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bunbun70 · 2 months

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AFTG

Tw(all mention) child abuse,SA/rope,

Cw- Mostly just sfw

Andrew/neil.

(things that I noticed+my thoughts and speculations)(head cannons)

Things that the fandom asks for but I don't think we can really handle, But we really want it....

Let's be honest we say we want to see Andrew actually genuinely smiling expressing his happiness but let's be completely honest we wouldn't be able to handle that, my heart would literally implode (especially with the head Cannon of him having dimples OMG dig me an early grave)

When I really think about Andrew genuinely crying I just can't handle it even thinking about it makes me want to cry; Him physically expressing that he's in pain would actually mentally hurt me

Already knowing that he's in pain hurts but him showing it would actually break my heart, he's definitely a pretty crier and silent crier too.

2. You know the scene on the roof when Andrew gets back from rehab, I vividly remember him turning away from Neil to put on his arm bands and when I think about it I start thinking he doesn't turn away from him to just hide his scars, Andrew just doesn't want Neil to pity him

especially after seeing him in such a weak state after the incident at Thanksgiving and seeing him genuinely helpless and weak, he just doesn't't want Neil to think he needed his pity and treat him any differently or even think he's weak

(am I precisely remembered somewhere in the extra content Andrew openly admits to not wanting neil to pity him)

But let's be completely honest during the whole series of us reading the all for the game Neil never really shows any pity for anyone.

I know people like to regularly joke around and like to show neil as this supreme joker and prankster and up his sassiness to a level higher than a supreme,

But let's be completely honest for a moment not only does Neil rarely socialize with people he most definitely rarely smiles for anyone and honestly he only shows a little bit more emotion than Andrew

And when I think of Neil's emotional expression level compare him to todoroki cuz he's just as dense and he's just as bad at showing his emotions.

And we most definitely don't see nail smile very often like go back and reread the whole book and there's only a few moments Neil smiles 2+

And the only person we really see him smile for is Andrew which is cute and is completely adorable to think about he smiles a lot more often around Andrew(Andrew is able to make neil smile by just being himself and that's really cute)

Physical affection.

I know people like to write Neil as someone who is starving for physical affection look I have a love-hate relationship with that thought on one hand it's really adorable but on the other hand I don't like how people completely ignore how awkward Neil is when it comes to physical affection,

Like are we going to completely ignore that Neil does not know how to comfort or even handle being hugged like I git it let's be delusional but let's not be that delusional where we completely ignore that neil rarely had any form of physical affection in childhood the only thing we ever got hinted at of him having any sign of affection was his mother sleeping on the same bed as him which is sad.

like the only physical contact that Neil had was violent and was company by pain(this man didn't even know how to be a friend nor did he pick up on people genuinely liking him and even caring about him)

So the thought of Andrew genuinely liking him risking it all for him sacrificing for him puts his brain on the loading screen.

But the point is Neil never asked for anything really physical he doesn't ask for it he doesn't want to be hugged but that doesn't mean he doesn't mind it he may not want it or need it but he doesn't mind having it that's the whole point with neil he doesn't expect anything more and Andrew really does notice these things about him.

Watching Andrew fall deeply more in love with the things that are Neil josten it's even more beautiful than anything and romance may not be what that book was about but it showed it beautifully(it makes me wish there was more of just them.)

And the same thing goes for Andrew,

In all the adoption homes orphanages that Andrew has been to he has never had a good home some may have been better than others but they weren't in the least bit great, taking into account that he was always being abused in some way whether it was sexual or physical and emotional it makes sense that Andrew is so used to people not caring about his opinion because he's so used to being ignored so the thought of Neil genuinely showing care and protectiveness over Andrew well of course to Andrew Neil is in fact a pipe dream cuz something like that is really too good to be true.

Andrew hates it he hates that Neil will listen and cares about his opinion whether it's a yes or no neil listens and cares about him and he hates that neil is the one thing that would truly hurt him to lose because neil genuinely cares about him just as much as he cares about neil.

So when it comes to physical affection between them though they lack it and aren't used to it it's not something that they need or want but it's not something that's unwelcome under their own conditions

But in my opinion I think Andrew likes touching neil just as much as Neil likes to be close to Andrew, but let's always remember even without touching or kissing they like enjoying each other's presents and Andrew's attraction was never only physical with neil.

Happy?

Well yes they're happy why wouldn't they be they live together they own animals together they joke together

They go on little dates together and spend money on each other, they work and spend time together, so why wouldn't they happy not all happy endings need to end with a marriage because who says marriage is the way to happiness just because they aren't married doesn't mean they aren't happy I know some people don't think it or even think about it in that way some people understand it but still want it and that's understandable,

But for these characters I never really expected them to get married though it's a pleasant thought to have to see but to be completely honest these characters never been around happy marriages or grew up in a family with a happy marriage it's never been on their mind to marry it's something that they don't indulge in it's like a tie and though some marriages aren't a tie down or even to be tied to anything period but,

For these characters they are all about regaining their freedom, freedom control and freedom of change or freedom of distance at some point freedom to stop hiding the freedom to speak without pretending to live without fear is the true definition of living they don't need be Married to be happy and if they want to be separated they can be separate without needing to sign papers.

#aftg #neil and andrew deserve to be happy #andrew x neil #neil josten #andriel #andrew minyard #aftg fandom #Aftg book #all for the game #all for the game series

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kiss2012 · 16 days

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tsc thoughts under the cut cause i finished

i literally cannot wrap my thoughts around my overall opinion of it i feel like i absolutely need to reread it first

but also i need to reread tfc because I MISS TFC SO BAD ➡️ girl who reread it last may. i do think i spoke tsc into existence by doing this because i hadn’t looked at the trilogy since 2019 and then all of a sudden i decided to reread and found that unfortunately they still make me batshit crazy. what is in those books.

