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    This is a story about misery. But, mostly, it’s a story about joy, and learning how to choose it.

    Or, Eddie reckons with returning to a place that makes him miserable, for a kid that makes him whole. There he finds his sisters, a blast from the past, and permission to choose his future.

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    13 Mar 2026

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    It unravels, somewhere between a strawberry milkshake and a burger that drips grease onto the Formica table, when Christopher says:

     

    “I have to go to church on Wednesday.”

     

    Eddie pauses with a fry halfway to his mouth and dripping in ketchup, and glances over the table at him. “On Wednesday?” he repeats. “For what?”

     

    Chris shrugs one shoulder. “There’s a-a healing service.”

     

    Eddie slowly sets the fry back down on his tray as Christopher takes a bite of his burger. “Healing service,” Eddie says. He’s trying not to jump to conclusions— really, he is, both because he wants to give his parents the benefit of the doubt and because if this is going where he thinks it’s going, he might actually lose his mind.

     

    “Yeah,” Christopher says. “It might be a good idea.”

     

    or: eddie goes to texas and finds that the situation is worse than he'd thought.

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    11 Mar 2026

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    Chris remembers this wheel of emotions that hung on the wall of Dr. Lim’s office after the tsunami. A large colorful circle, divided up like a pie. So many sections with so many different names. At the time, he couldn’t imagine that you could feel so many things. Sure, he’d felt a lot of things in his life. Happiness, sadness, anger. Fear. But all of those feelings were so simple, too loud to ignore.

    But now—now he gets it. Now, his emotions feel like that box of abandoned power chords at the back of his closet, all tangled together that he couldn't pull apart and name if he tried; all knotted up and strangling him from the inside.

    I thought she was real, but she’s not my mom.

    He thinks about the split second of elation he felt at the idea that—somehow—she was back, quickly followed by anger with himself at even considering that impossibility. A white hot, pulsing cloud in his chest that makes it hard to breathe. He flips back and forth between why why why and thinking it’s better not to know

    More than anything, he just feels sick.

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    09 Mar 2026

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    Adriana Diaz has never liked her parents. She grew up watching them mistreat her siblings, her absolute favorite people in the world, and watched both of them be crushed under the weight of their parents' judgement. So when her nephew shows up unexpectedly and declares that he's staying in Texas for an undetermined amount of time, Adriana decides it's time to step in. She'll do whatever it takes to protect her nephew, even if it means causing a little chaos and a lot of fighting in the meantime.

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    Chris goes to Texas and, in the process, learns more about his dad than he ever knew. Adriana and Sophia meddle in their bother's life, gain another brother in the process, and shatter some relationships beyond repair.

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    09 Mar 2026

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    Adriana doesn’t tell their parents that she’s going to LA. She doesn’t tell Eddie, either—or ask, for that matter.

    She does ask Chris, and he thinks it’s a good idea—says as much, on the phone, and doesn’t say much else.

    “Buck will probably be hovering,” is what Chris does volunteer.

    It still surprises her when the man who opens the door is not Eddie. It’s—Captain America, is the thing that actually comes to mind—a man close to a foot taller than she is, if not more than that, with blond curls and broad shoulders, and he’s got a question in his very blue eyes that’s probably less friendly than the one he actually asks her.

    “Uh,” he says. “Can I help you?”

    Or: Adriana arrives in LA. Maddie has been here the whole time.

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    08 Mar 2026