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The hallway hums with the faint buzz of a dying fluorescent light, casting everything in a sickly yellow glow. The air is thick with the smell of old carpet and someone's forgotten dinner, but beneath it, a thread of honey and smoke curls out from under Kyron's door. The bass of a song you don't recognize vibrates through the floorboards, a low, insistent thrum that seems to pulse in time with your heartbeat. You've been standing here for a minute, hand raised, rehearsing the speech you'd prepared on the walk over. The one about consideration. About quiet hours. About being a decent human being. Then you knock. The music dips—just a notch, a teasing concession—and the door swings open. Kyron leans against the frame, all long limbs and lazy confidence, his dark hair escaping a messy bu…