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Chat: 118 A Shift

Bobby: Good morning team! Ravi is officially joining our ranks as full time A shift to fill Eddie’s spot. Let’s give him a warm welcome! Roll call in ten. – Bobby Nash

Ravi: thanks cap!

Chim: Welcome aboard, Ravi, glad to have you with us full time

Hen: Glad to have you here!

Ravi: thanks guys!

Ravi: .....

Ravi: buck

Buck: what

Ravi: you didn’t welcome me

Ravi: what’s up with that??

Ravi: welcome me to the team

Buck: were u not here before???

Ravi: no but now i’m here full time

Ravi: it’s different

Buck: yay ur with us or whatever

Ravi: wow can’t even pretend to be happy for me

Ravi: i see how it is

Buck: sigh

Hen: Did you just sigh in text form 🤨

Chim: Oh god, it’s starting

Chim: Maddie warned me about this

Buck: *sigh*

Chim: WHAT DO THE ASTERISKS MEAN

Ravi: what did I do to you???

Buck: SIGH

Hen: It’s not what did you do, it’s more of what you mean in terms the firehouse and its operation

Ravi: ???

Buck: I miss Eddie ☹️

Chim: You just got here, how can you miss him already?

Hen: Give the boy a break, his best friend just moved out of the state

Ravi: i take back everything, i’m no longer glad to be here

Ravi: buck’s sighs have been taken out of the chat

Chim: If you sigh one more time I’m going to smack you

Buck: can't a man be dramatic in peace

Bobby: Please no threats of physical violence in the work group chat. Gather for roll call. Thank you. – Bobby Nash

Hen: Here and ready for duty cap 🫡

Chim: kiss ass

Hen: 🖕

Chat: Firefam

Athena: Morning all. I just wanted to let you all know that the leftovers from Eddie's goodbye party are now packed up to Bobby's standards and I'll be dropping by later to drop them all off

Maddie: Oh thank god, I so didn't feel like making anything tonight

Karen: Same, work has been so busy lately, it's nice not to have to worry about it for tonight

Chim: Still think it's crazy that Cap has standards for leftovers

Bobby: You have to make sure that everything is in proper containers so the food lasts as long as possible with a comparable quality to when it was served fresh. — Bobby Nash

Athena: Bobby takes leftovers very seriously

Athena: The amount of tupperware that's in this house has more than doubled since we married

Chim: Nah, doesn't need to be that hard

Chim: Food, container, lid, fridge, nothing else needed

Buck: but what if there's a sauce

Buck: that should go separately so it doesn't absorb into the food and make it mushy

Bobby: I have taught you well. — Bobby Nash

Buck: 😃

Eddie: Wait, you didn't want the one you sent with me back did you?

Eddie: Because that is going to be hard

Bobby: No I gave that to you as a house warming gift so you can have good leftover containers for the new house. 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Eddie: Why does that feel backhanded?

Hen: I don't know but I'm now wondering if Bobby has always been this judgy about tupperware

Athena: He has been

Ravi: IS THAT WHY HE SIDE EYED ME WHEN I PUT MY LUNCH IN THE FRIDGE THE OTHER DAY

Bobby: Plastic containers are not the best for food storage. — Bobby Nash

Chim: I've never been more proud of Cap for being this judgy over something so inconsequential but also questioned every decision I've ever made so hard before

Athena: I'll be dropping them all off at the firehouse since it's the easiest

Maddie: Chim if you eat all the leftovers before I can come pick them up after my shift, I will kill you

Chim: Heard 🫡

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Athena dropped off the food, it's in the fridge with your names on it. — Bobby Nash

Buck: sigh

Hen: I thought we were done with this

Chim: That's just because you've been in the ambulance all morning

Chim: You missed his incessant sighing

Ravi: bruh this is like so delayed why are you even doing it anymore

Buck: bc eddie was in the other chat and i don't want him to know that i miss him

Ravi: 😒

Ravi: you make me sad

Buck: sigh

Chim: Oh my god

Chat: Maddie and Chimney

Chim: Your brother is driving me insane

Chim: He keeps dramatically sighing every thirty seconds

Maddie: It can’t possibly be every thirty seconds

Chim: It feels like it

Chim: Save me please 🙏

Maddie: How am I supposed to do that, suddenly become Eddie?

Maddie: I don’t want to do that for so many reasons on so many levels

Chim: Ditto

Chim: But do something

Chim: I’m this close to saying the q-word 🤏

Maddie: Oh shit hold on

Chat: Maddie and Buck

Maddie: Just checking in, how’s the first shift without Eddie going?

Buck: sigh

Maddie: Yeah, that’s what I thought

Buck: i didn’t think it would be this hard

Maddie: Well considering you’ve spent the last three nights on my couch, I would beg to differ

Buck: unpacking is hard ☹️

Maddie: Especially since you moved into your best friend’s house?

Maddie: The best friend you have a very codependent relationship with

Maddie: The same best friend that you have never once been normal about ever and refuse to acknowledge why

Maddie: That best friend

Buck: im very normal abt eddie fuck you

Maddie: Agree to disagree

Buck: but yes ☹️

Maddie: At what stage of missing him are you in?

Maddie: Like is it picture of Jee, doordashing you ice cream, or telling someone to give you a hug?

Buck: yes 😖

Maddie: Now I'm sighing

Maddie sends a picture

Buck: gasp

Maddie: Oh we’re gasping now

Buck: IS THAT THE OUTFIT I GOT HER!!!

Buck: THE ONE WITH THE LITTLE BEES

Maddie: Yes it is!!!

Maddie: She wears it and buzzes around the house

Buck: that’s so cute 🥺

Buck: i think im dying

Chat: Maddie and Chimney

Chim: The sighing has momentarily stopped, thank you 🙏

Maddie: Good, now go give him a hug

Chim: What why?

Maddie sends a screenshot

Chim: Counter offer, I bring Buck the ice cream that’s in the freezer at the station so we save money and I get Hen to give Buck a hug

Maddie: This is why I married you

Chat: Chimney and Hen

Chim: Give Buck a hug, I’m getting the ice cream

Hen: Oh we’re already there, oh no

Chat: Maddie and Buck

Buck: thank you!!

Maddie: You’re welcome!

Maddie: Hope you have a good rest of your shift and it isn’t too insane

Buck: don’t u dare even speak around that word

Maddie: I didn’t say the q-word, it’s fine

Buck: DON’T TEMPT FATE

Maddie: 🙄

Chat: Buck and Chimney

Buck sends a screenshot

Chim: Thank you for sending this to me

Buck: 🫡

Chat: Maddie and Chimney

Chim: How dare you tempt fate with the q-word like that? 🫵

Maddie: Oh god not you too

Maddie: I didn’t even say it, it’s fine

Chim: It is not fine Maddie

Chim: NOT FINE

Maddie: The bell just went off didn’t it

Chim: Yes. It. Did.

Chim: Thank you very much

Maddie: 🙄

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Ravi: soooooo bobby’s mom is…

Chim: Something

Hen: A giant scam artist

Buck: a wacko healer nut job

Eddie: What the fuck did i miss?

Ravi: so much

Ravi: someone thought buck was satan

Ravi: also why are you still here???

Ravi: thought this was a work only chat

Buck: do u want him to leave ☹️

Eddie: Oh, I guess it is technically a work chat

Eddie: I guess I could leave

Buck: NOOOOOO DON’T YOU CAN STAY

Buck: ravi can leave 😡

Ravi: bite me

Hen: Woah ok

Hen: Eddie don’t leave, I don’t want to add another group chain to my phone

Buck: YAYAYAYAY

Chim: Also if Ravi made Buck start sighing again, he’d get put on my list

Ravi: what list????

Ravi: is buck on it

Buck: 🖕

Eddie: (replying to “someone thought buck was satan”) I repeat

Eddie: What did i miss?

Buck: call to one of those weird culty “using god to heal people” things, turns out it was bobby’s mom and they all had carbon monoxide poisoning and someone thought i was satan bc of it

Eddie: Oh

Eddie: That’s certainly something

Chim: That’s what I said!

Eddie: Wait, Bobby’s mom?

Buck: IKR

Buck: like what?

Chim: This is like when we found out he was a figure skater but way less fun

Ravi: CAP WAS A FIGURE SKATER

Ravi: HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS

Eddie: I think we found out before you started

Ravi: damn

Ravi: what other weird dad lore do i not know

Chim: Weird dad lore?

Ravi: your name is chimney and you don’t know what weird dad lore is

Chim: ❓

Hen: Don’t worry Chim, you have a plethora of weird dad lore

Eddie: Do i have weird dad lore?

Buck: yep dw

Eddie: Ok!

Ravi: 🤨

Chat: Ravi, Chimney, and Hen

Ravi: your seeing what i’m seeing right?

Hen: How you’re just now seeing it is beyond me

Chim: They’ve been like this for years

Ravi: hmmmmmmmmm

Hen: Leave it alone, meddling won’t work

Chim: We should know, we’ve tried

Chim: Never once has it worked

Ravi: ok but like…examples??

Chim: Closet, nope

Hen: Mistletoe, bust

Chim: Getting shot and the other person was the one to save you, nothing

Hen: One person struck by lightning and the other watching the child that you're coparenting tell him that it’s all going to be ok while you shed a single tear, not a budge

Chim: Shit, that really happened?

Hen: I witnessed it

Ravi: hmmmmmmmm

Hen: What about everything we’ve just said made you still go hmmmmm?

Ravi: i just don’t think the two of you have tried hard enough

Chim: They are several states a way

Chim: I wouldn’t even try

Ravi: your simply not as skilled as me 💪

Hen: Here we go

Chat: Hen and Chimney

Chim: $20 he fails horribly

Hen: I’m not taking a bet you will win

Chim: But you're always the optimistic one 😁

Hen: 🙄

Hen: Fine

Chim: Yay!

Chat: 118 A shift

Ravi: if someone calls me eddie one more time i’m going to throw rocks at buck’s head

Buck: hey

Buck: why my head

Ravi: bc it’s your fault

Ravi: duh

Buck: how tf is it my fault

Ravi: your dumb sighing is making the eddie obsession spread

Buck: i do NOT have an obsession

Hen: 😒

Hen: You sure about that?

Bobby: I am once again reminding you all to not threaten physical violence in the work chat — Bobby Nash

Ravi: can i threaten violence outside of the work chat 👀

Bobby: What you do on your personal device is up to your own discretion with the understanding that any violence done to a fellow coworker on shift can result in a mark on your file and an investigation leading to termination. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: i’m not hearing a nooooo 👀

Chat: Ravi and Buck

Ravi: fuck you here are some rocks on your head

Ravi: 🪨🪨🪨

Ravi:      😫

Ravi: the aftermath

Ravi: 🤕

Buck: 🖕

Chat: Ravi, Hen, and Chimney

Ravi: save me

Ravi: buck invited me out for drinks and he won’t stop talking about eddie

Hen: This one’s on you

Chim: Yeah, why did you agree to get drinks with him, you knew this was going to happen

Ravi: i agreed reluctantly because i felt like i was force to

Hen: Ah, I see

Ravi: can someone give me a way out please 🙏

Hen: Nah, you did this to yourself

Chim: ☝️

Ravi: whaaaaaat not even trying to get me to babysit your children for free

Hen: I’m not sure I’d trust you as a babysitter tbh

Ravi: fuck you i’m great with kids

Ravi: i babysit my nieces and nephews all the time

Chim: You have nieces and nephews?

Ravi: DOES NO ONE LISTEN TO ANYTHING I SAY

Ravi: oh wait nvm found my way out

Ravi: thanks for nothing

Chim: Glad to be of service 🫡

chat: Ravi and Buck

Ravi: paid for your tab asshole

Ravi: at least i know how society works

Ravi: you can pay me back later

Chat: May and Buck

Buck: men 😡

May: oh no not again

May: is this angry screaming men or screaming crying men or just crying men

Buck: what part of the angry emoji do u not understand

May: you make a good point

May: (sends link to a spotify playlist entitled "scum of the earth")

Buck: thank you!

Chat: Ravi and Buck

Buck: i will NOT be paying u back tyvm

Ravi: you made me sit through hours of you talking abt nothing but eddie only for me to have to find an exit to be able to stop my ears from bleeding and your not going to pay me for that

Buck: I HOOKED UP WITH MY EX BC OF YOU

Buck: YOU GET NOTHING BUT PAIN FOR THAT

Ravi: i apologize for nothing

Ravi: expect a request on venmo

Buck: expect it to be DENIED

Ravi: 🪨 🪨 🪨

Buck: 🖕

Chat: Buck and Maddie

Buck: maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadie

Buck: help

Maddie: Oh my god what?

Buck: i did smth stupid

Maddie: This does not surprise me

Maddie: But please, enlighten me

Maddie: What did you do this time

Buck: ☹️

Buck: ur gonna be mad at me

Maddie: I promise I won’t be mad

Maddie: Please just tell me what it is

Buck: i hooked up with tommy

Buck: 🫣

Maddie: 🤦‍♀️

Maddie: Get over here right now

Buck: 😔

Buck: ok

Chat: Ravi and Eddie

Ravi: i feel like i should give you this information

Ravi sends a picture

Eddie: Oh my God he did not

Eddie: I thought he was done with that asshole

Eddie: How did you even get this?

Ravi: unimportant

Ravi: but i felt as his best friend you should have this information

Eddie: Yes I should, thank you

Chat: Eddie and Buck

Eddie: The fuck did you do?

Buck: whatever do you speak of??

Eddie: Don’t get weird on me

Eddie: I know about Tommy

Buck: that fucker

Buck: hold on

Chat: Buck and Ravi

Buck: WHY THE FUCK DID YOU TELL EDDIE ABOUT ME AND TOMMY HOOKING UP!?!?!?!?

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Chat: Buck and Ravi

Buck: WHY THE FUCK DID YOU TELL EDDIE ABOUT ME AND TOMMY HOOKING UP!?!?!?!?!?

Ravi: i deemed it necessary

Ravi: also you two are weird and i thought he would have known already

Buck: ......

Buck: i hadn’t gotten around to telling him yet

Ravi: the same way that you still haven’t gotten around to unpacking your house yet

Ravi: wait have you even spent the night there yet

Ravi: DID YOU DO IT ON A PLAIN MATTRESS

Buck: we r not on that level of friendship yet

Ravi: i don’t know if i want to be on that level of friendship with you

Buck: 🖕

Buck: u know what level of friendship we’re also not at

Buck: TELLING ONES BEST FRIENDS ABOUT DRUNK HOOKUPS

Ravi: again, not my fault you hadn’t told him yet

Ravi: almost sounds like there was a reason for it

Ravi: is there a reason for it??

Ravi: 🤨

Buck: i hate u sm rn

Chat: Buck and Hen

Buck: put ravi in the chat

Buck: im not giving u context y

Buck: but he deserves it 😤

Hen: Ok?

Chat: The Shunned

Hen adds Ravi to the chat

Ravi: tf is this??

Chim: Welcome Ravi to the groupchat of the Shunned, it’s nice to finally have a new soul grace the chat so I am not alone

Hen: Chim has a permanent placement in the Shunned groupchat

Ravi: makes sense

Chim: Hey!

Bobby: Do not argue with the truth. — Bobby Nash

Hen: 👆

Ravi: i get why chim is here but why is everyone else

Hen: I’m the moderator

Bobby: I’m here because there needs to be a third person to make this a group chat and I didn’t want Chimney to be alone.🙂 —Bobby Nash

Hen: Don’t lie it’s because you threw out my leftovers last week

Bobby: I still stand by that was an accident. — Bobby Nash

Chim: I believe you Cap, don’t worry

Bobby: Thank you, Chim. – Bobby Nash

Ravi: so why am I here exactly??

Hen: Buck didn’t say but he said that you “deserve it”

Ravi: whaaaaat no

Ravi: i’m a perfect baby angel 😇

Ravi: i don’t deserve to be here

Bobby: I don’t know, would Buck put you in here if he didn’t have a valid reason? — Bobby Nash

Hen: You’re just saying that because you want out of the chat

Hen: You still have two more days left of your sentence, don’t even try

Bobby: Worth the try. — Bobby Nash

Chim: I kinda want to know what Ravi did

Chim: Why do I have a feeling that it’s connected to the reason why Buck is slowly getting wine drunk with Maddie in my kitchen

Chim: That made it sound like Maddie’s drinking, she’s not, but Buck is enough for the both of them

Hen: Oh Jesus

Ravi: drinking two nights in a row, shameful

Ravi: you should add buck into the chat for that 👀

Hen: Nice try, but no

Hen: There needs to be a valid reason

Ravi: well then I’m continuing my argument of you don’t know the reason and therefore it isn’t valid

Chim: You know, he kind of makes a point

Bobby: I do see the reasoning. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: seeeeeeeee

Ravi: from my perspective I’m free to go

Hen: Hold on, no one’s leaving yet

Chat: Hen and Buck

Hen: I am in need of context

Buck: noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Buck: I don’t wanna tell you 😤

Buck: ur gonna haaaaate me

Hen: Be honest, how much wine have you had?

Buck: how did u know I was havig wine

Buck: R U SECRTLY SYCHIC!!!

Hen: No, Chim told me

Buck: oh

Buck: that’s makes mre sens

Hen: Oh these are getting harder to read by the second

Hen: Tell me why Ravi needs to be in the group chat and I’ll leave you to getting drunk with your sister

Buck: she’s not drnkin

Buck: she pregant

Buck: that bad

Hen: I meant drinking in the vicinity of your sister, I know she wouldn’t be drinking

Buck: ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok I get it now

Hen: The amount of letters keep increasing and my patience is decreasing

Hen: Explain or I kick him out

Buck: nooooooooooo wait he deseres it 🤬

Buck: he made me hook up with toomy

Buck: that fuckr 😤

Hen: Please tell me that you didn’t actually hook up with Tommy

Buck: ☹️

Buck: i said u wuld b mad

Hen: I’m not mad, more disappointed and frustrated

Hen: I thought we agreed it was better if you never talked to him again

Buck: ☹️

Buck: I was sad n drunk

Buck: BUT

Hen: Oh god

Buck: I DIN’T EVEN KNOW HE WAS THER UNTIL RAVI BROGHT HIM OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buck: it’s his fault 😤

Hen: I can only semi argue with that but I’m not doing that when you’re drunk

Hen: Go back to being Maddie’s problem

Buck: ok, bye luv you hen

Hen: Love you too, Buck

Buck: 😁

Chat: The Shunned

Hen: Yeah Ravi deserves to be in here

Ravi: NOOOOOOOO HE TELLS YOU LIES

Ravi: i haven’t done anything wrong ever 🙂‍↔️

Chim: You’re literally a landlord

Chim: That’s like the worst person to ever exist

Ravi: but I’m a nice landlord

Chim: Doesn’t matter

Bobby: What is his sentence Hen? — Bobby Nash

Hen: TBD, waiting until Buck is sober

Bobby: Good call. — Bobby Nash

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: Where’d you go?

Buck: eddie hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Buck: i'm a little drnk rn hehe

Eddie: Good Lord

Eddie: Maybe I’ll hold off on having this conversation until the morning

Buck: wat convrstion

Eddie: How drunk are you right now?

Buck: wine

Eddie: That is not an answer

Buck: wait r u gonna yell at me fur hookin up w toomy to?

