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    At first, Eddie thinks nothing of it. He lives in LA: there are plenty of ads specifically for queer people all over the place, so it’s not like he’s never seen a billboard with a rainbow on it.

    Then Buck starts talking about data privacy and the ads just keep coming, so Eddie starts to wonder if the advertising companies know something about him that he doesn’t.

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    23 Oct 2024

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    “Everything okay?” Hen asks him when he reascends the stairs, plopping back down on his seat at the table next to Eddie.

    Buck puts his head in his hands. “My mother is pimping me out to the women of Los Angeles.”

    Chimney snort-coughs whatever’s in the mug he’s been sipping from.

    “Come again?”

    After another relationship blows up in his face, Buck does himself the generous favor of taking a vow of relationship-celibacy for the greater good of humanity. Then his parents skip back into town with a vengeance, his mother starts meddling in his love life, and Buck elects to find a fake girlfriend to get them off of his case. He's also in love with his best friend, but that's a minor detail.

    Meanwhile, Eddie is losing his mind for completely separate reasons. Obviously.

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    21 Oct 2024

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    There's a beat of silence. A smile blossoms on Buck's face. It starts with a twitch at the corner of his mouth, then spreads inwards. He purses his lips, almost like he's trying to contain it, then gives up and lets it bloom into a brilliant smirk, crooked and devastating on his warm lips. He cracks open one eye, the left one. The smirk creases his birthmark. It's the same shade of pink as his lips, the same color as the lightning scar.

    "Oh yeah?"

    Eddie clears his throat and frees his own sandwich from its plastic prison. "Eat so you don't collapse. Save us both the trouble."

    He can still feel Buck's eyes on him. "I don't break that easily."

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    Chris is 800 miles away, and Eddie's house feels emptier than ever. As always, Buck is right there, ready to have his back, to catch him without hesitation if he falls. This is familiar, this is normal, this is the way they've always been.
    This is fine, until it isn't.
    Until Eddie finds himself drawn to Buck in ways he never expected—ways that might not be so new at all.

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    20 Oct 2024

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    August comes, and with it comes Eddie.

    Eddie and that friend of his who was there back at the start of the summer, the one Christopher has talked so much about over the past few months. Buck this, and Buck that, and –

    All of it. Helena takes one look at them, and she knows.

     

    eddie and buck take christopher home to california; helena and ramon decide to follow

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    20 Oct 2024

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    Missing Chris is less of an emotion these days and more of a physical entity. He’s sure everyone can see that he’s slowly hollowing himself out, that he can’t do much of anything else.

    But when Jee laughs at him trying to get his tongue to touch his nose, and Mara loops one of her arms through his to keep him from tossing the rest of his cup in the garbage, Eddie feels solid again.

    Maybe he likes yellow birthday cake ice cream after all.

     

    (or, gerrard messes with the team's schedules and eddie 'i just drove my son to flee the state' diaz is the only option to watch mara and jee-yun after school on tuesdays, which, shouldn't be a problem at all, right?)

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    20 Oct 2024

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