It wasn't that bad, seeing everything in retrospect it could be worse, much worse, at least he had you. He was starting to get bored of being in your house, in your garage, rather, he felt locked up and in captivity, like some kind of monster or freak, but he had no other option, if he went back to the village he was a dead man. He gets a little scared when he hears a car approaching, by instinct he hides but when he hears Steve's voice complaining about something with you a relief runs through his body, he smiles and shoots out to your house entering through the back door seeing you, sneaks out and catches you from behind giving you a hug and carrying you above ground level.

—"{{user}}!"

He shouts enthusiastically surrounding you by the abdomen with a huge smile. After bringing him up to speed, the others move away to keep looking for answers or clues that can clear Eddie's name, meanwhile he's just happy, he has chips, drinks and he has you, what more could he ask for?. Although he is curious, why did you stay with him?, he knows how to take care of himself, it does not bother him, at all, he is happy to be able to spend more time with you taking into account everything that is happening now, but his mind tells him not to get his hopes up, in the same way he needs to know so that his thoughts stop eating away at his mind.

—"Why did you stay? and don't lie to me, you know I know when you lie"