- Andrew is the only one Neil tells about seeing Riko’s death
- One day at breakfast, Nicky notices Andrew and Neil holding hands on the table, Andrew drinking his coffee and looking out the window. As soon as the conversation stops, Andrew begins to move his hand away, but Nicky pleads “no, I promise not to bring attention to it!” And Andrew puts his hand back.
- When they move back into the dorms, Kevin starts to hang out with Aaron, Matt and Nicky for a few hours a few days a week to leave Andrew and Neil alone
- It’s months before Andrew moves Neil’s hand inside his boxers.
- Neil kisses his neck the entire time
- They pant and are silent for a long time.
- Andrew kisses him and they sleep curled up
- Neil tells him he’s okay if they never go farther than where they are now.
- Andrew tells him it will take awhile, but he does want Neil inside him one day
- He says he wants that to make it a happier thing than his existing experiences
- Neil just smiles and tells him “it’s always yes”
- Andrew starts to smile again
- Nicky quietly thanks Neil one day
- After everything, Andrew is super protective of Neil.
- Kevin starts telling people he has three dads. Wymack, Neil and Andrew. His tone is so serious people don’t expect him to say it.
- When the freshmen start, Kevin tasks Neil with training his own little group of new foxes.
- Andrew wordlessly threatens them if they ask about Neil’s scars.
- Aaron and Andrew get closer and Katelyn and Neil encourage them every step of the way
- Neil gives his first blowjob in the bathroom at Eden’s Twilight
- When Nicky sees their messed up hair after losing them in the club, he just grins.
- Andrew makes it a point to wear Neil’s jacket
- He accidentally wears it during a game
- The press ask Neil about it, not even insinuating a relationship
- Neil just says his boyfriend has a stealing problem
- Kevin clarifies Andrew is not actually a thief, but that Andrew and Neil are very much an item
- That was the first time Neil referred to him as his boyfriend
- Neil asks if that’s okay after the fact
- After Neil puts himself in a stupid position that Andrew has to save him from, Neil tells Andrew he loves him but he’s okay if he never says it back.
- One night a few weeks later, when Andrew thinks Kevin and Neil are asleep, he practices saying I love you quietly in the dark.
- Neil turns around and just smiles at him.
- Andrew immediately tells him he hates him, he was talking to Kevin
- Aaron tells the foxes after one of their games that Katelyn is pregnant.
- Andrew actually smiles, though Aaron and Neil are the only ones that notice.
- The first time Andrew sees Jean again, he punches him for everything he let Riko do.
- Neil and Kevin stop him
- Andrew tells Aaron to name the kid after him, clearly joking
- When they name her Andrea, Andrew is furious
- Matt proposes to Dan, and while everyone is celebrating, Andrew slips away and Neil follows him.
- Neil asks if it scares him, and it’s okay if nothing like that ever happens for them, he’ll be here until Andrew doesn’t want him anymore
- Andrew asks if Neil wants that one day
- Neil says he doesn’t mind either way, he never thought he’d ever have a boyfriend let alone a husband
- Andrew quietly admits he used to dream of getting married but gave up the hope a long time ago
- They share a cigarette and think
- Before they go to join the others, Andrew tells Neil he wants to be the one to ask
- Andrew admits he told Renee to tell Neil he was gay
- And asked Renee about his reaction after the fact
- On the anniversary of Drake’s death, Andrew and Neil don’t get out of bed that day.
- The foxes somehow find out that Neil had helped pay for the Maserati
- And they tell Andrew it’s not fair to call it his car
- Andrew just says fine, it’s our car, despite the money being part of an agreement between them
- When Andrew and Neil decide to go a step further in their sex life, Andrew accidentally drop a bottle of lube out of his pocket in front of the rest of the foxes
- The room is dead silent
- Andrew picks it up slowly
- Kevin asks Matt about something to pick the conversation back up again.
- The first time Andrew and Neil try, Andrew freaks out but tells Neil to do it anyway
- Neil refuses and they kiss until they fall asleep.
- When they try again, all is well and both of them enjoy themselves.
- Renee and Neil go out to lunch right before she graduates, and she admits that Andrew talked to her about him a lot when he wasn’t around
- Jean begins to hang out with Kevin and Neil
- Jean talks Neil and Kevin into attending therapy with him
- Eventually Andrew asks Neil to come with him to a session with Bee.
- With Andrew’s assurances, Neil tells her everything that he can that wouldn’t legally affect him
- Bee just stares at him for a few moments before she speaks again
- Andrew is mostly silent as he drinks his hot chocolate but helps prompt Neil when needed
- Neil begrudgingly admits it was good to talk about it
- As they approach Andrew’s graduation, they discuss what happens if they aren’t on the same team
- Andrew says he’ll quit Exy
- Kevin overhears and is aghast
- Neil enjoys his last year, but calls Andrew every day and attends every game he can
- Andrew tells Neil he can’t make it to his last game as a Fox
- When Neil walks into the locker rooms and sees Dan, Matt, Kevin, Nicky, Erik, Aaron, Katelyn, Renee and Allison he begins to have a clue about what is going on
- And then Andrew proposes
- “You didn’t think I’d be that predictable, did you?”
- Neil does join the same team as Andrew, but they are rivals to Kevin’s team
- When Andrew blocks every single shot Kevin makes, Kevin just smiles afterward and hugs him
- Andrew stiffens but hugs him back
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