Re: Kitchen: Hugh & Hannah
From anyone other than Hannah, the question might have taken him off guard, and there might have been a time when it would have done so even coming from Hannah, but it didn't tonight. It was like Hannah to ask the thing others might not, and while there might be some regret in regards to his relationship with Zee, it was only that he had not kept in contact with her. Hugh wasn't one to kiss and tell, but he wasn't hiding anything either. He tilted his head towards Hannah and considered. "We've been friends for close to a decade -- mostly friends." They hadn't always drawn strict lines between them, but the friendship had never wavered until they'd lost touch so completely.
He found his empty glass of water again and filled it up, returning. "I think he might have a place at the carnival too - so long as he's working there. I'm not sure, exactly," Hugh admitted. "I'm still getting to know him."
He took a sip of the water. The default response was that he wasn't really hurting, missing someone wasn't the same as hurting, and he swallowed the water and the default response together. There might not be any logic to it, but emotions didn't much play by logic. "He did say he might come back in the summer, so I doubt we'll be strangers," he told her. "Friends come and go, and I'm always really bad at when they're gone, but we didn't say goodbye," he smiled. "I think we both fully intend to pop into each other's life at some point in the future even if it's next year or ten years from now."