Below The Radar

Meant to update this sooner, but whatever. Three running stories kinda is a lot. This hiatus is slowly chipping away my sanity, I need my Andi Mack back! To be honest lately I've been reading some other Jyrus fics (of course), I used to love them, but for the past few months all they do is make me mad jealous. Anyway I can fix that?

Chapter 3 - Tablecloth

~•~ Recap ~•~

Marty, and Jonah are secretly dating as a form of experimentation (Buffy, and Cyrus know about it). TJ set Cyrus up with his gay friend, and they hooked up before even meeting (his name is Lucas). Cyrus had a talk with Jonah telling him to act like Marty is his girlfriend, and do things with him that he'd normally do with a girlfriend.

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The party-man himself has been keeping his boyfriend a secret, and has not confided in anyone yet, unlike Jonah who has. Marty didn't know if he was meant to treat Jonah like a best friend, or something more than that. They haven't really gotten to know each other, so it was hard to decipher his feelings. There was one thing that he knew for sure, and that is he does not want to go crawling back to Buffy. She'd just turn him down, again.

As the school day got closer to starting Cyrus hoped that he was ready. He set his alarm to wake him up extra early to make himself presentable when he meets Lucas for the first time. Cyrus didn't wanna ask, but he secretly hoped that Lucas was as excited as he was to the extent of doing extra preparations. Probably one of the biggest morning struggles the Goodman boy had was getting his hair styled how he wanted it. He wanted it to be different from normal, but there wasn't any other way he really liked it. In the end he kept it the same, just fluffing it up more to make himself appear taller.

The whole way to school Cyrus picked at his blue argyle long sleeve shirt under his mat grey vest that transitioned to his faded blue skinny jeans that hugged his legs tightly. Cyrus finally noticed the eyes peeking at him from his side as he sat in the passenger seat of the car with his schoolbag down between his legs.

"What's with the getup? I mean you look great as always being my handsome young man, but is there something special today?" Mrs. Goodman asked her only son. Cyrus only grinned wider, as he tried to keep his mouth shut, but failed when his smile turned into a toothy one. She gasped, "huh Cyrus, please tell me, did you meet someone?"

"Fine, yes, but please don't make a big deal about it," Cyrus told his mother.

"How can I not, this is a big deal, it's your first relationship?"

"Who says it's my first?" Cyrus asked making her display a look of pure disbelief. After Cyrus got out of the car he waved his mom goodbye. It had never occurred to him till now how his mother always spoke to him. She never specified anything like, do you have a girlfriend? It was always have you met someone? It was this kind of talk that lead Cyrus to strongly believe that when the time comes he will fully capable of telling his mother about his boyfriend.

Marty didn't change his normal routine, when he arrived at school he did his usual, and hung outside with members of the track team. Buffy would occasionally pay them a pre-school visit, but more often than not she would sit with Anid, Cyrus, and Jonah. Luckily for Marty he didn't have to change his routine, Jonah already was doing that as he headed to the location that Buffy assumed that Marty would be.

Sure enough as TJ has said before Buffy was right. "Yo Marty!" Jonah called as he came lightly jogging over to him. Jonah stood by Marty's side while the other students watched wondering why Jonah was over here.

Marty put a hand on Jonah's shoulder, and told his buddies, "I hope you guys don't mind if Jonah hangs out with us."

"No, of course we wouldn't mind," one of Marty's male friends said making Marty smile as Jonah got situated, and sat on the grass in the circle by Marty. "So where were we?" the same friend asked the group.

One of the guys that Marty had beef with answered, "I think we were at you with one item to bring to a deserted island."

"Cell phone, duh," he answered only to get ridiculed.

"Good luck getting service out there."

When it came time for Jonah's turn he amazed the group by saying "a boat." Afterall it was the best answer that anyone in the group had came up with. Marty made a note to steal that from Jonah, and ask his parents that question, and use Jonah's answer as his own to make them feel dumb for not thinking of it.

While they went around the circle all answering a question, Cyrus explained to Andi, and Buffy why he was going to be in the library. "Go get em," Buffy told Cyrus as her words of encouragement as he stood from the table.

