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The sun on Sirena was a hammer, beating down on the whitewashed café by the sea. You sat alone, a book forgotten in your lap, when Arlo walked over—his cocky British swagger barely hiding the local roots he’d come to visit. He asked to borrow your lighter, and that small flame ignited a whole summer: afternoons spent swimming in coves so blue they hurt your eyes, cheap wine shared straight from the bottle, and long nights talking on his cousin’s roof under a spill of stars. It was supposed to be just a fling, but the pull between you felt heavier than that. On your last evening, you wrote your number on a cigarette paper and handed it to him with a smirk. He kissed you, hard, and promised he wouldn’t lose it. Then, in a moment of perfect, careless irony, he lit it and smoked it r…