.
Rigby was banging his head on the counter, "I'm...so...freaking...bored!"
"Yeah, there isn't anything exciting happening now is there dude?" Mordecai sighed, resting his head on his hand.
"Hey, so how is Margaret doing at college?" Rigby asked.
"Why do you care?" he replied, raising an eyebrow.
"I was just asking man. I'm bored so we might as well talk about boring people." he snickered.
Mordecai punched him in his side, knocking him to the floor.
"Dude! That's not cool; you know how I feel about Margaret!" he said angrily.
Rigby got back up on his stool, "Okay, sorry! I'm just messing with you bro. So, honestly how is she?"
"She's fine. Working on papers, going to class, cramming for exams, the usual college stuff...not that you would know about any of that." he chuckled.
"SHUT UP!" he whined, pathetically "punching" Mordecai's shoulder.
Mordecai narrowed his eyes, "So, how's Eileen?"
"STOP TALKING! I DON'T LIKE HER LIKE THAT!" he screamed, jumping off the stool and throwing it against the cupboard in the back of the bar.
He grabbed Rigby, pinning him to the ground on his back, "DUDE, CHILL! It's obvious if you act like that when I bring up Eileen, you feel something for her."
Mordecai let him go, picking up the stool so Rigby could sit back down by him. Rigby mumbled something, but Mordecai didn't hear it.
"What'd you say?"
"Nothing..."
"Come on, what did you say?"
"I kinda like her okay?"
"Ha! I knew it!" Mordecai smirked.
"Yeah, well don't tell her. I wanted to later when the moment's right!"
Mordecai held his hand up in a fist, "I promise bro."
"Thanks bro." Rigby fist-bumped him.
Down the road, at the entrance to the city, was CJ in her new blue car with yellow lightning blots along the sides. She drove up to the front gate of the park and turned off the engine.
'Okay CJ, just be cool and calm. He's probably with that chick, Marge or whatever her name is. Just talk to him as friends. Only...friends.' she thought, almost crying in anger.
She sighed, wiped her eyes and stepped out, extremely hesitant. She didn't hate Margaret, but got upset a little too easily. In her opinion, she thinks she has gotten better at her jealousy problem. She stepped past the gate, slowly walking over the snack bar. It was then that she caught a glimpse of Mordecai with Rigby. She hid behind a bush, nervously running the situation through her head.
'He's so sweet. I hope he isn't seeing that girl. Oh God, what am I saying?! That's so selfish of me, and I'm more mature than I was back at the coffee shop! It's been a whole year and I need to move on and just be good friends with him! Okay, let's do this!' she sighed.
She stepped out of the bush, walking over to the snack bar. Rigby spotted her walking over as Mordecai was taking a nap.
"Dude. Oh my God." he muttered under his breath.
"Mordecai, wake up!" he yelled, shaking him.
"Huh?! What is it man?!" he stumbled backwards from being shook awake.
"It-it's CJ!" he said waving his arms back and forth in the air.
Mordecai put his hands to his face in shock and began running around in circles, "CJ?! Holy crap! What do I say?! What do I do?! What-"
Rigby stood up on the stool and slapped him, "Calm down dude! It's just CJ! She's probably moved on!"
"Thanks man, I needed that. Okay, I'm ready." he smiled, walking out the side door and to the front of the snack bar.
"HEY CJ!" he waved, walking up to her.
"HI MORDECAI!" she smiled, doing the same.
They shared a quick, friendly handshake, nervously laughing.
"So, how are things?" she asked, looking down at the ground.
"Oh they're great! Same old park, same old freaky things happening around here. Uh, we just recently renovated the snack bar." he replied.
She looked up at it, "Oh cool! It looks awesome. Yeah, awesome..." she cleared her throat.
'Just ask him and get it off your chest!' she thought.
"Um, I hate to bring this up so soon, but how is Margaret?" she winced, waiting for him to blow up in anger.