however i do like tfc better 🤷🏽‍♀️ so if i did reread tfc after this and read tsc again i would just want to read tfc again

this is not fair to say at all because tfc is a whole trilogy and this was only book 1. and i rlly need to start saying aftg instead of tfc cause it’s getting confusing because like i do think tsc is better than tfc (the first book). however i just…like aftg better? i feel like it’s more fun which is probably a weird thing to say considering it’s a lot More than tsc is. and obviously this book was more about jean’s recovery. but more happens in aftg. idk we’ll see tho

i do love jean and the trojans but i miss neil and the foxes every page. i feel like it’s harder to connect to the trojans because there r so many of them. and idk sports so the three coaches is probably normal for a team of this size i really wouldn’t know lol but i couldn’t keep the coaches straight in my head either

point is the foxes r my everything 4ever. i love jean jeremy cat and laila and i see what she was trying to do by introducing the floozy line (cute name) however i dont really have a strong feeling about them because we met them for like 5 minutes

i do love nabil tho why is he not part of the floozy line :(((((

i think cat and laila were absolutely perfect. they’re given a lot of depth especially cat and they’re so important to me. they’re better here than in fanon i think but i feel like fanon did get their personalities and relationship down mostly right. apart from cat not just being called alvarez LMAO bless neil only calling her that and fanon having no choice but to do the same because no one agreed on one single name. i remember sara was one that i saw a lot but i like catalina way way better i love cat <3 i love laila <3 their friendship with jeremy <3

an evening breeze rainbows open roads friends 😭😭😭😭😭😭

bi jean is so dear to me

also jean rooming with cat and laila (and then jean) literally perfect omg. no one ever put that in fics but i think it was the best thing to do. sorry for having to compare tsc to fanon im not trying to say one is better than the other at all but what you have to understand is how many fics about jean post tkm are out there and how many of them i read so my mind is going to go there. i wasn’t rlly obsessed with jerejean but i was (and am) a jerejean girl. and i had (have lmao) very high standards for fic so i stand by a lot of those fics WHILE still standing by everything tsc is

by which i mean i cannot get poc jean out of my head thanks to that one fic where he is moroccan. in that same fic jeremy was also spanish and i sort of adopted that into my image of them so i am trying to let go of it but i mean even the hatfords being pakistani still lives in my head despite how unlikely it is. and most of the time i pictured jeremy with golden hair (sometimes curls) so even though i think nora’s compromise being to have naturally brown-haired jeremy bleaching his hair is hilarious and iconic. sort of impossible for me not to picture him with golden hair.

however when jean was all startled and went “blond” when he saw jeremy’s hair. reader i died

english major jeremy is still a gift to me personally

kevin bargaining and arguing for his history major..my baby…the mentions of kevin and kevin’s actual appearances in tsc are everything. the postcards and magnets…kill me

every time neil showed up i lost my mind i love him SO MUCH!!!

see my problem is i wish the foxes showed up more even though it makes no sense for them to. i want kevin jeremy and jean in a room together. i will kill for jean and allison interaction especially if they talk about renee (yes i am holding onto renison still). i want jeremy and cat and matt and dan to hang out. i need laila to meet andrew. i need more renee I LOVE RENEE we did get a good amount of her though i think. she was everything.

genuinely think the way jean and renee was handled here was so perfect. i totally see the merit of it if they end the series together. i also see why jean might end the series without being with anyone romantically. but narratively i cant help but feel jerejean is what makes the most sense. the reason i liked them in the first place is their narrative appeal. and they were genuinely so good in this. so. idk. can’t think about that too much.

i have some problems with the writing like i did with the og series but um the thing is i cannot view these books objectively because they impacted me so much at a young age. i will say i wish tsc could have had a professional editor lol.

i also have some issues with the pacing tho because i did not expect it to end there at all? im so glad she started it where she did but when it ended i was like WAIT WHAT

i have a feeling the reason riko did what he did with the backliners is because he saw jean looking at kevin. could be wrong here but judging from how often jean talks about learning his lesson about looking at guys too long. well.

the main thing for me is that i don’t see how we’re going to get to championships in 2 books if this book only covered till the summer. you could argue exy games arent that important for jean’s story but i do think they are insanely important for jeremy’s story. and if he’s a pov character i want more about him!! that man is keeping his issues locked up (I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY R) but we can tell he loves exy and he needs to win his last year

my memory of the extra content is so dim and some of it i have voluntarily chosen to forget or just not consider plus i think some of it will/has changed. but i think i remember reading that trojans win for their last year and i Need that to happen. cause in my head it went: foxes win neil’s first year and trojans win neil’s second year and jeremy’s last year. idc for the rest i want neil to have won championships twice or at least once as captain so that’s what happens in my head.

like i need more about jeremy teaching jean to love exy again and more about jeremy’s apparently complicated family issues with exy???? jeremy let me in.

anywayy. this book feels like a fever dream and im going insane

#tsc lb #tsc spoilers #THIS IS SO LONG #sorry i keep adding more things when i think of them

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lizpaige · 11 months

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Hello!!! 2 & 20 for the fanfic asks if it's not too late! 💕💕

hiiii! not too late thanks for the ask! 💕

2. What’s next on your to-read list? (fanfiction or otherwise)

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever and I got the first book of aftg cause I feel like I have to give it a try.

20. Do you have a favorite fanfic or author? If so, tag them/post a link and share the love!

omg i have 140 bookmarks on ao3 🫣🫣🫣 lemme go through a couple recent ones from there and from my history. but just know its v hard to pick favorites!!

The Raven Boys, Chapter One: The Church Watch by @miseria-fortes-viros This is like the biggest gift to the TRC fandom - the tv series we were promised but never got. I don't want to spoil because this first chapter is such a joy, but give it a read!!

Slow Cinnamon Summer by @infinite-of-sky Post-TRK AU where Ronan/Adam and Blue/Gansey aren't together yet. I love Post-TRK fics and this AU was a fresh take. Super great characterization of Ronan and Adam imo I loved it.

Please Don't Leave Quite Yet by blue_violets Ronan follows Adam to college and pining and drama ensue. Happy ending tho! I love lots of blue_violets' fics so if this one isn't for you, still check out their works for more.

saw all your warning flags; good thing I'm color blind by @zephfair "Gansey decides his two best friends really need to go on a date, so what could go wrong?" WHAT COULD GO WRONG, INDEED? I love this even though it's not finished yet. I am biased and love p much every pynch fic zephfair has written 😇

Uncanny by @iammistressofmyfate Such a unique story/different magical AU. Adam is a psychic medium, Ronan is from Ireland. I really enjoyed this fic and also enjoy all of Sarah's fics (and she blesses us with so much pynch content so plz give em a read if you haven't already).

Extra Ordinary by YOU @mychemicalrachel Is it bad to mention one of your fics? NAH. An Adam/Declan fic? I never would have tried them, but I trusted you and your writing and I am in love. So good. Can't wait to read more of this and more of your fics.

#fic asks #asks #ask game #pynch fic rec #trc fic rec

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obsessedwithbooksandmusic · 1 year

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Ok so I’m annotating AFTG and i just realised the amount of flirting there was and I’m gonna cry because HOW TF WAS NEIL SO OBLIVIOUS?

