Hanging On By a Web

5

Gio stared blankly at the wall, looking at nothing in particular and thinking about all the specifics of the horrible information that had been thrown upon him. He considered running, which felt like an option, but knew that was the cowards way out. And the thought maybe he'd just be angry at the entire situation, but deciding it was pointless to be irate about the inevitable.

Hobie watched quietly and intently, Gio had been here for a full day and looked utterly exhausted, the bags under his eyes were thick and showed off about how much sleep he got since hearing the news yesterday. Miguel couldn't pinpoint a time on when the canon event was going to happen and all Hobie could think of was that he was going to watch compassionate, brave, darling Giovanni tear himself apart thinking about it. He gently tapped the back of Gio's hand which caused the younger boy to look up at him with a start.

"You should sleep, G, I'll keep watch for you if you'd like?" Hobie offered, his voice soft and soothing. Gio shook his head.

"I want to go to Miles, but I can't this would kill him. And I want to tell my parents, but I can't because they don't know I'm Spiderman. I want to punch Miguel in the face, but I can't because I respect him?" Gio spoke in a tone devoid of all emotion, and that was what scared Hobie the most. Gio was always so full of life and excitable and always willing to cause a commotion at the drop of a pin, but he hadn't slept and he looked like he might pass out at any given second. Hobie's hand moved up and rested underneath Gio's chin, lifting it up slightly so that Gio would meet his eyes. This gesture made Gio want to melt into his touch and he felt himself slightly do so, leaning his face against his hand and closing his eyes for a moment.

"Let's lay down. I can lay down right next to you, I can sit at the end of the bed and keep watch, whatever you wanna do love, I got chu." Hobie smiled and this thoroughly comforted Gio.

"You'll lay with me? What if someone catches us, yknow, in the same bed?" Gio was excited but apprehensive about sharing a bed with Hobie, on one hand he really, really wanted it, but on the other, if someone caught them, someone might assume that Hobie was like, into guys or something and he wouldn't want to ruin reputation. Hobie looked at him and shrugged.

"Who cares! You need to rest and I need someone to spoon." He said confidently, them blushing, "if that's okay?" Gio nodded, sitting down on the bed, Hobie following suit and leaned himself up against the corner of the wall and held out his arms, Gio crawled over to him and laid down in his lap, his stomach doing those silly butterflies that he got when Hobie barely grazed his hand except this time they were swarming. Gio leaned himself against Hobie's chest, listening to the rhythmic flow of his heartbeat, closing his eyes and relaxing against the warm and protective touch of Hobie's arms wrapped around Gio's body, rubbing circles with his fingers on Gio's back. Gio looked up at him, Hobie looked down and grinned at the smaller boy, hugging him tightly.

"You alright, love?" Hobie implored, his eyes filled with the most generosity and care that Giovanni had ever seen.

"Yeah, I think. Just scared. Thanks for letting me crash by the way, I'm just not ready to go home yet. Not to put you in a weird position but you're kind of like, my rock. And I don't know how I managed to get on for a month without you and your witty remarks and intriguing commentary. You really became my best friend and I don't know what I'd do without you. I-" Gio rambled and cut himself off at the last statement, biting his lip and holding himself back. Hobie's face became quizzical and he looked almost on edge. Gio chuckled to himself and leaned into him.

"You...what?" Hobie's voice wasn't necessarily demanding, but curious and he'd do whatever he needed to do to get an answer from Giovanni.

"I...reaally appreciate you?" Gio answered, but it was more of a question than an answer. He wanted to say so much more. Hobie scoffed in response, Gio turned and sat on his knees to face him. "Did I say something wrong?"

"No, Giovanni, you just haven't said enough. Look, your aura, it's light pink." Hobie pointed out, sure enough Gio could see the faint pink glow eminating from him and he hugged himself.

"Oh uhm," Gio attempted to play it off, "must be a mistake somehow because pink means, well, ah it's useless." Hobie took one of Gio's hands and laced their fingers together, the other hand trailing up Gio's arm, then grazing his neck, then cupping his face, admiring all of Gio's features, Hobie smirked.

"Pink means love." Hobie finished, his aura was also a faint pink that Gio wondered if it had been there since he'd arrived yesterday or if it just appeared. "May I?" Hobie drew himself closer to Gio and their lips were inches apart, noses almost touching, both boys could feel the desire glow within them.

"May you what?" Gio teased, connecting their noses, Hobie felt his heart race.

"Kiss you of course."

Gio's breath caught in his throat and he couldn't form words, instead he nodded a little more eagerly than he'd meant to, but showed just how desperate he was. Hobie squeezed his hand and closed the remaining gap between them, their lips fitting together like puzzle pieces. Gio could have sworn little fireworks were going off as they moved together in sync, pulling away for a breath of air and quickly pressing back together. Gio felt frozen in his place and panicked, laying his free hand against Hobie's chest and toying at a chain that hung around his neck. Hobie pulled away and the smile on his face was infectious and Gio found that he couldn't wipe the smile off of his own face, they looked at each other and giggled like teenage girls. Gio reached his hand up and ruffled through Hobie's locs, unable to look away from the intoxicatingly good looks that Hobie was blessed with.

"Your lip piercings have a different feel to them, they're cold." Gio said, filling the comfortable silence they had rested into. Hobie playfully punched Gio's arm.

"Oh come on, that's what you focused on?" Hobie teased.

"No! No! Not at all! I just-it was a fun little tid bit that I thought you might want to know. I've never kissed anyone with lip piercings," Gio paused and shrunk in on himself, "actually, I've never kissed anyone at all. So, thank you?"

"Anytime darling, anytime. Do you want to-"

Gio closed the space in between them. Hobie smiled into the kiss and held Gio closely, never wanting to let go.