Once Cyrus was gone Andi told Buffy, "I'm glad he's finally over Jonah."
"Yeah," Buffy said not wanting to tell Andi about the recent news with Jonah. Buffy's smart enough to no she has no right to tell others about Jonah, and Marty. She'd never out Cyrus to anyone, nor would she for Jonah. One thing that has always bugged Buffy about Cyrus was he never seems to be affected by the hate in the world towards people like him. It made Buffy wonder if he ever even seen any of it. She picks up on anytime someone uses the word gay, and grills them about what they are saying. On rare occasions this would lead to someone asking, what are you gay or something? And everytime she would tell them no. It never once made her mad, or upset when she got asked that question, because she knew in her heart there was nothing wrong with it.

At times Buffy wishes she could be lesbian to announce it to the world. No one would mess with her, and she hoped that it would encourage other kids to be themselves. Sadly that's not the case, but she still gots Cyrus that can go openly gay, and become a role model for all the other LGBT individuals in the school despite many kids thinking there are none, because they would have spotted them by now.

Cyrus cold feel his heart pounding out his chest as he reached the library doors gripping the metal handle realizing how sweaty his hands had gotten from sheer anxiety. He took a deep breath before stepping in to see only a few kids sparsely spread about the large room. Only two of the people were male, so now he just had to figure out which one. The one was sitting peacefully reading a book in the center of the room at a empty table while the other eyed him through his glasses at a table against the wall.

The guy with glasses pointed at Cyrus, and tilted his hand sideways as if he was asking if he was the one. Whatever he was trying to say Cyrus shook his head yes, and made his way over. If Lucas has ever seen the finest dressed guy in the world that guy now stood before him taking a seat while asking, "Lucas?"

"Yeah, Cyrus?"

"Yep," Cyrus said taking in the features of his no longer mystery boyfriend. His hair was short at the sides, and long at the top looking to be nearly black matching the frame of his glasses that had blue eyes behind them. He was wearing a plain blue shirt with a black jacket that is fully unzipped showing the center of his shirt. Lucas seemed to be about the same size as him. Cyrus was thankful he was not some big brute.

"I'm so happy that you said yes."

"Me too," Cyrus said trying to take it all in. This was his reality now, no longer a distant fantasy of having a person who feels the same as him. Cyrus was no longer alone in his own little world. Cyrus spoke up again, "It does suck that we have no classes together."

"Yeah, but there is always next year to plan our schedules together," Lucas told him.

"Well I'll be taking the advanced courses…"

"Dude, look where I'm at right now, a library. I'll be taking them too." Cyrus had a mini celebration in his head. Lucas was academically smart which is more than he could say about his first crush. "It's nice to find another person that actually cares about their grades."

"It is," Cyrus reassured. Finally calming down Cyrus wiped his moist palms discreetly on his jeans as Lucas flipped his hair back some since it was falling over his eye some. "Wow, were together now, and I already don't know what to say," Cyrus admitted.

"That's fine. We can just stare at each other."

Cyrus tried to stay looking at the face staring back at him, but couldn't. He lightly chuckled, "please talk this is too awkward for me."

"Can we talk about how much I love your laugh?" he asked making Cyrus lightly blush. Instead of waiting for an answer he said something else, "hey give me your hand."

Cyrus nervously sat his hand up on the table that Lucas took into his own. Both looking down at their hands Lucas asked, "have you ever held a guy's hand before?"

"No," Cyrus admitted, "have you?"

"Yeah, can you guess who?"

"Nope," Cyrus said shaking his head. They had only been holding hands for less than a minute, and Cyrus already had it feeling natural where he most likely wouldn't realize he was still holding it if he tried to get up.

Lucas turned his attention from their hands, and focused on Cyrus when he spoke. "Twas TJ. It just kinda happened he was a little too nice, and easy going. I took a risk, and grabbed his hand while walking, and he held back. We kept walking while lightly swinging our arms together. I just wanted to hold hands, but he really liked the swinging part. Anyways I don't know I guess I was just a little blinded by how I was holding a guy's hand for the first time, and when we stopped I quickly kissed him. That's when he released my hand, and explained to me he was sorry for accidentally leading me on. After that I was a bit embarrassed to be around him, however I did dub him with his nickname that still stands today."

