Steve who fled to Eddie’s room shouting apologies over his shoulder to a tired old man. A tired old man who giggles to himself when he hears his nephew’s donkey bray of a laugh come from down the hall

Steve who fled to Eddie’s room shouting apologies over his shoulder to a tired old man. A tired old man who giggles to himself when he hears his nephew’s donkey bray of a laugh come from down the hall
and now has someone to care for him in the light.
He has no doubts that a shift has started in his nephew, a new sheepie for his flock, and what he hopes becomes something more.
And he couldn’t be more proud.
Wayne finally chimed in again, to remind them they had an audience. “Gonna show him one’a ya books Ed?”
“Shut UP Wayne”
That boy deserves ROMANCE and swoon level charms of epic proportions with how hard he yearns for his Stevie boy (which is, of course, heavily reciprocated)