Find a chaperone that doesn't care. There's a lot of people here on both sides that don't like the politics.

[Richie sounds pretty tired as he regales it but only because it's the truth. He's said it a handful of times to a handful of people.

The quiet on Eddie's end of the line is haunting. He almost hangs up as a fear response but then he's talking and Richie- feels worse. Like an idiot. Maybe it was just that alternate timeline where Eddie felt the same way, and maybe he was every bit as stupid for falling for Eddie now as he had been when he was a kid.

Richie forces a sigh of relief. They could be friends here. He could be the friend he wasn't to Eddie beneath Neibolt.]

Thanks, I'm not really- I mean it's not a big deal. I'm kind of doing the hokey pokey in my closet right now so don't worry about it.