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03 Jun 2026
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One time last year, Julie at school asked him why he looked so tired, and Chris was too tired to think about it, so he just told the truth, just said “I had a dream about my mom last night.”
And Julie sort of ducked her head, a little awkward and then hopeful, like maybe it was something they had in common, “I dream about my cousin who died a few years ago sometimes. It’s like we’re still hanging out, like she’s not dead for a minute. It’s kind of nice, right?”
“Right,” said Chris, but it was a lie. In Chris’s dreams, Mom is always dying.
Or, Chris does the Kim plot instead of Eddie.
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16 May 2026
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The two texts came in almost simultaneously.
Eddie
Can you come over?Chris
I need ur helpThere had been no hesitation on his part, with Buck grabbing his keys and immediately headed for South Bedford Street. While he wasn’t panicked since no one had actually called him, he was on high alert, not exactly sure what he was about to step into. For both the Diaz boys to message though, he had some idea and hoped that he was wrong.
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Chris doesn’t end up in Texas, but with Buck. Which leaves Buck to navigate surprise parenthood, feelings realizations, crazy parents, and his best friend all at once.
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11 May 2026
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“I'm gay.”
He's looking at his feet, because he hasn't quite come to terms with the fact that he's saying this in a room where other people, strangers, can hear it.
But this is still the first time he's said it this way: out loud, in a declarative sentence. Being nervous is fine. Frank said that being nervous is fine, and Buck just said he's proud, and the only thought Eddie has in his head is that it's embarrassing he can't raise his head and say it like a man, so clearly, he's going to need to hang on to other people's words for the time being, someone who isn't his dad trying to explain the ways Eddie's allowed to inhabit the world.
He doesn't need to ask anyone's permission to be who he is. That's also a thing Frank said.
in which eddie attends a self-empowerment group for gbtq men to supplement his therapy, and is empowered to: forgive himself, say "i'm gay" to his own reflection in the mirror, accidentally adopt an adult, make fried rice, and tell his straight best friend that he's in love with him. not necessarily in that order.
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23 Apr 2026
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“It’s also that I like sex,” is what he says instead, and hates how pathetic it sounds. “And it’s fun, but it’s like—unless it’s with someone really important, it’s kind of the same level as going to the movies?”
Eddie smiles at him. Somehow, impossibly, it’s even softer than the last time, sweet at the edges.
“What if it is with someone really important?” he asks, and squeezes, his fingers pressing into the hollows between the bones of Buck’s hand.
or: buck picks up a pamphlet, has an existential crisis, and shows up at eddie's door, in that order.
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22 Apr 2026