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i want to finish this book today but i already miss the foxes 🥹

’i won’t be like them,’ neil said. ‘i won’t let you let me be.’

‘one hundred and one,’ andrew said, ‘going on one hundred and two.’

‘you’re a terrible liar,’ neil said, and andrew kissed him into silence.

ugh my babies 🥺

’neil considered turning around and walking away but suspected that was a good way to get shot in the back’

neil is so unhinged i love him.

slowly making my way through this (and can confirm i am still obsessed w neil and andrew and all the foxes) bc school is a lot and it does not help that i’m also applying to grad school 😅

’despite that, something seemed different. maybe it was the sunlight streaming through the window, making andrew’s pale hair shine brighter and his hazel eyes seem almost gold. whatever it was, it was disorienting’

my babies 😭

’it could mean the world to him, but it couldn’t be everything. it couldn’t fill in the broken pieces of him the way the foxes did. it wouldn’t drop everything to get him from the airport or come back for him without question or call him ‘friend’. neil built his life around exy after his mother died because he needed something to live for, but neil wasn’t alone anymore’

i am not okay 🤧

’his thoughts threatened to tug him down to dark places, so neil silently counted as high as he could in every language he knew. it did nothing to help him sleep, but it at least kept the demons at bay for a little longer’

my poor baby neil 🥺 and andrew and aaron and nicky and jean.