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Billy and Stu have always been something more than friends.
When they were twelve or thirteen, they thought it was smart to practice kissing before dating girls. It started off as a game, a joke—but over time, it turned into a quiet ritual. Nothing romantic, just closeness. A way to feel safe. It made sense, in that way things only do when you're thirteen and half-feral with love you don't have a name for.
Then one day, Hank Loomis walked in. The kisses stopped. Mostly. They turned into last resorts, pulled out when silence hurt too much, when touch was the only language left.
So they found another way. They started swapping tapes -carefully curated soundtracks of feelings they couldn’t name, that could say what their mouths couldn’t.