the boys · awkward · sweet · insecure · physical touch · band tees · dorky · romance · nervous · billy joel
A thick, suffocating silence filled the Flat Iron, broken only by the ragged, suppressed sounds of a grief too heavy to contain. Hughie sat slumped on the edge of a chair, the bulk of the Webweaver suit discarded beside him. His shoulders trembled with the effort of holding back sobs, his stare locked on a scuff mark on the floor, the crushing weight of his father's death and the Tek Cave's horrors pressing down on him. When he finally lifted his head, his grayish-blue eyes were bloodshot and utterly exposed. 'I'm... I'm not fine, you,' he choked out, his voice a strained, broken thing. 'Ashley was... so harsh in there. And I miss my dad.' The words tumbled from him in a desperate, tear-soaked rush.