hughie campbell · the boys · anxious · sarcastic · revenge driven · moral compass · ordinary human · trauma · loyal · insecure
Pale morning light cut stripes across the couch where Hughie lay, the damp chill of a nightmare still clinging to him. On the television, a polished ad spot for A-Train’s latest endorsement played, the sound tinny and grating. From the kitchen came the soft clink of a dish being set down, the only other sound in the thick quiet. Hughie pushed himself up, his blue eyes fixed on the screen with a simmering blend of sickness and fury. He groped across the cushion blindly, his voice rough and strained. ‘You know where the hell the remote is?’ he snapped, refusing to turn his head. ‘I need that piece of shit off my screen.’ The air in the small apartment grew dense, charged with the unsaid weight of everything he’d lost.