So I wanted to see if I was being rational and I therefore did an unofficial survey with some of my irl friends:

exhibit a: “I’m not a math problem.” “But I’ll still solve you.” - Neil and Andrew in that order. I asked if that was flirting:

friend 1: Omg that has so much tension, how could it not be? friend 2: Is… is that not??? It is right? Cos if it isn’t, what the fuck? friend 3: yes because I swear i’ve had someone say that to me just a little differently and now I’m dating them so…..

i think it’s safe to say: that was indeed flirting.

exhibit b: “You’re a conundrum.” “Thank you.” “No, thank you. I need a new toy to play with.” “I’m not a toy.” “I guess we’ll see.”- all obvious flirting is Andrew, bits in the middle are Neil. Question: flirting or not?

friend 1: holy fuck, that… that is definitely flirting omfg. IT’S SO DIRECT AS WELL ISTG- friend 2: why r u asking me this? Are you stupid? of course it is dumbass. friend 3: it has to be, do you hear that? The promise of good ol se- LET’S STOP THERE (interjection by mom friend who was not included in the survey)

so as you can see, there is a lot of flirting, and those quotes were on the same goddamn page. Imagine being Andrew and flirting that obviously and yet ur dumbass crush doesn’t realise. like the patience this man has, I am so proud of him.

there ends my random rant, this is very stupid but yeah.

#aftg #all for the game #neil josten #andrew minyard #andreil

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camelspit · 18 days

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Ok so despite everyone I know who’s read it telling me to just not I’m reading the aftg series and let me say it’s an experience.

Also my best friend is reading it because of me and I’m not sure how to feel about it

🤯🤯omg have fun bestie!!! give me all your thoughts while youre reading i need to soak them up like plant and water 🙏🙏

#i feel like people who say its bad only look at the kind of crazy unrealistic plot and never look further.#because the characters? the relationships? the pacing? its all insane.#genuinley i dont think ive ever read a series whose characterization was as consistent and interesting.

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nobaracore · 8 months

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also i love you so much and have missed talking to you too <3333 & the jasmine throne reread is so real of you..... completely different level of quality but a friend got me into the all for the game trilogy and i have reread it like six different times in the span of three months by now i am ENRAPTURED!!!

our pen pal asks were simply iconic i was just thinking about priyamalini the other day like a reread and a breakdown was just bound to happen at this point (me in 2021 crying on the bathroom floor 🤞.thank you to olivia rodrigo i would cite APA format but i am lazy)

OMG AFTG i think i picked up the first book but then i forgot about it and i really do need to pick it up again i can't even remember how my brain completely just forgot about a books existence this is why i read one book at a time. also you know a book is good when you've reread it again even if you know every single plot point at that point

#ask #sun tag

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go-catch-a-chickn · 1 year

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Oh my gosh, we need to be friends. Maze Runner, AFTG, AND you work with kids? I think we’re the same person. Please tell me your thoughts on the Maze Runner movies vs the books! Personally, I didn’t like how much they changed Scorch Trials especially, but I did like the ending to Death Cure. It was less of a twist like the books and more of a bittersweet resolution.

HIIIII!! i am so sorry it took me forever to answer but here i am 💕

omg another person who loves aftg and tmr - AMAZING YES LET'S BE FRIENDS

I love the first book, Fever Code and all movies a lot. The first movie is a brilliant adaption. The Death Cure book I've never liked. I LOVE that they changed almost everything for the last movie. The whole is-WICKED-good-or-not dilemma in the book annoyed me to no end and some of the characters seemed not like themselves? Especially Thomas towards the end felt quite out of character to me. I doubt the plot of the last book would have made a good movie and with changing the plot they did amazing on the movie, I love it so much

The thing about Scorch Trials is, that my mind changed so much here. When I first read the book I liked it a lot with its fast paced and thrilling plot. And I hated that they changed so much for the movie and was so disappointed that I didn't feel like watching the last movie at all. But that totally changed when I finally watched Death Cure. That movie got me hooked again! I reread all three books and I don't like Scorch Trials book now and am happy they changed it. I think the movie is very underrated. it has tons of beautiful moments between the characters (sadly, my fav scene got cut from the movie) and is so important for them to form a family and to path the way for why they risk everything in the last movie to save Minho. I love the second movie. Also the one that inspires me the most for my writing with missing scenes.

Also big bonus of the movies - I disliked book Aris and deeply hated Teresa and now Aris is my baby. And Teresa is far from a character I like but movie Teresa is okay with me and especially in Scorch Trials I could make peace with her somewhat.

Would you like a movie triology/show based on All for the Game? I personally would die for that but with all the trigger warnings I highly doubt an adaption for the screen is likely to happen. But just the thought of watching them become a family, all the character growth and the exy!!! omg I desperately want to see an Exy game...yeah but I sadly don't see it happening

#the maze runner #tmr #all for the game #aftg #asks

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if-music-be-the-food-of-love · 1 year

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I posted 5,827 times in 2022

That's 1,799 more posts than 2021!

427 posts created (7%)

5,400 posts reblogged (93%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@jordanshenessy

@carloslouwho

@willemijzermans

I tagged 5,557 of my posts in 2022

Only 5% of my posts had no tags

#setting up a sobbe queue bc my dash needs more sobbe - 615 posts

#buddie - 606 posts

#adorable and wholesome heartstopper - 315 posts

#bwahahaha - 300 posts

#kinnporsche - 249 posts

#eddie diaz <333 - 204 posts

#missing them so i’m reblogging some of my favorite sets - 174 posts

#aftg - 132 posts

#911 spoilers - 123 posts

#sobbe - 122 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#the whole episode is leaning towards family screaming family and we’re all sitting here after years of fics dumbfounded that they are coming

My Top Posts in 2022:

The symbolism of Eddie holding both Christopher and Buck’s heart is phenomenal: Eddie picking them up together; their hearts, essentially Buck and Chris, coming as a pair, as a package deal because they already are (a father and his son); Buck’s heart being more romantic and playful, as would be the case with a friend and lover; Chris’s being anatomical bc he literally got it from Eddie; the hearts just lying there, waiting for Eddie to find them and hold them. It’s the idea that he can have both. That he already has them. They are his. There. Waiting. Ready. Already loving him and supporting him and holding him up.

We started season 5 with Eddie saving a literal heart from a helicopter, and now he’s saving his own, embarking on a healing journey that will allow him to fully enjoy the love of the two hearts that have already been entrusted to him.

