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Did you know that the very first assembly of photographs in sequential order to create a motion picture was a two-second clip of a Black man on a horse? Yes, it was. Yes, it was. Look it up.

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A light in the hallway flickers. Eddie turns towards it. There’s another door, just on the other side of the hallway, with a metal sign in the middle that reads: Vending and Ice Machine. And Eddie is sure that wasn’t there either. Except, maybe he’s not so sure. He hadn’t really looked down this way when he’d first gotten to the second floor. Cold sweat gathers along his hairline, his lower back, behind his knees. His breath comes too fast, too shallow. His heart pulses heavily in his throat, too close to the surface. A hollow, ringing noise fills his head. It’s been years, but Eddie hasn’t forgotten what panic feels like. How looking at it head on doesn’t make it go away. Eddie closes his eyes, takes a slow, deep breath in through his nose and out through his mouth. The sound of the air leaving his lungs gusts down the hallway. He counts to four. Does it again. When he opens his eyes the door is still there.

Can you imagine? She’d be so passive aggressive about it, insisting that he doesn’t need to LIE to his PARENTS, and what does he think they’re going to do? Does he think they’re homophobic?? That’s so HURTFUL! They LOVE him, they just want him to be HONEST! And won’t someone think of poor CHRIS? What does HE think is going on? He must be so CONFUSED!

And Ramon would be there trying to peacekeep, but at the same time being profoundly uncomfortable with the entire business, and just absolutely wishing it’d stayed as something they all low-key knew and just didn’t talk about, actually.

And maybe Pepa is there too, and she’s defending Eddie (because he’s not gonna defend himself) and saying it’s his choice who he tells what when, and it’s his life, he’s allowed to be happy, and we love Evancito, he’s good for Eddie, mama thought so too (god rest her soul).

And Eddie’s just standing there in the middle of it all having an absolute fucking breakdown, because he did NOT know any of this stuff that’s being thrown around about him, and he denies it but no one believes him, because they all think he’s lying to Helena, and Helena’s there setting out her casebook of evidence (“you’re raising a child with him, for god’s sake.” Etc), and that’s his MOM saying all this stuff, so he can’t just ignore it or dismiss it, because it’s his MOM and she Knows him, really knows him, so… what’s he supposed to do??

It would just be the most delicious drama, and I would be absolutely seated.