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“Buck? Hey! I’m stuck in the craziest traffic, just trying to get Jee from daycare!”
“Eddie’s moving,” Buck blurts out on the other end.
Maddie inches the car forward as she recalibrates — looks like it’s going to be one of those conversations. She defaults to big-sister snark. “Hello, Maddie, how are you? I’m doing great, Buck! What about you?”
He sighs gustily, making her car speakers crackle. “I just told you how I am, Maddie! Eddie’s —”
“He’s moving. I got that. How is Buck doing?”
Buck calls Maddie. Maddie calls Eddie. Eddie calls Buck. They get there.
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09 Jan 2026
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Normally Eddie would wait for Buck to come to him. He’d invite him over, even. But —
He leans back on the couch and looks around. His house is fairly tidy (a recent development after weeks of apathy around household chores and maintenance). His next shift doesn’t start until tomorrow evening. Chris isn’t here, needing adult supervision. In short, there is nothing stopping him.
He feels guilty even thinking it, but — he’s never been able to be the last-minute-drop-everything kind of friend. Being a single parent means scheduling everything, working around school days and Chris’s social calendar and PT appointments, being sensible about getting enough sleep. He’d like that life back now, please — but tonight, just tonight, he can afford to be impulsive.
Stay there. I’m coming to get you.
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Tommy breaks up with Buck. Eddie is coming to get him. You know, platonically.
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08 Jan 2026
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This is bullshit. Buck is going to snap.
“Okay,” he says. His heart is thrumming in his throat the way it always does when he wants to yell at someone. “Be right back.”
“Where are you going?” Chimney calls after him.
“Supply closet. Gotta get something.”
He returns a few minutes later with five clipboards, each holding a photocopy of an incident report form. Date. Time. Location. Description of Incident. Employees Involved. At the top, where it said “LAFD Incident Report,” Buck crossed out “Incident” and replaced it with “Gerrard.”
Buck hands a clipboard each to Hen, Chimney, Ravi and Eddie, and keeps one for himself. The rage is flowing through his veins and coming out his pores in the form of paperwork and Bic pens.
“Oh, fuck,” Ravi says. “Clipboard Buck.”
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In which everything is slipping out of Buck's control, but at least he can be a meme about it.
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08 Jan 2026
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“Anyway … love ya, man," Buck says in the recording. "You’re my best friend.”
Oh, god. Eddie pulls Buck’s shirt up over his face and focuses on breathing through the fabric. Why are his earlobes tingling?
“Okay. I’m gonna send this now. Thanks for listening. Miss you. Bye.” Buck says this all very quickly, like he’s sprinting to the end of the message.
There’s a little noise indicating that the message is over, but Eddie just … sits. Just frozen. They’ve said I love you before, right? He can’t think of when, but they must have.
All it takes to get Buck and Eddie to talk about their feelings is 800 miles between them, a stolen couch, a fake boyfriend and a bunch of audio messages.
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- Part 1 of The Buckley-Diaz Audio Logs
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08 Jan 2026
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“Eddie,” Maddie says. “I know our kids are different ages, and our situations are different, but — it kind of sounds like you need something else besides your kid and work, too.”
Well, I used to have a best friend, Eddie thinks, then pushes the thought away. “I … I have other things. But Chris and the job are definitely the most central right now.”
"You know, you can’t put yourself last all the time, Eddie.” She laughs a little. “Straight from my therapist’s mouth to your ears! Ooh — you know what? I’ve got a great idea.”
“Oh?”
“You should come to book club. It’s something I do with my parent friends. We take turns hosting, and it’s my turn!”
Sometimes the best part about reading is getting to learn more about yourself.
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08 Jan 2026