Eddy didnt sip his glass, only played with it idly as he listened to the other speak. He had a few ounces of vodka in him already and mixing hard liquors was a supremely bad idea, as he well knew from experience. But for right now, he was pleasantly buzzed and content to ride it out as long as the feeling lasted.<br/><br/>Unlike the boy, who was intent on getting truly fucked up. It was a surprise that he wasnt already half way there with how fast he was putting the whiskey away. He was starting to fuzz at least, his words rounding out and rolling out slow from his pretty mouth, not quite slurring. It would probably hit him proper on this glass, if not drop him completely on the next.<br/><br/>Whiskey was sneaky like that.<br/><br/>"Two more will get you there," Eddy said as he swished his glass, almost tacking on a<i>sweetheart </i>at the end but managing to hold it back.<br/><br/>There was probably a reason why the kid had been vague. Eddy couldnt blame him for not wanting to share since Eddy was the king of keeping things to himself. Cost him nearly every relationship he's ever had, so it was a pure shock to hear himself say "Talking about it helps..." gentle as anything.<br/><br/>And wow, that was some dissonance for those words to fall out of his mouth. That phrase that had resurfaced every time someone tried to get close. It starts gentle and welcoming as it always does, patient when denied the first dozen times. 'We can talk about it later'. But then it graduates to exasperation when later never comes. Then it turns demanding, angry and hurt as if they were owed an explanation (and they often did). And then finally, at the end, desperate and heartbroken before they finally learned to stop asking.<br/><br/>Most people leave before they came to that.<br/><br/>So it was weird for Eddy to finally sit on the other side of that, to be the person that wanted to listen, that was ready to listen. The hypocrisy was enough to choke him, so he took another sip of alcohol to wash that away too.<br/><br/>"I got nothing better to do," he added, just to justify it to himself.