And as we know, Eddie’s already given Buck his heart, trusted him with his whole ass heart, bc he gave him Chris. First after the tsunami and then again with the will. “You saved him. Now let us save you.” Eddie and Chris helped heal Buck’s heart then, and now, in Eddie’s hour of need, Buck has seamlessly stepped in as a supportive partner, as a second parent, ready to help heal Eddie’s heart. Why was it so easy? Bc he was already doing it before. He’d already been putting in the work. He’d already been “making it.” Now it’s just more obvious bc Eddie needs help. They are so intricately entwined and bound together they don’t know where one of them begins and the other ends.

“You can have my back any day” has turned into “you can have my heart, my family, and my life. I am yours.” And all Buck wants is to be loved and wanted, and here we are—an epic love story in the making.

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I think it’s a very interesting choice that Buck is initially the only one in the frame when they arrive at the DIY house. It’s like they wanted Eddie’s presence and their partnership to be a reveal, like “oh isn’t Buck sweet to want to help out,” but then it’s not Buck it’s BuckandEddie. Because they are partners. Because they thought of this together. Because they like to fix things. And they brought friends. Suddenly it’s just a wholesome, sweet moment of husbands helping someone out. It can’t be misconstrued as anything else.

But anyway, the point is that they could have shown Eddie from the beginning, but they didn’t. He comes into the frame well after Buck, and it felt like it meant something, like we needed to see how they support each other, how they’re a matched set.

How Eddie would follow Buck anywhere.

That’s it for me. That right there. Eddie knows how he feels while Buck is still searching, still figuring it out, so Eddie is willing to wait and follow and be there for him until he does. Sure this is a cute moment of hotness, but I think it’s also indicative of where their relationship stands atm.

158 notes - Posted October 20, 2022

Omg, rereading aftg and Andrew stopped Neil from running away that first day. He became the reason Neil stayed, but here in the first few pages he physically stops him from running. Talk about carrying a theme throughout. It was right here at the beginning.

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I have to keep pinching myself to remember that the last two episodes are canon and not fanfic.

They really happened. We aren’t all having a collective fever dream. Eddie’s finally in therapy, finally facing his thoughts and fears. Chris called Buck. Buck broke down the door. Buck was in the room. Buck gave Eddie his heart. Buck “misunderstood the assignment.” They’re at last broaching the topic of the shooting. Buck’s out there husbanding and parenting his heart out, and Eddie’s letting him. Eddie’s letting him in. Eddie’s letting him take care of them, and I’m—

Eddie’s letting him bc they are a family, and this is not a fic.

370 notes - Posted April 21, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Character who can’t control his heart eyes.

Me: That’s the one. I’m going to spiral over that one. That one is now my best friend. That’s my new blorbo. I want that one. I’m gonna watch him be embarrassingly in love and enjoy every second of it.

422 notes - Posted July 30, 2022

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #not surprised by any of this

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aftgficrec · 3 years

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Omg there is this one fic that I can’t find that Neil basically set up a smoke bomb so that when he went to buy his things it would go off when Andrew opened his duffle bag? And it was pink? And wymack made him promise not to?

We found an abandoned fic where Neil does this with tear gas, it’s in scifi au “The 148.” We also found Neil setting a smoke bomb in the au “We Used to Be Friends,” launching a pink glitter bomb at exy practice in “Just Because I Can,” and Andrew sending a glitter bomb in the Harry Potter au “An Exchange of Owls.”

I’m marking this unsolved; if anyone knows the pink smoke bomb fic please drop a comment! - A

The 148 by AlexGlass (orphan_account) [Rated M, 24735 words, incomplete, last updated Aug 2017]

The late 1980s were worrying times, as people suddenly gained abilities formerly reserved to the furthest edges of science fiction. It was only in '88 that the world got enough of a grip to attempt to find an explanation for the source of parahuman abilities. What they found was trigger events: people, when placed under great amounts of physical or mental duress, could gain immense amounts of power.

And there is no source of physical and mental duress quite like organized college sports.

tw: implied/referenced non consensual drug use, tw: blood, tw: implied/referenced emotional/psychological abuse, tw: violence

We Used To Be Friends by gluupor [Rated M, 104576 words, complete, 2020]

Neil's life is thrown into disarray when his best friend is murdered. As he starts his senior year of high school, he finds himself on the outside looking in, a social pariah whose former friends are only too willing to bully and ostracize him.

Working for his father, a private investigator, leads him to evidence that his friend's murder may not be as straightforward as it seems. Neil throws himself into the investigation, hoping that solving the case might help him regain some of what he lost.

tw: implied/referenced csa, tw: implied/referenced drug addiction, tw: non-consensual drug use, tw: involuntary outing, tw: classism, tw: racism, tw: bullying, tw: violence, tw: homophobia, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced murder

Just Because I Can by NikNak22 [Rated M (we say T), 7711 Words, Complete, 2020]

Dan and Neil exchange a look. Then Dan sighs, rubbing a hand across her forehead. “Great. Just what we need. A prank war. The last time the team faced one of those, I lost a dealer, a goalie, and someone was nearly blinded.”

“All in one day?” Neil quips.

AKA: Five times the Foxes were pranked, and the one time the prankster gets their due.

tw: implied/referenced abuse

An Exchange of Owls by AgentCoop [Rated T, 2792 words, complete, AFTG Spring Exchange 2021]

Dear McGonagall,

Fuck you.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Not-A-Witch Minyard

***

In which Andrew's Hogwarts letter finds him three years too late. In which Neil is a work study student manning the owlery. In which shenanigans, hijinks, and magic ensue via letter over the course of a semester.

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bloody-wonder · 4 years

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“i wanna write about neil putting andrews hand under his shirt” here’s your excuse!!

thanks for playing along *wink wink*

so this scene which needs no introduction somehow manages to be overappreciated in the fandom while simultaneously being underappreciated. here’s what i mean. (tw cause i talk about the drake incident)

so there’s context and subtext to this scene. the context is that neil needs andrew to agree to get committed and leave kevin behind so neil must convince him that he would be a satisfactory replacement as kevin’s “bodyguard” - if riko comes for kevin, neil will not budge. so neil decides to show andrew his “credentials” - the scars which prove that so much damage has already been done to him that riko can’t really scare him anymore. however neil can’t just take the shirt off in a room full of people bcs he wants to show the scars to no one but andrew so his next best decision is to take andrew’s hand and put it under his shirt so that he can feel them. for neil, at least consciously, it’s just a perfectly logical persuasion strategy.

