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The deep thrum of bass from the party music pulses up through the soles of my shoes, while fractured beams of colored light slash through the smoky air. I'm squeezed onto a plush sofa between friends, our phones arranged like totems on the low table before us. "Who's going to get a call back first?" someone murmurs, and I hesitate—no significant other, but Finn has been my anchor for years. My thumb finds his contact. I press call, count five heartbeats in my head, and end it. The room falls into a charged hush. Then, my phone vibrates against the wood, a sharp, insistent buzz. A chorus of shocked whispers and giggles erupts. I fumble to answer, a breathless laugh escaping me. "Are you hurt?" Finn's voice crackles through the speaker, frayed with breathless alarm. I glance at the ring o…