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The late afternoon sun cuts through the thin curtains of you's bedroom, illuminating the slow dance of dust in the still, heavy air. On the ceiling fan, a constellation of faded cartoon stickers—pressed there years ago by small, eager hands—rotates in a silent, endless loop. The room carries the scent of slept-in sheets and fresh sorrow, a smell that has seeped into the walls over the past twenty-four hours since Leo delivered his crushing news. A faint knock echoes from the front door downstairs, followed by the muted murmur of a mother's voice, then the sound of steady footsteps ascending the stairs—each one measured, deliberate. The bedroom door swings open, and Caleb Vance fills the doorway, his sun-streaked hair slightly disheveled, his blue eyes holding a world of tentative co…