Eddie: I was planning on it but maybe I don’t need to if other people beat me to it

Buck: r u mad at me ☹️

Eddie: Not mad, more just concerned

Eddie: After what he did to you I thought you would be done with him

Buck: wat did he do t me????????

Buck: ohhhhhhhhhh wait yea tht asshol

Buck: bad

Buck: big mitake

Eddie: I’m texting Maddie to cut you off my god

Buck: nooooooooooooooooooooooo pls don’t

Eddie: I feel that it is very necessary

Chat: Maddie and Eddie

Eddie: Please tell me that you’re cutting Buck off

Maddie: I did twenty minutes ago, he thinks that the juice I gave him is still wine

Eddie: Jesus Christ

Maddie: Thanks for reminding him about how much of an asshole Tommy is by the way, now he’s drunk crying in my kitchen

Eddie: Get him to block him while you’re at it, maybe then we can avoid this mess again

Eddie: Still can’t believe that he called that guy again

Maddie: Oh, that’s not what happened

Maddie: He was out with Ravi and Ravi brought him over because he didn’t want to be there anymore

Eddie: What?!

Maddie: Oh did you not know that?

Eddie: No that part was conveniently left out

Chat: Eddie and Hen

Eddie: Put Ravi in the chat

Hen: Already in there

Eddie: Fantastic

Hen: Any idea on a sentence?

Hen: I’m not asking Buck while he’s drunk

Eddie: How about eternity?

Eddie: Ravi set Buck up with his asshole ex

Hen: Need an actual number

Hen: Only Chim can be there for eternity

Eddie: Ask me later then, I’m too mad for this question

Hen: 👍

Chat: Eddie and Ravi

Eddie: I know what you did

Ravi: shiver me timbers

Ravi: come get me all the way from Texas

Eddie: Don’t test me

Ravi: oooooooh i’m so scared rn

Ravi: big scary man but not scary at all

Ravi: but also how did you find out?

Eddie: Maddie told me

Ravi: interesting 🤨

Eddie: The fuck does that mean?

Ravi: dw abt it

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighers

Maddie: My brother is an idiot and very stupid and I hate everyone he's ever dated

Maddie: Actually, that's a lie, I really only hate two of them with a burning passion

Karen: Which ones?

Maddie: Abby and Tommy

Maddie: Both of them have caused irreparable damage to my brother that should send them to the depths of hell

Athena: I agree

Karen: Same

Maddie: Also Buck just basically admitted that he's in love with Eddie but is refusing to actually admit it

Athena: The denial is strong with that one

Karen: Admitted how?

Maddie: So he hooked up with Tommy (ew) bc he can't be in his house without thinking about Eddie, and then apparently Tommy (ew) said something about competition (ew) and then Buck took that as he must be in love with Eddie

Karen: I mean, he is

Athena: Any person with working braincells can see that

Maddie: It gets worse

Maddie: I straight up asked if he was and his only denial was that Eddie is straight

Maddie: And now he's drunk crying in my kitchen about his doomed love life and how much he misses Eddie

Karen: 😧

Athena: Bless his heart

Karen: I want to smack him a little bit

Maddie: Trust me, so do I

Chat: Maddie and Josh

Maddie: You're never allowed to give my brother love advice ever again

Maddie: Or at least not allowed to give him advice without knowing the whole context and also not about his shitty ex-boyfriend that he apparently asked to move in with him because of your stupid dumb speech

Maddie: Sorry I've been holding that in for months, that speech was horrid

Josh: Maybe a guy just wanted to talk about Glee, ever think about that?

Josh: Also I thought that speech was kinda good

Maddie: I will be telling you every reason why it was not tomorrow during lunch because you need to know the full context of this

Maddie: Tommy is like the worst person to ever exist and you will agree with me once we're done

Josh: Ok then 😐

Chat: Ravi, Hen, and Chim

Ravi: there's been a development

Ravi: also we need a name for this chat bc this is so boring to look at

Hen: Why do we need to name this chat exactly?

Chim: I'm still confused as to why we have a separate chat at all

Ravi: do you both not want to have a secret group chat with me 🥺

Ravi: why do you hate me so

Hen: We don't hate you, Ravi

Chim: I'm just a confused man

Chim: Out of everyone on the team, I wasn't expecting to be chosen to be a part of a secret group chat

Hen: Yeah I would have guessed you having one with Buck or Eddie

Hen: Closer in age and everything

Ravi: like i would willingly make a group chat with those two idiots

Ravi: a three person group chat with them immediately turns into a two person text chain and a third wheel

Ravi: i do NOT consent to being a third wheel for them

Chim: You know what, I can't argue with that

Hen: I can't either

Hen: I remember when Karen was in a group chat with Buck to plan Maddie's baby shower and Eddie was in there too for some reason, she left and they didn't even notice

Chim: Poor Karen

Hen: It was weirdly entertaining

Ravi: sooooooo like gc names???

Ravi: we need something cool

Hen: I don't know

Chim: The Cool Ones 😎

Ravi: that's boring

Chim: Rude

Hen: Why did you choose the two of us not including the obvious

Hen: Like is there a reason that Bobby isn't in the chat

Ravi: idk adding bobby to any chat is like asking your dad to read your diary

Ravi: like we have the work chat and the family chat to talk to him, he doesn't need to read the rest

Hen: Bold of you to assume that Chim won't tell him what happened anyway

Chim: Hey!

Hen: Yell at me when I'm lying

Chim: Fair I guess

Ravi: so no where on the gc name then

Hen: Clearly you won't like anything we make so when you decide on one, you can name the chat

Ravi: OK!

Chim: What was the development that you were so eager to tell us?

Ravi: oh just that i was the one to tell eddie abt the hookup with tommy and maddie was the one that had to clarify my involvement which means buck didn't tell eddie anything about it at all

Ravi: it's suspicious 🤨

Hen: 😒

Hen: I hate that I'm actually agreeing with that

Chim: Same, that's weird

Chim: They normally tell each other everything

Ravi: seeeeeeee

Ravi: like why wouldn't buck say anything unless he wasn't deeply ashamed of it for an eddie related reason 🤔

Ravi: like if it was anything else, this wouldn't be a problem

Chim: I'd ask Maddie about the conversation they had but I'm not allowed to know about those

Hen: Because you'll blab about it immediately

Chim: Ok, I'm a blabber mouth, I get it, you can stop now

Ravi: your gramatically correct texts make me sad

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: did any of you guys know my dad was moving to Texas

Chris: bc i really didn't until he already bought a house

Denny: i remember hearing my moms say something about it but not really

May: yeah, bobby brought it up when we went had lunch the other day

May: he said that he was worried about him

Harry: bobby's been worried about eddie ever since he grew that mustache

May: it was very concerning behavior

May: i haven't seen him so repressed since we worked at dispatch together

Chris: but like why would he move

Chris: he didn't even talk to me about it

May: have you talked to him about it?

Chris: no

Chris: but i think he should bring it up first yk

May: maybe he's afraid of bringing it up with you

May: he's like that

Chris: i would but i'm never around him without my grandparents

Chris: and they suck

Denny: is there any way to talk to him without them being around

Chris: i don't know

Harry: sneak out and uber to his house

Harry: that's what i would do

May: ok maybe don't do that

May: maybe start by texting him

Chris: i guess

Chat: Eddie and Chris

Chris: can we talk?

Eddie: Of course

Eddie: What about?

Chris: you moving here

Chris: why did you do it?

Eddie: I was tired of seeing you grow up through a screen, so I did something about it

Chris: oh

Eddie: Is that a good oh or a bad oh?

Chris: good ig

Chris: idk, i'm not used to you being so upfront with me when i ask you about stuff

Eddie: I'm trying to get better at doing that

Eddie: If you have a question about anything, I'll answer it

Eddie: No more secrets between us

Chris: ok

Eddie: Why are you up so late anyway?

Chris: idk, i was just thinking about stuff

Eddie: Do you want to talk about it with me?

Chris: idk maybe

Chris: just maybe not over text

Eddie: Ok, we can talk later

Eddie: Whenever you want to, I'm here

Chris: ok

Eddie: Now go to bed, it's late and you have school in the morning

Chris: ugh fine 🙄

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: i missss uuuuuu

Buck: have i told u tht yet

Buck: i mis u sooooooooooooooo much

Buck: the hose isn'g even unpcked bc i miss u so much 😣

Buck: i shuld call u im sry thag i havnt

Buck: maddie told me t go to sleep but i dont wannna 😫

Buck: wanna talk to u but ur aslep 😤

Buck: oh my phone is gonna die

Buck: bye gn luv u

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Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: Oh my god how much did you drink last night?

Buck: too much i have many regrets

Buck: have the worst hangover rn 🫠

Eddie: Shit sorry

Eddie: But that does explain the random text chain at three am

Buck: yeah sry abt that

Eddie: Do you really miss me so much that you haven't unpacked the house?

Buck: kinda

Buck: it makes it permanent and everything

Eddie: I can find a new subletter if you can't live there

Buck: no don't

Buck: i'll be fine

Buck: just sucks not being in the same state as u anymore 😭

Eddie: I know, I hate it too

Eddie: I've been meaning to call but I've been so busy unpacking and fixing up the house I haven't

Buck: i thought abt it too but i didn't want to bother u too much

Eddie: You could never bother me so stop worrying about that

Buck: r u sure

Buck: i don't want to take up too much of ur time

Eddie: Buck, stop that

Eddie: I want to talk to you, so call me when you want to talk to me

Buck: ok 😄

Eddie: I want to talk to you, I miss you

Eddie: Can I call you now or are you too hungover for that?

Buck: only if we don't talk abt tommy, i'd rather go forever without hearing that asshole's name again 😡

Eddie: Agreed

Incoming facetime from Eddie

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Welcome in team. I have breakfast ready for you all up in the loft. Let's have a good, productive day today. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: cap over here with the daily affirmations i see 🙂‍↕️

Bobby: I do not know what that means but it seems like a good thing, so I will go along with it. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: oh get ready for an explanation bc you would love these

Hen: I'm surprised May hasn't told you about them

Buck: yeah same

Buck: but i agree that u would love them cap

Buck: just don't agree that ravi should explain them to u

Buck: i would do it better 💪😤

Ravi: fuck you

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: Apparently they have a hiring freeze

Buck: what booooooo

Buck: that sucks

Buck: what're u going to do now?

Eddie: Something quick and easy

Buck: be careful who u say that too it sounds like ur starting an only fans or selling feet pics or smth

Eddie: Ew gross

Eddie: I was thinking more like Uber

Eddie: Why is that where your brain first went?

Buck: trust me i would not be alone in that assumption

Eddie: I don't think anyone would even buy that from me anyway

Buck: don't sell urself short, u'd make a killing on only fans i'm sure

Eddie: I don't like this conversation anymore

Buck: yeah fair

Chat: Maddie and Chim

Chim: Hey, you ok?

Chim: Josh took over the call and I got worried

Maddie: I can't speak

Chim: What?

Maddie: Something happened, I physically can't talk

Chim: Do you need me to get you that special tea that always helps when you have a sore throat?

Maddie: No, it's not that

Maddie: My voice was fine right when I took the call, I've had some water and some tea, nothing

Maddie: I thinks there's something really wrong

Chim: Ok, don't panic

Chim: I'll see if Bobby can give me the afternoon off and we'll go to the doctor, get this all figured out

Maddie: Ok

Chat: Bobby and Chim

Chim: Hey, something's up with Maddie's voice, can I leave early to bring her to the doctor?

Chim: I'm worried it might be a complication with the… you know, and I don't want her to be alone

Bobby: Of course, I'll see if I can fill your spot for the rest of your shift but either way we will manage. Go be with your wife. — Bobby Nash

Chim: Thank you, Cap

Bobby: You're welcome. 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Chat: Maddie and Chim

Chim: I got the go ahead. I'll go home and take a quick shower and then call the doctor to set everything up

Maddie: Thank you

Maddie: Josh is giving me a ride home

Chim: Tell him thank you for me

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Chim will be stepping out for the rest of the shift, still seeing if someone from B shift wants to come in early to cover, for now we'll just manage without him. Sorry for the extra work load, Hen. — Bobby Nash

Chim: Have a good rest of your shift all, see you later

Hen: Keep me updated on Maddie

Chim: Will do 👍

Buck: if only eddie were here, he could fill in for chim

Ravi: omggggggggggggggggg

Ravi: go one conversation without bringing him up, i dare you

Bobby: I actually agree with Buck on this one, that would make my life easier —Bobby Nash

Ravi: idc cap, it's the principle of the thing 😤

Ravi: he talks about his bsf way more than a normal person does

Buck: maybe u just don't have a bsf to talk about

Buck: ever think abt that

Ravi: fuck you

Chat: Ravi and Buck

Ravi: 🪨🪨🪨

Ravi:     🤕*but worse

Buck: i hate u

Chat: Maddie and Buck

Buck: hey, everything ok?

Buck: u dropped off the call and now Chim just left for the day

Maddie: I don't know what happened, my voice just stopped working

Maddie: Like I can't even whisper, barely anything comes out

Buck: do you think it has something to do with…

Buck: u know

Buck: 😬

Maddie: I'm very aware of the fact that I was kidnapped by a serial killer and almost died because she slit my throat, you don't have to dodge the subject

Buck: just the last time i was there u didn't really want to talk about it

Buck: i didn't want to bring it up if u still didn't

Maddie: I mean it's kind of the first thought that happens right?

Maddie: It could be a complication from the surgery

Buck: whatever it is, keep me updated

Buck: and let me know if u need me to watch Jee or anything

Maddie: I will

Buck: love u 🫶

Maddie: Love you too

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Buck: i'm boooooored

Ravi: and that's my problem whyyyy?

Buck: well ur just sitting in the corner doing nothing when u could be playing a game with me

Buck: sounds like ur the reason i'm bored 😡

Ravi: hen could also be playing a game with you dumbass

Hen: Hen is busy doing her job

Hen: Not my fault that Buck doesn't want to do his

Eddie: Buck you can call me if you want, I'm not doing anything

Buck: yay!! 😁

Ravi: pls god no

Ravi: i already threatened buck with rocks today i can't do it again

Eddie: Why are you threatening Buck with rocks?

Buck: bc he likes being mean to me ☹️

Ravi: you tells LIES

Ravi: it's bc u annoy me

Eddie: And who out of the two of you is in the shunned chat exactly?

Eddie: Maybe your sentence should be increased because of constant threats of physical violence

Buck: YEAH GET HIS ASS

Chim: Ohhhhhh burn

Ravi: shut up your not even here rn

Eddie: Wait where did Chim go?

Buck: i'll fill u in when we call

Eddie: Ok!

Hen: (replying to "And who out of the two of you") That's what I've been meaning to do today, I knew I was forgetting something

Ravi: omg omg omg are you letting me out of the chat 😁

Hen: Nice try

Buck: u have not served ur sentence yet, don't even try

Eddie: A sentence that you fully deserve

Ravi: I DON'T HAVE A SENTENCE TO BE SERVING BC BUCK WAS TOO DRUNK TO GIVE ME ONE

Buck: god forbid i wanted to have a good time after a terrible mistake THAT YOU WERE THE CAUSE OF

Ravi: IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU CAN'T KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS

Buck: I WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN KNOWN HE WAS THERE IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU

Ravi: CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION

Hen: I'm taking this out of the chat for all of our own good

Chim: Thank you, I have bigger things to deal with right now

Eddie: Ok seriously what happened

Buck: calling u rn dw

Ravi: here we go 🙄

Chat: Hen and Buck

Hen: Sentence for Ravi?

Buck: eternity 😡😤

Hen: You know full well that only Chim is in there for eternity

Hen: Give me a number or he's out

Buck: ugh

Buck: fine, three weeks

Hen: That's a long sentence for something that's only half his fault

Hen: And you know better than to argue with me on that

Buck: fine 🙄

Buck: two weeks

Hen: That I can agree on

Chat: The Shunned

Hen: Ravi, you're official sentence is two weeks, however that is in reference to the day that you were added to the chat, so you only have one week left

Ravi: yippee, i'm almost free

Chim: I shall be alone once again 😔

Bobby: I'm still here, Chim. 🙂 - Bobby Nash

Hen: His sentence did end a few days ago so now this is actually by choice

Chim: I can always count on you Cap

Chat: Firefam

Maddie: Sending updates here because it's easier, my voice is not back yet

Ravi: boooooooooo fuck that

Karen: I'm so sorry, let me know if you need anything

Eddie: Sorry to hear that, I hope it comes back soon

Athena: Don't worry about it too much, Maddie, it'll come back soon, I have a feeling

Hen: You should listen to her, she's always right

Ravi: sounds like someone else i know 🙂‍↕️

Hen: Kissing ass will only increase your sentence not decrease it

Ravi: damn it

Buck: do u need me to come over later again to help watch Jee

Buck: i'll bring more cookies 😁

Maddie: Please no, we already have too many of your cookies in this house

Chim: And these cookies haven't made their way to the firehouse why???

Buck: they're literally in ur house don't be greedy

Ravi: maybe other people want cookies buckley 😡

Buck: maybe some people don't deserve cookies bc they're a giant asshole 😡

Ravi: 🖕

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: Are you free right now?

Eddie: I'm freaking out

Eddie: Chris just found out I'm an Uber driver

Buck: oh shit

Buck: calling u rn

Incoming facetime from Buck

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: how is my dad this big of an idiot

May: context please

Harry: we need to know specifically why he's an idiot

Denny: he's an idiot by nature

Chris: he's been lying to me about being a firefighter this whole time

Chris: he's actually an uber driver

May: 🤦🏾‍♀️

May: men make me sad

Harry: why would he do that

Denny: bc he's an idiot

Chris: exactlyyyyy

Chris: i think he's also deeply ashamed

Chris: i blame my grandparents for that

Harry: i hope you know i started blaming your grandparents for every minor inconvenience in my life

May: it's true he does

Denny: it's so funny

Chris: i mean they are the cause of every minor and major inconvenience in my life so that's kinda true

Chris: anyway

Chris: how do i tell my dad that it's fine he's an uber driver and not a firefighter

Chris: i feel bad that he feels like he has to lie to me again to impress me and his asshole parents

May: tell him exactly that

Chris: ew gross

Chris: we don't do feelings like that in this family

May: maybe you should

May: that would solve like 90% of your problems

Chris: ugh

Chat: Maddie and Athena

Athena: Hanging in there?

Maddie: Took Jee to the park. Needed some fresh air.

Athena: Give your girl a hug for me 💛

Athena: You ok? You've been typing for a long time

Maddie: Yes, sorry, Jee went to a different spot and I couldn't find her for a second

Athena: Oh my god, that had to be quite the scare!

Athena: You found her now though, don't need me to come take a look

Maddie: No, I found her, she was just at a different slide

Maddie: But my voice came back!

Athena: I knew it would

Chat: Maddie and Chim

Maddie: My voice came back!!!

Chim: That's great!

Chim: I told you it would come back

Maddie: It only took me thinking our daughter was in mortal danger for it to do so

Chim: What 😨

Maddie: She just went to a different part of the playground when I looked away, she's fine

Maddie: Scared the hell out of me though

Chim: AND ME!

Chat: Firefam

Maddie: Happy to report that my voice has returned

Ravi: lfggggggggggg 💪

Ravi: the best dispatcher is back

Hen: That's so great!

