❝ you're stuck in my head and i can't get you out of it, if i could do it all again, i know i'd go back to you ❞ where a sixteen year old boy realises he has feelings for his best friend. [basically the goldfinch but gayer]

Eddie Diaz is straight; he's always been straight. One kiss with his best friend doesn't change that. Okay so maybe more than one kiss, maybe more than kissing. But it still doesn't mean anything. Eddie explains away their newfound sexual relationship as just that, sexual. It's purely physical, and if there aren't any feelings, then Eddie can still be straight. That is what he keeps telling himself. If they keep it casual, there isn't a problem. Buck has thought about kissing Eddie a million times over the past few years. He really wanted to be with him. Is he capable of being just casual? -or- Eddie Diaz grapples with internalized homophobia.

With a heavy past, a university student, Matthew Casey, meets a firefighter, Kelly Severide, with a lot of baggage. An arson made the two people cross paths, but what makes them stay in each other's lives?