Neil looked over his shoulder for Andrew. Last week Dan said Andrew timed his missed dose for a half-hour before serve. His energy started fading during warm-ups and he started the slow slide down right around when he hit the court. The slump lasted maybe an hour and fifteen minutes tops before he started getting sick. A game had two forty-five minute halves and a fifteen-minute break. Penalties and serves added a couple minutes to the clock. It didn't matter that Andrew had pushed the missed dose to the actual first serve; the game was too long for him to hold out. Andrew had to know that, but he didn't look at all concerned. He was still riding his medicine's high and talking animatedly with Renee off to one side.

"Bring it in, Foxes," Wymack called.

Orange moved in his peripheral vision as Neil turned toward Wymack. Neil looked over as the Vixens and Rocky filed into the stadium. The cheerleaders' bench was only twenty feet down from the last of the Foxes' three benches, but Neil couldn't hear their chatter over the rest of the noise. A couple students shouted lewd remarks and gave wolf whistles. The girls completely ignored it in favor of checking each other's skirts and hair. Because they were moving around so much, it was easy for Neil to see the one girl who was holding still. She turned her pompom over and over in her hands as she stared at the Foxes.

"Hi Katelyn!" Nicky yelled with an enthusiastic wave. Aaron elbowed him for that, but Katelyn smiled brightly and waved back. Nicky gave Neil a wolfish grin as Neil stopped beside him. "Katelyn is Aaron's girlfriend."

"She is not," Aaron said. "Knock it off."

"She would be if you'd just ask her out," Matt said. "What's the hold up?"

"Oh." Andrew slapped his fist into his palm as if the answer had just occurred to him. He flashed Matt a wicked grin but answered in German. "Maybe he's afraid she'll die on him like the last woman he really loved."

Aaron shot him a vicious look. "Fuck you."

"Christ, Andrew," Nicky complained.

"I'm going to guess that was completely inappropriate," Matt said, looking between the cousins. "Do I want to know?"

"Do you think we want to tell you?" Andrew asked in English.

"Stow that," Wymack said. "Last I checked this was a team meeting, not a gossip circle. We're on the court for warm-ups in ten. Dan's going to start you off with some laps. If any of you so much as look at the Terrapins on your way past their benches I'll let you walk home from here. Good? Then get going."

Dan set the pace with Matt at her side. The rest of the Foxes followed behind them in pairs. Neil expected to be alone in the rear, and he wouldn't have minded, but they'd only gone a quarter of the way around the inner court when Andrew and Kevin moved. Andrew swerved to one side long enough for Neil to pass him. Kevin picked up speed to fall in alongside Neil. Neil looked over his shoulder at Andrew.