Kevin only shrugged and pulled his hand free. Across the table the upperclassmen were silent. They didn't know what they'd missed but they'd heard Andrew's threat. Nicky shot Kevin an accusatory look for making things awkward and distracted Matt by asking about a recent movie.

Neil let the words go in one ear and out the other. He'd just remembered a question he'd been sitting on for months. He weighed his chances of getting a real answer with so many people present, considered asking in German, and decided he didn't want Andrew's half-assed answer. Kevin sat between Andrew and Neil, so it was easy for Neil to get his attention. He nudged Kevin with his knee and asked in quiet French, "Why do you have his drugs?"

"I hold onto them when he's adjusting his schedule," Kevin answered. "Game nights or nights like tonight when he wants to go into withdrawal, it's better if someone else keeps the bottle. If he has his pills he'll take them. He won't be able to help himself."

Kevin wasn't speaking any louder than Neil had, but the foreign sounds got their teammates' attention. Neil feigned not to see the curious looks Matt and Dan sent him but went back to his snack. Kevin looked at Andrew again. Andrew missed it, as he was digging his phone out of his pocket.

Nicky noticed Andrew's distraction and whined, "That's not Coach, is it? We won tonight. He's not allowed to harass us."

"Just Bee!" Andrew said. "Bee being stupid. Bee being, ha. Look."

Andrew tossed Nicky his phone. Nicky took one look at the screen, laughed, and reached across Aaron to show Neil the phone. Neil didn't care about the team's shrink but he obediently looked at the image she'd sent. It was a grainy picture of Betsy Dobson wearing a bee costume. Nicky waited a beat for Neil's reaction, realized he wasn't going to get one, and passed Andrew's phone back via Neil and Kevin. Andrew typed out a response as soon as he had it back in hand.

"She with Coach?" Dan asked.

"Coach and Abby invited her over," Andrew said without looking up.

"Why is she messaging you?" Neil asked.

"Oh, she does that sometimes."

He didn't sound bothered by it. Neil didn't understand. He knew Andrew had mandatory weekly sessions with her, but he assumed someone like Andrew would resent counseling. "Why do you let her?"

"Not everyone dislikes her," Renee said mildly.

Dan looked startled. "What do you have against Betsy?"

"She's a psychiatrist," Neil said. "I distrust her on principle."

"Give her a chance," Matt said. "She's good people."

"She's pretty badass, you mean," Nicky chipped in. "I was really worried for her when we all went for our first meet-and-greet." He waggled his thumb between himself and Aaron. "Andrew goes through shrinks like he's trying to break a world record only he knows about. She's his eighth one at least."