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Neil takes a flight with Andrew for the first time since playing the Texas Longhorns to see him off after he signs onto a pro team post-graduation. Andrew is more willing to accept comfort this time.
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When he slowly blinked his eyes open several hours later, he could tell Andrew was already awake but hadn’t moved yet. Neil exhaled slowly and traced the patterns of the sunlight through the window blinds on the ceiling, lifting one hand to comb gently through soft strands of Andrew’s hair. Neil’s eyes caught on Andrew’s duffel bag holding his uniform and racquet in the corner of the room, and he didn’t bother burying his smile. If this was what it meant to have a future with Andrew and all the time in the world, to watch Andrew fail to keep the satisfied spark out of his eyes when he made the decision to lock down the goal against the most skilled teams in the nation and made good on it, and to know he would be fighting through his fifth year for something worth keeping, he would gladly wait until graduation.