Hazbin Hotel: That's My Girl Part 1

Suffering

~A week later...

I didn't understand it at all. One day we were kissing and the next day, nothing! I sighed and banged my head at the table. I thought about what happened that night after I showed Husk my mermaid secret.

~Earlier that week...

I invited Husk to my room after our midnight swim to watch movies with me, even though it was 1 in the morning. After the movies, we fell asleep together in my bed. But during that time... something was wrong.

"Husk?" I woke up to his tail swishing back and forth. 

"Mmm no..." he mumbled.

"Husky." I said his name after I shook him.

"No no..." he turned in his sleep.

I realized that he was having a nightmare. "Husky! Wake up!" I shook him harder. "Wake up!"

"No!" his eyes shot wide open and his claws came out.

I backed up a bit. "Husk... are you okay..?"

He shook his head. "Y-Yeah..."

"It looked like you had one hell of a nightmare. Wanna talk about it?" I asked him.

"No. It's too much."

"You'll feel better if you talk about it with me."

Husk looked over at me and crawled towards me. I saw what he was doing and held my arms out to him so that way he can get comfortable with me. He rested himself in front of me and pulled me onto his lap, then he laid his head on my chest. I wrapped my arms around his neck so he can relax. After a few minutes, I looked down at him.

"Husk? Are you okay now?" I asked him.

"Hmm..." he hummed and brought me closer, burying his face in my chest.

"What's gotten you like this kitty? Please tell me what's wrong. I can help you."

"I can handle it." he said as he gripped onto my waist a bit.

"Please Husk... I..."

"I said I can handle it!" he tightened his grip a little harder on my waist.

I was starting to get upset with him. "Why are you being this difficult with me?!" I made him get his head out of my chest but my eyes widened to see his face.

His eyes were running down with tears. "Please... I know you want to help. But I can't stand the thought of seeing you hurt..." he said as he gripped my waist even more, I could almost feel his claws digging into my sides.

I took in a deep breath and looked at him. "I can't be mad at you Husk... if you don't want to talk about it, then it's okay." I said as I hugged him and his grip on my waist loosened. 'I can feel him suffering, it must've been something really scary for him.' I thought to myself as I rubbed his back.

All I could do for him was comfort him. And that's what I did. I comforted him all I could until he fell asleep. After I tucked him in, I laid myself down as well. As I was falling asleep, I could still feel the grip onto my waist lingering there. I may not understand his story, but all I know was that he needed help. My help. And I was willing to do it for him.

The very next morning, well as I saw the sun beaming at my face. I woke up to see that Husk wasn't on my bed. But he did leave a note behind. I took out my reading glasses and read it out loud.

'Hey Aqua. Sorry about screwing it up last night. I just need some time to myself. From Husk.'

I took off my glasses in disbelief. The note was written by him. I sighed out and thought to myself about what did I do? If I did something wrong or if he just doesn't want me? I buried my face in my blanket in true distress.

~Present day...

I was poking at my lunch, not feeling the mood to eat.

"Hey toots. What's wrong?" Angel said as he sat next to me.

I sighed. "Everything's wrong Angel."

"Wanna taco bout it?" he said as he was giving me a taco.

I giggled lightly at his joke. "I guess I can." I said as I took the taco and ate some of it.

"Now tell me what's wrong."

"Well... I started." I started. I told Angel everything that happened last weekend. From the revealing my mermaid secret, to the kiss, and then the movie night. But then I also told him about Husk not telling me about his nightmare. And then the note.

"Wow. That's a lot to take in."

"I know. And then when I saw his note, I broke down." I said as I teared up a little.

"I'm sorry toots." he said as he gave me his handkerchief.

"Yeah..." I sighed and dried my eyes. "It's really really complicated right now and it feels like I wanna explode."

"Hey, it's okay. Husk may have some bad voodoo vibes on his side. Give him time."

"How much time? It's been a whole week."

"Well, things for him like this take a little longer."

I sighed. "I guess. Why is this so hard on me?" I gripped my chest.

"Love hurts baby cakes. And I know what it's like." he said as he hugged me.

I couldn't hold the tears any longer and started crying pretty hard onto him. Releasing all the stress that was bottled up inside me.

"It's okay toots. Cry out everything that's in there." Angel said as he rubbed my back.

I was lost. I was in pain. I didn't know what to do anymore.

~Husker's POV~

I looked over to the roof bar to see Angel comforting the one that I love, hurt. I felt like shit. Last weekend was definitely a disaster that I caused. But I couldn't blame Aqua, she really did try to help me. It's just that... I was cursed not to tell her anything. And that's what it's making things very difficult for me.

'Dammit!' I thought to myself as I banged my paw into the bar table. 'It's that stupid Radio Demon's fault that I can't say anything to Aqua! And now she probably hates me for not saying anything... if it wasn't for this curse, I'd tell her anything.'

I had to do something and fast before everything falls into the wrong state. But what should I do? What should I do? I really needed some help.