[ WP ] And so he bitterly asked , `` Why ? ''

`` You think I'm here to support you? To hold you up while you figure shit out? You think I want to wait on you hand and foot? Clean up your messes? Hmm?'' 
 
 Danny tried to interject, but Hugo kept at him. 
 
 `` I've tried and tried for 13 years Danny, to get you to understand what it means to be a respectful partner. I've given and given and what do I get in return?'' Hugo paused to catch his breath. Danny stared at the floor. He wondered why Hugo chose this very moment to address the issues they had been having. Danny was in his underwear. Hugo continued. 
 
 `` What do I get in return?'' Hugo asked again in a more hushed tone. Danny may have been in his underwear but Hugo was naked with his emotion. Danny knew he fucked had up. Hugo did not know the extent to which Danny fucked up. 
 
 `` All I ask is that you pick up after yourself, put away your dishes, put away your clothes.'' Hugo pointed at the pile of jeans, shirts, jackets and socks on the chair. 
 
 Over the past year and a half, Hugo had been working overtime. He had put in late nights so that his company could get their product out the door - Hugo made software. 
 
 Danny had always been a slob, but the scale of his messiness grew exponentially during that time. 
 
 `` Danny, I mean, come on - I do n't have time or energy to pick up after both of us and it makes the time we do spend together frustrating.'' 
 
 Hugo had been saving any extra profit from his company so that Danny and him could go to Italy. Hugo had never been, Danny always loved Italy. 
 
 `` What do you want me to do, right now?'' Danny stabbed. 
 
 Hugo threw his hands on his head, `` oh my god, seriously?'' Hugo turned to him with unblinking eyes, `` FOR FUCK'S SAKE DANNY, CLEAN UP YOUR SHIT!'' 
 
 Danny took a deep breath, `` Hugo I'm cheating on you.'' 
 
 The room was a vacuum. The air, the life, the heat, the love - if there was any left - was sucked out with Danny's words. 
 
 Hugo stood with a gaze of no gazes; completely in the moment and not there all at once. His eyes swelled like a levee, his arms froze in place, buzzing from the fingertips to his heart. He could n't move, not to strike Danny, not to hug Danny, not to run, not to hide. Hugo could n't muster a single movement and so he bitterly asked, `` why?''
