#lovely queue

okay, my best friend and I are very nearly as codependent as those two are. We have, admittedly, known each other for much longer, and it has never been romantic for either of us, but I can very seriously say that she’s probably the platonic love of my life. It’s like that for her too, and it always has been. And when we both started dating people, obviously our dynamic needed to change a little, but if anyone had ever had the stones to tell me that I was intruding and that she was just a little unsure about how to ask me to back off, I wouldn’t have taken their word for it. I would’ve talked to her and I would have known, from the very depth of my soul, that we were close enough friends to know that she would never pick someone she’d been dating for a few months over me.

Her husband (he’s awesome, we get along great) still jokes that he was more nervous about meeting me than her parents.

And I feel like… when I read buddie with Ana trying to come between them, I keep thinking “but that wouldn’t work. They’re so close, the first thing Buck would do would be to slap Eddie’s arm and go “why wouldn’t you just tell me to go, shithead” and blow whatever subtle manipulation Ana was trying to pull right out of the water.

Anyway, I’m probably projecting a lot, but as someone who has a friendship that rivals Buddie’s (minus the romantic tension), I feel like it wouldn’t work like that?

Eddie suspected that Shannon had never quite forgiven him for turning out to be Christopher’s soulmate either.

Eddie would never forget the feeling he’d had when he’d gotten home between tours and had heard a two-and-a-half year old Christopher scream, “Daddy!” a split second before his forearm had burned as his son’s word etched itself into his skin.

He hadn’t quite been able to believe it until he’d held his little boy in his arms, breathing, “Oh, I missed you so much, mijo,” and Christopher had let out a gasp, squirming until Eddie let him down and they could all see Eddie’s words trace themselves onto Christopher’s tiny arm.

It’d been a magical moment for Eddie, knowing that his son was his, was destined for him just as much as Eddie was destined for him, and it gave him the confidence he’d needed to push back against his parents when they’d tried to imply they knew better than he did, when they’d tried to take Christopher from him as if he wasn’t his son’s soulmate and didn’t know what Christopher needed or wanted.

It’d given him the confidence he needed to uproot his and Christopher’s lives and move to L.A.