Karen: Yay!!!! 🎉

Bobby: This is great news. — Bobby Nash

Buck: i'll bring some cookies to celebrate 😁

Maddie: Buck I think you have a problem

Buck: could be worse

Maddie: I guess this is true

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: Chris just told me he's proud of me and he let me hug him

Eddie: I'm trying to play it so cool right now but I think I might sob

Buck: omg that's great!!!

Buck: i told u it wouldn't be as bad as u thought it would be

Eddie: Can I call you, I need to get this out of my system?

Eddie: Also I think he wants to say hi to you

Buck: i'm being so fr rn i might cry when i see him

Buck: i miss that kid so much

Eddie: He misses you too

Buck: nooooo stop it now i'm crying 😭

Eddie: You and me both

Incoming facetime from Eddie

Eddie: Dude pick up the phone

Buck: no i need to stop crying first

Eddie: Why?

Buck: bc it's embarrassing

Eddie: No it's not

Incoming facetime from Eddie

Eddie: PICK UP THE DAMN CALL

Buck: ugh fine 🙄

Incoming facetime from Buck

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: my dad is ugly crying with buck in the other room and doesn't think i can hear it

Chris: idk what to do

Harry: run away 🤷🏾

Denny: if anything of what my moms say about them is true, this is normal behavior for them

May: Wait does this mean you're talking with your dad again??

Chris: yeah

May: omg yay!!

Harry: does this mean you finally got a break from your grandparents

Chris: yeah, i snuck out and took an uber

Harry: YES MY INFLUENCE IN SPREADING

May: omg 🤦🏾‍♀️

Chris: (replying to "wait does this mean you're") i would be talking to him but he's busy crying with buck in the other room

Chris: it's been twenty minutes, should i call someone

Denny: no you should text buck and make it worse

Harry: denny you're an innovator

May: please don't make it worse

Chris: nah i'm gonna do it

Chris: might be entertaining

May: i'm surrounded by idiots

Chat: Buck and Chris

Chris: hey

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Chat: Buck and Chris

Buck: omg chris hi!!!

Buck: is something wrong?

Chris: no

Chris: i just wanted to tell you that i can hear you crying with dad on the phone in the other room

Buck: oh

Buck: sorry

Chris: no it's fine ig

Chris: i'm not trying to make dad more repressed or anything but it's a little weird

Buck: he's just relieved that ur talking with him again

Chris: yeah but why are you crying

Buck: bc i miss u

Buck: and i haven't talked to you in a while

Buck: and he said that u missed me

Buck: and this is making it worse

Chris: yeah i can hear it

Buck: i hate this i'm hanging up

Buck: go talk to ur dad or something

Incoming facetime from Chris

Buck: im not picking that up

Chris: i thought you missed me 🙄

Buck: u can't guilt me

Chris: 😒

Incoming facetime from Buck

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: that wasn't as fun as i thought it would be

May: told you

May: mess with emotionally unstable men, they said, it would be fun, they said

May: HAVE YOU MET THEM, THIS WAS NEVER A GOOD IDEA

Chris: ok i was raised by them so i feel like i know them better than you

Chris: and it wasn't like bad, but was just weird seeing then cry so much

Chris: like i never see them cry really ever

Harry: let the men feel emotions

Denny: 👆

Denny: lord knows it would make my moms lives easier if they used a normal outlet to express their emotions

May: i feel for your moms every day for the bs that these idiots put them through

Chat: The Shunned

Ravi: so like how long has this been a thing

Ravi: you guys just casually have your own version of jail in the form of a gc and hen is somehow the warden of it???

Hen: Please never call me a warden again 😒

Ravi: WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO CALL YOU

Ravi: THIS IS THE LITERAL DEFINITION OF A WARDEN

Hen: I prefer the term chat moderator. 😌

Hen: I could raise your sentence for this you know

Ravi: omg no pls don't i think i'll die if i have to be in here longer than necessary

Ravi: can't believe cap chooses to stay in here by choice

Bobby: I'm the designated third person when you leave anyway, might as well stay. 🤷‍♂️— Bobby Nash

Chim: You know that makes it less meaningful when you say it like that 😔

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: Chris home?

Eddie: Yeah

Eddie: My parents were not pleased that he ran off without them knowing

Eddie: I really need to talk to that kid about not using Uber to run away

Buck: chris continuing his uber era i see

Eddie: Did those words seriously just come out of your mouth

Eddie: That seems like something Ravi would say

Buck: never insult me like that again 😒

Chat: Buck and Ravi

Buck: i hate u i hate u i hate i hate u

Ravi: did something prompt this or are you just a jackass

Buck: never speak to me again im starting to pick up ur texting vernacular 😡

Ravi: don't tempt me with a good time

Ravi: also look at you with the big word

Ravi: actually spell out the rest of your text properly and i'll give you a sticker

Buck: (reply to "i hate u i hate u i hate u) i hate u i hate u i hate u

Ravi: 🪨🪨🪨

Chat: Buck and May

May: i've always felt that you would relate to this song

May: (link to "Crying on the Bathroom Floor" by MUNA)

Buck: idk how to react to that based on the title alone

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Morning Team! It's fridge clean out day so please take home whatever leftovers you wish to keep before you leave tonight or they will be disposed of. Let's have a productive day. Roll call in ten. 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Hen: Oh so we're making announcements about the fridge clean out days now

Hen: I see how it is 😒

Chim: Maybe he is just finding a solution to a problem 🤷‍♂️

Hen: Nuh uh, you can't be in the middle

Hen: You're either on my side or dead

Chim: Quite the extreme there

Ravi: i think that's quite reasonable

Ravi: you are her best friend after all

Buck: i had a best friend once

Ravi: jfc

Ravi: cap would it be ok if throw buck off the roof

Bobby: No. — Bobby Nash

Chat: Buck and Maddie

Buck: do u think it's weird that i miss chris this much

Maddie: I wouldn't say so

Maddie: Why are you asking this now?

Buck: bc he facetimed me last night after making fun of me and eddie for crying on facetime

Buck: well making fun of how loud we were crying, not the fact that we were

Maddie: How loud were you crying?

Buck: it's more of a question of how loud did eddie have his volume on while we were on facetime

Buck: hold pls

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: what volume do you keep ur phone at while we face time

Eddie: You know you ask me a lot of unnecessary questions but most of the time I know where they come from

Eddie: Now I'm just confused

Buck: it's to do with how chris heard me specifically crying on facetime last night

Buck: bc he could tell that it was both me AND u

Eddie: Wait he heard us crying last night?

Buck: yes this is old news catch up

Buck: what volume do you keep your phone at when we face time??????

Eddie: I don't know

Eddie: Facetime me right now and I'll tell you I guess

Buck: ok 😄

Incoming Facetime from Buck

Chat: Buck and Maddie

Maddie: You just secretly abandoned me for Eddie didn't you 😒

Maddie: I'm taking your silence as a yes

Chat: Hen, Chim, and Ravi

Ravi: should we let buck be on facetime with eddie this long or tell him to do his job

Chim: Eh, I say let him go

Chim: They used to make everything a two man job anyway, might as well continue that

Hen: And I'm not going to be the one to do it

Hen: If you want him to do his job you'll have to do it

Ravi: ughhhhhh

Ravi: i actually hate this

Ravi: buck and i always get assigned to the same task but then he ditches me to talk with eddie and then i have to do it all myself

Ravi: it's not fair 😤

Chim: Well then stop whining like my toddler and do something about it

Chim: You have legs and a mouth, use them

Ravi: 😒

Ravi: when did you get so mean

Hen: You are whining like a toddler

Ravi: SORRY I DON'T WANT TO DO TWO PEOPLE'S JOB FOR THE PAY OF ONE PERSON'S JOB

Chim: It's all about the money to you isn't it, Landlord 😒

Ravi: don't uppercase landlord me like that

Ravi: and no

Ravi: it's the principal of the thing

Ravi: i am here to do my job NOT his

Ravi: 😤

Hen: Well I'm still not telling him to get off the phone

Chim: Me neither

Chim: He's at least happy when he's on the phone

Hen: Anything to keep him for pouting

Ravi: i'm resorting to other means since the two of you are extremely unhelpful

Chat: Bobby and Ravi

Ravi: buck is on his phone again instead of doing his job

Ravi: can you tell him to get off his phone

Bobby: And why can't you do that yourself? — Bobby Nash

Ravi: bc he doesn't listen to me and he does everything you tell him to bc he's desperate for your approval 🙄

Bobby: Is him being on his phone really hindering your job that much? — Bobby Nash

Ravi: yes bc i have to pick up all his slack 😤

Ravi: what if we get to a call and we don't have everything stocked properly bc he didn't double check my work with his stupid clipboard

Bobby: You make a good point there. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: i knew you would see my point of view

Chat: Buck and Bobby

Bobby: Can we keep the phone calls with Eddie to when you have downtime and not when there are things to do, please? — Bobby Nash

Buck: yeah, sry cap

Bobby: It's not an overall issue. I know you miss him and talking to him during the shift is fine, but not when it's the the detriment of the work flow. — Bobby Nash

Buck: i understand 😔

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Buck: ok who ratted me out to cap

Ravi: awwwww someone ratted you out to dad

Ravi: such a shame

Ravi: maybe now you could, oh i don't know

Ravi: DO YOUR FUCKING JOB AND STOP LEAVING ME TO COVER FOR YOU

Eddie: Wait Buck, were you not calling me in your downtime?

Buck: i might have taken a little break

Ravi: he put down his clipboard for you

Chim: The greatest sign of commitment there is

Hen: I wish that wasn't the truest statement I've ever heard

Buck: (replying to "DO YOUR FUCKING JOB AND…") WAIT DOES THIS MEAN IT WAS YOU

Ravi: so what if it was

Ravi: you can't hurt me

Buck: not while we're in the fire house maybe

Ravi: what are you going to do, jump me in the parking lot

Ravi: that would make you more pathetic that you already are

Buck: 🪨🪨🪨

Ravi: NO THAT'S MY THING

Ravi: YOU CAN'T STEAL MY THING

Buck: says who

Buck: 🪨🪨🪨

Ravi: says ME

Ravi: 🪨🪨🪨

Buck: 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨

Ravi: 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨

Ravi: *but with exclamations so it's more intense than yours 😤

Hen: Now they're both acting like toddlers

Chim: Why do you think I stopped paying attention to this chat five minutes ago

Chim: I already have a toddler at home, I can't have more at work

Ravi: 🖕

Buck: 🖕

Chat: Maddie and Buck

Buck: hi sry i did get distracted with eddie on facetime and then with work

Buck: BUT I'M BACK AND WITH ANSWERS

Maddie: Jfc

Maddie: Ok, here we go

Buck: eddie keeps me somewhere in the middle when we're on facetime

Buck: so the conclusion is that i was crying really loud 😖

Maddie: I thought this was the case

Maddie: But I think that's fair, you and Chris are really close, it makes sense that you would miss him

Maddie: You watched that kid grow up

Buck: ugh i did

Buck: i need a change of topic so i don't cry at work

Maddie: Yeah that's fair

Maddie: Are there any other weird questions you have for me since we're here

Buck: do u think i'm pathetic

Maddie: What, no

Buck: oh ok good

Maddie: Who thinks you're pathetic?

Buck: ravi 😡

Buck: he called me pathetic bc i threatened him physical harm for tattling on me to cap that i was talking to eddie and not doing my job 😡

Maddie: 🤦‍♀️

Buck: so you think i'm pathetic too ☹️

Maddie: For talking to your best friend, no, for acting like a child, yes

Buck: ☹️

Chat: The Shunned

Hen: Ravi, you're sentence has ended

Hen: You're free to go

Ravi: wahoo!!!

Ravi: suck it losers

Ravi leaves the chat

Chim: It's lonely in here 😔

Bobby: You still have me, Chim. 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Chim: You always have my back, Cap

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: do you think i'm pathetic?????

Buck: this is very important

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Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: What, no

Eddie: Is this because of what Ravi said?

Eddie: Because I really don't think you should listen to anything he said, you know he just says stuff to get under your skin

Buck: yeah but then maddie didn't completely disagree 😖

Buck: and it hit a little harder than his other insults do 😖

Eddie: How did Maddie not completely disagree?

Buck: she said that i wasn't pathetic bc i was talking to you but that i was pathetic for being mad about ravi telling cap on me

Eddie: Oh

Eddie: I still wouldn't say it's pathetic

Eddie: Maybe a little immature, but that's just how you and Ravi act

Buck: ok 😔

Eddie: Do you need me to say it?

Buck: yes 😖

Eddie: You're not pathetic

Buck: OK 😁

Eddie: Are you free to facetime while I make dinner tomorrow or do you have work?

Buck: no I'm off tomorrow

Buck: whatcha making?

Eddie: Barbacoa

Buck: oooooooooh yum 😋

Buck: wish i was there

Eddie: Me too

Eddie: I'd feel much better about making it for the first dinner Chris is having in the new house and my parents if you were there to actually help me make it

Buck: oh THAT'S what this is for

Buck: 😬

Eddie: Yeah, I know

Eddie: I'm so anxious about it

Buck: i can call you when i get off shift and we can talk about it

Eddie: Thank you!!

Buck: 😁

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: i hate chess i hate chess i hate chess i hate chess

Chris: did i mention that I HATE CHESS

Harry: guys i think he hates chess

Denny: you think you're so funny don't you

May: oh he thinks he's hilarious

May: have you still not told your grandparents that you despise a game that's nothing more than overly complicated checkers

Chris: no 😖

Chris: they never even let me get close to saying it before they're saying something that makes me feel like i'm forced to keep playing it

Chris: and now i have this stupid tournament this weekend and i don't want to go and i'm pretty sure they won't even let my dad go and all of this sucks and i hate them

Harry: may can you buy me a plane ticket to texas so i can tell off his grandparents

Denny: can i have one too 👉👈

May: you both know that i'm too broke for that

Harry: buzzkill

Chris: thanks for trying 😔

Harry: if my record already didn't have a mark on it i'd threaten assault but i don't think that joke would be funny coming from me

Denny: i'll threaten assault

Denny: i'm an angel 😇

May: have you talked to your dad about any of this?

May: maybe he can talk to your grandparents for you

Chris: i would if I DIDN'T HAVE TO SNEAK OUT JUST TO TALK TO HIM ALONE

Chris: and i'm grounded bc i snuck out last week so i can't even text him too much bc they take my phone at night

Chris: and he's stupid and old and can only be reached through actually text messages and not through discord and i also am not allowed to have social media soooooooo

Chris: i hate it here get me out

Harry: i'm threatening assualt

May: i'm also threatening assault

Denny: i'm triple threatening assault

Chris: you guys always have my back 😭

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: how was dinner?????

Eddie: My parents brought takeout

Buck: is it cool for me to say that i hate ur parents in front of you now or am i still avoiding that topic

Eddie: No, you can say it

Eddie: Can I say that I hate your parents now too?

Buck: what the hell why not

Buck: so they brought takeout???

Buck: that's a fucked up move

Eddie: Even better, that game I got tickets for, we can't even go to because Chris has a chess tournament that I wasn't told about or invited to

Buck: WHAT THE FUCK

Buck: sometimes i wish murder was legal

Eddie: Ok now that's a stretch

Buck: do u want to murder my parents 🤨

Eddie: Fair point

Eddie: Can I call you I need to rant?

Buck: yes please

Buck: i'm ready to shit talk 😤

Incoming facetime from Eddie

Chat: Eddie and May

Eddie: I'm mad at my parents, do you have a song like that??

May: Give me a second

May: (link to "Kyoto" by Phoebe Bridgers)

May: but also this one even tho it's more about mental health but i still think you would relate to it

May: (link to "No Complaints" by Noah Kahan)

Eddie: Great, thank you

Chat: Hen and Eddie

Eddie: Happy Birthday!

Hen: Thank you!!!

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Good morning team! We have a very special day in the firehouse today. Roll call in ten. Let's have wonderful day today! — Bobby Nash

Hen: Here and ready for duty, Cap!

Chim: You know he can see you, you don't have to announce it

Hen: Maybe I'm just excited for the day

Buck: wish i was

Ravi: omgggggggggggg stop moping

Ravi: this act of yours is getting tired

Buck: i could be moping for other reasons

Ravi: are they eddie related

Buck: yes but not because i miss him

Buck: bc his parents suck

Buck: and also bc i miss him

Ravi: yk you had me there in the first half

Chat: Maddie and Hen

Maddie: Happy Birthday!!!!!!

Maddie: Sorry I didn't message sooner, I was at the doctor's. But I hope you have a great shift and everything goes smoothly!

Hen: Thank you, Maddie

Hen: At least you remembered

Maddie: What do you mean at least I remembered???

Maddie: Who forgot?

Hen: Everyone but you, Athena, and Eddie

Maddie: WHAT

Hen: Yeah

Maddie: Texting Chim right the fuck now what is wrong with him?

Hen: Don't bother, he already knows

Maddie: I am so very sorry for my idiot husband

Hen: Thank you

Chat: The Shunned

Hen adds Buck, Ravi, and Karen to the chat

Hen: You all suck

Hen adds Athena to the chat

Hen: Athena is your new moderator, I can't stand to look at you all in this moment

Hen leaves the chat

Athena: What is wrong with all of you?

Chim: I am deeply ashamed 😞

Buck: same 😖

Karen: I'm just so confused

Karen: How did me of all people forget my own wife's birthday?

Ravi: maybe you're being controlled by an evil overlord who has a deep misunderstanding of your character

Karen: ???

Chim: Just go with it

Chim: It's better than my current excuse of being stressed about the birth of my upcoming child

Athena: That's no excuse

Athena: How long have you two been friends?

Chim: You're so right

Chim: My right to exist has been extinguished

Athena: Ok maybe don't be too dramatic

Buck: u could just be like cap and be silent

Bobby: I was just looking for my calendar. I found it. Not so happy to report that I am a terrible friend and captain and I need to clean off my desk. — Bobby Nash

Athena: You said it not me

Ravi: wait

Ravi: why am i here with all of you?

Ravi: i didn't even know it was hen's birthday and i'm not being inconsiderate like the rest of you

Ravi: and my sentence just ended

Ravi: i never want to step foot in this chat ever again

Chim: Just shut up and accept it

Chim: There's no coming back from this

Chat: Hen and Ravi

Ravi: first of all

Ravi: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥳🎉🎈🎉🥳🎈🎂🎊🥳🎂🎉🎊🎉🎈

Hen: That is a lot of emojis

Ravi: second of all

Ravi: can i leave the chat bc i legitimately didn't know it was your birthday until thirty minutes ago

Hen: I've known you for four years

Ravi: when's my birthday??? 🤨

Hen: Yeah you can leave the chat

Ravi: 😒

Ravi: July 21

Hen: Adding it to my calendar now

Chat: The Shunned

Ravi sends a screenshot

Ravi: see ya losers

Ravi leaves the chat

Chim: Wait when is his birthday?

