cannot stop thinking about chris’s shy hopeful “you’ll be my dad again?” like goddddd
so okay. he went with his grandparents to get some space after a trauma. that’s probably actually helpful at first. but then.. weeks start to go by and his dad hasn’t come to get him or told chris he needs to come home. and then he starts to get inundated with snide little comments from his grandparents (who he also loves!!) insinuating eddie wasn’t/couldn’t be a good dad to him, which chris then interprets as them saying eddie doesn’t want to be his dad anymore. which, in chris’s mind is definitely a thing that happens sometimes right? like sometimes your mom decides she doesn’t wanna be your mom anymore and just leaves in the middle of the fucking night. so here’s this fourteen year-old thinking he literally drove yet another parent away and his grandparents aren’t doing a fucking thing to dissuade him from that notion, in fact they’re actively encouraging it!!!! like just when i thought i couldn’t hate them any more than i already did..
something something about the difference between helena saying “you loved ballroom dancing. i know you did. you took home every trophy,” to which eddie responds “i did love it. until you and dad sucked out all the fun and made it all about trophies”
versus how buck is all proud and loving and gushing when he talks about eddie and the tire and “eddie wouldn’t do anything illegal. eddie has a silver star”
i cant quite explain it but the way buck is proud of eddie is just different.
okay but eddie coming back to LA and then him and buck talking about how now that he and chris are back maybe it’s time for eddie to start focusing on what brings him joy and then eddie asks if buck would want to go to a ballroom dance class with him and buck says sure and they end up dancing as a pair and eddie just lets himself have fun with dancing again and he always has fun with buck and eddie is trying to help buck and they’re both smiley and giggly and everyone probably assumes they’re a couple and eddie just being so happy and then boom eddie feelings realization
Feeling the need to gently remind everyone that ballroom dancing isn’t considered emasculating in Latin culture. My older brother was the first person to teach me salsa dancing and take me to a salsa club. He also played fútbol and waterpolo.