"Why didn't you sleep in a bed?" Eddie blurted, knowing it was kind of rude to just ask questions like that, but the situation was too weird and he was too curious to keep himself quiet.

Climbing across the top of his covers, Eddie knelt on the end of the bed closest to the boy, wearing a rumpled T-Rex t-shirt and a pair of purple and blue striped boxers. He tugged at the hem of his shirt, full of his usual self-conscious energy.

The boy looked older than him, maybe by a few years, but as his face came into sharper focus, Eddie eyes widened. "Wait a minute, you're not--" He squinted, taking in the boy crouched there in the corner. It wasn't like Eddie knew Elio that well, but there was something off. Plus, Eddie knew that Elio was eighteen and lived with some tall, blonde guy, who looked like a Ken doll.

"Who are you? I mean, what's your name?"