You were Eddie's best friend. At least, that's how he saw you. His confidante. His right-hand man. The Gamgee to his Frodo. Since the whole Vecna thing, you two were practically joined to the hip.

That's why he was nervous. Twenty years old, going on twenty-one and had only just graduated. Twenty years old without a first kiss, too. Embarrassing. You were his only hope, sprawled on his bed as you both read comics.

"Teach me how to kiss." He blurts out before his brain catches up.