Aftg react

Part72

Book4 chapter 5

They quieted down and continued watching.
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Nathaniel stopped in the doorway to wait on him, and Jean sighed as he ended his last lap in front of the shorter man. "Of course it'd be you, you tedious malcontent."

They bust out laughing (-Andrew), till now whatever insults where thrown at Neil where so much different than this.
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Jean thought maybe they'd make it to campus without a word, but of course Nathaniel had to open his mouth as soon as they were on the road: "I never thanked you for watching out for me at Evermore."
"I did no such thing," Jean said.
"Kevin knew you would. I just didn't see his message in time."

"It's so weird looking at them together like this, their friendship is so weird" said Nicky and it was the truth, they looked like friends but at the same time they had mixed feelings for one another.
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"You are only here now because you are an abominable cockroach," Jean said,

"I really can't what the hell is up with these 'cuss words'" said Matt who was laughing, Aaron almost looked satisfied watching Neil getting called a cockroach maybe he thought of it as revenge for all the times he was called short by Neil. Andrew's eyebrow twitched with amusement but he didn't say anything else. Wymack looked like he agreed, Neil indeed was like a cockroach.
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because he couldn't, wouldn't dwell on that. He closed his eyes against the memory of Nathaniel's skin peeling off, thin as gauze beneath
Riko's knives.

Aaaand that brought the mood down again. It was a rollercoaster with these two. Andrew's armchair creaked with the force his grip had on it, anger rolling off of him in waves. They took the information and filled it away with all the other things Riko has done, happy that they knew Riko's end was coming.
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They took a quick break to calm down.
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It took three tries to find the silverware drawer, and Jean stared down in disbelief. Half of the drawer was full of mini candy bars. He threw them all into the trash before grabbing a fork and slamming the drawer shut.

They watched in disbelief. They had calmed down and they kept on watching, now they watched Jean throw away the mini candy bars (which they new where most likely Andrew's but they wanted to leave some more so no one said anything, even though Andrew looked pissed by the French man's actions. I mean come on you let a tall French fry in your dorm room and he throws away your candy?!), it was strange watching him looking around and messing with stuff.
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In response, Andrew sent Boyd off the court. Jean saw the limp in the tall backliner's step as he made his way to the door, but his replacement didn't take his spot. The Foxes' captain instead went across the court to wait alongside Kevin. Nathaniel, in turn, moved to guard Riko.
"This is madness," Jean said. "Even you aren't that idiotic."

"I have to agree, it was idiotic but we won so I can't say anything" said Wymack reminding everyone of their win, they almost started celebrating again when they where drawn back to the screen.
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They were doomed to a shootout. Jean couldn't see the Foxes' faces through their helmets, but there was a disconcerting jerk to the way they all moved that said they were barely conscious anymore between exhaustion
and the compounding aches of a violent game. They'd buckle in a shootout, but that they'd forced it to this point was impressive.
With ten seconds left on the clock, Jean thought maybe he'd apologize to Nathaniel for calling the Foxes worthless trash bags. At five seconds, Jean thought he'd even admit the team had performed better than he'd thought possible.

"Wow hearing it from him really puts me on a high horse" said Nicky patting hi shoulder looking smug, but he wasn't the only one everyone was smug and happy.
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At two seconds, Kevin scored.
The goal went red, the sportscasters came out of their seats hollering, and the final buzzer rang on a Fox win.
Nathaniel had pushed himself to the point of breaking to hold the line, and he fell like a stone to his hands and knees. Andrew stayed behind in his goal, but the rest of the Foxes ran screaming across the court toward Kevin.
The Ravens were statues, all heads turned up toward the scoreboard and the unbelievable numbers there.
Jean tuned all of them out. None of them mattered save the dumbfounded King standing over Nathaniel's fallen body. The heat that ripped through Jean was so violent and hungry his vision went black for a moment.
Nathaniel pried his helmet off with obvious effort and followed Riko's gaze. The movement was enough to get Riko's attention, and Riko dragged his stare down to the Fox striker. Nathaniel's mouth was moving, because of course he'd have to run his mouth despite being worn down to the bone.