We mentioned it only in passing, I think. Neil’s saving grace is that Robin joined the team Andrew’s fifth year ***. Robin and Neil are BFFs that year because Neil needs someone else to hang out with. That doesn’t mean it’s not really disorienting having the cousins gone, though. He finally starts using his phone more, and he even takes Nicky’s skype calls from Germany when the timing works out. It helps a bit that Andrew comes back into town from time to time when he’s bored of his new teammates.

After Matt’s graduation, Neil starts another binder – he puts his Riko & Kevin shrine away for good, and he starts another one. This one will track his Foxes as they go out into the world, and it expands beyond Exy – it has short articles from fashion magazines when Allison’s shows are mentioned, or a copy of the text when Dan gets her first job, or handwritten notes about/from the others e.g. Matt was signed today xx/xx/xxxx

Robin thinks it’s a pretty cool idea, so she goes to the locker room one night and takes down all pictures of the original Foxes. She makes copies of them, puts them all back with no one the wiser, and gives Neil a stack of photos to add to his collection.

*** the tl;dr for Robin, because her Ask got seriously out of hand: Robin Cross was handpicked for the Foxes by Andrew, and she started her freshman year during Neil’s senior/Andrew’s fifth year. She’s the only other person to make it into Andrew’s circle. She was created to answer to the very problem you presented–what would Neil do once his Foxes had left him behind?