As soon as Chrissy's hand touches his cheek, Eddie feels himself crumble. He can't hold it back anymore, everything that he's been feeling. It's almost as if Chrissy was a storm that broke through the dam keeping his feelings at bay. His eyes start to sting with tears and he can feel an intense mixture of emotions swell up from his chest until it burst out.

His legs give out, causing him collapse in a heap on the ground of the Spirit Halloween and he just cries. He cries for Chrissy, for Patrick, for Fred, for Max. For Dustin, and for Wayne. For everyone he left behind, everyone he may very well never see again.

And sure, the rest of the Party could have insisted that it wasn't his fault all this time, but there's something about hearing it from Chrissy that makes it land this time, that makes it stick.

"I'm sorry, I'm not usually --" he doesn't even know why he's apologizing, laughing at himself and trying to wipe the tears away. "Shit."