Karen: 🤦🏾‍♀️

Chim: Hen, Chim, and Ravi

Chim: Eddie just hung up on Buck when he realized that I was also there

Ravi: omg those two are insufferable

Hen: I'm still not talking to you but that is weird

Ravi: i hate them 😤

Chat: Firefam

Hen: Please stop sending things to my house, it will not make me forgive you faster

Chim: Heard 🫡

Chim: Will you instead accept continuous shameful begging

Ravi: desperate much

Buck: i will do whatever asked of me no complaints

Hen: i will send you the list

Buck: oh, that's longer than i expected

Hen: Sounds like a complaint to me

Buck: no i wasn't complaining i swear

Buck: it's just prob going to take me more than a day

Buck: that's what i was trying to say

Hen: still sounds like complaining to me

Chim: So that's a no to my begging idea

Hen: You can think of something better

Chat: Hen and Chimney

Chim: I will now bet on Ravi succeeding at whatever meddling he's still trying to do so therefore you now have a higher chance at winning

Hen: I accept this arrangement

Chat: Firefam

Hen: Chim is forgiven

Bobby: I am currently planning out your birthday dinner. It will be three courses with dessert. — Bobby Nash

Hen: This is acceptable as well

Eddie: All of you are idiots by the way

Athena: What Eddie said

Maddie: I call you idiots all the time but I actually mean it this time

Eddie: Do none of you follow her on facebook?

Eddie: Or I don't know, have a calendar?

Buck: i deleted facebook after gerrard sent me a friend request

Chim: That is the most valid thing you've ever done

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: Made it to the chess tournament

Buck: yayayayayay

Buck: tell chris good luck from me

Eddie: Will do

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: mom, i frew up

May: ???????????????

May: what happened

Harry: oh ew

Denny: you ok?

Chris: yeah i'm fine now

Chris: dad came to the tournament and is breaking me out now

Chris: NO MORE CHESS

Harry: HUZZAH

Denny: wait so he was invited to the tournament???

Chris: nah he drove himself here despite his parents telling him not to

Chris: now we're ditching my abuelo and forcing him to ride the bus back alone

May: poetic justice if you ask me

Chris: now dad's hyping himself up to go tell of his mom bc i'm moving in with him

May: omg i love this for you!!

Denny: no more asshole grandparents 🙌🏾

Chris: potty word

Denny: mom can i be forgiven for saying a potty word bc it was the correct way to describe the situation

May: yeah sure fine whatever

Harry: sadly no more sneaking out for you😔

May: i worry about you sometimes

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: how'd it go???

Incoming facetime from Eddie

Chat: Firefam

Eddie sends a picture

Eddie: Back home!

Maddie: Omg!!

Ravi: wait

Karen: So happy for you!!

Hen: The Diaz's are back together!

Bobby: Congratulations, Eddie. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: i'm confused

Ravi: didn't you move back there just to be with him again

Ravi: why is he just moving into the house

Buck: bc his parents suck and i wish murder was legal 😡

Athena: Hey now

Buck: let this slide

Eddie: Serious let this slide

Athena: Well then

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighter

Karen: I just turned on the news, what is happening!!!!!!!!

Karen: Why is Hen a hostage!!!!!!!!!!

Athena: Because her and the assailant apparently have bonded somehow

Maddie: It's that guy they've had to rescue three times now

Karen: Oh

Karen: I don't like this at all

Athena: That would make two of us

Maddie: Three of us

Athena: She's good now

Athena: She somehow talked him into getting off the bus

Maddie: AND THEN THEY WERE SHOT AT

Karen: WHAT

Athena: She's fine, don't worry about it

Athena: The idiot reached into his pocket to give her a key chain and we all thought it was a gun

Athena: But everyone is safe and accounted for

Karen: Good I guess

Chat: Hen and Karen

Karen: Normally I would scold you for that stunt but since I've been a big jerk and an idiot recently, I will let it go

Hen: This is the correct decision

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: everything hurts and i'm only halfway through the list

Eddie: Don't act like you didn't do this to yourself

Buck: ☹️

Chat: The Shunned

Buck: so how long are we all sentenced here

Buck: like once i complete the list am i free to go orrrrrrrrrrr

Athena: Let me ask

Chat: Athena and Hen

Athena: How long do you want them all in the Shunned chat?

Hen: Until I become moderator again

Athena: Any idea on how long that will be?

Hen: I don't know

Chat: The Shunned

Athena: When Hen becomes the moderator again you are all free to go but she does not know when that is happening

Buck: damn

Chat: Hen, Chim, and Ravi

Ravi: i've had an epiphany

Ravi changes the chat name to "at the scene of the crime"

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Chat: at the scene of the crime

Chim: I'm confused

Hen: Same here

Chim: Is this some phrase that I don't know about?

Ravi: ugh you guys are so old 🙄

Ravi: it's so literal like just read it and there's the meaning

Chim: So we're at a crime?

Chim: What crime?

Ravi: buck and eddie being nauseating 🙄

Hen: You know if this is the name you're going with we should really have Bobby in this chat

Chim: Yeah he's always there when they're doing dumb shit

Chim: Also Maddie

Ravi: 😒

Ravi: wow you really are a wife guy

Chim: If that means a guy that loves his wife than yes

Hen: Karen should also be here after Jee's babyshower debacle

Ravi: i get it both of you love your wives sooooooooooooo much

Ravi: atp i should just add Athena too

Hen: Honestly, yeah

Chim: Imagine what she has to go through just from hearing Bobby complain about it

Ravi: ok fine whatever

Ravi: go add the other people

Ravi: you just don't want to have a super secret gc with me i get it 😞

Ravi: it's cool

Ravi: it's fine

Ravi: i'm being sooooooo chill about this 🫨

Hen: It's not that we don't want to be in a secret group chat with you, we are just saying that if you want to hear more complaints about Buck and Eddie being nasueating, as you put it, we are not the only ones that should be in this chat

Chim: And if you wanted to, then we could make another secret group chat on top of it

Ravi: omg omg omg and i get to name that one too bc i'm so much better at it than you 😁

Chim: Yes of course

Hen: Yay, another group chain on my phone, how great 😒

Chim: Shut up he's happy again

Ravi: you do know that i'm still here right??

Ravi changes the chat name to TBD

Ravi: easier to make a new chat with everyone else and keep this one the same

Chat: at the scene of the crime

Ravi adds Hen, Chim, Maddie, Bobby, Athena, and Karen

Maddie: What is this?

Athena: I would also like to know

Karen: If this is another group text that I have to keep track of now 😒

Ravi: wow you and your wife really are compatible

Karen: Thank you?

Karen: (is this a compliment)

Hen: From him, yeah

Chim: Him being mean can be a form of affection or confrontation

Chim: It's up to you to figure out what tone the text is supposed to be in 🤷‍♂️

Bobby: So what exactly is this chat, Ravi? — Bobby Nash

Ravi: sooooooo you know how buck and eddie are super weird about each other but never acknowledge it and it's super annoying 👀

Maddie: Yes

Karen: I wish I didn't sometimes

Athena: It really is concerning

Bobby: I have three different sets of paperwork already filled out for the both of them just in case something happens. I am prepared for all scenarios. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: so we're all in agreement 🙂‍↕️

Ravi: now wouldn't it be nice if we all had a place to vent about this 😁

Ravi: any maybe do something about it 👀

Hen: Oh nuh uh, this was not previously discussed

Chim: Yeah we did not get you to drag everyone else in just to meddle

Chim: You could have led with that and I could have secretly agreed without my wife knowing

Maddie: Say that again.

Chim: My wonderful wife knows everything I've ever done and I've never kept a secret from her ever and it's because she's so beautiful and lovely and the best person I've ever met

Maddie: Much better

Ravi: i have some words i would like to say. 😒

Chim: Are you going to call me a wife guy again?

Ravi: no but that works too

Chim: 🤨

Ravi: ANYWAY

Ravi: so are we meddling or not or is this entire chat and my life worthless

Hen: Quite the jump there

Karen: Are we sure that meddling is the right thing to do?

Karen: Only one of them is out

Maddie: As much as I would like to get my brother to formally admit that he's in love with his best friend instead of vehemently denying it ever time I ask it, I don't think we should force it

Maddie: He's going to be an idiot regardless how clear we spell it out for him 😞

Hen: This is very true

Hen: I also agree with Karen

Ravi: you all are no fun whatsoever 😒

Ravi: here i was thinking we could have a family bonding activity and you all are just shutting me down 😞

Ravi: whatever 🫠

Ravi: guess i'll go find the nearest bridge

Bobby: Why would you need to find a bridge? — Bobby Nash

Ravi: shit i forgot you were here

Ravi: dw about it cap

Ravi: it's nothing i'm just being dramatic

Chim: What else is new?

Ravi: 🖕

Ravi: so i guess this chat is just to vent now since you all are so uncomfortable with the idea of meddling 🫨

Karen: It just doesn't seem right to mess with Eddie's repression like this

Athena: That boy is so repressed it hurts

Bobby: And you haven't had multiple conversation about Catholicism with Eddie. — Bobby Nash

Athena: I had to ban Bobby from giving advice to Eddie because it would always backfire

Ravi: wow you really are always at the scene of the crime

Chim: How much did it just hurt that you admitted I was right

Ravi: so much

Chat: TBD

Ravi: so we're meddling right? 👀

Chim: Fuck yes, I'm tired of this

Hen: I'll be here to make sure you two don't go too far and as Eddie's emotional support

Ravi: great yes

Ravi: super secret gc goals achieved 💪

Ravi changes the chat name to super secret meddlers

Hen: Also Chim, if you keep this a secret from Maddie the whole time, you will get to leave The Shunned

Chim: Shut the fuck up

Chim: This is the best day of my life

Hen: You're married with one child and another child on the way 😒

Chim: This is the fourth best day of my life

Ravi: can i say the words here or do you not consent to be bullied

Chim: I'm scared so no

Ravi: damn

Chat: Hen and Chim

Hen: If you're meddling now too that changes the terms of our previous bet

Chim: Shit you're right

Chim: Do I bet on myself?

Chim: I don't like that

Hen: Well you should since that would be a nice transfer from the previous deal of you changing your bet to Ravi's successful meddling because you were an idiot and forgot your best friend's birthday

Chim: I suppose so 😢

Chim: So I'm betting on my success and you're betting on everyone accept for me

Hen: Yes

Hen: And the value is now $100 instead of $20

Hen: And you can't complain because I am right

Chim: 🥲🫠🖕

Chat: Hen and Athena

Hen: You can add me back to the Shunned chat now

Hen: I'm ready to be moderator again

Athena: Ok

Chat: The Shunned

Athena adds Hen to the chat

Athena: You're chat moderator has arrived

Athena leaves the chat

Hen: Everyone but Chim and Bobby is good to go

Buck: YAYAYAYAYAY

Buck leaves the chat

Karen: I hope to never have to be in here ever again

Karen leaves the chat

Chim: Back to being alone I see 😔

Bobby: I cannot keep reminding you that I am also here. — Bobby Nash

Chim: Can't a guy just be a little dramatic 🙄

Chat: Hen and Chim

Chim: You wanted to be the moderator again specifically because of the meddling didn't you

Hen: Yes, yes I did

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighters

Karen: So we're meddling right?

Maddie: Oh yeah

Maddie: I love my idiot brother but he is, indeed, an idiot

Maddie: Like he flat out admitted that he was in love with Eddie like two weeks ago but is still denying that fact

Karen: I wish I was as clueless as them sometimes

Karen: It's tiring being this smart all the time

Athena: I love both of them but my god do I just want to smack some sense into them

Karen: I swear me and Hen never looked at each other with as much yearning as those two do

Maddie: Maybe that's because you two aren't idiots

Karen: Very true

Athena: So how are we doing this?

Athena: Karen's concerns were valid

Maddie: I'm going to be focusing on getting Buck to admit that he has feelings for Eddie

Maddie: He needs to do that regardless if he ever wants to have a successful relationship in the future

Karen: Agreed

Athena: That boy really has had some terrible relationships

Karen: If anyone can break through to Eddie, it will be me

Karen: That man just needs someone to tell him what's up and not beat around the bush

Karen: I hate beating around the bush

Maddie: You know what we could do?

Maddie: We'd have to make a new chat to make it seem like this one doesn't exist, but we could add Eddie to our chat 😈

Maddie: Because he's basically Buck's partner and that way we'll have direct access to him

Athena: And we could invite him to our wine nights to get direct access

Karen: I love your mind Maddie 🙂‍↕️

Maddie: I love that we all agree on this

Maddie: Let me go make it hold on

Chat: 118 Partners

Maddie adds Karen and Athena

Maddie: I'll add Eddie in a second but is the name good or do we want something a little more different than the other chat?

Athena: No I think this one is good

Karen: Gives us a stepping stone with Eddie already because he'll question why he's in here, I like it

Maddie: Great

Maddie: Adding him now, everyone act cool

Karen: We're not Chim, you don't have to say that

Athena: I'm always cool 😎

Maddie: I love scheming with people who know how to keep a secret 😭

Maddie: Ok seriously adding him now

Maddie adds Eddie to the chat

Eddie: Uh, hello?

Eddie: What is this?

Karen: Hi Eddie! This is just a group chat that we have as the partners of the 118 members so we can communicate outside of the main family chat if needed

Athena: Also we have bi-monthly hang outs

Maddie: And we complain when they do something stupid that ends up in another hospital visit sometimes

Eddie: And I'm here because???

Maddie: Well we figured since you're not part of the 118 anymore but are so close to Buck, that basically makes you on the same level as a partner

Karen: Also I always end up gossiping with you at events and I miss it so I wanted to invite you to wine nights

Athena: And I feel like I don't know you enough for how close I am with Buck

Eddie: I guess that makes sense

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: Your sister just added me to the 118 partners group chat

Buck: what?

Eddie: Yeah that was my reaction too

Buck: did they say why

Eddie sends a picture

Buck: something's fishy

Buck: i don't like this 😐

Eddie: Ok so I'm not crazy

Buck: no something's up 🤨

Buck: do i ask or wait until we have something more than a hunch

Eddie: I don't know, it's your sister

Buck: very true

Chat: Maddie and Buck

Buck: why did you add Eddie to your 118 partners gc???

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Chat: Buck and Maddie

Maddie: You know what I would kill for right now

Maddie: Those bologna roll ups with the pickles

Buck: do not try and distract me with your disgusting pregnancy cravings 😒

Buck: why did u add eddie to the partners gc????

Maddie: And why are you allergic to the caps button????

Buck: STOP CHANGING THE SUBJECT!!!

Maddie: Buck, take one hard look at yourself and Eddie's relationship and tell me one good reason why he shouldn't be in it

Buck: we aren't dating or married

Buck: therefore not a partner

Maddie: Pretend I do not know that Eddie exist for a second

Buck: ok???????

Maddie: Oh, who is that?

Buck: oh that's eddie, he's my partner OH WAIT A SECOND

Maddie: My point has been made

Buck: i think i would say bsf now tho bc he's not my partner anymore

Buck: BECAUSE HE LEFT ME TO GO TO TEXAS 😭😫😢

Maddie: You see how saying it like that makes it worse, right?

Buck: no i don't actually

Maddie: 🤦‍♀️

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighters

Maddie: I should have known this would be hard, but it's somehow gotten worse

Karen: Oh god

Athena: What now

Maddie sends a screenshot

Karen: What is wrong with him 😭

Maddie: So much 😭

Athena: I feel like we need to be more direct than this but I'm not sure how we can do that

Maddie: I can ask the most direct person I know, hold on

Chat: Maddie and Josh

Maddie: Can you tell my brother how much of an idiot he is the next time you see him

Josh: Sure, why

Maddie sends a screenshot

Josh: Oh there's no helping that

Maddie: I know but I'm trying

Josh: I'm good but I'm not breaking an idiot out of his glass house good

Maddie: Can't you at least try a little

Maddie: For me

Maddie: It can be my baby shower gift

Josh: You already have one child, why do you need another baby shower?

Josh: Don't you have everything already

Maddie: Yeah but this time it's more just an excuse for Buck to plan something and for a family gathering that I can actually go to before I don't feel like going out of the house with an infant

Josh: Ah, I see

Josh: The best I can do is another version of the Glee speech, I don't think I'm going to top that

Maddie: Maybe don't get involved actually 😒

Josh: I just love Glee, what can I say

Chat: Buck and Maddie

Buck: so like

Buck: you added eddie to the chat bc i call him my partner sometimes 🤨

Maddie: That and it just felt appropriate

Maddie: Also Karen really misses gossiping with him so we wanted to invite him to wine night

Buck: oh

Buck: that makes sense ig

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: i was given a reason but i'm not sure i believe it

Buck: were u also told that karen misses gossiping with u?????

Eddie: Yeah, but that's the only part I actually believe

Eddie: I also miss gossiping with Karen

Buck: maddie said it was bc i would call u my partner sometimes

Buck: but like we were partners at work

Buck: what else was i supposed to call u 🤷‍♂️

Buck: my coworker

Buck: that just feels weird

Eddie: That does feel weird

Eddie: But like we're still not believing them right?

Buck: absolutely not

Buck: it's just time to get to sleuthing

Eddie: Oh boy

Chat: 118 Partners

Karen: So, Eddie, when are you free to join us at wine night via face time?

Karen: We were going to have one tomorrow but don't want to unless you're not free

Eddie: Well I am currently just an Uber driver so my schedule can be free pretty much whenever

Eddie: Except on weekends and game days, those are the best for getting rides

Maddie: Noted!

Maddie: So tomorrow's good then!

Eddie: Yeah that works

Karen: Yay! So exciting

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Morning Team! It's restock day so everyone to their assigned stations. I've taken us out of rotation for the first hour so we can get this done as fast as possible. Let's have a great shift everyone! — Bobby Nash

Buck: i will be taking my clipboard position very seriously 🫡

Chim: Oh trust us, we know.

Hen: This is going to be a long day

Ravi: say it louder for the people in the back

Bobby: What people in the back? — Bobby Nash

Ravi: it's metaphorical cap

Bobby: Oh, I see. — Bobby Nash

Chat: super secret meddlers

Ravi: how suspicious do you think eddie would be of me if i sent him a bunch of pictures of buck with this clipboard rn 🤔

Chim: Probably a little

Hen: That would be laying it on a little thick I think

Ravi: i might be able to make it work, hold on

Chat: Eddie and Ravi

Ravi: come get your boyfriend

Ravi: he's annoying the hell out of me

Eddie: Excuse me???

Chat: super secret meddlers

Ravi sends a screenshot

Ravi: help i immediately made it bad

Hen: Omfg

Chim: Didn't know we had two idiots working in the firehouse

Ravi: STOPPPPPPP ITTTTTTTTT

Ravi: i think i can make it better ok hold on

Chat: Eddie and Ravi

Ravi sends a picture

Ravi: he's been given a clipboard and is ruining my life with it

Eddie: He's literally not that bad with a clipboard, I don't know what you guys complain about all the time

Ravi: see this is why i called you his boyfriend

Ravi: it's bc you say shit like this

Eddie: But I'm straight

Ravi: you sure about that one 🤨

Ravi: queer to queer, you give queer

Eddie: Those are certainly words

Ravi: i mean it's fine if you are straight or whatever 🙄

Ravi: but like you just give off a vibe yk

Eddie: No I do not know

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: Ravi says I give off a vibe

Buck: did he explain what vibe exactly???