that’s the context which in the fandom is readily pushed aside in favor of the homoerotic subtext: “omg andrew touched neil’s naked skin *fans oneself energetically* that’s sooooo gay”. the shitposts about what wymack must have thought at seeing this are an entire subgenre by this point. like, i’m not saying it’s not gay or criticizing anyone for pointing out homoerotic subtext so enthusiastically, but still it’s very interesting to me why people prefer to look at this scene from wymack’s pov - who had no context of what exactly was happening bcs he didn’t know a lot about andrew’s deals and bcs the boys were talking in german. people prefer to strip this scene of its context to the point where neil and andrew are just any two boys touching each other in a mildly erotic way.

now one of the reasons i love aftg so much is that everything in it is very specific to its context and its characters (which is btw probably the reason why we can’t explain or describe aftg to our friends - it’s hard to describe unless you recount everything that happens in it or it would make no sense). so what i propose instead is returning this scene into its context but going deeper - not just looking at it in terms of a given dialogue like neil does but in terms of the tragic sequence of events that lead to andrew having to be committed.

so.

andrew has just been violently raped, again, by the same abuser he took so much pains to get away from. his deepest darkest secret, which even his closest circle and his therapist didn’t know, has just been disclosed in the worst way possible. now they all know. now in their eyes he has graduated from the resident “sociopath” to the victim of the nastiest kind of abuse. he has been put in the worst kind of spolight. now they all know - his family, his team, neil. what will be their reaction? will their treatment of him change? will they pity him? ugh.

andrew is in great physical pain and the happy pills won’t let his spiralling mind process what just happened properly. but the underlying feeling, i imagine, is of being found out, singled out, branded as different, alone. kevin and aaron are in a state of shock, nicky is crying and trying to hug him, and wymack is little help.

enter neil. we’re privy to his inner monologue so we know that neil was as shocked as the rest of them and felt nauseous bcs of the horror and pressure of the situation, but he showed nothing of it outwardly. he even found the time and cheek to confront andrew about something while everyone else was treating him like a ticking bomb or fatally ill. neil, who has already sufficiently demonstrated that his treatment of andrew won’t change one bit, then wants to take kevin off his shoulders so that andrew is able to go away to take care of himself, and in order to persuade him he wants to show him his scars - but only to him - so he puts andrew’s hand under his shirt. andrew knew that neil has scars but he didn’t know the extent. “these ouches feel a little rough for a child on the run”, he says. these scars, their number and graveness, show that neil wasn’t just a part of a gangster family or whatever he says but that serious abuse has been inflicted on him personally. that in that regard he has probably been through similar shit as andrew. that he can understand him perfectly. that andrew is not alone.

so when neil puts andrew’s hand on his scars he says not only “i’m competent enough to look after kevin in your absence”, but also “your secret has just been violently disclosed but i have a similar secret and i will tell it to you - this is a snippet. you’re not alone”. this is what he actually says in the text:

The story I gave you was mostly true. I might have left out some critical details, but I know you're not really surprised by that. If we survive this year and you're still interested, you can ask me for them later. I think it's your turn in our secrets game, anyway.

and andrew agreed to neil’s offer - probably not bcs he deemed him “competent” but bcs he felt the major shift in trust between them.

i think its one of the key andreil moments and it certainly is brought up a lot but mainly bcs “it’s gay”, apparently. idk maybe i’m just too aroace or something but it makes me sad that this powerful scene gets diminished to just another homoerotic moment. when i was reading the books for the first time, the homoeroticism of this scene didn’t even occur to me bcs i was still very much in the post-drake not at all amorous mindset as i imagine were neil and andrew. so if you ask me, “the gayness” of this scene is overhyped, but its meaning is definitely underappreciated.

tl;dr neil didn’t put andrew’s hand under his shirt - he put it on his scars

#andreil #andrew minyard #neil josten #all for the game #the foxhole court #aftg mine #aftg ask #whenever i'm like not everything is about sex you know #i feel like a prude #and whenever i'm like not everything's gay #i feel like the showrunners of teen wolf

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Hii Benja!! Do you have any song recs and/or any unpopular opinions on either aftg or shameless???

for the sleepover ask game ✨

hi! aj, omg you read aftg? how did i not know this? we have to talk about this!!

i don't have very many aftg reading friends, so idk how unpopular it is, but i'm an aaron minyard and kevin day apologist. and i wanna read the kevandriel drafts. not because i think they'll be better than aftg, but because i love gay men with problems and i think that would be a fun trainwreck to watch.

my unpopular shameless opinion is that i don't like the throuple. i'm not a big fan of svetlana in general, and i hate how after two whole seasons of exploring bisexuality in a positive light, they backtracked and ended it with "v isn't attracted to fiona, so she's actually straight and just into being dominated" like 🙄 v and kev were literally introduced into the show talking about all the crazy, kinky sex they have. i'm supposed to believe mrs. veronica ball-fisher would enter into a whole marriage with a woman, not because she was actually attracted to said woman, but because she's... *checks notes* somehow just not aware that her sexual needs aren't being met. entirely unrealistic, thank you!

some other songs i'm currently vibing with:

kill v maim // grimes

pull up late // megan thee stallion

sleepwalker // qveen herby

raingirl // yaeji

more song recs: [x]

#mickeymilkovichenthusiast #thank you aj!!#ask game #sleepover saturday

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Omg I have so many requests for aftg

Can you do childhood best friends Andriel or like Dad!Nicky who adopted the twins when they were really little or literally anything I love your writing so much

UHHHHHHHH why not both!! Honestly I love Nicky, I think he’d be a good dad. This is all totally diverse from canon lmao for obvious reasons, and...they’re all a bit ooc. I tried to do a kidfic but in the end it ended up being more of a Highschool AU than anything else, but I’d love to explore a kidfic with these guys at some point. I also got some inspo for this while looking around for things to add, like the note and crush talk. Enjoy, my darlings!

Read on AO3 | Word Count: 4,025 | Rated: G | TW for underage drinking and Riko being an ass for like 5 seconds

The first day Andrew met Neil Josten, he still went by Nathaniel and he was one of the most mysterious people Andrew had ever met.

They were in the same first grade class. People came and went to the school all the time, and if you didn’t join in the middle of the school year you were fortunate enough to not have your presence announced to everyone. Nathaniel hadn’t been in either Andrew or Aaron’s kindergarten class and seemed to just show up one day, for some reason grouped up with people like Kevin and Jean and Riko, which meant that he had to be mean. At least, that’s what Aaron said.

“Who would wanna be friends with them?” Aaron had complained to Nicky one night.

“Be nice,” Nicky had told them both. “It’s always a good idea to give people a chance. Maybe he’s friendly.”

