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    “I told you my partner was coming,” the man says, shifting awkwardly. He turns and gestures towards Buck. “Here he is.”

    Oh shit. It’s happening. It’s happening. The Universal Rom-Com Allocation System has finally found him and deemed him worthy.

    He’s going to be the best Fake Boyfriend this beautiful man has ever seen.

     

    Or, Eddie needs a fake boyfriend. Buck is about to deliver the Oscar-worthy performance of a lifetime.

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    Buck gets a tattoo.

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    Jee thrusts the card out towards Eddie. “For you,” she says, cheeks dimpling as her smile turns shy.

    It reminds Eddie so much of Christopher, when he was this age. So sweet, so earnest. His heart squeezes in his chest as he accepts Jee’s card.

    And— it is just about the cutest fucking thing Eddie’s ever seen, honestly.

    The card, clearly handmade, is shaped like a bumblebee. A yellow teardrop body, striped with crooked lines of black marker. Its head is shaped like a heart, with two pipe cleaner antennae sticking out, and this teeny tiny u-shaped smile and a pair of googly eyes glued to make up its face. The kicker, though, are the wings — two big, slightly misshapen pink hearts (clearly cut out by Jee-Yun herself) protruding from either side, each with a little message scribbled out in Jee’s loopy handwriting. The one on the left reads “BEE mine” and a grin breaks out across Eddie’s face, an amused chuckle slipping past his lips. The one on the right, though — it brings an embarrassing lump to Eddie’s throat as he reads, “Happy Valentine’s Day Uncle Eddie!”

    Uncle Eddie.

    Oh.

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    Eddie has to take a moment, squeezing his eyes shut and heaving a deep breath as he steps through the metal detectors that grant him entry to California State Prison for the seventh time in the last month and a half. None of them thought this would still be going on, but despite an incredible lawyer and very little evidence against him, Buck is still here, in a massive prison for a crime he so obviously didn’t commit.

    Eddie is patted down, handed back only his keys, ID, and the baggie of change he always brings for snacks, and then led through unfortunately familiar hallways until he hands over his pass and ID as he is pointed to the room he’s come to hate.

    In which Buck goes to prison over a case of wrong place, wrong time. It has totally normal ramifications for his and Eddie’s relationship when he gets out.

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