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For the Make Me Write game Darlings @nottimminear & @sunflowerbuckleys requested 30 sentences of "Desert Places" - Where Buck succeeds in keeping himself kidnapped and Maddie and Eddie grow (too) close while searching for him. ...Also Buddie.
“I dropped Chris once,” Eddie admits.
He doesn’t think Maddie means to laugh. She quickly covers her mouth with her palm, but her eyes sparkle in the dim light. “How old was he?” “Three. I was on furlough. He was already small for his age because of the CP but…”
“They’re octopuses at that age. Octopi? Evan would know.”
Eddie smiles ruefully at that and takes another swig of tequila. “He sure would. But yeah, I was prepared for the weight but not all the squirming. God, I felt like the worst parent in the world.” “But you’re so good with him now! Listen, I thought I let Jee drink floor cleaner once. I was crying on the phone to poison control and everything before I thought to smell it. Apple juice.” It’s Eddie’s turn to not-laugh. He can picture that scene all too well, is all. Maddie is an exceedingly tearful person. That’s something he’s learned that well over these past three months.
“I made Buck give Chris the birds and the bees talk,” he confesses.
Now Maddie doesn’t even try to hide her cackle. It’s nice, talking about him without also gaming out a new search plan or cursing the Yeso County Sheriff’s Department’s 2-person detective squad.
“Tell me you listened in,” she says after she catches her breath.
“I was too embarrassed after I realized he’d asked to borrow my tablet because he was pulling up a Powerpoint.”
“Did you at least vet it first?” Eddie laughs now, too. “Nah, I trusted him.” He catches himself. “Trust him.”
