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    "Leave it," Eddie says, his voice pulled taut like a wire about to snap, tight enough to hum.

    Buck looks at him, and Eddie’s whole body has gone so rigid he looks carved from stone, but Buck will ruminate on that later. But he can't exactly leave his phone under the seat for the next eight hundred miles, it's got his whole life on it, every stupid photo he's ever taken of Christopher and Eddie and Eddie and Christopher and, embarrassingly, just Eddie, so many just-Eddies, an entire hidden album of candids he'll never admit to because they constitute evidence of something he's been pretending he doesn't feel.

    "I can't leave it, it's my phone. It's got— hold on, I think it slid under your seat."

    “Buck, don’t.”

    It’s as if Eddie doesn’t even know him, because Buck has never once heard the word don’t and responded with anything resembling obedience. So now he’s stretching across the center console with one hand braced on Eddie’s thigh for leverage, the other reaching blindly into the dark gap beneath the driver’s seat, and he’s aware on some level that his positioning is— that he’s essentially— that his head is—

    He’s in Eddie’s lap.

    Or,
    What's a little road-head between friends?

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    19 Feb 2026

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    HANK THE COYOTE

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    ret·​ro·​grade ˈre-trə-ˌgrād

    1. being in motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies
    2. affecting memories of a period prior to a precipitating event (such as brain injury or disease)
    3. to go back

    After an accident leaves Eddie with amnesia, Buck takes him home to recover, and in the absence of his memories, Eddie reveals parts of himself he’s kept hidden for years.

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    15 Feb 2026

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    oh my GOD so fantastic so moving so great. keep forever.

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    ravi: the concept of ruin the friendship

    Chimney: What?????

    Hen: Hi Ravi.

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    12 Feb 2026

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    Okay, so Eddie isn’t a hundred percent sure Buck feels the same. But sometimes when Buck looks at him Eddie feels loved, like Buck is capable of making his love a solid thing with weight and density, that he places around Eddie’s shoulders like a cloak of Evan Buckley’s devotion.

    The first problem with being in love with your best friend (who may love you back), who doesn’t know that you’re even an option—is that it means you have to make yourself an option, and the only way Eddie can be an option, is by telling Buck he is an option.

    And the Buckley-Han New Year’s party, probably isn’t the time for The Big Gay Reveal™; queue jazz hands and confetti.

    Or; It’s New Year’s Eve, and Eddie accidentally comes out to all of his friends throughout the night.

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    26 Dec 2025

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    cutie pie story omg (nye party and eddie has gay shoes on)

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    Eddie flipped the postcard one last time, reading over the words he’d inked into the paper. His thumb brushed along the corner as he slipped the card into the slot.

     

    Hey Buck,

     

    I’m drunk in Texas and this is still the only address I know by heart. I miss you.

     

    Yours,

     

    E.D.

     

    Or; Eddie figures some things out about himself while he's in Texas. Then Chris asks to move back to L.A.

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    10 Dec 2025