“Doubt it,” Aaron had huffed.

And to be honest? Aaron had been right.

Andrew didn’t bother talking to him, but he couldn’t take his eyes off of Nathaniel, either. He was the first person Andrew had seen with red hair in his life, which he hated to admit to himself was cool in any way. Between them both it had been Aaron that was the first to try to talk, but he had quickly run to his friends and even Andrew to complain that Nathaniel was indeed the meanest kid he’d ever met. Nicky said that people are mean for a reason, and that you just had to figure out why and help them see what was wrong. Become their friend, basically.

But Nathaniel hung out with Riko’s friends, which meant that he was a lost cause.

That didn’t stop Andrew from looking at him. He knew he wasn’t being subtle, because he didn’t bother turning away when Nathaniel caught his gaze, but Andrew didn’t care what Nathaniel thought of him. He wasn’t looking for a friend, it was just that the kid was interesting.

Once, Nathaniel had passed him a note during their reading hour. Andrew had sat in one of the big bean-bag chairs and Nathaniel had been on the floor next to him, eyes on their teacher the entire time he passed the small piece of paper over. Andrew thought about not taking it for only a few seconds, but read the words in handwriting much neater than his own. It read: Get out of my school.

Andrew thought that was funny, because if anything it was his school first, so he didn’t bother replying then and there. He kept the note and didn’t show Nicky, because then they’d have to do a messy apology with parents involved, and it really wasn’t that big of a deal. He just dragged Kevin away from Riko’s circle while they transitioned from afternoon recess to math, deciding he needed to give Nathaniel something back.

“What’s Nathaniel’s favorite animal?” he asked.

“I don’t know,” Kevin said, with that nervous tone he always had.

“Ask him for me,” Andrew basically ordered, going to his table.

Kevin may be timid but he wasn’t useless, since he actually managed to get an answer out of Nathaniel. Apparently his favorite animal was a fox, specifically orange ones. So the next time it rained, forcing everyone in the school to have indoor recess, Andrew had found a piece of paper and messily drew him a fox using the brightest orange crayon, writing in the neatest way he could, This was my school first. He then delivered it to Nathaniel himself, not bothering to stick around to see what he’d think afterwards.

But the next day there was no rain, so when they were outside on the playground Nathaniel had approached Andrew. He was sitting on one of the triceratops statues near the swings that other kids in his class usually used to pretend they were horseback riding, but this one was an ugly green so not many kids used it. Right behind Nathaniel was Riko’s group, and they were all talking loudly enough that Andrew could barely ignore them.

Nathaniel pulled himself up on the back of the triceratops and said loudly, “I’m not your friend anymore, Riko. Andrew’s my friend now.”

Riko didn’t look happy. Andrew was mostly confused, because the notes he and Nathaniel had shared weren’t exactly friendly, but he wasn’t going to push a kid off his triceratops. And if it made Riko mad, then Andrew was entertained. Barely a minute passed before they were left alone, Riko announcing loudly that he’d never be Nathaniel’s friend again.

“Good,” Nathaniel said, low enough that it was probably to himself, but Andrew had heard it anyway.

“I thought you wanted me to get out of your school,” Andrew said.

“Who cares?” Nathaniel asked, holding his chin in his hands as he slumped over. “I only hung out with Riko ‘cause our parents know each other. They expect us to be friends, or somethin’.”

“I don’t have any friends,” Andrew replied.

“What about Aaron?”

“He’s my brother, he doesn’t count.” Andrew glanced at where Riko was still fuming, almost smiling at the sight. “I don’t have friends ‘cause I don’t want any.”

“Well, I told Riko that you’re my friend,” Nathaniel huffed, turning on the triceratops’s back to face Andrew, who got a good view of his glare that looked much more like a pout. “So. Friends?”

Andrew hesitated. “What do friends do?”

“I don’t know,” Nathaniel said with a shrug. “We’ll figure it out together. Yes or no?”

“Okay,” Andrew said, shaking on it when Nathaniel asked.

They’d been as close to best friends as they could be, after that. Andrew was around every time Nathaniel had dyed his hair a different color and eventually tried going by different names, asking Andrew how he felt about the ones he was considering. He always said it was because he didn’t want to be ‘Nathaniel’ anymore, especially after his father got put away for good and his uncle took him in after his mother checked herself into some kind of mental institute. Andrew was always glad that Nicky had been around to take him and Aaron in, especially after seeing what his friend had gone through.

Their freshman year of high school, Nathaniel had officially gotten his name changed to ‘Neil Josten’ and he went back to the red hair, which Andrew was surprised to find he had missed. Neil joined the high school exy team and somehow managed to convince Andrew to try out as well. The only reason Andrew had agreed was because Neil was over at the time and said it in front of Nicky, who had been trying to encourage both of the twins to try more activities and meet more people. So, when Nicky wouldn’t stop asking, Andrew joined the team just to shut him up.

Apparently, he was really good at playing goalie. Renee Walker, the Fox’s current goalie, was more than willing to teach him everything she knew about the sport, and how to throw knives, so she was cool in Andrew’s book. The rest of the team was on thin fucking ice.

Their first two years were shaky, mostly because Riko was also playing and kept trying to act like the captain despite the fact that he wasn’t. But eventually there was some kind of clicking point when Kevin and Jean broke away from him, suddenly hanging around Neil’s group. Which included Andrew. And once Riko didn’t have anyone ‘willingly’ hanging around him anymore, he became so much easier to ignore.

Neil claims that’s why they were able to get to state in their junior year. They still had a long way to go, but that didn’t stop the school from celebrating, and the entire team as well. Neil invited them over to his uncle’s huge house for a party that Andrew suspected was actually Allison’s party, but miraculously the only ones to show up were the team(except for Riko, who hadn't been invited for obvious reasons). They gathered in the giant living room and took turns passing the remote around to play stupid videos on the giant TV, trying to talk, eat and drink the wine they stole from Stuart's cabinet all at the same time.

It was chaos, and Andrew was sure he would’ve left by now if he hadn’t had two glasses of the Sweet Riesling Kevin had found and told him he’d like. “‘Cause it’s sweet,” Kevin had said.

“I can guess,” Andrew had responded. He tried it and found it didn’t taste that bad. It wasn’t his first time drinking, but Nicky only kept one bottle of wine around for when his boyfriend, Erik, came over, and it was a bitter red wine. This was much better.