Eddie: I think his exact words were "queer to queer, you give queer"

Buck: ohhhhhhhhhhh

Buck: he's trying to imply that u give of a gay vibe to him

Buck: gay as in the umbrella term (which is also what queer is) not gay as in the sexuality

Eddie: I did not know that

Buck: there's so much that u don't know

Eddie: Do I give off a gay vibe?

Eddie: I'm not offended, I just don't want people getting the wrong impression

Buck: no i don't think so

Eddie: Why would he think so then

Buck: it was probably the mustache

Eddie: What?

Buck: what

Eddie: What about the mustache was gay?

Buck: 😬

Buck: i'm actually scared to tell u

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Eddie: Was my mustache gay?

Buck: 🤐

Ravi: finally someone is asking the right questions

Ravi: the answer is yes

Ravi: it was the gayest thing i've ever seen

Chim: I wouldn't say it was necessarily gay

Hen: Yes

Chim: Ok maybe it was

Eddie: I didn't know it was gay to have a mustache

Ravi: it's not

Ravi: but the way you had a mustache was really gay

Chim: You did kinda look like Freddie Mercury when you had your hair gelled back

Eddie: Wait, Freddie Mercury was gay?

Hen: 🤦🏾‍♀️

Buck: 😒

Hen: How did you not know this?

Buck: i feel like i told u about that

Ravi: there's really no helping you

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: help, why did my dad just ask me if his mustache was gay

May: WHAT

May: I'M DYING WHAT THE FUCK

Denny: it was

Denny: also

Denny: THAT'S A POTTY WORD 🫵🫵🫵

May: shut up and let me have this

Denny: fine, potty word volation revoked 🙄

Harry: i feel like i need a refresher of what the mustache looks like

May sends a picture

Harry: oh yeah, that's a homosexual

Chris: i'd have to beat through thirty years of repression just to tell him that tho

May: you have no clue how much i'm laughing right now

Denny: (replying to "i'd have to beat through thirty") i think my moms are currently scheming on how to tell him about that

Denny: but like not together

Denny: it's weird

Harry: Wait, mom was telling me about that too

May: Bobby mentioned something but overall he didn't want to get involved

Chris: if the adults are scheming, can we scheme too

Chris: i'm tired of this

Chris: also how do i subtly let dad know that his mustache was very gay

May: don't be subtle, be direct

May: if we're scheming, we have to be blunt about it

Chris: v true

Chat: Buck and May

May: (link to The Subway by Chappell Roan)

Buck: i've already heard this song idk why ur sending it to me

May: you may have heard it, but have you listened to it

May: i feel like you would deeply relate to this song if you truly heard the lyrics

Buck: well ig i can listen to it again

May: get some wine in you first, that always makes you more in tune with the emotions you fear

Buck: u scare me sometimes

Chat: May and Eddie

May: (sends link to Good Luck Babe by Chappell Roan)

Eddie: I feel like I've heard this song before

May: yeah but have you just heard it, or have you let the lyrics sit with you and cause you deep pain

May: i feel like this song will really resonate with you if you let it

May: especially if you think about the person she's singing about's perspective

Eddie: Ok then.

Chat: Maddie and Chim

Maddie: I said this to Buck earlier as a hopeful distraction but now I mean it really, can you get the stuff to make those bologna roll ups on your way home from work

Chim: Yeah…

Chim: I can't believe you eat those things

Maddie: They're so good you have no idea

Maddie: They would be even better if we could get Lebanon balogna here

Chim: I heavily doubt that

Chat: Buck and Maddie

Buck: i just ran into Josh at the store and he told me that I was an idiot and tried to give me another speech about glee

Buck: i don't know how but i know ur behind this 😒

Maddie: Josh is just like that sometimes, can't control it

Maddie: But like did anything resonate with you about that specifically?

Buck: no i was just very confused

Maddie: Damn

Buck: see now i know ur behind it 🫵🤨

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighters

Maddie: I might have been made

Maddie sends a screenshot

Karen: MADDIE

Athena: I think your husband is rubbing off on you

Maddie: I fear he might be 😭

Maddie: But also, could just be pregnancy brain

Karen: We have wine night in T minus thirty minutes, we need a plan so we don't screw this up

Athena: We let him talk himself into a corner

Maddie: If his denial is as strong as Buck's, I fear this will not help

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: josh just cornered me in the grocery store to tell me i'm an idiot and gave me a speech about glee

Eddie: Huh???

Buck: something's really up

Buck: i don't like this

Eddie: I don't like this either

Eddie: Chris confirmed my mustache was gay by the way

Eddie: I'm now wondering how many men hit on me while I had it that were very disappointed in the end

Buck: probably more than u think

Buck: it was really hot

Buck: WHO SAID THAT

Eddie: You did

Buck: dude it's a joke

Buck: but like also used it a shield for ur emotional repression and then danced in ur living room pantsless when you shaved it off

Eddie: I was trying to feel joy again

Buck: it was a little gay i gotta say

Buck: which isn't a bad thing

Buck: but like u can't deny

Eddie: Maybe I can't

Chat: 118 Partners

Maddie: We're here!!

Athena: Great!

Athena: Eddie, are you ready?

Eddie: Yeah, I'm good

Incoming facetime from Athena

Chat: Buck and May

Buck: holy shit

Buck: ow

Buck: ow

Buck: owie

Buck: ouch

Buck: 😣

May: i'm guessing you listened to the song

Buck: yes!

Buck: it cased be deep pian

May: go drink water right now

Buck: ok!

Chat: Maddie and Hen

Maddie: You might want to come help Karen into the house, she overdid it with the wine just a little bit

Hen: Oh boy

Chat: 118 Partners

Athena: Everyone get home ok?

Maddie: Yep!

Maddie: I had to text Hen to make sure that Karen wouldn't trip on the steps but she made it in!

Karen: Thanks Maddie 😄

Eddie: I'm already home hehe

Maddie: Which means you can get yourself some water

Athena: Yes, please hydrate

Athena: I saw how much of that wine you drank

Maddie: And you were alone so you have no excuse

Eddie: Tis was fun, luv u guys 🙂

Maddie: God you text like Buck when you're drunk

Chat: Eddie and May

Eddie: That song is really godo but isk how it's suposed to relate to me

Eddie: I loked up the meaning and i've never ben in a lesbina situationship whatevee that mens

May: oh my god go drink water right now

May: also take the lesbian out of there and yes you have

May: you're literally in one right now

Eddie: Wat is a situtionshp

May: let me send you some stuff to read when you're sober

May: also there is more to this song than just a lesbian situationship but we're going to take babysteps

Eddie: O k

May: jfc have you had water yet

Eddie: Yes!

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighers

Maddie: Debrief tomorrow when Karen's sober??

Karen: I'm ok!

Karen: Very tired though 😞

Athena: We'll debrief tomorrow

Athena: Have a good night, everyone!

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: Yur sisster is really cool

Eddie: And so is karen ad athena

Eddie: I likd wine knight

Eddie: And i miss u

Incoming call from Eddie

Incoming call from Eddie

Incoming call from Eddie

Eddie: Buck why rn't u anwsering

Eddie: I'm so tird

Eddie: Go to bed, god night

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Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: omg u got drunk last night tooooo

Buck: we're so in sync 🤝

Buck: i'm guessing u had a good time with at wine night

Eddie: I did, but my brain dislikes this decision greatly

Buck: so does mine 🫠

Eddie: Why were you drinking last night?

Buck: may sent me this song that she said i needed to be drunk to be fully in tune with

Buck: she was correct 🫨

Eddie: What song was it?

Eddie: She sent me one last night too and it was really good

Buck: the subway by chappell roan

Buck: what was urs

Eddie: Good Luck, Babe by Chappell Roan

Buck: ………

Buck: i fear we are being messed with again 😠

Eddie: Would May really do that with us?

Eddie: Also why, maybe she just really likes Chappell Roan

Buck: oh no she does, she was in may's top five on her spotify wrapped last year

Eddie: The what?

Buck: omg how u have gone this far in life knowing this little abt pop culture actually astounds me

Eddie: I watch the news

Buck: unimportant to the previous statement

Buck: Anyway, those songs were targeted for us and in a meddling manner 😠

Buck: i can just feel it 😤

Eddie: If you say so

Chat: Buck and May

Buck: what game are u playing here 🤨

May: bold of you to assume i have time to be playing some game while finishing my last semester at college AND having an internship AND a part time job

Buck: 😒

Buck: fair point

Chat: May and Eddie

May: are you sober?

Eddie: It would be concerning if I wasn't at 9 am in the morning

May: very true

May: anyway, here are some links about situationships

May sends links to different articles

May: read carefully and truly digest them

Eddie: Ok?

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighters

Maddie: So…

Maddie: Last night

Maddie: Eddie seriously still thinks he's straight?

Athena: I understand Buck's hatred of his parents now

Athena: Only they could be the reason he's still this repressed

Karen: Oh and that rant about forcing Chris to play chess made my blood boil!

Maddie: I was seething

Athena: I understood why Buck wishes murder was legal

Maddie: So where do we go from here?

Karen: Carefully

Karen: This is a delicate matter

Athena: We have to do something, though

Athena: That man talked about how much he missed Buck for twenty straight minutes in a very non platonic manner and he could have kept going if we didn't have to call it a night

Maddie: He really could have

Maddie: Buck does the same thing

Karen: They were really made for each other in an odd way

Athena: Karen, as the only non straight person in this chat, how do you think we should proceed?

Maddie: Hmmmm, I wouldn't say that

Athena: What?

Maddie: That's a conversation for a different day 😌

Karen: I knew it

Karen: But also, we have to let him slowly unpack this himself

Karen: We can be there and help guide him, but anything too much will probably just scare him off

Maddie: Like a little baby deer 😆

Athena: Lord knows he is clueless behind those eyes like one

Karen: Yes, exactly

Karen: Direct without actually saying it

Maddie: I'm going to direct my full energy to Buck from now on because he needs me to be direct and saying it head on

Maddie: I'm not sure I can beat around the bush while still being direct like Karen can

Karen: It's more a skill of asking the right questions and watching as the dots connect

Athena: I see, I could be good at this but I don't know

Athena: I think letting Karen take the reigns is a good idea

Karen: I love how in sync we are 🙂‍↕️

Chat: Bobby and Athena

Athena: Now I know you said that you don't want to meddle

Bobby: I already don't like where this conversation is going. ❤️ Bobby Nash

Athena: But I would like to know how the conversations between you and Eddie have gone about Catholic guilt and such

Bobby: We only really talked about the guilt once, and that was when he was having trouble with Marisol because he discovered she was training to be a nun. ❤️ Bobby Nash

Athena: So nothing about Catholic guilt related repression

Bobby: No, but we did talk about other emotional repression back when Shannon had just died, may she rest in peace. ❤️ Bobby Nash

Athena: That was during the time of the illegal fight ring I'm not supposed to know about

Bobby: Yes. ❤️ Bobby Nash

Athena: Well now I'm stumped

Bobby: This has been my main predicament of the past six years. ❤️ Bobby Nash

Chat: Firefam

Athena: Hello, everyone, Bobby and I were wondering if you all would like to come over for a barbecue on Saturday?

Bobby: Now that the weather is warmer, I want to bust out the grill. 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Ravi: i would kill for bobby's grilled chicken

Ravi: so i will be there 🙂‍↕️

Buck: i'm also free!!!

Buck: i can bring some baked good for dessert 😁

Maddie: I can bring some appetizers

Buck: as long as it's not those bologna roll ups

Buck: bleugh

Maddie: Shut up, you love scrapple

Buck: u leave scrapple out of this 😠

Buck: ur going to make me want it and there are no amish markets anywhere that i can drive to easily

Buck: and the ones i've found here are just not the same 🫠

ravi: wait the amish are real??

Maddie: It's literally pork scraps pressed into a rectangle

Buck: and it's delicious

Ravi: ew what

Chim: I stopped questioning the food they eat a long time ago

Eddie: This is like when Buck told me about water ice

Buck: oh my god stop this

Buck: i would fly to pa just to get water ice i'm not even joking

Maddie: Same, I miss it so much

Maddie: And the gelatis 😭

Buck: stop itttttttt 😭

Hen: What the hell is water ice

Hen: Ice is just frozen water, why are those two words combined

Buck: u would call it by it's incorrect name italian ice

Hen: Why is the grammatically correct way incorrect

Maddie: Because it is

Maddie: Duh

Buck: 😤

Chim: Can we stop talking about regional foods none of us know about please

Chim: I'd like to go back to discussing the barbecue that is already making my mouth water

Karen: I'd also like to go back to the barbecue

Karen: Hen and I can bring some sides or drinks if needed

Bobby: I have plans for the sides but drinks would be much appreciated. 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Eddie: Wish I could come but sadly I cannot

Buck: bc ur in texas 😭

Eddie: Because I'm in Texas

Eddie: Maybe me and Chris can fly back to visit during the summer and we can have another one then

Bobby: That would be wonderful. — Bobby Nash

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Ravi: buck istg if you come in here to complain just bc it's the one chat without eddie in it i'm actually going to come to your house and throw rocks at you this time

Buck: i have a better idea actually tyvm

Chat: Buck and Ravi

Buck: SIGH

Buck: SIGH

Buck: SIGH

Buck: SIGH

Buck: SIGH

Buck: SIGH

Buck: SIGH

Ravi: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Ravi: seriously dude get a life this is getting so annoying

Ravi: you need new friends that aren't me bc i'm not dealing with this shit 24/7

Ravi: find someone else to taunt with your endless pining

Buck: not pining ☝️

Buck: that would require for me to sit with my feelings and i don't like doing that 🙂‍↔️

Ravi: wow self awareness

Ravi: wasn't expecting that from you

Buck: fuck you

Ravi: 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨

Chat: somehow saner than adults

May: i would like to report that i have successfully meddled

Chris: are you the reason dad's been listening to good luck babe all morning while trying to understand what a situationship is

May: that would be my work yes 😌

Chris: at least i have context for it now

Harry: i'm so bummed, i have no clue how to meddle

Denny: same 😣

Denny: like i'm not close enough to either of them to actually do anything about it

Harry: YES EXACTLY

Harry: like is buck technically kinda my step brother, yes, but i feel like i've never talked to him at all

May: you can try at the barbecue this weekend

Chris: what no way you guys are having a barbecue 😞

Chris: stupid texas keeping me from good food 😠

Denny: aren't you the one who wanted to leave

Chris: yes but i can hate my past self for my current situation

Chris: that is my right

Harry: (replying to "you can try at the") what would i even talk about

May: you are graduating high school soon and he's had a lot of odd jobs since you're not sure about if you want to go to college or not

Harry: mom and dads might kill me if i don't go to school

May: don't say that, they'll support you as long as you have a plan

Harry: ig i could ask buck about his jobs

Denny: what should i do????

Chris: what you do best, eavesdrop

Denny: omg so true!

Denny: i overheard my moms talking about the wine night that mom, Aunt Maddie, and Auntie Athena do every other week and it sounds like Eddie is incredibly hopeless

Chris: no news there 🙄

Chat: at the scene of the crime

Ravi sends a screenshot

Ravi: i would like to report that i am annoyed

Maddie: Is there some context that I'm missing here?

Chim: Remember when I told you about Buck incessant sighing

Maddie: HE'S STILL DOING THAT

Karen: Oh no

Athena: How long has he been doing this?

Bobby: Since the first shift without Eddie. — Bobby Nash

Maddie: 😟

Athena: Oh no

Ravi: who has a nice garden with some rocks i can come harvest

Ravi: i have a promise to make good on 😤

Athena: If you touch my garden we will be having a conversation about that

Ravi: dw queen i would NEVER disturb your garden like that

Ravi: anyone else tho? 👀

Hen: Fine

Ravi: yay!!!!!

Chat: super secret meddlers

Ravi sends a screen shot

Ravi: i would also like to report that we are cooked

Hen: Did I read that correctly?

Chim: So he knows??

Hen: His denial is something I've never quiet seen before

Ravi: he truly is a specimen

Chim: Is meddling even worth it after this?

Hen: Oh absolutely

Hen: If anyone can cut through his bullshit, it's me

Ravi: i knew i could trust you with this 🙂‍↕️

Ravi: chim if you ruin this for us i will hunt you down with my rocks 😡🪨

Ravi: which by the way thanks hen, i'm outside your house 😁

Hen: Yeah next time knock and come through the house you werido

Hen: I almost called Athena on you

Ravi: can't a guy just harvest some rocks without having to socialize 🙄

Chim: Maybe you're the real specimen

Chat: Chim and Hen

Chim: Do I have permission to share the screenshot Ravi send us with Maddie because if I could lessen her headache I would like to

Hen: I feel like that would reveal that we are meddling, so no

Chim: That was my fear

Chim: She told me that they invited Eddie to wine nights and to the wives group chat

Chim: I think more meddling is afoot 🧐

Hen: I've been thinking the same thing

Hen: Karen came home drunk and told me the whole thing

Chim: Do we reveal or wait for more concrete evidence?

Hen: I like being right so I think wait for more evidence

Chim: Roger that 🫡

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: OK

Buck: i have a plan

Eddie: Plan for what?

Buck: to catch them in whatever meddling that they're doing with us

Eddie: Oh

Eddie: I didn't know we were doing that

Buck: well i just told u about it so dw

Eddie: What are they even meddling for?

Eddie: Like what is the end goal here

Buck: idk but i plan to find out 😤

Buck: i'm going to do some recon at the barbecue this weekend

Eddie: Oh, ok, that's a good plan

Eddie: I can do the same at the next wine night

Buck: as long as u don't get too drunk again

Eddie: I will be limiting myself with the wine

Buck: good idea

Chat: Buck and Ravi

Ravi: come outside 😡

Buck: no

Ravi: my rocks would like to meet you 🪨

Buck: u are really committed to this bit

Ravi: yes now come outside!!!

Buck: no

Ravi: you're no funnnnn

Buck: sorry i don't want to be physically harmed with your rocks 😒

Ravi: they're little ones dw

Ravi: just come outside so i can go home

Buck: ugh fine

Buck: meet me out back so the neighbors don't think i'm weird

Buck: also if i have to go to the hospital bc of this just know that u will have to deal with both maddie AND athena AND bobby

Ravi: woah, have you grown

Buck: well eddie too but he's in texas so not much he can do there

Ravi: nevermind the rocks are justified 😡

Buck: i'm making bobby's mac and cheese for dinner tonight if you wanted to stay btw

Ravi: oh fuck yes

Chat: Eddie and May

Eddie: Ok, I've read the stuff you sent me about situationships and have decided they're stupid and dumb

May: ok yes, we agree on that

Eddie: But I'm still not exactly sure how I'm in one

May: you will soon enough

Eddie: Also I looked into the song more because you said there was more than just the situationship and I have a question about that

May: go on

Eddie: What is comphet?