Cyrus took a second to analyze his story before telling his own with TJ. "As sad as it is for all we know TJ could be leading on another guy. Jeez he's oblivious, and here I was thinking Jonah was. Anyways I can say TJ was the same way with me, but I ended up coming out to him, and he told me that he gots a boyfriend for me. I thought he was referring to himself since that made since, and I went in for a kiss, and well he didn't kiss back. I felt pretty dumb, but then he went again making me feel better."

Lucas had waited till Cyrus was done with his little story before asking a question he developed while listening. "So tell me, who's this Jonah?"

"A friend," Cyrus said quickly not wanting to talk about Jonah with Lucas at the moment, or possibly ever.

Lucas gave Cyrus' hand a squeeze saying, "oh no you don't. I saw how the corners of your mouth curled upwards when you said his name. He was someone."

"Okay fine mister psychology expert he was." Lucas stayed staring at Cyrus with eyes telling him to speak. "So Jonah… I had a crush on him."

"Awe," he said sympathetically, "did he reject you?"

"No, he doesn't know."

"Ah I see. Maybe it's best to never tell your friend you used to harbor a crush on them, it'll just make things awkward."

"Yeah," Cyrus agreed making his heart sink. Jonah would never know how much he meant to Cyrus, or how much Cyrus loved, and craved his attention.

During the school day Jonah had even made the effort to switch his lunch table up, and sit with Marty. Jonah was really trying to give his time, and attention to Marty, it's what he done with Andi. He even went through the troubles of going to their family events, and bad part of those was facing Andi's grandmother who was not too found of him. Ugh Jonah shook his head at the mess of a time he had wasted being with Andi.

Before the school day ended Jonah, and Marty made plans for Jonah to come over, and play video games as a friend. The two teens couped themselves up in Marty's bedroom that Jonah now saw as his boyfriend's room. Multiple times throughout their gaming session of killing each other Jonah's mind wandered to the thought of kissing Marty. He was more physically appealing than Andi was, and Cyrus did tell him to try out things that lovers do.

Jonah couldn't bring himself to ask permission to try a kiss. Marty was unable to decode Jonah's facial expressions when he would kill Jonah, and find him looking over at him to only quickly dart his eyes away, and back to the television. Eventually Marty stopped having fun, and turned off the screen, "okay you're clearly distracted." Marty then laid on his stomach on his bed, and patted a spot next to him, "come clear out your mind."

Jonah got up, and laid beside the track star, and stared down at the floor. He released a heavy breath before talking, "I told Cyrus."

Jonah was prepared for Marty to be angry, but he wasn't. "And how did he take it?"

"Fine, he actually told me some things. He suggested that we try doing things that normal couples do… like kissing, and holding hands."

"So what, do you want to try doing those things?" Marty asked.

"I don't know. I mean I guess. I've never been this confused my whole life, like what if I do end up liking guys."

"Yeah I know, I'm confused too. I suppose we could kiss. We are dating after all."

Marty sat up, and Jonah did too moving his head closer to Marty's as Marty done the same. Jonah stopped, and asked, "how do we? Uh."

Marty stopped, and huffed, "I guess just like we've done in the past with our other relationships."

"Right," Jonah said reading himself mentally for his first kiss with a guy.

Now nose to nose with Marty, Jonah stayed feeling his breath on his lips, and chin as they both waited for the other one to go in for the kiss. Eventually they both realized that the other was not going to, and they would have to. Simultaneously they both went for it crashing lips in the middle to be surprised at first, but then relaxing closing their eyes realizing it's quite good. When they both pulled away Marty breathed out, "wow."

"I think I'm going to head out, I got some thinking I need to do," Jonah said.

"Same, but at least answer me this, how was it?"

Jonah stood looking down at Marty as he sat up on the bed eagerly waiting for Jonah's response. Jonah stepped forward not giving a verbal response till after he kissed Marty a second time. "Good enough to make me want more."

Marty was focusing, so much on their relationship that he had not noticed that Jonah already slipped out the door. Once Marty figured out his feelings he announced the word, "tablecloth." To his dismay Jonah was no where in the room to hear him.

End Of Chapter 3

I shocked myself with this chapter. For weeks I was planning on having Jonah say the safe word after their kiss, and Marty not hear it. But when it came down to doing this chapter this is not how things ended up going down. Thank you so much to the few people that have left a review on this story so far. If you have made it this far in this story drop a review letting me know!

~Banana