reticence , muted in how it spread wings around both of them - yet deafening for just a moment . usually , hugo doesn't mind nor care for semantics like this , still doesn't . . . but he can't help but squirm underneath the designation of it all . even just for a little bit . mostly for the other , though . romeo seems uneasy in every bit of his being and it's somewhat infectious . he's trying , though , to work through the muddled pit - romeo , that is . hugo sees a flicker of it before the action takes place . remorse , what for . . . he can't place quite yet . which is maybe what's the best distance for now , maybe he isn't meant to know .
so , he simply lets go off the thought dwelling onto it , solely to replace it with a farther nod . declining romeo's offer would only make things so much worse and even if hugo can't sip past two gulps , approximately , he takes it - accepts it beyond knowing the wiser of it . “ don't worry about it , really . take it as a token of . . . whatever . I was about to go on a tangent about mixing the two , but ultimately . . . that just comes out as brown . which is worlds apart from red , to which I also meant to make a turn . but , you know , maybe brown is the new red ” and with that , hugo raises the glass in his hand to imitate the motion of a cheers that is not yet to be actually touching . “ you holding up alright so far ? ”