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-Vance POV-

I'd been driving with Brady for hours when we finally got to Los Angeles.

"What if I get high off the air?" Brady gasped.

"Brady...You can handle being high. You, of all people."

"Wowww...Didn't have to bring that one up." He frowned.

"Sorry." I frowned back.

"Kidding- I'm okay with talking about it. Just not the old friend group."

"Alright."

"Bucky?"

"Hmmm?" I came out of the car.

"I'm graduating soon."

"Aren't you twenty-eight?"

"Graduate school. To be an astronomer?"

"Right. I'll be there."

"Of course you will. Just promise me you won't cry."

"I'm not gonna cry. When have I ever cried?" I chuckled. I don't think I've ever cried at any-

"Kindergarten graduation, Buck. Kindergarten."

"I-...shut up idiot."

"I missed that version of you."

"What version of me?"

"Being mean."

"You miss that?" We walked into a diner. It was seventies themed, so it kind of brought us back to when I took him to Denny's when he was six.

"Hell yeah. It's funny as hell too."

"Eh, I became a dad, so..."

"Nah...you became a dad long before you even met Ellie." He smiled. I smiled back, knowing what he meant. "Now you get to redeem that moment you missed in high school."

"Don't remind me..." We ordered, then talked for a bit while we waited.

He smirked, right when the waiter gave us our food.

I shook my head, smiling. Then I gave him a sad look.

"What?" His smirk faded.

"Nothin'..."

"Nah it's definitely something. What?"

I sighed, frowning. "I miss when you sat in the backseat in the baby car seat."

"So when I was five?"

"Yes."

"Awwww...We can still do all that stuff, except maybe for the carseat thing....But we can play spaceship like old times."

"You're twenty-eight..."

"Hm...I was eight two decades ago..."

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