We Are Not Nothing
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The first time Eddie met the devil, she bore a leather jacket and a mischievous glint in her eyes and she taught him the meaning of joy and friendship and recklessness. Then, she taught him that actions have consequences.
The second time Eddie met the devil, he bore a smile like sunshine and a heart that was bigger than any Eddie had ever seen before and he taught him that family was a thing that was forged with fire and blood. Then, he taught him the meaning of loss.
The third time Eddie met the devil, he bore the ease of self-confidence and self-acceptance and he taught him that happiness was a thing that was possible. Then, he taught him that happiness was a thing that only happened to other people.***
Eddie learns that there is holiness in sin.
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- Part 1 of We Are Not Nothing
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Tommy, more than anything, was lonely.
On the first day of high school, he walked through the double doors of the ugly glass and concrete block in Boyle Heights and knew, with a certainty he'd never had before in his life, that he would hate every second of it.
The other kids didn't like him very much – Piggy Kinard, they sometimes called him – because he was tall and large and always smelled of cigarettes, as if the smoke had stitched itself into the very seams of his clothing.
Tommy would later not remember which teacher had told his parents about the name-calling, would only remember the faint look of disgust on his father's face and the rough hand in the nape of his neck.
“Respect is something that is earned,” he told Tommy.***
Tommy begins. Then, Tommy begins again. And again. And again. And again.
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- Part 2 of We Are Not Nothing
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There was a certainty in Eddie, a stability, a finality – the knowledge that six weeks, six months, six years from now, they would still be Buck and Eddie the way they'd always been. BuckandEddie.
He wasn't sure anymore what he would do without Eddie, thought if he did lose Eddie, he might just stop existing altogether, the two of them too intertwined to separate in any way that mattered.
And yet.
Buck knew he was a little bit in love with Eddie, but he didn't know, had never considered the meaning of it. The implication. Had never thought that there was an implication.
Not until Tommy.
And now he wasn't quite sure what to do with that.***
Buck has a series of revelations.
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- Part 3 of We Are Not Nothing