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Chat: somehow saner than adults

May: MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY

Harry: heh, may day

Denny: hahahaha

May: SHUT UP WITH YOUR STUPID JOKES I'M HAVING A CRISIS

Chris: it would help if we knew what the crisis was yk

May: i may have meddled to far into the sun

May sends a screen shot

Chris: wdym this is like the best thing to ever happen

Chris: next get him to ask what internalized homophobia is and the closet will be closed in a week

Denny: i thought we wanted the closet open and not closed

Chris: omg like closed for business 🙄

Chris: as in never needed again

Denny: ohh is see 🙂‍↕️

Harry: yeah i don't really see the reason why this is such a big deal

Harry: you got him asking the right questions

May: yeah but i'm like the worst person to ask about this

May: i thought i liked men until a girl kissed me at a party and then my life was changed

May: i don't know what the true depths of comphet feel like

May: nor how to explain it

Harry: well there is a great place called the internet

Harry: and, you know, our father

May: yeah but asking about this will get him asking why i need it and he would be ashamed at me for meddling 😭

May: i don't want to deal with that

Harry: so fair

Denny: i'd offer to ask my moms but they might think that i'm trying to come out and i don't want to mess with their emotions like that

Chris: yeah, that would just be cruel

Chris: the only parents that deserve to be messed with are mine

May: wait quick side bar, chris does buck know you view him as your dad

May: bc that's like prime meddling information

Chris: no but i'm going to use that soon i think

May: good

Harry: hi i've been using this lovely thing called google for the past five minutes and found some good articles

Harry: and one about coming out later in life that you might be able to sneak in there

May: yes thank you, send them to me please

May: I'll proof read before i send them over to him

Harry: yeah hold on

Chat: May and Harry

Harry sends five links

May: thank you!!

May: i really didn't have time to find more stuff while trying to study for this test

Harry: how you have time for any of this just proves your motivation to the cause

May: speaking of

Harry: ???

May: dw abt it just reminded me of another song i wanted to send to buck

Harry: ohhhhh

Chat: May and Buck

May: (link to Alley Rose by Conan Gray)

Buck: idk if i trust you after the last song you sent me

May: but this one is soooo gooood

May: and you'll relate to it sooooooo mucccch

Buck: jesus ok i'll listen to it i guess

May: good

Chat: May and Eddie

May: sorry, you caught me off guard with that question

May: comphet is really hard to explain but i did find some stuff that i thought explained it well so i'll share it with you

May sends some links

May: also this song is another one like it but against from a sapphic perspective, but you change the pronouns around it would fit a more gay perspective

May: (link to She by Dodie)

May: And then this one too, but it's a little more abstract but the themes are still there and i think you'll relate to it a little bit

May: (link to Christine by Lucy Dacus)

Chat: Firefam

Bobby sends a picture

Buck: stop it my mouth is already watering

Ravi: i'm so excited you have no idea

Eddie: I'm so jealous you have no idea

Ravi: ok copycat much

Buck: just move back to LA and this won't be a problem anymore 😁

Eddie: Would if I could trust me

Buck: i know 😔

Karen: Already looks great, Bobby!

Karen: Me and Hen are at the store getting the drinks, are there any particular ones that anyone wants

Maddie: Can you pick up that strawberry lemonade? Jee loves it 😆

Karen: Already in the cart!

Hen: Mara also loves that one

Maddie: Thank you! ❤️

Chat: Athena and Bobby

Athena: Quick question for you, love

Bobby: Yes. ❤️ Bobby Nash

Athena: When Eddie was making the decision to move to Texas, was this something that both him and Christopher wanted?

Bobby: I'm not sure. All I know is that he said he was tired of seeing Chris grow up without him being there. ❤️ Bobby Nash

Athena: So he made this decision without talking to anyone about it

Bobby: Most likely yes ❤️ Bobby Nash

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighters

Athena: I have a talking point for our next wine night ladies

Karen: Ooh, yes, what is it?

Maddie: Is it connected to how miserable Eddie is in Texas as Buck is miserable with Eddie in Texas?

Athena: Yes it is!

Athena: Chances are Eddie never talked to Chris about this move at all before it happened

Karen: Oh my god

Maddie: 🤦‍♀️

Maddie: Of course he did

Athena: I think this could be something productive that we can work on since the other topic is so delicate

Karen: Agreed

Maddie: Seconded

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: chat, guess who else is going to a barbecue today 😞

Harry: oh no

Denny: tell me it isn't where i think it is

May: well let's not jump to conclusions

Chris: it's at my grandparents 😭

May: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Harry: well there goes our progress

Denny: closet about to be narnia level deep

Chris: i've never seen my grandparents this much in years and it took living with them for seven months to realize why

Chris: like my dad makes soooooo much more sense now

May: i got so close

May: the closet door was opening

May: he was asking all the right questions

May: wait is this why he hasn't replied to my text

Chris: yeah he went over to help them set up bc they guilted him into it

Harry: fuck them fr

Denny: maaaaaaay, harry said a potty word

Chris: for shame

Denng: for shame

May: omfg

Chat: super secret meddlers

Ravi: ok barbecue is in t-minus five minus

Ravi: chat what is the game plan

Hen: I didn't know that we needed one

Chim: What exact meddling can we do while only one half of the pair is here?

Ravi: oh chim

Ravi: open your eyes to the many possibilities of the meddling

Chim: Oh Jesus Christ

Hen: He's going to bring up Eddie no matter what regardless so I think we just bounce off of that

Ravi: while a good plan, i think we can do better

Hen: Well then what's your big idea genius

Chim: And don't say that involves rocks

Ravi: nah i'm kinda over that bit now

Ravi: i feel like i've used it too much

Hen: Thank god

Chim: It was getting a bit tired

Hen: Holy shit

Chim: What?

Hen: Buck just got here, look at how many things he brought for dessert

Hen sends a picture

Chim: Jesus Christ

Ravi: he seriously needs help

Chat: Ravi and Eddie

Ravi: be serious

Ravi sends a picture

Ravi: did buck always bake at this volume and you ate most of it bc you can't say no to him or is this insane

Ravi: like does he miss you that much that he's now opening a bakery

Ravi: like what's up with that

Chat: Hen and Chim

Chim: So if we're meddling that means that the others are probably meddling too

Chim: We can catch them in the act

Hen: Nah, we have to be more careful than that

Hen: We slowly gather evidence and then when we are absolutely certain, then we reveal that we know

Chim: But how are we supposed to really know if we don't catch them in the act???

Hen: Do you really want to accidentally reveal to your wife that you are meddling against her wishes in the case that she is not actually meddling and this was all your paranoia

Chim: You're so right

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighters

Athena: Buck brought way too many desserts

Maddie: I feared this would happen

Athena: It won't even fit on the table

Karen: It's bad

Karen: To be fair it is bc he wanted to display them instead of just leaving them in the containers, which is a nice touch tbh

Maddie: He's going to force you all to take some home too

Maddie: We have a small pile growing in our house and it's so hard to keep Jee out of it

Karen: Why doesn't he just bring stuff to the firehouse

Maddie: He doesn't want Ravi to have any of it

Athena: Are they still feuding for no damn reason

Maddie: Always and forever 😒

Karen: Wait omg I have an idea

Maddie: Send a picture of it to Eddie

Karen: Well of course

Chat: 118 Partners

Karen: Eddie can you come back to help us eat some of Buck's various baked goods

Karen sends a photo

Karen: Like we're getting concerned

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighers

Karen: Damn, he must be busy, he normally answers immediately if the text involves Buck

Athena: He'll see it when he's free I'm sure

Maddie: Busy breaking out of that closet

Maddie: Sorry, I had to 😆

Karen: Don't be sorry it was funny!!

Athena: I did let out a little chuckle

Karen: I'm standing right next to you, I heard you laugh

Athena: I was being demure

Maddie: Oh I see

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: ok i'm at the bbq

Buck: will report back if i feel as if i'm being meddled with 😠

Buck: …

Buck: eddie?

Buck: ok well then whenever you get this i hope ur ready to see my long list of evidence of potential meddling 🙂‍↕️

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: my grandparents are the worst and i'm threatening assault

May: oh no what are they doing now?

Chris: trying to get my dad to have me move back in with them

Harry: WHAT

Denny: you're grandparents suck so much fr

Chris: they dooooooo 😭

Chris: like the words "i want to live with my dad" have left my mouth three times now and they are just flat out ignoring me 🙄

Chris: oh shit now they just brought up buck

May: oh no

Harry: fuck

Denny: potty word

Denny: also

Denny: 😬

Chris: now dad's really going to get shoved to narnia 😭

Chat: Ravi and Eddie

Ravi: behold, buck with child

Ravi sends a photo

Chat: Bobby and Athena

Bobby: Are the gifts ready for later my love? ❤️ Bobby Nash

Athena: Yes, they are all ready and up to your insane specifications

Bobby: My specifications are not insane, I just know what works best from years of experience. ❤️ Bobby Nash

Athena: Whatever you say

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: ok so far there's been nothing much

Buck: ravi hasn't even threatened to throw rocks at me 🤨

Buck: well he only really does that over text and then one time irl where he actually threw rocks at me and then we ate mac and cheese after but that's not important

Buck: athena just asked me how you've been doing as if i don't know that you JUST had wine night with her a week ago

Buck: oh shit ravi's being nice to me this is CODE RED!!!!!

Buck: just had a really nice convo with harry about my many jobs 😁

Buck: i don't talk to him that much and i should

Buck: ok now may just asked me about u and i know that u still talk so what is going on!!

Buck: jee just gave me a picture and it's so cute look!!

Buck sends a picture

Buck: what r u doing that uve gone this long without responding

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Chim: So Bobby's special present for all of us was tupperware???

Buck: it gets better 😒

Hen: Now he's teaching us how to properly store the food

Chim: I both love and hate this at the same time

Ravi: who knew cap was just as weird as the rest of us

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: bobby just put his hand on my shoulder gave me a pointed look and told me that he's here if i ever want to talk 🤨

Buck: chim keeps making shifty eyes at me 👀

Buck: now hen and karen are too 👀

Buck: what is conspiring here 🤨

Buck: wait everyone just formed a circle

Buck: gtg apparently this was all a ruse for an intervention 😔

Chat: Chris and Eddie

Chris: say the word and i'll fake being sick so we can go home without it being a whole thing

Chris: i got abuelita locked and loaded to back me up

Eddie: I am so lucky to have you as my kid

Chris: is that the go ahead?

Eddie: Yes

Chat: at the scene of the crime

Ravi: how did we all collectively just agree to give buck an impromptu intervention and it might have worked????????

Maddie: It might not have worked at all, we'll have to wait and see

Karen: He did seem genuinely concerned with himself after Hen did some quick math to see how much he was spending on flour

Hen: He goes through a pound a week at least

Hen: He needed me to quantify that number for him and I saw the fear on his face

Chim: No more loaf for me I guess 😔

Bobby: I'm sure Buck will bake some still, just in a much healthier manner

Maddie: Wait I think Buck might actually be leaving

Maddie: Now I feel bad

Athena: He needed to hear the hard truth

Hen: He really did

Ravi: you guys do know that we just meddled as a group right

Ravi: bc the real reason that buck's baking this much is the same person who isn't at this party

Chim: You just brought up Eddie without being prompted to, you've been spending too much time with Buck

Ravi: omg i've never been more ashamed in my life

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: do u think i bake too much

Buck: wait nvm i know what answer ur probably going to say and it's yes 😔

Buck: i hate this party and i'm leaving 😡

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: one

Chris: I'M FREE

Chris: two

Chris: WAS NO ONE GOING TO TELL ME THAT BUCK IS THE SUBLETTER TO MY OLD HOUSE

Harry: wait did you not know about that?

Denny: we thought you knew????

May: you literally just face timed buck in said house like two weeks ago

Chris: i thought he was just watching it while trying to find a subletter not that he WAS the subletter

Chris: and no i didn't know bc my dad is a terrible communicator

Harry: maybe you're a terrible question asker

Denny: yeah bc how did you misinterpret that

Denny: they fought over a stupid dog for a week and then buck moved into your house

Chris: BUCK HAS A DOG

Denny: HAD a dog

Denny: it was returned to his loving family

Denny: my moms said it was lingering trauma from everyone always leaving buck ESPECIALLY his exes

Harry: jesus fucking christ these guys are dumb

Chris: POTTY WORD 🫵

Denny: MAY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS

May: i hate that i agreed to this bit

Harry: how does chris get to curse but i don't???

Chris: i have never done such a thing

Harry: (replying to "oh shit they just brought up") explain this then

Chris: i've never seen that before in my life

Harry: omg 🙄

Chris: anyway how did the meddling at your much better barbecue go?

Denny: bad

Harry: i had a nice convo with buck about jobs but that was really it

May: it turned into a secret intervention for buck's baking addiction

May: as in literal baking, not getting high

May: and then he left with all the dessert he brought before we could have any 😔

Harry: maybe you didn't get any but i had many cookies while the rest of the adults were being responsible and waiting to have dessert until after dinner

Denny: i also had a cookie 😄

Chris: oh

Chris: maybe i'll save the meddling idea i had for tomorrow

Denny: yeah that's a good idea

Chat: at the scene of the crime

Chim: Wait, where are the desserts

Maddie: Buck probably took them

Ravi: so he didn't leave any for us after we kindly helped him with his problem 😒

Ravi: he deserves a spot in the shunned for that 🙂‍↕️

Hen: That doesn't constitute a place in the Shunned and you know it

Ravi: i actually don't that thing has no rules

Ravi: you're just the evil warden of it

Hen: If you call me a warden one more time it will be YOU that is back in the Shunned

Chim: Yeah! Landlord

Ravi: IF YOU UPPERCASE LANDLORD ME ONE MORE TIME

Maddie: Ok, I'm going to check on Buck

Karen: Good idea

Chat: Maddie and Buck

Maddie: Hey, you ok, I'm sorry if we went a little heavy handed there. We're just worried about you

Maddie: Buck?

Chat: Firefam

Buck: me and my baked goods are going on STRIKE!!!! 😡

Chim: Noooooooooooooo my loaf

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Chat: Chris and Eddie

Eddie: I'm sorry you had to sit through that

Chris: i'm kinda used to it by now

Chris: that's probably worse

Eddie: Yeah, that's worse

Chris: are you ok?

Chris: that was a lot

Eddie: I'm fine

Chris: yeah but like, it would be ok if you weren't

Chris: like if you need to go stare at a wall for a while i would understand

Chris: or throw something

Chris: i kinda want to throw something

Eddie: I kinda want to throw something too

Chris: want to go somewhere and throw things together?

Eddie: Yeah, I really do

Chat: Firefam

Maddie: I'm sorry, you're going on a baking strike?

Ravi: this was what the intervention's goal was i fear

Hen: And why are you so upset about this Chim? You were part of the intervention

Chim: Just because we said he needs to calm the baking a bit didn't mean that I would be without my loaf

Chim: Now my loaf is gone and I don't like this

Buck: no loaf for anyone 😡😤

Ravi: i'm still going with the intervention succeeded

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: me and my dad are now throwing things in a healthy manner

May: what??

Chris: we're throwing eggs at a piece of wood on our driveway

May: i feel like there were better options than that but ok

Harry: yeah like their house is right there

Denny: 👆

Denny: or their faces

Chris: i suggested that but i was told that was bad and they would call the cops on us

Harry: that just means you didn't do it correctly

May: my worry for you increases on the daily

Chat: Firefam

Hen: So are you just done baking or are you going to bake and then just not give us anything

Hen: Because I feel like I'll be pretty ok in either scenario

Karen: Yeah I think our household got the least amount of the baked goods

Chim: My house hold was blessed with the baked goods

Maddie: To the point where it was become a serious problem

Ravi: i feel like if buck ever let me HAVE any of his baked goods then i would care more but it was always kept from me so now i'm just indifferent 🤷

Ravi: like my life is not changed by this development

Chim: My life is changed

Chim: I crave the loaf

Maddie: Maybe we need to have a separate intervention for you

Buck: at least chim appreciates my worth 😤

Chim: Brother-in-law bond

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: back me up i'm going on strike

Buck: i should clarify that this is a baking strike

Buck: i'm not suing the department again

Chat: Firefam

Ravi: well whatever this will still force you to sit with your stupid feelings which is what causes you to bake too much

Ravi: WHICH WAS LITERALLY THE GOAL OF THE INTERVENTION BY THE WAY

Buck: fuck u whatever

Ravi: 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨

Hen: Oh the rocks are back 😒

Ravi: i missed them what can i say

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: dude where are you my logic is being called out and i don't like it

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: we ran out of eggs

Chris: but we both feel better now

May: well that's good ig

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Buck: i yearn for flour

Hen: It's been four hours

Buck: and i'm being so strong 😞

Chim: Be weak!!

Chim: Give me loaf!!

Hen: I'm telling your wife about this

Chat: Eddie and Karen

Eddie: Holy shit

Karen: Omg you're alive!

Karen: Please tell me your on our side here

Eddie: I'm on the side of being concerned

Karen: Yay!

Chat: Eddie and Ravi

Eddie: That's a lot of desserts

Eddie: Also why did you send me a picture of Buck and Jee?

Ravi: i felt like you would appreciate it 🙂‍↕️

Chat: Eddie and May

Eddie: Thank you, I will read over these later

May: cool, lmk if you want more songs or smth

May: i haven't even touched the catholic guilt ones yet

Eddie: Will do 👍

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: What the fuck did I miss?

Eddie: Also I think you're a little insane

Buck: so you think my strike is stupid too 😔

Eddie: Maybe a little

Eddie: I got a text from both Ravi and Karen about the volume of items you brought to the barbecue

Eddie: Also I'm still confused at how you thought some of those things were meddling and also what they would be meddling about

Buck: idk but they just seemed suspicious

Eddie: Yeah but why would asking about me be suspicious?

Eddie: You're my best friend, I feel like that's a normal thing to ask

Eddie: I don't get weirded out when people ask me about you

Buck: oh well ig that's true

Eddie: But like are you ok?

Eddie: The only time you baked this much was when that jackass dumped you for no fucking reason

Eddie: I'm not saying his name

Buck: yeah i'm fine i swear

Buck: can't a guy just really like to bake 🤷

Eddie: Yeah but there's a line where it becomes concerning and you have crossed it

Buck: so ur not on my side then 😭

Eddie: I'm on the side of your mental health

Buck: ugh fine whatever 🙄

Buck: also where the hell were u???

Eddie: My parents

Buck: oh shit 😬

Buck: u ok?

Eddie: I am now, me and Chris threw some eggs at a board

Eddie: It was fun in the moment but the cleanup was not

Buck: oh well that's good

Buck: the fun not the clean up

Buck: but like u good

Buck: do u need to call or smth

Eddie: Maybe later, I'm going to go stare at a wall

Buck: i am too

Buck: what else do i do with my free time???

Eddie: I feel like you would spend it with me most of the time

Buck: yeah 😞

Buck: i need another hobby

Eddie: Maybe go read something?

Buck: maybe

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Buck: it's been twelve hours

Buck: my fingers are twitching

Ravi: ok seriously you need help

Hen: You need to take a long hard look in the mirror

Chim: You need to make me a loaf!

Hen: You need to talk to your wife about this

Eddie: Did reading not help?

Buck: no 😖

Buck: I need something to match the urge

Chat: Buck and Chris

Buck: do u still play minecraft or is that game not cool anymore

Buck: i need something else to fixate on and the mines are calling to me

Chris: i shouldn't be this concerned about a grown adult

Chris: but yeah we can play or smth

Buck: omg yay!!!

Chat: Buck and Chim

Chim: I gotta know, is there any loaf left in your house

Chim: If so, will you sneak me some loaf?

