The mist from the night air clutched itself onto Web's face, his body quivering from the wind that blew left and right. His body wasn't only paralyzed from the cold. It was also paralyzed from emotion.

He heard another bing pop from his Android and he cussed under his breath. It was his father. Harassing, battering and probably calling him, like always, a worthless back door bandit who needs to get Jesus in his life. Or something like that, he didn't really care. But he knew if he didn't answer he would be left out of the house longer.

He pulled the phone from his jean pocket, ripping out the headphone jack and tossing the dollar store buds to the sidewalk. Not like they were worth anything anyway. He tried to rub the water off the screen with his elbow and saw the contact. He drew a sigh of relief.

Rin:

hey man, you still in close contact w/ phe?

 Web tried to reply. He was almost successful, too. But another contact popped up before he could explain that he ditched Phen a while back due to a fist-fight over a pair of shoes of all things. Web clutched his phone and looked down at the littered floor, blurting out a quick 'fuck' before answering it.

"Where the fuck are you Chester?"

"In the park."

"It's one-am, what do you want to do, get hyperthermia? Get your ass back in this fucking house before I go over there myself." 

"I was planning on staying over a friend's house." By a friend's house, he meant a trap house's roof.

"Yeah, and I'm a chinamen. Be happy I'm even letting you come back here."

Web swallowed down the lump forming in the back of his throat. He refused to cry. That's a pussy thing, and he wasn't raised to be that. But he wasn't supposed to come out gay either, so there's that.

"Fine. I'm coming the fuck home."

"You better come the fuck home before I whoop your damn ass. Fuck! I knew I should've strangled your as-"

Web clicked the red button and stood up, tucking the phone back in his pocket with a sigh. Tears filled his eyes and despite how hard he tried, he couldn't blink them away. He was a pussy after-all, wasn't he?