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    If Pez actually wanted Henry to get out of his flat and go make local friends, he wouldn’t have sent Henry the Tiktok profile of the most beautiful man Henry has ever had the pleasure of laying eyes on at the exact time Henry needed to leave to make it to the social his new job is putting on.

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    “Oh, Hen,” June whispers, tugging his arm. “You wanna fuck my brother so bad you look stupid.” She grimaces, wrinkling her nose. “As much as I hate to admit it.”

    “My life is a cosmic joke,” Henry tells her entirely seriously.

    “I don’t really know what you mean.”

    Henry is not going to tell her he’s been thirst stalking her brother’s Tiktok account for weeks now.

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    26 Apr 2024

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    Musician!Alex and a smitten supportive Henry fall in love - with a little help from music.

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    06 Jan 2024

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    Bea’s to his left, speaking frantically on the phone with who Henry hopes is the fire brigade or someone else trained to deal with these— situations. In front of him, Pez is fumbling frustratedly with the water hose, showcasing his colorful vocabulary with a flourish of jerky hand movements and chaotic pacing. On either side of the fence, his neighbors are peaking over the sides to ask if everything’s okay, and Henry feels the resolution to make a good first impression crumbling and slipping rapidly out of his grasp. Even David watches on from inside the house, his sage eyes and patriotic bowtie appraising the scene and looking back to Henry as if to say I told you so.

    And the fryer — the fryer itself is up in flames, thick gray smoke swirling up into the air and soaring high above the tree line now. In the distance, the echo of sirens. Henry may faint right here, in the middle of his backyard at his new home before he's even unpacked, with all the neighbors and his family and friends watching on, on his first official American Thanksgiving. It is, by all means, not what he’d envisioned for the day. 

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    23 Nov 2023

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    “So,” the voice narrates as the man squishes the dog’s cheeks and laughs at himself. “There’s this guy that lives next to me with the cutest beagle in the world and this little guy climbs to the fence every day to drop his toys off at, like, 5:30 on the dot, I’m not kidding.” The camera shows the man boop the dog’s nose and press a little kiss to his forehead. There’s a ball in his hands that he hands to the dog, but it slips from his mouth all over again, making the man reach down to grab it. He glares at the dog, but even then he’s still smiling. “And this guy always walks by and picks up the stuff and it’s the cutest fucking thing ever you have no idea.” The camera zooms in farther into the man’s smile, genuine and wild, as he pushes his wild curls away from his face. His eyes flicker up when another figure walks into the frame, his blonde hair falling over his forehead in waves. The man’s smile, impossibly, widens.

    “Oh. I’m also pretty sure he has a crush on my neighbor.”

    Or, 5 times David greets Alex with something that belongs to Henry, and 1 time he greets Alex with something that belongs to both of them.

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    03 Oct 2023

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    “Any time, son.”

    This time, Alex knows it’s not a nickname.

    Or, 5 times Arthur and Catherine act like Alex's family and 1 time they become one.

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    11 Sep 2023