the way kevin day is the single most important person in the series for all of the narrators has me shaking just thinking about how his books are gonna shape the narrative and series as a whole
Imagining in the future when Kevin is on a pro team (with a bunch of players who obviously aren’t up to his standards, because who is) and he is absolutely laying into them all the time and is always bringing up
“Neil Josten would come to the court every single night and practice these drills and you can’t even do them for fifteen minutes”
“Neil Josten once fired shots with Andrew Minyard in goal for a whole night and blew out his arms just because he was stubborn and you can’t even handle shooting on (insert goalie’s name)?”
“Neil Josten played better than you while he was actively running from the Mafia. You think you have other things on your mind?”
Bonus if after a year or two of dealing with this Kevin’s team finally meets Neil at an exy banquet and tattle on him. And Neil is just “??? You literally texted me two weeks ago just to tell me my passes are dogshit? My team hadn’t even played a game or anything, you had just remembered and felt like bringing it up?”
Nora was trying to kill Jeremy for real because imagine your type is tall dark haired men who are ultimately assholes. Then you get a tall dark haired man who’s an asshole to mostly everyone but you. And if that isn’t good enough . He’s French . and now he rides a motorcycle. And cooks. And cleans . And he’s loyal as hell and pretty much already staked a claim on u though neither of u will admit it. But that’s not it. on top of it all you picked CERAMICS as your shared class and as it turns out. He’s really good at it. So now u have to sit there and watch him manhandle and work open and stretch this clay with his long ass fingers while ur already fighting for ur life
Gonna chill out the rest of May and then change my entire life in June. Possibly July if that doesn’t work out. Certainly no later than September or October.
love the fact the deal that SAVES NEILS LIFE is basically Ichirou going “give me 80% of your income for life” and Neil is thinking dude I used to live off ten cents a week, i don’t give a fuuuuck keep all my money just let me makeout w my boyfriend
no thoughts just neil who very vaguely knows about sex from what he heard some boys in school say but he doesn’t really know much at all. so when he and Andrew get more comfortable and he’s finally allowed to explore and learn he deadass asks Andrew “i heard its hard to find so im just gonna ask, where’s your G spot and what do i do to it?” and andrew laughs for the first time in 17 years until there’s tears coming down his face and he’s just so in love with this fucking idiot he can’t believe it
something about andrew developing very complex and very not-casual feelings for the mysterious, dangerous, temperamental new boy and just being like “yeah. i’d fuck you. what abt it” only for neil to respond with “omg really?? u mean it?.?? that’s so cool. what’s ur favorite color. mine’s math. ur so pretty. i think i love you. we’re boyfriends right”
meanwhile andrew maintains his stance of “please die” but he absolutely knows he got himself into this and will not be getting out