mack how do you think buddie's first date should go?? any hcs 💖?
ooooh yes!! well i absolutely love the whole buddie's first date is an absolute disaster until it's not hc. like, i just think they would both be putting a lot of pressure on themselves to make it not only a GOOD date in general, but also to make it feel like more than how one of their regular ol hangouts would feel. because like they've definitely gone out to get dinner just the two of them as friends before! but this ISN'T just the two of them going out as friends. this is a DATE, so its gotta feel like one!!
so whichever one of them is in charge of planning it — i'm thinking buck — would like try to go above and beyond. he'd make a reservation at a really trendy, fancy place, the kind with nice tablecloths and candles at the table and expensive wine lists and menus that don't include the prices in them. and they'd both show up — well, buck would pick eddie up from his house, like a gentleman of course (and the car ride might be a little awkward because this is so new for them) — but they'd show up in like nice but kind of stuffy button ups, maybe dinner jackets too, because it's one of those kinds of places. and it would just be a whole awkward affair, because they'd sit at this table and they wouldn't know what to talk about because they're both in the mindset of like this is a DATE except they're both well past first date conversation with each other!!! like they already know just about everything there is to know about each other! so they shouldn't even really be trying to do the whole first date conversation but they are and it's stilted and they keep accidentally talking over each other and there will be these pauses between topics while they both try to come up with something to ask.
and then their waitress comes by to take their orders and buck tries to ask for this one bottle of wine except it's wildly out of his price range, but he's trying to impress eddie!! so he just goes hah um yeah sounds great! even though he's mentally trying to count how many extra shifts he's gonna have to pull to afford it. and then when it comes to ordering their food the menu's probably in like french or something so eddie totally butchers the pronunciation and is totally embrassessed when the waitress has to have the meal he's trying to order pointed out to her on the menu because she couldn't understand. and then when the food does come out it's like really small proportions that are not filling at all. so when they finish they're still hungry.
oh and maybe at one point one of them knocks over their glass of wine, which makes a huge mess — maybe it's eddie that does that, and it ends up spilling all over buck's lap so he has to go to the bathroom to clean himself up and while he's there he calls maddie and he's like help!!! this is a disaster!!! was i wrong about me and eddie?? what if we're not compatible!! what if this is like an omen for the rest of the relationship!! and maddie talks him down and is like evan, no. you weren't wrong about him. this isn’t an omen. you're just overthinking things. this is eddie, remember? he already loves you. you don't need to act like somebody different or go to extreme lengths just to impress him. he's your best friend. don't forget that. and it like absolutely is the reset buck needed. because he leaves that bathroom going yeah, this is eddie, and i already know him. i know what he likes, and this isnt it. he likes street food and a good local brew and shooting the shit in front of the tv next to buck. he likes telenovelas and baseball and street performers and he likes listening to buck talk and eating sweet treats and dancing.
so when buck gets back to the table (where— by the way — eddie had been frantically texting hen in a very similar way to buck with maddie) buck sits down and goes we should leave. and eddies like oh uh yeah okay we probably should. and they do, and once theyre in the car eddie probably thinks bucks just going to take him home and theyre going to write this off as a total fail and like never talk about it again and they'll be over before they even started — which eddie hates. but he doesnt know how to come back from this. but then bucks driving the car in the opposite direction from eddie's house and then he's pulling into a spot on the street and shedding his jacket and rolling up his sleeves and popping a couple buttons and he's getting out of the car and coming around to eddie's side and holding his hand out for eddie, and eddie takes it and buck doesnt let go (he doesnt let go!!!!) and then buck's leading him down the street to— oh, to a food truck, eddie's favorite food truck, the one that sells the most authentic tacos he's tried and the really good horchata, and as they're standing in line buck's like. i want a redo. and eddie's like oh! and then okay and then he's smiling and for the first time all night relaxing. and they get their tacos and they end up walking along the street eating them and talking and shooting the shit — just like any other time they're together!! and they come across this bakery storefront as they finish and buck pulls eddie in and they get a thick slice of dulce de leche to split and it's— it's really good. it's so much better than that stuffy, fancy place, so much lighter so much easier.
and they both realize that they dont have to change anything about themselves, just because they're dating now. like their relationship can stay the exact same, only now they get to hold hands and tell each other i love you and kiss. and they end their night by going back to eddie's and cracking open two beers on the couch, just like they always do!!! with some movie playing in the background that they eventually end up forgetting all about because they're too busy making out like teenagers 🥺💕
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