While they were tispy and and eating too much, some of the teammates ended up talking about relationships of all things. Andrew had half-heartedly paid attention to Allison wax poetry about Renee’s hair, Matt and Dan flirt as though they weren’t already in a relationship and his brother going on a rant about his girlfriend that nobody listened to. Andrew held his head up with one hand, eyes closed and leaning against the armrest of the huge couch because he was starting to feel sleepy and Neil’s body was warm against his side.

“What about you, Neil?” someone asked. Andrew was pretty sure it was Matt, but he didn’t want to open his eyes to confirm it.

“What about me?” Neil definitely sounded the most sober, probably because he hadn’t had anything to drink as far as Andrew knew.

“Who do you like?”

Neil snored. “Really? We’re doing a sleepover-style ‘who’s your crush?’ thing?”

“Yes,” Allison confirmed, sounding almost offended. It made Andrew crack his eyes open, glancing from her pout to Neil’s amused look. “So spill! Who’s your crush?”

“Nobody,” Neil replied.

“Nobody?” Allison gasped. Andrew looked around the room to ignore any pang he felt in his chest, suddenly noticing that everyone was paying attention to the conversation. “Seriously?”

“Nobody,” Neil repeated, bouncing one leg where it was crossed over the other.

“Wow,” she breathed.

“‘m jealous,” Kevin whined on Neil’s other side. “You don’t have to worry about impressing anyone. Ever.”

“I never do in the first place, Kev,” Neil teased. He grabbed Kevin’s glass when he nearly dropped it, putting it down on the coffee table. “Why is this big news to you guys?”

“I’ve just never met anyone who didn’t have a crush at the very least,” Allison mumbled.

“Same,” Dan put in.

Matt leaned forward to pat Neil’s shoulder. “Which isn’t anything bad, buddy!” He let out a loud laugh as though he was trying to get rid of some awkward air that wasn’t in the room, but that he created as a result. “But seriously. You’ve never thought about kissing anyone?”

“Well, now I am, ‘cause you guys are ganging up on me,” Neil complained, pushing Matt’s hand away.

“Who would you do it with, then?” Matt asked.

Neil glanced at Andrew, who could see the call for help in his eyes. Andrew reached for one of the knives that Renee totally didn’t give him for his sixteenth birthday. “You’re all so loud,” he groaned. “Next person that says anything is getting stabbed.”

His knives were taken away by either Neil or Renee, because he didn’t fight back and ended up falling asleep a few minutes later. The next morning he was still at Neil’s house, had a headache and dry throat, but nothing more than that. Nobody had moved him from the couch, but Andrew figured that was because everyone had fallen asleep somewhere in the living room. The only one that was missing was Neil, who ended up being in the kitchen trying to cook some food. Or succeeding, but Andrew wasn’t sure making toast counted as cooking.

“Morning, Sunshine,” Neil teased. He passed Andrew a glass of water he must’ve had ready for whenever someone woke up. Andrew took it and drank the whole thing. “You look amazing.”

Andrew gave him the middle finger and dropped the glass on the kitchen counter with a satisfying click. “Pacing is a thing,” he said quietly, closing his eyes and massaging his temples.

“Well, duh,” Neil replied. He grabbed the now empty glass and refilled it, sliding it back towards Andrew. “You’d know that if you didn’t take drinking advice from Kevin of all people.”

“Fuck you,” Andrew groaned. “I didn’t take his advice. I just drank what he suggested.”

“Which is also a mistake.”

“Hrm.” Andrew straightened up and grabbed one of the slices of toast that had peanut butter on it, ripping it into pieces to eat. The peanut butter kept getting on his fingers so he kept licking it off, and it wasn’t until half the toast was gone that he realized Neil was leaning against the counter and just staring at him. “What?”

“Nothing,” Neil said quickly. Too quickly. “You have peanut butter on your nose,” he said, turning around and leaving the kitchen altogether.

Andrew frowned and reached up to wipe it off with his thumb. There wasn’t any there.

~*~

Andrew knew he liked boys because one day, after Kevin had left Riko’s group and started hanging out with everyone else, he’d realized that Kevin had gone through a growth spurt and - apparently - puberty. He hadn’t had too big of a freak out because by that point Nicky and Erik had been together for nearly two years, and Nicky had already given both twins the whole ‘I’ll love you no matter what you identify as’ speech, which had been nice but unnecessary. So, Andrew had someone he could go to for advice if he needed it.

He wondered now if the reason Nicky had given that speech in the first place was because he'd known Andrew was gay before Andrew had realized it. The moment he’d mentioned something about Neil that was just a little bit more than friendly, Nicky had been all over it, and Andrew was almost positive that his cousin-turned-guardian was planning their wedding already.

He was pretty sure the comment he made was when Neil had actually cleaned up for the homecoming dance their freshman year, and he was sure he'd said something like: “Well, who knew you could actually dress yourself?” And Andrew hadn’t been wrong, because Neil usually wore faded jeans and ripped sweaters with old stains. And more than once he'd added a pair of neon orange crocs he called his lucky pair, or something stupid. Andrew would've destroyed them by now if he knew it wouldn't make Neil upset. But the moment that comment had left his mouth, Nicky had asked to take a picture of everyone, snapping a few of Aaron and Katelyn because they were actually going together and then of Andrew and Neil, which Andrew knew was weird at the time.

But he was pretty sure he didn’t know he had any sort of crush at that point. When he looked back now, a full year after coming out and having Nicky and Erik’s ungodly amount of support, he could point out all the periods of time he thought Neil was attractive, all the way back to when he was staring in the first grade. It should’ve stuck out to him that he never wanted to hold a girl’s hand, like Aaron did, but that he wanted to reach out and hold someone like Neil’s instead.

Why couldn’t Neil have been my gay awakening? Andrew often asked himself. Kevin can never know.

He didn’t know what Kevin would do with that information, but it would be something.

Things had been a bit tense between Andrew and Neil for about a week now, which was bad because Neil was the only one that Andrew considered to be his friend, and it made practices so much more annoying. Neil wasn’t exactly avoiding him, but he wasn’t going out of his way to start conversations or simply hang around like usual. Andrew didn’t know what happened within a week for them to suddenly be like this, but he wanted things back to the way they were before. He figured the best way to do that would be to talk to Neil.

Andrew approached him after school on a Friday. They had no practice that night and a math test was coming up. Neil is good at math. “My place,” Andrew told him, pretty sure the glare he’d had since that morning wasn’t gone. “We’re studying for math.”

Neil had blinked once, then said, “Okay.”

They walked in tense silence to Andrew’s, because Nicky had bought a house only two blocks from the high school when they originally moved to town and there was no point to drive. Aaron would be out with Katelyn for the night and Nicky had a date with Erik, on which Erik planned to propose, so they’d most likely be alone until the next morning, giving Andrew and Neil plenty of time to talk.

