Newsies One-Shots

Us - Blush

A/N I just love these types of book scenes for some reason, so I wrote one. This is for the wonderful chxrry_cxcaine <3

Blink ran out of the apartment, slamming the door behind him. He ran into the street, barely feeling the rain beating down hard on his red face and burning skin. God, he was mad. Mad wasn't the right word, no: livid, fuming, furious, anything but mad. He was more than mad. He curled his fists in disbelief, heat rising on his cheeks, the storm cooling him off physically but not mentally.

Mush came sprinting out into the rain after his boyfriend, screaming his lungs out.

"Don't talk to me," Blink snapped, holding up one palm without turning to face Mush or stopping.

"Blink, I-" Mush began, pulling the back of Blink's collar.

Blink whirled around to face the sobbing boy, almost foaming at the mouth. "You what?" he growled, trying to pry Mush's shaking hands off his collar. "You what? What are you going to say that you think will fix all the... the... the hell you put me through?"

Mush shook his head, tears falling slowly and splashing his collar, washed away by the sky's tears. "No, you don't understand," he began.

"I think we both know we're much better off apart," Blink said coldly, trying to turn away.

"Listen-" Mush begged, but Blink pried his hands off his collar and squeezed them tightly.

"We're not a thing anymore, Mush. If you wanted more you could have said so, instead of running off... and not telling me where you were... and doing who-knows-what with the next-door neighbour! If you really loved me, you would have let go a long, long time ago. So save your lies, save your apologies, save your sobbing and whining for someone who's really going to care. Just shut up and deal with the fact that I don't love you anymore."

Mush opened his mouth to speak, but no sound came out. Blink gently let go of Mush's hands, and the brown-haired boy already missed the feel of his soft hands on his.

"I'm sorry," Blink rasped, feeling his tough, angry exterior melt away slowly. "I have to do this, for... us."

Us. A word that had to be used sparingly and carefully. You never know if it's you, me, or us. Us means together. Us means forever. Us.

The rain soaked them through to their bones as they stood there, five feet apart, looking into the eyes that they used to love. They studied each others familiar features that they'd traced with their loving hands once upon a time. They locked eyes.

"One more kiss?" Mush asked, tears washed away by the rain.

Blink stepped forward, sympathy glimmering faintly in his eyes. He cupped Mush's face and kissed him, so softly that Mush could barely feel it. The rain mixed on their lips, the sugar and salt of love, as Mush gently tangled his fingers in the soft hair on the nape of Blink's neck, and Blink placed his hand on the small of the other boy's back.

"I'm sorry," Blink whispered.

He turned away.