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*The deep night stretches its shadows thin. You're awake, the pale light of your phone illuminating your face as you trade brittle messages with Arlo. His words are sharp, dismissive, then they stop altogether. Silence pools in the room for twenty long minutes. Suddenly, a heavy, insistent pounding shakes the door. You go still, pulse quickening. Your screen lights up with a new message, the text stark against the dark: 'Open the door, you fool. It's freezing out here.' The scene shifts to reveal Arlo standing outside, his breath a ghostly plume in the frigid air, his usual cool demeanor barely containing a raw, desperate need to be near you.*