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    Eddie climbs onto the bed. They sit side by side, legs extended, two letter L’s protruding off the page. Instead of pressing play like Eddie is expecting, Buck laughs.

    “What?” Eddie asks, an instinctive smile caressing his lips.

    Buck grips his jaw, thumb brushing over his teeth before he bites at the broad nail, stifling. “Just—did you ever see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?”

    Eddie nods. “Gene Wilder.”

    “That’s the one,” Buck chuckles around his thumb, then lets it slide free. “You know the grandparents?”

    Then Eddie’s laughing too. “Jesus,” he says on an exhale.

    “I’m just saying,” says Buck, still giggling. “I’ve seen our future, and it’s bright.”

    Or: God created the world in seven days. It only takes Eddie six to surreptitiously move into Buck’s house.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    This is all perfectly applicable to friendship. Friendships require effort. Intentionality. Sometimes you have to watch a minute long Instagram video about attracting men to figure out how to get your male best friend to come back to your house and fall asleep on your couch again. Or in your bed. Either one.

    Whatever Buck's comfortable with. Eddie's not picky.

    Eddie will take whatever proximity Buck is willing to offer and be grateful for it, and if that sounds desperate then fine, it's a little desperate, but it's friend-desperate, which is a completely different thing than regular desperate.

    He replays the video and takes mental notes, formulating a plan that is simple: get Buck's attention. Spend more time with Buck. Stop feeling like his ribcage has been hollowed out with a melon baller every time he goes forty-eight hours without hearing Buck laugh.

    Easy and straightforward. He’s got this.

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    Five times Eddie tries to show Buck how much he misses him; plus the one time he just says it.

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    16 Apr 2026

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    Eddie Diaz: father, veteran, firefighter, gay. It’s that easy. A descriptor, a word that Eddie’s spent his entire life running from.

    It’s a fucking relief to realise now that he’s stopped running. The burn in his muscles will linger, but it’s okay. It will serve as a reminder of how far he’s come.

    Beside him, Buck huffs a laugh. “I can’t believe you did a honky tonk dance.”

    Eddie laughs, startled. “I can’t believe you didn’t."

    Or: on the drive back to Los Angeles, Eddie works up the courage to tell Buck the truth.

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    15 Apr 2026

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    “Aren’t you gonna tell me all about the Mississippi river?” Eddie asks, his voice thick with warmth, almost tender.

    Buck narrows his eyes. “Do you wanna hear facts about the river?”

    “Buck, if you have things to say, I want to hear them.”

    The sun doesn’t break through the clouds, but it’s like the sky brightens, for just a moment, burnishing highlights in Eddie’s hair and finding new flecks of color in his eyes. Buck feels heat travel down the back of his neck.

    or: Two firefighters. Two thousand miles. One realization they probably should’ve had a long time ago.

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    12 Apr 2026

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    Buck needs to know what’s in that box.

    “Oh no. I know that face,” Eddie sighs. “You’re about to become weird about this, aren’t you?”

    “Aren’t you curious about what’s in the box Eddie??”

    “Not curious enough to get stabbed.”

    Buck ponders the downsides of getting stabbed versus getting answers.

    “Buck.”

    “No, I know! I know!” he concedes. “I, Even Buck Buckley, promise not to get myself stabbed in the noble pursuit of knowledge.”

     

    meanwhile...

     

    Wife City 💅

    Eddie: How do I get Buck to look at me disrespectfully?

    Maddie: no

     

    Or: the one where Buck is living in a mystery romcom while Eddie is stuck in horny jail hell.

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    04 Apr 2026