Knowing Me Knowing You

Steve and Eddie were sitting back-to-back on the rug, their faces set into grim lines of displeasure, glaring at the opposing walls as though the choice of wallpaper was complicit in the global discontinuation of Farah Fawcett spray and eradication of the heavy metal genre.Dustin said, "They had a fight," without looking up from his comic.Max flit her eyes down, from their faces to their hands. Their fingers were interlocked, Steve tracing the patterns in silver rings, and Eddie rubbing circles into the back of Steve's hand."They're holding hands.""They get sad when they fight," was his nonplussed response, as if that were a complete and perfectly acceptable explanation for the scene, which—Yeah. It kind of is.—Or, Steve & Eddie have a bad habit of breaking up at the slightest misdemeanour.