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  1. Public Bookmark 71

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    That would be the pattern. That would be the smart choice, statistically, intuitively. It was his pattern, after all. But once again, he just couldn’t call a spade a spade, not when his heart was saying, well, “Hearts.”

    Eddie leaned back a bit, a brief look of surprise in his eyes, before shaking it off entirely.

    “Switching it up, Buckley?” He chuckled, bending the card upward so only he could peak. A smile crept across his face, though it looked as if Eddie was biting it back. He held the card fully in his hand now, still shielded from Buck’s view, and stared at it with an unfamiliar emotion taking shape along the line of his jaw. Finally, rather than setting it on the table, he placed the card into Buck’s hand, Eddie’s fingers pressing gently against his palm.

    More weight. Buck sucked in a breath, pushing ever so slightly into Eddie’s touch. His thumb finally grabbed onto the card now in his hand, as he finally looked down.

    A king of hearts.

    OR-
    Buck follows the pattern. And despite months of Buck's distance and avoidance, he finds that it always leads back to Eddie.

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    25 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 73

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    Eddie frowns at her through the rearview mirror. “What do you need to be distracted from?” The traffic in front of them is inching forward and Eddie’s car rolls ahead slowly.

    Gwen lets out a long, slightly shaky breath. “The fact that I just spent a week with my homophobic family and now I’m going to go home and tell my best friend I’m in love with her.”

    Eddie stops a little too suddenly, enough that Gwen’s seatbelt tightens and stops her from flopping forward. “Ah.”

    (or, Gwen just needed a ride to the airport. She didn’t mean to trigger a sexuality crisis in her Uber driver. Oops. )

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    23 Jan 2026

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    For a moment, Eddie is quiet.

    He stares. Blinks. Stares some more, his mouth opening and closing around nothing.

    And then all at once, he zeroes in on the photo collage across the room, and his body goes completely still.

    They’re all couples. Happy, blissful, newly married couples, still in their suits and long white dresses, holding each other close beneath the familiar branches of a willow tree. The same branches billowing in the wind outside Eddie’s bedroom window.

    A wedding venue. He woke up in a wedding venue.

    His wedding venue.

    or: Eddie wakes up on the morning of his and Buck’s wedding. Except, Eddie is straight, and him and Buck aren’t together.

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    18 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 22

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    16 Jan 2026

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    “I'm not in love with you.” There’s a jolt in Eddie’s stomach at that. “I’m not secretly pining for you, or anything like that. I don’t even see you that way.”

    “Oh,” Eddie says, then forces out a laugh he hopes sounds casual. Buck’s eyes are wide, honest, like he’s desperate for Eddie to be reassured by this admission, to believe him. And how much clearer could he be? He’s not in love with Eddie. That’s fine. Eddie never expected him to be. His now empty beer bottle hits the counter too loudly, “No, of course not.”

    Or: Buck reassures Eddie that he's not in love with him. Eddie feels some type of way about that.

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    08 Jan 2026