The couch issue.
When Christopher mentions the missing couch Buck goes on a small self discovery spiral and learns that maybe, a leap of faith is the best next step.
Buck hadn't even realized that it was weird not to have a couch until Christopher told him and let's be honest it is weird. What kind of person doesn't have a couch? Someone who just got out of their parents house, Buck 1.0 didn't have a couch- sure the house he lived in with seven others had a couch. And after his roomate era, there was Abbys couch that first he and then Maddie crashed on but it was never his own couch. And after Abby there was Ali and her couch and then Taylor with her own couch, the only one who took it with her when she left.
So Chris pointing out he had no couch did sting, not because it meant he was failing as an adult but maybe because his couch was always attached to someone, people who left. When he told Maddie she called him delusional. Either way Buck really needed to get his shit together.
"Hen."
"Buck."
Buck walked inside sitting down on Hen's brown couch.
"What's going on Buck?"
"I need to get a new couch." He tried to sound serious not desperate, which he isn't.
"Okay and you need me because?"
"Because I don't know where to find one."
Hen looked at him, just looked and Buck felt like he was Butt naked on Hen's couch.
"Buck, obviously there is more to the couch issue, unless you want to open up to me, I will give you the address to the nearest IKEA."
Buck can't help the laugh that escapes him. Hen might be right, it's not about couches, and choosing the right one. Maybe it's about girlfriends who all came with couches and took up so much space in his life or left him behind haunting their relationship. So yeah maybe this was about his next girlfriend and not a couch.
"So?"
"I don't want to screw up my next relationship like I did with Taylor and Ali and Abby."
Hen sighs getting out if the arm chair and grabbing getting them so tea.
"So you don't. Trying to force another relationship doesn't work. Like Eddie and Ana."
"I guess but I don't want to be alone anymore."
"Well maybe thats what you need right now, to be alone. I was alone a long time before I met Eva and then Karen. It took a few tries to get where I am, you will get there too."
Buck hummed taking another sip of his green tea -which was supposed to be relaxing- sibking furher into Hens couch.
"Buck for the love of god, stop thinking So loudly." Chim tapping his shoulder, "What is on your mind."
"I am tired of being single," Buck whined, drawing out the I, "It's like the universe just stopped working. Like it's neither shouting nor whispering just quiet." He sighed against the beige colored pillow.
"There are only couples around me. And also I need a new couch."
Chim sat down next to him pushing Bucks legs from the couch.
"You still don't have a couch? It's been 4 months."
"Hen said the couch is a metaphor for a new partner."
"Yeah right and karaoke is a metaphor for love."
"For you and Maddie it is."
"Shut up."
Athena looked at him with a certain glow in her eyes, Buck didn't want to be dramatic, but this was a crucial meet up.
"Buckaroo, I'm happy to see you, how have you been? Heard that you don't have couch." She put down their coffee mugs, Buck sinking further into the armchair. "I am really at a loss here 'Thena."
Buck sighed, "I want to start a new relationship but I'm not sure if it's, the right time and worth the risk."
"Well, if you are sure, about the person than whats stopping you. I wasn't sure with Bobby and look at us now. We're happy and going strong. Sure it was work and some days it still is but the good outweighs the bad. And a leap of faith is often what we need."
Buck looked at her, and after her words he was really going to take the leap.
"Thanks Athena. Enough about me hows May?"
Buck smiled, his new couch just arrived and Eddie was on his way with Chris, dinner then movies and a few rounds of Mario Kart. Just the weekend he needs. The door opened and the familiar click of crutches echoed through his loft.
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You have 90 minutes to complete. (original poem: r.a.)
In participation of the MCYT Recursive Exchange 2024 hosted by @mcytrecursive!
Inspired by know that all my love will be your breath (i will save you when your lights go out)
[text under cut]
1. Have you ever been in love?
(Please circle your answer.)
a. It's me and him
b. Our hearts beat in sync
c. Our lives intertwined
2. Do you understand what you’ve done?
(Please circle your answer.)
a. I couldn't do anything
b. I lost my balance
c. I doomed us both
3. It's been god knows how long since you felt phantom hands on your neck and there is no one in sight. If you were soul-bound to him and both of you died at the same time then why are you still waiting in the void?
Please answer clearly, in full sentences.
(Not a correct answer:I just wanted to see him one more time).
4. Define two (2):
Fate | The feeling of his forehead against yours
Curse | The moment you realise he isn't linked to you anymore
5. True or False:
i. It was your fault.
ii. You wish you had met him under different circumstances.
iii. You can’t regret a single moment that you had him.
iv. You would do it all over again if you could.
v. It ended long before either of you said anything.
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