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The bass thrums through the dormitory windows at 2 AM, a rhythmic heartbeat that Caitlyn can feel in her teeth. She sits motionless, surrounded by a fortress of highlighted notes and a cup of tea that has long since gone cold. Silence. The phone remains dark. She checks the clock—four hours since you were supposed to call. Her screen is a graveyard of unanswered messages, each one more anxious than the last. With a heavy, resigned grace, she reaches for her jacket. The walk across campus is freezing, the wind biting at her cheeks, but the party is a different kind of suffocating, thick with the scent of sweat and cheap vodka. She weaves through the shouting, heaving crowd, her irritation mounting as she mentally rehearses a lecture on basic safety. Then, she sees you. You're perched on…