Buck: dude u might have a serious problem

Buck: like i know that i do but i'm legit concerned for u

Buck: how much loaf did i give u

Chim: At least one a week

Chim: I'm down to my last piece and I've been trying to savor it but I can only hold back for so long

Chat: Buck and Maddie

Buck: something is seriously wrong with your husband

Maddie: Tell me something I don't know

Buck sends a screen shot

Buck: u did not get this information from me

Maddie: Oh jesus 🤦‍♀️

Maddie: How's coming up on twenty four hours of no baking going

Buck: me and chris started a new minecraft world so that is now taking up most of my time

Buck: i'm trying to recreate my house but it's not going well

Maddie: Well at least you're doing something semi productive!

Buck: and i'm talking to chris!

Chat: Buck and Chim

Chim: You tattled on me to my wife 😒

Buck: i did no such thing 🙂‍↔️

Chim: I know it had to have come from you so don't even try to lie about it

Chim: You could get a spot in the Shunned for this

Buck: ohhhhh noooooo tattling on you to your wife what a crime

Buck: also hen literally already threatened it so like no i won't

Chim: we'll see about that

Chat: Chim and Hen

Chim sends a screen shot

Chim: Put him in the chat

Hen: No

Chim: Why???!

Chim: First he takes away our desserts and now he's going behind my back, that is prime Shunned behavior 😤

Hen: We caused him to do that and you have a serious problem

Hen: Your probably nibbling away at whatever loaf you have left like a mouse

Chim: I. Am. Not.

Hen: 😒

Chat: Hen and Maddie

Hen: Is your husband nibbling away at loaf like a mouse

Maddie: 😒

Maddie: Yes

Chat: Hen and Chim

Hen sends a screen shot

Hen: My point has been proven

Chim: I admit it, I have a problem

Chat: Buck and Chim

Chim: Maybe this baking strike will be better for the both of us

Buck: we can suffer together 😭

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck sends a picture

Buck: i'm making our house 😁

Buck edits the message

Buck: i'm making my house 😁

Eddie: Oh cool!

Chat: Buck and Chris

Chris: can i ask you a serious question

Buck: always!

Chris: was buying our old house a secret love confession to my dad

Chris: bc like why else would you do that??

Buck: bc i scared off all the other potential subletters bc i didn't want him to move

Chris: this is not helping your case

Buck: i'm not in love with your dad

Chris: that's fine ig

Chris: idk it just seems like weird behavior

Chris: and honestly i would always hope that you guys would get together before he dated ana

Buck: wait really??

Chris: yeah

Chris: you're already like my second dad so ig that made me want it more

Chris: but like i'm fine with the way things are now

Chris: i was just curious

Buck: ok

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: u don't think that me subletting ur house is a secret love confession right bc i swear its not

Eddie: What? No?

Eddie: Who told you that?

Buck: no one i was just wondering

Buck: happened in this show i was watching, dw abt it

Chat: Buck and May

Buck: men 😭

May: 👀

May: is it happening??

May: are you confronting the emotions you fear

Buck: yes 😭

May: FINALLY

May: (sends a link to a spotify playlist titled "sad gay yearning")

Buck: thank you 😭

Chat: Eddie and May

Eddie: I read those links you sent me

Eddie: And I did some of my own research into the Catholic Guilt thing you mentioned since I know you're busy with finals

Eddie: Do you happen to have any song recommendations for that, I think I need to sit with some stuff for a minute and it helps

May: yeah, i have a whole playlist if you want it

May: but i think this song is really good

May: (link to "Jesus from Texas" by Semlar)

May: also i'm like here if you ever need to talk to someone

Eddie: Thank you, I really appreciate it

Eddie: Also that playlist would be nice

May: (sends link to a spotify playlist title "oh GOD")

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Morning Team! We have a light task day today so I'm already expecting this shift to go smoothly. Also I brought in some donuts that are up in the loft. Roll call in ten. Let's have a productive day today! — Bobby Nash

Ravi: cap never forgets his morning affirmations iktr 🙂‍↕️

Bobby: I have to admit that they do make my day feel better. 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Ravi: knew it

Ravi: and I get to claim introducing them to you 😤

Ravi: not someone stupid like buck

Buck: 🖕

Chat: Chim and Maddie

Maddie: Sorry I ran out so fast this morning, I hope you have a good shift!

Chim: That's ok, I was in a rush too.

Chim: And I hope so, Cap brought in doughnuts and the C-shift cleaned up well enough last night that we don't have to do much this morning

Maddie: Well that's nice

Maddie: I love a good quiet morning at work

Chim: MADDIE NO

Maddie: I am so sorry 😭

Chat: 118 A-shift

Ravi: well there goes our easy morning

Buck: i was barely changed 😭

Hen: I'm worrying Chim is going to choke on a donut

Chim: And I'm mad at my wife 😠

Chim sends a screen shot

Buck: gasp

Buck: MADDIE NO

Ravi: how did i know your blood was somehow the cause of this

Buck: i do NOT claim her rn 😒

Buck: she's not even a buckley anymore so there's THAT

Hen: I know what I must do

Chat: The Shunned

Hen adds Maddie to the Chat

Chim: Hello dear 😒

Maddie: Hi honey 😭

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Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: When you get a minute at work can you call me?

Eddie: I think I'm having a crisis

Eddie: I don't know I'm kind of freaking out

Eddie: Just call me when you get this

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: All right, the q-word has been said, we had an easy first call but we know how quickly that can change. Let's keep our minds focused on the day and not let ourselves get too distracted. Try to get as much work done between calls as possible, but any slack will be understood. — Bobby Nash

Buck: i hate this i hate this i hate this

Ravi: says the person related to the cause of this 😒

Buck: i wish to not be associated with my sister atm 😤

Buck: i'd NEVER say the q-word so carelessly like that 😑

Hen: You sure about that

Chim: You literally have before

Buck: i was talking about the dishwasher and u know it

Buck: maddie FULLY said that the shift would be ykw and now we're in this mess

Ravi: oh no perfect angel boy made a mistake and won't take accountability for it

Ravi: so typical of you

Buck: i take accountability all the time

Ravi: so who ate my leftovers yesterday then?

Buck: 🤷‍♂️

Ravi: oh i KNOW it was you

Ravi: take accountability my ass

Buck: DAMN IT

Buck: I JUST MADE COFFEE

Ravi: oh boooooooooo man doesn't want to do his job

Ravi: fork found in kitchen

Chim: CAN A MAN NOT SIT DOWN FOR ONE SECOND??

Hen: Here we go

Bobby: Let's go, team. — Bobby Nash

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Chim: So we're just not going to question that right?

Buck: currently washing my eyes out so my brain gets the memo

Ravi: like that will work

Ravi: you need something stronger than soap

Ravi: you think cap would let me steal some of the bleach 🤔

Hen: Please don't actually bleach your eyes

Ravi: i wasn't gonna bleach MY eyes

Ravi: i would still like the ability to see

Ravi: i'd help wash buck eyes out tho 👀

Buck: why does everything have to come back to u wanting to physically injure me???

Ravi: you throw rocks at a guy ONE TIME

Buck: AND CONSTANTLY THREATEN PHYSICAL HARM

Eddie: What did I miss???

Buck: maddie said the q-word 😒

Buck: i've been betrayed by my own sister 😖

Ravi: i'm somehow still thinking this is your fault

Buck: HOW

Chim: Gloves are restocked 👍

Hen: Thank god

Eddie: Wait you had to restock the gloves after the call? Was it that bad?

Hen: No they were mostly empty when we got there

Chim: Yes

Chim: I've seen things

Buck: i feel like we've seen worse things up someone's ass

Ravi: the physics of what we just saw concern me

Ravi: like that was insanely rectangular

Eddie: Hello???? Context please

Buck: guy "fell" on his shampoo bottle

Ravi: and not like a round one

Chim: And it, uh, not good

Buck: does no one understand the importance of flared bases

Ravi: it's like they've never seen those videos of people walking through target during christmas time

Chim: Oh THAT'S what those videos are

Hen: How did you not know that's what those were about??

Eddie: I felt that it was obvious

Eddie: Have you seen the shape of some of those Christmas tree things?

Chim: DAMN IT HERE WE GO AGAIN

Eddie: The bell just went off?

Buck: yeah 😫

Ravi: stop whining and do your job like a big boy

Buck: HOW WAS THAT WHINING

Hen: Get off your phones and get in the engine please

Ravi: yes ma'am 🫡

Buck: omw 🫡

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighters

Maddie: I have made a grave mistake

Karen: Oh no!

Karen: What did you do?

Athena: It better not be what I think it is

Maddie: I said the q-word 😭

Karen: 😱

Karen: Noooooooo, Maddie!!!!

Athena: Damn, I had my money on Chim

Karen: No, he's too superstitious to make that mistake

Athena: So true

Maddie: I blame pregnancy brain

Maddie: I can't believe I did that

Maddie: I'm so ashamed 😔

Karen: They put you in the chat for this didn't they

Maddie: Yeah 😭

Athena: Good, these calls they're getting are crazy

Chat: Maddie and Chim

Maddie: Hello my wonderful husband, how is your shift treating you today?

Chim: Don't go full pleasantries with me, you know what you've done 😒

Maddie: I know 😭

Maddie: Is it appropriate to blame your son for this?

Chim: Oh nuh uh, he's half of you too

Maddie: So it's both of our fault 🥺

Chim: No. 😒

Chim: I have never once said the q-word on shift in my life and I will not be associated with it

Maddie: I understand 😞

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Buck: shit sry just saw this

Buck: r u going to be ok while i'm at work???

Buck: bc i don't think i'll be able to call until after my shift

Buck: oh shit it just hit me that this is a 24 hr 😭

Buck: my brain will be functioning to talk after my post shift nap bc i will not be sleeping tonight

Eddie: Sorry, I was driving

Eddie: Yeah, that's fine

Eddie: I'll be ok for now

Buck: GOD FUCK I JUST SAT DOWN

Eddie: Jesus Christ

Buck: i'll talk to you later

Buck: stupid sister saying the stupid q-word 😡

Buck: I HATE THIS!!!

Chat: somehow saner than adults

Chris: my dad has been weirdly quiet today

Chris: i'm kinda scared

May: he might be having a moment 😬

May: i'm not going to say more than that for privacy reasons but i might have meddled too close to the sun again

Harry: idky you keep saying that this is exactly what we were trying to do

Denny: yeah, get eddie out of the closet and buck out of his ass

Chris: POTTY WORD 🫵

Harry: denny how could you, tsk tsk

May: did you just type out tsk tsk

Harry: and now so did you 😏

May: ew

Chris: wait so what's up with my dad

Chris: he looks like he's going to throw up

May: he might be in the process of dealing with something 😬

May: and i sent him a playlist about it

Chris: oh is that why i heard him blaring conan grey and gigi perez

May: that would be my work yes

May: specifically the songs found heaven and sailor song 🫣

Chris: wait hold on i'm looking them up rq

Chris: OH!

Chris: THIS IS ONLY PARTIALLY GOOD

Chris: i'm honestly surprised he hasn't called buck yet

May: it gets worse 🫠

Denny: oh i heard my mom talking to aunt athena earlier about aunt maddie

Harry: oh is THAT why mom rushed out of the house this morning

Chris: wait what's going on!

May: maddie said the q-word!

Chris: 😶

Chris: so my dad's only good support system is currently on back to back weird calls for the rest of eternity

May: well just to the end of their shift

Harry: yes

Denny: with the exception of my mom

Denny: and us

Denny: who he probably won't talk to bc we are children

Chris: this is NOT GOOD!!!

Harry: agreed

May: double agree

Denny: triple agree

Denny: permission to tell my mom about this??

Harry: that would interfere with our meddling

May: mental health vs meddling, which should you choose

May: there is a correct answer to this.

Harry: mental health ig 😔

Chris: he just left to go do some rides or whatever that's called

Chris: so maybe later when he gets back

Chris: i'll let you know if it gets worse

Denny: 🫡

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Ravi: can't believe buck just got cat called on the cat call

Chim: I can't believe we just collectively became a stereotype

Hen: I can't believe that cat's name is Sir Fluffington IV

Chim: What do you think happened to the other three?? 🤔

Buck: there was a cat on tiktok named pot roast

Buck: that's light work

Eddie: Wait, Buck you got cat called?

Buck: yeah 🫨

Ravi: he was in the tree and some girls across the street thought that was hot or whatever

Ravi: personally i just thought it made him look stupid

Buck: i felt stupid

Buck: why did i have to be the one to go in the tree again???

Ravi: bc you seem like the type of person who likes to climb shit for fun

Chim: No he just enjoys running which is worse

Buck: what's wrong with my running

Hen: It's better than his baking

Buck: omg don't say that word the cravings will come back 🫠

Buck: work has been so busy the withdrawal hasn't been that bad today 😣

Ravi: having withdrawal for baking is crazy work

Chat: Eddie and Ravi

Ravi: before you ask yes i have pictures of buck in the tree

Eddie: Why would I have asked that???

Ravi: do you not want the pictures 🤨

Eddie: No, I do

Ravi sends the picture

Eddie: You failed to mention that this was a kitten and not a cat

Ravi: that seemed like unimportant difference to me

Ravi: all i cared about was seeing buck almost fall out of a tree

Eddie: That makes him look huge wtf

Ravi: oh ew take this energy far away from me tyvm

Chat: Hen and Karen

Karen: Just checking in, how's the shift going 😬

Hen: It's been eight hours and I can finally go to the bathroom

Karen: Well that's good at least!

Hen: No it's not, the bell just rang again

Karen: Oh no 😭

Hen: I'm so tired 😭

Chat: Maddie and Chim

Maddie: Hello, my wonderful husband, I was wondering if you would like for me to bring you some dinner on this lovely day? 😊

Chim: I would say yes but I probably wouldn't have time to eat it because of you 😒

Maddie: Oh my god can you stop with this

Maddie: I said it completely on accident

Maddie: I'm sorry

Chim: I've seen things Maddie

Chim: I'm a changed man

Maddie: 😮

Maddie: What things

Chim: It involved a shampoo bottle

Chim: I'm scarred

Maddie: Oh I used to see way worse when I worked in the ER

Maddie: Like that isn't even that bad

Chim: Make fun of me more why don't you

Maddie: Jfc

Maddie: What food do you want??

Chim: The bell just rang, don't even bother

Chat: Bobby and Athena

Athena: Hanging in there my love? ❤️

Bobby: As much as I can be. How about you, my love? ❤️ Bobby Nash

Athena: I only have a few hours left of my shift so I'll survive. I hope you'll be able to get some sleep tonight. ❤️

Bobby: I hope so as well ❤️ Bobby Nash

Chat: The Shunned

Maddie: I've accepted fate, how long is my sentence

Hen: Undetermined at the moment

Chim: It is dependent on how many calls we end up getting

Bobby: And how many times Chim claims he gets scarred. — Bobby Nash

Maddie: I see 😔

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Ravi: im soooooo hungry

Ravi: but i don't want to order or make anything bc as soon as i do the bell will ring and the doordasher would steal my food with today's luck

Ravi: would be SO NICE if i had some leftovers rn

Ravi: cough

Ravi: buck

Ravi: asshole* correction

Ravi: cough

Buck: dude i'm so tired i'm not even bs'ing you

Buck: i did not eat your leftovers

Ravi: well then WHO DID????

Hen: Not it

Chim: Not it

Eddie: Not it but that was obvious

Ravi: oh you think your SO funny

Ravi: yes laugh at the expense of my hunger

Hen: You know who isn't in this chat…

Chim: NOT AGAIN

Buck: oh no

Eddie: He wouldn't do that twice would he?

Ravi: oh it's so on

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Ravi: cap you have some explaining to do 😡

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Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: I'm confused? — Bobby Nash

Ravi: where were you at the end of last shift?

Bobby: Probably in my office doing some paperwork, like I always am. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: so you weren't, idk, IN THE KITCHEN EATING MY LEFTOVERS 🫵🤨

Hen: Or throwing them away like last time 😒

Chim: There isn't even an empty container in sight

Chim: I call the destruction of evidence 👆🤓

Buck: it was cap, in the kitchen, with the tupperware

Ravi: CASE CLOSED

Bobby: I did not eat or throw away your leftovers, Ravi. — Bobby Nash

Hen: Says the man who never admitted to throwing away my leftover a few weeks ago 😒

Bobby: It was very clearly stated on the group calendar that it was fridge cleanout day and therefore it was not my fault. 🙂— Bobby Nash

Chim: Correct me if I'm wrong, Cap, but didn't that event only occur AFTER the "accidental" tossing of Hen's leftovers???

Buck: IT DID!!!!!

Ravi: quick we need some receipts who has them?!?!?

Hen: I have them

Hen: Here is the picture of what the group calendar looked like just a month and a half ago, notice how there is no event marked with fridge cleanout day

Hen: And more, notice how last shift wasn't even fridge cleanout day, meaning your excuse Cap, is useless

Bobby: I'm innocent, I swear. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: as far as i'm concerned i'm the only innocent one currently standing in this firehouse 😇

Buck: hey!

Hen: What Buck said

Chim: You're literally a landlord

Ravi: unimportant

Ravi: cap trust me

Ravi: mark my words

Ravi: i WILL catch you in the act 😡

Buck: BOOOOOOOO THIS WAS JUST GETTING GOOD

Chim: What's the tally at now, 15?

Hen: This is 14

Buck: i'm so tired i just want to take a nap

Ravi: honestly same

Ravi: i will catch you in the act AFTER we get back from this call

Bobby: Whatever you say. — Bobby Nash

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie: How's it going?

Buck: bad

Buck: we just had to unstick some people

Buck: well really just transport them to the hospital but i'm again questioning how people are not more informed about safe sex practices

Eddie: If this is anything like the shampoo bottle I'm just going to not ask questions about it

Buck: it involved a prince albert piercing and a mistress

Eddie: Yep, don't want to know

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Ravi: that was messyyyyyyyyyy

Ravi: honestly i needed that

Chim: When the wife walked in I almost shit myself

Hen: Athena was so close to having to arrest someone

Eddie: I take it back, I do want to know

Eddie: Buck left all of this out

Buck: well if u let me actually explain the situation instead of cutting me off then u would already be in the know 😤

Eddie: It's not my fault that you start out stories in a weird manner that makes me disgusted

Buck: it's not MY FAULT that u get disgusted at the way i start my stories

Eddie: Well start with the drama instead of the sex stuff next time and maybe I'll be more interested

Ravi: take your marital fighting away from the chat i beg of you

Ravi: this is already a 24 hour shift from hell i don't need to deal with this too

Chim: CAN A GUY NOT USE THE BATHROOM AROUND HERE

Hen: No, I've been trying to go for the past four hours

Buck: this is the worst day of my life

Ravi: i sincerely doubt that you've literally died before

Buck: but at least then i lived

Buck: i'm 80% sure this shift will actually be the death of me

Chim: With our luck today, it just might

Chat: 118 Partners

Maddie: How are all of your partners holding up?? 😭

Karen: I'm concerned for my wife's bladder

Athena: I'm concerned for my husband's sanity

Eddie: I'm worried that Buck is going to end up injured some how on a call and I won't be there to help or stop it because I'm in fucking Texas and I hate it here and I hate my parents and I hate Chappell Roan

Karen: …

Maddie: Well that is a valid concern I guess

Athena: I feel like that sentence could have ended a bit sooner than it did

Karen: What does Chappell Roan have to do with any of this???

