
Sobriety at any point before that was a violation of his parole. His lawyers struck a deal instead: Andrew would spend some time in intensive therapy, attend weekly counselling, and take medication.Īfter three years of this they’d let him off his medication long enough to assess his progress. The courts thought his violence to be a gross overreaction and tried to charge him.

Two years ago some men attached Nicky outside of a nightclub, Andrew was within his rights to defend Nicky but he’d almost killed the four of them. Curious that Neil is already taking all his cues from Andrew on what to and not to do.Īndrew wasn’t cheerful naturally his mania was drug-induced and court regulated.

Meaning he values Kevin and Andrew’s opinions and doesn’t want to show any weakness in front of them. Neil has already lumped Andrew in completely with Kevin, and not the rest of the Monsters. He’d figure it out, but not here and not now, not with Andrew and Kevin as witnesses. Neil met his eyes for only a moment and knew it was worse to stay out here with them than it was to cross that threshold. Andrew was smiling, but his pale stare was intense. Still, it wasn’t until Andrew stepped up alongside him to see what the holdup was that Neil could move again. Look at my little cynical children agreeing on things. “It’s not the world that’s cruel,” Neil said. “Why bother? It’s a cruel world, right Neil? You wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t.”

“Easy, easy,” Andrew listened his hands in a careless shrug. I don’t think he figures anyone else as quickly as he does with Andrew. Neil catches on really quickly when it comes to figuring Andrew out. He’d been smiling when he smashed a racquet into Neil’s stomach, too.” (p. So just based on the fact Neil thinks he’s interacting with Aaron, I didn’t think it should be included as something Andreil.Īndrew was smiling, but Neil knew his cheer didn’t mean he was going to play nice. So for this chapter I chose to exclude any of the dialogue between Andrew and Neil when Andrew picks him up at the airport, because Andrew is pretending to be his twin brother Aaron and Neil hasn’t caught on.
