( The fact that Steve is offering Eddie the money his parents had saved so that Steve can go off to college stuns Eddie. It's one thing to help him physically get to San Francisco, but that? If it were anyone else, Eddie would have scoffed and insisted he's not a charity case and would make his own way somehow. But now that Eddie is close to Steve, he knows the deeper meaning there, the strings that had been attached to that money, and how this would be a fuck you to them just as much as it would be helping Eddie out. )

Shit, Stevie. I know you're not going to let me repay you, but if you do this...you know I'm gonna find a way. Even if it's just free weed for life. ( He smiles wryly as he hesitates for a moment before launching himself at Steve, throwing his arms around the other man and squeezing him tightly. ) Thank you. Just...I don't know what I'd have done without you.