it does not happen all at once. it accumulates. a slow and seismic convergence, the kind of inevitability that masquerades itself as hesitation, as eddie munson, patron saints of almosts and aborted landings, leans into the gravity she has already established and the van seems to tilt accordingly, a tired ark creaking under the weight of two people who have finally stopped pretending this is anything less than catastrophic.
there is a breath, misplaced and misfiled, that ghosts her mouth first, warm and unsteady and the air between them becomes crowded with everything he has never known how to say correctly. lips hover, stalled at the threshold. and then contact. so soft it hardly registers as impact and more like recognition and the kiss is conducted in lowercase. permission compounded, his hands are utterly useless, finding purchase on either side of him against the van as though fearing an overstep. when they part, gradually, eddie doesn't pull away so much as stall.
it ends not with the kind of cinematic detonation the movies sell you, no orchestral swell or neon certainty, just the soft calamitous misalignment of energy and a recalibration of them as beings. suddenly, the space between them becomes enormous.
he stays close, gnaws momentarily at his lower lip, and then speaks. “ .. hi. ” it's barely audible, a syllable still damp from the place it came from, a word so painfully insufficient it borders on devotional. it's the kind of greeting you give someone you've just met again, and perhaps that is fitting. eddie and chrissy have reintroduced themselves. eddie swallows, huffs a laugh much more adjacent to a nervous tick, and drops his head. “ sorry. ” and truthfully, he means it in every direction all at once. there is something so tragically childlike in him now, stripped of this theatrical armor of his and discarded it outside of the van. it's just eddie, a guy who kissed a girl and is now trying really hard not to apologize for doing so.
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