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    Andrew had a hard day and Neil... Well, Neil watches Andrew far too closely to miss the signs. He only wants to make the day a little better.

    Or: Neil learned to knit and somehow this makes Andrew even more whipped

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    05 May 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Andrew goes out after this and buys Neil the nicest knitting needles he can find.

  2. Rec 10

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    Andrew has a bad night.
    It gets better :))

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    04 May 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    If you’re reading this, Andrew Minyard loves Neil Josten.

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    Five times Jeremy didn't understand the relationship between Jean and Neil Josten, and the one time he figured it out.

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    04 May 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Jean and Neil’s relationship is something that is so important to me.

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    Jeremy’s words fill Jean with a warmth he so rarely feels, but that he has been feeling more and more often the longer he stays with the Trojans. Sitting like this, leaning over Jeremy, his hands framing Jean’s face, he can’t help but want to follow the tug in his chest that keeps him in Jeremy’s orbit.

    “Are you going to kiss me?” Jean asks before he can stop himself. Jeremy startles and then smiles.

    “Do you want me to?” Jeremy shoots back.

    “Yes,” Jean answers. He doesn’t say how much he wants it, how he wants it so bad it practically hurts. Jeremy smiles and rubs a thumb across Jean’s cheekbone.

     

    Or, Jean slowly learns how to open up to his friends and be okay with wanting.

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    05 May 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Jeremy would kiss this man’s eyelids after he cried.

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    “Have you considered the possibility that Neil has chosen you, but believes you have not chosen him?” Renee says. "Have you ever explicitly told him what you want?”

    “Neil knows what I want,” Andrew snaps. This is not Andrew’s fault.

    “How do you know?”

    Because Neil always knows. He is as fluent in Andrew’s micro-expressions as he is in German and French. He knows which head tilts mean “go on” and which ones mean “shut up.” Without ever asking, he learned what it meant to see Andrew wearing double layers of long sleeves, or taking multiple showers in a day, and learned to hand Andrew the car keys.

    That has always been the most terrifying thing about Neil — his patience to wait, watch, listen, learn. The prospect that if Neil were given enough time, there would be no part of Andrew that was just Andrew’s anymore.

    “He has to know,” Andrew says.

    “Does he?” Renee says. “Have you ever known Neil to assume that he is wanted?”

    Five times Neil tells someone that he and Andrew aren’t dating, and one time Andrew uses his words to set the record straight.

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    01 Nov 2023

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Andrew: “I hate you, we’re nothing” *intense stare*
    Neil: “He hates me, we’re nothing”
    Andrew: “fuck.”