But from now until May you are still Neil Josten and I am still the man who said he would keep you alive. “Your parents are dead, you are not fine, and nothing is going to be okay,” Andrew said. I’m sorry but Andrew setting Neils ringer as a song about runaways, ad them having matching ringers, is peak comedy and also peak romance Neil knew it was from the same miserable song. The words were different than Andrew’s ringtone, but the voice was the same. He chucked one of the empty hangers at Nicky, who squawked and ducked just in time.Īndrew is the human personification of a cat. It was such an unexpected and unfamiliar feeling he lost track of the conversation for a minute.Īndrew was systematically tugging clothes off their hangers and dropping them on the floor. “Andrew, I swear to God-”Īs he listened to them, Neil realized he was happy. “I can stab him again or I can stay with you. He didn’t want to regret a single second. Every minute on the court brought him one minute closer to saying goodbye to Exy forever. Neil was the least experienced person on their team, but he was the fastest and the most desperate. I really enjoy the fact that the Foxes legit bet on everything. “Are you serious? Who the hell bet against you?” You just scored me ten bucks with two words.” “Thank you for being so predictable, Neil.

“Neil drained both cups before answering. “So you’ll try,” Kevin said through gritted teeth, “because Coach asked you to.”Īndrew folded hi arms across his knees, tilted his head back, and smiled up at Kevin. They were different kinds of heartless and Neil, for all his problems connecting with other people, didn’t want to be a monster. The closest Neil ever got to being your typical college student. Shut up.” Andrew hung up again, but Higgins was persistant enough to call a third time. Big dad energy from Wymack here, busting out the “Andrew Jospeh Minyard”. “It wasn’t me, it was the one-armed man!” Andrew yelled from out of sight. “Andrew Joseph Minyard, what the flying fuck have you done this time?”

“I’m sure it’ll do your ego wonders to see your picture printed there beside it.” “One day I want you to look up ‘insensitivity’ in the dictionary,” Matt said, annoyed. “He still doesn’t,” Neil said, but he didn’t bother to explain. “Last I checked Andrew didn’t like you,” Wymack said. Thankfully Andrew cheers me up with lines like this. Page one and Neil has already managed to make me do a sad lil smileĪn excitable Andrew confronted with the death of his least-favourite teammate was a recipe for disaster Death was unpleasant, but it was familiar and tolerable in his chest. I still love it a ridiculous amount though and can’t wait to share my favourite moments!Īt eighteen years old, he’d seen more people die than he could comfortably count. I feel like this is where the story really gets going in all the most heartbreaking of ways. I have read this book so many times and it still never fails to make me emotional.

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