Mordecai sighed and rubbed the back of his neck, "It's fine to ask CJ, it would've come up sooner or later. She's uh...at college. She and I finally broke the-"
Rigby interrupted and yelled from the bar, "FRIENDZOOOOOOOONE!"
"SHUT IT DUDE! So yeah, we became a couple and we went out to eat at this fancy restaurant where I asked her to be my official girlfriend. She said she couldn't because she'd gotten into her 'dream school', which I learned the hard way to respect, and we're, I guess, in a long-distance relationship." he finished, tearing up a little.
"Oh wow Mordecai, I feel terrible for you. I honestly hope things work out for you both!" she smiled sincerely, pulling him into a hug.
While they were hugging, her eyes opened, her jaw dropped and her heart skipped a beat.
She pulled out of the hug and moved past Mordecai, "Who is that?!"
"What?" Mordecai asked, turning around.
He saw what she was pointing at: Thomas.
"Oh, that's Thomas. He's an intern here." he answered.
"Thomas, huh? Is he nice?" she asked.
"He's a cool dude. He pulls his share of work around here and- Wait, are you interested in him?" he teased.
CJ started blushing, "What?! No, no, no!" she waved her arms back and forth.
"Aw come on CJ! He's shy and he could use someone besides us to hang out with. I mean, once you get to know him, he's great!" he smiled.
"I don't know. What does he like?" she asked.
Mordecai pushed her towards him, "Go ask him yourself! Come on, break the ice!"
She nervously walked over to Thomas, while Mordecai walked back into the snack bar.
"What's happening dude?" Rigby asked.
"Oh well CJ and I worked things out and I think she's going to go over and hit on Thomas." he chuckled.
"Seriously?! Hey, you wanna go hide behind the trees and watch what happens?" he laughed.
"Yeah-yuh I do!" he waved his wing in the air.
They sneaked over to some trees nearby Thomas and CJ, peeking through them just as she walked over.
"Hello? Are you Thomas?" she spoke softly, looking him up and down.
"Huh, what do you-" Thomas stopped mid-sentence, nearly dropping his rake.
'Holy crap, she's freaking hot!' he thought, his face reddening while also looking her up and down.
"Uh, yeah, yeah. I'm, uh, T-T-Thomas." he stuttered, sticking out his hand but sweating like crazy.
"I'm Cloudy Jay. But, um, you can just call me CJ for short." she smiled lightly, shaking his hand in return then wiping her hand on her jeans.
Thomas saw her wipe the sweat off her hand and felt so embarrassed! He started to walk off, but she grabbed his arm.
"Wait Thomas, where are you going?" she asked, a hint of sadness in her voice.
"Oh, uh I-I think I hear Benson, my boss, yelling for me. Sorry." he tried to leave, but CJ held him even tighter.
"Hold up Thomas, let me give you my number! I'd like to talk more with you. Maybe over coffee or something?" she smiled. letting go of his arm.
She expected him to keep walking off, but he turned back around suddenly and was only inches from her face. They both backed up, blushing intensely.
"Uh sure. I'd like that." he replied.
"Do you have anything to write it down on? I forgot my notebook in my car." she chuckled nervously, pulling out her black pen.
Thomas reached into his pockets, finding a crinkled piece of paper, "Sure. Here ya go."
She walked over to one of the booths by the snack bar and smoothed the paper down, she stopped when she saw some fantastic drawings of different stuff around the park: a rose, the park house, some trees and birds and even a self-portrait of Thomas! She quickly wrote down her number on the other side, walking back over to Thomas.
She handed him the paper, "There's my number. Also, you have some cool drawings on the other side! Catch ya later Thomas!" she smiled, waving goodbye.
'Oh God! I completely forgot I drew those! Well, at least she liked them!' he thought, extremely embarrassed for a moment.
"See ya later CJ!" he waved back.
'CJ...I like that.' he smiled, putting the paper back in his pocket.
In the distance, Mordecai and Rigby high-fived each other, happy for Thomas and CJ.
