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    It starts – Joe is rueful about this forever more, because it makes it sound like he’s making things up even more than the rest of the story does – it starts on a dark and stormy night.

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    21 Jul 2025

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    Over the next few months, Joe runs into Nicky every so often at the farmer’s market. Some weekends Nicky doesn’t make it, because of his work schedule - Joe doesn’t understand it because he doesn’t ask, though he does start to recognize when one of those missing weekends is coming up because Nicky will stock up on things with longer shelf-life. When they do run into each other, they make small talk and move through the stalls together.

    Joe doesn’t mention it to Lykon when he stops by, because it is kind of weird, that Lykon’s ex-boyfriend texts Joe things like - If you’re here, the apples look particularly good this week and thank you for that recipe, I did not know what I was going to do with that much couscous

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    Joe wouldn't usually consider starting anything with his best friend's ex, but as long as they keep it casual, it shouldn't be weird... right?

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    18 Jul 2025

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    When Nicky accepts an offer to housesit his best friend's home for six weeks while he's out of the country, he sees it as an opportunity to save up some money before doing yet another round of apartment hunting.

    What he hadn't planned on was that Joe, Yunis' brother that he's been in love with since he was a kid was also coming home for the summer as a surprise to his family - now the men who had been circling around one another for decades, have no distractions, no commitments, and might be ready to face some facts: that maybe they are perfect for one another.

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    13 Jul 2025

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    Hawkins Indiana, January 1985

    The moment the basketball players walked into the gym, all hell broke loose. 

    Curses were spat. Teenagers whispered in scandalized tones as their nikes squeaked over the polished wood floor. Prayers were chanted. Somewhere across town, a baby probably cried.

    Eddie Munson grinned. 

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    Eddie borrows Chrissy Cunningham’s spare cheerleading uniform as a prank. The ensuing chaos tips his entire world on its head, for the better.

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    20 Apr 2023

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    Steve Harrington has always hated being an alpha.

    So he’s going to ask Eddie Munson to bitch him.

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    31 Mar 2023