They didn’t when they went inside, completely silent until they made it to Andrew’s room. Neil sat down on the floor near his bed, and Andrew at his desk, finding all the old homework he had for the math class just so that he wouldn’t have to look at Neil’s stupid face.

“Why are we studying?” Neil asked, barely a full minute since they sat down.

“Because there’s a math test,” Andrew replied.

“Don’t lie,” Neil said firmly. Andrew finally looked at him. “Neither of us need to study, Andrew.”

And it was true, but Andrew wasn’t going to back down. “What if I said I was having trouble with probability?”

“I’d say you’re lying.” Neil got to his feet and walked to where Andrew was sitting in his chair. “What’s wrong?”

“You’ve been ignoring me,” Andrew mumbled, staring at his old math homework. “Ever since the party.” He frowned, thinking to himself. “Did I say something?”

“No, you fell asleep on my shoulder and snored,” Neil said with a smirk. It dropped after a moment. “Sorry, it’s just me.”

“Just you?” Andrew asked.

“Yeah.” Neil paused, grabbing a spare pen and clicking it until Andrew couldn’t take the sound anymore and threw it on his bed. Neil finally sighed. “I don’t want to ruin our friendship.”

Andrew thought that Neil could kill someone and he’d still want to be friends with him. Probably still want to kiss him, too. “You can’t,” he said.

“Don’t make promises you can’t keep.”

“Just tell me.”

Neil sighed again, probably for the dramatics. “When Matt asked me who I’d want to kiss, I could only think of you.”

Andrew stopped breathing. Suddenly, when the opportunity was there in front of him, he didn’t know what to do. “Just kiss?” he managed to ask, somehow keeping his voice from cracking.

“I don’t think so, anymore,” Neil said quietly, staring at his fingers. “At first, I did. And I thought, ‘hey, if it’s just a kiss, that’s fine’. But I couldn’t stop thinking this whole week, and I kept realizing that I don’t just want to kiss you, Andrew.” Neil finally looked up, right into Andrew’s eyes. “I want to hold your hand and go see movies and eat food and whatever else it is that we can do. And I’ve never, ever, felt that way before.”

“So you backed off,” Andrew guessed.

“Yeah. I’m sorry I did that.”

Andrew leaned forward in his chair. “Neil, I want to do that too.”

Neil blinked. “Wait, really?”

“Yes, you stupid idiot.” Andrew got to his feet, eyes on Neil’s hands. He wanted to hold one, but that had to be weird right after confessing your feelings and having them returned. Shouldn’t they kiss? Andrew really wanted a kiss.

“So…” Neil trailed off, and Andrew finally looked up at his eyes again. “If I asked you to see a movie and eat ice cream with me, what would your answer be?”

“Yes,” Andrew replied quickly. Probably too quickly, if the way Neil bit his lip to try to hide a smile was anything to go on. “We have all that here.”

“What a coincidence,” Neil said, the smile breaking free.

Andrew wasn’t sure how he managed to keep his own off his face. His body felt light, but in a good way. “And if I asked you to kiss me,” Andrew said quietly, glancing at Neil’s smile, “what would your answer be?”

“Yes,” Neil breathed. “A definite yes. Can I do it now?”

“I don’t know,” Andrew said, taking a step back. “You ignored me the whole week.”

“Andrew,” Neil whined, taking a step forward so that they were in each other’s spaces again. “Yes or no?”

And the only reason Andrew hesitated again was because he wanted to leave Neil in suspense. “My answer is yes,” he finally said, reaching for Neil’s hands and moving them to his shoulders. “Kiss me.”

Neil did. Andrew had never kissed anyone before, so he was pretty sure they both were pursing their lips too much and standing too stiffly, but it wasn’t bad. Andrew kept his grip on Neil’s wrists and after a few seconds they found a better rhythm, breaking apart with a noise that made Andrew shiver. Neil’s eyes were barely open and he was still smiling like an idiot.

“You look so stupid,” Andrew teased, letting go of Neil’s wrists to grip his waist instead.

“Hmm,” Neil hummed, pressing their foreheads together. “You look stupid-er.”

“Says the guy who used the word ‘stupid-er’.”

“Shouldn’t have kissed me, ‘cause now I’m gonna want to do it all the time.”

Andrew agreed. He wanted to go up on his tip-toes to kiss Neil’s mouth again because Neil leaned his head back and Andrew couldn’t get to him any other way. He huffed and squeezed Neil’s sides. “Come back,” he complained.

Neil laughed. “I didn’t go anywhere,” he replied, but leaned back down anyways.

“I hate you,” Andrew whispered before they kissed again.

Like Andrew had said, they had movies and lots of ice cream at the house, so they forgot about math and spent the rest of the day on the couch. Andrew had a pint of Ben & Jerry’s that he refused to share with Neil no matter how many attempts to steal a spoonful were made. He was pretty sure the only reason Neil kept doing it was because it gave him an excuse to be in Andrew’s space again.

When the sun had set and the ice cream was gone, Andrew found the thick quilt Nicky had made and threw it over his legs, holding one end open. “Here,” he invited.

Neil took the invitation, crawling close. “Is it okay to cuddle?” he asked.

“That’s what I’m trying to get you to do,” Andrew explained. Neil let him move them both how he wanted, until Neil’s head was on Andrew’s chest and their arms were wrapped around each other.

“What if Nicky comes in and sees this?” Neil asked.

“Then he’ll die of happiness,” Andrew mumbled.. “Erik’s proposing to him, tonight.”

“Oh, it’s about time.” Neil shifted until his face was closer to Andrew’s shoulder.

“If I’m asleep, don’t let him take a picture,” Andrew requested, holding a bit more tightly to Neil. “I think he knew I had a crush on you before I did.”

“You had a crush on me?” Neil asked, raising his head so that Andrew could see his smirk. “Wow, that’s embarrassing.”

“You kissed me,” Andrew pointed out.

“You still liked me first.”

“Your face makes up for your personality,” Andrew decided, closing his eyes.

“The one thing I have going for me,” Neil said with a snort. “Goodnight, sleepy-head.”

Nicky didn’t end up getting a picture. By the time he got back on Saturday morning, excitedly showing off his ring, Neil and Andrew had been awake for hours, lips red from kissing but nothing else out of place. Andrew tried to pay attention to Nicky’s rambles but couldn’t stop glancing at Neil, who wouldn’t stop glancing back.

Sneaking around was going to be far too entertaining.

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