Eddie: Don't get me started, I've been having a day

Athena: I'd offer to have an impromptu wine night chat but I unfortunately have to work tomorrow

Maddie: So do I 😞

Maddie: And the shift from hell will still be ongoing so I have to be awake for that

Athena: Same

Karen: I also have work but unless my lab explodes again I'll be fine

Maddie: You better knock on wood right now

Athena: Better not jinx it

Eddie: You have the non superstitious one agreeing with this

Karen: 😧

Karen: Oh shit, consider the wood knocked

Karen: Actually, I’ll just call out tomorrow

Maddie: Smart decision

Chat: Wives of Idiot Firefighters

Karen: So Eddie's having a crisis right?

Maddie: Why are we even questioning that??

Athena: That was obvious to me

Karen: I want to check in but I'm too tired to be of actual support right now

Athena: And if everything Bobby has said of Eddie crises, he needs a minute to calm down before he doesn't turn this into doing something more drastic

Maddie: Oh my god these two idiots are going to give me a never ending migraine 🫠

Athena: Their shift from hell ends in a little over 24 hours, are you all free that night

Maddie: If my husband doesn't kill me first

Karen: Yes!

Athena: Alright, wine night it is

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Great work on that call everyone. Do to the quick in and out between calls leading to us not being able to properly stock and maintain our equipment, I have taken us out of rotation for the next two hours to make sure we have time to restock. Unfortunately with our to-do list that doesn't leave much time for some rest, but if we all work together I'm sure we'll be able to have a nice dinner before our next call. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: quick to make up the fact that you stole my leftovers

Ravi: i see how it is 😡

Chim: Returning to the scene of the crime

Chim: The kitchen

Buck: dun dun dun

Hen: That's not as fun in text form

Bobby: Ravi, I have already told you that I did not get rid of or eat your leftovers and that is the truth. We have a lot of work to do everyone, let's get this done! 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Ravi: i will catch you red handed cap TRUSTTTTT

Chat: Maddie and Buck

Maddie: How are you holding up?

Buck: 😒

Maddie: Don't silent treatment me I'm already getting enough flack for from my husband thank you

Buck: 😒

Maddie: Not even a complaint about how much you miss Eddie???

Buck: i DO miss eddie 😭

Buck: i thought this shift would stop me from sitting with the emotions i fear but it's only made it worse 😭

Maddie: I have no clue what any of those words mean but I'm assuming that you're realizing that you have feelings for eddie

Buck: i can't have feelings for eddie and therefore i don't have them

Buck: that's what i've currently decided

Buck: i refuse to become a cliche 😤

Maddie: I fear you've been a cliche for longer than you've realized

Chat: super secret meddlers

Ravi: ok i have meddled twice during this shift from hell what have you two been doing

Hen: Trying to keep my sanity

Chim: I wasn't aware that we were supposed to be meddling during this shift

Ravi: we are meddling forever and always until the end of eternity

Ravi: get with the program

Chim: Ok then

Chim: I've been coping from being scarred

Ravi: bruh we haven't even seen anything that bad stop being dramatic

Hen: Buck once had to pull a worm out of a guys ass and you're more concerned about the shampoo bottle

Chim: Yes because this time I WAS THE ONE WHO HAD TO PULL IT OUT

Ravi: omg weakkkkk

Ravi: you need to be on the internet more so you become desensitized to things like this

Hen: How he's not more desensitized just from working this job is beyond me

Ravi: now the question is, do i bring up eddie or do i wait for buck to bring up eddie

Chim: You already called their fighting marital what else can you do today

Hen: And Buck is pretty overwhelmed as it is, maybe lay it off a bit during this shift

Ravi: no you don't see the vision

Ravi: bc if i hit him while he's overwhelmed he won't have the power to deny it

Chim: I can't say that that logic is flawed

Hen: I'm just trying to prevent a breakdown

Ravi: waaaaaiiiiit i should wait until later

Ravi: for more sleep deprivation

Hen: Oh dear

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Ravi: ok we have twenty minutes before we're put back in the rotation, i've made our evidence list

Ravi: last shift was a normal 24 hour, cap made that delicious pot roast and we miraculously had left overs

Ravi: i package my leftovers in one of my containers and place it in the fridge WITH A LABEL before the bell rang, which i just looked up in the system and that was 7:58 pm

Ravi: we got back from the call at 9:35 pm and then i went promptly to sleep after ensuring that my leftovers were safe and sound

Ravi: i left the station at 8:03 am

Ravi: i realized i had forgotten my leftovers like a few hours after that i think and didn't care to come back for them

Chim: Important question, which tupperware did you place your leftovers in

Ravi: some of my own why

Chim: Is it possible that we are supposed to use the fancy tupperware he got all of us in the firehouse and he tossed your leftovers because of his weird vendetta against plastic tupperware

Hen: Ok this might be getting a tad out of hand

Ravi: 😱

Ravi: HE WOULD DO THAT

Buck: sry i was taking a shower so i missed part of this

Buck: i would also like to add that i helped bobby prep some stuff after everyone left but i had left before he put it in the very full fridge at the time

Chim: So he had to make some sacrifices 🤨

Hen: Wait, when he threw out my leftovers, was he also meal prepping?

Buck: WAIT HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN HOLD ON

Ravi: pattern of behavior

Ravi: get me some red yarn and a cork board

Buck: he was meal prepping i have it in my calendar and my notes app

Buck sends a screen shot

Chim: Oh Cap this has gone too far

Hen: This is indisputable

Buck: this is cold hard proof

Ravi: this is THE FUCKING BELL

Hen: Well that break was nice

Chim: And now it's dark outside, yay!

Buck: i'm so hungry

Ravi: i say you should have chosen to eat over showering but also you stunk so i'm glad that you bathed

Buck: 🪨🪨🪨🪨

Chat: The Shunned

Hen: Maddie you're sentence will be one day for every call that we go on during this shift and then three additional days for every time Chim claims he's been scarred

Hen: So far we've been on 16 calls and Chim has been scarred twice so that is a total of 22 days

Maddie: I accept this fate 😭

Chat: Buck and May

Buck: men 😖

May: god how much worse can it get

May: how about the situationship one

Buck: yeah ok

May: (link to Spotify playlist titled "love me or fuck off")

Buck: thank you 😭

Chat: May and Eddie

May: just checking in

May: how are you doing

Eddie: I feel like I'm in a constant state of nausea

Eddie: And my brain hurts

Eddie: And I'm scared

May: yeah, i figured

May: i don't want to make any assumptions but is this what i think it is

Eddie: I honestly don't know

Eddie: All I know is that something is happening and I don't know if I like it or not

May: yeah and that feeling is valid

May: i know it might be weird talking to me about it but if you wanted to expand about it you could

Eddie: Thank you

Eddie: I did really just want to talk to Buck about it but he hasn't been able to sit down for longer than a minute in almost twelve hours

May: yeah

May: but i'm here if you need it

Eddie: Thank you

Chat: somehow saner than adults

May: chris confirm this for me, how much is your father spiraling??

Chris: he looks like he's about the throw up

Chris: so i'd say a lot

Chris: and he's still weirdly silent

Denny: is it time?

Chris: i think it might be

Denny: wait shit my mom's asleep

Denny: i'll talk to her in the morning

Harry: POTTY WORD!!!!!!!!!

Chris: how excited are you that it wasn't you this time

Harry: more than you know

May: jfc

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Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Great job on the call, team, let's get the engine restocked so we have have some downtime before the next call. 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Ravi: you have GOT to stop saying that cap bc then the bell goes off sooner

Chim: Jinx logic

Hen: Not quite sure how that works

Buck: no it is

Buck: SEE

Hen: I stand corrected

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Buck: i'm so tired

Buck: back to back calls suck

Ravi: same

Ravi: i'm tired AND hungry

Chim: Same

Chim: I want to go try and nap but I know as soon as I do the bell will go off again

Buck: sleep with your eyes open

Buck: trick the universe

Hen: Please don't sleep with your eyes open

Hen: It's going to dry out your eyes

Buck: but the universe ☹️

Chim: WHO HATES US

Buck: THREE BACK TO BACK CALLS

Buck: take me out now

Buck: i'm ready to go

Ravi: with pleasure

Buck: 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨

Ravi: STOP STEALING MY THING

Chat: Eddie and Chris

Chris: are you, like, ok

Eddie: Yeah, I'm fine

Eddie: You should be asleep

Chris: so should you

Chris: it's 1 am lol

Eddie: Which is why you should be asleep

Chris: any why you should too

Chris: plus it's a weekend, it's not like i have school tomorrow or something

Eddie: Ok fair

Eddie: Why are you awake?

Chris: been thinking about stuff

Chris: mainly about you

Chris: about what abuelo and grandma said at the picnic

Chris: you know that they were wrong right

Chris: and that there's nothing wrong with you

Chris: and there's nothing wrong with the relationship you have with buck

Chris: well there is something wrong with you but also it's their fault

Chris: like i know that now

Eddie: It's just hard

Chris: i know

Chris: but it could be easy

Chris: and like, whatever spiral you've been having all day, i'll still love you

Chris: like no matter what

Eddie: You know I've been spiraling?

Chris: you've looked like you were going to puke all day and kept going out to do some rides or whatever it's called when you go to work whenever buck didn't text you back

Chris: that is the definition of a spiral i fear

Eddie: You shouldn't have to worry about that though

Chris: you've kind of made that impossible

Chris: the last time you spiraled like this… well

Eddie: I'm sorry about that

Eddie: And I'm sorry that I never said I'm sorry about it

Chris: i'm sorry that i ran instead of talking about it with you

Eddie: I'm sorry for a lot I've done in the past six months

Chris: me too

Chris: i forgive you tho

Eddie: I forgive you too

Eddie: Do you want to actually talk about it in the morning?

Chris: will that help your spiral???

Eddie: I don't know

Chris: do you want to also talk about your spiral

Eddie: I also don't know

Chris: don't be mad at me for telling him but denny said that you could call his mom if you wanted to

Chris: we're all worried about you

Eddie: She said the same thing

Eddie: Maybe I will call her tomorrow

Chris: i think that's a good idea

Eddie: Me too

Eddie: I love you

Chris: love you too

Eddie: You should really go to sleep now

Chris: fine 🙄

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Ravi: god people are stupid

Chim: Who climbs into a chimney for fun

Chim: Let alone two people

Hen: Two naked people on top of that

Buck: says the guy named chimney

Chim: Shut up that's not even how I got my name

Ravi: how did you get your name i don't think i've ever been told

Chim: And we're going to keep it that way

Hen: It's not even that bad

Buck: ehhhhhh

Ravi: oh now i really want to know

Chim: Nope

Chim: I'm going to try and go to sleep

Hen: Same

Ravi: laaaaaaaaaaaaaame

Chat: Buck and Maddie

Buck: what do u mean i've been a cliche longer than i've realized

Buck: what does that mean

Buck: am i a cliche

Buck: holy shit i am a cliche

Buck: maddie i'm having feelings and i don't like this

Buck: fuck i miss eddie 😩

Buck: i wish he never moved to stupid texas

Buck: i hate everything and i'm so tired but i can't fall asleep bc then the stupid bell will go off and everything is bad ever and IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT 😡

Buck: sry i don't mean that

Buck: i only slightly mean that

Buck: u did say the q-word but i forgive u

Buck: it's so laaaaaaaaaaaaaaate 😭

Buck: i can't wait for this shift to end oh my god

Chat: Ravi and Buck

Ravi: pssssssssst

Ravi: are you still awake

Buck: unfortunately

Ravi: do you wish to form an alliance with me

Buck: an alliance for what???

Ravi: me against bobby's vendetta against plastic tupperware

Buck: ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Buck: yeah sure u not

Buck: he does keep throwing out people's leftovers which is a problem

Ravi: yesssss

Ravi: ok so like what should we do

Ravi: i don't think he'll admit that he did this unless we have proof

Buck: true true

Buck: we had some leftovers of the pasta he made for dinner tonight since we went on a call after

Buck: i think it still might be in the dish he made but in the fridge bc he didn't have time to pack it up and now he's asleep

Ravi: are you thinking what i'm thinking

Buck: we go put it in plastic containers to catch him in the act

Ravi: you and i are so like this rn 🤞

Buck: yes yes

Ravi: omg and one of my containers is MISSING

Buck: ADD IT TO THE EVIDENCE LIST

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Ravi sends a picture

Ravi: trap is set

Ravi: all there is to do is wait

Eddie: What the fuck is even happening?

Buck: y the fuck r u still awake????

Buck: it's four am ur time

Eddie: Couldn't sleep

Ravi: interesting

Buck: how tf is that interesting

Ravi: for reasons you do not know about

Chat: Ravi and Eddie

Ravi: does this have anything to do with the reaction you had to the picture of buck with the kitten i sent you 🤨

Eddie: No it does not

Ravi: damn

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie sends a screenshot

Eddie: Ok I think you might be onto something with the the meddling thing

Buck: i knewwww it

Buck: can't believe ravi would betray our alliance like that 😤

Eddie: What alliance

Buck: oh well ig it is only about trying to catch cap throwing out our leftovers and not for whatever they're trying to meddle for

Eddie: Yeah, what is their end goal??

Buck: idk

Buck: what was your reaction to the picture of me and the kitten that made ravi think is interesting

Eddie: I just said it was cute

Eddie: That's all

Chat: Ravi and Eddie

Eddie: (replying to five pictures) Awe so cute

Chat: Buck and Eddie

Eddie sends a screenshot

Eddie: See

Buck: hmmmmmm

Buck: what is afoot here??

Eddie: No clue

Chat: Ravi and Eddie

Ravi: ok wtf

Ravi: what was that for

Eddie: Buck wanted to see what the response was

Ravi: and you couldn't show him the other thing

Ravi: interesting

Ravi: 🤨🫵🏳️‍🌈

Eddie: No.

Chat: super secret meddlers

Ravi: there's been a development

Ravi sends three screenshots

Ravi: well that was nice while it lasted

Hen: I hate this

Chim: I'm too tired to process what all of those pictures mean

Hen: Same but something's up

Ravi: like why would you need to hide what your original response was unless it was related to buck in a gay way

Chim: Agreed

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Chim: Well that was mostly useless

Hen: They just needed the police why were we even called

Ravi: bc people are stupid and dumb

Buck: that didn't even look like blood ugh

Buck: i could be trying to fall asleep rn

Ravi: same

Ravi: i'm regretting scheming instead of sleeping rn

Buck: same

Buck: i'm going to the bunk room

Chim: Same

Chim: I'm so tired

Hen: I'm unfortunately too awake to go to sleep now so I'm going to go make some coffee

Ravi: i'm going to trick my brain into taking a nap so i'm going to go take one of the couches

Buck: selfish much

Ravi: not like you're using it

Hen: I'm too tired for your usual bullshit can you two shut up so I can have my coffee

Ravi: roger that 🫡

Buck: yea that's probably for the best

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Good morning team! We only have a few hours left of this shift so let's try to make the most of it. I know we're all tired from the long night but let's make sure to clean up for the next shift, alright. 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Chim: Cap if you make me clean something right now I might punch you

Buck: just thinking about hose duty is making me want to say some words

Ravi: i'm back to being hungry 😭

Bobby: I can make us all some breakfast sandwiches if that would help

Ravi: yes cap open the fridge

Buck: do it

Buck: feel your anger

Chim: Ok why are we quoting Star Wars

Hen: They've set some stupid trap where have you been

Chim: Asleep hopefully

Bobby: Oh, you two cleaned up the leftovers from last night. That was nice of you! — Bobby Nash

Ravi: yes but how does the choice in tupperware make you feel???

Buck: does it make you feel like… idk… angry

Ravi: vengeful maybe

Buck: destructive

Bobby: I feel like I'm missing something here. I have no problem with you two using your own tupperware in the fridge. — Bobby Nash

Ravi: LIAR

Buck: u literally have made it a point to hate on plastic tupperware multiple times

Buck: i should know i was there most of the times

Bobby: I might not prefer it for myself but that doesn't mean I hate you all for using it. — Bobby Nash

Chim: Then tell me, Cap, why is there now a very fancy tupperware container sitting in my house that was a gift from you

Bobby: Maybe I wanted to open your eyes to the joys of glass tupperware? — Bobby Nash

Ravi: I CALL HYPOCRISY 🫵

Ravi: you can't say that you just wanted to teach us something while also tossing our out containers and never admitting to it

Hen: Ok now I'm the one complaining about the bell

Buck: let this one be the last call please

Ravi: we have three hours left of this shift, it has to be

Chim: I'm praying

Chat: not safe for the work chat

Eddie: Context please??

Buck: fender bender girl with lipstick on her teeth someone thought she was bleeding

Chim: Buck, fire, come on

Ravi: come do your job lazy ass

Buck: i'm coming jesus

Eddie: Now you guys have an actual fire?

Eddie: It's like you've been getting every call all at once

Buck: ikr!!

Hen: BUCK COME ON

Buck: WE JUST PARKED CALM DOWN

Chat: Eddie and Karen

Eddie: Hey

Eddie: Do you have a minute to talk?

Karen: Is this about your very obvious crisis that you were having last night?

Eddie: Yes

Eddie: I was waiting to talk to Buck about it but now I've realized some more things and I don't think I want to anymore

Eddie: Talking to him about this would be weird

Karen: Do you want to wait for the other ladies or do you want it to just be the two of us?

Eddie: Just you and me first, and then maybe everyone else

Eddie: I don't know

Eddie: It feels weird talking to Buck's sister about this

Karen: Ok

Karen: Face time or normal call?

Eddie: It doesn't matter to me

Karen: Ok

Incoming facetime from Karen

Chat: 118 A-Shift

Bobby: Great job on that last call everyone. It is now officially the end of our shift and the q-word curse has been broken. Everyone go get cleaned up and I'll treat everyone to breakfast. How does that sound? 🙂 — Bobby Nash

Chim: Like heaven Cap

Chim: I love free food

Hen: I'm down

Buck: i'm so hungry i'm not even hungry anymore

Buck: but i should eat something so i'm down

Ravi: same

Chat: May and Buck

Buck: men 😭😤😡😖☹️😭

May: i'm tired of this

May: (link to spotify playlist titled "buck, you're in love with your best friend")

Buck: thank you 😭

Chat: at the scene of the crime

Ravi: ok it's officially been the end of our shift and buck hasn't brought up eddie once

Ravi: i was going to bring him up a few hours ago but then got distracted and now it's been a whole 24 hours that i haven't heard his name

Ravi: anyone else concerned

Hen: Wait you're right

Chim: Holy shit

Bobby: I hadn't even realized this. — Bobby Nash

Athena: Is it possible that this could be a good thing

Ravi: this is so not a good thing

Ravi: i've only heard or seen eddie's name from eddie today

Hen: Oh no

Chim: This might be worse than we thought

Maddie: Buck talked to me about Eddie

Ravi: oh phew

Ravi: maybe it was just contained

Maddie: It was only after I brought him up tho

Ravi: CODE RED CODE RED

Ravi: BUCK IS CURRENTLY LISTENING TO MOON SONG

Chim: Does this mean something?

Hen: This is very bad

Athena: Very bad

Maddie: Oh!

Bobby: Is that by the Phoebe Bridgers that May likes to listen to sometimes? — Bobby Nash