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He starts googling immediately.
He’s not freaking out. He thinks he’s surprised by how much he’s not freaking out but there’s not much time between Tommy closing the door and Buck pulling up the internet to really think about it.
He’s not sure what to type, though. Enters what does kissing a guy mean then deletes. He rolls his eyes, shaking his head. He knows what it means, obviously. He just doesn’t know what it means.
Enters can you kiss a guy even if youve dated women. God, of course you can. He’s seen Brooklyn 99. He deletes again.
He paces. It takes only a few trips back-and-forth across his kitchen when he remembers: Right, the acronym.
He types lgbt and clicks search.
Scrolls until he finds wikipedia. And like, he knows wikipedia only scratches the surface, but also, this revelation calls for quick reading. No time for his usual deep dives; his mind is moving fast, too fast to get lost in random facts and trivia.
The first paragraph reads: “LGBT is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender". It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic, or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.”
Okay … a lot of words he recognizes but nothing that explains his … situation. Is it a situation? Calling it a situation sounds like he’s undermining the experiences of LGBTQ people, and as an ally, he’s not about that.
Still feels like he’s in a situation though.
There’s another knock at the door.
Buck’s heart rate picks up even more. What if it’s Tommy again, come back to say he regrets the kiss and that he’s actually busy on Saturday. Oh, god. What if it’s Tommy and he wants to kiss him again?
Buck thinks he’s okay with that, actually.
He gulps. Sets his phone down on the counter, and heads to the door, and pulls it open.
It’s the pizza guy.
Buck’s caught off guard, having expected Tommy again, and the pizza guy seems frozen, too.
“Do I have the wrong address?” The pizza guy asks.
No, he doesn’t. Buck had ordered pizza before his whole life flipped upside down. But, again, and Buck can’t stress this enough, he’s in A Situation. He’s now forever going to think of this pizza as the pizza he ate after. After the kiss that changed his whole life and made Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy run on a loop inside his head.
He’s about to respond but then he notices the guy wearing a rainbow pin on his jacket. Just his luck.
“I’m having a situation,” he tells the pizza guy, who definitely doesn’t get paid enough for this shit.