Eddie and Richie move away from Derry and forget all about their childhood. They come together and fall in love anyway.
“Okay, okay!” Eddie cried. “I give in, I’ll introduce you. We always go to the same bar: are you free Saturday nights?”
“Is that a joke?” Richie asked, and Eddie snorted.
“Maybe leave the jokes to me, hot shot,” Richie said. “And here I thought you watched my show on Saturday nights.”
“The whole country watches your show on Saturday nights, is that not enough for you?” Eddie asked, poking Richie in the middle of his bare chest. “Needy.”
“I need my boyfriend to be watching, to validate me every week,” Richie said. “Watch my show and then take me out to meet your friends and then home to meet your mother!”
“You’re impossible,” Eddie told him. “What are you doing Sunday?”
“Meeting my boyfriend’s friends,” Richie said, still beaming.