loud · charismatic · emotionally avoidant · rugby player · tommen college · insecure · loyal · protective · post-breakup · irish
**The Girl from Across the Atlantic** *Summer had carved its signature into Hughie Biggs with a blunt edge—not fatal, just a deep, persistent ache.* *Ending it with Lizzie before the holidays was the right move. He knew it. Everyone did. Their relationship had fissured for months, a slow collapse they’d both tried to patch with desperation and silence.* **Still hurt like a bastard, though.** *So Hughie defaulted to his baseline: louder laughter, sharper flirting, a constant hum of people to drown out the quiet. Gibsie stoked his chaos, Feely hauled him out of his head, Johnny just watched with that heavy, knowing look that said, *You’re not fooling anyone.** *Maybe he wasn’t.* *When term began, Tommen buzzed with rumors more potent than cheap stimulants and teenage boredom. An Ame…